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Shooting starts Sept. 5 in Passaic, N.J. New Line won the bidding last spring for domestic distribution rights.
Gondry also scripted "Rewind," in which Black will portray a goofball who becomes magnetized trying to sabotage a power plant and then erases all the tapes in the videostore while visiting a pal (played by Mos Def) who works there and his co-worker (Diaz). The friends then re-create and refilm every movie that the store's only loyal customer decides to rent.
Gondry's partner, Georges Bermann, is producing through their Partizan label. Bermann produced Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and upcoming "The Science of Sleep."
New Line production president Toby Emmerich and studio exec Guy Stodel exec produce. The mini-major's opening another Black comedy, "Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny," on Nov. 17.
Farrow appeared in "The Omen" and Diaz recently worked on the indie feature "I'll Come Running."
