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Netflix is eyeing a return to Tree Hill.

The streamer is in early development on a sequel series to the former CW mainstay One Tree Hill. Hilarie Burton Morgan and Sophia Bush are set to reprise their roles from that series and will also serve as executive producers alongside their former co-star Danneel Ackles.

Warner Bros. Television, which produced One Tree Hill, is also behind the potential sequel. Becky Hartman Edwards (Firefly Lane) is writing the follow-up.

Wbtv and Netflix declined to comment.

One Tree Hill aired for nine seasons on The WB and The CW, following the lives of a group of high schoolers and, following a four-year time jump midway through the show’s run, young adults in a fictional North Carolina town.

In addition to Bush, Burton Morgan and Ackles, the show’s cast also featured James Lafferty, Chad Michael Murray, Bethany Joy Lenz, Paul Johansson, Lee Norris and Antwon Tanner.

Hilarie Burton has recounted how her One Tree Hill costar Chad Michael Murray defended her against the show’s creator and showrunner Mark Schwahn during an alleged assault.

Speaking on the Drama Queens podcast, Burton recalled the incident which took place while the teen drama was on location in Honey Grove, Texas in 2007.

She told her cohosts and former One Tree Hill costars, Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz, “Chad walked up and goes, ‘What are you doing?’ He said that to our boss in the bar… He watched our boss grab me in front of a lot of people, and you know, Chad didn’t have anything to lose cause he knew our boss hated him anyway.” She continued, “A lot of people had a lot to lose, so you don’t speak up when you have a lot to lose. But (our boss) felt so comfortable that that...

No joke—John Mulaney and Malcolm are the cutest daddy son duo. Olivia Munn took to her Instagram Stories on April 22 sharing adorable new pics of her partner and their 5-month-old son on stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colo. In one heartwarming snap, the Saturday Night Live alum is seen holding up Malcom in the air. In another, the parents pose with pals comedian Dan Levy and Rachel Specter and their 5-month-old daughter Penny. Olivia, 41, and John—whose relationship was made public last May following the the 39-year-old comedian's split from his wife of six years, Anna Marie Tendler—welcomed their first child together on Nov. 24,...

Forget the Oscars. If you’re serious about staying on top of current cinema, you already realize this weekend’s big movie event is in theaters: “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” in which Michelle Yeoh plays a woman coming to terms with her life in multiple dimensions, marks the latest unclassifiable blend of anarchic poignance that Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert first unleashed with “Swiss Army Man.”

Daniels (they’d prefer we drop the “The”) are one of two filmmaking duos with new work out this week, as siblings Adam and Aaron Nee release their first studio effort “The Lost City” from Paramount. Some of the most beloved filmmakers working today include the Safdie brothers, the Russo brothers, and Phil Lord and Chris Miller; cineastes mourned at the Coen brothers’ breakup, but many have stepped up to fill the void. However, for the DGA, two is not better than one.

It is all rainbows and flowers until someone overhears your happy news and makes us all as conflicted as ever.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend deserves major props for their ability to make us care about both sides of a love triangle equally, but what happens when a choice gets made? 

That is definitely where the whole "why choose" conversation comes in because that is the real dilemma in all of this. 

During Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 4 Episode 10, Rebecca babysits Hebecca and through it connects more with her.

But it is when Greg comes over that the two finally talk about their feelings and get together officially. 

Meanwhile, Nathaniel and Josh bond while trying to win the game night.

The night takes a turn though when Nathaniel overhears Rebecca filling Paula in on how happy she is to be with Greg again.

And Paula is secretly celebrating her graduating law school until she finally...

There is nothing quite like the spirit of Halloween to bring out all the cute baby costumes, the classic séance, and some memorable songs that serve as a reminder that the show is killing it.

Pun intended. 

During Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 4 Episode 2, Rebecca had an article written about her that turned into her being unable to leave the house.

All the while, Nathaniel returned to work only to find out that he wasn't in charge the way he thought he would be. And Darryl is on a search for breast milk, only to find the validation that he deserves. 

It is all set up under the context of Halloween, creating a theme throughout the entire episode that adds to the comedic factor that the show always has going for it.

"I Am Ashamed," written by Erin Ehrlich and directed by both Audrey Wauchope and Rachel Specter, was perfectly structured to...

