-Move over Tyler Perry and don’t even think about making another Norbit Eddie Murphy: Martin Lawrence may be climbing back into his fat suit for Big Momma’s House 3.  Fox announced that a writer has been hired to pen a third installment in this surprisingly successful franchise-the first two films grossed a combined $312 worldwide-and once the script is turned in, the studio will likely sit down with Lawrence and decide how many zeroes to put on his paycheck.

-Rashida Jones‘ career continues its upward trajectory from The Office supporting player to feature-film star.  The actress just closed a deal to star in the comedy Monogamy, about a couple whose relationship hits a rough patch.  Set to go before cameras latest this year, the independently-produced movie is expected to debut in early 2010.

-Now that Disney has acquired Marvel Comics, look for the Time Warner-owned DC Comics to start being more aggressive about turning the company’s various comic books into big-budget summer spectacles.  Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds, is about to go into production in January and now the studio has announced that Guy Ritchie-the ex-Mr. Madonna who is currently helming the studio’s Christmas blockbuster Sherlock Holmes-is attached to direct a feature about the bad-ass interstellar bounty hunter Lobo.  No casting has been announced yet, but considering the character’s build and attitude, may we suggest Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson?

-In addition to Lobo, another B-list DC hero will be making a trip to the big screen: Deadman, the spirit of a murdered acrobat who enters the bodies of the living to fight crime.  Guillermo Del Toro is on hand to produce and Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel will be making his Hollywood debut behind the camera.

-One more bit of comics news.  The Iron Man team of director Jon Favreau and leading man Robert Downey Jr. are currently in talks to get the long-delayed adaptation of the 2006 graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens.  The film’s story is basically summed up by its title: when a spaceship crashes down in 19^th century Arizona, a squad of cowboys rides into battle against the alien visitors.

-Former pop star Naturi Naughton grabbed attention earlier this year for her ferocious turn as Lil’ Kim in the Notorious B.I.G. biopic, Notorious and has a major role in the remake of Fame, set to hit theaters next month.  Clearly people are paying attention to the buzz, because Naughton just won a part opposite Ice Cube, Bow Wow and Brandon T. Jackson in the upcoming comedy, Lottery Ticket, about a guy (Bow Wow) who discovers he has a winning lottery ticket, but has to deal with an assortment of money-hungry friends and hangers-on before he can claim his prize.

-You can’t keep a good one-man wrecking machine down.  Two years after reviving John Rambo for a fourth bone-crushing adventure, Sylvester Stallone will direct and star in another installment, this one sending the battle-scarred Vietnam vet into Mexico in pursuit of a young girl kidnapped by drug lords.

-Martin Scorsese becomes the latest high-profile director to enter into business with HBO.  The legendary New York filmmaker will produce and direct the pilot for the network’s new series Boardwalk Empire, an 11-episode series set in 1920s Atlantic City.  Steve Buscemi stars as a political mover and shaker with a shady background and he’s backed up by a cast that includes Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald and Dabney Coleman.

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Actress Rashida Jones, 33, is reportedly pushing her famous father Quincy Jones to hurry up and unveil his plans for a stage musical so that she can use it to make her Broadway debut.

Q revealed last month he’s close to launching his work The Genesis and Evolution of Jazz and Blues as a theatre production and 3-D Pixar film – 33 years after conceiving the project.

The star of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” is said to be eyeing a role in the play – but would happily look for another part on Broadway if her father’s production falls through.

She tells the New York Daily News, “I would definitely do it. I was thinking about doing Broadway anyway, but doing his show would just sweeten the deal.”

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Quincy recently spoke on his former musical partner and close friend, Michael Jackson, to Style.com. He had some pretty interesting things to say. Check out part 1 below:

Q: Did you believe him about the disease?
A: I don’t believe in any of that bullshit, no. No. Never. I’ve been around junkies and stuff all my life. I’ve heard every excuse. It’s like smokers—”I only smoke when I drink” and all that stuff. But it’s bullshit. You’re justifying something that’s destructive to your existence. It’s crazy. I mean, I came up with Ray Charles, man. You know, nobody gonna pull no wool over my eyes. He did heroin 20 years! Come on. And black coffee and gin for 40 years. But when he called me to come over to see him when he was in the hospital on his way out, man, he had emphysema, hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, and five malignant tumors. Please, man! I’ve been around this all my life. So it’s hard for somebody to pull the wool over my eyes. But when somebody’s hell-bent on it, you can’t stop ‘em.

