David Dobkin, director of the surprise smash "Wedding Crashers," and his pair of screenwriting pals have signed a sweet deal with Warner Bros. to bring their next project to the multiplex. Yes, it’s "outrageous," and yes, it also deal with weddings.
Says The Hollywood Reporter: "Director David Dobkin and Tapestry Films have sold an untitled comedy pitch to Warners that will be written by Tim Rasmussen and Vince DiMeglio. The studio acquired the pitch in a bidding war. Sources said Dobkin could receive a paycheck in the neighborhood of $7 million, while the writers’ deal was in the low-seven figures, though neither the studio nor the artists’ reps would confirm that.
The untitled Warner Bros. release centers on a Southern father who meets his three daughters’ boyfriends for the first time at Thanksgiving. The boyfriends turn out to be an Arab, a Jew and a black man.
Dobkin and Tapestry principal came up with the idea; writers Tim Rasmussen and Vince DiMeglio, who did uncredited work on "Meet the Fockers," will begin writing immediately."
