* Abbie Cornish is looking to make us all forget the laughable W.E. by jumping into a much more promising project. She'll star with Brendan Gleeson(In Bruges) in An Ordinary Man. Written and directed by Brad Silberling(Moonlight Mile), the film centers on the unexpected relationship forged between a fictitious war criminal and his maid, who happens to be his only human contact.
* Ever hear of the phrase "paycheck movie"? That's what I think Men in Black III probably was for Tommy Lee Jones. You do the safe mainstream picture, then you take the money and make the passion project. Jones is moving on to the latter as he's set to write, direct, and star in The Homesman. He'll play an outlaw who joins with a pioneer woman to escort three mentally unstable women from Iowa to Nebraska, braving the elements and other troublesome hurdles along the way. This will be his first directorial feature film since 2005's The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He recently directed The Sunset Limited for HBO. [Variety]
* Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are moving beyond the found footage, documentary style they've stuck found so much success with in Catfish and Paranormal Activity 3. They will next team up to write and direct an adaptation of Edward Abbey's 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang. The story follows ex-Green Beret, George Hayduke, who teams with other anarchistic social outcasts to take on the industrial developers ruining the natural habitat of his favorite desert. Before this, Joost and Schulman will finish up with Paranormal Activity 4, due out on October 19th.
