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“Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan has been tapped to receive the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement at this year’s Writers Guild Awards. The award, chosen by the west coast arm of the Writers Guild of America (and its highest TV writing honor), recognizes members who have “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer.”

Gilligan, whose credits also include “Breaking Bad” spinoff “Better Call Saul,” was additionally one of the notable writers on “The X-Files.” A multiple Emmy and WGA Award winner, Gilligan will be recognized at the 2025 Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Beverly Hilton.

“‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,’” Gilligan said in a statement. “Cribbing from a better writer is about all I can think to do right now, preoccupied as we all are by what...

Actress Shelley Duvall has died. Duvall rose to fame in the 1970s as cinema’s new darling and muse to Director Robert Altman who cast her in many of his films.

Her first role was in Altman’s Brewster McCloud followed by McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Thieves Like Us; Three Women; Nashville and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson.

She would go on to work with Woody Allen in Annie Hall and star in her most famous role as Wendy Torrance alongside Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film The Shining.

Related: Shelley Duvall Dies: ‘The Shining’, ‘Nashville’ Actor Was 75

Shelley was consistent in working in television as well as children’s shows hosting Shelley Duvall’s Bedtime Stories; Adventures from the Book of Virtues and the cult Disney movie, Mother Goose Rock’n’ Rhyme where she portrayed Little Bo Beep. The film was a unique take...

A true icon and legend in the world of entertainment, actress Shelley Duvall has passed away at the age of 75, her longtime partner Dan Gilroy tells The Hollywood Reporter this morning.

“Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas.”

“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy said in a statement shared by the website.

Shelley Duvall is of course known here in the horror world for her all-time-great performance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, playing opposite Jack Nicholson as Wendy Torrance.

Duvall got her start in the 1970s working with director Robert Altman, making her debut in the 1970 film Brewster McCloud. She went on to work with Altman on McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Thieves Like Us (1974), Nashville (1975) and 3 Women (1977), as well as Woody Allen in...

Shelley Duvall, known in part for her role in The Shining, has passed away. She was 75 years old.

Duvall died in her sleep on Thursday at her Blanco, Texas home due to complications from diabetes. Her life partner since 1989, Dan Gilroy, confirmed her passing to The Hollywood Reporter, saying in a statement, "My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now shes free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley."

Born on July 7, 1949, Duvall happened to meet filmmaker Robert Altman when he was shooting the 1970 film Brewster McCloud in Texas. The director cast her for a role in the film and continued to collaborate with Duvall on other feature films in a variety of roles in the 1970s. That includes McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, Nashville, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, and 3 Women. With 3 Women, Duvall won the best...

Tim Allen is heading back into the world of sitcoms with his next big project. He's attached to an ABC comedy series pilot that's in the works, and the latest casting will reunite the actor with a Galaxy Quest star.

Per Variety, another casting has been revealed for the pilot, titled Shifting Gears. Actor Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, who previously co-starred with Allen in the sci-fi comedy movie Galaxy Quest, has been cast as Ed, a former marine and mechanic who works at a shop owned by Allen's character. Mitchell's character is expected to be featured as a series regular if ABC orders the pilot to series. It has also been reported that the pilot will also star Kat Dennings (WandaVision) and Froy Gutierrez (Hocus Pocus 2), respectively as the daughter and son of Allen's character.

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The ABC comedy pilot “Shifting Gears” has cast Daryl “Chill” Mitchell and Froy Gutierrez, Variety has learned exclusively.

The pair join previously announced series leads Tim Allen and Kat Dennings in the multi-cam comedy, which was originally ordered to pilot at ABC back in March.

In the show, “Matt (Allen) is the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt’s estranged daughter Riley (Dennings) and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins,” per the official logline.

Mitchell will star as Ed, described as “a former Marine. He’s a mechanic at the shop and ‘work husband’ of Frankie.” The role of Frankie has yet to be cast. Gutierrez will star as Nick, said to be “Matt’s son and Riley’s younger brother. He’s a game coder but put his life on hold to come home and help his father at the shop.