“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” writer-producer Audrey Wauchope has accused the Directors Guild of America of bias against female directing teams.

Wauchope leveled the assertions Friday in the wake of longtime partner Rachel Specter not receiving directing credit for co-directing Friday’s segment with Wauchope.

The DGA had no comment Friday, citing its policy of not commenting on internal matters. The CW, which has aired the four seasons of the comedy series, had no comment. Wauchope unveiled the accusations in a series of tweets.

“My #FemaleFilmmakerFriday goes out to my co-Director on tonight’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend episode @RachelSpecter,” she tweeted. “Rachel and I are a lifelong writing/directing team but due to a decision by the DGA which completely erases her from our work, she’s not credited on tonight’s episode.”

The DGA has a longtime “one director to a film” policy aimed at protecting the director’s creative vision. It does...

“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” writer Audrey Wauchope says her partner Rachel Specter will not be credited on their directorial debut due to a DGA bias against female directing teams.

“My #FemaleFilmmakerFriday goes out to my co-Director on tonight’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend episode @RachelSpecter. Rachel and I are a lifelong writing/directing team but due to a decision by the DGA which completely erases her from our work, she’s not credited on tonight’s episode,” Wauchope wrote on Twitter on Friday.

According to Director’s Guild rules, only one director can be credited on a project, with “few exceptions” made for “bona fide teams,” which a post on the DGA website defines as teams who “learned how to direct together, by actually doing it, and have, therefore, demonstrated that they perform the director’s duties as if they were actually one director.”

Also Read: 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Co-Creator Talks Season 4 Premiere and Rebecca's...

Sophia Bush is opening up about the sexual harassment she endured on the set of One Tree Hill.

To recap: Back in November, Bush joined Hilarie Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz and 15 more female cast and crew members in releasing a joint statement accusing series creator Mark Schwahn of inappropriate sexual conduct. The letter was published after staff writer Audrey Wauchope took to Twitter to share her first-hand account of harassment that she and writing partner Rachel Specter experienced.

In a new interview on Sirius Xm’s Andy Cohen Live, Bush recalled at least one instance in which she herself was inappropriately touched by Schwahn.

Pop TV has picked up a pilot for Arranged, a half-hour comedy from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna and writer-producer Sono Patel and CBS Television Studios. Co-created and written by Brosh McKenna and Patel, Arranged is about two best friends who end up in a marriage of convenience.

Brosh McKenna and Patel executive produce and Brosh McKenna will direct the pilot. CBS Television Studios, where Brosh McKenna is under an overall deal, is the studio. This marks the second greenlight at Pop, a CBS Corp/Lionsgate joint venture, for CBS TV Studios. The studio also co-produced the Pop comedy series Return of the Mac co-created by and starring Joey McIntyre.

Brosh McKenna is the co-creator and showrunner of praised musical comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was recently picked up for a fourth — and likely final — season by the CW. She made her directorial debut helming episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,...

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna is teaming with two fellow writers on The CW comedy, Rachel Specter and Audrey Wauchope, to create a female-driven comedy for Paramount Players, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Brosh McKenna will produce the untitled-laugher set in the world of law enforcement, with Specter and Wauchope penning the scripts. McKenna earned her stripes in screenwriting, penning female comedies like The Devil Wears Prada and 27 Dresses.

She returned to TV with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend with star and co-creator Rachel Bloom. The CW half-hour with "musical elements" starred Bloom as Rebecca — a young woman who abandons...

Exclusive: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna and two of her writer-producers on the CW musical comedy series, Rachel Specter and Audrey Wauchope, have closed a deal with Paramount Players for a female-driven comedy set in the world of law enforcement. Specter and Wauchope will pen the untitled project with Brosh McKenna producing. No further details about the plot are being revealed yet. The Devil Wears Prada writer Brosh McKenna co-created and executive…...

“One Tree Hill” cast and crew members have accused creator and showrunner Mark Schwahn of sexual harassment in a letter published on Variety. The signees include six female crew members and 12 actresses who worked on the series, including leads Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, and Bethany Joy Lenz. The letter was published following a Twitter thread crew member Audrey Wauchope posted on Novemeber 11 in which she revealed frequent and unwanted touching by Schwahn, who she did not identify by name at the time.

