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Exclusive: Universal Pictures is in early development on a project inspired by the life of fitness icon Jake Steinfeld that will be produced by Frank Marshall. Sources say no talent is involved at this time.

Universal declined comment.

While plot details are unknown the film is not expected to be a straight biopic and is expected to explore the culture movement Steinfeld started for personal fitness training.

That said, the list of things he has accomplished over the last 45 years is as extensive as it gets. Steinfeld is considered an icon in the personal fitness movement. He helped launch the personal fitness training industry more than 40 years ago and has been the guiding light for health & wellness in lifestyle, sports and entertainment ever since. A force in direct-to-consumer sales of home fitness equipment, he had the most profitable string of hits in the infomercial industry and spent 15 years on Hsn...

Hailee Steinfeld is a hugely successful actor and musician, and has an impressive net worth as a result. Her breakthrough role came in 2010 when she played Mattie Ross in True Grit, earning an Oscar nomination at just 14 years old. Since then, she has starred in popular films like Pitch Perfect 2 and The Edge of Seventeen, along with major TV roles like Emily Dickinson in Dickinson and Kate Bishop in Marvel’s Hawkeye. Apart from acting, Steinfeld has found success in the music industry, releasing hits like "Starving" and "Love Myself."

Born in Los Angeles, California, Hailee Steinfeld comes from a family with deep connections to the entertainment industry. Her mother, Cheri, is an interior designer, while her father, Peter, is a fitness trainer. Hailee’s uncle, Jake Steinfeld, is a renowned fitness guru, while her great-uncle is former child actor Larry Domasin. Steinfeld's first cousin is actress True O'Brien,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger was involved in an auto accident Friday afternoon in Brentwood that sent a woman to the hospital with minor injuries.

The actor and former California governor was driving his Gmc Yukon when it was involved in a crash with a Toyota Prius at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Allenford Avenue, near the Riveria Country Club. Two other cars in the intersection were also struck as a result of the collision. A woman was transported to the hospital with what was described as minor injuries, according to the Los Angeles Times.

A spokesman for Schwarzenegger confirmed the actor was unhurt and was only concerned about the woman who was injured.

There were no indications of drugs or alcohol being involved in the crash but an investigation is still under way, the Los Angeles Police Department said, according to Kcal-tv Los Angeles.

TMZ posted photos of the crash that...

A sequel to the 1988 romantic comedy “Coming to America” may be in the works. According to TMZ, sources close to Eddie Murphy confirm that the comedian is in the early writing stages of the project. On Wednesday night, a post on Murphy’s official Twitter account teased a potential sequel to his iconic film. “Coming to America sequel?” was all the post said, and included a picture of Vanessa Bell Calloway in character from the first film. Murphy’s Twitter account has since been deleted.

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Calloway reacted to the possibility of Murphy working on a sequel. “I would love to do a sequel, I loved the movie. It’s like, ‘Come on Eddie, let’s make this happen!'” the actress told TMZ, but also wondered if Murphy’s account was hacked.

Us actor joins Arctic-set drama from the writers of Breaking Bad, executive produced by Frank Marshall.

Ben Schnetzer (The Book Thief, Pride) has signed on to play the leading role in The Grizzlies, set to shoot in April 2016 in Iqaluit, Nunavut – a small city in the Canadian Arctic.

Producer-director Miranda de Pencier (Beginners) will make her directorial debut with this feature, having previously directed award-winning short Throat Song.

The Grizzlies is based on the true story of high school teacher Russ Sheppard (Schnetzer) who arrived in a struggling Arctic community ravaged by alcoholism, abuse, and the highest suicide rate in North America and started a lacrosse league. The sports league galvanized the town and sparked a change in the kids who transformed their lives for the better.

Fitness entrepreneur and producer Jake Steinfeld, founder of Major League Lacrosse, held the rights to Sheppard’s story.

