Trade Round-Up: Waters Graduates From Lohan Movies
· Director Mark Waters has signed on to direct Henry's List of Wrongs for New Line. Waters, you'll remember, was the director entrusted with shepherding Lindsay Lohan's breasts from Freaky Friday to Mean Girls. Let's see how he fares without those particular pillows to fall back on. [THR]
· Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn team up for Columbia comedy Outsourced, continuing an on-screen love affair that began with Zoolander, was revived with Starsky & Hutch, and will continue with next year's The Wedding Crashers. We can't wait for Ben Stiller to claw out Vaughn's eyes in a jealous rage. [THR]
· NBC sets a new record with 200 million Olympic viewers, 199 million of whom only tuned in for one-handed enjoyment of the women's beach volleyball coverage. [THR]
· The always innovative Jerry Bruckheimer gets a two pilot commitment from the WB, one of which will be a drama "in the vein of Doogie Howser, M.D.," with a youthful, super-nerd lawyer. [THR]
· Dakota Fanning continues to greedily devour every child-actor role before her time expires and her parents pack her in dry ice until she finishes puberty, signing on to the Spielberg/Cruise War of the Worlds project. [THR]
· Gerald "Major Dad" McRaney has surgery to remove cancerous growth, delaying the production of his career-saving capitulation to typecasting, the WB's Commando Nanny. [Variety, sub. req'd]