Daily news dose: 'Hangover' writing duo sells script; Kathryn Bigelow to develop 'Triple Frontier'

Here's your dose of film news for August 10, 2009:

• Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writing team behind the brilliant "The Hangover" (pictured above) and the not so brilliant "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" and "Four Christmases," have sold a script entitled "Change Up" to Universal. In the film, a serious guy with a wife switches bodies with a lazy man child. David Dobkin is attached to direct. (Variety)

• Kathryn Bigelow, who recently directed "The Hurt Locker," will team with the film's writer Mark Boal for "Triple Frontier," an action adventure set in the border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Details about the plot are kept under wraps at this stage. (Variety)

• You may not have seen her on the big screen recently, but Tara Reid is still making movies. The "American Pie" actress is joining Greg Garthe's upcoming comedy "Last Call," about two cousins forced to run a family pub. Travis Van Winkle, Ryan Hansen, Christopher Lloyd, Tom Arnold, Dave Foley and Diora Baird co-star. (THR)

• Nine films will compete for a new 3D prize at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, and here are the candidates: Pixar's "Up," "The Hole," “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Monsters vs. Aliens,” “My Bloody Valentine,” "Battle for Terra," "Coraline," “Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience” and “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.” Wait! The Jonas Brothers?! It's a sick world indeed. (Variety)