7/10/06 at 07:49 AM

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Trade Breaks: Zwigoff, Akerman, Amalric



Posted: Monday July 10th 2006 2:19pm
Source: Assorted Sources
Author: Garth Franklin



"IEG and Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil has tapped Terry Zwigoff ("Ghost World", "Bad Santa") to direct and co-write an adaptation of the French novel "Happy Days" with co-writer Jerry Stahl. Graff's story follows a thirtysomething man who decides to leave his wife and children and check himself into a rest home. There he develops a special bond with an old woman suffering from terminal cancer, taking her on a special journey as her last wish..." (full details)

Peter and Bobby Farrelly have set newcomer Malin Akerman ("Brothers Solomon", TV's "The Comeback" & "Entourage") to play the bride from hell in "Seven Day Itch," the DreamWorks comedy inspired by "The Heartbreak Kid." Ben Stiller and Michelle Monaghan are starring and Bradley Thomas is producing. Stiller plays a man who hastily marries a young woman he thinks is his perfect mate. As he watches her turn into a nightmare on their honeymoon, he meets another woman who might be his real soulmate (Monaghan). The Farrellys wrote the script..." (full details)

"French actor Mathieu Amalric (Munich) is rumoured to star Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The plot deals with Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind".