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• Jennifer Aniston is set to join the ensemble cast of the new Peter Bogdanovich film She’s Funny That Way. The film, previously titled Squirrel to the Nuts, tells the story of a Broadway director who has an affair with an aspiring actress (she also happens to be a former prostitute). Aniston will reportedly play a therapist alongside her Marley and Me co-star Owen Wilson, Brie Larson (21 Jump Street), Jason Schwartzman, Eugene Levy, Kathryn Hahn, and Cybill Shepherd, who Bogdanovich directed in The Last Picture Show and Daisy Miller. Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach are serving as producers on the project. [Variety]
• Sandra Bullock is confirmed to star in the animated flick Minions, a spinoff of the Despicable Me movies. Going against type, Bullock will provide the voice for Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain with designs to rule the world, and potentially the new master to the Minions. The movie will be released in 3-D CG on December 19, 2014. Bullock can be next seen in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity and Paul Feig’s The Heat. [Deadline]
