Hollywood's New Most Terrible Idea Ever, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Mark Wahlberg and Malcolm Gladwell form a completely expected creative alliance... Gabourey Sidibe joins a Heist... Zach Galifianakis has a thing for office supplies... Fox and Cablevision still apart... we are in the Golden Age of high school fight videos... and more!

· Some days you just wake up, scan the headlines and go straight for the booze. This is one of those mornings: "Ouija movie could conjure Pierre Morel," notes a story about Universal's paranormal game adaptation being considered by the director of... Taken and From Paris With Love. What else can I say? Well, besides hiccup. [LAT]

· You totally knew author/intellectual Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Wahlberg would eventually collaborate on a CIA drama to be produced for HBO, right? Right? Oh. Well, Gladwell and fellow writer Charles Randolph (who will handle scripting duties) have teamed with Wahlberg and producing partner Stephen Levinson for an untitled spy thriller set in Cold War-era Berlin. [Deadline]

· Tower Heist keeps on truckin', with Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena joining the cast of the Brett Ratner comedy. They'll play co-workers who join Ben Stiller in a plot to get their money back from a Madoff-esque pension bandit (Alan Alda) in their building. [Deadline]

· You'd never guess what variety of permanent marker Zach Galifianakis prefers while on tour. Thankfully, someone has procured that crucial knowledge. [The Smoking Gun]

· It's hard to believe, but 3.5 million Cablevision subscribers in New York and New Jersey are still without Fox today. N.J. governor Chris Christie has now gotten involved in the brutal carriage war between the cable provider and the network; that's what happens when you stand between a man and his Glee-basing. [NYT]

· High school fights are hotter than ever! Let's go to the videotape! And weep softly, I suppose. [The Awl]

· Whatever happened to the eminently quotable movie line? Michael Cieply investigates. [NYT]