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Movie news - Carrie Underwood (pictured in her bikini) has landed a part in upcoming movie Soul Surfer, according to reports. The 26-year-old star, who recently got engaged to boyfriend Mike Fisher, will reportedly star alongside Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid.

The movie is based on the real-life story of teenage surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost an arm in a shark attack aged 13. Underwood will be playing the role of a church youth leader called Sarah Hill. Shooting is due to start later this month.

More movie news...Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has said she is looking forward to the release of the sequel movie as the secrecy surrounding it has been 'crazy'.
The 53-year-old actress plays the role of Samantha Jones in the TV series as well as the movie adaptations. The first movie was released in 2008 and the sequel is set to come out later this year.
She said: "It's crazy. You really have to be careful because I've signed my life away to say I won't tell. "It gets to the point where you're terrified to carry your script around just in case someone catches a glimpse of it. I'll be glad when the movie is out and we can all relax."
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Comedian Tom Arnold has married for the fourth time at a private beachfront home in Hawaii. The 50-year-old comic married Ashley Groussman at the home in Maui, Hawaii on November 28. One hundred guests, including Helen Hunt, Mike Myers and best man Dax Shephard, attended the 'vintage Oriental-style wedding'.

A Buddhist monk was at the ceremony and an Asian menu was presented to those who attended, according to a guest. After the couple exchanged their rings, they reportedly chanted a Buddhist prayer. A guest said: "It was very quiet and peaceful."

Britney Spears' serious beau, Jason Trawick, was not banished from her Australia circus after turning down the singer's marriage proposal. "There was no proposal and they were never engaged," said a source close to the couple. Trawick arrived in Australia after Spears' Down Under Circus Tour commenced. He was sighted carrying her sons and caring for them before their father, Kevin Federline, arrived.
Trawick, who is Spears' manager and credited with getting her back on track, was reported to have turned down a marriage proposal she made in Australia and to have been sent home by Spears as a result. He left Australia for the US in recent days.
But the source says the reports of the wedding proposal are "100 percent absolutely false". The decision for Trawick to return to Los Angeles was simply a matter of logistics, the source said. "Jason spent more time in Australia than originally planned. They are very happy."

New Line have picked up a pitch by Step Up 3D writers Emily Meyer and Amy Adelson for teen romcom What Boys Want, featuring Disney Channel star Selena Gomez.

Does that title sound familiar? Try this: it's about a girl who can hear what the opposite sex are thinking.

Yup indeedy. Although there's no mention of it in Variety's story, this is sounding awfully like a sequel or a spinoff or a reboot or just something that sounds very unofficially similar to 2001's Mel Gibson starrer What Women Want, in which Gibson played a guy who... could hear what the opposite sex were thinking.

Gibson used his talent to win Helen Hunt, but Gomez's potential conquest has yet to be revealed. We're sure he will be wholesome. At least by the end of the movie.

Helen Hunt is in talks to replace Maura Tierney, who is undergoing treatments for breast cancer, in the new TV series "Parenthood," The Hollywood Reporter said.

Hunt is best known for her Emmy Award-winning work in TV's "Mad About You" and for her Oscar-winning turn in the film "As Good As It Gets."

"Parenthood" is a contemporary small-screen adaptation of Ron Howard's 1989 movie of the same name, which was about four adult siblings with their own children.

In the upcoming mid-season show, Peter Krause, Erika Christensen and Dax Shepard play three of the siblings, while Bonnie Bedelia and Craig T. Nelson portray their parents.

The Hollywood Reporter said Hunt would play the fourth sibling, an updated version of the character played by Dianne Wiest in the movie.

Tierney, who was previously cast in the role, announced last week she had to drop out of the project to undergo treatment for breast cancer.

Twentieth Century Fox is limbering up for a remake of Girls Just Want To Have Fun, the Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker-starring teen comedy about two friends who just gotta dance.

The film's plot saw new girl Janey (Parker) arrive in town and befriend Lynne (Hunt), bonding over their shared passion for dancing and a show called Dance TV in particular. On hearing that the show is coming to town, they're determined to appear, but Janey's dad disapproves and throws a spanner in the works.

The film also featured a young Shannen Doherty and Hank Azaria and was a bit like Footloose but not nearly as good and with even worse hair and outfits. For fashion horse SJP, in particular, it's proof that no one starts out well-dressed.

A Disney Channel reboot was rumoured to be in the works, with Selena Gomez or Ashley Tinsdale lined up to star, but we're guessing that that has fallen apart for this to be happening. The remake's set to be written by Michelle Morgan, who recently sold new scripts called Is He The One and Imogene. Let's hope she fits in just as many enormous hair bows and ra-ra skirts as the original.

Hank Azaria's publicist has confirmed the U.S. actor and Katie Wright, his girlfriend of two years, are expecting their first child.

Azaria is known for his voice work on "The Simpsons;" his roles in TV's "Mad About You" and "Huff," and the films "The Birdcage" and "Great Expectations;" and his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical "Spamalot." His latest movie "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" is scheduled to hit theaters in May.

"They're quite ecstatic," Azaria's publicist Stan Rosenfield told People magazine about the couple's reaction to their impending parenthood.

Rosenfeld told the celebrity publication Wright is in her second trimester and is expected to give birth to a boy.

Wright is a former actress, who reportedly is studying to be a family therapist.

Azaria was previously married to actress Helen Hunt.