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This post contains spoilers for "The Bear" season 3.

In the third episode of "The Bear" season 3, entitled "Doors," there's a moment when the chaos falls away and things get quiet. Writer Christopher Storer and director Duccio Fabbri put the audience into Richie's (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) perspective, and as he's overseeing the front of the restaurant, he becomes hyper-sensitive to the environment around him. Richie notices two things: a fork on the floor, and someone's purse sitting on the floor at a nearby table. Later in the season, we see that he's brought in small benches to serve as purse stools, clearly trying his best to optimize the customer experience. That takes care of the purse situation, but what about that fork?

Obviously Richie has a newfound relationship to forks after the events of the second season, where he staged at Chef Terry's (Olivia Colman) upscale restaurant Ever and was humbled by...

Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is one of six Hollywood films set to get revenue-sharing theatrical releases in China in November.

The J.K. Rowling-penned fantasy will be released in on China on Nov. 16, the same day as its release in the U.S. Other Hollywood films receiving Chinese outings in November are Dreamworks’ “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” (Nov. 1), Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” (Nov. 2), Sony’s “Venom” (Nov. 9), Disney animation “Ralph Breaks the Internet” (Nov. 23) and the previously announced “Crazy Rich Asians” (Nov. 30). Warner’s “Aquaman” is set for release Dec. 7. The dates were announced by Motion Picture Assn. Asia-Pacific Managing Director Michael Ellis on Tuesday in Los Angeles.

The seven titles will be imported under China’s quota rules and receive releases through Chinese state-owned distributors. The Hollywood studios are not permitted to directly release their own titles in the Middle Kingdom.

There’s nothing quite like a multi-layered, deeply clever film title to get the creative juices going, to pump the blood, to send Hollywood into a tizzy. And then there are other titles. Deadline Henderson reports that David Ellison’s Skydance Productions “has made a preemptive acquisition of [comedy pitch] Bad In Bed.” I’m not entirely sure what a “preemptive acquisition” means, but I think it’s safe to assume it’s another spat of weird wordplay from Finke (were they trying to block someone else from getting at it? Isn’t that big business in a nutshell? Why am I still fixated on this?), so we’ll move on. The script for the film will be penned by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, the screenwriting duo who previously wrote The Wedding Planner and An Invisible Sign (better known as “that Jessica Alba math film that no one saw”). The pitch is described as ”a racy high concept...

Exclusive: David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has made a preemptive acquisition of Bad In Bed. The comedy pitch will be written by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, the scribes behind The Wedding Planner. They describe it as a racy high concept comedy but they are keeping the specifics under wraps. The title makes it seem self evident. Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Joy Gorman developed it with the writers and will produce. Skydance principal Ellison and his production president Dana Goldberg made the deal with Wme and Anonymous Content. The scribes are separately developing an untitled project with Offspring Entertainment’s Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot, along with Anne Fletcher for Warner Bros. Skydance is co-financing and producing a slew of Paramount tent poles, including the upcoming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation, the Barbra Streisand-Seth Rogen comedy My Mother’s Curse, the Tom Cruise-starrer One Shot,...

Quirk alert! This movie has it all! Math, burgeoning love, numbers and patterns everywhere like "A Beautiful Mind" and even a precocious little kid. We don't know if we can take any more. A trailer has landed for the Jessica Alba-led romantic comedy "An Invisible Sign." Directed by Marilyn Agrelo (”Mad Hot Ballroom”), written by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis (who paired on “The Wedding Planner”) and based on Aimee Bender‘s book “An Invisible Sign of My Own,” the story follows a math teacher, obsessed with numbers, who battles her own compulsive behaviours, guides her students and deals with the…...

