America has elected its first African-American president, so what better time to bring the story of “A Butler Well-Served by This Election” to the screen? Sony snapped up the feature rights to this true story “a dozen days after the Washington Post published Wil Haygood's front-page report on Eugene Allen's 34 years at the White House. Allen worked for eight presidents, starting with Harry Truman in 1952 and ending in 1986 with Ronald Reagan,” Variety reports. Highlights of the story include Nixon’s controversial “breakfast in bed” request, which some claim led to the downfall of his administration.

Life is like a box of crayons. Or something like that. Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson and Arsenio Hall will lend their voices to The Hero of Color City. Per The Hollywood Reporter, “Becky Bristow's film, which previously had signed on Christina Ricci to voice the lead, is an animated fable centering on a group of crayons that band together to stop a tyrant from robbing their world of color.” If we may make a casting suggestion: How about Burnt Sienna Miller?

Jonah Hex is searching for a new director. “Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have dropped out as the directors of Jonah Hex, the DC Comics property that is expected to headline W. and Milk star Josh Brolin as a partly disfigured gunslinger and bounty hunter,” says Variety. “Neveldine and Taylor wrote the script, but their exit as directors was attributed to ‘creative differences.’” What else?

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