Super Scientologists Anne Archer (“Fatal Attraction”) and husband Terry Jastrow have put out a casting call for a movie he’s written and will direct, and she will co-produce. “The Squeeze” has something to do with golf and Jastrow’s devotion to the game. The Jastrows are co-producing with photographer Michael Doven, one time assistant to and still bff to one Tom Cruise.

Archer is the mother of Tommy Davis, who has been Scientology’s spokesman and celebrity wrangler for many years. But Davis and his wife, Jessica Feshbach– Katie Holmes’s Scientology monitor when she was first with Cruise–have become very low profile in the last couple of years.

The Jastrows recently sought tax breaks to shoot the $3 million movie in Colorado. They describe the movie as a combination of “Tin Cup” and “Caddyshack.” http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2013/08/fast_and_furious_7_extreme_weight_loss_colorado.php

The  storyline sounds like you’ve seen this movie before: “AUGIE, a talented young golfer who’s never been outside his small Southern rural town, is recruited by RIVERBOAT, a smooth talking gambling addict, to head to Vegas to make some serious cash. He soon finds himself embroiled in a deadly game  of one upmanship between Riverboat and JIMMY DIAMONDS, a mobster who’s rather kill than lose a wager…”

Jeremy Sumpter has been cast as Augie. Who will play Riverboat and Jimmy? How about Jason Lee and John Travolta? Hmmm….And Kirstie Alley as the crusty owner of the local saloon…”The Squeeze” shoots in Durango, Colorado beginning October 1st…

Elmore Leonard, who wrote great crime novels and mysteries, died this morning at 7:15am. His Facebook page said he was surrounded by family. Leonard had recently suffered a stroke. Author of countless bestsellers, many of his books were made into movies including “Get Shorty,” “Out of Sight,” and “Jackie Brown” (which was published as “Rum Punch”). The F/X series “Justified” is based on his stories. Twenty six of his novels and short stories have been made into movies– some of them twice, like “3:10 to Yuma.” His work has given audiences around the world immense pleasure. Leonard was one of the few writers of this generation to make literary work accessible. He will be sorely missed.

Debbie Rowe and Randy Jackson, her former brother in law, are having a fight on Twitter. The subject seems to be Debbie’s daughter Paris, 15, who’s been “away” now for quite a while after a suicide attempt this past spring. Randy, known for preying on brother Michael for money, started questioning tonight on Twitter why Paris, a niece he’s never had much use for, is still under lock and key in a sleep away school for troubled teens. Debbie, who loves fighting with people on Twitter, didn’t cotton to Randy’s observations. Paris, it should be noted, hasn’t been heard from since June 4th, after being incredibly open and public with her social networking. In the weeks leading up to her suicide attempt Paris had gotten much friendlier with Rowe, her biological parent. A month before the suicide attempt she’d signed with a major Hollywood manager.

@randyjackson8 as usual you are grossly misinformed

— Painted Desert Ranch (@DJRJPDR) August 20, 2013

These Tweets from Randy preceded that one:

I dont like that Paris is still in this facility. It's not right

— Randy Jackson (@randyjackson8) August 20, 2013

She's been there much too long

— Randy Jackson (@randyjackson8) August 20, 2013

She is not psychotic . There is no reason for her to be in a psychiatric hospital this long away from her family

— Randy Jackson (@randyjackson8) August 20, 2013

I just hate the fact that you will probably still be there on my brother's birthday. This is not good

— Randy Jackson (@randyjackson8) August 20, 2013

There's something more to this there's something going on I don't like it I'm afraid for her

— Randy Jackson (@randyjackson8) August 20, 2013

Psychiatric hospitals oftentimes make you feel as though you're psychotic when you're not . Sometimes they make matters worse

— Randy Jackson (@randyjackson8) August 20, 2013

I'm going to look into this . Stay tuned

— Randy Jackson (@randyjackson8) August 20, 2013

Exclusive: Will he have to call it “Lee Daniels’ Sammy Davis Jr”? Let’s hope not. But the word I’m hearing is that Lee Daniels is circling a project about Sammy Davis Jr. at HBO. Recently there’s been some talk about Tommy Davidson of “In Living Color” fame playing Davis, but nothing had come together. The Sammy story is rife with rights issues including who is the estate, who isn’t, which books are optioned, who owns what. Davis had the most extraordinary life, including the Rat Pack days of course, his early career, his controversial marriage to May Britt. Daniels is hot hot hot right now with “The Butler.” This has Emmy Awards written all over it. PS Whoever plays Sammy will have to top Don Cheadle’s great performance several seasons ago in “The Rat Pack.” And no, versatile though he is, Al Pacino is not up for this!

It’s hard to imagine anyone going to see “The Canyons” at this point but someone did. The Paul Schrader film with Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen made $5,309 over the weekend. The movie actually added five theatres this past week and dropped 52.1% from the week before. The total gross now is $43,383 after three torturous weeks. Lindsay has moved on to an episode of HBO’s Eastbound and Down, and to confessing her sins to Oprah. Deen goes back to porno, which is probably more lucrative.

The box office this weekend did not produce happy results for the people behind “Kick Ass 2.” The reason was likely Jim Carrey, who was added to the sequel with the hopes that he would garner publicity for the film. Let’s rewind: “Kick Ass” had a $19.8 million opening in 2010, and went on make $96 million worldwide (literally $48 mil here, $48 mil everywhere else). It was a left field hit for Lions Gate.

Carrey was brought in for the sequel, which was directed Jeff Wadlow–the nephew, by the way, of Katie Couric.  Adding Carrey in a showy role meant a news hook when the movie was released. But then the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut happened. Carrey took them to heart– yes, it was awful, but it had nothing to do with “Kick Ass 2.” Carrey began denouncing the movie, and said he couldn’t promote its violence in light of the shootings. He was gone. And with him went any chance of “Kiss Ass 2” doing better than its predecessor.

Alas, “Kick Ass 2” was kicked in the ass by Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” this weekend. The Wadlow film finished fourth, after “We’re the Millers” and “Elysium.” it took in $13.5 million– far less than the first “Kick Ass.” Its momentum has been blunted. Carrey, whose career doesn’t really exist in a meaningful way anymore, has been AWOL. It will be interesting to see how the dozen or so producers on the film– including Brad Pitt, Matthew Vaughn and his wife Claudia Schiffer, plus Mark Millar–respond to the situation. They tried to spin last week saying Carrey’s protest of the movie was going to help them. Now that it hasn’t, they may be singing a different tune.

I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013

I meant to say my apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013