I saw into the casting future, and it was through Dlisted. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Rodrigo Santoro, last seen tall and glittery in 300, has been cast as Jim Carrey's lover in I Love You,Phillip Morris.

He is not the titular Phillip Morris, however. That honor still belongs to Ewan McGregor. If you have forgotten the plot of this love caper, a married Jim Carrey is sent to prison, where he falls in love with his cellmate. When Morris is released, the infatuated Carrey escapes three times to be with him. Somewhere in the middle, though, he hooks up with Santoro.

While this is just now hitting the legitimate newswire, on Tuesday Dlisted had a photo of the happy couple. (Don't ask me what I was doing on Dlisted, I don't have an answer!) So he has already been in the film long enough to get a wardrobe -- if that counts as wardrobe.

Since this is from the team of Bad Santa, and has Leslie Mann as Carrey's dumped wife, I think there's potential even with the erratic Carrey. And I'm anxious to see McGregor in a bonafide comedy, as he was by far the best thing about Down With Love. And it is rather fitting that he's the man Carrey changes teams for -- McGregor has topped that list for most of the guys I know. I bet we'll be seeing the full monty, too.

The pounding beat of a headache, or the sear of a migraine, is something I rarely have to face. That makes me lucky, for the most part, but it also means that when one hits, like today, all I can think of is heads and brains like a zombie in training. Naturally, this has me thinking of movies that focus on the stories of the noggin. Should I go for The Man with Two Brains or other similar brainy fare? Nah.

Instead, I'm going to focus on a man behind the camera, one who brought us two of the best stories of the mind to date: Mr. Charlie Kaufman. It all started with a little Malkovich Malkovich, and then continued with the overwhelming urge to erase love from the mind -- two stories that make a little headache seem like nothing. On this warm Friday, I give you: Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ...

Before I get started, I just wanted to say that anyone who was undecided as to whether or not Knocked Up was sexist, probably wasn't really paying too close attention to Leslie Mann's performance. Mann's portrayal of a woman forced into being the bad cop because her husband isn't into the whole 'grown up' thing was one of the best things about that film. Now she's heading for another 'wronged wife' role, and The Hollywood Reporter announced that Mann has joined the cast of I Love You, Phillip Morris.

Phillip Morris is based on the true life story of Steven Russell (as played by Jim Carrey). Russell was a married family man whose criminal exploits landed him in the Texas prison system. While incarcerated, Russell fell in love with his cell mate, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). After Morris' release, Russell concocted a variety of bizarre escape attempts in hopes of reuniting with the love of his life.

Let me just say first that, I consider Bo Welch's The Cat in the Hat (2003) the worst movie I've seen in my more than ten years of reviewing movies, and Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) is not far behind, and would no doubt rank somewhere in the bottom fifty. Jim Carrey returns from the title role in The Grinch as the voice of the title role in Horton Hears a Who! so I was skeptical at best about the quality of the new film. Not to mention that most CGI animated films not produced by Pixar tend to range from forgettable to awful. What a happy surprise, then, to see one of those rare animated films -- and an even rarer family film -- which ventures into that elusive middle ground, providing wholesome entertainment for kids as well as a few belly laughs for adults.

Directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, both making their feature debut, Horton begins by effortlessly rendering in 3D space that familiar 2D world of Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), with its curvy trees and oval-shaped hills and dales. We meet our hero, Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey), a pachyderm whose personality teeters between dutiful and lazy, helpless and self-reliant, goofy and dedicated. He teaches a class of young animals about various forms of jungle life, but not without a bit of inadvertent, entertaining slapstick. One day, a speck of fluff floats past his sizable ears and he hears a voice emanating from it. He rescues the speck, deposits it on top of a clover and learns that, living upon the speck, is an entire miniature society called Whoville (not to be confused with the Whoville in The Grinch) and run, more or less, by the Mayor (voiced by Steve Carell).

I've alerted you to a few of Moviefone's Unscripted series, and this one is, by far, my favorite. Jim Carrey and Steve Carell sat down to ask each other a collection of questions in promotion of their upcoming film, Horton Hears a Who. A CG version of the old Dr. Seuss tale, Carrey voices Horton, an elephant who hears a plea for help from a speck of dust in the air. The rest of his animal kingdom thinks he's crazy, but he still tries to help his minute little friends. Carell plays the Mayor of Whoville.

