"Scarlett Johansson is in negotiations to star in "The Nanny Diaries," an adaptation of the best-selling novel that Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are in talks to direct from their script. The book told the story of a college student, the aptly named Nan, who goes to work for a Park Avenue family that turns out to be the family from hell. Johansson will play Nan, who juggles the household's marital woes, her classes, a romance and a spoiled kid... " (full details)

"Kerry Washington has signed on to play opposite Shawn and Marlon Wayans in "Little Man" for Revolution Studios. Tracy Morgan and John Witherspoon also have joined the cast of the con artist comedy, which is being helmed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and centers on a man (Shawn Wayans) who is so anxious to become a father that he mistakes a short, baby-faced thief on the run (Marlon Wayans) for an abandoned toddler. He and his wife (Washington) take the "baby" into their home and care for him... " (full details)

"Diane Keaton is in negotiations to play Jon Heder's mother in "Mama's Boy" for Warner Independent Pictures. The story centers on a self-absorbed man in his late 20's (Heder) who still lives at home with his mother. The man's world turns upside down when his mother starts dating and considers booting him out of the house. Tim Hamilton will direct... " (full details)

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