Exclusive: Deadline hears that Jake Busey has boarded Joel Souza’s recently restored production of Rust in Montana at the Yellowstone Film Ranch.

In the film produced and starring Alec Baldwin, Busey will play the role of Drum Parker.

The logline for Rust, written by Souza, based on a story developed by the director and Baldwin: A 13-year-old boy, left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, is taken on a violent, harrowing journey to old Mexico by his long estranged grandfather after he’s sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.

Patrick Scott McDermott (Chicago Med, South Side) is playing the role of Lucas Hollister in the film. Frances Fisher also stars.

The film restarted production last week following the October 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after a prop gun held by Baldwin discharged during...

Much has been made of titles being quietly removed from HBO Max over the last few week, but while the number of films departing the service in September is substantial, at least subscribers have a heads up.

As is the case every month, various movies are due to leave HBO Max in September, and below we’ve got the full list of which films are leaving and when so you can prioritizing some viewing options. Noteworthy removals include the 2021 Warner Bros. thriller “The Little Things” starring Denzel Washington (leaving Sept. 16), the 2020 “Freaky Friday” horror riff “Freaky,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” films, the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, “Super 8,” “Tootsie” and the Nancy Meyers classic “The Holiday.”

Check out the full list of what’s leaving HBO Max in September below.

September 4

Meet the Patels, 2014

September 5

Turner Classic Movies: Follow the Thread, 2022

September 8

Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, 2018

September 9

Horrible Bosses 2,...

Co-founder recalls early lessons and its emergence as a major financier of indie filmmaking.

It is 20 years since UK advertising and music photographer Phil Hunt set up Head Gear Films.

The now booming production company and film financier is a major force in the Cannes market this year, involved in films including Mister Smith Entertainment’s He Went That Way, starring Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto, Altitude’s Sentinel, Gfm’s The Accursed and many others, including several titles from its sister company Bankside.

Back in 1998, Hunt had produced his first feature, Fast Food, a micro-budget movie made for £50,000, which...

Co-founder recalls early lessons and its emergence as a major financier of indie filmmaking.

It is 20 years since UK advertising and music photographer Phil Hunt set up Head Gear Films.

The now booming production company and film financier is a major force in the Cannes market this year, involved in films including Mister Smith Entertainment’s He Went That Way, starring Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto, Altitude’s Sentinel, Gfm’s The Accursed and many others, including several titles from its sister company Bankside.

Back in 1998, Hunt had produced his first feature, Fast Food, a micro-budget movie made for £50,000, which...

Co-founder recalls early lessons and its emergence as a major financier of indie filmmaking.

It is 20 years since UK advertising and music photographer Phil Hunt set up Head Gear Films.

The now booming production company and film financier is a major force in the Cannes market this year, involved in films like Mister Smith Entertainment’s He Went That Way starring Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto, Altitude’s Sentinel, Gfm’s The Accursed and many others, including several titles from its sister company Bankside.

Back in 1998, Hunt had produced his first feature, Fast Food, a micro-budget movie made for £50,000, which...

Exclusive: Producer Mark Gordon has launched Mark Gordon Pictures, a new production venture that is backed by EOne. Gordon has put together a staff of producers to create new film and TV productions and continue to shepherd the ones he already had in the works. Part of the plan is to expand into theater in the U.S. and U.K.

Gordon exited as president of EOne in June, 2019, this after selling to EOne 51% of the Mark Gordon Co. in 2015 for $133 Million, and the remaining 49% of The Mark Gordon Co. for $209 million in January 2018. Gordon has a long track record as a hit making producer of such TV shows as Grey’s Anatomy, Ray Donovan and Criminal Minds, and for eOne Designated Survivor and the Nathan Fillion-starrer The Rookie. Gordon’s long list of movie credits includes Saving Private Ryan, Speed, Murder on the Orient Express, The Messenger, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow,...

Hogan Sheffer, an Emmy Award-winning daytime television writer known for his comical one-liners, died in his hometown of York, Pennsylvania on September 28. He was 61.

