Trade Round-Up: Ferrell Goes Over The Waterfall
· For the next 3-4 years, all comedies will star Will Ferrell. To wit, Universal's bought the rights to beloved early 70s inadvertent-time-travel show Land of the Lost for the actor. Look for Uni to round out the cast with other members of the New Gay Mafia, including Vince Vaughn as a Sleestack and Owen "The Butterscotch Stallion" Wilson as hairy, grunting ape-boy Chaka. [Variety]
· Huzzah! Incandescent actress-goddess Jennifer Connelly will join the cast of the film adaptation of Tom Perrotta's Little Children. Prediction: Connelly will be both sexy and troubled. [THR]
· Denzel Washington agrees to let the tag-team of director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer attempt to blow him up on-screen in the purposefully-time-traveling-G-man drama Deja Vu. [Variety]
· Even a Desperate Housewives clips show has enough ratings clout to defeat CBS's hilariously titled Locusts! (exuberant punctuation theirs). [THR]
· Scarlett Johansson submits herself to another shoot with Woody Allen, as she'll star in the tentatively-titled Wrinkly Director Perves On A Woman Young Enough To Be His Great-Granddaughter, the latest installment of the cinematic cycle Allen's been working on for the last 15 years. [Variety]