The Toronto International Film Festival may be winding down toward its close tonight, but that doesn't mean the dealing has stopped. Late Thursday night, according to The Hollywood Reporter, First Look Studios ponied up more than $3 million for US rights to the comedy Bill, starring Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba, with Elizabeth Banks and Timothy Olyphant also featured. THR says the price makes it "the heftiest sale of the event."

Bill is based on a script by Melisa Wallack and directed by Wallack and Bernie Goldmann. Eckhart plays the titular character, who is "fed up with his job, his wife and his life," according to a description by GreeneStreet Films. "Bill's life hits an all-time low when he catches his wife having an affair with a local news anchor." He turns to an "unruly, but curiously wise" teen that he's mentoring for inspiration. Banks plays his wife, Olyphant is the news anchor, Logan Lerman is the teen, and Alba is a lingerie salesgirl (!!!) who helps him in more ways than the obvious (we hope). Reliable comedy players Craig Bierko, Melissa Coughlan and Kristen Wiig round out the cast.

Eckhart can be deadpan funny, as in Thank You for Smoking, and I've loved both Banks and Olyphant in most everything they've done lately. With this role and Good Luck Chuck, it looks like Alba is at least trying to expand her range a bit. Co-director Goldmann has been a producer for years, with 300 and George A. Romero's Land of the Dead being his most prominent credits. Wallack appears to be a newcomer. First Look Studios plans a theatrical release for Bill, though no date has been set.

As Chris reported the other day, the great Lindsay Lohan (I agree with Chris, by the way, about Mean Girls. I also liked Lohan a lot in Freaky Friday. What the hell happened?) bailed on indie project Bill, ostensibly due to scheduling conflicts. Word on the street, however, is that she has had enough of the independent scene (whether it's because her trailer isn't nice enough or because she actually has problems with inexperienced directors is anyone's guess) -- time will tell on that one, obviously.

Bill directors Bernie Goldmann and Melisa Wallack clearly aren't deeply in mourning over the loss of La Lohan, however. Instead of crying in their beer, they've turned around and hired Jessica Alba to replace her in the role, a casting decision that, if nothing else, should prompt a bunch of teenage boys to make their first visits to arthouse theaters.

The movie, which starts shooting tomorrow (you can see why they were in a hurry to replace Lohan), is about "a man fed up with his job who finds his wife in bed with a local news anchor. He regains a lost sense of self by mentoring an unruly teen and finds inspiration in an intriguing young saleswoman." In addition to Alba, Bill stars Aaron Eckhart as the angry man, Elizabeth Banks and (Yay!) Timothy Olyphant.

According to FOXNews.com, Lindsay Lohan "walked away" from shooting the indie film Bill before attending the Sunday night premiere of A Prairie Home Companion. According to rumors, the actress is unhappy with the production and is planning on only working for big name directors from now on (Bill is being shot by first-time directors Bernie Goldmann and Melisa Wallack). Lohan is supposedly now concentrating on her next film, Georgia Rule, which is about sexual abuse and comes from "big name director" Garry Marshall (would you let the helmer of Exit to Eden tackle a serious film about incestuous molestation?).

Good. Who needs Lindsay Lohan in any independent films from new, unknown filmmakers? I'll admit that after Mean Girls I was excited about her career, but she hasn't done anything interesting since. Sure she's in the new Altman film, but who hasn't been in an Altman film? To completely discredit and exclude all novice directors, if this is indeed what she plans on doing, is a sure sign of a spoiled star.

More odds and ends than you can shake a stick at:

• I have to admit that I'm sort of amused by this concept: a movie about someone who actually followed through on their threat to move to Canada when Bush was elected. Entitled Blue State, the film stars Anna Paquin as the mover (which is funny, what with her being from Canada and all) and Breckin Meyer as the token male, and will be produced by Paquin Films - bet you can't guess who owns that sucker.

• You know that movie Woody Allen is going to make in Paris? Well, he's taking a Brokeback wife along: Michelle Williams has reportedly agree to star. She'll be playing, well, one of a bunch of Americans. In Paris. For the love of God, Woody -- throw us a plot-bone!

• Because we can never get enough heartwarming stories (Has anyone actually tested that? Personally, I hit my limit about 13 misunderstood youths ago.), Aaron Eckhart has ridden the Thank You for Smoking wave into yet another one. Eckhart's personal story of redemption is called Bill, and he'll star as "a man fed up with his job and marriage who bottoms out when he catches his wife cheating. He finds a catalyst for a resurgence when he reluctantly mentors an unruly teen." Ah, the unruly teen. How many lives have they saved? The movie starts shooting next  month.

• When I tell you that Universal has acquired a story about a small town "saved by baseball," what do you imagine? A touching, period piece? Or perhaps a story about a town triumphing unspecified tragedy by coming together behind an underdog high school team? Ah, but you'd be wrong -- gloriously, bizarrely wrong! In fact, Time of the Their Lives is about people who literally DON'T DIE because they play baseball. (I hope this doesn't mean that they actually play 24/7. How impractical would that be? Not to mention boring.) Then, somehow, a misguided kid gets the town involved in "a winner-take-all game between townsfolk and the devil's ringers" for his own soul. While I admit the whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense, it sounds more than weird enough to be interesting. Right?