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“All of the female cast members of ‘One Tree Hill’ have chosen this forum to stand together in support of Audrey Wauchope and one another,” the open letter begins. “Mark Schwahn’s behavior over the duration of the filming of ‘One Tree Hill’ was something of an ‘open secret.’ Many of us were,...

Members of the cast and crew of the popular TV drama One Tree Hill are standing together with their accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct against the series' former showrunner Mark Schwahn.

Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz and "all of the female cast members" of the WB/CW series -- as well as several female crew members -- penned an open letter, released to Et on Monday, in which they spoke out "in support of Audrey Wauchope and one another."

Wauchope -- who worked as a staff writer on One Tree Hill alongside her writing partner, Rachel Specter -- took to Twitter over the weekend to accuse the showrunner -- whom she did not mention by name -- of sexual harassment during her time on the show.

However, the recent open letter penned by the cast and crew accused Schwahn directly, stating, "To use terminology that has become familiar as the systemic reality of sexual...

Members of the cast and crew of the popular TV drama One Tree Hill are standing together with their accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct against the series' former showrunner Mark Schwahn.

Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz and "all of the female cast members" of the WB/CW series -- as well as several female crew members -- penned an open letter, released to Et on Monday, in which they spoke out "in support of Audrey Wauchope and one another."

Wauchope -- who worked as a staff writer on One Tree Hill alongside her writing partner, Rachel Specter -- took to Twitter over the weekend to accuse the showrunner -- whom she did not mention by name -- of sexual harassment during her time on the show.

However, the recent open letter penned by the cast and crew accused Schwahn directly, stating, "To use terminology that has become familiar as the systemic reality of sexual...

Sophia Bush and her One Tree Hill co-stars are standing behind a female staff writer who recently recalled experiencing sexual harassment while working on the WB/CW drama.

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Bush joined Hilarie Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz and 15 more One Tree Hill female cast and crew members in releasing a joint statement accusing series creator Mark Schwahn of sexual harassment, detailed by our sister site Variety, “to stand together in support of [One Tree Hill writer] Audrey Wauchope and one another.” Wachope took to...

Updated: TV writer Audrey Wauchope over the weekend accused former One Tree Hill creator and showrunner Mark Schwahn of sexual harassment during the time she and her writing partner Rachel Specter worked on the CW drama. A number of Oth actresses have since come out to support Wauchope on social media including Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz. The trio, joined by fellow former Oth female cast and crew members, also have issued a statement in support of…...

Cougar Town Season 5, Episode 8 “Mystery of Love”

Written by Rachel Specter & Audrey Wauchope

Directed by Courteney Cox

Airs Tuesday nights at 10pm Et on TBS

For the most part, Cougar Town‘s fifth season has strayed away from digging into Travis and Laurie’s relationship, focusing more on hijinks with the Cul de Sac and the normal carousel of Bobby/Andy stories – and without a whole lot of wine drinking, I might add. Oddly enough, when Cougar Town did finally decide to explore Travis and Laurie’s budding relationship in “Mystery of Love”, they did it by barely showing them, instead focusing on Jules and her neurotic, made-up Competition of Love with the new, cute couple.

And boy, does it take a lot of annoying Jules to finally get to the point of the episode; but when it does, they do so with a nice twist, with Laurie and Travis...

Cougar Town Season 4, Episode 9 ‘Make It Better’

Directed by Courteney Cox

Written by Rachel Specter & Audrey Wauchope

Airs Thursdays at 10 pm (Est) on TBS

‘Make It Better’ is equal parts silly and sentimental, an episode about the different ‘slippery slopes’ in life, be it mortality, relationships, or the morality of sex robots. It doesn’t really find its rhythm until those final sequences – and although it’s quite a tonal change when it does, boy does it take off in those final scenes.

Some of it is expected – we all know Travis is not a playa (“no R”) and it was only a matter of time before Laurie and Wade’s ‘beautiful’ relationship came crashing to the ground. If there’s anything to gain from all the sex robot talk and Grayson acting a fool, it’s seeing Bobby hand out legitimate fatherly advice to Travis. It’s a quiet moment,...

