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Just about every movie studio bangs out a handful of Direct-to-Video titles every year, but Warner Bros. is about to get pretty serious about the practice. They even went and promoted someone to head up the new Warner Premiere department! (Yes, they need a president and a staff in order to bring Dukes of Hazzard 2 to your Netflix queue.)

Former Executive Vice-President of WB's Global Brand Management Division (and hottie) Diane Nelson has been named head of Warner's new Premiere division, which will kick off next spring with Dukes 2 and then continue to churn out inevitably inferior (yet unquestionably profitable) video sequels until we're all long dead and gone. So to those of you who were desperately praying for titles like Racing Stripes 2, Must Still Love Dogs, The Whole 11 Yards, GVT: Grind vs. Torque, and Son of Kangaroo Jack -- your prayers have been answered in the form of Diane Nelson.

OK, snark aside, I've been waiting a long time for someone to come along and say "Y'know... DTV titles don't necessarily HAVE to be cheap, chintzy, terrible movies" -- and it sure doesn't look like that person's going to be employed by Sony, Disney, MGM, Fox or Universal. So congrats and good luck to Ms. Nelson on her new promotion. Here's hoping she has something in her back pocket that's more promising than Dukes of Hazzard freakin' 2.

I'm positive there are still a few of you left dying to know who will replace Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke in the direct-to-DVD sequel of The Dukes of Hazzard 2. I mean, seriously -- are you at all remotely interested in anything else surrounding this film? You wanna know who the hot girl is. That's it. You can admit it. The marketing behind the first film seemed to revolve solely around Jessica in short shorts, and I'm sure the sequel will do the same thing, so why spend energy on the extra crap when we can get right down to it?

Well folks, it appears Maxim model April Scott will be taking over where Simpson left off, contrary to rumors that had Kristin Cavallari in the role. For those of you who are not a horny teenage boy and don't pay extremely close attention to every girl wearing a bikini in Entourage, April Scott is a relatively unknown actress who, apparently, has just landed her moderately large break. Calling The Dukes of Hazzard 2 her big break might be taking things a bit too far. Hey, but she's a brunette. That means something, right? Maybe.

Joining Scott will be Randy Wayne (Jack and Bobby), who has snagged the role of Luke Duke away from Seann William Scott. However, fans of the first film should be happy to hear that Willie Nelson will return as Uncle Jesse, meaning one of two things: Either the script was just way too awesome to resist or Nelson's debt is so high, there's not a pile of crap out there he won't step in if it means a dollar can be made. In what's probably the best casting move, replacing Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg will be the sleazy Christopher McDonald. Rounding out the cast are Jonathan Bennett as Bo Duke and Sherilyn Fenn as Lulu Hogg.