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Entertainment Round-Up News And Rumors 1. Larry the Cable Guy has joined the comedy "Witless Protection" written and to be directed by Charles Carner says The Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Joe Mantegna and Eric Roberts also star. Production is scheduled to begin May 21 in and around Chicago. Lionsgate will distribute
2. Ken Kwapis ("The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," "License to Wed") has signed on to direct "He’s Just Not That Into You" for New Line Cinema and Flower Films. Based on the best-selling book, it is a social commentary about modern-day relationships and how men and women often misconstrue the intentions of the opposite sex.
3. Paramount Pictures has hired comic book author Grant Morrison to write the feature adaptation of videogame franchise Area 51. Christine Peters will produce through her Par-based CFP Productions with Penn Station’s Dean Georgaris and Michael Aguilar, along with Stan Winston.
4. Adam Sandler will topline Disney’s family comedy Bedtime Stories, set to begin production later this year with Adam Shankman (Hairspray) directing. Disney said Tuesday it has set the film for a holiday 2008 release and noted "Stories" marks Sandler’s first feature project for the Walt Disney Pictures banner. Sandler will portray a harried real estate developer whose life is suddenly turned upside down when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew begin to come true.
5. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions has scored its first pilot order as HBO has given the green light to a single-camera comedy pilot from the producing duo, says The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Jody Hill, Ben Best and Danny McBride, the untitled project centers on a burned-out former pro baseball player (McBride) who returns to his small Southern hometown where the only job he can find is as a substitute gym teacher.
6. Erika Christensen and David Cross will co-star in CBS’ comedy pilot "I’m in Hell." Christensen will play a nanny and love interest for Biggs’ character who also is in the Hell on Earth program. Emmy winner Cross will play Scott (the devil), a sharply dressed man who serves as an emissary from hell.
7. Spider-Man 3 has been rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence.
8. On PBS’ The Charlie Rose Show, Robert Rodriguez said that Sin City 2 would probably begin shooting in June and that Sin City would probably continue in some form on television.
9. "Numbers" and "Serenity" star David Krumholtz is teaming up with producer Judd Apatow for two separate projects says The Hollywood Reporter. The first is Universal Pictures comedy "Attorneys at Raw" which he himself pitched and focuses on two young attorneys who decide to become rappers.
10. Peter O’Toole is in final negotiations to star in Lionsgate’s "The Christmas Cottage," a feature based on the Thomas Kinkade painting says Reuters. "Cottage" is said to be partly biographical and based on events that led American painter Kinkade to become an artist. O’Toole will play a painter Glen Weissler, based on one of Kinkade’s mentors.
11. The trailer for the fourth Indiana Jones movie will hit theaters around Thanksgiving.
12. Acclaimed Irish director Neil Jordan will rewrite and helm "Heart-Shaped Box," an adaptation of the horror novel by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill, for Warner Bros. Pictures. The story centers on a rock star obsessed with the occult who buys a suit on eBay that is claimed to be haunted the ghost of its former owner.
13. The Human Torch himself Chris Evans tells Entertainment Weekly that he will star in "Under the Blue Sky", an Iraq war drama to be directed by Mark Pellington ("The Mothman Prophecies"). The story follows a group of friends serving in Iraq who, at the end of their tour, are hit by a car bomb with only two surviving. As a result the lead (Evans) finds his life crumbling until he fulfills an old promise to pass on a message to the parents of each slain soldier.
14. Dana Davis, Jessica Stroup, Scott Porter, Collins Penne, and Kelly Blatz will join Brittany Snow and Idris Elba on "Prom Night", next year’s remake of the 1980 teen horror classic. Nelson McCormick directs the remake which is due for release February 1st 2008.
15. Constantin Film has filed a $3 million lawsuit against actor John Goodman, accusing him of reneging on an agreement to appear in Volker Schlondorff’s upcoming medieval drama "Pope Joan" says Variety.
16. "30 Rock" star Judah Friedlander has boarded 20th Century Fox’s fish-out-of-water comedy "Starship Dave" reports Reuters. Eddie Murphy headlines the film about a crew of tiny humanlike alien beings that, in an effort to save their doomed world, takes on a perfect disguise: a vessel that looks like an ordinary, normal-size man.
17. Rhythm & Hues Studios has been named the lead visual effects house on "The Incredible Hulk" from Marvel Studios according to a press release. This project will give the Hulk a new look. The Ang Lee-directed 2003 "Hulk" featured a CG character and lead visual effects from Industrial Light and Magic.
Trailers:
Live Free Or Die Hard Diggers Mr. Woodcock Georgia Rule Illegal Tender
In Theaters:
Are We Done Yet? – Ice Cube moves out of the city with his new wife and kids, but his suburban "fixer upper" dream home becomes a riotous nightmare.
Firehouse Dog – Rex, Hollywood’s top-grossing canine, gets lost in a freak stunt and is adopted as the mascot of a rundown inner-city fire station.
Grindhouse – Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez present "Planet Terror" and "Death Proof," a double feature of sexy/horror/action mayhem.
The Reaping – Hilary Swank stars as a religious myth debunker seeking answers behind Biblical-like plagues devastating a small Louisiana town.
In Select Theaters:
Black Book – A German-Jewish girl narrowly survives the war in Holland and shortly after the liberation, seeks revenge for her family’s murders.
The Hoax – Richard Gere stars as Clifford Irving, whose "autobiography" of Howard Hughes was one of the greatest media scams in history.
The TV Set – A writer sells his TV pilot to a network, and must navigate the hazardous path from script to production to prime time scheduling.
DVD’s Out This Week:
New Releases:
Bobby
TV Box Sets:
The Batman: Season Three
Special Editions/Other Releases:
The Aura
Coming Soon:
To DVD:
To Theaters:
Disturbia-04/13
Credit: Darkhorizons.com, Comingsoon.net, Superherohype.net, Movies.yahoo.com, Movies.aol.com, Allocine.co.uk, Apple.com/trailer
