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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15The Great Cartoon Cash-In
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- Hollywood is holding its breath, waiting to measure the
- box-office potential of Warren Beatty's $30 million Dick Tracy,
- which opened last weekend. But the film community's anxiety has
- not stopped movie moguls from laying plans to bring more comic
- characters to the screen:
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- CAPTAIN AMERICA
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- Matt Salinger, actor son of the reclusive novelist J.D.,
- stars as the World War II superhero. He battles archrival the
- Red Skull in this film set for autumn release.
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- BLONDIE
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- The Disney company hopes to follow its Tracy flick with a
- new musical version of the classic comic strip. Oscar-winning
- screenwriter Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) will pen the
- script.
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- THE FLINTSTONES
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- Here's another '60s cartoon planned as a live-action film.
- Producers are hoping to cast Roseanne's John Goodman as Fred and
- British comedian Tracey Ullman as his long-suffering wife Wilma.
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- BRENDA STARR
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- Filmed in 1986, this Brooke Shields-Timothy Dalton vehicle
- has been tangled in lawsuits ever since. If Dick Tracy proves to
- be a big hit, producers could dust it off for a wide release.
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- THE JETSONS
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- The space-age family won't be played by live actors in this
- film set for summer release. Teen-dream pop singer Tiffany
- provides the voice of George Jetson's daughter Judy.
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