Jessica Alba is becoming a Focker. The actress is in negotiations to join the Ben Stiller/Robert DeNiro comedy “Little Fockers.” She’d play the role of an attractive pharmaceutical rep whose looks wreak havoc on male characters in the story.

Paul Weitz is directing the third installment in the successful Universal and Tribeca Productions franchise. Production is set to begin in the next few months, with a 2010 release date likely.

The picture is expected to pick up where 2004′s “Meet the Fockers” left off, with Stiller’s Gaylord Focker and Teri Polo’s Pamela Byrnes becoming parents. John Hamburg, one of the screenwriters on the earlier film, wrote the latest version of the script.

Alba is set to star in the Robert Rodriguez thriller “Machete” as well as Garry Marshall’s romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day.”

Is it not enough that Jessica Alba has already played iconic comic book characters in “Fantastic Four” and “Sin City“? Apparently not, as rumors swirl today about her involvement with yet another paneled page property.

ICv2 is reporting that Alba has acquired the screen rights to a French comic book series titled “The Insiders.” The news originated from “various French language Websites,” which also pegs Alba’s “Sin City” director Robert Rodriguez as her partner in securing the comic’s film rights.

“The Insiders” first debuted in 2002 from Jean-Claude Bartoll and Renaud Garreta, yielding seven volumes of the series in France with an eighth scheduled for this October. In the same month, Americans will also see the first volume of “The Insiders” titled Chechen Guerilla — perhaps a move to familiarize stateside audiences with Alba’s upcoming character.

Should the rumors pan out, Alba would play Najah Cruz, a Columbian woman with “the weapons expertise and combat skills of a James Bond.” In the series, Cruz is tasked with infiltrating a crime syndicate on behalf of the United States government, where she ultimately works her way into becoming the lead criminal’s body guard.

Given the long delays in “Sin City 2” and reports that a “Fantastic Four” reboot is in the works sans the original cast, Alba could be without a comic book franchise to call her own — which is why turning to “The Insiders” could be a strong move for an actress looking to stick with the genre.

On top of that, Alba’s first high-profile gig came in the form of “Dark Angel,” a James Cameron-produced television series where she played a hard-as-nails soldier of the same ilk as Najah Cruz. Truly, starring in “The Insiders” would be a return to form for the young actress.

(mtv.com)

For a few days, a portion of downtown Oklahoma City has been transformed into 1950s Texas for the filming of an independent movie.

Casey Affleck donned a light-colored cowboy hat and a dark blue suit Saturday as he walked past an old bank building that was serving as a Fort Worth train station for the filming of “The Killer Inside Me.” Signs directing pedestrians to the trains were posted on the side of the First National Building and a Texas flag flew overhead.

“It’s the first chance we’ve had to give some real scale to the movie. It’s the first time we’ve shot on streets this size with all of the extras,” producer Andrew Eaton said.

The filming, which is about halfway through a five-week stretch in Oklahoma, is the fruitful finish both for producers, who’ve been struggling to get the movie off the ground, and for the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, in its efforts to secure a significant motion picture to be shot in the state.

The film that also stars Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba is considered the biggest movie to be shot in Oklahoma since “Twister” in 1996.

(source: kansas.com)

I can’t wait for this movie

Just added to the photo gallery are 416 high quality screen captures from The Love Guru. Jessica plays the role of Jane Bullard, the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and also stars Mike Myers, Justin Timberlake and Verne Troyer.

Check out the pictures by clicking the thumbnails below:

Gallery Link:
- The Love Guru  > Screen Captures

Earlier this year, Jessica and Jack Black made a guest appearance on the hour-long Superbowl episode of “The Office” on NBC. The two were seen acting in a movie that characters, Jim and Pam were illegally watching on a laptop. Check out screen captures below:

Gallery Links:
- The Office – “Stress Relief” (Season 5, Episode 13)