Ben Stiller to Find the Heart in Nigerian Internet Scams

· Dear Friend,

My names are Ben Stiller. We are making this venture proposal to you in strict confidence. The script we have in our possession is called Help Me Spread Goodness, a comic drama to be directed humbly my myself about a generous and merciful American banker who falls for a Nigerian internet scam. (Please don't be confusing this with Freshman Roommates, Tracy Morgan's Nigerian internet scam movie.) A swift acknowledgment on the receipt of this mail will be appreciated.

Thank you and God bless you. [Variety]

More Hollywood Ink after the jump.

· Hugh Jackman has signed on to his next project: Ghostopolis, about a government agent who deports ghost aliens -- the without-papers kind, not the outer space kind -- back over the afterlife border. His hardline position on immigration is rocked, however, when he comes face to face with a newly arrived illegal spirit who speaks only Ghostican, and is forced to hang out outside the Ghost Depot in the hopes of picking up some meager, ghost-gardening wages. [THR]

· Dwayne Johnson has won the title role in McG's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo. The logline: "A fugitive whaler teams up with a naturalist, a mysterious woman and a captain of a futuristic submarine, to search for a lost underwater civilization that holds libraries of vast knowledge and a weapon with the power to destroy mankind." [Production Week via /Film]

· Move over, Mr. Phil. Outta the way, Rachael Ray! Harpo Productions has inked a multi-year, multi-platform deal with Jenny McCarthy that will include her own syndicated show in which she doles out practical advice about autism while cooking easy-to-make autism food. [Production Week via /Film]

· Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) doc Crude, about a standoff between Chevron and inhabitants of an Ecuadorian rainforest, has been acquired by First Run Features. It opens in New York September 9, then L.A. the following week and San Francisco the week after that. [Production Week via /Film]