Sheffer went into cardiac arrest in 2014, and suffered a series of health problems up until his death last week from heart failure.

The veteran writer’s longtime manager, Brad Kramer, told Deadline Sheffer had a “huge heart” and always helped others.

“I met Hogan in 1993. I know I am speaking for countless others when I say Hogan Sheffer will be dearly missed,” Kramer said. “Besides a brilliant creative mind, and the most generous huge heart, Hogan could always and did make you laugh until you were in tears. He would and did do anything to help others.”

Sheffer started out in the industry in the 1980s and worked at DreamWorks as director of screenplay development from 1997 to 2000, under producers Mark Johnson and Elizabeth Cantillon. He was...

Extra, extra! There's a new journalist at The Hawkins Post who's about to stir up trouble on Stranger Things. Fortifying its rock-solid main cast with new characters, the Netflix series' third season will introduce us to sketchy reporter Bruce, an up-to-no-good newsie with questionable morals and a twisted comedic sensibility. If the baddie in the latest season three trailer looks familiar to you, that's because you've probably seen him before. Bruce is played by none other than Jake Busey, who's been terrifying us for years with his wild-card characters on TV and in films. And yes, if you recognize that last name, he is indeed Gary Busey's son.

The 47-year-old actor is known for his part as evil serial killer Johnny Bartlett in the 1996 film The Frighteners (below). According to Busey, the Duffer Brothers loved him in that movie so much that they created the character Bruce just for him.

[Brightcove "4827279342001" "" "" "auto"] After almost four years of marriage, Drew Barrymore and husband Will Kopelman have decided to split. The couple, parents to Olive Barrymore Kopelman, 3, and Frankie Barrymore Kopelman, 23 months, are planning to divorce, sources confirm to People. "They've had marriage issues for a while," a source tells People, including tension over whether to live in New York City or L.A. With their relationship ending, we're looking back at Barrymore's former flames and past marriages. Justin LongBarrymore and Long were first linked in August of 2007 and officially called the relationship off in July of 2008. "Justin is an excellent kisser both on- and offscreen,...

Perhaps best known as the writer of Will Smith’s Hancock, Vince Gilligan previously found success on a little television show that few people thought would succeed. The X-Files ran for nine seasons, and he wrote (or co-wrote) thirty of the series’ 202 episodes. 20th Century Fox’s recent release of the entire series onto Blu-ray — available via a beautifully-produced box-set or as individual season releases — features the show in gorgeous HD, and while it includes a handful of new extras the vast bulk of the special features are pulled from previous releases. Multiple episode commentaries are available including three from Gilligan — “Small Potatoes” from season four, “Je Souhaite” from season seven, and “Jump the Shark” from season nine and recorded with co-writers John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz. The X-Files returns in January for a six-part mini-series, but sadly Gilligan’s only role in the reboot will be as a fan. Also...

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan will move from meth labs and murder to fairy tales on a new Disney project.

Gilligan has developed the concept for a reinvention of the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk for Disney, and could be in line to direct the project.

He will apparently hand over script duties for Beanstalk to his Breaking Bad, X-Files and Better Call Saul co-worker Thomas Schnauz, reports Deadline.

Gilligan is certainly busy these days, working on television crime dramas Better Call Saul and Battle Creek. Beanstalk will mark his first big-screen project since 2008.

The scribe previously penned Will Smith's superhero epic Hancock and the Drew Barrymore comedy Home Fries.

A new Jack and the Beanstalk movie will fall in line with Walt Disney Studios' current emphasis on developing live-action versions of animated hits.

The studio is working on new adaptations of The Jungle Book, Pinocchio,...

The cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens keeps growing by the day, with Yahoo! UK reporting that The Woman in Black 2 Angel of Death actress Leanne Best, who plays the title character in that horror movie, has signed on for an unspecified role in the sci-fi sequel. The news was revealed in a press email for the actress' upcoming ITV series Home Fries, where it mentioned that she will also be in director J.J. Abrams' highly-anticipated Star Wars movie. Naturally, we have no word on what character she may be playing, or how she fits into the story. Here's an excerpt from the press email below.

