LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Warner Bros. has chosen Sept. 22 to release "The Exorcist - The Version You've Never Seen," the digitally remastered and remixed version of the 1973 William Friedkin classic horror pic. The re-release will include 11 minutes of previously unreleased footage.

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Former "NYPD Blue" star Jimmy Smits and veteran British actor Christopher Lee have signed up for roles in the next "Star Wars" installment, currently titled "Episode II" of the franchise, which is filming in Australia. Smits will play Sen. Bail Organa of Alderaan, a character briefly mentioned in the original "Star Wars."

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Sam Neill is set to star and Alessandro Nivola, who played Nicolas Cage's brother in "Face/Off," is in negotiations to join Universal's "Jurassic Park 3," which will be directed by Joe Johnston. Neill will reprise his role as a paleontologist from the original "Jurassic Park." Nivola would play a graduate student. Although the script is completed for "JP3," writing credits are still to be finalized. Details on the story line are being tightly guarded by the studio. Shooting is expected to start in late July or early August for about 18 weeks in Los Angeles with a few weeks in Hawaii. The project is being produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Larry Franco for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.

LOS ANGELES (Zap2It.com) - George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford said back in 1993 that they would like to make another Indiana Jones movie together. The problem is they haven't been able to find the right script. Now it appears that M. Night Shyamalan, the Oscar-nominated writer and director of "The Sixth Sense," has finally put the Jones idea into gear. Shyamalan is in talks with the trio to script the fourth installment of the series, with Spielberg directing. Shyamalan will start writing the script in January, according to Reuters, once he completes work on "Unbreakable," which will star Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he will be back as the Terminator. The action star has officially committed to reprise his role as the cyborg in "Terminator 3," the third installment of the blockbuster sci-fi franchise. The project is scheduled to start shooting in Los Angeles in spring 2001. It's not clear where the financing is coming from, and the producers declined to elaborate on where they are getting the money for what is expected to be a $100 million budget. No domestic studio distribution deal is in place for the film. As yet, no director is attached to the project, but Schwarzenegger has long expressed his desire to reteam with James Cameron, director of the previous "Terminator" films.

Schwarzenegger has said many times that he would not do a third installment without Cameron. It is understood that Cameron has not met with producers on the project. However, sources said that not only have there been talks between Schwarzenegger and Cameron about him helming "T3," but the "Titanic" director has read the script. Schwarzenegger has said that he and Cameron are working on a "True Lies" sequel as well, which Cameron will also produce.