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Eat the Minions, Pray for Betty, and Love Toy Story 3

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (21)

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  • Producer Jerry Weintraub (Karate Kid (1984 and 2010) has pitched a remake of Oh, God! to Warner Brothers. He wants Betty White in the George Burns’ role, and Paul Rudd in the other lead. My guess: White has too much respect for Burns to take the offer, plus: Come on. I love Betty White. Everyone loves Betty White. But that woman is 88 years old: I know she can still kick a lot of ass, but a lead role in a major motion picture might be a little much. Maybe that’s ageist, but we’ve only got one Golden Girl left, people. Let’s try to preserve her a little longer. (Deadline)

  • Sony is re-teaming Ryan Murphy with his Eat, Pray, Love actress, Julie Roberts before Eat, Pray, Love is even released, reportedly offering Murphy $5 million to write and direct an untitled comedy that would have Roberts as a “working woman who is married to a stay-at-home husband. When she loses her job, their roles are reversed and she’s forced to finally adjust to motherhood.” Broad enough? At least it’s not a remake. Brad Pitt and Plan B will produce. (Deadline)

  • The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment has signed on to Sex Ed. The story follows a college graduate who dreams of teaching high school Algebra. Due to budget cuts though, he ends up teaching sexual education, which is something of a problem as he’s still a virgin. Here’s what Haley looks like these days:

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    A virgin? Not a huge stretch.

  • Doug Liman has attached himself to what I believe may be the fourth project in the last few months that he’s attached himself to. This one is an adaptation of the Monte Reel non-fiction book, The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon. Maybe this one will be the one he eventually directs. (Variety)

  • Now with $342 milion, Toy Story 3 is officially the highest grossing Pixar movie to date, stateside. Those 3D ticket prices sure didn’t hurt. (FS)

  • After the huge opening of Despicable Me over the weekend, a sequel has now been greenlit, as well as shorts featuring The Minions. (Deadline)

  • Zac Efron has started his own production company, Ninja Runnin’ Wild (Really?), and he’s set up an untitled workplace comedy that the scribe for 17 Again will write. (THR)

  • Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) is attached to direct Heretics, a movie inspired by an episode of NPR’s “This American Life,” about “Carlton Pearson, who was a rising star among evangelicals until he was ostracized by his own church and declared a heretic after he started preaching that there is no Hell.” (Variety)

  • Todd Solondz (Happiness, Life During War Time) is setting up his next picture, Dark Horse, and it’s apparently not controversial. A kindler, gentler Solondz? (The Playlist)








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    Comments

    Yes, the name for Efron's production company is silly but for accuracy sake it's "Ninjas Runnin' Wild" and it's the 5th movie they are developing, not the first.

    "Art of the Steal" is also a new project btw and that looks pretty good; better than the comedy tbh.

    Noted, corrected. Thanks. -- DR

    Posted by: Alex at July 14, 2010 7:58 AM

    Huh, Haley Joel Osmend looks like Edward Norton's uglier younger brother.

    Yeah that's all I've got.

    Posted by: Linda at July 14, 2010 8:18 AM

    Haley's sister, Emily, totally won the looks in that family. She's gonna be a heart breaker, for sure.

    Posted by: Rykker at July 14, 2010 8:34 AM

    * Josh Whedon (most things cool, except for that Dollhouse mess)is setting up his next picture, BAD HORSE, about the leader of the Evil League of Evil and it’s apparently not controversial.
    See, I fixed that.

    Posted by: dammitjanet at July 14, 2010 8:42 AM

    I realize that movies aren't grounded in reality, but honestly don't most school systems required secondary level teachers to be certified in the subject or at least area they teach. I doubt that a math teacher would be allowed to teach a sex ed class. Also, what school system would have so many math classes they could afford to cut one, but not enough coaches, they need a sex ed teacher? I also don't get why being a virgin makes it hard to say "wear a condom".

    Posted by: cfar1 at July 14, 2010 8:54 AM

    cfar1, some states don't even require you to have a teaching degree to be a teacher; you just have to be a college graduate. For example, New York is so desperate for teachers that a friend of mine is currently educating our youngsters there. He has an English Degree (although he's currently at Columbia earning a masters in education).

    Coincidentally, he is also a virgin.

    Posted by: superasente at July 14, 2010 9:14 AM

    Huh, Haley Joel Osmend looks like Edward Norton's uglier younger brother.

