Mike MyersFor Mark Waters, it's like a daydream become reality: The "Mean Girls" director revealed to MTV News that he may once again pick up the reigns of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," three years after he lost his first chance at the project due to Hurricane Katrina.

"Mike Myers is taking it over completely, throwing out the screenplay. He's starting over with a new screenplay that he's going to write," Waters said. "I may end up circling back to it because Mike and I have developed things together. If his screenplay ends up really great I might end up jumping back into it with him." Read More...

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Mark Waters"The Spiderwick Chronicles" might be the most original fantasy adventure to come down the pike in years, director Mark Waters says, but if it is it won't be because of new creatures or revolutionary special effects. No, it'll be because the kids don't speak with British accents.

Waters called MTV News to explain why he's only slightly exaggerating, how his film compares to the Potter-verse, how John Sayles got mixed up with goblins and fairies, and more.

MTV: Way to include all the books in one movie. We're talking no sequel money.

Mark Waters: [He laughs.] Yeah, but you know what? The good thing about the books is they're short — they're about 100 pages with very big lettering. So they were designed to play as one big arc of a serial, whereas the "Harry Potter" books have 870 pages. So, on that, these things are little miniseries. As long as [authors] Tony [Diterlizzi] and Holly [Black] are creating books, I think there's always going to be new movie opportunities being created. Read More...

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Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey has already fallen in love with his wedding planner, had ten days to make a woman fall for him, and been fooled by a woman into moving out of his parents' home. And in case his fans haven't already had their fill of high-concept romantic hijinks, he'll soon be haunted by a group of women who moan for all the wrong reasons.

"I've got 'The Ghost of Girlfriends Past' with Matthew McConaughey next," reported director Mark Waters recently, talking about the romantic comedy king's next flick. "It's a take-off on 'A Christmas Carol,' about a guy who sleeps with lots of women and breaks their hearts."

"He basically has a magical comeuppance on Christmas, where he learns the error of his ways like Scrooge," grinned Waters, director of "Mean Girls" and the upcoming fantasy "The Spiderwick Chronicles." "It's Scrooge, but with hot chicks." Read More...

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