Pop Culture Checklist

–Tom Cruise and Carice Van Houten will star in “Valkyrie.” The World War II drama is based on the true life attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Shooting begins next month in Berlin. 

–Owen Wilson will star in the Ben Stiller-directed comedy “Tropic Thunder.” Nick Nolte also is part of the cast of the war-themed comedy. The movie is about a group of actors who go on location to shoot a war movie but finds that reality is mimicking their plot. 

Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Jay Baruchel, Matt Levin and Andrea De Oliveira have all been cast already. 

–Jack Black will team up with “Old School” and “Road Trip” director Todd Phillips in the comedy “Man-Witch.” 

Black will play a school teacher who finds out he has witch-like abilities. He enlists in a school for witches, only to find that the students are all girls. 

–Ben Stiller may possibly star in the movie “In Deep.” Stiller is producing the story, but it’s unknown if he’ll actually take the lead role. The movie is about a man who tries to fight a parking ticket and becomes increasingly entangled in criminal allegations. 

–Kate Hudson will join Dane Cook in “Bachelor No. 2.” It’s about a man who takes women out on nightmare dates so they can realize that the guys they just dumped are actually good guys. There is trouble, however, when the man is hired to take out his best friend’s ex-girlfriend. 

Shooting begins in August in Boston. 

–Adam Sandler and Mitch Albom are teaming up for a movie. Albom, author of “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” and “Tuesdays with Morrie,” sold the rights to his feature film writing debut to Sony, with Sandler set to produce and star in a baseball comedy. 

However, the project doesn’t seem to be at the top of Sandler’s list. His next project is “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,” and he was recently attached to the Disney family comedy, “Bedtime Stories.” 

–A movie version of the former HBO show “Sex and the City” is still a possibility. It is rumored that HBO officials are quietly putting plans together for the big screen version, and that the project is said to be in a discussion phase with distributors. 

The movie was supposed to happen in 2003, but it never came to fruition. 

Stars of the show – Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon – supposedly have said they are ready to close the chapter on the show. 

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