Buzz News Roundup, 8/6
- Mark Ruffalo will make his directorial debut on the film Sympathy for Delicious, which will also star James Franco, writes ComingSoon.
- The novel The Dogs of Babel will be adapted for the big screen, Variety reports.
- A new Parents Television Council study has found that TV portrays sex between married people as boring, TV Week reports.
- AMC is developing a new political thriller TV series about a "secret society that controls the world's political stage," TV Guide reports.
- According to E! Online, Kevin Smith has won his appeal to get an R rating (rather than NC-17) for his raunchy comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
- Hollywood Reporter has the news that the spoof book Drink, Play, F@#K will be made into a movie.
- Variety writes that DreamWorks has taken down the Tropic Thunder promotional website simplejackmovie.com for being offensive to the mentally challenged.
- Eli Roth, director of the Hostel movies, will star in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards, reports Zap2It.