If there's any critique for the above interview, it's that it's all too brief. I won't say too much about what you can see above, because it's better to watch it than read it. But here are some highlights: aspirations to entertain the clergy, insane people from Vermont, enjoying the taste of adrenaline, chastising questions, and the mean Carol Burnett.

The movie hits theaters this week, and also features the voice talents Dane Cook, Isla Fisher, Dan Fogler, Jonah Hill, Amy Poehler, Jaime Pressly, Charles Osgood, and Seth Rogen.

It's a familiar tale: Hitch a falling star to a rising talent ... and see what happens. This week's iteration comes in the form of a Variety story that sees Juno director Jason Reitman teaming with Jim Carrey on a new comedy titled Pierre Pierre. The film -- budgeted at a fairly-modest $13 million -- is pitched as the tale of a "self-indulgent French nihilist who transports a stolen painting from Paris to London." In his heyday -- Ace Ventura, The Truman Show, Liar, Liar -- Carrey's salary alone would have exceeded the proposed budget of Pierre Pierre; however, as any viewer of The Majestic, The Number 23 or Fun with Dick and Jane can tell you, those bright days are far in the past.

Pierre, Pierre is going to be released under the Fox Atomic specialty banner, and also features a script from first-time writers Edwin Cannistraci and Frederick Seton. I guess the question I'm pondering is which Jim Carrey will show up -- the tired, makeup-coated hack of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events or the more interested, more invested Carrey of The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? And does new talent Reitman have the skills, and vision, to coax the latter kind of performance out of an actor many consider a fading funnyman?

I never saw the recent movie versions of The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I mean, I'm sure they were funny and all, but Dr. Seuss' books, as well as the cartoon versions of his books (The Grinch, The Lorax), were just such the gospel to me when I was a kid -- still are, as a matter of fact -- that to interpret any of his work in live-action form seemed the height of sacrilege. (Except for the time Jesse Jackson read Green Eggs in Ham on Saturday Night Live. Whoever thought of that for a skit was either high, or a genius, or both.)

Well, it sounds like somebody's been listening to my inner nagging old lady, because Fox is remaking another Dr. Seuss book -- Horton Hears a Who! -- and this time, they're doing it ANIMATED. Hurrah! And, duh! Granted, they probably couldn't figure out a way to make the elephant look real, but I'll take my triumphs any way I can get 'em.

Teaming up for the second time (the first was Evan Bruce Almighty) are the comic dream team of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell: Carrey as Horton the elephant, who discovers an entire tiny city that exists on a speck of dust, and Carell as the Mayor of Whoville, the tiny said city that exists on said speck of dust. Oh, and a whole bunch of other people lend their voices to the movie, too ... like Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Seth Rogen, and Amy Poehler, to name a few.

Now, a person's a person, no matter how small, but Carrey and Carell happen to be huge. And awesome. And side-splittingly funny. And it's not just because their last names are practically identical. We're delighted that they've agreed to sit for one of Moviefone's Unscripted interviews, in which they'll be interviewing each other using audience-submitted questions.

We need your questions to make it happen, though, and fast, because the interview's taping this Sunday (March 2). So submit a question by Friday for either Carrey or Carell below, and please be sure to include your name and the city where you live -- then check back here on March 10 to see if your question made it to air. Extra points if you write your question in anapestic tetrameter. Good luck!

Edited because Bruce Almighty was the one with Steve Carell in it; Evan Almighty was the one with the ark in it. D'oh!

I'm torn. I'm really not a fan of that fancy motion-capture stuff used in Polar Express and Beowulf. I find it distracting, and when I watch it, I mourn the loss of those subtle facial expressions and mannerisms that are just not caught with the technology. That being said, I don't know how I could miss seeing A Christmas Carol sporting the likes of Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and Jim Carrey, plus Gary Oldman (be still my fangirl heart) and a stand-in Cary Elwes. Sneaky Robert Zemeckis, luring me in with his cast.

Now it looks like there might be a twist to this whole thing, or one of the cast members is a wee bit confused. While talking to MTV, young (12-year-old) actress Sammi Hanratty, said: "I play the character 'Want,' [of] 'Want and Greed.' They are the evil characters hidden in Santa's coat. Jim Carrey plays Santa Claus. He's like 16 different characters." Yes, that's right -- Santa Claus. As MTV points out, Santa isn't a figure in Christmas Carol, but Sammi insists: "It was in the movie; you have to watch it again!" I also don't remember St. Nick in the tale, but maybe I missed one version. I can't imagine that a young girl would be that confused about Santa -- kids are pretty knowledge about the jolly gift giver. So, is she just confusing him with the Ghost of Christmas Present, is there a version with Santa, or is Zemeckis twisting the world a little and including St. Nick?

