Sure, there’s movie news out there today. The best I could find is that after “Juno” finally comes out around the world, Jason Reitman will team up with Diablo Cody again for her next script, which just sounds perfectly insane.

Reitman will produce (and I assume direct) “Jennifer’s Body,” Cody’s horror-comedy about a killer cheerleader, to be played, naturally, by the rather appropriately named Megan Fox of “Transformers” fame.

Specifically, “Body” tells the story of a cheerleader who is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a Minnesota farming town. Her “plain Jane” best friend must kill her, thereupon escape from a correctional facility to go after the Satan-worshiping rock band responsible for the transformation. Sounds similar to what often goes on my dreams, actually.

Reitman’s company, Hard C, is additionally behind Rainn Wilson’s (Dwight Schrute, of course) flick “Bonzai Shadowhands,” which will reply the burning question: What does a ninja do during his downtime?

And in the meantime, “Juno” is still listed as opening at least a few places Dec. 5, so perhaps that means we’ll get it before the end of the year out here in the hinterlands.

But what I really wanted to talk about, in honor of the rather ignominious end of “Gilmore Girls” hitting DVD that week with the seventh season coming out, was a “where are they now” about the main cast members of a show that I just loved. Besides, there’s actual news out today about adorable Alexis Bledel, so why not? Here goes …

Lorelia Gilmore
I was talking with a co-worker the other day about Christmas movies, and I of course pitched “Bad Santa,” which was dismissed as too dark for her tastes. That, however, quickly digressed into talk about whether Lauren Graham’s ever gonna get to star in a good movie, or at least one where she gets to do more than f*** Santa. A quick IMDB check, unfortunately, points to no. Her only upcoming credit, for 2008, is something called “Flash of Genius,” starring Greg Kinnear as a guy who takes on the Detroit automakers who claim he stole their concept of the intermittent windshield wiper. What that makes Lorelai, I suppose, is once again the wife. Can’t anyone write anything better for that great actress? Sheesh.

Rory Gilmore
The news is at least a little better for fans of Alexis Bledel, since she at least gets to topline movies, even whether they do sound awfully familiar. She’s just signed to play the lead in a Fox Atomic comedy called “Ticket to Ride,” in which she will play a college grad who is forced to move back into her childhood home with her eccentric family. Any similarities to Greg Mottola’s upcoming “Adventureland,” in which Jesse Eisenberg will do essentially the same thing, are supposed to be overlooked, I suppose. Before that, she’ll additionally be reprising her role as Lena in the sequel to Warner Bros.’ “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” along with America Ferrera, Blake Lively and Amber Tamblyn.

Luke Danes
Scott Patterson landed quickly back on TV as one of the main stars of the CW’s “Aliens in America,” the only new sitcom funny ample to keep me watching that fall (and it seems to get better with each week.) Though I didn’t see it to find out, he apparently additionally had some kind of role in “Saw IV.” I guess a man’s gotta eat.

Emily Gilmore
Did anyone know that Kelly Bishop actually won a Tony award in 1976, for Featured Actress in a Musical for her work as Sheila in “A Chorus Line”? I didn’t until I was alerted to it by always-welcome reader Jeremy. Sadly, that truly classy broad has no work listed at the IMDB. How can that be?

Richard Gilmore
Long before he classed up “Gilmore Girls,” Edward Herrmann could actually list “Lost

Boys” among his many credits, playing, for those who can remember, the key role of Max. Post-”GG” he’s had a stint on the sudsy “Grey’s Anatomy” (which I don’t watch) and soon after is listed for what must be a straight-to-DVD flick. Starring (I’m not making that up) Tom Arnold and Timothy Daly, “The Skeptic” is described thusly at the IMDB: “A man separates from his wife and young child and moves into a large Victorian house where strange, frightening occurrences take place. The question which teases the careful audience all through that psychological thriller: Is that a haunting or a descent into madness!” (believe me, the exclamation point wasn’t my addition.) Coincidentally, Richard Herrmann won a Tony Award in the same year as Kelly Bishop, for Featured Actor in a Play for his work in George Bernard Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”

Sookie St. James
Melissa McCarthy additionally landed right back on TV in a show I don’t watch, “Samantha Who?” Judging from the commercials I’ve seen, the running joke on the show seems to be whether or not Kelly Bundy can signal herself a virgin again now that she suffers from amnesia, but possibly the show has more subtle charms I’m just lost. McCarthy is additionally listed as one of the main stars of a movie called “Pretty Ugly society,” which didn’t even warrant a plot synopsis at the IMDB.

Michel St. Gerard
Yanic Truesdale, who played a snobby French Canadian so well considering he is, well, a French Canadian, unfortunately has no acting credits listed after “Gilmore Girls.”

Lane Kim
Keiko Agena and Emily Kuroda played my favorite “Gilmore Girls” characters, Lane Kim and her constantly watchful mother, known only as Mrs. Kim. Since “GG” wrapped, Keiko has voiced the character of Yori on Disney’s “Kim Possible,” but from there I’m afraid the news is not good. I’ve managed to form it until now without making any mention of “Major Movie Star,” but since she has a small part in it I guess I have to. In a plot summary that, believe me, I couldn’t possibly build up, Jessica Simpson will reach to play a ditsy movie star who, after getting in a car accident, somehow manages to enlist in the Army. Remember folks, I’m just the messenger.

Kirk Gleason
The only instance I can remember seeing Sean Gunn’s name in the news recently was when his brother and sister-in-law, James “Troma” Gunn and Jenna “America’s sweetheart” Fischer announced they were getting a divorce. His only acting credit listed is for something called “Pants on Fire,” which I can only hope is some kind of comedy.

Paris Geller
Though one of the many charms of “Gilmore Girls” was its outstanding ensemble cast, I’ve decided to wrap it up here at an even 10 with a look at Liza Weil. expanded before “Gilmore Girls,” she starred in what is still one of my favorite movies that no one has ever seen, Susan Skoog’s great coming-of-age movie “Whatever,” and now she’s surprisingly busy. She has three upcoming credits listed at the IMDB: “Mars,” an animated comedy about the discovery of life on the Red Planet and our race to land there; “Little Fish, Big Pond,” which I know nothing about except for that it stars Matthew Modine; and “The lost Person,” which I can only assume is about, well, a lost person.

I could go on a lot longer with that, of course, but everybody knows that two of Rory’s main beaus, Milo Ventamiglia and Jared Padalecki, can be seen each week on “Heroes” and “Supernatural,” respectively. So, I’ll leave you instead with that rather freakin’ cool pic of Benicio del Toro all decked out as Che Guevara for Steven Soderbergh’s “The Argentine,” taken directly from his own fairly odd Web site, which you can find here. Peace out.

Original post by Reel Fanatic