Here's your daily dose of film news for Feb. 10, 2009:

• Greta Gerwig joins Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach's next drama "Greenburg." Plot details are kept under wraps, but you can expect the story to deal with people and their complex relationships similar to his previous films. Gerwig starred in "Baghead" and "Hannah Takes the Stairs." (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Gianni Amelio is adapting Albert Camus' novel "The First Man," an unfinished autobiography found in a briefcase when Camus died in a car crash in 1960. Variety says the film will start shooting in April in North Africa and France. Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes and Claudia Cardinale are set to star.

• Hafsia Herzi has joined Emmanuelle Beart in "Ma Campagne de Nuit," a film directed by Helen Lauren and Isabelle Brockard. Not much is known about the plot at this stage. (Variety)

• Participant Media is in talks to join Focus Features' project "The Attack," based on "Yasmina Khadra’s book about an affluent Palestinian doctor working in an Israeli hospital whose life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife may have become a suicide bomber." (Variety)

Ben Stiller will replace Mark Ruffalo in "Greenburg," a dramedy written and directed by Noah Baumbach, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

No official reasons have been given to explain Ruffalo's exit. The trade says Amy Adams, who was originally expected to star alongside Ruffalo, also had to drop the project.

Plot details are strictly kept under wraps, although the story may focus on relationships between characters similar to those of Baumbach's previous flicks.

Baumbach earned an Oscar nomination for "The Squid and the Whale." He most recently directed "Margot at the Wedding," and he also wrote the script for Wes Anderson's "The Fantastic Mr. Fox."

Stiller, who was last seen in "Tropic Thunder," will next star in "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian."