Spoiler Alert: The Winner In Monsters Vs. Aliens Is…Dreamworks!

Monsters vs Aliens opens, J.J. Abrams gets extended, and Ricky Gervais’ next film will be unlike anything he’s ever done before except for The Office.

Sony has picked up Ricky Gervais‘ The Men at Pru, a “coming-of-age tale about a group of men working at an insurance company”—Prudential maybe?-”in the 1970s.” Gervais will write, produce, and direct in collaboration with Stephen Merchant. It’s unclear whether the pair will successfully be able to capture the essence of what it’s like for young men to work in stultifyingly dull white-collar desk jobs [Variety].

Paramount and Dreamworks’ 3D cartoon Monsters vs. Aliens opens stateside today on 7,000 screens, 2,000 of which will feature the 3D wizardry. Industry watchers are anxiously awaiting box office to see if anyone will really pay an extra $US3 or $US4 a ticket to be nauseated for an hour-and-a-half [Variety].

Slumdog Millionaire screenwriter Simon Beaufoy will write Truckers, an animated feature for DreamWorks, and not Wolverine II, as the internet had hoped. No one knows what Truckers will be about, though if Beaufoy brings the Slumdog magic, we expect it will involve adorable young truckstop hookers [THR].

Paramount has extended its production deal with J.J. Abrams‘ production company Bad Robot through 2013. Abrams’ latest film is Star Trek, due out in May; Morning Glory, a Rachel McAdams-Harrison Ford vehicle, starts production in June [Variety].