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'Wedding Crashers' Reloaded: Warner Bros. pays $1.25 M for Dobkin-directed pitch

EXCLUSIVE: You heard it here first: Fishbowl L.A. has learned that "Wedding Crashers" director David Dobkin has just set up his new project at Warner Bros. Pictures. The mega-sale reunites Dobkin with his fellow "Crashers" producer, Andrew Panay on a pitch for which the studio has paid a hefty $1.25 million. Dobkin will both direct and also produce with Panay.

Currently untitled, the pricey pitch came from the screenwriting team of Tim Rasmussen and Vince Di Meglio a pair of relatively unknown guys, until last year anyway.

The duo made their bones with a rewrite of "Meet the Fockers" for Universal a year ago which got the Ben Stiller sequel into ship (or at least land-yacht) shape.

Like "Fockers" Dobkin's latest project will explore a father's disappointment with his daughter's choice of potential mates: Plot is being kept hushed up, but we can tell you this much: It's about a Southern guy dad whose three daughters return home for Thanksgiving with new boyfriends in tow: An Arab, a Jew and, of course, a black guy.

No, really.

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(Above: "Father, I know she's a godless infidel, but... I love her!")

Sounds subtle, right? It's very "Don't Be A Martyr to My Daughters While Drinking Your 40 Ounce at the Western Wall, You Hood!"

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Anyway, at least the comission goes to United Talent Ageny, which recently lost Dobkin after he and his agent Dan Aloni defected to Creative Artists Agency last week - a move that was also first reported here.

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(Pictured above: Creative Artists Agency, "fully operational")

Stay tuned!

And Hag Sameach, homies!


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