New jobs seem like the industry's version of summer vacations this year. Kerry Foster, former president of production for producer-writer-director Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures, has joined Chernin Entertainment as an executive for the company's film division, Deadline reported. She will report to Executive Vice President Jenno Topping. Before spending seven years at Weed Road, Foster was vice president of production at Pandemonium Films for four years.Deadline also reported that producer and manager Bryan Brucks will lead the literary division of Luber Roklin Entertainment, a management company that reps actors and writers for film and TV. With Brendan McDonald, Brucks formerly co-owned management and production company Brucks/McDonald Entertainment, where his clients included writers Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuki, Emmy nominee Ben Schwartz, Fernley Phillps, Andy Burg, Adam Mason, Simon Boyes, Rachel Specter, Audrey Wauchope, and Paul Sloan. They are expected to follow Brucks to Luber Roklin. His producing credits include.

Bryan Brucks is joining Luber Roklin Entertainment to head up their literary division. Brucks who ran his own company, will bring over his clients including Black List writers Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuki, Emmy nominee Ben Schwartz, Fernley Phillps, Andy Burg, Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, Rachel Specter/Audrey Wauchope, and Paul Sloan. As a producer he has two films in post: the Joe Johnston-directed Not Safe For Work for Universal and Blumhouse, and Kill For Me at Sony and Stage Six. He’s also producing Boy Scouts vs Zombies at Paramount, which has Etan Cohen attached to direct. “Bryan is a seasoned veteran in this town with valuable experience as an executive and a manager,” said Luber Roklin principal Matt Luber. “He has great taste in material, has great clients and understands how to put movies together. We are happy to have him.”...

Bryan Brucks is joining Luber Roklin Entertainment to head up their literary division. Brucks who ran his own company, will bring over his clients including Black List writers Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuki, Emmy nominee Ben Schwartz, Fernley Phillps, Andy Burg, Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, Rachel Specter/Audrey Wauchope, and Paul Sloan. As a producer he has two films in post: the Joe Johnston-directed Not Safe For Work for Universal and Blumhouse, and Kill For Me at Sony and Stage Six. He’s also producing Boy Scouts vs Zombies at Paramount, which has Etan Cohen attached to direct. “Bryan is a seasoned veteran in this town with valuable experience as an executive and a manager,” said Luber Roklin principal Matt Luber. “He has great taste in material, has great clients and understands how to put movies together. We are happy to have him.”...

She’s young, lovely and very talented, and she’s best known from titles like The Devil Wears Prada, Wind Chill, Dan In Real Life, Charlie Wilson’s War and The Wolf Man.

But now, Emily Blunt reportedly circling a new comedy project titled Engagement Games.

As you see, another movie that already sounds interesting…but only as a bad joke.

Here’s the description: “a comedy about three sisters who get engaged at once and will stop at nothing to get their mother’s wedding ring.

The father then apparently arranges some form of “Family Olympics” in order to determine who will get the ring.” Yeah, well.

Penned by Rachel Specter (“Just Go With It”) and Audrey Wauchope (“Breaking Upwards”), Engagement Games has no director attached yet, but we definitely expect to hear someone experienced in the romantic-comedy genre to come on board soon.

So, if anyone’s interested,...

Emily Blunt to play Engagement GamesEmily Blunt has signed on to star in Engagement Games (previously known as Wedding Games), according to Pajiba.

The comedy centers on three sisters who get engaged at once and will stop at nothing to get their mother's wedding ring. The dad settles the dispute with a game of "Family Olympics."

Columbia is developing the movie, based on a script from Rachel Specter and Audrey Alison Wauchope.

No production date has been set.

Emily Blunt's attachment means there's two brides-to-be yet to be attached. Who would you like to see compete for mom's wedding ring? And as far as grooms go, this movie screams, or perhaps just needs, Zach Galifianakis.

Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria) is attached to star in Engagement Games which, true, sounds like yet another wedding comedy. And in all likelihood, it will be. But the premise is splendidly wacky enough to be… something. Pajiba describes Games as “a comedy about three sisters who get engaged at once and will stop at nothing to get their mother’s wedding ring”; the father sets up a “Family Olympics” to determine who gets the ring. Rachel Specter and Audrey Wauchope, who currently have only acting credits on their resumes, penned the script for Columbia.

If Blunt signs on, who do you like for the sister roles? Amy Adams? Isla Fisher? I see Anna Kendrick in this for some reason. Blunt will next appear in the Jack Black comedy Gulliver’s Travels on December 22nd, followed by the sci-fi thriller The Adjustment Bureau on March 4, 2011.