"Brit actor Leanne Best [is] available for interview. Best known for her role as Jane Cobden on BBC's award-winning Ripper Street, Leanne is currently starring as the woman in black in The Woman in Black 2 Angel of Death showing in theatres worldwide.

[In case you've Forgotten, and as I will continue to mention each and every one of these posts that I do: This is *not* a review. Pilots change. Sometimes a lot. Often for the better. Sometimes for the worse. But they change. Actual reviews will be coming in September and perhaps October (and maybe midseason in some cases). This is, however, a brief gut reaction to not-for-air pilots. I know some people will be all "These are reviews." If you've read me, you've read my reviews and you know this isn't what they look like.] Show: "Battle Creek" (CBS - Midseason) The Pitch: "Hi! My name is Vince Gilligan. You might remember me from such shows as..." "Sold!" "Wait, but I'm not actually going to be available to do anything here." "We *said* 'Sold.'" "Woo-hoo!" Quick Response: Vince Gilligan's script for "Battle Creek," which sat in a desk for a decade before getting a straight-to-series order from CBS, is Not "Breaking Bad." It's a goofier, lighter brew than what you're expecting and if I had to compare it to anything in Gilligan's filmography, I might actually go with something earlier and more comedic, like "Home Fries," which Nobody at CBS wants to hear. I liked "Home Fries." It's kooky and charming. "Battle Creek" is also kooky and charming, but I can't say with certainty that that's what anybody at CBS is going to want it to be long-term, a long-term that will take...

"Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan will soon be creating even more shows for Sony Pictures Television. After courting offers from companies like Warner Bros., it's being reported that Gilligan took an eight-figure multi-year deal to create new shows at Sony TV.

The Hollywood Reporter says that it's unlikely that Gilligan will create as many projects as producers like J.J. Abrams and Greg Berlanti -- and that Sony won't expect him to. He is slated to direct the pilot of "Better Call Saul" and be "intimately involved in the writing process" of the show's first season.

So what does this mean for his CBS series "Battle Creek"? THR claims he will be "significantly less involved" in the project, though he has said he wants to direct that pilot as well.

This means that Gilligan will have freedom when it comes to working on a feature film, which he has expressed interest in.

There are many writers, great writers, who excel in one form but not in another. Vince Gilligan will not be remembered ultimately as the writer of "Wilder Napalm" and "Home Fries," but rather as the brain behind "Breaking Bad." David Chase probably doesn't have to worry about "Not Fade Away" eclipsing "The Sopranos" as his crowning accomplishment. Those guys have television in their DNA. They understand how to use that form, that storytelling rhythm, to maximum effect, and with their voices turned to something as fundamentally different in style as a 100-minute movie, they seem constricted. Cormac McCarthy is a hell...

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (or, if you insist, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) reunited at Comic-Con for the 20th Anniversary of "The X-Files." Judging by the hero's welcome they both received, Fox's landmark sci-fi series still has a rabid fanbase over a decade after leaving the air.

Anderson, Duchovny and creator Chris Carter headlined the panel discussion along with key producers including Vince Gilligan ("Breaking Bad") and Howard Gordon ("Homeland"). The topics ranged from classic "X-Files" episodes (including the chilling "Home" and kooky "Jose Chung's From Outer Space") to the show's lasting influence on pop culture. Not that any of that stopped a randy Anderson from always bringing the discussion back to sex.

Here's a rundown of the five hottest topics:

Mulder and Scully's sex life

The FBI agents' will they/won't they relationship was never explicitly consummated on screen but Anderson revealed she developed her own crush on Mulder,...

Jonathan Demme, director of such feature films as Rachel Getting Married and Philadelphia, and such documentaries as Jimmy Carter Man from Plains, will receive the top award at the 2013 Austin Film Festival this fall. Demme is being honored with the fest's "Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking" Award.

Demme won an Oscar for his direction of The Silence of the Lambs.  Recently Demme has done directing work on TV shows such as HBO's Enlightened.  His Fear of Falling, based on a screenplay by Wallace Shawn, is currently in post-production. The photo above is from SXSW 2009, when Demme brought the concert documentary Neil Young Trunk Show to Austin.

