BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Swank Takes Off As "Amelia Earhart"...

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Oscar winning actress Hilary "Million Dollar Baby" Swank will star as '"Amelia Earhart" in a new bio-pic about the 1930's aviation pioneer, set for a Toronto location shoot this February.

Produced by Don "Chicago" Carmody, the feature will also use film in Nova Scotia.

Earhart was the first woman to receive the 'Distinguished Flying Cross' for flying solo across the Atlantic, authored best-selling novels about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of 'The Ninety-Nines' organization for women pilots.

In 1937 she disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe...