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.

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