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Producer Wants To Call Movie Crime And Punishment Anyway


LOS ANGELES-Upon learning that the title has already been taken, 
Hollywood producer Andrew Shuler announced Monday that he wants to 
call his upcoming Universal Pictures police thriller Crime And 
Punishment anyway. "There is?" said Shuler, moments after being told 
of the classic Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel that shares its name with 
his upcoming Val Kilmer-Wesley Snipes vehicle. "I don't really see 
that as a problem. What 18- to 34-year-old has ever heard of that?" 
Shuler said he is confident he will be able to "buy out this Russian 
guy."