9.20.07: Tucker sentenced to Life with Ratner

Tucker picks up the keys to Sinatra's valet biopic, Fisher addicted to Shopaholic, Narnia 3 gets a new release date, and more

Tucker lives Life with Sinatra

Chris Tucker may star in a biopic of George Jacobs, the personal valet to Frank Sinatra who witnessed the comings and goings of Marilyn Monroe, the Kennedy clan, and the Rat Pack, for New Line. Brett Ratner is attached to direct the adaptation of Jacobs’ memoir Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra with the book’s co-author William Stadiem set to write the screenplay. More at Variety.

Fisher is a major Shopaholic

Wedding Crashers star Isla Fisher will star in Jerry Bruckheimer’s adaptation of the bestselling Sophie Kinsella novel Confessions of a Shopaholic for Touchstone. My Best Friend’s Wedding helmer P.J. Hogan is directing the comedy about a debt-ridden financial adviser who goes on frequent shopping benders to calm her nerves. Filming starts in January. More at The Hollywood Reporter.

Narnia’s Dawn Treader pushed back until summer ’08, DreamWorks' Monsters pushed up

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third book in the C.S. Lewis series to be turned into a film will wait a little longer to go into production. Due to the actors’ schedules, filming will start in summer 2008 meaning a release on May 7, 2010. More at the Hollywood Reporter. In other date changes, DreamWorks’ animated Monsters Vs. Aliens backed off its summer 2009 date to March 27, 2009 to avoid a confrontation with James Cameron’s eagerly anticipated sci-fi epic Avatar. Both films would be competing for 3D enhanced screens. More at The Hollywood Reporter.

Superhero flies at Dimension with Nielsen, Tambor and Bell

Following in the footsteps of the Scary Movie franchise, Dimension is finally getting around to their comic book themed spoof Superhero and has cast Leslie Nielsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Marion Ross, and Brent Spiner among others for the comedy, which is set to open March 28, 2008. More at the Los Angeles Times.

Jay-Z inspired to create companion soundtrack to American Gangster

Jay-Z stepped away from his duties as the president of Def Jam to record a companion album to the upcoming Ridley Scott drama American Gangster. The New York Times gets the full story from the rapper, whose classic track “Heart of the City” accompanies the film’s trailer. More at The New York Times.