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By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith May 11, 2009

With Atom Egoyan's "Adoration" newly in release and the western "Last Rites of Ransom Pride" in the can, Scott Speedman says, "I'm just trying to get a good job right now. It's quite challenging to find the money for a certain type of film at the moment."

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The actor who rose to fame on "Felicity" says he's certainly not ruling out TV. "I never say never. Doing a series is not something that's a burning desire for me. I like the nomadic lifestyle of making movies and the challenge of playing different characters. But if the right kind of thing with the right people came along, I'd be open. I had such a great experience with TV before."

The right people had everything to do with his role as the caregiver of an orphaned teen (Devon Bostick) fraught with painful issues concerning his late parents -- who adopts a disturbing story about terrorists as his own background -- in "Adoration." "I wanted to work with Atom Egoyan," says Scott. "Growing up in Toronto, he's a legend up there. I have a list of guys I wanted to work with, and he's definitely on it. I pictured a quiet auteur director who didn't talk much and who hung out behind the monitor, but I couldn't have been more wrong. He was up front and right there beside us as we were working."

PLAYERS: With a May 18 start date looming on the Robert DeNiro-Edward Norton "Stone," they're just wrapping up casting of minor roles in the movie, based on a play by Angus MacLachlan ("Junebug"), in which DeNiro plays a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant. One juicy part is that of Lucetta, a thirtyish preschool teacher described as "sexy, fun, promiscuous, naïve yet unpredictable." She sleeps with DeNiro's character trying to get her husband out of jail.

With retired Major League Baseball players coming in to do Steven Soderbergh's "Moneyball" Brad Pitt starrer -- and real game footage being used for super verisimilitude -- all that's left to cast are such off-the-field participants as managers and scouts, and that final casting is what is happening now. The story of the 2002 Oakland A's and their general manager Billy Beane (Pitt) already has baseball and computer geeks excited -- depicting Beane's success with a never-before-tried system of team building based on computer statistical analyses.

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