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· Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin will direct the comic book adaptation R.I.P.D for Universal, which sounds to us like something of a cross between Ghostbusters and the 1988 Joe Piscopo cops-chasing-the-undead classic Dead Heat. [Variety]
· A radio host was fired for offering to pay his listeners $5,000 to kill Penn Jillette for making a joke about Mother Teresa. No one took him up on the "sarcastic" offer, so there is still no established market price for killing a member of Penn and Teller. [THR/AP]
· Maybe this is an obvious question, but shouldn't a guy who was nominated for a directing Oscar in the last two years be getting a better gig than doing a musical stage adaptation of a B-grade Steve Martin movie? [Variety]
· Barbie and Polly Pocket whore themselves out to Universal, who will distribute their DVDs. We knew Hollywood would get them eventually. [THR]
· NBC will dump various reality programs onto its scheduled this summer, including Simon Cowell's probably-different-enough-to American Idol-to-be-legal America's Got Talent and a new season of Last Comic Standing. [Variety]