The Top Five Girl Power Movies

And so, the following list excludes any gynocentric titles about groups of women who spend most of their screen time focused on sex, romance and/or heartbreak (i.e., Little Darlings, The First Wives Club, Waiting to Exhale, Sex and the City, The Women, etc., etc., etc.). The list also excludes stor

White Behind Action Comedy Babe in the Woods

Columbia Pictures has acquired Babe in the Woods, an original action-comedy spec script written by scribe/actor Mike White, say the trades. Whites credits include Orange County and School of Rock. He made his directorial debut in 2007 with the Molly Shannon dramedy Year of the Dog. The script is about a female freshman from the Midwest who arrives at Yale and becomes a target of the New Jersey mob. White will produce through his Rip Cord Prods. banner with David Bernad. He'll do a polish on the script before it goes out to directors and cast. White's Rip Cord, which has its deal at Paramount, recently completed Gentlemen Broncos, written and directed by Jared Hess, for Fox Searchlight, which will release it in October. That film is an outgrowth of White's relationship with Hess from Nacho Libre, which White wrote and Hess directed. Rip Cord is also producing Oh the Glory of it All with White's School of Rock accomplice Scott Rudin at Miramax. White wrote that film based on the Sean Wilsey memoir, and he is also scripting the School of Rock sequel, School of Rock 2: America Rocks. In front of the camera White has appeared in School of Rock, The Stepford Wives, Smother and the upcoming horror-comedy Zombieland.

Paul Giamatti Gets Lucky With Three Wives

Paul Giamatti has spent years being an unlikely sex symbol-- OK, a very very unlikely sex symbol-- but not since Sideways has he really had a role that proves it. That all changes with Barney's Version, an adaptation of the Mordecai Richter novel that will star Giamatti as an impulsive, politically incorrect man who goes through at least three wives over the course of his long life. Now on board to play the wives are Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver and ...

Katie Holmes Filming Dancing Segment for "So You Think You Can Dance"

Katie Holmes, dancing, and So You Think You Can Dance in the same sentence? Here we thought she was Tom Cruise's ultimate Stepford Wife. We guess he gave her the O.K.? Or maybe he knew he couldn't put his tapping shoes on so he wanted Katie to live the dream for him. Not many are fond of dancing leprechauns...

ABC promo lampoons Lost, Wives

ABC has created network promotional ads in which characters from its various series live together in a big Wisteria-Lane-style house, and you can watch a Lost-themed one after the jump.

WAG Alert: Charlotte Mears Busting Out

What do you get when you smash together reality television, smoking hot contestants and football? WAGs Boutique! Two teams of wives and girlfriends of all-star football players competing in a fashion business opportunity. Here's one of the contestants, Charlotte Mears walking...

Review - "Revolutionary Road" - A glossy, engrossing tale of mad men and suffering wives

'Revolutionary Road' is a glossy, engrossing tale of mad men and suffering wives They fill Grand Central twice a day these 1950s Manhattan salary men in their gray flannel suits. They disembark from commuter trains in the morning, then, return to the platforms at day's end for trips back to their suburban homes and families. Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) is one of them, working at Knox, the same office machinery company where his father worked. It's not the life Frank planned for himself or his pretty wife April (Kate Winslet). The Wheelers see themselves as different from the people around them, worldlier, less vulgar. So Frank and April plan to relocate their family to Paris and begin a new bohemian chapter. But when their plans go awry, cracks begin to quickly appear in their comfortable lives. The Wheelers are not as happy as they think.

Muppet Movie for Adults. Trade Roughage 10/15/08

Muppets go adult; Billy Ray is late with a hot political topic; Jason Bateman, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau get some fantasy wives; and Amy Adams will star in a movie likened to IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.

The Wives of Couples Retreat

Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis and Malin Akerman have joined the Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau comedy Couples Retreat. Jason Bateman and Faizon Love also star in the flick, which is being directed by Peter Billingsley. The story follows four couples who go to a tropical island resort. While one couple is there to work on their [...]