The Hollywood Reporter says Jennifer Aniston is in talks to star opposite Adam Sandler in the romantic comedy Pretend Wife set up at Columbia Pictures. Not a whole lot is known about the project other than it was written by Allan Loeb and Tim Dowling and it might be directed by Dennis Dugan. Dugan directed Sandler in Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, The Benchwarmers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, and the 2010 comedy, Grown Ups.

Jennifer Aniston recently completed work on The Baster which, coincidentally, Allan Loeb wrote and produced. Aniston also has The Bounty, an action comedy co-starring Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen), hitting theaters next year.

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Dramas aren't drawing audiences (unless they're dramas loaded with action), but comedies continue to do well at the box office. That said, there were a lot of disappointing laffers released in 2009 (Year One, Land of the Lost, Observe and Report, etc). Thankfully, there were enough decent comedies to make up for the ones that just didn't work. Here are my picks for the funniest movies of 2009. Remember, these are my personal favorites - feel free to disagree.

• Top 10 Comedy Movies of 2009

Also of Interest:

• Speak Out: What was your favorite comedy this year?
  
• The Best Comedies of 2008

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This actually sounds kind of cool...Tweet your personal travel rules using #MyTravelRules and you might win a set of Travel Pro Luggage (valued at $500). Up in the Air writer/director Jason Reitman is judging the contest and will be picking out the five winners from all the #MyTravelRules tweets. But hurry - you only have until 6:00 AM PT on Wednesday, December 9th (yes, that's tomorrow morning) to enter, and you have to reside in the United States to be eligible. Check out the official rules for all the details.

So, what's the deal with the travel rules? In Up in the Air, George Clooney plays a hired gun who flies across the country firing people. Clooney's character, Ryan, practically lives in airports and so he's come up with a series of rules to make the experience easier:

1) Never get in the TSA line behind people with infants. I've never seen a stroller collapse in under 20 min.
2) Never get in the TSA line behind the elderly. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal.
3) Don't spend a nickel of per diem unless it somehow profits your mileage account.
4) Never check a bag. It adds thirty minutes to your flight.
5) When packing, roll your shirts, tuck socks in shoes, and fold your suits inside out.
6) Aisle seats are for those in control of their own destiny.
7) If you're paying to upgrade, then you're doing something wrong.
8) Why do you have liquids? The hotel provides those gratis.
9) Wrist watches don't set off the metal detector. Stop fumbling with yours.
10) The red carpet is for those with status. Here's a brochure. Please step aside.

Use those as examples and tweet away. Who knows? By this time tomorrow you could be the winner of brand new luggage.

More on Up in the Air:

• Up in the Air Movie Review
  
• Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Jason Reitman
  
• Up in the Air Photos

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Morgan Freeman reunites with Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby) to bring the true story of how Nelson Mandela used sports to help unite South Africa by getting behind the country's rugby team and cheering it through to the 1995 World Cup Championship. Freeman, who has long wanted to bring Mandela's story to the big screen, stars in Invictus as the universally respected leader. Matt Damon co-stars as Francois Pienaar, the captain of the 1995 South African rugby team.

• Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon Discuss Invictus and Clint Eastwood

More on Invictus:

• Invictus Photos
  
• Trailer and Clips from Invictus

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