Summit Entertainment will open Doug Liman’s “Fair Game” in limited release domestically on Nov. 5.
Studio will expand the Naomi Watts-Sean Penn topliner, about outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, on the following two weekends.

Summit picked up rights to “Fair Game” in April. Pic was financed by River Road Entertainment, Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi; producers are River Road’s Bill Pohlad, Zucker Prods.’ Janet and Jerry Zucker, Weed Road Pictures’ Akiva Goldsman, Liman and Jez Butterworth.

Summit also announced that it’s dated “The Darkest Hour” for Aug. 5, 2011. Pic’s directed by Chris Gorak with Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Rachel Taylor, Max Minghella and Joel Kinnaman starring and centers on four young tourists who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.

Olivia Thirlby, the young actress known for supporting roles in such indies as “Juno” and “The Wackness,” has booked one of the leading roles in “The Darkest Hour,” a sci-fi action movie that will shoot on location in Moscow during the summer.

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The script, which director Chris Gorak and Josh Zetumer are currently revising, follows a group of Americans traveling in the Russian capital when an alien invasion occurs. Thirlby plays a trust-fund girl who teams up with others to try to defeat the invaders.

Summit Entertainment will distribute in North America, and Fox internationally.

Thirlby, perhaps best known for playing Ellen Page’s sidekick in “Juno,” is due to shoot another indie, the fantasy romance “Jack and Diane,” this spring.

Jack & Diane, the lesbian werewolf film that has been in the works for four years, has now settled on a star. Originally, the role was going to Ellen Page (Juno), and then Alison Pill (Milk), but now it appears Juno Temple (Year One) will star, Bloody Disgusting is reporting (via /Film).
Temple will star opposite Olivia Thirlby in the film that centers around teenage lesbians who evidently turn into werewolves upon arousal.
The film, written and directed by Bradley Rust Gray (Hitch) will begin shooting in May, after the funding obstacle course it has been running since 2007.