Hollywood Ink: Sam Raimi Going Western For Earp

Sam Raimi might have just set his dance card for the next decade... Rob Lowe hits the hard stuff... Keenen Ivory Wayans strikes again... This and more as Hollywood Ink continues after the jump.

· Not long after being linked to direct Robert Downey Jr. in the latest Wizard of Oz riff, Sam Raimi has gone all Ridley Scott and attached himself to oversee the graphic novel adaptation Earp: Saints for Sinners for DreamWorks. Per today's report, the film is "set in a future in which [the legendary gunslinger Wyatt Earp] takes on outlaws in a ravaged society where the only boomtown left is Las Vegas." Which, by the time Raimi is done with Oz, will no doubt be present-day. [THR]

· Rob Lowe is the latest to join I Melt With You, the Cassavetes-ian indie thriller that will survey "the pain of the modern male psyche." Co-starring with Thomas Jane and Jeremy Piven, Lowe will play a doctor grappling with loss and drug addiction. OK. [Deadline]

· Keenen Ivory Wayans will write and direct It Takes a Village, about a white 30-something career woman who adopts a baby from a South Pacific island. The catch: "[S]he comes home with the tribe's chief and seven elders until she proves she's mommy material." Of course she does. CBS Films and Sony Pictures spent money on this. [Deadline]

· Larry Charles is set to direct the comedy Pierre Pierre about a Frenchman moving a stolen painting from Paris to London. Jim Carrey remains attached since the script's previous go-around with Jason Reitman. [Deadline]

· Protesting the shrinking of theatrical windows, a theater-chain proprietor actually wrote this in today's Hollywood Reporter: "Windowed release patterns are brilliant. Release a movie to different outlets over time so it can be sold to the same person multiple times. First see it in the theater, then buy or rent it, then catch it on cable or TV. Shorten the window and risk losing the ability to sell the product multiple times." Not a shred of irony or, at best, a knowledge of what year this is. This is not unexpected, but somehow amazing nonetheless. [THR]