Shirley MacLaine to join Melissa McCarthy in “Tammy” comedy? October 19, 2012 - 19:15 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Shirley MacLaine might be riding shotgun with Melissa McCarthy. The Oscar-winning veteran actress is in talks with New Line to star opposite McCarthy in Tammy, the road-trip comedy co-written by McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter said. MacLaine has been offered the role and is scheduled to have a face-to-face with McCarthy. Tammy was set up by McCarthy last year in her Bridesmaids glow. McCarthy co-wrote the raunchy comedy with husband Ben Falcone. The story centers on a woman who is laid off from her job at Hardee’s, discovers her husband is having an affair and decides to go on a road trip with her alcoholic, foul-mouthed, diabetic grandmother. Comedy director Beth McCarthy Miller was on board to helm the movie but now has boarded Mail Order Groom, the Warner Bros. comedy to which Tina Fey and Steve Carell are attached to star. The move arose from Tammy being delayed due to McCarthy’s schedule this past summer, in which she shot Heat with Sandra Bullock for Fox. Warners was keen to capitalize on the director’s talents, so the studio plucked the director and put her in Groom, a project it has been developing since 2009. The logline sees a naive single woman (Fey) looking for love who winds up with a husband (Carell) from Eastern Europe. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, currently one of Warners’ go-to scribes, wrote the most recent draft based on an idea by Fey's husband, Jeff Richmond, and Robert Carlock and Scott Silveri.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Your home is in Armenia – Ameriabank offers mortgage loans for the Diaspora  To buy real estate, Diasporans can apply to Ameriabank online to buy, renovate or build a home anywhere in Armenia.Armenia-Qatar ties discussed in Doha The Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council met with the Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Council of Qatar.Surveying works underway in Armenia’s Kirants Surveying works are underway in the Armenian village of Kirants in the northern Tavush province.Armenia calls for prohibiting threats of attacks on nuclear facilities Armenia has raised the need for a treaty prohibiting attacks on nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes. |
