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"What Just Happened" for Robert De Niro
POSTED ON 10/28/05 AT 10:30 A.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Robert De Niro is gearing up for the role of Art Linson in "What Just Happened." Barry Levinson will be directing the feature.

De Niro will play "a desperate movie producer hanging on to the tattered threads of his career as he tries to maintain his dignity while surviving the mounting humiliations of Hollywood."

Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner's 2929 Productions will fully finance the film.