Aff also announced its "Outstanding Television Writer" for 2013: Vince Gilligan, acclaimed for his creation of and work on the AMC series Breaking Bad. Gilligan also served as executive producer for The X-Files, and wrote screenplays for Hancock and the Texas-shot movie Home Fries. (Does...

Not every romantic movie match was made in heaven. We submit it's quite the opposite in a lot of cases.

This baker's dozen batch of film titles in particular, boasting some shamelessly twisted pairings, has definitely given our gag reflex an unhealthy workout over the years. From incest to incomprehensible deception to just plain strange, there are a lot of different variations of yuck to be experienced within this group.

Some are worse than others, sure, but none are very well-suited for the faint of heart or imagination.

13. 'What Women Want'

Ah, pre-bigotry-slinging Mel Gibson. Those were some good old days, weren't they? Except, of course, for "What Women Want." Gibson's hyper-successful ad man Nick Marshall knows his way around a bedpost, but every female in his life pretty much loathes him. Lucky for him, an accident bestows upon him the desirable ability to read women's minds. Old...

For three years in a row, John Hawkes found himself the center of attention at the Sundance Film Festival. That's an incredible winning streak for any actor, but an especially sweet victory for someone like Hawkes, who toiled for years in thankless roles in thankless movies like Home Fries and I Know What You Did Last Summer before seeming to emerge out of nowhere as the terrifying Teardrop in Winter's Bone, which was a Sundance sensation and eventually earned Hawkes an Oscar nomination. He learned of that nomination while back at Sundance a year later, with another terrifying supporting performance in the acclaimed Martha Marcy May Marlene. But as he completed his Sundance hat trick earlier this year, Hawkes was getting attention for a very different, very challenging kind of role, playing the disabled poet and writer Mark O'Brien in the quiet little drama once titled The Surrogate, now being...

Considering he made one of the best comedies of the last twenty years, you'd have thought Dean Parisot would be a bigger name by now. After making his debut with the Drew Barrymore vehicle "Home Fries," the helmer was gifted a near-perfect script in the sci-fi comedy "Galaxy Quest," about the crew of a "Star Trek"-style TV series who find themselves thrust into a real-life space adventure, and went on to cast it impeccably, with Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Sam Rockwell, and directing it with visual panache and a real flair for comedy. But the film failed to be the "Men In Black"-style blockbuster the studio hoped it would be, and Parisot didn't make another feature for six years. And when he did, it was the decidedly lacking Jim Carrey comedy "Fun With Dick and Jane." While he's been attached to various projects since, including...

Most people know film know the name Wes Anderson. He's a brilliant director who has influenced scores of films since he Bottle Rocket. And yet, the average box-office take of his six films is $21 million. Kevin Smith is an even more popular director. The average box-office of his nine films is $20 million. Martin Scorsese's average is $39 million. Woody Allen's average is $13 million. Danny Boyle's is $30 million. The Coen Brothers average around $45 million. David Lynch: $12.3 million. David Mamet: $6 million.

And yet, if you are a film fan, those are all names that you know. You probably know them well. You've probably seen some or most of their films. And yet, you probably have no idea who Steve Carr is. In the last decade, Carr has made 6 films. The box-office average of those six films is $80 million, better than the average of either Tony or Ridley Scott.

Kuffs: Christian Slater vs. Milla Jovovich

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Scream: David Arquette vs. Courtney Cox

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The Rocketeer: Bill Campbell vs. Jennifer Connelly

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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead: Keith Coogan vs. Christina Applegate

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Home Fries: Luke Wilson vs. Drew Barrymore

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Son in Law: Pauly Shore vs. Carla Gugino

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Cutting Edge: D.B. Sweeney vs. Moira Kelly

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Mosquito Coast: Harrison Ford vs. Helen Mirren

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Trading Places: Dan Aykroyd vs. Jamie Lee Curtis

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Princess Bride: Cary Elwes vs. Robin Wright

