Zookeeper Starring: Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, & Leslie Bibb [Official Website]
Horrible Bosses Starring: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, & Charlie Day [Official Website]
Also opening in limited release:
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Directed by Michael Rapaport [Official Website]
Fading of the Cries Starring: Brad Dourif, Mackenzie Rosman, & Thomas Ian Nicholas [Official Website]
The Ledge Starring: Terrence Howard, Charlie Hunnam, & Liv Tyler [Official Website]
Project Nim Starring: Herbert Terrace, Stephanie La-Farge, & Laura-Ann Petitto [Official Website]
Septien Starring: John Maringouin, Mark Darby Robinson, & Rachel Korine [Official Website]
The Ward Starring: Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mamie Gummer, & Lyndsy Fonseca [Official Website]
EXCLUSIVE: In a low-seven figure minimum guarantee deal, FilmDistrict has acquired U.S. rights to Only God Forgives, a drama that will reteam Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn with Ryan Gosling. Several distributors were in the mix, but FilmDistrict’s Peter Schlessel had an edge because Refn was pleased with the way that FilmDistrict’s Bob Berney has set up the marketing for Drive. That film, which stars Gosling as a stunt driver who moonlights as the wheel man for a heist crew, played the Cannes Film Festival and drew raves. It will be released September 16. Funded by Wild Bunch, Only God Forgives will shoot in late summer in Thailand, with Gosling playing a guy on the run from British police. He runs a Thai boxing club in Bangkok that is a front for a drug smuggling operation. He winds up getting in the ring for a shot at redemption. Buyers this week read a script and started making offers this week. Gosling is next starring for his Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance in A Place Beyond the Pines and he’s also starring with Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Anthony Mackie in the Ruben Fleischer-directed Gangster Squad for Warner Bros. He’s also set to star for Refn in a remake of Logan’s Run at Warner Bros, where he’ll next be seen starring with Steve Carell and … Read More 
How many new comedy series with a female lead were picked up last May? Zero. How many have been picked up so far this season? Every single one. All four new comedy series ordered so far by Fox and NBC this season have female leads. That is how many the four broadcast networks combined have on the air this season: NBC’s 30 Rock starring Tina Fey and Parks & Recreation starring Amy Poehler and ABC’s The Middle starring Patricia Heaton and Cougar Town starring Courteney Cox. Half of those were created by women. All four of the newly picked series come from female creators. While not at 100%, female-centered series are also dominant on the drama side. One of the 2 new Fox dramas, Alcatraz has a female lead, Sarah Jones, and was co-written by a female writer, Liz Sarnoff. Of the two NBC drama pickups, one is the female-centered Prime Suspect starring Maria Bello and written by Alexandra Cunningham and the other, the female-skewing Smash, which has 2 leads, one played by Debra Messing. And the two locks at ABC are all about ladies (though penned by male writers), Charlie’s Angels and Good Christian Bitches.
Maria Bello-starring adaptation of the classic British series. A pickup of the untitled Emily Spivey comedy starring Christina Applegate is also said to be underway. It seems like NBC is starting off by ordering the projects from its own studios (all 4 pilots above are from UMS) before moving onto outside suppliers, such as … Read More