Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

While Daniel Craig is all over the world playing James Bond, Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to play the man who created the character in the film Fleming. Ian Fleming published his first Bond novel Casino Royale in 1953 after working in the British Navy as an intelligence Commander. The film will explore the real-life people behind M and Miss Moneypenney . Personally, I think Geoffrey Rush would be a dead ringer for Fleming (right) with a little bit of make up.

Rob Corddry has signed on for his first lead role in Project A. The Daily Show alum, who recently appeared in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantamo Bay, will play a government-experiment from the Cold War who turns into “the world’s biggest jerk.” Ben Stiller will produce the script from his Tropic Thunder scribe Etan Cohen.

Little kids are bound to be the newest horror stars. R.L. Stine’s children’s series Goosebumps, the second-most successful children’s series behind Harry Potter, will come to cineplexes by way of Sony and Scholastic . Over at Camp Crystal Lake, the Friday the 13th remake has found its second actor to play Jason. Caleb Guss will play a young Jason. All this per the director’s blog , which reveals production of the movie is about as bloody as the movie itself.

In TV Land, EQAL, the creators behind Internet-phenom Lonelygirl15, has signed a deal with CBS to give the network first look at anything new from EQAL that could premiere on TV, Internet of mobile devices. CBS will also be able to outfit their existing programs with Web extensions. While might sounds a little uninteresting, the deal exhibits the continued strength of the Internet as an alternative media platform, and you can probably expect more deals to pop up like this as TV viewership continues to drop.

TNT has packed its line up full cops with familiar names and faces. On TNT, George Clooney and Grant Heslov (joint Oscar nominees for Good Night and Good Luck’s script) will produce Delta Blues, a strange-sounding project about a Memphis cop/Elvis impersonator who lives with his mom. Joel Surnow, 24 co creator, is also producing a procedural about an ATF agent. John Avnet, who directed NBC’s Boomtown, will produce Morse Code, about a DEA agent in Boston. In an attempt to continue being seriously funny, other Turner station, TBS, renewed Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, My Boys, The Bill Engvall Show and Frank TV, while Jerry Zucker will be at the head of the new late-night sketch show National Banana Already in Progress.

If you’re interested in catching about a minute of the five new CBS shows coming out in the fall, you can find that here .

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