Following breakthrough roles in The Book Thief and Pride, Schnetzer will next...

Wayward Pines

Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou is set to co-star opposite Jason Patric in the ten-episode second season of the M. Night Shyamalan-produced psychological thriller event series "Wayward Pines" on Fox.

Hounsou will play Cj Mitchum, an original resident and historian with extensive knowledge of its complex origins. He's the one person who can provide a unique bridge between the current world and the previous one. [Source: Deadline]

The Trail

John Lithgow and Sherri Shepherd have signed on star in the NBC comedy pilot "The Trail". Shepherd plays Anne Flatch, the enthusiastic receptionist at a makeshift law office and a woman who suffers from facial blindness.

Lithgow will play Larry Henderson, a smart but clueless community-college poetry professor accused of murdering his wife. Though he finds the accusation absurd, he has more than a of couple secrets that could hurt his defense. [Source: Variety]

My Cousin Rachel

British actress Holliday Grainger is in...

Barbara Meek, who played Archie Bunker’s housekeeper on a spinoff of All in the Family, has died. She was 81. The Trinity Repertory Company of Providence, R.I., announced her death on Saturday on its Facebook page. Meek appeared in more than 100 productions on its stages since she joined the Trinity Rep in 1968 with her late husband, Martin Molson. No other details of her death were immediately available. The Detroit native also had a regular role as a recently widowed foster mother on Big Brother Jake, a 1990-94 Family Channel sitcom that starred fitness entrepreneur Jake Steinfeld,

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In Cropsey, a group of adolescents are haunted by an urban legend Variety is reporting that DreamWorks Pictures and Frank Marshall are teaming up to make the horror-thriller Cropsey through the Kennedy/Marshall Company. The pitch is by Richard Naing and Ian Goldberg, who will also write the screenplay. Jake Steinfeld is the executive producer. The trade says…

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Fun fact: Harrison Ford's trainer is the guy who invented Body by Jake ... and he tells us Han Solo is progressing faster than the Millennium Falcon in a Kessel run.Jake Steinfeld was hanging out in Beverly Hills when he gave us the 411 on Ford's injury.Turns out Jake and Harrison have been working together since the "Indiana Jones" days ... and they still keep in close contact.Don't worry Star Wars fans ... Jake says...

President Obama wasn't going soft with those puny dumbbells, he was going smart -- at least according to the fitness guru behind "Body By Jake."Jake Steinfeld weighed in on Obama's now famous workout in Poland -- and while a lot of people are giving the Prez crap ... Jake's giving him props for hitting the gym at all.When we spotted Jake in Bev Hills ... he was quick to defend B.O. pumping iron with...

Thirty years ago, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," the much-awaited follow-up to "Raiders of the Lost Ark," debuted. Indiana Jones was back -- although the film was set earlier than the events of "Raiders" -- and this time, he had a dame (Kate Capshaw) and a kid (Jonathan Ke Quan) with him. Oh, and he wasn't fighting Nazis, just a deadly, child-enslaving cult.

If you're not old enough to remember, this (along with "Gremlins" and "Poltergeist") was the movie that prompted the creation of the PG-13 rating, after parents complained that a PG-rating wasn't adequate for a movie that includes a scene where a man's still-beating heart is ripped out of his chest.

But did you know that an Oscar-winning Hollywood legend almost had a small role in the film? Or what stars pranked Harrison Ford on the set? Didn't think so.

Here are 30 things you might not have known about the movie.

