For a while there in the late '90s and early 2000s Thomas Ian Nicholas was having a decent mainstream go of things. He got to make weird, annoying proclamations about getting rid of virginity and get a sex tome handed down to him in American Pie, he got to chill with Michael Myers in Halloween: Resurrection, and play a rich, druggie dude with a sweet ride in The Rules of Attraction. But after the last bout of Stifler and the gang, he disappeared, save for some low-rated flicks that no one saw. But now the tide looks to be turning.

Variety reports the actor has signed on to Nicole Holofcener's upcoming untitled film starring Amanda Peet and Catherine Keener. This is that Big Apple-based film about a couple who are waiting for the "cantankerous elderly woman" who rents from them to die so that they can reclaim the apartment, but then her granddaughters pop up and complicate matters. There's no word on who he'll play

But that's not all. According to IMDb, he's got five films on the way, all of which are either completed or in post-production. So get ready, folks -- Thomas Ian isn't done with us yet!

Word about Nicole Holofcener's still-untitled new film hit back in December, when Catherine Keener, regular Holofcener star, was circling the project. Now The Hollywood Reporter posts that the film has been picked up by Sony Picture Classics, and three players have been added to the roster -- Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, and Rebecca Hall.

Written by Holofcener, the film focuses on a New York couple (Keener and Platt) who own the next-door apartment, which is occupied by a "cantankerous, elderly woman." The pair want to reclaim the apartment, so they're anxiously waiting for the woman to die so they can grab it back. It's not the most charming plan, but certainly understandable in a morbid way. But then their impatience is complicated by the presence of the woman's two granddaughters, who the couple befriend (Peet and Hall) -- it's not so easy to itch for death when the whole scenario becomes more real.

The film is scheduled to begin production in mid-May, with plans to wrap before that looming, potential SAG strike. In the meantime, a number of roles still need to be cast -- namely the grandmother who won't die, and the couple's daughter.

Nicole Holofcener has made a name for herself with female fare. She's helmed the likes of popular television from Sex and the City to the Gilmore Girls, and she's found success in the realm of independent film -- from her first feature, Walking and Talking, through Lovely & Amazing, and finally Friends with Money. Each step of the way, Catherine Keener has been there, and this time around is no different. The Hollywood Reporter has posted that Holofcener had signed to write and direct a new film, and now Keener is in final negotiations to star. (As if there's any possibility she wouldn't.)

The still-untitled project focuses on women who live in the same apartment building, "including a woman (Keener) who lives next door to a cantankerous, elderly woman. It explores the interactions between Keener's character, who owns the woman's apartment, the woman, and her two granddaughters, in what's described as an examination of 'life, death, and real estate.'" Well, I imagine that describes what happens to at least one of them. The script was completed before the strike, and the project was set to film in early 2008, before a potential actors strike. Now it seems that Likely Story, who is producing the film, is deciding whether they should make the film first, or get studio backing before completing it. Luckily, although Keener has a ton of films coming our way, only Hamlet 2 and The Soloist haven't hit post-production yet.

Note: Portions of the review appeared on Cinematical during the Sundance Film Festival, as part of this article.

Friends with Money stars Jennifer Aniston as an unhappy, 30-something, pot smoking maid who can't stop stalking her married ex. Like writer/director Nicole Holofcener's previous films, Walking and Talking and Lovely and Amazing, Friends with Money is an astutely observed relationship dramedy, painfully funny even as it burns. As Holofcener's unhappily unmarried heroine, Olivia, Aniston – a one-note actress, but virtuoso-good at that note – acquits herself more than admirably,  considering the film began shooting the day after news of her seperation from Brad Pitt leaked to the press, The timing could maybe not have been more cruely ironic: the role requires Aniston to convince us that she's a loser. Watch for a key moment, about three quarters in, where a romantic rival tells Olivia to "go get [her] own husband." It's not hard to imagine the real-life motivations Aniston used to fuel Olivia's profanity-laden response.