· Summit Entertainment wants to be in the Naomi Watts business! Days after announcing it had acquired the rights to the star's Valerie Plame drama Fair Game, it landed a deal to distribute The Impossible, co-starring Ewan McGregor. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, the film is based on a true story stemming from the deadly tsunami of 2004 and will begin production in August. I know, I know -- "But that's Impossible!" Save it for the crew T-shirt. [Deadline]
Josh Lucas has his most formidable co-star yet, John Singleton sticks with the kidnapping plots, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· There's really no other way to put this, so it goes like this: Josh Lucas will star opposite Koko the Dog in the Aussie flick Red Dog, about a "charismatic kelpie canine who united a mining community in the 1970s and '80s." Ten bucks says the dog has a more believable accent than Lucas does. [Variety]
· What's up with John Singleton and kidnapping movies? He'll follow the Taylor Lautner thriller Abduction with the airport thriller Layover, about a gang of corrupt TSA agents who abduct an ex-con's family during a seven-hour layover. A seven-hour layover? I guess it's set in Newark. [Variety]
· This is hilarious: Producers of the planned biopic about N.W.A. -- one of the most militant and influential (if misogynistic and fitfully anti-Semitic) rap groups of the late '80s-early '90s -- have enlisted the white Jewish female Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center) to contribute the screenplay. One can only wonder what she'll do with Eazy-E's tender sentiment, "I tied her to the bed, I had to let my nigg*z f*ck her first / Loaded up the .44, yo, then I straight smoked the ho!" Good luck! [THR]