An international financial company announced on Sunday it is making feasibility study for a big film on the famous ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut.

The movie the SI Financial will likely hit the reputation of Mankiewicz's blockbuster 1963 "Cleopatra", is expected to cost a colossal sum of dlrs 120 million.

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The British company commissioned former Egyptian press attache in Britain Zaki Ghazi with arranging for the visit's programme in coordination with the bodies concerned. US British- born movie star Catherine Zeta Jones is expected to be one of the team's members if she accepted to play the leading role.

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, January 03, 2005.

His license plate reads "Egypt," a tribute to the ancient world that is his passion.  Over the past seven years, Frank C. Caizzi, 63, has made seven trips to the Middle East, four of them to Egypt, to explore his interest in ancient history.  His fascination for history began in the ninth grade, but his first archaeological exploration trip to Egypt didn't take place until 1997.

[More]   East Bay Newspapers, Rhode Island, USA, December 31, 2004, via ArchaeoBlog.