Here is your dose of film news for July 1, 2009:

• Jason Lee and Michelle Trachtenberg are the latest to join Kevin Smith's upcoming Warner Bros. comedy "A Couple of Dicks." Robb and Mark Cullen wrote the script for the action comedy, which also stars Bruce Willis, Tracey Morgan, Seann William Scott and Adam Brody. Willis plays a cop who, along with his partner (Morgan), encounters a mysterious gangster and rescues a Mexican chick during their investigation into the theft of a valuable baseball card. (Variety)

• Charlie Day and Christina Applegate have signed on to star alongside Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in Nanette Burstein's upcoming romantic comedy “Going the Distance" for New Line Cinema. The film focuses on a couple’s attempt to maintain a long-distance relationship. One lives in Chicago while the other is located in Los Angeles. Day will play Long's best friend, while Applegate stars as Barrymore's sister. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker will star in Thom Fitzgerald's upcoming comedy "Cloudburst." The film follows on two female lovers who decide to break out of the nursing facility where one of them is staying. Dukakis recently starred in "Away From Her" and "In the Land of Women." (Variety)

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