Jason Reitman, hot off his accolades for Juno, and Jim Carrey have said, "Mais oui!" to direct and star in, respectively, the new comedy, Pierre, Pierre. The Fox Atomic film follows a nihilistic, self-indulgent French man who brings a stolen painting from Paris to London. If the premise didn't give it away already, the film will be "politically incorrect," according to Variety.For Reitman, the flick will be a brief break sandwiched by Diablo Cody projects: Next up for him is the Cody movie Jennifer's Body, which is billed as a comedy-thriller about a cheerleader from hell (unlike real-life cheerleaders, with apologies to Hayden Panetierre's Claire). — Anna Dimond
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Disturbia's director and writer, D.J. Caruso and Carl Ellsworth, are reteaming for an adaptation of Y: The Last Man, the Vertigo comic book about an escape artist who is the sole male survivor of a plague.... Also per the Reporter, Warner Bros. Pictures is bringing DC Comics' Jonah Hex to the big screen.... Disney has set Brian Robbins (Norbit) to helm Jailhouse Rock, based on the true story of an American Idol-like singing contest held in Arizona's Tent City jail.... Jim Carrey has said yep to Yes Man, a comedy based on the memoir by Brit author Danny Wallace.... Joel Schumacher is in talks to direct a remake of Breaking News, a Hong Kong action flick that premiered at Cannes in 2004.
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Jim Carrey will play Ebenezer Scrooge — as well as the three ghosts that haunt him — in a new big-screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to be written and directed for Disney by Robert Zemeckis, says Variety. Zemeckis will shoot the film using "performance capture/Disney digital 3-D" animation, a technique he introduced in Tom Hanks' Polar Express and fine-tuned for Beowulf (an upcoming film starring Angelina Jolie), a bit of live action and a dash of Monster House-esque computer graphics. And just like that, The Grinch looks art-house.
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Cameron Diaz is set to star in The Box, a horror thriller about an unhappily married couple who find a mysterious wooden box that brings its opener wealth, yet at the same time kills someone else.... Transformers hottie Megan Fox (nice pic at right, thanks, Photo Department!) has joined the cast of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, playing a [Stre-e-e-etch] young Hollywood starlet.... Jim Carrey will star in Sober Buddies, a comedy about a software exec assigned a Sober Buddy to keep him straight en route to a critical Las Vegas meeting. Alas, said Buddy (Carrey) falls off the wagon mid-trip.... Live Free or Die Hard took in $9.1 million on Wednesday, its opening day.
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Per Variety, Jim Carrey will star in I Love You Phillip Morris, a dark comedy pegged as "Catch Me If You Can meets Brokeback," concerning a con man whose love for a released cell mate leads him to attempt several prison escapes.... Jack Black will front Year One, a comedy that Judd Apatow will produce, Harold Ramis will direct and cowrite (with a pair of Office scribes), and Michael Cera will star in.... Per the Reporter, Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin is Matthew Perry's sis in Laws of Motion.... Kevin Bacon is chief-of-staff Jack Brennan in Ron Howard's Nixon/Frost.... Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) will direct Spy Hunter, a big-budget take on the awesome '80s arcade game.
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