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It looks like Brooke Shields is making her way back to the big screen, and this time she won't be getting saucy in The Blue Lagoon. After a decade away, The Hollywood Reporter posts that Shields has signed onto the live-action comedy Furry Vengeance. Actually, considering the title, it's probably good to note that this is a family film. There's no word on what role she'll play in the Brendan Fraser flick, which follows a real estate developer who gets a hard time from a band of raccoons. One -- What's the obsession with coons lately? Davey Crockett on the brain? Two -- It might be the usual Fraser fair, but the cast does boast Ken Jeong, Samantha Bee, and Dick Van Dyke as well.

Meanwhile, in the shadow of Parenthood heading to the small screen, THR also posts that Freestyle Releasing has picked up Motherhood, and will release it this October. This is the Uma Thurman/Minnie Driver/Anthony Edwards project that has Uma trying to pull together her daughter's sixth birthday party in the midst of "urban challenges." As the ed note pointed out in the post about her casting last year, "More Goose!" But there's also the perk of a practically fully female production. Katherine Dieckman wrote and directed it, and it's produced by Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, Jana Edelbaum, and Rachel Cohen. They say: "From the outset, Motherhood has been a labor of love for us. As a collection of female filmmakers, we immediately took to the humor and honesty of the project."

Hopefully the labor is worth it!

Could Shawn Levy's  Night at the Museum have a more packed cast? Man alive. In addition to star Ben Stiller, the movie's got Hollywood legends Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney, goddess Carla Gugino, and the recently-added Robin Williams, who will get to fulfill the dream we all have of playing Teddy Roosevelt. Now Levy has revealed that Ricky Gervais has also come on board, apparently to repay Stiller for his appearance on Gervais' Extras. Gervais will play the director of New York's Museum of Natural History, a character who, according to Levy, is "very uptight."

Just the thought of Gervais playing someone uptight is funny - this movie has so much potential that it's sort of scary to think about what a freaking disaster it could turn into. I mean, let's keep in mind that it's mixing live action with CG work, and is about "an ancient curse that causes the animals and insects on display to come to life and wreak havoc." Finding the right tone for this one just seems like it's going to be really, really hard.

The Ben Stiller comedy Night at the Museum has been in the news a lot lately: just the other day, old school studs Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney agreed to make their triumphant returns to the big screen in the film, and now yet another big name has been added to the cast. It was announced today that Robin Williams will appear in the film as - wait for it - Teddy Freakin Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt! (Seriously though - there's no way Roosevelt was that hairy. Williams just might have to revisit the full-body shave he got in Hook.)

It turns out that TR founded the American Museum of Natural History (where the movie is set), so naturally there's a display there featuring him. And, when the movie's crazy, magical medallion starts bringing stuff to life, Roosevelt is one of the lucky affectees. Needless to say, the role should allow Williams to perform at his most manic level, and to talk a lot about carrying a big stick. That, combined with getting to see him wearing a neat little TR-style mustache, might just make the movie worth seeing, regardless of actual quality.