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My Girl: Macauley Culkin vs. Anna Chlumsky

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By his own account, Luke Wilson should never have become an actor. Growing up in Dallas, he wasn't active in drama; he did one play in high school, and the writer-director yelled at him for not taking things seriously. He was "forced" into his breakthrough role in the short film "Bottle Rocket" by its writers: his brother Owen and director Wes Anderson.And he has never, ever had a headshot. Wilson explains in his signature laid-back Southern drawl, "I was told many times, 'You need one, go get one!' And I could never bring myself to do it. I'd go into auditions, and I'd see a stack of a thousand of them, and I would tell myself, 'I may not get this job, but I know I'm not going to be in that stack.' "While it would be easy to resent Wilson for his subsequent success, he remains...

Luke Wilson has revealed that Tracy Morgan forgot his name when the two worked together on the set of Death at a Funeral. The Home Fries star, who plays best friends with Morgan in the film, is still baffled that the 30 Rock actor kept calling him the wrong name, according to WENN. "We were together all day long... We'd been working together for two weeks at one point and it was the end of the day on Friday and I said, 'Tracy, I'll see you later. Have a good weekend'," (more)...

I consider myself a casual comic book fan. Back in the day, before I had a job and a wife and a house and hobbies and, you know, a life, I was a junkie. I spent every day reading comics, would ride my piece of shit Bmx bike to the comic book store every Saturday and spend every dime I had on them. So it's rather refreshing to see comic books being adapted into movies, and in many cases, being done well.

That said, in the effort to capitalize on the trend, producers and directors are mining every comic book in existence these days. It's not always a bad thing -- we're getting some fun looking films out of some of the more obscure ones -- Kick Ass, Ghost World, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World -- all lesser known comics, all pretty good to great films (although the jury's still out on Scott Pilgrim,...

Director Dean Parisot has been making his name in comedy with films like "Home Fries" and "Fun With Dick And Jane" and has a project coming up with "The Office" star Ed Helms titled "Central Intelligence".  But it appears Parisot is steeping away from that genre for his next film.

It is being reported that Parisot will direct "Seal" based on the novel by M. Zachary Sherman, "Socom: Seal Team Seven".  The book is about a team of Navy Seals who are sent to investigate a sunken submarine in the persian gulf... and the mythical lost city of Atlantis is somehow involved.

There is no word yet on cast or timetables.

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Director Dean Parisot has a little bit of time on his hands right now, since his planned comedy with Ed Helms Central Intelligence has been delayed thanks to Helms being one of the most popular actors out there. But Parisot, whose credits include comedies like Home Fries and Fun With Dick And Jane, isn't just using the free time to make the same old same old-- he's changing pace entirely with a graphic novel adaptation. The Los Angeles Times reports that Parisot plans to adapt M. Zachary Sherman's graphic novel Socom: Seal Team Seven, which isn't about your usual superheroes or creatures. The Times describes Parisot's adaptation, called simply Seal, as "a political action film that mixes the Tom Clancy submarine thriller with a dollop of fanboy fantasy intrigue." The novel follows a Navy Seal team investigating a sunken submarine in the Persian Gulf that also, somehow, involves Atlantis.

The Fun With Dick and Jane director is in talks to take on M. Zachary Sherman's graphic novel We reported a few weeks ago that director Dean Parisot's film project Central Intelligence was being put on hold and now it seems the director has found a new project to take on. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Parisot is in talks to direct the film Seal Team Seven.

The film will be an adaptation of M. Zachary Sherman's 2006 graphic novel, Socom: Seal Team Seven, which centers on an elite Seal team that is sent in to investigate a submarine that sunk in the Persian Gulf and then have to battle forces from the mythical underwater world of Atlantis.

It wasn't said if there was a writer attached to the film as of yet or when production was looking to get started. Parisot's previous credits include the...

