Chris reported in June on The Ten, a David Wain-penned and directed 10-part spoof of the Biblical Ten Commandments (Yes, it's one story/commandment -- good work!). The potential in the film had him (and yours truly) excited, both because of Wain's past (he was a member of The State and Stella, and co-wrote Wet Hot American Summer, among other things) and the film's packed cast, which at that time included Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Amanda Peet, Justin Theroux and Adam Brody.

Depending on how you feel about Wain and this film, it either just got a lot better, or added a load of useless cast members, who will contribute nothing to its spoofy nonsense. Me, I'm in the former camp -- how can the addition of Liev Schreiber to anything fail to make it better? In addition to Schreiber, Winona Ryder, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Rob Corddry, Ron Silver and Oliver Platt have all come on board. That, my friends, is quite a cast. Granted, many of them will probably appear for 30 seconds in robe and beard, carrying a tablet, but still.

The film is currently filming in New York and Mexico; it'll come out some time in 2007.

In early December, we reported the fantabulous news that there was an effort underway to turn Jack Black's Heat Vision and Jack - a 1999 TV pilot involving a talking motorcycle and Evil Ron Silver - into a movie. Back then, all we knew was that the pilot's writers (Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab) were working with Black on "developing a film version" which, in practical terms, means only slightly more than nothing. Happily, though, Schrab - out promoting Monster House - got sidetracked recently and shared some details about what's really happening with the movie.

According to Schrab, he's written two drafts of a script. When he showed his most recent version to Ben Stiller (who directed the pilot), Stiller turned around and told Fox, which owns the pilot, that he would direct the movie, but only if Schrab and Harmon were allowed to write it. So, draft three is now underway, and though both Stiller and Jack Black are fully committed ("Jack said 'Just give me a script and I'll seriously make room for it.'") to the film, its writers are determined to take their time and turn out a solid screenplay, rather than rush it and "just fuck it up and kick out some piece of shit." (Which really, if you think about it, is a pretty solid approach to any job.)

Though Schrab was unwilling to share much in terms of plot, he wanted to assure everyone that they will not give in to convention and spent a lot of time explaining who Jack is and how exactly his motorcycle started to talk. "Who wants to see the first half hour of the movie where Jack's not on that motorcycle? The title sequence is the origin story. When the lights go down and the movie starts, Jack's already on the motorcycle, the motorcycle's talking. Who cares?" Amen, brother. Amen.