For years, a screen adaptation of Dave Eggers' "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" has been in development hell, unable to find a director ready to bring it to the big screen.

While "Genius" is still delayed, Krasinski is starring in another project written by Eggers and his better half, Vendela Vida, with "American Beauty" helmer Sam Mendes tapped to direct.

"My girlfriend is Maya Rudolph in the movie and she becomes pregnant, we're both two people that never feel they belong anywhere," Krasinski said of the film's setup. "So we decide to travel across the country and see a bunch of our friends. Wherever we feel like home is where we decide to settle." Read more...

As a rule of thumb, Pete Wentz is excited about pretty much everything, so when I was talking to him yesterday about Fall Out Boy's upcoming arena tour -- which he's dubbed the "Young Wild Things Tour," in a nod to Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" -- it wasn't exactly breaking news that he was super-pumped to hit the road. But what was rather interesting was just closely he was following the upcoming Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation of the book, which is tentatively due from Warner Bros. next October (see our first look from the film here).

"I'm so excited to see the new movie. I've only seen one picture but it was stunning - I think it's an Eggerts script. This movie was a long time coming," he wrote me in an email. "When I was a kid I wanted to be Max when I grew up, which was insane because he was another kid. I think every parent should read this story to their kid." Read more...