"Dakota Fanning has been caught by "Charlotte's Web." The young actress will star in Paramount Pictures' adaptation of E.B. White's classic children's tale. Gary Winick is directing the live-action/CG-animated pic in which a young farm girl teams up with a spider named Charlotte to save a pig named Wilbur from the butcher's block..." (full details)

"Revolution Studios has lined up Rob Schneider and David Spade to topline baseball comedy "Bench Warmers" at Adam Sandler's Happy Madison shingle. Story centers on three men who lacked athletic childhoods but try to make up for it by forming a three-manteam that challenges nine-player youth baseball teams..." (full details)

""The Decameron," Dino De Laurentiis' adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century literary classic, is gearing up, with "The O.C.'s" Mischa Barton in negotiations to do the project. Barton would play Pampinea in the period piece about a group of young Florentines who take refuge in the Italian countryside, amusing one another with stories of love and adventure, as the black plague devastates the city..." (full details)

"Kate Winslet has joined the voice cast of DreamWorks' and Aardman's Flushed Away. The film tells the story of Roddy (Hugh Jackman), an uptown rat who is flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment into the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new way of life. Winslet will voice Rita, the rat who teams up with Roddy..." (full details)

"Emmy and Tony-winner Stockard Channing may portray Gladys Presley, the King of Rock n' Roll's beloved mother, in CBS' forthcoming miniseries Elvis. Channing is perhaps best known as First Lady Abigail Bartlet on NBC's The West Wing and as Betty Rizzo in Grease..." (full details)

Thanks to 'KC'.