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>> from the hollywood reporter

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>> New mystery mission for 'Scooby-Doo'
>> Live-action movie set for TV and DVD release
>> By Nellie Andreeva

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>> There will be a third live-action/CG "Scooby-Doo" movie, this time
>> headed to TV and DVD.

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>> Titled "Scooby-Doo: In the Beginning" -- a prequel set before the 2002
>> and 2004 "Scooby-Doo" theatricals -- the film will debut on Cartoon
>> Network in fall 2009 when it also will be released on DVD. It finds
>> the Mystery gang uniting for the first time to solve the haunting of
>> their high school.

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>> "Scooby-Doo: In the Beginning" will feature an all new cast of
>> lesser-known actors replacing the original quartet of Freddie Prinze
>> Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini. Rob
>> Amell ("Life With Derek") will play Freddy, joined by newcomers
>> Kaitlyn Melton as Daphne, Hayley Alcroft as Velma and Nick Palatas as
>> Shaggy. The computer-generated Scooby-Doo will be voiced by Frank
>> Welker, a longtime voice actor on the animated "Scooby-Doo" series.

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>> For Cartoon, which airs Hanna-Barbera's classic "Scooby" toons, the
>> new film is part of its push into movies and live-action.

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>> The original movie is co-produced by Warner Premiere, the
>> direct-to-DVD and direct-to-platform production arm of Warner Bros.
>> Entertainment, and Cartoon Network. Warner Home Video will distribute
>> on DVD.

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>> Brian Levant will direct from a script by Daniel and Steven Altiere.
>> Brian Gilbert is producing.

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>> Production is slated to begin Monday in Vancouver.

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> I honestly can't blame them. I am no fan of CGI / real life combinations,
> and I am by far not a movie critic; however, I cringe and almost have
> feelings of anger whenever I see Scooby Doo standing on two legs, obviously
> castrated and emasculated, wearing clothes, an obviously-fake afro wig, and
> hitting on women in a bar. I mean WHAT THE HELL. Even on the off chance one
> of them is nearsighted, who is going to want to go home and hit a burn
> victim with too much body hair and a tail?
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> Honestly one of the worst scenes in movie history, and to be quite honest a
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