Crash Test Success
Seems like a sequel to the hit summer comedy Wedding Crashers is almost a go. Writer Steve Faber, who penned the screenplay for the original, is poised to write the next installment, and USA Today reports that Jane Seymour has been asked to reprise her role for the sequel. Both Owen Wilson and Isla Fisher have said publicly that they'd sign up for the next chapter if the project got a green light.

Not Just Friends
According to The National Enquirer, while the tabs were reporting on her "romance" with Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston has actually been dating Geoff Stults (Wedding Crashers), her buff co-star from The Break Up.

Clooney's Network
George Clooney and CBS will team up for a live-to-air production of Network, the 1976 Oscar-winning film by Paddy Chayefsky. In the movie -- a story that was satiric back in the '70s and now seems simply prophetic -- a respectable anchorman is fired and threatens to commit suicide on air. A cynical exec thinks his descent into madness will make for compelling television and soon the news show is taken over by the entertainment department.

Life is Beautiful, Even in the Middle East
Roberto Benigni, who managed to make a critical and commercial success of Life is Beautiful, has made a comedy about the war in Iraq. After screening the film, a critic with Reuters declared, "Benigni masterfully creates room for comic release in otherwise tense moments, making audiences laugh during a slapstick dash into a minefield and an uncomfortable run-in with soldiers at a U.S.-manned roadblock." The Tiger and the Snow opened in Italy last month but has yet to find a U.S. distributor.

If You Can't Beat 'Em...
Execs at Universal Studios recently announced that the company plans to offer its movies online by the end of 2005 or early 2006. CEO Bob Wright cautioned that Universal would employ extensive security measures to keep the films from being copied and distributed.

How to Get Back in the News
Someone better secure Oprah's furniture. Seems Tom Cruise and fianc� Katie Holmes have a co-production in the works. The couple recently confirmed they're expecting a child. Cruise, who once won a lawsuit against a German magazine that claimed he had a "zero sperm count," shares custody of two children, Isabella, 12, and Connor, 10, whom he adopted with ex-wife Nicole Kidman.