- Someone said, "Let's put Juliette Lewis in a remake of the Fellini classic Nights of Cabiria," and someone else said, "Yup, let's certainly do that."
- Having been asked to be in Wild Side, Nicolas Cage will do that, starring opposite Juno Temple as a killer chasing down the small-town beauty queen (Temple) who possesses his stolen diamonds. That sounds like a Nicolas Cage movie, right? "Give me back my diamonds!", he'll shout into a phone, and that will hopefully be his entire characterization.
- Vince Vaughn is in talks to star in Dreamworks remake of the French-Canadian hit Starbuck, a comedy about the cum-prolific sperm donor of 533 children being confronted with meeting many of his legion of progeny. Perhaps you truly can ejaculate in too many receptacles? I sure hope not.
- Precious director Lee Daniels has reportedly signed up to do a remake of Fellini's 1957 classic, Nights of Cabiria. Does this mean Mariah Carey is going to play the film's prostitute lead? I wouldn't doubt that. Is this a terrible idea? Yes, it is a terrible idea.
- Mia Wasikowska and Aaron Johnson have replaced Amanda Seyfried and Orlando Bloom in Rodrigo Garcia's Glen Close-starring adaptation of The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs. Seyfried recently left the project because of delays, while Bloom had to be replaced when producers suddenly realized no one could say with any certainty that they'd seen him since the last pirate movie.
- Phil Lord and Chris Miller--co-directors of the surprisingly-great Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and the upcoming adaptation of 21 Jump Street--are in talks to direct Disney's Bob the Musical, the story of a man who suffers a blow to the head that leaves stuck hearing "the inner songs of everyone’s hearts as his reality is instantly turned into a musical." I'll have to trust that they'll make it into something less broad-Adam-Sandler-comedy-esque than that sounds.
- Bob Odenkirk, Lucy Punch, and Rich Sommer have joined the deceptively exciting-sounding romantic-comedy The Giant Mechanical Man. The Hollywood Reporter adds: "They join stars Jenna Fischer, Topher Grace, Malin Akerman and Chris Messina in the story of a quiet zoo worker (Fischer) who is torn between a street performer (Messina) and a pompous motivational speaker (Grace). Punch will play the street-performer’s girlfriend." Malin Akerman is just there because it seems like she would be in this kind of thing.
- Remember how the last trailer for I Am Number Four sort of looked like Race to Twilight Mountain? This one does, too:
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