Synopsis: Katherine Heigl brings Stephanie Plum - the popular heroine of Janet Evanovich's worldwide best-selling seventeenth-book mystery series - to vibrant life in Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment's ONE FOR THE MONEY. A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum's got plenty of attitude, even if she's been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company...as a recovery agent. True, she doesn't even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn't stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny's biggest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli - yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school. Nabbing Morelli would be satisfying payback - and a hefty payday - but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of becoming a recovery agent from Ranger, a hunky colleague who's the best in the business, she also realizes the case against Morelli isn't airtight. Add to the mix her meddling family, a potentially homicidal boxer, witnesses who keep dying and the problem of all those flying sparks when she finds Morelli himself...well, suddenly Stephanie's new job isn't nearly as easy as she thought.

Writer-director-producer Judd Apatow essentially brought Seth Rogan to the world.  When he was just an underage smartass, Rogen played a caustic supporting character on the Apatow-executive produced series Freaks and Geeks, which was canceled after one season.  He next appeared on Apatow's similarly short-lived collegiate comedy Undeclared.  Following his scene-stealing turn in The 40 Year Old Virgin, Apatow cast him as the lead in Knocked Up, and Rogen's been a ubiquitous comedic presence ever since.  If you've been wondering whether Rogen will appear in Apatow's new film or whether his directorial debut Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse will ever happen, the answers are apparently "No" and "Yes."

Of the almost seven billion human inhabitants of planet Earth, approximately four billion will appear in the romantic comedy New Year's Eve.  With this new ensemble tale, director Garry Marshall and writer Katherine Fugate apply the same formula of star-studded volume and idealized holiday shenanigans that worked for them in last year's Valentine's Day.  In fact, based on this first trailer, you might expect that New Year's Eve is a sequel to Valentine's Day, particularly given the presence of Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Biel, but the new film simply a spiritual sequel, with both actors playing wholly different characters.  Plus, while that film took place in Los Angeles, New Year's Eve is set in New York.  So it's totally different.

The next film to be directed by Judd Apatow is an as-yet untitled spin-off of his second feature, Knocked Up, that will see Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprising their roles as married couple Pete and Debbie.  While we still don't know if they'll be joined by Seth Rogan or Katherine Heigl, The Hollywood Reporter has the exclusive that former Transformers eye candy Megan Fox is currently in negotiations with Universal for a role in Judd Apatow's mysterious project.

Every time you think you've seen the last casting news on New Year's Eve, director Garry Marshall's pseudo-sequel to last year's Valentine's Day, a new update will appear as if to chide you for your presumption.  The ensemble romantic comedy, which tells a whole bunch of vaguely interconnected stories on the boozy holiday, has been shooting in New York for a few weeks now, but that doesn't mean Marshall can't add a new name to his epic romcom.  Actually, in this case, the name isn't so new; Halle Berry had been attached to the film, but had to back out, fearing a prolonged custody battle in Los Angeles.  Well, the custody case is settled, and Berry's back on board, though as a different character.

Every time I give an update on the casting of mega-romantic comedy New Year’s Eve, I do with a sort of morbid curiosity.  That’s because the quasi-sequel to last year’s Valentine’s Day just isn’t quite up my alley, but also because the cast keeps getting bigger and I always assume the latest update will be last.  The addition of Ice Cube and Ryan Seacrest seemed surreal enough to be the final word, but today Deadline’s reporting that director Garry Marshall has brought in a romantic comedy ringer in Katherine Heigl.

Life as We Know It is exactly what the title suggests… life as we know it.  If our lives happened to follow the structure of a romantic comedy that is. Yet as clichéd as ‘Life’ can be, there is something surprisingly bittersweet and tragic underneath. After all, the movie is about a baby’s parents both being tragically killed and the child left an orphan. That pretty much guarantees a few Kleenex moments right there. And this happens early on in the film. Clearly our sympathies are supposed to be with the baby and two friends of the family… who HATE EACH OTHER! That is the joke folks… what do you think will happen?

Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel co-star in the upcoming romantic comedy Life as We Know It. The two have terrific chemistry together, and you can read about that in our official review coming later this week.

With that in mind, there is another actor that Ms. Heigl shared some terrific on-screen relations with. No, it wasn’t Seth Rogen in Knocked Up. Don’t get me wrong, that was a terrific movie and both Seth and Katherine were great, but they didn’t have quite the spark that a certain doll of an actor had with her.

Wacky comedy livens up the DVD shelves this week with MacGruber and Killers, and Michael Douglas impresses with Solitary Man.

It seemed like Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher should have made a good on-screen couple. Not so much when it came to Killers. This tale of a hit-man with a wife who discovers his hidden life is dull and really doesn’t deliver on the rom or the com.

The poster for Life As We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, has premiered over at iVillage, but you can see it right here. The Warner Bros. comedy, which was directed by t.v. vet Greg Berlanti ("Brothers and Sisters") hits theaters on October 8th.