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Remember those halcyon days of yore (last year or the year before or whenever), when Drew Barrymore and Justin Long were a happy couple? Those beautiful times when L.A. was our Camelot, and at its throne was a Charlie Angel and the human manifestation of an Apple computer? Those were the days, yeah? Well, they’re back! The BarryLong (I assume this was their couple name) team is reuniting on the silver screen: Drew Barrymore will star opposite Justin Long in “Going the Distance,” a romantic comedy for New Line. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing via their Offspring Entertainment banner, and Nanette Burstein is directing. The story by first-time scribe Geoff LaTulippe follows a couple trying to maintain a long-distance relationship. LaTulippe was a New Line script reader who segued into screenwriting, and “Distance” contains some imprint from his life: The male lead also is a script reader. The female lead is a character who moves to Chicago to be a middle school teacher. A long-distance relationship movie? So like a lot of talking on the phone, using Instant Messenger, and fretting that their partner is being unfaithful? I’m skeptical. Let’s save the boring, long-distance, technology-based romancing to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Drew Barrymore goes the ‘Distance’ [THR]

MTV has just posted some scans of the new Star Trek trading cards, alerting us to several bits of pertinent information: 1. The film apparently features a cameo from Alien Natasha Lyonne’s Character in Slums of Beverly Hills (above). 2. Young Spock stupidly gives old Spock a live-long-and-prosper (see here ). That’s totally going to eff up the time-space continuum. Every time travel movie warns not to blatantly gesture at yourself. That’s amateur hour. 3. Companies still make movie trading cards. Who would have thought? Granted, I had the entire set of Tim Burton’s Batman trading cards as a kid, but that was before internet and the competition of Pokemons Cards. Is this just a one-time thing because they know there are nerds who will buy anything Star Trek ?

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It’s not much, but someone at JoBlo got a cell phone shot of the very literal title treatment for Wes Anderson’s adaptation of The Fantastic Mr. Fox . Anyone else surprised, and a little disappointed, it’s not following Anderson’s trend of using Futura Bold exclusively? I guess we’ll have to wait for a Criterion release if we want less-family-friendly stylish minimalism on our DVD shelf.

Paramount is putting the tractor-beamed shuttle craft before the starship! (Or whatever the appropriate cart-before-the-horse Star Trek reference is.) Variety is reporting the studio is so confident about the success of their fresh-faced relaunch of the science fiction franchise that they’re already preparing its sequel: As Paramount Pictures readies the May 8 release of its “Star Trek” franchise relaunch, the studio is moving forward with a sequel, and has hired Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof to pen the screenplay. J.J. Abrams, who directed and produced the latest chapter, is onboard to produce the follow-up alongside his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk. No decision has been made yet on whether Abrams will return behind the camera for the sequel. Story is still in the embryonic stage, but the trio are aiming to deliver their script to the Melrose studio by Christmas for what would likely be a summer 2011 release. As for potential storylines, Kurtzman stressed that the writing team will wait to take a cue from fan reaction about which direction to go. “Obviously we discussed ideas, but we are waiting to see how audiences respond next month,” he said. “With a franchise rebirth, the first movie has to be about origin. But with a second, you have the opportunity to explore incredibly exciting things. We’ll be ambitious about what we’ll do.” Seems a little premature, but following the Star Trek Curse even/odd=bad/good philosophy, a hypothetical second film is probably already better than Final Frontier . I’ll only start worrying once I hear Paramount is looking for a young Latino with a sculpted chest.

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