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Sonnenfeld Back to ‘Saving the World’
We Are Movie Geeks — Director Barry Sonnenfeld (’Men in Black’, ‘Men in Black II’) has signed on to direct and produce the action comedy ‘The How-to Guide for Saving the World’. One of the first things I read when I joined the manly William Morris Agency was Ben David Grabinski’s script. I loved the writing, and the concept: what would happen if one afternoon, the secret group that protects Earth from alien invaders was wiped out? Fortunately, they left behind an instruction manual for saving Earth. Unfortunately, a non-action-hero guy not unlike me, in terms of manliness, and a woman who ...

Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up - Dec. 18, 2008
Screen Rant — One week to Christmas and to take your mind off all the shopping that you haven’t done is the Mid Week Movie News Wrap Up. This week: Adam Shankman sails Sinbad; Sam Worthington may be The Phantom; Barry Sonnenfeld reads The How-To Guide for Saving the World and Rachel McAdams has Morning Glory. ...

Sonnenfeld Hopes You Won’t Remember Men in Black
Film School Rejects —  Our bff’s over at ComingSoon.net are reporting that Barry Sonnenfeld will be directing and producing The How-to Guide for Saving the World - a film that feels suspiciously like most other world-disaster action/comedies. Sonnenfeld described the pitch: What would happen if, one afternoon, the secret group that protects Earth from alien invaders was wiped out? Fortunately, they left behind an instruction manual for saving Earth. Unfortunately, a non-action-hero guy not unlike me, in terms of manliness, and a woman who hates him, find the book, and have to save the planet from an ...