"Fox Atomic has picked Tom Brady ("The Animal", "The Hot Chick") to helm sports comedy "The Comebacks". "Comebacks" will star David Koechner as the losing-est football coach in the history of the sport, who goes for a shot at redemption with a ragtag college team. Brady and Kevin Sabbe wrote the latest draft of the script..." (full details)

"Reiko Aylesworth (TV's "24") and Steven Pasquale (TV's "Rescue Me") have been cast as the leads in 20th Century Fox's "Alien vs. Predator 2," which begins filming next week in Vancouver. Greg and Colin Strause direct from a script by "Armageddon" writer Shane Salerno..." (full details)

"Commercial director Ruben Fleischer will make his directorial debut on "Psycho Funky Chimp," a comedy being produced by MTV Films and Todd Phillips. The script, written by Michael Bacall, follows a 26-year-old who buys the rarest of Pez dispensers, the Psycho Funky Chimp, a purchase that attracts vultures, thieves and fanboys and makes him question whether he really is ready to grow up..." (full details)