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Though still in its toddler stages, Keith Calder's financing and production company, Snoot Entertainment, is wasting no time chasing after the big, ambitious projects. According to Variety, Snoot has picked up the film rights to Robert J. Sawyer's (pictured right) novella Identity Theft, which marks the company's first live-action feature.

Using the planet Mars as a setting (hmm, I wonder if the color red will appear a lot?), story revolves around a private eye who is hired to find the husband of a beautiful woman after he turns up missing when the couple transfer their minds into artificial bodies. (Yeah, how about they find a way to transfer muscles into my body? Ya know, without me having to do stuff ... like go to a gym and, um, lift something.) With private financing and outside equity investors, Snoot's other projects include the CGI animated film Terra, which is currently in production and stars the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, David Cross, James Garner and Danny Glover, among others.

A serial identity thief who has the unfortunate habit of pretending to be celebrities (only named Smith, oddly enough) when he registers for new credit cards has been sentenced to two more years in prison for probation violation. Carlos Lomax, who had already served time for spending $81,000 pretending to be basketball player Steve Smith, celebrated his release from jail by opening 14 separate credit card accounts as Will Smith (or, more accurately, Willard C. Smith). Not surprisingly, he was caught rather quickly and only managed to charge $33,000 Big Willie Style.

If you're going to steal someone's identity for the sole purpose of getting credit cards in their name, why on earth would you choose a famous person? They're obviously the only ones who get these things sorted out quickly - normal folks go through years of battles with credit card companies. I mean, come on, Carlos. You're making things much more difficult for youself.