· Jon Hamm will play the third point of a love-and-crime triangle in The Town, co-starring (and directed by) Ben Affleck as a career criminal on the lam from Hamm's FBI agent. Between them is bank employee Rebecca Hall, for whom Affleck is trying to clean up his act but whom Hamm uses to close in on his man. Complications ensue -- including that title, apparently. Was the source novel's Prince of Thieves really that preemptively close to the Robin Hood myth? Was Snooze already taken? [THR]
The rats of NIMH make a comeback, Richard Linklater and Scott Rudin take up with Liars, and much more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· Your eighth or ninth favorite animated film growing up is set to get the G-Force treatment: The animated 1982 adaptation of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH will get an updating via Paramount and writer-director Neil Burger, likely to feature a live-action/CGI blend for its tale of the titular mouse, her flight from humanity and her discovery of an advanced society of rats. Surely Zach Galifianakis will feature in here somewhere as well. [THR]
· Scott Rudin is piecing together the romantic comedy Liars (A-E), with director Richard Linklater (left) closing in on the tale of a woman who gathers lost items from her ex-boyfriends while en route to Barack Obama's inauguration. Kat Dennings is attached to play the woman's friend/sidekick/vibrating-panties inventory keeper. [Variety]
· Spike Jonze picked up the rights to the novel Light Boxes -- about a town that experiences a 1,000-day winter -- for the terrific young director and Sundance-shorts alum Ray Tintori to adapt as his debut feature. [Variety]
· Good news, Hollywood: Sacramento greenlit five-year, $500 million tax credit incentives for 25 films set to shoot in the year ahead. The bad news: Naked Gun 4 was one of them. [Variety]
· Alcon Entertainment closed a deal for Prisoners, fast-tracking rookie scribe Aaron Guzikowski's spec thriller that will have gone from sale to finished film within about 15 months. The best part: Until last week, Guzikowski was an assistant at an ad agency. It can happen to you, folks. [THR]