Elle jouera dans HARVARD MAN.

L'actrice Sarah Michelle Gellar (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, CRUEL INTENTIONS) est sur le point de conclure une entente pour tenir un rôle dans le film HARVARD MAN, un film autobiographique inspiré de la propre vie du réalisateur James Toback (BUGSY). Toback a écrit le scénario et réalisera le film qui se concentrera sur sa vie étudiante à Harvard dans les années 60.

Sarah Michelle Gellar interpréterait une jeune enseignante en philosophie qui a une aventure avec un étudiant qui fait partie de l'équipe de basket-ball. Le film racontera aussi les mésaventures de Toback notamment avec la consommation du LSD. Le tournage devrait débuter au printemps.

Toback avait l'oeil sur Leonardo DiCaprio pour le premier rôle masculin mais il semble peut probable que l'acteur se joigne à la distribution.

Elle pourrait être la vedette d'un suspense.

L'actrice Sarah Michelle Gellar, interprète de Buffy Anne Summers dans la série télévisée BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER est toujours en quête de son premier vrai grand rôle au cinéma. Celle que l'on a vu apparaître dans SCREAM 2, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER et CRUEL INTENTIONS serait actuellement en négociation pour jouer dans ALLISON, un suspense dans la tradition d'Alfred Hitchcock, selon Variety.

Écrit par Brian King, le film raconterait l'histoire d'une jeune collégienne qui, pour éponger ses dettes, prend des moyens qui l'entraînent dans une situation particulièrement terrifiante. Le film serait produit par Artisan Entertainment. Aucun réalisateur n'est encore attaché au projet. Dernièrement, une rumeur voulait que l'actrice soit de la distribution du film HANNIBAL, mais rien n'est encore confirmé à ce propos.
 

Une rumeur intéressante, mais à prendre avec précaution.

Des noms commencent à circuler autour du film HANNIBAL dont celui de James Woods, un peu plus tôt cette semaine, et maintenant cette dernière rumeur : Un journal de Dallas, le Dallas Morning News, a annoncé cette semaine que l'actrice Sarah Michelle Gellar (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, SCREAM 2, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER) aurait confirmé, lors d'une entrevue, qu'elle tiendrait un rôle dans la suite du SILENCE DES AGNEAUX.

Toutefois, bien que semble le suggérer le quotidien, il est peu probable qu'elle décroche le rôle de Clarice Starling. Alors quel sera le rôle de Gellar ? Une victime du Dr. Lecter ou de son opposant, Mason Verger, ou encore la soeur de ce dernier ?

It was like an old-home week for bitchiness when Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) lit into Buffy during Sarah Michelle Gellar's guest appearance on Tuesday's ''Angel.'' Although Carpenter says it was bloody great to reunite with her slayer pal, she confesses she hasn't been mooning over her former ''Buffy'' costars now that she's working 14-hour days in her expanded role on the spin-off. ''I don't have a lot of time to do much except to eat, sleep, and go to work,'' Carpenter tells EW Online. ''I absolutely do miss my old cast mates, but I don't have much time to ponder it. I'm just so freaking busy.''

Carpenter hopes to stay as busy during her hiatus from ''Angel'': She's angling for the right movie project. While studios have been raiding the WB for talent (Gellar, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, James Van Der Beek, and Alyson Hannigan have all made the leap to the big screen), Carpenter hasn't joined her peers yet, but that's likely to change when this season's shooting ends. ''I don't think I have a choice in the matter,'' she says. ''My agent is pretty much ordering me to do a movie this summer.''

So far, however, all Carpenter has been offered are the usual teen comedies (and at age 29, she wants to graduate already) or horror flicks that demand a variation of Cordelia. ''What I'll end up doing, I don't know,'' says Carpenter, ''but it's something that's not what I've already been doing for the last three years and (hopefully) will be doing for the next seven. I've got a while to live out Cordelia.'' Wake up Hollywood: Couldn't Sandra Bullock use a spunky kid sister?
-- Josh Wolk

Twentieth Century Fox, ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'''s studio, is producing bloodlust in online fans by targeting websites that feature ''Buffy'' video clips, sounds, and transcripts. Fox declines to comment, but the studio -- which has waged similar battles against ''Simpsons'' and ''X-Files'' sites -- issued a statement saying it ''appreciates'' fan pages but asks that devotees ''comply with guidelines that protect the creative integrity of the series.''

Folks on the receiving end of the cease & desist letters, though, think that just sucks. ''They haven't given much thought to how this affects the fan community,'' says Alexander Thompson, whose popular episode transcripts were removed from Slayer's Fanfic Archive after the site was cited by Fox.

Since most (if not all) fan sites make no money, why would Fox want to alienate loyal ''Buffy'' viewers? For one thing, studios face a doozy of a legal technicality: Guild contracts require them to renegotiate permission with a show's actors, directors, musicians, and writers every time an episode or clip is aired -- even if that ''airing'' is a grainy, 2- by 2-inch image on a PC screen. (Excerpts accompanying reviews are allowed under the ''fair use'' clause of copyright law.)

Until the rules are updated, some studios will continue to see homemade sites as a legal threat. ''The talent guilds need to rethink their relationship to this media so the Internet can grow and flourish,'' says ''X-Files'' exec producer Frank Spotnitz. ''I don't like to see fans punished.''

''Buffy'''s online community has a plurality of opinions on how to proceed:
* One group conceived Operation: Blackout -- a one-day site shutdown that will ''peacefully show Fox what the Internet would be like without fan sites.''
* More extreme cyberfans have resorted to pirate tactics. Says Slayme.com creator J.T. Tomarazzo, who revamped his site after receiving a letter from Fox: ''By doing what they've done, Fox has almost created a black market.''
* Other ''Buffy''-ites disparage the fangs-out approach. ''One person who [bootlegs] makes us all look bad,'' says Summer Stuckey, creator of Raven's Realm.

''Buffy'' creator Joss Whedon is now in the awkward position of wanting to support online acolytes while also having to defer to his employer. And it's no wonder that he's keeping mum: After telling a reporter last summer that fans with pilfered video copies of the postponed ''Buffy'' finale should ''bootleg the puppy,'' Fox asked Whedon to limit his comments on the fan-site fracas to ''no comment.''

But Netizens hoping to hear from ''Buffy'''s guru about the Internet brouhaha may not have to wait much longer: Whedon is currently talking to Fox's legal department about establishing fan-site guidelines.
-- Kristen Baldwin