Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon and comedian Vince Vaughn aren’t celebrating the festive spirit while making their new comedy “Four Christmases”. According to reports the two actors are squabbling all the time and disrupting the flow of work. The trouble allegedly began when Vaughn began showing up to the set looking like he was out the whole night partying while Witherspoon turns up early and looks ready to begin work. The “Legally Blonde” star is also described as being a perfectionist, wanting to get the shot right in one take and plan every move and line uttered to its maximum potential. That isn’t the way that “The Wedding Crashers” leading man likes to make movies, preferring a more casual, laid back and ad-libbed approach to acting. The two clashing personality types have been at it since the start of production and now it’s threatening to disrupt the rest of the shoot if the matter isn’t resolved soon. According to one anonymous informant Vince will sometimes stand behind Reese and make a face that he wants to kill her!

If the movie ever does get finished filming it will arrive in theaters next holiday season. The film is about a married couple (Witherspoon and Vaughn) that spend December 25 rushing to spend time with each of their divorced parents and their extended families.

Whom do think is the leading Hollywood actress that makes the most money? “Pretty Woman” Julia Roberts would be a good guess but you would still be wrong. What about Angelina Jolie? You would still be wrong. Would you believe that it is Reese Witherspoon?

The “Legally Blonde” and “Sweet Home Alabama” star tops the list for the top actress earnings for 2007 according to “The Hollywood Reporter”. Even though her latest film, “Rendition”, failed to perform at the box office Witherspoon will command between $15 million to $20 million dollars per picture that she makes. She is presently making the comedy “Four Christmases” and is helping to produce a horror film called “Our Family Trouble”.

Angelina Jolie came in number two by making about the same wage that Witherspoon does. Cameron Diaz is number three with an average payday of about $15 million a movie. For Diaz’s work on “Shrek the Third” she is rumored to have made in the neighborhood of $30 million thanks to the profit sharing plan she and her co-stars shared.

Nicole Kidman was number four and Renee Zellweger number five with their $10 to $15 million dollar cost per movie. Rounding out the remaining top ten were Sandra Bullock (#6, $10-15 million), Julia Roberts (#7, $10-15 million), Drew Barrymore (#8, $10-12 million), Jodie Foster (#9, $10-12 million) and Halle Berry (#10, $10 million).

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn will topline “Four Christmases” for New Line Cinema, a holiday picture about the children of modern day divorced parents. Witherspoon and Vaughn will play a young married couple who frantically try to spend an equal amount of time at each of their divorced parents Christmas Day celebrations resulting in four trips and turkey dinners to eat. The comedy had been in development at Sony Pictures two years ago but when that studio decided to make “Christmas With the Kranks” instead they let thir other Christmas themed project go and eventually New Line picked it up. A director has also been found named Seth Gordon and whose documentary “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” earned good box office results last weekend.

“Kong” shows us a showdown between two masters of the 1980s video arcade game “Donkey Kong”, one an unemployed average joe and the other an ego-driven superstar who is a legend among the arcade enthusiasts. New Line also wants to turn Gordon’s documentary into the basis of a comedy and the director sees “Serenity” star Nathan Fillion as the right kind of guy to play the part of the underdog that aims to beat the record “Donkey Kong” high score that has stood for over twenty years.