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Amanda Bynes says she and Big Fat Liar co-star Frankie Muniz are ‘friends’

Canadian Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Amanda Bynes is glad that she and her Big Fat Liar co-star, Frankie Muniz, are just friends on screen.

"It seems so overplayed and so overrated, like, 'Oh, they have to have a romance.' Why not be best friends and have no romantic feelings?" said the 15-year-old actor.

"It would be so wonderful to have a relationship with a member of the opposite sex where it's strictly platonic and you can just ask them about, 'Oh, I like this new guy, give me advice since you're a guy.' "

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But the star of Nickelodeon's "The Amanda Show" said she'd like to have a movie romance some day.

"I'm not going to try to avoid it because that's silliness," Bynes said, laughing. "I hope to do it tastefully where it's not exploiting it and where it's done, you know, sweetly."

Big Fat Liar, came in second place at the box office in its opening weekend with $11.7 million.

Malcolm In The Middle Movie!
Taken from New York Daily News

Fox's "Malcolm in the Middle" is heading to the big screen.

Regency Films has inked a deal with the series' creator, Linwood Boomer, to write and produce a film around the quirky comedy.

So far, however, there is no script and the cast has yet to be signed to appear in the flick.

"Nothing's locked in," said a New Regency spokesman. "We're just starting with it. It's in the early, early stages."

"Malcolm in the Middle" debuted to critical acclaim last season and solid ratings. The story of a dysfunctional family of six is told through the eyes of supersmart teenager Malcolm, played by Frankie Muniz. The series also stars Jane Kaczmarek and Bryan Cranston.

New Regency's spokesman said now that Boomer has agreed to the project, the company will set out to lock in the cast.

"We hope they would be in it," he said.

There's no timetable for production or a target for the thing to hit movie theaters, he added.

Should the film be made — and that's a big "should," considering hundreds of projects reach this stage each year and never make it to the megaplex — it will join just a handful of TV series that have spun off movies while still on the air. The most recent examples: Fox' "X-Files" and Comedy Central's "South Park."

By Richard Huff