· You can probably picture the trailer already: Jason Bateman is in early talks to join Vince Vaughn in the Universal comedy The Insane Laws, from writer Jeremy Garelick (The Break-Up). Insane -- a word that has become impossible to read without thinking of Ke$ha's "Blow"; just me? -- would follow two life-long friends (Bateman and Vaughn) whose relationship gets tested when their respective son and daughter fall in love at college, and the girl gets pregnant. Nothing is signed yet, of course, but things could get going in the fall -- especially if Bateman hits a box-office home run for Universal with The Change-Up. [Deadline]
· The last film Warren Beatty directed was Bulworth in 1998, and the last film he appeared in was Town & Country in 2001. What does the Hollywood icon have planned as an eventual encore for those works? Would you believe Dick Tracy 2? Me neither, but that's what Beatty told the crowd at the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival on Thursday night. "I'm gonna make another one," he said. [LAT/Hero Complex via /Film]
· Here's hoping the screenplay for Savages is better than Don Winslow's source novel, if only because the cast Oliver Stone has put together for this one is beyond impressive. Demian Bichir (Weeds, Che) is in talks to become the latest cast addition, joining Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek, Benicio del Toro, Uma Thurman, John Travolta and Emile Hirsch. [Variety]
· Speaking of casting: Diego Luna is in talks to join the Neill Blomkamp-directed Elysium opposite Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley. Don't get too excited, however: Elysium isn't due in theaters until 2013. [Variety]
· Screenwriter Rowan Joffe (The American) will pen the HBO movie about Wikileaks. [Deadline]
· Tribeca Film has acquired the documentary Shut Up Little Man: An Audio Misadventure, a 2011 Sundance Film Festival premiere about two guys who moved into an apartment complex in 1987 and began to tape their neighbors' epic fights. Tribeca Film will release Little Man in theaters and on VOD on Aug. 25 (with an expansion to follow on Sept. 9). [Press Release]