"Juliette Binoche will star alongside Steve Carell in "Dan in Real Life," the Touchstone romantic comedy to be directed by Peter Hedges & written by Pierce Gardner. In the pic, which starts shooting in October, Carell plays a widower with three daughters who writes a parenting advice column but finds all his well-honed formulas tested when he goes on a family vacation and falls in love with the girlfriend of his younger brother. Binoche will play that girl, and Dane Cook plays his sibling..." (full details)

"Narnia producers Walden Media have come on board to co-finance with Mandate Pictures "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium," starring Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman and Jason Bateman. The film marks Zach Helm's directorial debut. Production will begin this month in Toronto..." (full details)

"Odd Lot Entertainment has acquired the family drama "A House Divided" from writer-director Lexi Alexander ("Green Street Hooligans"). The story chronicles a secular family that is rocked when the father embraces his long-forgotten Jewish roots and the mother retaliates by throwing herself into evangelical Christianity..." (full details)