After vanishing from Hollywood to advise President Bill Clinton through two terms in the White House, Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason are returning to adapt her William Morrow novel "Liberating Paris" into a feature. The "Designing Women" creator is adapting and will direct her tale of six friends from a small Southern town who reunite as each turns 40. Though she hasn't completed a script or raised financing yet, Bloodworth-Thomason has filled half that ensemble with Michelle Pfeiffer, Billy Bob Thornton and Dwight Yoakam, each of them attached..." (full details)

Emma Roberts (Julia's niece) will star in teen fantasy-comedy "Bras and Broomsticks" for Fox 2000, with Susan Cartsonis ("What Women Want") producing through her Store Front Pictures shingle. Project's based on Sarah Mlynowski's book about an angst-ridden teenage girl who discovers that her socially inept younger sister -- and not she -- has inherited her divorced mother's magical powers. Despite the mother's warning not to cast spells, the younger sister succumbs to temptation, with disastrous results..." (full details)

"Napoleon Dynamite" star Jon Heder is joining Rob Schneider and David Spade as the third hapless athlete in Revolution's comedy "Benchwarmers," being produced by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison shingle. Story concerns three guys who try to make up for their lack of athleticism in school by forming a three-man baseball team to challenge youth teams. Craig Kilborn and Jon Lovitz also star. Dennis Dugan is directing a script by Allen Covert and Nick Swardson..." (full details)

"Liv Tyler, Val Kilmer, Asia Argento, Vincent Gallo and Japanese star Tanobu Asano are currently in negotiations to star in "Coin Locker Babies". The story is a surreal coming of age tale about two boys who are abandoned at birth in adjacent train station lockers. They grow up in orphanages and with foster parents on a semi-deserted island until they leave for the city in a quest to find and destroy the women who rejected them in the first place..." (full details)

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