Kutcher Stays With That ’70s Show
Two More Years of Kelso
Source: Hollywoodreporter.com
Kutcher still truckin’ with ‘ ’70s Show’
His feature career is just starting to take off, but Ashton Kutcher isn’t giving up his day job on the Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show” anytime soon. The actor has struck a new deal with ” ’70s Show” producer Carsey-Werner-Mandabach that will keep him on the comedy set in the Me Decade through the 2004-05 season. Kutcher already was under contract for the upcoming 2003-04 season. The new pact for the ‘04-’05 season is said to bump Kutcher’s per-episode salary to the $250,000-$300,000 range, which puts the total value of the one-season, 25-episode deal in the $6 million-$8 million range. Kutcher has played the gullible Michael Kelso on the durable Fox series since it bowed in 1998. He’s also creator/executive producer/star of MTV’s latest reality sensation, the hidden-camera prankster series “Punk’d.” In recent months, Kutcher emerged as Hollywood’s “It” dude, garnering headlines and paparazzi attention because of his budding romance with Demi Moore. But he’s also in demand as a leading man in a range of features. Kutcher is attached to co-star opposite Bernie Mac in Columbia Pictures’ “The Dinner Party,” loosely based on 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” He also is in talks to star in M. Night Shyamalan’s next project, “The Woods.” Kutcher’s feature credits include “Texas Rangers,” “Just Married” and “Dude, Where’s My Car?” He’s repped by Endeavor and Untitled Entertainment.















