Cameron Crowe has brought together a quite unusual couple, Reese Witherspoon and Ben Stiller. Together they will star in an untitled romantic comedy, just bought by Columbia Pictures. The studio wouldn’t announce what the script is about, but it is written Cameron Crowe, so this probably won’t be your standard love story.

The writer/director, who previously made ‘Jerry Maguire’ and ‘Almost Famous,’ will also fill the director’s chair. He wrote and directed those two movies for Columbia Pictures too.

Christian Slater and Cuba Gooding Jr. will join hands for the action/comedy ‘Lies & Illusions.’ It’s a fairly cheap ($8.5 million) picture made by Nu Image/Millennium Films and will start shooting in Spokane this week. Still, it’s good to see these guys are still working.

The story revolves around a pair of stolen diamonds worth millions of dollars. Spies are hunting a novelist, who they think has those precious diamonds. ‘Lies & Illusions’ is set for an October release. But really, what happened to these guys after ‘Jerry Maguire’ and uhm, what’s Christian Slater’s last hit? Isn’t he straight-to-video these days?