Move over Bride Wars, you have competition. The film is Engagement Games (previously titled Wedding Games), and it's a comedy about "three sisters who get engaged at once and will stop at nothing to get their mother’s wedding ring." But wait, there's more! "The dad settles the dispute with a game of 'Family Olympics.'" Why as talented an actress as Emily Blunt would lower herself to star in such a film, I'm not sure, but I hope she's getting a big paycheck out of it. Pajiba reports that the movie is being developed by Columbia, with a script written by Rachel Specter and Audrey Wauchope, both of whom are actresses with no former writing credits to their name. Might I suggest another title, one which better suits Hollywood's perverse desire for gimmicky wordplay? Columbia, I present to you: Rules of EnGAMEment. Yes, yes, I know. No need to thank me.

Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) is reportedly circling a new comedy project titled Engagement Games.

Penned by Rachel Specter (Just Go With It) and Audrey Wauchope (Breaking Upwards), Engagement Games centers on three sisters who all get engaged at once and will stop at nothing to get their mother’s wedding ring. The dad settles the dispute with a game of Family Olympics.

No director is yet attached, but expect someone experienced in the romantic-comedy genre to come on board soon, as this sounds like another bland Bride Wars type film. Not something I expected an actress of Blunt’s caliber to be interested in.

ThePlaylist reported this one.

Emily Blunt is attached to the comedy "Engagement Games" for Sony Pictures reports Pajiba.

The story follows three sisters in one family who all get engaged at the same time, catch is only one of them can get their mother’s cherished wedding ring.

Thus their father comes up with the solution of holding a 'Family Olympics' where the winner will score the ring. Rachel Specter and Audrey Wauchope penned the script.

After recently getting hitched to The Office: An American Workplace star John Krasinski herself, Emily Blunt will be back in the dress playing a bride to be in her next film, Engagement Games.

Pajiba reports that the premise of the film is that three sisters, all unluckily getting engaged at once, are each determined to get their mothers cherished wedding ring for themselves. With none of them willing to back down responsibility falls to their father to choose. His solution is to hold a .Family Olympics' and to let the sisters compete for the ring.

Rachel Specter and Audrey Wauchope wrote the script and Columbia is developing it. Little else has been revealed so far but you can count on us to keep you updated!

Any thoughts? Leave us a comment below...

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The Hollywood Cog is reporting that Emily Blunt is attached to Engagement Games (formerly Wedding Games), a comedy about three sisters who get engaged at once and will stop at nothing to get their mother's wedding ring. The dad settles the dispute with a game of "Family Olympics." Columbia is developing the movie, based on a script from Rachel Specter and Audrey Wauchope.

So the one question I had remaining about the Joaquin Phoenix I'm Still Here hoax has been answered: Letterman did know it was a put on, and he enjoyed the hell out of playing along. (THR)

The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson's religious drama (read: Scientology drama) that was meant to star Jeremy Renner and Phillip Seymour Hoffman is now postponed indefinitely, as apparently Mr. Anderson couldn't get his shit together. Although, "postponed indefinitely," might have just been Jeremy Renner's euphemish for, "Dude's a giant prick,...

The original Alone in the Dark currently sits at 2.3 out of 10 on IMDb, so the only place Alone in the Dark 2 can go is up, right? The first trailer for Alone in the Dark 2 looks average, with only Lance Henricksen standing out in the cast. The DVD hits the streets January 26, 2010, but horror fans might want to hold tight until some early reviews come in. The trailer for Alone in the Dark 2 is past the break.

A short synopsis for Alone in the Dark 2 here:

"When the night falls, and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows, there is only one man who stands between us and evil: Edward Carnby (Quiet Earth)."

Release Date: January 26, 2010 (DVD).

Director/writer: Michael Roesch, and Peter Scheerer.

Cast: Bill Moseley, Lance Henricksen, Rick Yune, Rachel Specter, Michael Pare and Danny Trejo.

A trailer for the DVD here:

Alone in the Dark...

Alone in the Dark II will go straight to DVD beginning January 26, 2010. The film offers some familiar faces including: Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, Danny Trejo, and Michael Pare. However, the film has received some early poor reviews and the only available movie clip from the film onlys creates more questions that the promo answers. Have a look at this grainy trailer from Vivendi Entertainment below - if you dare!

