That's why Viagra was invented Sarah Jessica Parker will star opposite Matthew McConaughey in the rom-com Failure to Launch. McConaughey will play a thirtysomething guy who still lives with his parents and uses them as a way to avoid committing to a woman. He changes his mind when he meets the woman of his dreams. But the slacker has the nagging suspicion that his parents may have hired her in a desperate attempt to get him out of their house.

Cage match Nicolas Cage is finally making a comic book movie. The four-color freak who was once set to play Superman will star in Ghost Rider, based on the Marvel comic about stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze, who can transform into the blazing-skulled Spirit of Vengeance. Also Hitch-ing a ride are Eva Mendes as Blaze's flame Roxanne Simpson and Wes Bentley as the villainous Blackheart.


Just call her Mandonna The Material Girl is trying to get her acting career back on track after it was almost Swept Away by her last movie. Madonna has offered to star in a biopic about Candy Darling-a member of the Andy Warhol Factory who died in 1974 of leukemia-for free! Oh yeah, and Darling was also a male transvestite. (Lou Reed sang about him/her in "Walk on the Wild Side": Candy came from out on the island/In the back room she was everybody's darlin'.)

Always read the fine print John Cusack will next star in the thriller The Contract, with Morgan Freeman. It's the story of a family outing that turns deadly when a grandfather, son and grandson stumble across the path of a hired killer.

Keeping abreast of developments Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Bell and Edie Falco will star in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee (say that five times fast). It's about a high school girl who finds a sense of purpose-and some bosom buddies-when she joins a radical feminist group.

Doesn't everyone hear voices? Will Ferrell will star in Stranger Than Fiction, the story of an IRS auditor who inexplicably finds himself the subject of a narration only he can hear. The voice tells him that events have been set in motion that will lead to his imminent death. Dustin Hoffman will play a professor who helps the auditor in his attempts to find the narrator and to change his story before it's too late. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson and Queen Latifah round out the cast.

It's a safe bet he'll have more than 24 hours to save the day Kiefer Sutherland will be back in action alongside Kim Basinger, Michael Douglas, and Desperate housewife Eva Longoria in the thriller The Sentinel, based on the Gerald Petievich novel. Sutherland and Douglas play Secret Service agents trying to uncover a plot to assassinate the president.

Not the Doug Henning Story Sideways star Paul Giamatti will star opposite Edward Norton in The Illusionist. It's the story of a magician in turn-of-the-century Vienna who falls in love with a woman who is engaged to a prince. He then uses his powers to win her back and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna. (It's probably not based on real events.)

From Mambo King to tango teacher Antonio Banderas will take the lead in Take the Lead, the true story of a former professional ballroom dancer who volunteers in the New York public school system. When his ballroom methods clash with his students' hip-hop sensibilities, he teams up with them to create a new style of dance and becomes their mentor in the process.

They're harder to keep in the air than the Spruce Goose The Aviator flight crew of director Martin Scorsese, star Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter John Logan is in talks to remake Akira Kurosawa's 1948 classic Drunken Angel. Kurosawa's film, set in post-war Japan, centers on a young criminal being treated for tuberculosis by an alcoholic doctor.

Nothing to do with Sporty, Scary, Ginger or Old Dylan McDermott will star opposite former Miss World Aishwarya Rai (Bride and Prejudice) in The Mistress of Spices. It's an adaptation of Chitra Divakaruni's novel about an Indian woman who runs a San Francisco spice shop. Her wares seem to have the power to cure her customers' problems, but her magic begins to fade when she falls in love with an American.