Rosario Dawson is set to star with Kevin James in romantic comedy The Zookeeper.
The story, which is live action, is about zoo animals trying to teach the keeper their methods of dating and mating to help him win back the woman of his dreams.
Frank Coraci is set to direct from a screenplay by Jay Scherick and David Ronn, Kevin James, Rock Reuben and Nick Bakay. Filming will begin in late summer in Boston with a July 23, 2010, release date.
The first time I saw Maria Bello on film was in the movie The History of Violence. She grabbed at her role and gave it 
all she got as a loving wife and mother who finds out her sweet loveable husband is at former and brutal hit man.
So, I am happy to hear that Bello is in final talks to join Adam Sandler’s the all-star comedy untitled film. I look forward to seeing her in a comedy. With her talent, she’ll bring the comedy to a whole new level.
I have posted about this film a couple of times already because I think this is a sure fire hit. As a reminder, the script centers on high school friends who reunite 30 years later. Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek and Maya Rudolph are part of the ensemble.
Bello will play James’ wife – what a match.
Adam Sandler’s untitled comedy appears to have completed its major casting with Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph and Colin Quinn 
joining up.
Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade have already joined the project, which gyrates around five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on a Fourth of July weekend. Hayek is set to play the wife of Sandler’s character and Rudolph will portray Rock’s spouse.
Dennis Dugan is onboard to direct the comedy that is scheduled to begin filming in the summer. Sandler wrote the screenplay with Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star scribe Fred Wolf.
Variety is calling the untitled movie a reunion for “Saturday Night Live” alums. Former cast members Rudolph and Quinn join Sandler, Rock, Schneider, Spade and Wolf, who all spent time on the long-running series.
I admit, I walked into the theatre and settled down to watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and I was ready to tear it a new one. Several new ones. My claws and fangs were out and I was leaking a hallucinogenic neurotoxin from every pore and orifice my body contained. I was in Full Critic Mode.
And then the bastards had the nerve to make me LAUGH.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop had no business being as entertaining as it was. None at all. It’s easily the best Happy Madison movie ever made, and this would ordinarily almost be an insult given the quality of other Happy Madison titles out there. But this is as far beyond any previous Happy Madison title as a Ferrari is from a hay wagon.
The plot of Paul Blart: Mall Cop–and in perhaps the creepiest part of the whole thing, it does indeed have a plot, and it’s both clear and shockingly coherent–involves the title character, Paul Blart, in the title position, Mall Cop. He’s the most conscientious security guard ever seen by mortal men, and the mall is his beat. He’s a nice guy, if a little goofy and socially inept, and he’s a family man, too, living with his mother and daughter. His wife left him in a funny yet at the same time sad story.
Anyway, he’s cruising the mall on his custom Segway–he actually has TWO, his duty model and one he keeps for off-duty use in his garage. He even has a funny video of him performing tricks on one. And yes, you’ll get to see it. He keeps law and order the best he can, even though most of the mall’s patrons have little respect for him. And his efforts to join the New Jersey State Troopers have met with failure due to his hypoglycemia. Fully eight times.
Which means, when the mall is taken over by a highly-skilled gang of thieves, and only Paul Blart is left inside thanks to a brief moment of inattention brought on by a game of Rock Band, it’s only Paul Blart who can save the day, the mall, and the woman he loves.
Yes, for those of you who were wondering, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is basically Die Hard, if you replaced Nakatomi Tower with the West Orange Pavilion Mall, Christmas Eve with Black Friday, and John McClane with a ginormous hypoglycemic with delusions of grandeur. I don’t know if they were actually TRYING to make a parody, but if they were, they definitely succeeded. And if they WEREN’T trying for a parody, then they just blundered into the best accidental parody EVER.
Seriously…if they weren’t planning for a parody of Die Hard, then they deserve every penny of the hundred-plus-million this thing has made so far. It’s just too amazing to not.
So all things considered, I’m still amazed, but I’m recommending Paul Blart: Mall Cop. It took me three tries to type it but I’m a hundred percent serious. See this movie. It’s just that good.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop star Kevin James is set to star in the title role in MGM’s The Zookeeper for director Frank Coraci.
Zookeeper is a tale of a lonely zookeeper who decides to leave his job because he can’t meet a girl, leading to intervention by the zoo’s animals.
Variety reported that James had always been his first choice for the role, particularly due to his ability to perform physical comedy.
Production is set to start hopefully this summer.
Director Dennis Dugan, who often collaborates with Adam Sandler, is to direct an untitled comedy for Columbia 
pictures with Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade in negotiations to star. Summer start date is expected.
Sandler wrote the screenplay with Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star scribe Fred Wolf.
According to Variety, the untitled comedy is a high-concept story about five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on a Fourth of July weekend.
Actor Kevin James (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), while out doing press for his new comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop, confirmed that he is still actively developing a new comedy called The Zookeeper for MGM.
He said: “There’d been a draft of it and there’d been writers on it but we’re rewriting and working on it now, and I hope to have my fingerprints on it and bring what I can to it… I play a zookeeper-another guy in a uniform, no moustache in this one, we may go very bushy sideburns-I don’t even know, but it’s in the beginning stages of that.”
Scribes Jay Scherick and David Ronn are attached to the project.