Jessica Alba, who recently ended a two-season run as the star of Fox's series "Dark Angel," is in final negotiations to play the lead role in Universal Pictures' "Honey." Music video director Bille Woodruff is making his feature directorial debut on the film. "Honey," written by Alonzo Brown and Kim Watson, is a music-driven coming-of-age drama about a sexy, tough inner-city woman (Alba) who hopes to start a neighborhood dance studio and subsequently is discovered by a music mogul.

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