Last month, it was announced that Meryl Streep and Tina Fey (!) would be starring together in an as yet unwritten script Mommy & Me, to be directed by Stanley Tucci. No details were given at the time, but the Hollywood Cog offers details on the treatment. It’s a mother-daughter comedy about a control freak mother (Fey) of a 3 year old who loses her job and is forced to move back in with her overbearing mother (Streep). The two then begin to battle over how the child should be raised.
And if it follows typical sitcom conventions, of course, the three-year-old will be duct taped down the center, and Streep and Fey will each raise one-half of the toddler.
Columbia is still searching for a screenwriter.
Hayao Miyazaki has plans to make his first ever direct sequel, to Porco Rosso. Miyazaki fans: Do your little Japanimation dance. (Cut Magazine via Slashfilm)
Here’s your first look at The Dilemma, the Ron Howard directed comedy about a man (Vince Vaughn) who doesn’t know what to tell his best friend (Kevin James) when he discovers that his best friend’s wife (Winona Ryder) is cheating on him with a younger man (Channing Tatum). Wow: That’s two people Winona Ryder wouldn’t dare to sleep with in real life.
Hey! That dude — The Situation — from MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” is set to make $5 million in 2010, which is more than any of these five actors will make: Anna Paquin, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johansson, Matthew Morrison, or Don Cheadle. The good news, however, is that the hobo clown down the street will make more money panhandling next year than The Situation will in 2011. (THR)
Dolly Parton, who is 64 y’all, and Queen Latifah are teaming up for Dolly Parton Joyful Noise, which will center around two women who join forces to prevent a small-town gospel choir from shutting down. (THR)
Talented but smug author Jonathan Safron Foer is having his novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close adapted for the silver screen (Jesus, did I just write “silver screen”? I’ve been reading too much EW ). Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are lined up for key roles in the film. Eric Roth is adapting, and Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) will direct. (Variety)
Angelina Jolie’s next film will be set in Sarajevo. It will be about “a couple who meet on the eve of the war and the effect it has on their relationship.” It’s meant to be a love story, and not a political one, so says Jolie. (Reuters)
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That's the Death Star version of the fat bald guy with hot wife trope. Surely the sinister cabal that has spent years using sit-coms to lull us into thinking this kind of pairing really happens is now ready to make their world takeover bid. If you're a normal-sized attractive woman, be scared. Be very scared. You're about to be married against your will to some third runner-up from the Coney Island hot-dog eating contest.
Posted by: PaddyDog at August 23, 2010 10:57 AM
For some reason the Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton project makes me fell happy inside. I am sure I will see this on free cable and enjoy it immensely. It will fit snuggly inside that narrow, yet deep little burrow in my soul that has been carved out by a multitude of repeated viewings of A League Of Their Own. That shit gets me every time.
Posted by: Forbiddendonut at August 23, 2010 10:59 AM
Columbia is still searching for a screenwriter.
Hopefully that search is never ending.
Posted by: admin at August 23, 2010 11:00 AM
Ummmmm is Jennifer Connelly standing next to Vince-and-a-half Vaughn?
Gawd it's weird reading websites google has translated from Japanese to English.
Posted by: Nadine at August 23, 2010 11:12 AM
In fairness, the Situation has better abs than all of them and at least as much range as Cera.
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at August 23, 2010 11:15 AM
"•Here’s your first look at The Dilemma, the Ron Howard directed comedy about a man (Vince Vaughn) who doesn’t know what to tell his best friend (Kevin James) when he discovers that his best friend’s wife (Winona Ryder) is cheating on him with a younger man (Channing Tatum). "
Here, let me write this script for you.
Vaughn to James: "Hey man, I told you she was too good looking for you and that she was only after your money. I told you she was going to leave you for another man."
Next 90 minutes are videos of baby bunnies hoping around.
Posted by: BWeaves at August 23, 2010 11:19 AM
Hopping, not hoping. Is the Pajiba spell-ejector on overload today?
Posted by: BWeaves at August 23, 2010 11:20 AM
I'm starting to think Hayao Miyazaki announces his retirement only so that ticket sales will go up on his "last" movie.
