[Intriguing photo! Diane Lane and Thomas Dekker film "Cinema Verite", the upcoming HBO movie about the filming of proto-reality show "An American Family". Yes, Dekker is playing Lance. Image: Bauer-Griffin]

So why is he in a "Latino comedy" then? Also today: Kevin Spacey has gone shopping, we now know who will play Lance Loud, a series renewal gives us hope in the world, and Chace Crawford is moving upstate.

In the excitement following last year's Hollywood writer's strike, a lot of projects got restarted or greenlit. The fruits of those labors are now unfolding in movie theaters across the country, and some of them are too weird to live, and too rare to die. Whether it was studio enthusiasm to get any project going, any at all, or a desire to repeat the same old formulas and see if they could still make money (or do so for the first time), these upcoming films seem particularly unlikely to succeed:
Are the executives who put together these projects high, or just crazy enough to be billionaires?