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'Buffy', Freddie lend voices to 'Shrek' producer

Young Hollywood power-couple Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. will join Sigourney Weaver in voicing a new animated feature from the producer of "Shrek."

The Hollywood Reporter says "Happily N'Ever After" is being produced by John H. Williams. It is being targeted for 2003 summer release.

The story is borrowed from Brothers Grimm fairytales and is based on the European animated series "SimsalaGrimm."

The report said the story is set in the fairytale land of Simsala, where good and evil have become unbalanced. Gellar will voice Ella, who is torn between love with a prince and a lowly palace dishwasher (voiced by Prinze). Weaver plays the evil stepmother, Frida, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The film is being directed by Gerhard Hahn, who helmed "Asterix In Amerika," based on the popular French comic character.

Prinze and Gellar, who are engaged off-screen, co-star in the upcoming live-action/animated feature "Scooby Doo."

--AllPop

Freddie P. gets slammed online

Movie heartthrob and teen favourite Freddie Prinze Jr. has angered a very vocal, web-based movie critic.

Freddie recently told SciFi Wire that he doesn't appreciate reviewer Harry Knowles and his movie website aintitcoolnews.com because he slammed Freddie's upcoming "Scooby Doo" movie, Page Six reports.

Freddie said Knowles was angry that he wasn't invited on the Warner Bros. press junket for the film. Freddie shrugged off Knowles' insults by saying:

"I've had movies that got great reviews, and nobody went. I've had movies that got horrible reviews and everybody went."

Now Knowles is fighting back on aintitcoolnews.com, saying that he never wanted to join Warner Bros.'s "Scooby Doo" junket because he was busy with "Lord Of The Rings," a movie he says will be "400,000 times more interesting than a SCOOBY DOO movie".

Knowles then goes on to dispute Freddie's claim that some of the actor's movies get poor reviews but clean up at the box office.

The critic says that of all Freddie's teen movies -- "She's All that", "Wing Commander", "Down To You", "Boys & Girls", "Head Over Heels" and "Summer Catch" -- most of them got poor reviews and the only one that "made a profit" was "She's All That".

"I guess it is beyond Freddie to imagine that the reason this project smells so bad could possibly be based upon the screenplay and the talent history of those making the film," continues Knowles. "Oh no, that could have nothing to do with it. Oh well Freddie, maybe you'll understand some day."

--AllPop