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Jimmy Fallon and Sharon Stone have committed to star in "Eliot Rockett," an indie drama to shoot in February. Fallon also has made a deal with Universal Pictures to star in an untitled comedy he hatched. Tom Shadyac and Michael Bostick will produce at Shady Acres. Fallon will co-write the screenplay; project is a potential directing vehicle for Shadyac. "Eliot Rockett" marks the feature directing debut of Patrick Sisam, who wrote the script with Rick Velleu based on short stories by Ethan Canin. Fallon will play a man devoted to his work but unable to commit to his girlfriend or anything else in his personal life. He returns to his hometown after his estranged father suffers a stroke. Stone will play his mother, a central figure in his dysfunctional past. Neither Universal nor Shady Acres would reveal the logline for the untitled comedy, but all made clear that it is being crafted to fit the talents that Fallon displayed on "Saturday Night Live." "Jimmy walked in, started the pitch by pulling out his guitar, and within two minutes we’d fallen for a pitch that takes advantage of all his skills and musical abilities," Bostick said. "He plays a musician, the comedy is set in the world of music, and he’s charming, likable and laugh-out-loud funny." Shadyac recently wrapped "Evan Almighty" with Steve Carell. Bostick said they will move quickly to set a co-writer to work with Fallon.
Variety
Not sure what is worse…Jimmy Fallon doing an indie drama or the fact he is working with Sharon Stone? This is on my must skip list!
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 Sharon Stone is going to cohost the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 11, and no one deserves it more. This is considered a plum job, previously held by Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julianne Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Oprah Winfrey and several other Hollywood stars. Stone, more than most, really deserves this accolade. Her fundraising for amfAR is without peer, as is her devotion to the cause of finding money for AIDS research. Now the Nobel committee just has to find a nice guy to cohost the show with her. And sorry, Mel Gibson is out of the question. This is shaping up to be Stone’s year. Her performance in "Bobby," Emilio Estevez’s film about the day Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel, is going to win her Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. Sharon plays the hotel’s hairdresser, who is also married to hotel manager, played by William H. Macy. In many ways, she is the anchor of the multiple-character drama, and she does her job with unexpected skill. Stone was on her way to accolades like this last year, when she costarred with Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s "Broken Flowers." But her part was a tad too small, and the film — Jarmusch’s best work in years — fell by the wayside. Maybe it was just a warming up, though, for "Bobby" and her role as Miriam. Stone told me the other night that she brought in her own makeup woman — Tricia Sawyer — whose previous jobs for Stone included "Casino" and "Basic Instinct," among others. The result was that Stone — who looks pretty ravishing in real life — plays a character who wears her life on her face. "I’m through with all those other movies," Sharon told me. "Now it’s just movies and parts for me, like this one. There’s nothing else to do." In the meantime, Stone has some other problems. On Friday night at the Robert Kennedy Memorial Dinner, she was accompanied by one of the most obtrusive and least gracious security guards I’ve encountered in some time. The word is that La Stone may have an overly enthusiastic fan out there.
Fox411
I just hope she wears a better dress.
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