· High Art and Laurel Canyon director Lisa Cholodenko is returning to the lesbian plot well, beginning production this week on The Kids Are All Right. Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star as longtime partners, each with kids by the same sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo); their lives are upended when the kids want to meet the father and he winds up involved with Moore's character. Could be a riot, right? Except Anne Thompson reports it's a drama with a sexy script, and now I'm just kind of baffled. Only about seven months to wait until it probably bows at Sundance, though; we'll report back then. [Variety]
The recycling of a sci-fi quasi-classic, a big studio three-way, and much more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· From the Dept. of the End of the End of Ideas: Sci Fi Channel plans to revive the Fox series Alien Nation, itself a small-screen adaptation of the 1988 film starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin as a human cop and his alien counterpart, respectively. "They're looking for more grounded sci-fi and close-ended episodes, and at the heart of Alien Nation, it's a cop movie," said Fox exec Chris Carlisle. "It's grounded." Oh, and it's a studio brand past due for recycling. Chalk another one up for cynicism. [Variety]
· More lesbians! Olympia Dukakis (left) and Brenda Fricker will star in Cloudburst, featuring the two Oscar-winners as lovers on the road after busting out of the nursing facility where one of them is confined. [Variety]
· Paramount and Fox are said to be in discussions with Sony to merge elements of their home-video divisions into one slimmed-down enterprise. Most of the changes would take place on the production side, meaning that Paramount's celebrated DVD-burning trailer -- the equivalent of the William Morris mail room for a whole new generation of ambitious Viacom go-getters -- will likely shutter. [THR]
· The Hollywood Reporter has 423 words to say about the Ron Livingston series Gravity getting picked up by ABC. I envy them. [THR]