Jimmy Kimmel's Star-Studded Movie: The Movie Spoof Is Depressingly Accurate

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel's tradition of filming a post-Oscar movie-related spoof continued Sunday night with a "trailer" for Movie: The Movie, the ultimate star-studded epic to end all epics. In addition to featuring a host of stars, from Taylor Lautner to Helen Mirren to Tyler Perry (er, "Daniel Day-Lewis as Tyler Perry as George Washington"), the Kimmel-produced gag covered just about every genre and trope known to the movies. I give it a few years before some suit turns this into a reality. Among the stars in Kimmel's ensemble: Ryan Phillippe, Jessica Biel, Ed Norton, Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas, Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren, Tyler Perry, Meryl Streep, Jason Bateman, Matt Damon, and Colin Farrell. Okay, who am I kidding: I'd totally watch a K-9 buddy cop action sports movie starring Farrell as a SWAT officer partnered with a bomb-kicking Air Bud. Go ahead and make that happen, Hollywood. [via Jimmy Kimmel Live]

BAC Films nabs 'Electrick Children' for France

Rebecca Thomas's "Electrick Children," which tested within the Berlin Film Festival's Generation 14plus section a week ago, continues to be clicked up by BAC Films for France. Pic, which toplines Julia Garner and Rory Culkin, has been looked in the market by M-Appeal. The purchase follows previous deals inked with Revolver/Picturehouse for U.K. privileges and Rialto for Australia earlier on the market. Story, that is composed and helmed by Thomas, follows the storyplot of the youthful Mormon girl who thinks in immaculate conception while her fundamental religious family views her condition intolerable transgression. She soon includes a existence-altering experience after hearing rock music the very first time. Pic has additionally been selected to screen in SXSW. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Pilot Season: Fox Orders Comedy from HIMYM's Craig Thomas, Carter Bays to Star Becki Newton

Becki Newton Becki Newton may have a regular TV gig soon. The Ugly Betty alum will star in The Goodwin Games, lifting the cast contingency on the comedy which Fox just ordered to pilot. Pilot Season: Get the scoop! The comedy, from How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, follows three siblings, one of them played by Newton, who must reconnect after the death of their father, who leaves them his fortune only if they agree to his terms. Fellow How I Met Your Mother producer Chris Harris is also attached to write and executive-produce.

Devil Inside Guys' New Film Called Wer

Short for Werewolf? Possibly...Right at the beginning of this year, two new films were announced as follow-ups to William Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman's surprise horror hit The Devil Inside. One was conspiracy thriller The Vatican, and the other was being referred to as The Untitled Bell/Peterman Project. A few more details have now emerged on the latter, including the fact that it's no longer untitled, and actually called Wer.What does Wer mean? Well, the word on the street is that, following The Devil Inside's exorcism shenanigans, the new film will be pointing its shaky-cams at another classic horror mythology, leading to some speculation that Wer is an abbreviation of Werewolf.Not necessarily so, says Bell. "We can't speak about many specifics. There are rumours; some true, some not." He did reveal that "wer" can mean both "who" in German and "man" in Old High German. So, like, read into that what you will... BD seem confident that it's about a locked-up lycanthrope in a Transylvanian prison, and the defence attorney who's working on his case.The Vatican and Wer will both continue to utilise The Devil Inside's by now tried and tested found footage / documentary technique, but Bell says their approaches will be very different, and that he wants to "try new things as well". He also seems to have learned a thing or two from the almost universally adverse audience reaction to Devil Inside's abrupt ending, but says he and Peterman "won't shy away from taking chances in future projects."Wer starts shooting in April, while The Vatican awaits the first draft of Dave Cohen's screenplay. We get The Devil Inside in the UK on March 16.