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Music video extraordinaire Adam Levite, aka "Associates in Science", is collaborating with Jon Kesselman, the writer/director behind the Jewxploitation film The Hebrew Hammer, in an adaptation of Glenn Gaslin's novel Beemer. Levite, who has fourteen music videos to his credit, including work for personal favorites Interpol and Radiohead, has optioned Gaslin's satirical work and is currently co-writing the script with Kesselman.

Paul Dano will star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson's (Punch Drunk Love) drama There Will Be Blood. Dano, still riding high on the wake of his Sundance Film Festival hit Little Miss Sunshine, is set to play a gifted and charismatic young preacher who captivates churchgoers. Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) will portray a tycoon who strikes it rich after gaining oil rights to a family's ranch, turning the small town where Dano's character preaches into a boomtown. Although Anderson is shrouding the turn of the century period piece in secrecy, further reports state that Mary Elizabeth Barrett and David Willis are set to join the cast, though neither are attached as yet. The film is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!

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Emily Blunt, most recently noted for her American-film breakout role in The Devil Wears Prada has entered talks to play the female lead in Bristol Bay Prods. The Great Buck Howard. The Hanks clan (Tom and Colin) and John Malkovich will star.

Aliens come to Earth. Aliens leave Earth. Humans fight over the artifacts the aliens left behind. This is the plot outline for the next David Jacobson feature, Roadside Picnic. The writer/director behind Dahmer (yes, the serial killer film actually took home three 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards) and the urban cowboy flick Down in the Valley will take on the adaptation of the 1972 novel by Russian sci-fi authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. An allegory for the Chernobyl disaster, Roadside Picnic tells a deeper story of the human desire to control the unknown.