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King Smiles at 'Congeniality 2'
Mon Mar 15, 2:33 AM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Chris Gardner
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Regina King ("Legally Blonde 2") is in final negotiations to star opposite Sandra Bullock (news) in "Miss Congeniality 2."
Director John Pasquin ("The Santa Clause") starts shooting the Warner Bros. project next month in Los Angeles, followed by New York and Las Vegas.
Bullock will reprise her role from the original 2000 hit as FBI (news - web sites) Special Agent Gracie Hart. King will play Samantha, a fellow FBI agent. The duo -- at odds with each other at first -- are partnered up and must head to Las Vegas on a new case they've been assigned. Heather Burns and William Shatner (news) also star.
Bullock will again produce from a script by Marc Lawrence, who also penned the original Donald Petrie-directed film. Budgeted in the $45 million range, the first installment cleared $100 million at the domestic box office.
King next stars in the features "Cinderella Story" opposite Hilary Duff (news) and Jennifer Coolidge (news), and "Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles (news) Story" opposite Jamie Foxx (news). Her credits include "Daddy Day Care" and NBC's short-lived comedy "Leap of Faith."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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