This week, rumblings of remakes and adaptations abound. Oh, and the big screen's gone viral...

You've been waiting for this, I know you have. A third Big Momma movie starring Martin Lawrence. You're welcome! Regency is producing and John Whitesell is directing from a script by Matthew Fogel that was recently re-drafted by Randi Mayem Singer. (Writer of Disney's Tooth Fairy.) Scoff if you will, but drag movies are typically hits at the box office, and remember, it all started with the unarguable classic, Some Like It Hot.

A viral video is going to make it to the big screen. Producer Scott Mednick has nabbed the screen rights for an internet video titled, My New Haircut. If you don't know what that is, just know that it's partially to thank for the MTV reality show, Jersey Shore. The creator of the video, Brett Tietjen has also written a first draft of the script based off of his parody video in which he plays an Italian character named “Broski”. So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, funny and talented is funny and talented and you can make it with those skills anywhere. Encouraging, yes?

An Arthur remake is in the works. Writer Peter Baynham was given the tough job of tackling the first draft of the remake script, but it's in a familiar genre as Baynham also worked as a writer for Borat and Bruno. Russell Brand is set to star. So it looks like Baynham stays in the business of British comedians for now, and if that's not enough B's for you, you weren't paying attention.

Indie filmmakers Melora Hardin (also an actress) and her husband Gildart Jackson (also an actor and in this case, the screenwriter) have secured an unconventional release method for their family drama, You. The film features a widower trying to keep the memory of his wife alive to their young daughter. Hardin struck up an unusual friendship with a local TV station owner in her hometown of Tampa, Florida, and thanks to that, the film will premiere on local television. Hardin and Jackson also hope for a theatrical release. The film, done on a shoestring budget, stars Joely Fisher, Brenda Strong and Allison Mack among others. (Most of the actors worked for low to no cost.) Jackson wrote the script while away from his wife and daughter and used the isolating experience as fuel for the drama.

Michael Knowles will be directing the comedy East Fifth Bliss from an adaptation he wrote based on the novel of the same name. Michael C. Hall will star as a man who seeks solace in the arms of an eighteen year old girl during his mid-life crisis. The novel won the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction.