“Christina Aguilera will make her screen debut for Screen Gems in Burlesque, a contemporary musical that Steven Antin will direct,” Variety reports. “Aguilera will play an ambitious smalltown girl with a big voice who finds love, family and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club that appears to be right out of Bob Fosse's Cabaret.” It does sound like a premise tailor-made for her talents, you must admit.

Jim Carrey has become Reese Witherspoon. Used Guys, previously envisioned as a vehicle for Carrey and Ben Stiller, has been revamped as a Stiller/Witherspoon pairing. “ The comedy takes place in a future run by women, who clone and trade men like used cars. Stiller and Carrey were to play returned, outdated models who go in search of their masculinity. The current take at Fox focuses more on the relationship between Stiller's character and Witherspoon's clone owner,” per The Hollywood Reporter.

Thar be whales here! Warner Bros. is bringing Everybody Loves Whales to the screen, based on “the true 1988 tale of the rescue of a trio of California gray whales found under the ice of the Arctic Circle near Barrow, Alaska. Over a two-week period, the U.S. and Soviet governments joined with oil company execs, environmental activists, Eskimos, businessmen and military officers to help free the giant mammals,” Variety reports.