Finally some story details ahead of time on a Woody Allen movie. The prolific auteur will direct Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and the France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Set to shoot this summer in Paris, Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy centering on a family traveling to the city for business. There is also a young engaged couple that has their lives transformed throughout the journey. The film, according to the press release, “celebrates a young man’s great love for Paris, and simultaneously explores the illusion people have that a life different from their own is better.” Michael Sheen (The Queen), newcomer Nina Arianda, Tom Hiddleston (Thor), Corey Stoll (Salt), veteran TV actor Mimi Kennedy and Kurt Fuller (Mr. Woodcock) will also star.

Looks like New Line Cinema’s plans to remake John Carpenter’s cult classic Escape from New York is coming together. The studio, which recently received a rewrite from Allan Loeb (Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps) is in negotiations with Breck Eisner to helm the dystopian actioner. While the movie has yet to find its Snake Plissken, the studio has honed in on Eisner, who recently directed the R-rated remake to George Romero’s The Crazies.

Eisner, the son of former Disney head honcho Michael Eisner, directed the 2005 critical failure Sahara, starring Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz. His second effort, the lower-budgeted horror flick The Crazies, which starred Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell, earned a much friendlier critical reception, and has grossed close to $40 million since it debuted at the end of February.

While reports that Will Smith has definitely signed on to star in Men in Black 3 are premature at best, sources tell EW.com that the A-list movie star is leaning towards making the third installment of the uber-popular franchise his next project. Sony Pictures could not confirm, and Smith’s reps have said he has not yet officially decided between MIB:III or Twentieth Century Fox’s movie The City That Sailed, a fantastical adventure that would reunite Smith with I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence.

However, sources close to the Men in Black franchise are hopeful that the movie will enter production this summer with Smith and Tommy Lee Jones back on board to battle aliens while Barry Sonnenfeld directs again. Also, the studio has not yet decided whether it will be in 3-D, but it’s obvious that they’d be leaning that way.  The script is currently getting a production polish from David Koepp, the man behind such enormous blockbusters as Spider-Man, War of the Worlds and Angels and Demons. Meanwhile, City that Sailed is just waiting for an answer from Smith, since the script, from Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show), is complete. It seems that if Koepp, who has worked for Sony for a long time, fulfills his end of the bargain, we’ll see Smith back on the big screen as Agent J as early as next summer.

Stretch Armstrong — starring one Taylor Lautner — is becoming more of a reality as Universal Pictures attaches both a writer and a director to the property based on the beloved Hasbro toy from the ’70s and ’80s. Rob Letterman, the director behind last year’s animated hit Monsters vs. Aliens, will pair with Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), who just finished directing Get Him to the Greek. The two recently worked together on Twentieth Century Fox’s upcoming winter pic Gulliver’s Travels, with Stoller writing the latest draft of the film that Letterman directed. (He shares credit on Gulliver’s with Joe Stillman.) In the case of Stretch, Stoller will do a rewrite of the original screenplay from Steve Oedekerk.

It’s been 18 years since psychologist John Gray wrote Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, yet Summit Entertainment — the studio behind the Twilight franchise — and producers Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun believe there is still fresh material to mine from this multimillion dollar book series that discusses communication between the sexes. The studio announced today that they have acquired all television and film rights to the entire franchise. Since the ink is just drying now, there are no concrete plans yet on how the books will be adapted. Says Erik Feig, Summit’s president of production, “It is a pop culture mainstay and comically, sadly, romantically, all too often still true these many years after first being published.” The series has sold over 50 million books in 45 territories worldwide and Gray’s video/DVD lecture series has earned over $100 million.