Edward Norton is directing himself (twice) in a comedy about twins, "one a philosophy professor, the other a career criminal who gets his more erudite twin into big trouble with some murderous potheads." With all due respect to Norton — and that's plenty — he's not exactly high on the list of wild and crazy guys. And his last comedy was. . . let's see. . . uh oh.
Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga have joined the horror movie Orphan, about parents who lose a child and then adopt an evil one to make up for it. Good ol' evil children. This makes Farmiga's second mother-of-demon-spawn role in a row.
Not really film-related, but WGA-strike-related: Conan O'Brien is paying the salaries of his eighty-person staff until production resumes. Conaners, we tip our hat.
— Peter Smith