As a rule I don’t spend too much time perusing announcements of upcoming movies. (It’s all I can do to deal with the ones opening next week, much less next year). But my eye was caught by two titles on the 2010-2011 slate for Yamani Pictures.

The first one will be Is It Something I Said, starring Eddie Murphy as Richard Pryor. You knew it was only a matter of time, right?

Here’s the one I’ll be looking forward to: Down And Dirty Pictures, based on Peter Biskind’s book about the “indie” film movement of the 1990s, and starring Vincent D’Onofrio as Harvey Weinstein, the one-time Buffalo concert promoter who became the most feared man in the business since Louis B. Meyer. I’ve been a fan of D’Onofrio ever since his psycho turn in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. He’s played a wide range of characters, and I can’t help but wonder which of his faces the casting director had in mind when picturing him as Weinstein.

Could it be this one?

Or maybe this one?

Only time will tell.