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Mena Suvari Reaches Agreement With Ex
Mena Suvari's divorce war is over ... the actress has reached a settlement with her ex ... and she won't have to spend one dime on the guy ever again.
Buddy Up! Sandra & Melissa Team For ‘Bridesmaids’ Director
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy: your distaff version of Murtaugh and Riggs.
According to Variety, the actresses will join forces for an untitled buddy comedy about the "strained relationship between a high-strung FBI agent an unconventional Boston cop." Paul Feig ("Bridesmaids") will direct.
Despite the getting-too-old-for-this premise, the untitled film should be one to keep on your radar. After all, in addition to the power trio of Bullock, McCarthy and Feig, the script for the comedy comes from Katie Dippold, a staff writer on "Parks and Recreation."
Feig has long wanted to reunite with his "Bridesmaids" breakout star. Last year, he had discussed directing and writing a film called "Dumb Jock," which would have starred McCarthy and Jon Hamm.
"I would do anything with her, and she's got such range that she kind of can do anything," Feig told GQ.com. "The worst thing you could do, if you had a Melissa McCarthy in your employ, would be, 'Can you just stick to the script?' But that happens a lot. Why the f--k would you ever do that?"
Bullock was last seen onscreen in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close." Her 2012 film, "Gravity," was just pushed into 2013.
Per Variety, the film will shoot quickly, as McCarthy only has a five-week window before her commitments to the CBS series "Mike and Molly" begin again.
[via Variety]
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Big Changes Coming To ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
When "So You Think You Can Dance" returns to Fox on May 24 (at 8 p.m. EST), the popular competition series will look wildly different than seasons past.
"We're one show now, so we've got an action-packed show," producer Nigel Lythgoe told ET at the Fox upfronts this week. Fox ended the "So You Think You can Dance" results-show broadcast, meaning many changes needed to be made before the new season.
"This year we're doing an entirely new thing that we should have done years ago," Lythgoe said enthusiastically. "We're going to have a male winner and a female winner. With changing it around, to making it just one show, we sort of realized, 'Hey, why don't we do this?' We wanted to do it, now we have the opportunity to do so."
As Lythgoe told TVLine.com, “Girls dance totally differently than guys."
To make up for the lack of a results show, "SYTYCD" will have all its dancers perform in episodes one and two before revealing who goes home. "We'll watch them dance in the first week," Lythgoe told ET. "America will vote. We'll watch them dance in the second week, take into account America's vote and the week before's routine and make a decision."
Lythgoe said to TVLine.com that the dancers won't know before their routines if they're in danger because “we don’t want the [at-risk] contestants to be panicking [when they dance]."
As for the celebrity judges, Lythgoe would love to see Kristin Chenoweth and Jesse Tyler Ferguson return for season 9.
For more on the new rules and format of "So You Think You Can Dance," head over to TVLine.com.