Sandra Bullock is attached to star in and executive produce an untitled Warner Bros. drama that will reunite her with "The Proposal" director Anne Fletcher.According to Variety, Offspring Entertainment's Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing.Warner Bros. bought the pitch from writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis ("The Wedding Planner"), who will write the script. No plot or story details were given except that it will combine elements of the late 70's produced films "An Unmarried Woman" and "Saturday Night Fever."Bullock's last role was her Oscar-winning turn in "The Blind Side."She's currently circling Alfonso Cuaron's space adventure "Gravity," and the post-9/11 drama "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." Fletcher's credits include "27 Dresses" and "Step Up."...

Actress Sandra Bullock might be considered for lead roles in a couple of high profile movies, but despite that she's landing herself another lead role and an executive producer's spot in the latest drama from Warner Bros. She'll be directed by Anne Fletcher once more, who previously worked with Bullock on the romantic comedy "The Proposal". The untitled film still has it's story under wraps, but it's said to combine elements of "An Unmarried Woman" and "Saturday Night Fever". It's based off a pitch by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis who are hard at work putting together the script. The two previously collaborated on the script for the romantic comedy "The Wedding Planner".Bullock wants to make sure she's still working it up post-Oscar, latching onto several projects which include "Most Wanted" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Fletcher, noted most for her directed work in "27 Dresses" and "Step Up...

It seems only natural that director Anne Fletcher would propose to Sandra Bullock that they reunite after the success of last year's "The Proposal." According to The Hollywood Reporter Fletcher did just that... and Bullock has said "I do": The two of them are teaming up for an as-yet-untitled romantic comedy that's being written by "The Wedding Planner" scribes Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis and is said to be in the vein of "An Unmarried Woman" and "Saturday Night Fever."

Though she has yet to tackle a role since her Oscar win for "The Blind Side," Bullock does have several other high profile projects in the works as we speak... and I don't think I'd be the first to suggest it might be better for her to put the rom-com down, slowly back away and try something a little bit different. That could be Alfonso Cuaron's sci-fi thriller...

Sandra Bullock is reteaming with The Proposal director Anne Fletcher for an untitled contemporary drama. Details of the project, which she will also executive produce, are sketchy but The Hollywood Reporter said it will be in the vein of the 1978 Paul Mazursky film An Unmarried Woman and Saturday Night Fever. The pitch comes from The Wedding Planner writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis while Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing.

She's still dithering about whether or not to sign up for Alfonso Cuaron, but Sandra Bullock certainly will be working with The Proposal's Anne Fletcher again, on a new project that she'll also executive produce.The script is still at the pitch stage, but will come from Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, who wrote The Wedding Planner. It's described as in the vein of An Unmarried Woman and Saturday Night Fever, so Bullock will star as a woman whose husband leaves her for a younger model, and who finds inner wellbeing and liberation in her new singleton life when she gets into disco-dancing and gang-fighting and her friend falls off a bridge. Maybe.As Yet Untitled is the second project to come up that will reunite Bullock and Fletcher: the action comedy Most Wanted is also on the cards, set to pair Bullock with Ryan Reynolds again, and reignite that Proposal fire,...

Hollywood beauty Jessica Alba has reportedly been set to star in "An Invisible Sign of My Own". As Silverwood Films and iDeal Partners Film Fund signed up a financing deal for the project over the weekend at the Toronto Film Festival, words are coming out that the 27-year-old is most likely to join the film's cast ensemble as the leading lady.

According to Film-Releases, she has been picked up to take the role previously attached to America Ferrera. If the story were true, it means that Alba will be portraying 20-year-old loner, Mona Gray, who as a child, hides herself behind numbers and math. But, when she grows up and becomes a second-grade math teacher, she is forced to step out from her secluded world.

Based on Aimee Bender's novel, "Invisible" will be directed by Marilyn Agrelo from the script written by "The Wedding Planner" scribes Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis.

Taking on his first romantic comedy role, Vin Diesel will star in and produce Revolution Studios' NY Giant, to be written by The Wedding Planner scribes Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk. Sources say the writers are receiving $750,000 against $1.2 million for the script. Giant, a tentative title, is about a hotheaded football player who is forced to deal with an uptight female etiquette expert or risk losing his lucrative endorsement contract. In the process, the unlikely pair fall in love.