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Posted on: Thursday, August 27, 2009

Spielberg to film Crichton's pirate novel


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The men who brought dinosaurs back to life in "Jurassic Park" are teaming up again, though one of them is no longer here.

Steven Spielberg is developing a film out of a posthumously published novel by the late Michael Crichton — "Pirate Latitudes," an adventure story set off the coast of Jamaica in 1665.

Screenwriter David Koepp, who adapted Crichton's novels into the movies "Jurassic Park" and the sequel "The Lost World," has signed on to create this script. Spielberg plans to produce and is considering directing.

DreamWorks plans to wait for Koepp's script before setting any formal schedule for the project.

CRYPT BIDDER BACKS OUT OF $4.6M DEAL

The $4.6 million bid for the crypt above Marilyn Monroe has fallen through.

Attorney David Camel says the bidder declined. Camel represents Elsie Poncher, who was auctioning off her late husband's crypt at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles on www.eBay.com.

Camel says he's working with eBay to resolve the outcome of the auction. He also says there are no plans to move Poncher's husband until a new occupant is found.

Bidding for the auction started at $500,000 on Aug. 14. The final bid was $4,602,100 on Monday.

STUMP ARRESTED ON OLD DRIVING VIOLATION

Singer Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy has been arrested on a 2-year-old warrant for driving without a valid license.

A sheriff's spokesman said the 25-year-old was arrested late Tuesday during a traffic stop by Los Angeles police.

He was booked on the outstanding warrant and released early yesterday after posting $15,000 bail.

Fall Out Boy is scheduled to play at the Reading Festival in England tomorrow.

BURGLARS ON CAMERA AT LOHAN'S HOME

Police are looking for three suspects in the burglary of Lindsay Lohan's home.

The Los Angeles Police Department has released surveillance camera footage of the Sunday break-in at the home of the "Mean Girls" star. The footage shows three people, whose faces are covered with scarves, walking through a gate at Lohan's Hollywood Hills home and into a courtyard at around 1:10 a.m.

LAPD detectives believe the suspects — one man and two women, all 18 to 25 years old — entered the house through an unlocked door, then ransacked it and took property.

Lohan posted on Twitter she didn't think it involved strangers, because "things that a certain old friend knew meant a lot to me" were taken.