---

He was an enigmatic legend, and it looks as if the picture that just came together will do that justice. I've just learned that Universal has acquired this project based on the life of Frank Sinatra from Mandalay Pictures. Phil Alden Robinson is writing the screenplay, and Marty Scorsese will direct as well as produce through his Sikelia Productions. The Sinatra family gave its permission, which is not easy to get, and youngest daughter Tina Sinatra will be an executive producer along with Robinson and Garry LeMel, the former president of Warner Bros music division and himself a musician. The producers will be Peter Guber and his movie exec Cathy Schulman. "This has been a passion project for Peter Guber for a long time, and first he got together with the Sinatra Estate, and then with Scorsese who's also a huge Sinatra fan," an insider tells me. That Scorsese might direct this film has been rumored for a year. In fact, Tina herself has told journalists in the past that she would "trust Scorsese implicitly" to "present the truth" about her father because he's also an Italian-American. No names of actors who might play Sinatra in the movie are circulating yet. Any suggestions?

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Ol' Blue Eyes and young red hair are returning to the big screen—separately, that is.

Martin Scorsese has signed on to direct and produce a biopic of none other than Frank Siantra.

Sinatra, the first big-screen film on the entertainment legend, will touch on his love affairs and marriages (two of his four wives were Mia Farrow and Ava Gardner), his friendships with John F. Kennedy and the rest of the Rat Pack, his singing and acting career and, of course, his possible Mafia ties.

No actor is attached to the film, though Scorsese's go-to guy, Leonardo DiCaprio, is already being touted as a possible frontrunner. Universal has secured the rights to Sinatra's back catalog, so the lead won't need to sing, just lip-sync along with the classics.

Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan has finally managed to land a gig, and 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker, Mark Ruffalo, Ray Liotta and Mila Kunis are also hopping on the casting couch.

• Lindsay Lohan is going back to The Other Side, starring in an indie fantasy comedy alongside Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Dave Matthews and Alanis Morissette. The film centers on a grad student who spends the summer working at a science institute on a remote island and discovers the location has a secret history. Cameras roll in Massachusetts this October.

• Talk about a dynamic duo. Forest Whitaker and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson are joining the already-cast Keanu Reeves in Jekyll and Hyde, a contemporary adaptation of the split-personality doctor. Per Variety, there's no word yet on what roles the twosome will take on when filming begins in late summer.

• It's the more the merrier for Date Night. Mark Ruffalo, Mila Kunis and Ray Liotta have signed on to the romantic comedy about a married couple (Tina Fey and Steve Carell) whose attempt at a night out goes horribly awry. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Liotta plays a villain, Kunis is the wife of a low-rent criminal and Ruffalo will play Carell's best friend and husband of Kristen Wiig. The star-studded cast includes Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Taraji P. Henson, Leighton Meester, Common and Jimmi Simpson.

---

---

---