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It looks like the blonde funnywomen are breaking out of the mold and leaving the men behind. No more married life with Paul Rudd or amateur porn with Seth Rogen -- Variety reports that Leslie Mann and Elizabeth Banks have signed on to star in New Line's What Was I Thinking?

Unfortunately, it'll still be man-obsessed. The project is adapting Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman's What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories. The book is a collection of essays coming from a whole slew of people, including our favorite Leia Carrie Fisher and writer Francesca Lia Block, that covers the moments when women realize that their relationship is not going to work, like overhearing the wrong thing, wine snobbery, and men thinking of other women during sex. It's almost as reductive as He's Just Not That Into You! In film form, the project will follow four friends who...

Recent porno star Elizabeth Banks and Judd Apatow muse Leslie Mann have joined the cast of the comedy What Was I Thinking? Based on the Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman book of the same name, the story follows four women who decide to go on a ski trip after one of them gets dumped. The remaining two hotties have yet to be cast. The book was adapted by Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz. No director is attached as yet. Banks was most recently playing a deranged stepmom in the horror The...

Variety is reporting today that New Line has purchased the rights to a female-driven comedy pitch called What Was I Thinking? with producer Lynda Obst (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) and stars Leslie Mann and Elizabeth Banks attached. The film will be based on a book of the same name by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman, which follows the comedic adventures of four girlfriends who take a hedonistic ski trip after one of them gets dumped. And for those familiar with the concept of hedonism, this project just got that much more interesting. Though I'm almost certain that the film -- which is being written by Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz -- will likely contain a glossy, Hollywood PG-13 version of hedonism as opposed to the version that instantly popped into my head as I read over this story. But hey, a guy can always dream.

Variety reports that New Line has bought female comedy pitch What Was I Thinking? with Leslie Mann and Elizabeth Banks attached to star and Lynda Obst producing. Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz sold the pitch, based on the book of the same name by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman. The story centers on a quartet of girlfriends who take a hedonistic ski trip after one of them gets dumped. Fogel and Lefkowitz wrote Little Darlings for J.J. Abrams and Paramount and the Sarah Jessica Parker HBO pilot "The Washingtonienne."...

Elizabeth Banks and Leslie Mann have signed on to star in the New Line Cinema comedy "What Was I Thinking?"

The story, which is based on Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman's book of the same name, centers on four girlfriends who go on a ski trip for healing and hedonism after one of them gets dumped.

Mann ("Knocked Up") will play a woman who has dated a lot but never had a serious relationship, while Banks ("Zack and Miri Make a Porno," "Uninvited") will be a woman on the rebound. The two other girlfriends have not been cast.

Lynda Obst will be producing, according to Variety.

Leslie Mann and Elizabeth Banks are set to star in the comedy What Was I Thinking? for New line, report the trades. The flick is based on the book of the same name by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman and compiles 58 bad boyfriend stories. The film version sees a woman getting dumped during her engagement party, causing her friends to spring into action and whisk her away on a ski trip for healing and hedonism. Four flashbacks dealing in "worst ex-boyfriend" tales, threaded by the adventures on the ski trip, follow. Mann would play a woman who dates a lot but never seems to have serious relationships, while Banks is a woman on the rebound. Two other lead female parts are called for. Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz are writing the screenplay. Fogel and Lefkowitz are also behind the Sarah Jessica Parker HBO pilot The Washingtonienne - a comedy that...

New Line has picked up "What Was I Thinking?" a comedy project from Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz with Leslie Mann and Elizabeth Banks attached to star. Lynda Obst is producing.

The project is based on a book of the same name which saw Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman compile 58 bad boyfriend stories. Obst saw the book and realized it would make a great hook for a movie. She then enlisted Fogel and Lefkowitz, who wrote the Sarah Jessica Parker HBO pilot "The Washingtonienne," to come up with a movie story.

The take sees a woman getting dumped during her engagement party, causing her friends to spring into action and whisk her away on a ski trip for healing and hedonism. Four flashbacks dealing in "worst ex-boyfriend" tales, threaded by the adventures on the ski trip, follow.

"It's a story of how women help each other," said Obst. "And we do that by telling stories.