Warner Bros. has released the first photos (click on each to view a larger version) from Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey as a guy who signs up for a self-help program in which the idea is to say 'yes' to everything and anything. At first, things are just peachy for our little 'yes man' until he realizes how much of a chore the whole thing really is. I imagine the film will bring Carrey back to his comedic roots, as it definitely evokes a sort of Liar Liar flavor. God knows Carrey is desperate for a hit; his last comedy, Fun with Dick and Jane, was okay at best. And let us not even go near his dramatic efforts (except for the awe-inspiring Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), because we won't find much gold under that rainbow.

Peyton Reed (The Break-Up) directs off a script from a couple of newbies, and Yes Man also stars the delicious Zooey Deschanel (who shall play my wife when and if anyone ever wants to make a biopic on my life), Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, John Michael Higgins, Danny Masterson, Terrence Stamp, Molly Sims and Rocky Carroll. Yes Man is due out in theaters on December 19.

Well, I guess if you are looking to cast an unlikely couple, then Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey would probably be at the top of the list. Variety reports that McGregor has signed to play the romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in the black comedy, I Love You Philip Morris. The film centers on Steven Russell (Carrey), a Texas conman who fell in love with his cellmate, Phillip Morris (played by McGregor). The script is based on the true story of Russell and his various escape attempts to be with his true love. Some of the more elaborate attempts included "using a green pen and bucket of water to change his prison outfit into what appeared to be surgical scrubs, another time by faking his death from AIDS and signing his own death certificate". But all did not end well for the lovers and while Morris eventually made it out of prison, Russell managed to earn a 144 year sentence for his various escape attempts.

The film is the directorial debut of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who are best known as the writers of Bad Santa. Ficarra and Requa also wrote the script based off of crime reporter Steve Mcvicker's novel. The film is set to start production as soon as Carrey is finished with Robert Zemeckis' latest foray into motion capture, A Christmas Carol (where Carrey is set to play multiple parts). McGregor has already lined up the Hitchcock-inspired Number 13 and the big-screen version of I, Lucifer for 2008. Plus, he has just finished work on The List with Hugh Jackman -- now that's the on-screen couple I've been hoping for; but no such luck.

So it's no secret that Steve Carell hasn't always made the best choices when it comes to movie roles. The same could probably be said of some of Jim Carrey's choices as well, so there could be a lot riding on both their reputations for the big-screen adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss story, Horton Hears a Who!. Erik had brought us the first teaser back in July and now a full feature trailer has been released.

Horton is based on the 1954 children's story about a microscopic world that gains an elephant as their protector. Over the years the story's moral of "a person's a person no matter how small" has been interpreted as a response to the McCarthy anti-communist era and the importance of treating the "least of us" with a little care and respect -- pretty heavy for a kid's book, I know, but it does make me long for the days when children's entertainment had more going for it than tie-in deals. The film stars Carell as the feisty mayor of Whoville and Jim Carrey as their elephant advocate. The film has a solid supporting cast that includes some truly hilarious people; namely Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Amy Poehler, and Carol Burnett.

So even if you are not the biggest fan of kid's movies, after watching this trailer, you can't deny this is one snazzy looking movie with some big-name comedic talent. But I guess everyone said the same thing about Bee Movie, and we all know how that turned out. Horton Hears a Who! arrives in theaters on March 14th, 2008.

While I may be in the minority, I actually kinda enjoyed Batman Forever when it first came out back in 1995. This was before the franchise went through a much-needed reboot, taking on a darker and more serious tone, and I had fun with Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones in the roles of The Riddler and Two-Face, respectively. But that was then and this is now: AutoUnleashed tells us that the Batmobile from Batman Forever went up for auction recently, and the car sold for $297,000. Sounds like a lot, right? Well, consider the fact that the car's worth was estimated at around $800,000 and that it cost roughly $2,800,000 to make.

However, the car that sold is not the actual car featured in the movie; instead, it's the promotional vehicle used only for promotional tours. Yes, they spent $2.5 million on a car to promote the movie only. Now before you imagine how awesome it would be to own a Batmobile (from any of the Batman films), and be able to cruise up and down main street whilst trying to impress your crush, Warner Bros. shelled out a whole bunch of rules under a contract that had to be signed by the buyer. The biggest (and most) annoying rule? "The Batmobile may be driven solely when necessary for maintenance purposes and may never be driven while in public view." Yup, you can own it, but you can't drive it. You also can't sell it, or make changes to it, but you are allowed to show it at auto shows, parks and schools, but not at shopping malls, department stores or commercial locations.

