· The newly formed WME has bagged its first high profile client, having coaxed Lost star Matthew Fox out from the safety of his ICM lair into an open field, shot him with tranquilizer darts, and dragged him back to their headquarters. There he'll awaken hours later, frightened and disoriented, and surrounded by a strategy team explaining how they plan to orchestrate his move to the big screen. [Variety]
· Nickelodeon ordered a pilot from DreamWorks Animation for Monsters vs. Aliens, ramping up their TV production arm, which is already busily producing a Halloween special called Scared Shrekless for NBC. That's not a joke. They sold NBC on a Shrek holiday special with a title that's a play on the expression "scared shitless." Stay tuned for A Very Donkey Punch Christmas. [THR]
· The promise of a Martin Luther King biopic shepherded to the screen by the hand of Steven "Almighty" Spielberg himself gave all of us something to cling to during the long Glee commercial breaks. Now with legal action threatened by two of King's children, that dream is close to dashed. Oh, quit your blubbering. Imagine how Denzel Washington feels. [Variety]
· Melissa Leo, who'll next be seen in HBO's new David Simon series Treme, is in talks to join Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg on David. O. Russell's The Fighter. [Variety]
· Jackass's Chris Pontius has been cast in Sofia Coppola's Chateau Marmont-set pampered ennuifest, Somewhere. He'll play Sammy, Stephen Dorff's party animal wingman, always at the ready to cheer up a friend in crisis by ingesting horse semen or putting on penis-puppet shows in fish tanks filled with venomous vipers. [THR]