    Actually, I was thinking the younger brother of Mac from Always Sunny.

    Posted by: henchman for hire at July 14, 2010 9:29 AM

    You wouldn't believe the number of teachers in Florida who teach in areas they don't have a degree in. Even my husband, who has a Ph.D. in Astronomy and teaches college, is required to teach a subject he's never ever studied and has no interest in, Oceanography.

    I like to tell people he teaches Astronomy, Oceanography, and Beastiology.

    When then say, "BEASTIOLOGY?" I repeat, "Beach Geology."

    Posted by: BWeaves at July 14, 2010 9:32 AM

    Betty White...is 88 years old: I know she can still kick a lot of ass, but a lead role in a major motion picture might be a little much.

    It's been a long long time since I saw the whole thing, but as I recall George Burns wasn't in a lot of the movie. He just popped in and out and made John Denver's life... hell.

    Posted by: mswas at July 14, 2010 9:45 AM

    Sometimes I feel like any episode of This American Life could be turned into a pretty good movie.

    Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at July 14, 2010 9:45 AM

    Eat the Minions
    ---
    Sure do. I LOVE minions. I had some purple ones on a pizza the other day and they were so sweet, and the vidalias are wonderful, and I always get the bloomin' minion at Outback, and ...

    What?

    Posted by: , at July 14, 2010 10:12 AM

    So nobudy else thinks Betty White is overexposed at this point? It used to be fun to see her pop up in something, now she's like LeBron James: I can't turn on the TV/Internet/radio withoiut hearing something about her.

    Posted by: PaddyDog at July 14, 2010 10:36 AM

    @Rykker: Well, fuck me running. It didn't click that the non-Miley from 'Hannah Montana' was Joel Osment's kid sister until I read your comment. Put him in a wig and a stupid Disney Girl outfit and I swear, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

    Posted by: Aislinn at July 14, 2010 10:42 AM

    superasente, New York State has one of the most rigorous certification programs in the country (beside California); it is definitely not one of the states where you can just get a bachelor's and teach. NY teacher certification is fairly insane (and expensive), and the main reason why I will not be working for Geoffrey Canada any time soon. They actually decided to make it even more difficult to get certified by removing many of the alternatives to teachers' college. Some schools get around it by participating in programs like Teach for America, and there are charter schools which don't have to employ certified teachers, but the certification is pretty comprehensive.

    Interestingly, other states (mostly in the South), are having such amazing teacher shortages that they are shipping over teachers from Malaysia, and I recently saw an article about a summer certification you can do in Maryland for schools near DC. In New Jersey, though, they are laying off teachers, and my friends here in NY can't find jobs anywhere in upstate.

    Posted by: Phaeolus at July 14, 2010 10:47 AM

    Henchman- on YouTube, IASIP has these mailbags where you can send in questions to the cast, and one person asked "Who would play who?" if there was a movie, and everybody said the Mac would be played by Haley Joel Osment

    Posted by: frankiedbluth at July 14, 2010 11:15 AM

    Posted by: frankiedbluth at July 14, 2010 11:26 AM

    Granted this isn't exactly recent, but my Mom is an English teacher* who is hopeless at math and when she started out she had to teach Algebra until something opened up in her area. (in Iowa in the late 70's)

    *She is not responsible for my woeful grammer and punctuation skills.

    Posted by: king at July 14, 2010 11:33 AM

    If Todd Solondz isnt making a movie that is FUCKED UP then I'm not interested.
    Ive come to expect a level of downright fuckedupness from Solondz and I dont expect anything to change.

    Posted by: supafly at July 14, 2010 12:07 PM

    Weird. To me, Haley Joel kind of looks like he could be Leelee Sobieski's brother.

    Posted by: Sassafrass Green at July 14, 2010 1:26 PM

    I heard the Carlton Pearson episode of This American Life and was truly moved. I'd love to see a well done movie on his life story.

    Zac Efron's production company name reminds me of high school when the popular kids would try to glom onto something that the not-quite-so-cool-but-totally-know-how-to-party kids were doing, exposing themselves for the lame-o's they really were. Nice try, losers.

    Posted by: katy at July 14, 2010 1:31 PM

    Isn't everyone excited about seeing the film version of Eat, Pray, Love? I know I am. Here's a great website to get us in the mood for some philanthropic adventure, and we can do it all from home: http://nonprofitshoppingmall.com/eat-pray-love-shop

    Posted by: katie at August 3, 2010 3:09 PM