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		Indie Queens Want Divorce How's this for quirky? Indie favourites Chloe Sevigny and Zooey Deschanel are teaming up for Divorce Ranch. The comedy is set in Nevada just after World War II when a quickie divorce was easy to come by. Sevigny will play an actress who comes to the titular ranch with her 6-year-old son just so she can bag a wealthy man. Deschanel is taking the role of her long-suffering assistant. Of course that's just a polite word for pimp. The script was written by American theatre luvvie Michael Lindsay-Hogg who will also be on megaphone duty.

		Maguire Says Marry Him! Tobey Maguire is joining forces with Warner Independent to produce Marry Him! The film will be based on a magazine article, the full title of which is Marry Him! The Case For Settling For Mr Good Enough. It was penned by US radio host Lori Gottlieb about her own experiences as a 40-year-old single mother who conceived her baby through donor sperm. Hardened by the responsibilities of raising a child alone, she suggests there is no such thing as a dream guy. In her own words: "Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling 'Bravo!' in movie theatres. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go." Maguire has not committed to playing Mr Right at this stage. Typical!

		Cent Gets Spectacular First on the list of guys you wouldn't want raising your child: Rapper 50 Cent (aka Fiddy, aka Curtis Jackson). He'll star in Spectacular Regret opposite Danny Huston and Kelli Garner as a death row inmate whose imminent execution puts him at the centre of a media storm. Up-and-comer Joshua Leonard will be directing from his own script, an ensemble piece weaving together the lives of four LA citizens haunted by the past. We're not saying Mr Jackson is wooden, but if he gets the electric chair, he probably won't bat an eyelid.

		Pixar And Mix Disney Pixar have announced a packed slate of movies with Toy Story helmer John Lasseter overseeing. Along with Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 there'll be Up, a globetrotting 'coming-of-age story about a 70something guy' which will be the first of many to use a 3D animated format. Reese Witherspoon, Billy Connolly and Emma Thompson will lend their voices to romantic comedy Newt and King Of Elves will be adapted from the short story by Philip K Dick. Just over the horizon is Bolt with John Travolta. He voices a Hollywood stunt dog who, after years starring in a TV show, comes to believe he has superpowers. And hey, the next thing you know, he's convinced the destiny of the world is predetermined by alien overlords...

		Rudin Up For Under The wheels are turning on Man Under. Miramax and Hollywood's busiest producer Scott Rudin recently purchased the spec script by Ann Cherkis. The plot centres on a dysfunctional family who are thrust into the spotlight when images of them become the centrepiece of an exhibition at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York. But then if it's 'modern art', how on earth would anyone recognise them? Cherkis worked at a photo agency before selling the script. Hopefully she didn't commission too many snapshots from the paparazzi or else casting could be a bit tricky.