I might be the only person alive who didn’t think My Super Ex-Girlfriend was as terrible as everyone said, but the conventional wisdom is that Ivan Reitman hasn’t made a decent movie since the early 90s.  Before he starts work on Ghostbusters 3 (assuming Bill Murray actually agrees to it), he ran a little warm-up lap with Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman.

From a Liz Meriwether Blacklist script called “F*ckbuddies,” No Strings Attached follows two attractive single caucasians who decide to go from platonic best friends to lovers, all the while trying to lay ground rules that keep it from turning into a real relationship.  I don’t know about you, but I think I liked this better when it was a Seinfeld episode.  And Ashton Kutcher wasn’t in it.  And Jerry and Elaine didn’t fall in love during the 90-second promo.

If only David Carradine had agreed to star in this, he’d probably still be alive today.

[trailer via ThePlaylist]

Paramount bought Honey Pot, from Liz Meriwether, the writer of (not making this up) Sluts and F*ckbuddies.  Plot is described as “what happens when a bunch of hot, funny women get their ‘Bourne’ on.”  I can’t wait for her next film, A Penis Entering a Vagina.  |Variety|

Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to a script about Costa-Rica based online casinos, from the writers of Rounders.  In related news, Brett Ratner is attached to a script he spilled Kool Aid on.  Seriously, can someone help get him unstuck?  That was the only copy. |THR|

Don’t believe the hype about Tarantino being asked to cut 40 minutes from Inglourious Basterds, yo.  Though to be fair, they could trim it by at least 10 minutes just by removing the extraneous letters.|ThePlaylist|

Yeah, you’ve probably already seen this, but I’m always up for a good Entourage bashing. “Dude, but there’s hot girls in it!”  Hi, I’m internet porn, have we met? |CollegeHumor|

This is a really scholarly and erudite review of James Franco’s poetry-influenced student film, and what I took away from it was that it shows a dude getting poop smeared on his face. |Movieline|

And just for fun, 8 Popular Movie Titles Over the Years. |ScreenJunkies|

Over the weekend, the NY Times ran a feature on “The Fempire,” accompanied by the headline “An Entourage of their own.”  The group of Hollywood power womyn in questions?  Why, Diablo Cody and three chicks you’ve never heard of, of course.

Lorene Scafaria [who co-wrote Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist] and Diablo Cody are usually not a duo, but half of a quartet. With their pals Dana Fox, who wrote “What Happens in Vegas,” and Liz Meriwether, a playwright-turned-screenwriter, they make up a Hollywood powerhouse writing posse who call themselves “The Fempire.”

The Fempire’s solid front — all four wear the same gold necklaces with tiny heart pendants inscribed with words that can’t be printed here, gifts from Ms. Cody — seems to make some men nervous and envious at the same time.

You can find them at work in their Laurel Canyon homes in their pajamas, or sitting next to one another at laptop-friendly restaurants. To see them gathered amid the dinosaur topiary around Ms. Fox’s swimming pool with their dogs (they all have dogs) is to see four distinct styles of glamour that bear little resemblance to traditional images of behind-the-scenes talent.
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Don’t even try to credit their bankability to their looks. “When you read a screenplay, it doesn’t come with a picture on the cover,” said Adam Siegel, president of Marc Platt Productions, a producer who is friends with all four women.

The totally not-condescending article then goes on to compare them to Entourage and the Apatow posse, and it’s all very empowering, because it communicates the message that girls can indeed do many of the things boys can do. *Spice girls pose*