The Los Angeles Times ' "24 Frames" is reporting that Dean Parisot is in talks to direct Seal Team Seven , based on M. Zachary Sherman's 2006 graphic novel "Socom: Seal Team Seven." The political action film, in development at Walden Media, has Navy Seals investigating a mysterious submarine drowning in the Persian Gulf, as well as battling forces in the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, says the site. Parisot's credits include Home Fries , Galaxy Quest and Fun with Dick and Jane . His next project was going to be the Ed Helms comedy Central Intelligence but that has reportedly been pushed back.

Universal’s remake of the 1977 comedy classic Slap Shot is officially moving forward because it now has a director onboard. Dean Parisot, known for directing films such as the Jim Carrey comedy Fun with Dick and Jane, Home Fries, which starred Luke Wilson and Drew Barrymore, and sci-fi parody GalaxyQuest, will be the man in charge of the picture. The original starred Paul Newman as the fading player/coach of a minor league hockey team who, desperate to keep the team going, comes up with the idea to turn his team into a group of fighting hooligans. The Charlestown Chiefs put the Hanson brothers, played by David Hanson, Steve Carlson and Jeff Carlson, [...]...

InStyle.com has a six degrees of Twilight. Pretty darn cool if you ask menbspKristen Stewart to Elizabeth ReaserKristen Stewart was in The Messenger with John Corbett who played the beloved Aidan in Sex and the City with Sarah Jessica Parker who was in The Family Stone with Elizabeth Reaser.nbspnbspElizabeth Reaser to Robert PattinsonElizabeth Reaser was on Greys Anatomy with Patrick Dempsey who was in Sweet Home Alabama with Reese Witherspoon who was in Vanity Fair which Robert Pattinson had a bit part in. Robert Pattinson to Jackson RathboneRobert Pattinson was in Harry Potter with Ralph Fiennes who was in Oscar and Lucinda with Cate Blanchett who was in Pushing Tin with Angelina Jolie who was in Mr. Mrs. Smith with Adam Brody who was on The O.C. where Jackson Rathbone appeared a few times. nbspnbspJackson Rathbone to Ashley GreeneJackson Rathbone was in Big Stan with Jennifer Morrison who...

Will Ferrell could soon be putting on another face.

The star of Columbia's upcoming "Step Brothers" is attached to "2-Face," a comedy from "Hancock" writer Vince Gilligan. The project is set up at Sony.

Gilligan's script, which has had a long gestation period at the studio but had not been reported, is a concept comedy involving a character with a split personality: One part of him is a racist, and the other is a bleeding-heart liberal.

Mosaic Media and "Chronicles of Narnia" producer Mark Johnson are on board to produce. The search for a director is under way.

While "2-Face" is described as a comedy with mainstream appeal -- familiar terrain for Ferrell -- Gilligan's credits and the story's socially relevant hook might give the role added heft. Ferrell has tried his hand at more serious roles, most notably in Marc Forster's 2006 drama "Stranger Than Fiction."

Gilligan has a diverse pedigree in Hollywood. In addition to "Hancock," he helped create and wrote for the "X-Files" TV series and is the exec producer on AMC's dark drama "Breaking Bad."

But he also has penned lighter fare, writing the screenplay for the Drew Barrymore screwball comedy "Home Fries," an absurdist look at murder, family and the military set in a fast-food restaurant.

Owen Wilson is in discussions to enroll in Date School opposite Drew Barrymore at DreamWorks Pictures, the studio confirmed. Jon Favreau is on board to direct the romantic comedy. Date School centers on a woman (Barrymore) who is determined to find love but is lousy at dating. She then turns to a dating instructor (Wilson) for help. The project would be Barrymore's fourth teaming with the Wilson clan. She starred with Wilson's brother Luke in Home Fries and both Charlie's Angels films. Date School is being produced by her Duplex co-star Ben Stiller and his Red Hour Films partner Stuart Cornfeld. Also producing is Firm Films' Beau Flynn and Barrymore's Flower Films partner Nancy Juvonen. At DreamWorks, Adam Goodman is overseeing. Wilson is repped by UTA and attorney Bob Wallerstein. He's been shooting back-to-back projects including Around the World in 80 Days, Starsky & Hutch, The Wendell Baker Story and The Life Aquatic.