Posted by: Todd at August 23, 2010 11:29 AM
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Posted by: wolton at August 23, 2010 11:50 AM
Winona Ryder and Kevin James? Gross.
Posted by: ERM at August 23, 2010 12:09 PM
I'm not so cool that I can't admit my love for Tom Hanks and Sandy B., but I cannot picture them in those roles. Not remotely who I pictured when I read it.
I am shocked by the recurring idea that attractive women COULDN'T POSSIBLY find themselves attracted to tubby men. Have any of you people actually been in a relationship? Sex appeal is about confidence way before it's about looks. I'm a squishy 225lbs, with only the distant memory of a soccer players athleticism, and I've never had any problems with women. Never. Because I'm confident and confidence is sexy. And so is a sense of humor. And so is the ability to dress well and smell good. And speak intelligently (I don't actually possess any of these OTHER qualities, but somehow still manage to get by).
The oh-my-god-he's-fat-why-is-she-with-him mentality is really REALLY shallow. And not at all representative of how the world actually works.
Posted by: superasente at August 23, 2010 2:14 PM
"Because it's not like that shit hurt feelings or anything."
When you've endured four-plus years of bracing yourself for the gap-toothed insults every time Torchwood and True Blood are mentioned, maybe I'll care.
Also, grow a pair!
Posted by: PaddyDog at August 23, 2010 2:16 PM
On the bright side, it looks like Ron Howard is FINALLY attracting the mediocre talent he so richly deserves.
Dear Ron Howard,
STOP DIRECTING NOW! STOP DIRECTING NOW!
Posted by: Barnes78 at August 23, 2010 2:47 PM
So, America pushes women to be stick thin because Hollywood only casts stick thin women, but it's the fat men that are unbelievable in film roles involving relationships? Because everyone knows fat men finding thin women to love them is just a Hollywood myth that never ever happens in real life. Only appearance matters in a relationship, right folks?
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm just going to crawl under that large rock over there and not come out until I'm thin enough to be loved by anyone else.
If that is Jennifer Connelly, D-Day, then I'm beginning to think her character's outcome in Requiem for a Dream is better than her real-life.
Seriously. How far do you fall to be in a movie with the mall-cop?
Posted by: penelope at August 23, 2010 3:32 PM
Have you all actually seen Wynona Ryder lately?? Or is she still a vision in your mind from her Johnny Depp days. The woman looks OLD!! And tired, like she's been through a lot. Oh. Wait . ..
Anyway, I think Kevin James and Vince Vaughn will make for a very funny movie. Plus, they aren't all that fat. I'm being optimistic here, okay?
It's the Tom Hanks/Sandy Bullock pairing I'm worried about. It sounds awful.
Posted by: mslewis at August 23, 2010 7:58 PM
When you've endured four-plus years of bracing yourself for the gap-toothed insults every time Torchwood and True Blood are mentioned, maybe I'll care.
I must have missed all that, between the slobbering over the "hunky bisexual guy" and "the hunky might-as-well-be-bisexual guy with no shirt". I do apologize for my failure at perceiving the injustice perpetrated.
Does this new setup mean that the thick women should also stop complaining that nobody wants them, either? I mean, the shuffling off of the undesirables shouldn't be so one-sided right?
Dolly Parton, who is 64 y’all, and Queen Latifah are teaming up for Dolly Parton Joyful Noise, which will center around two women who join forces to prevent a small-town gospel choir from shutting down.
Insulin... must reach insulin...
Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 23, 2010 10:03 PM
Insulin... must reach insulin...
That's not insulin!!!! It's cyani...Oh 'eck.
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Winona Ryder cast as Kevin James' wife?
That's the Death Star version of the fat bald guy with hot wife trope. Surely the sinister cabal that has spent years using sit-coms to lull us into thinking this kind of pairing really happens is now ready to make their world takeover bid. If you're a normal-sized attractive woman, be scared. Be very scared. You're about to be married against your will to some third runner-up from the Coney Island hot-dog eating contest.