A new generation of talent is getting ready to tackle the high school reunion movie.

Channing Tatum is working with Jamie Linden and producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill on “Ten Year,” an ensemble drama about friends reuniting a decade after their graduation.

Linden, who wrote “We Are Marshall,” is penning the script and will direct. He also wrote “Dear John,” which starred Tatum and was based on a Nicholas Sparks novel.

Tatum has been heavily involved in the development process. He also will star and join Temple Hill in producing the film with his 33andOut Prods. partner Reid Carolin.

The script is being written with specific actors in mind, with a partial list including Tatum’s wife, Jenna Dewan (“Step Up”); pals Anna Faris and her husband, Chris Pratt; Chris Pine; and Scott Porter (“Friday Night Lights”).

There are no deals in place for the actors, and involvement will depend on availability. The indie production also is assembling financing, though the filmmakers are hoping to begin shooting in November.

Tatum, repped by UTA and Management 360, is shooting “The Vow” with Rachel McAdams in Toronto.

Linden is repped by Paradigm and Magnet Management.

From The Hollywood Reporter

Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media has dated its first crop of movies, formalizing its evolution from a financing and production company to a mini-major.

Relativity announced Thursday that it, instead of Universal, will distribute “The Dark Fields” and “Kids in America,” following its acquisition of Overture Films’ distribution and marketing operation. Both are Relativity films.

“Kids in America,” produced by Imagine Entertainment and shot in 2007, opens nationwide on March 4, 2011. “Dark Fields,” toplining Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper and Abbie Cornish, opens March 18.

U had been set to open “Kids” on Dec. 3 and “Dark Fields” on Jan. 21.

Relativity also dated martial arts Western “The Warrior’s Way” for Dec. 3, although that is a rent-a-system deal with Emerald City and Sad Flutes.

From Variety

The 41st season of “Sesame Street” premieres on Sept. 27, and with it comes the promise of a star-studded year.

Actors like Jason Bateman, Amy Poehler, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Jennifer Garner, Ryan Reynolds, Kyra Sedgwick, Zoe Saldana, husband and wife team Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel, Wanda Sykes, Anna Faris, Terrence Howard and names from “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Modern Family,” “The View,” Food Network, “Today,” “The Insider” and “American Idol’s” Kara DioGuardi have all signed on to appear in different episodes of the PBS Kids television program.

Music and sports stars weren’t left off either, with Katy Perry, Reverend Run, Usher, will.i.am and NFL players Reggie Bush and LaDainian Tomlinson also on slate.

Some original pop culture parodies will include “True Mud” (“True Blood”), “The Furry Four” (as opposed to the Fab Four), “Ironing Monster” (“Iron Man”), “The Closer” (well, “The Closer”) and “A Team” (you get the idea). Reynolds will star in the latter, as the letter A.

Other teased highlights from the science-centered season include the new recurring segment “Super Grover 2.0” and some short films with NASA.

From Hit Fix

Anna Faris and husband Chris Pratt were photographed at the Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Beach, California yesterday – and I have just added 31 pictures of the couple!