Lionsgate is eying a sports drama for its television stable. The company has optioned Lacrosse book Take a Shot! The Remarkable Story of Perseverance, Friendship and A Really Crazy Adventure, published by Hay House just last week. Billed as "Moneyball meets The Hangover," the book was written by All-American lacrosse player Dave Morrow and motivational speaker and Body by Jake founder Jake Steinfeld. The semi-autobiographical book chronicles three men -- a Hollywood fitness icon, a shy Ivy Leaguer, and a televangelist's son -- who start a professional sports league. “We love to be in business with other entrepreneurs, and

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Exclusive: Hot off the presses — Lionsgate has optioned the book Take A Shot! The Remarkable Story Of Perseverance, Friendship And A Really Crazy Adventure, released by Hay House last Wednesday. The book by bestselling author Jake Steinfeld and Dave Morrow, co-founders of Major League Lacrosse, will be adapted into a drama series project. Described as Moneyball meets The Hangover, Take A Shot! chronicles Mll’s creation. It tells the story of three men from vastly different worlds- Jake, the brash Hollywood fitness icon and driving force behind Mll; Dave, a shy Ivy Leaguer from blue-collar Detroit and the ultimate fish out of water who ultimately becomes a success story in his own right; and Tim Robertson, the son of a televangelist and a multimedia mogul-who teamed up to try the impossible: start a professional sports league at a time when other leagues were crashing and burning around them. The book...

Lionsgate has optioned "Take a Shot! The Remarkable Story of Perseverance, Friendship and A Really Crazy Adventure" by Jake Steinfeld and Dave Morrow. The book chronicles the roller coaster adventures of the first professional outdoor lacrosse league. Here's the announcement: Lionsgate (Lgf), a leading global entertainment company, has optioned the book "Take a Shot! The Remarkable Story of Perseverance, Friendship and A Really Crazy Adventure" (Hay House, August 15, 2012) by NY Times and Wall St. Journal bestselling author Jake Steinfeld and Dave Morrow, for its television division, the Company announced today. Jake is best known for his Body by Jake Global brand; Dave Morrow is a former All-American lacrosse player and founder of Warrior Sports. Described...

December is a big month for Hailee Steinfeld. On Dec. 11, the California native will celebrate her 14th birthday. On Dec. 22, she will appear on screens across America opposite Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in the Coen brothers' Western "True Grit." In the film, based more on the 1968 novel by Charles Portis than on the 1969 film starring John Wayne, Steinfeld portrays 14-year-old Mattie Ross, a bright and headstrong young woman who hires drunken bounty hunter Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) to hunt down the man who killed her father. It has become a cliché to talk about young actors as wise beyond their years, but consider this: Kim Darby, who played Mattie in the original, was in her 20s when the film was shot. Steinfeld was younger than her character, only 13, when she played Mattie. And yet she delivers a performance free of affectation, more than holding her own opposite such veterans as Bridges—indeed,...

If you're excited about the "Nightmare On Elm Street" remake starring Jackie Earle Haley that comes out this week, you may be more interested in the project than Nicky Hilton, who tweeted about some bad childhood memories she still carries from the first film.

In other posting, buddy shots were all the rage last night, with "Last Airbender" actor Aasif Mandvi hanging out with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and more Twitter-Wood ladies than I can list here getting together for dinner with Candace Cameron Bure and Denise Richards. Check those out after the jump along with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's thoughts on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's "bigoted" comment and a Gray's Papaya fan.

It's all documented in Twitter-Wood for April 28, 2010.

Twitter Pic of the Day:

@candacecbure Our 1st supper club dinner, a wonderful night w/@ali_sweeney,@nancyodell,@lisarinna,@denise_richards,@alilandry http://twitpic.com/1j51dy

-Candace Cameron Bure,...

Comcast and Time Warner Cable are joining forces with fitness icon Jake Steinfeld, developing an all on-demand network that will be available at no additional charge on both operators' respective systems. Exercise TV, which officially launched Wednesday, features a rotating lineup of up to 90 fitness programs with a heavy emphasis on exercise routines and various workout disciplines ranging from Pilates to special fitness regimens developed for seniors. Boston-based athletic apparel manufacturer New Balance is a stakeholder in the venture, which is the second programming partnership between the two cable giants. In April, Comcast and Time Warner will pull the tarp off SportsNet New York, a regional sports network and the cable home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets.