Morning Deal Report: Rosario Dawson Meets the Zookeeper

Scott Von Doviak — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:30:00 GMT

“Rosario Dawson will star opposite Kevin James in romantic comedy The Zookeeper,” Variety reports. “Live actioner centers on zoo animals trying to teach the keeper their methods of dating and mating to help him win back the woman of his dreams.” Kevin James will keep the fat guy/hot chick genre alive as long as he possibly can.

Stan Lee teams up with Disney to bring his latest hero to the screen. Nick Ratchet is a “lighthearted mystery thriller centers on a Jekyll & Hyde struggle between a meek, ineffectual police officer and his online alter-ego, a tough avatar cop named Nick Ratchet who emerges from inside a video game to usurp the life of his creator,” per The Hollywood Reporter.

Will Smith’s production company has enlisted John Lee Hancock (The Alamo) to bring a Hurricane Katrina story to the screen. The film will tell the story of “John Keller, an ex-Marine who orchestrated the rescue of 244 of his New Orleans neighbors after their building, the American Can Co., was flooded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The five-story structure sat in 11 feet of water after the breach of the levees,” Variety reports.

Morning Deal Report: Actually More Like Star Trek Deal Report These Days

Peter Smith — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:00:00 GMT

Karl Urban is Dr. McCoy (uh, that's him on the right.)

Nicolas Cage plays a father searching for his Muslim-American son in The Vanished. Here's the question: is Cage's character Arab-American? Cause if so, I really hate that shit. Like there aren't any actual Arab-American actors who could use an interesting role. But they don't just cast a white actor — oh, no — they cast the most ridiculous white actor available. Talk about a slap in the face.

Tony Scott, that lovable scamp, will direct a biopic of Don Aronow, who invented the cigarette boat. That doesn't really sound like Tony Scott material, until you realize that Aronow was killed in 1987 by Columbian drug smugglers. Now we're talking.

Steve Pink, the cowriter of High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank, just signed on to the Kevin James comedy Mall Cop. Mall Cop just got slightly more interesting. But then, the guy also wrote Accepted.

— Peter Smith

The Screengrab : kevin james

Morning Deal Report: Rosario Dawson Meets the Zookeeper

Morning Deal Report: Actually More Like Star Trek Deal Report These Days