Dec 9, 2006 3:59 pm US/Mountain
Benjamin, Ferrell To Star In 'Semi-Pro'
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
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Will Ferrell and Andre Benjamin will co-star in "Semi-Pro."
Andre Benjamin will be Will Ferrell's co-star in a new comedy film set in the world of professional basketball.
In "Semi-Pro," Benjamin plays a ladies' man and star player on the Flint Michigan Tropics, a fictional American Basketball Association team owned and coached by Ferrell. Woody Harrelson also will star.
The New Line Cinema film will be directed by Kent Alterman, a former executive at the company.
Benjamin, a Grammy winner with his hip hop collaboration Outkast, is co-creator of the Cartoon Network's "Class of 3000" and voices a character in the upcoming family movie "Charlotte's Web."
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