Here is your dose of the latest film news out of Hollywood and from across the Web for Sept. 30, 2009:

• Screenwriter Roger Avary, who won an Oscar for "Pulp Fiction" and has "Silent Hill 2" and "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" in development, will spend one year in jail for causing a fatal car crash in 2008. One passenger in Avary's car died in the crash in Southern California. Avary also received five years of probation. (Variety)

• John C. Reilly has signed on to star in Miguel Arteta's "Cedar Rapids," a comedy also starring Ed Helms. The film follows a man (Helms) sent to represent his company at a regional insurance conference in Cedar Rapids. Reilly plays a man who also attends the event but doesn't take it seriously. (The Hollywood Reporter)

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Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes and John C. Reilly have signed on to star in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's new comedy "The Extra Man."

Variety describes the plot as follows:

"Kline plays a failed playwright who works as an escort for rich widows on the Upper East Side. He develops a mentor-student relationship with a troubled aspiring playwright (Dano)."

The film is based on the novel by Jonathan Ames, who wrote the screenplay with Springer Berman and Pulcini. The duo's directing credits include "The Nanny Diaries" and the superb "American Splendor."

Kline is just the right guy to play a failed playwright. The actor was last seen in "Definitely, Maybe." As for Dano, he most recently delivered a superb performance in "There Will Be Blood."

Holmes' last film was the crappy "Mad Money," while Reilly was last seen in the mildly funny comedy "Step Brothers."

John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei and Jonah Hill are in negotiations to star in a Fox Searchlight untitled comedy written and directed by Mark and Jay Duplass.

According to Variety, the film follows a divorced man (Reilly) who falls in love with the woman (Tomei) of his dreams. Unfortunately, she has a son (Hill) who does not want his mother to date anyone.

This premise pretty much sounds exactly like "Mamma's Boy," in which Jon Heder played an idiot son who refused to share his mother (Diane Keaton) with a new man (Jeff Daniels).

Anyway, the Duplass brothers most recently helmed "Baghead." They are currently wrapping up post-production for "The Do-Deca-Pentathlon."

Reilly was last seen in "Step Brothers." He will next star in Paul Weitz's "Cirque du Freak." As for Tomei, she will next be seen in "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke. Hill is currently filming Judd Apatow's "Funny People."