(MIB was a groundbreaking comedy that took the novel approach of teaming a white cop with a black cop.)

Yep, Sony’s going forward with Men in Black 3.  From Hollywood Reporter:

“Tropic Thunder” writer Etan Cohen is penning the script, and Barry Sonnenfeld, who helmed the first two films, is said to be attached to  the new  installment, though there is no formal deal or offer as yet.

I love it when journalists use a phrase like “is said”.  What, who says?  Isn’t that what you’re supposed to find out?  “Legend has it, Old McConnagle’s ghost is said to haunt the old mill to this day.”  Great work.

The X-factor remains Will Smith. The A-lister, who starred  with Tommy Lee Jones in the first two, has not committed to the pic,  though in recent days the buzz in development circles has been that he  is now interested in returning. Smith does not currently have a go  movie lined up.Tommy Lee Jones’ involvement is uncertain.

They better hope Will Smith is involved, because without him, you have a follow-up to a movie no one liked (not the first one, the first one was good) from a forgotten franchise, to possibly be directed by the guy whose last movie was RV.  But if they need to recast Edgar, the man possessed by a giant bug, I know one guy who’d be perfect:

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^{Formula for diversity: Two whites, a black and an Asian. What did Mexicans ever to do you, Milton Bradley?}

If you didn’t think someone could come up with an idea infinitely more stupid than an Ouija Board movie, you obviously aren’t reading enough Hollywood news.

Universal Pictures is sweet on “Candy Land.” Studio has set Etan Cohen [Tropic Thunder] to write and Kevin Lima [Enchanted] to direct a live-action feature based on the enduring Hasbro board game.  The tyke-friendly board game isn’t as obvious an inspiration for a movie project as those other Hasbro brands, but the studio has tapped talent adept at comedy and family fare. [Variety]

It’s not an obvious inspiration for a movie because it’s just Sorry with f-cking candy painted on the board.  And not even good candy either, it’s like some shit people like in Victorian England ate, like yeast-filled prunes and marmalade-covered gelatine.  Do you know how f-cking poor you have to be to enjoy Candy Land?  Look, kids, pictures of candy!  Now let’s all close our eyes and pretend this dead cat is a nice warm fire!  Which pack of mongoloids decided that anything popular could be a movie?  Why not Ovaltine the movie, or Febreze?  Wait, did you just write that down?  Come back here!