A synopsis for Alone in the Dark II here:

"When the night falls, and the creatures of the dark are crawling out of the shadows, there is only one man who stands between us and the evil: Edward Carnby. One of the most popular characters in video game history, Edward Carnby returns for a second mission (Traileraddict)."

Director: Michael Roesch.

Writer: Michael Roesch.

Cast: Rick Yune, Rachel Specter, Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, Danny Trejo, Ralf Moeller, Zach Ward, Natassia Malthe, P.J. Soles,...

Lionsgate Home Entertainment has set a January 26 release date for Alone in the Dark II . Because you demanded it. Michael Roesch directed this entry which nixes Christian Slater and Tara Reid and gives us Rick Yune, Lance Henriksen, Ralf Moeller, Pj Soles, Bill Moseley, Rachel Specter, Michael Paré and Danny Trejo. Can you handle that? Yeah, didn't think you could. Edward Carnby, played by Slater in the last entry, is now embodied by Yune. Weird. That's the cover you see on the left brandishing the tagline "Evil returns." This entry has to do with a witch and a lab - when a full synopsis comes to light, we'll give it to you!

Fox has some abandonment issues.

The network has inked a first-look deal for "Living With Abandon," an independently produced single-camera comedy pilot.

Written by Richie Keen and Heath Corson ("Hooked") and directed by Keen, "Abandon" stars Todd Grinnell, Ed Quinn, Melissa Peterman, Rachel Specter and 14-year-old Nick Dodani as the members of an abandonment support group who suffer a blow when their therapist commits suicide. Left to fend for themselves, the members band together to solve each other's issues.

"This is a show about the family that we all chose in life," Keen said. "This is a group of people who wouldn't normally know each other but chose to be each other's family."

Keen is executive producing "Abandon," with Michael Binkow and Joe Revello serving as co-exec producers and Corson as supervising producer.

Keen and Corson originally took the idea for "Abandon" to Fox 21, where they had a script deal...

Here's a new batch of images and an official sales poster for Michael Roesch and Peter Sheerer's "Alone In The Dark II", which stars Rick Yune, Rachel Specter, Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, Danny Trejo, Ralf Moeller, Zach Ward, Natassia Malthe, P. J. Soles, Michael Pare, Jason Connery and Brooklyn Sudano. The sequel tells the story of Edward Carnby, who joins forces with a team of witch hunters to track down the dangerous witch Elisabeth Dexter....

Colin Hanks has joined the cast of the untitled Anna Faris project for Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison.

Also joining the movie are Monet Mazur, Kiely Williams of The Cheetah Girls, All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter, Owen Benjamin, Rachel Specter and Beverly D'Angelo.

The script, by Legally Blonde scribes Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, centers on a Playboy bunny (Faris) who gets kicked out of the Playboy Mansion and becomes the house mother to the lamest sorority on a college campus.

Hanks is the male lead in the film, playing Faris' love interest.

Mazur (Torque) will play an evil Playboy bunny, while Williams will plays a member of the lame sorority, one who suffers from extreme shyness and communicates via notes and texts. Ritter is a frat guy who is more than he seems, while Benjamin is a butler seduced by Mazur. D'Angelo (Entourage) is the house mom of the bitchy sorority, of which Specter (Lonely Hearts) is a part.

Rachel Specter, Brendan Miller, Anna Osceola, John Keefe, Jeffrey Christopher Todd and Jocelin Donahue have enrolled in the Comedy Central pilot Not Another High School Show.

The six relative newcomers comprise the ensemble cast of the project, a spoof of teen TV dramas that's from Sony Pictures Television and executive producers Mike Bender, Neal Moritz and Joel Gallen (Not Another Teen Movie). The project will spoof shows ranging from Dawson's Creek to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The O.C.

It's understood that the producers wanted to cast fresh faces in the roles of the archetypal teen characters.

The High School pilot begins shooting Saturday in Los Angeles.

Specter's credits include the indie My Sexiest Year opposite Frankie Muniz as well as HBO's Entourage, CBS' How I Met Your Mother, WB Network's What I Like About You and Nickelodeon's "Drake & Josh." She is repped by Ryan Daly and Mara Santino at KSA and managed by Adam Griffin.