Today's Film News: Adams Escapes From The Smithsonian

By Katey Rich

Ben Stiller is going to continue offering his unique spin on history in the upcoming sequel to Night at the Museum, and now Enchanted's Amy Adams is in on the fun. Variety reports that Amy Adams will play an as-of-yet undetermined historical figure who has a crush on the security guard played by Stiller. Robin Williams is confirmed to be returning as Teddy Roosevelt, and Reese Witherspoon is rumored to be playing Amelia Earhart. So who's this mysterious historical figure at the Smithsonian, where the sequel is set? Keeping in mind that Dorothy's ruby red slippers from The Wizard of Oz are in the Smithsonian Museum of American History, I'm hoping it's Adams as Judy Garland. Cinematical is going with Betsy Ross, a less dramatic if more likely guess.

Another famous redheaded comedienne Debra Messing also has a new role, as the wife of John Leguizamo's character in Humboldt Park. The Hollywood Reporter describes the Overture Films project as a Latino family drama, and Variety adds that it concerns three siblings returning for the holidays to their Humboldt Park neighborhood near Chicago. Freddy Rodriguez, Jay Hernandez, Melonie Diaz and Alfred Molina also star. For the record, another movie that mixed comedy and drama, was about a minority family and took place during the holidays was This Christmas, which was a surprise hit last November.

The Hollywood Reporter had the scoop yesterday with the supporting cast for The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a romantic comedy starring Matthew McConaughey as a womanizer who is visited, Christmas Carol style, by all the women he's wronged in the past. Today, though, ComingSoon.net has it straight from director Mark Waters that Michael Douglas will also make an appearance, as this romantic comedy's version of Jacob Marley. You remember, the ghost who warns Scrooge not to repeat his mistakes? Waters describes the character as "his Uncle Wayne, a '70s playboy, who was his mentor and he wears Bob Evans shades and guides him around the ghost world."