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DreamWorks and Reliance close deal.

Writer-director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman will make time travel thriller Looper. Set in present day, a group of hitmen are sent targets from the future. They are looking to start 2009.

Sam Rockwell on Gentleman Broncos: "It's more like hillbilly Buck Rogers. It's weird. It's like a cowboy Flash Gordon. His name's Bronco, and he's like a hillbilly spaceman. It's weird. It's out there. It's about a guy stranded on the moon for three years, like a Robinson Crusoe kind of guy. He's mining a product called helium 3 on the surface of the moon for fuel for the Earth, an energy source. Then he meets his clone, and they have to deal with each other. So it's sort of an homage to Silent Running and a little Blade Runner, as far as the replicants and stuff. It's like that, but it's a very simple kind of Robinson Crusoe story. It's this guy pretty much stranded. It's like a Twilight Zone episode." It's waiting for a release date from Fox Searchlight.

Sam Rockwell is still looking for a distributor for independently financed Moon.

Spyglass is working on horror comedy Blood Brothers, starring Owen Wilson. It’s a buddy movie about a man and a vampire.

Fox has action adventure The Eighth Wonder, which will star and be produced by Nicole Kidman. Details are few, but it’ll be written by Simon Kinberg and about an archaeological find that starts an international race.

David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Heard and Gary Cole have been cast in Derrick Borte’s dramedy The Joneses. It’ll be a social commentary about a perfect family that moves into a neighborhood only to turn out to be a fake family used by a marketing company to sell luxury products.

Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, and Faizon Love will star in Couples Retreat. Written by Favreau and directed by Peter Billingsley, it’s a comedy about four couples who go to an island resort and find out that the resort’s couples’ therapy is not optional. Starts production late October in Bora Bora and LA.

Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito in dramedy Solitary Man. Brian Koppelman and David Levien will direct the story about a car dealership chain owner who is destroyed by his business and indescretions.