MOVIE NEWS: New Projects from Affleck, Kidman & Spade

Lots of interesting projects are in the works for some of Hollywood’s big names and we’ve got the lowdown on several of them.

Funny man David Spade is set to star in a new comedy feature titled Divorced Guys. The movie from Wind Dancer Films and executive produced by Matt Williams and Judd Payne and written by Fred Wolf centers around a group of divorced men who take a road trip to figure out why their marriages fell apart. No production date has been given as of yet.

20th Century Fox has announced that the lovely and talented Nicole Kidman is attached to star and produce in their newest action/adventure movie The Eighth Wonder. The film, which is being penned by Simon Kinberg who also wrote the scripts for The X-Men: Last Stand and Jumper, centers on an archeological discovery that triggers a globe-spanning race.

Warner Bros has tapped into actor/director/writer Ben Affleck for their new project titled The Town. Affleck, who will be stepping in to do a rewrite of a recent draft done by Peter Craig is also set to direct and star in an adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel The Prince of Thieves, which will be set in Boston.