Universal Pictures has acquired “TMI,” a comic vehicle for Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris. Pic becomes one of the first purchases made by the new U regime of Adam Fogelson and Donna Langley.

Scripted by Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Marc Klein, the comic premise is that while honesty is the best policy for a relationship, “too much information” might not be the best thing.

Andrew Panay (“Old Dogs”) will produce with Jonathon Komack Martin, latter of whom partners with Reynolds in Dark Trick Films. Reynolds will be executive producer.

Fogelson and Langley were upped to the chairman and co-chair posts at U last month, replacing Marc Shmuger and David Linde (Daily Variety, Oct. 6). The shakeup came on the heels of a series of box office misfires for the studio.

Reynolds, who is coming off “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and “The Proposal,” next stars as the title character in the Martin Campbell-directed “Green Lantern.”

“TMI” is a possible candidate to follow that superhero effort.

From Variety

Alvin and the Chipmunks to release earlier in the US
The “Squeakeal” to the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie has now been pushed up to December 23 instead of Christmas day in the US, reported Variety.com.

20th Century Fox announced the change in release dates to cater to school kids in the US who will go on holiday on the Wednesday before Christmas. The much awaited sequel to the animation film has Anna Faris and Justin Long as voices as well as Christina Applegate.

From The Independent

Dan Aykroyd and Anna Faris are in negotiations to star in “Yogi Bear,” a live-action/animated feature take on the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

Faris will play a nature documentarian who follows the antics of a bear in fictional Jellystone Park. Aykroyd will voice Yogi, and Justin Timberlake could supply the voice of Yogi’s constant companion, Boo Boo.

The project is set up at Warner Bros., which hopes to start production in New Zealand next month. Eric Brevig will direct.

Faris, who was last seen in front of the cameras with “Observe and Report,” has been recently lending her voice for animated fare, including “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” and “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.”

Aykroyd, who is working on a third “Ghostbusters” movie, was last seen on the screen in 2008′s “War Inc.”

Timberlake has been increasing his feature presence of late. He will be seen in the upcoming drama “Open Road,” and recently signed to star in “The Social Network,” the Facebook movie being directed by David Fincher.

From Reuters

You can vote to help nominate “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” for a 2010 “People’s Choice Award” by voting at PeoplesChoice.com!

The top five nominees in each category will be revealed at the People’s Choice Awards annual press conference on November 10, 2009. Only those announced on November 10th have the chance to win a People’s Choice Award on January 6th, 2010.

“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” is set to be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 5, 2010!

Special features will include: Directors’ commentary with Bill Hader; A Recipe for Success: The Making of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs; Key Ingredients: The Voices of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs; Flint’s Food Fight Game – enhanced for Blu-ray; Extended scenes; Early development scenes; Progression reels with introductions by visual effects supervisor Rob Bredow; “Raining Sunshine” music video by iCarly’s Miranda Cosgrove; Interactive “Raining Sunshine” sing-a-long; Behind the scenes of Miranda Cosgrove’s “Raining Sunshine” music video; Make It Rain Food.

The Blu-ray will also include a DVD copy of the film as well as an interactive “Splat” button enabling viewers to throw food at the screen during the movie.

A few days ago, Anna was in attendance at the Madewell and Lucky Magazine Denim Party and I have added 10 photos of Anna at the event! You can see them all by clicking on the thumbnails below…

We’ve survived four installments and you’d think that would earn us all a break, but they’re starting it all over again. We’ve heard from solid sources close to the Weinstein Company that they’re rebooting Scary Movie.

Look, you should have seen this coming. The last one, Scary Movie 4, was clearly out of gas creatively but still managed to make nearly $180 million worldwide. They’ve run out of places to take the franchise but they’d still like to drive Ferraris, so restarting the whole thing sort of makes sense… assuming of course you’re an evil, soulless, corporate executive.

So we’re talking Scary Movie reboot, with new characters and all that implies. That likely means no Anna Faris who has been one of the few constants throughout all four previous Scary Movies. In fact just a few weeks ago she told Fangoria, “Everyone wants to know if there will be a fifth SCARY MOVIE and I really have no answer.” Now we know why she had no answer. She may not be in it.

Scary Movie 5 is still quite a ways off since The Weinstein Company doesn’t plan to release it until after Scream 4, which is due out in 2010. Plenty of time for them to change their mind and simply spare us to death with another sequel, but for now we’re hearing reboot.

From Cinema Blend