So that sucks. Would you spend $300 grand on a sweet ass car you couldn't drive?

[Photo courtesy of AutoUnleashed]

If you're a fan of tall, super-thin, leggy blondes who like to show off their goods, you're going to want to see two upcoming comedies -- Yes Man and Pink Panther 2. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Molly Sims, the tow-headed tease of television's Las Vegas, has nabbed roles in both comedies. In Yes Man, that comedy where Jim Carrey says yes to everything that comes his way, she'll play "the ex-wife he can't get out of his head." In the second Panther remake, which still scares me, she'll play "a news anchor who chronicles the misadventures of [Steve] Martin's bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau."

If you don't watch Vegas, and aren't very familiar with Sims, you can get a taste of her over at YouTube. Just type in "Molly Sims," and the first three links you'll get are her changing out of her bikini on Vegas, flashing her legs on the show, and then sporting fishnets on Craig Kilborn's show. But believe it or not, she used to be in Vanderbilt University working towards a law degree. That is, until she got signed with a modeling agency and quit school. Since she's got the looks and the brains, here's to hoping these roles let her show more of the latter. In the meantime, if you want more Sims, you can see her in her previous comedy roles -- Mrs. Feldman in Starsky & Hutch, Liz in The Benchwarmers, and Angie in Venus & Vegas.

On the surface, this is just a regular old casting story. But if you dig deeper, we spot an actor who's obviously desperate to pay off some credit card debt. But first, the news: Moviehole reports that Gary Oldman has joined the new 3D, mo-cap, blah blah version of A Christmas Carol, to be directed by Mo-Cap Man himself, Robert Zemeckis. Oldman, like the film's star Jim Carrey, will play an assortment of different roles. Carrey, of course, will be playing Ebenezer Scrooge, as well as the three ghosts who come along for the guilt trip. As Moviehole points out, "A Christmas Carol will feature a touch of live action and computer graphics, the latter of which ImageMovers employed in the Gil Kenan-directed Monster House."

Oh, but here's where it gets good (or depressing, depending on whether or not you're related to Cary Elwes): The actor hasn't nabbed a role in the film. Instead, he's standing in for Jim Carrey when the actor isn't available. Yes, Cary Elwes has officially become a stand-in. Just to give you a tad more info in case you didn't know: Ten years ago, Elwes starred opposite Carrey in Liar Liar. Now, he's had to settle for Carrey's stand-in. What happened there? Should we send a basket ... or something? I feel bad. Anyway, Moviehole also squashes the rumor that Tom Hanks will be playing Bob Cratchit. They claim he "has no part in the movie." Hint, nudge ... Elwes. A Christmas Carol is currently set to arrive on November 6, 2009.

Ordinarily, we only hear about those movie pitches that were successful -- the ones that landed at a studio, lined up actors, directors, etc ... But what about the horrible movie pitches? Variety doesn't give you a list of those. The ridiculously awful movie pitches; the pitches that often make their way around private Hollywood email chains when someone feels like sharing a laugh. Radar Online spoke to a bunch of different producers, agents and writers, and asked them for the worst pitches they've ever had to endure. Some of these are bad. Real bad. But I wouldn't be surprised to see them end up on the big screen in some shape or form down the line.

Among those listed are a project called Wheels, which comes with the pitch: "Jerry Maguire in a wheelchair." And here's the premise: "A hotshot sports agent parks in a handicapped spot and gets sentenced by a judge to spend a month in a wheelchair. Which is fine, until he falls for a woman with a real disability, but doesn't explain that he isn't actually handicapped. How's that for a third-act complication, motherf**ker?!" Oh, and then there's my personal favorite (no, it's not a homeless version of the TV show Friends -- another pitch that made their list) -- a project called Rock Op, which apparently had Jim Carrey lined up to star as "a DJ who specializes in playing 'torture' music to extract information from detainees." Apart from ruining Clay Aiken's career, I'm not entirely sure how this film could've won over audiences. Anyway, head on over to Radar to check out the rest, then come back and let us know which pitches are your favorite. Oh, and if you happen to have experienced your own horrible pitch session, do let us know (anonymously, of course) what the pitch was in the comments section below.

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