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Here's another remake to increase your list: 'Sparkle,' a redo from the 1976 music drama around three siblings who begin singing within their chapel choir in Harlem within the late nineteen fifties and go onto be a effective girl group. Whitney Houston is within discussions to become listed on 'American Idol' champion Jordin Sparks and Mike Epps within the production, that is being come up with by The new sony and will also be launched about the studio's Tri-Star Pictures label. Sparks will have charge character and Houston will have her mother the remake will occur in 1968 Detroit. This is Houston's first starring film role in fifteen years she last were built with a lead in Cent Marshall's 1996 'The Preacher's Wife.' [Deadline] Juliette Lewis is pointing a rock documentary about herself, and wishing to create it to Sundance in The month of january. Additionally to her impressive acting career, Lewis is really a rock singer, carrying out and cutting albums with bands Juliette and also the Licks and also the New Romantiques. Based on a study in Variety, Lewis stated the film will not be considered a vanity project, but instead an search for how carrying out live like a singer grew to become a complete-time primary career. Lewis' creating partners have undergone about 400 hrs of footage and also have come up with a virtually finished cut from the yet-to-be-entitled film. [Variety] The spanish language director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will direct the Summit Entertainment remake of 'Highlander' since Justin Lin has committed to another 'Fast and also the Furious' opus. Fresnadillo helmed the excellent '28 Days Later,' so he should have the ability to breathe new existence in to the 25-year-old property. [Deadline] A quartet of top British stars will join Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, 'Quartet,' a drama about several upon the market opera performers who meet up to use an event for that birthday of Giuseppe Verdi only to obtain their plans rattled and shook whenever a grand dame from the opera turns up too. Maggie Cruz, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins would be the four that join Sheridan Cruz and Michael Gambonin the development that starts shooting now in England. [EW] Shirley MacLaine has signed onto star within the indie production 'The Local people,' a modern day Jewish/Italian version of 'Romeo and Juliet.' Alan Arkin and Vera Farmiga have been in discussions to become listed on the film, that is being written and directed by Sue Kramer ('Gray Matters'). Production will start this fall within the Bronx. [Deadline]