Daily Casting Report – 09/1/2004

Vince Vaughn (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story , Starsky & Hutch ) and Owen Wilson (Around the World in 80 Days, Starsky & Hutch) join forces in “Outsourced”.

Director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls) has signed up to head an adaptation of “Henry’s List of Wrongs,” a novell by John Scott Shepherd.

Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls, Gosford Park) will play the Queen in “The Queen,” Directed by Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things).

Dakota Fanning (Man on Fire, The Cat in the Hat, Uptown Girls) will join Tom Cruise (Collateral, The Last Samurai, Minority Report, Mission: Impossible) in “War of the Worlds,” directed by Steven Spielberg.

Paramount Pictures has picked up the movie rights to “Area 51,” to follow this year’s release for PS2 and Xbox.