From: ComingSoon.net

"The Star Wars Trilogy will be released as a four-disc DVD box set September 21, with a global rollout on DVD expected within days of the domestic release, according to Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

The trilogy featuring the classic franchise films "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" will be released on three DVD discs, with a fourth disc likely to hold a newly made documentary about the "Star Wars" franchise and never-before-seen footage, among several other bonus materials, Jim Ward, Lucasfilm's vp marketing and distribution and the DVD trilogy's executive producer, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

'We are currently in the process of restoring and remastering all three titles for the DVD release, so we're still working on details of the marketing strategy,' Ward said. 'But I believe that it is safe to say that it will receive tremendous exposure across all media.'

Each of the three films in the Star Wars Trilogy has been digitally restored and remastered by THX for sound and picture quality. The films will be sold exclusively as a collection and not separately."

From: Star Wars Official Site

"In celebration of the exciting September 2004 release of the Star Wars trilogy on DVD, Hasbro has created the Original Trilogy Collection (OTC) product line for release in fall 2004 featuring characters, vehicles and more from Episodes IV, V and VI.

In the spirit of 1970s design the OTC packaging will be black and silver, similar to the style used on the silver series that debuted last year but with new graphics. Complementing the classic contents and the retro style design will be a special logo for placement on all OTC packaging. The line will debut at Toy Fair next week; additional product news will be made available throughout the spring and summer."

• 3 3/4 vintage figures - Vintage Han Solo
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• Vehicles - Millennium Falcon
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Description: Available for the first time since 1997, the ultimate Star Wars vehicle is back! This legendary spaceship will now include a firing missile, all new light up back engine thrusters, new engine, hyperdrive, flying and blaster sounds. Additionally, the cockpit has been redesigned to fit the 3 3/4" figures more easily."

From: Rediff.com

"Geeta Anand, a reporter with last year's Pulitzer Prize winning team for The Wall Street Journal, has gone to Hollywood. The writer who is on a sabbatical from Journal till September has become one of the few writers whose book is sold to Hollywood even before its publication.

Harrison Ford will star in a film based on her forthcoming book, "For His Sick Kid", being produced for a reported $80 million by Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, whose production credits include such films as the recent hit "Along Came Polly", "Erin Brockovich" and "Pulp Fiction". The trade publication Variety broke the news last week.

The book is based on her story in The Wall Street Journal and focuses on a man who helps fund the research to cure a rare disease. When the research turns successful, he has another fight on his hands: he has to get the cure to his own children. The film, which is in the developing stage, could start shooting in about six months. Ford would like to complete it before shooting on the fourth film in the Indiana Jones saga for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas."

From: Dark Horizons, Cinescape
(thanks to Marshall for posting details in the forum)

"Nic Cage and Harrison Ford are rumoured to be up for for the adaptation of 'A History of Violence' which David Cronenberg is helming. The story goes as follows: David Cronenberg has agreed to direct A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, an adaptation of a DC Comics/Paradox Press graphic novel by JUDGE DREDD creator John Wagner. First optioned by New Line Cinema back in September 2002, writer John Olson was hired to adapt the book into a screenplay a year ago next month. The story is about a diner owner named Tom McKenna who stops a robbery in his store by killing the thieves in self-defense. But when McKenna's act receives national attention, the ghosts of his former life return to haunt his family in the present."

From: WBAY TV

"Actor Harrison Ford is helping kids reach for the skies through the EAA's Young Eagles program. Ford was named chairman of the program Monday morning. EAA President Tom Poberezny made the announcement with Ford in Van Nuys, California. Ford replaces Brigadier General Chuck Yeager who held the position since 1994.

The Young Eagles program began in 1992 and has grown into the largest youth aviation program. It gives children free plane rides to excite their interest in aviation. Ford, an avid pilot, has worked with 81 Young Eagles through the program.

Ford's film career includes the title role in the "Indiana Jones" series, Han Solo in the "Star Wars" trilogy, Richard Kimble in the movie version of "The Fugitive," and the heroic U.S. President in "Air Force One." He's also starred in the dramas "Witness," "Regarding Henry," and "What Lies Beneath."

In July, 2001, Ford used his personal helicopter to pick up a Boy Scout lost in Yellowstone National Park and fly him to safety. Ford has other ties to Northeast Wisconsin. He attended Ripon College for three years.

The actor attends a dinner in Laguna Beach, where he appeared in a 1965 production.

By Daniel Yi, Times Staff Writer

"Harrison Ford, the Hollywood star who has played some of the most recognizable and enduring movie characters, returned Saturday to the town where it all started, Laguna Beach. Ford was one of the guests at a dinner sponsored by the Laguna Playhouse, a city landmark and Orange County's oldest theater, where the actor made his first West Coast stage appearance nearly four decades ago.

Guests at the home of gala chairwoman Sindi Schwartz waited in quiet anticipation early Saturday evening for Ford to arrive. "We are just thrilled," said Ronald Schwartz, Sindi's husband and a playhouse trustee. "The young people are even more excited than us older folks." Young and old gasped as Ford entered the Schwartz home in Laguna Beach's Montage Resort & Spa.

The gathering for about 40 guests preceded the $500-a-ticket dinner for 340 in the resort's ballroom. Ford arrived in a tuxedo with actress Calista Flockhart, who wore a form-fitting black dress. The couple posed for pictures and exchanged pleasantries.

Long before his screen hits, Ford appeared in "John Brown's Body" at the Laguna Beach Playhouse in 1965. A music director working in the play introduced Ford to a casting director at Columbia Pictures.

"The people here" in Laguna Beach, Ford said, "were pivotal to the good fortune I've had."

From Variety:

"Heading back into hero mode, Harrison Ford will topline "The Wrong Element," a thriller to be financed and distributed by Warner Bros.

Beacon Communications topper Armyan Bernstein is producing with Jon Shestack. Joe Forte scripted. A director will be signed shortly.

Ford and Beacon last teamed on the Wolfgang Petersen - directed hit "Air Force One," a film that was also produced by Bernstein and Shestack, who was a Beacon veep at the time.

Here, Ford would play the security chief for a global bank whose family is kidnapped. He's asked to topple his own security safeguards and steal $37 million from the bank to save his family. Then he has to stop the kidnappers, who've created a complex trail that will make him look guilty of embezzlement.

Shestack and Forte set the project up at MGM as a spec script, and Bernstein came in after that studio put it in turnaround. They brought it to WB, which snapped it up and will fully finance it. WB exec Jeff Clifford will steer the project.

Pic will be the next project for Ford, whose plans to reprise his Indiana Jones role were dashed after he, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas felt they needed a new script. Ford last starred in "Hollywood Homicide." He's repped by UTA and McQueeney Management.

"The Wrong Element" will be the first go picture at WB for Shestack, who has a deal at the studio."