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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Olivia Munn Will Star In The Babymakers

Olivia Munn continues her transition from geek goddess to bigscreen player, as " The Daily Show " correspondent has landed the female lead in the indie comedy " The Babymakers ." The laffer follows a married couple who can't conceive, prompting the husband ( Paul Schneider ) to enlist his friends' help to rob a sperm bank where he made a deposit as a young man. Broken Lizard member Jay Chandrasekhar ("Super Troopers") is set to direct the Alliance Films/IM Global presentation from a script by Peter Gaulke and Gerry Swallow ("Ice Age: The Meltdown"). Kevin Heffernan will co-star. Jason Blum is producing through his Blumhouse Prods. along with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones through his Automatik Entertainment, as well as Chandrasekhar and Aaron Behl. IM Global's Stuart Ford exec produces. Blumhouse's Jessica Hall and Automatik's Bailey Conway will serve as associate producers. Production on the low-budget laffer is scheduled to st

Steve Carell and Tina Fey teaming up once again?

Steve Carell and Tina Fey teaming up once again? The duo, who will be seen opposite each other in next year's "Date Night," are loosely attached to star in "Mail-Order Groom," a Warner Bros. comedy about a naive single woman who can't find love and ends up with a husband from Eastern Europe, bringing him home to the States. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa have come on board to do a light rewrite of the script, which was originally written by Robert Carlock and Scott Silveri. The story is based on an idea by Fey's husband, Jeff Richmond, plus Carlock and Silveri. Carell's Carousel Prods. and Fey's Little Stranger are producing "Groom." The onscreen reunion for the duo, however, is a dicey proposition. The project has no director, and the only window for Carell and Fey to shoot would be the hiatus of their TV shows, "The Office" and "30 Rock," respectively. Fey doesn't wrap "Rock" until March 23, then goes i