- Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi will star in indie drama "Middle Men," a chronicle of the birth of the Internet porn industry. Script centers on a businessman who builds the first online billing company exclusively for adult entertainment and finds himself mixed up with starlets, conmen, Russian mobsters, federal agents and international terrorists -- all while trying to hold on to his marriage and family.
- The other Wilson brother, I think his name is Owen, will costar in 'Blood Brothers'. A buddy comedy about two of the last vampires on earth who live in Miami. Wait, it gets better... An antiquities collector is trying to summon the forces of evil so he can rule the world and the only thing that can stop him are our reluctant vampires who have grown a bit tired of eternal life.
- Jude Law is negotiating to join Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes," the drama that Guy Ritchie will direct for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures. Law is expected to close a deal shortly to play Watson, the super-sleuth's sidekick.
- Universal Pictures has cast Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love in Couples Retreat, a Favreau-scripted, Peter Billingsley-directed comedy. The story follows four couples who go to a tropical island resort. While one couple is there to work on their marriage, the others are there to play but soon discover that participation in the resort's couples therapy is not optional.
- Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T and Tracy Morgan have signed on to voice the lead characters of Sony Pictures Animation's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. The pic centers on a world where giant pancakes and pasta fall from the sky as a scientist tries to solve world hunger. However, things go terribly wrong when excess amounts of food overload cities and towns.
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