Q: But it must’ve been so disturbing to see Michael’s face turn into what it turned into.
A: It’s ridiculous, man! Chemical peels and all of it. And I don’t understand it. But he obviously didn’t want to be black.

Q: Is that what it was?
A: Well, what do you think? You see his kids?

Q: Did you ever discuss it? Did you ever ask, “Michael, don’t you want to be a black man?”
A: No, no, no, please. That’s not the way you do it.

Q: But he was beautiful before?
A: Man, he was the most gorgeous guy.

Q: But he seemed to have some deep-seated issue with how he looked?
A: Well, that comes about a certain way. I’m not sure how it happens. I’m just a musician and a record producer. I’m not a psychiatrist. I don’t understand all that stuff. We all got problems. But there’s a great book out called Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart. Did you see that? That book says the statute of limitations has expired on all childhood traumas. Get your stuff together and get on with your life, man. Stop whinin’ about what’s wrong, because everybody’s had a rough time, in one way or another.

Q: I’ve heard you say that you wanted Michael to sing “She’s Out of My Life,” the great pop ballad from Off the Wall, in part because you felt like he had to deal with reality.
A: I just wanted to hear him deal with a romantic relationship with a human being rather than a rat. I’m saying that facetiously, but it’s true. I saw him at the Oscars very emotional about “Ben.” I wanted to hear him get in touch with a real human relationship. “She’s Out of My Life” was written by Tommy Bahler from a very bad ending to a marriage. So it was very real. I was saving it for Sinatra. But I gave it to Michael. And Michael cried during every take, and I left the tears in.

Q: It’s interesting you mention this, because I was just watching a clip on YouTube where you’re sitting on a couch with Michael and he’s petting a snake the whole time.
A: Oh, I remember that. Yeah, that was Muscles.

Q: Muscles?
A: Muscles. That’s a big boa constrictor he had. Muscles used to wrap around my leg in a record session and crawl across the console. I was never comfortable with that. It was a choice between that and Bubbles—you know, the chimp.

Q: Did you ever meet Bubbles?
A: Are you kidding me? He bit a hole in my daughter’s hand! Rashida’s hand. Rashida Jones—did you see I Love You, Man? That’s my daughter. She was a little girl. And Bubbles bit her hand. Michael used to bring Muscles and Bubbles by the house all the time, you know.

Q: What did you think of that? Wasn’t that a little weird?
A: I don’t know, man. Everybody does his own thing. I’ve met every freak in the business. Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. I try not to judge it, you know. I know all women are junkies for little dogs and bags and purses. Ha ha ha ha!

Check out part two of the interview here!

Rashida Jones, currently starring opposite Paul Rudd in “I Love You, Man,”will topline a new comedy based on a spec script she wrote with an actor who will serve as her co-star.

“Celeste and Jesse Forever,” co-written by Will McCormack, revolves around a young divorcing couple who try to maintain their longstanding friendship while pursuing other relationships.

Fox Atomic picked up rights to the script with Suzanne and Jennifer Todd (“Across the Universe”) on board as producers via their Team Todd shingle, reports Variety.

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In this Office spin-off, Logan is a nurse whose boyfriend has a strange injury. It’s just that that injury leads Jones’ character into the world populated by Poehler and Aziz Ansari.

Although rumors about Jones’ participation in the show have been flying for months, the Net had not confirmed her casting until now. Also for Jones, it marks a reunion with The Office exec producers Greg Daniels and Mike Schur, who are also behind the new Poehler skein.

Producers have yet to set a shoot date for the first episode, but Jones said that she is expected to report to work sometime in early 2009, but no definite date has been lined up yet. Word is that the show may be pushed to the Fall.