What is Casting Couch? A handy way to keep up with what all of your favorite actors are going to be up to in the coming months and years. Does that make you a stalker? Today we’ve got word on who’s the latest name to join George Clooney in Brad Bird’s mysterious Tomorrowland. Few things in the world are funnier than Jack Black kicking Will Ferrell’s dog off of a bridge, that much is certain. But take the hilarious animal cruelty out of the equation and would these two A-list comedians still be able to produce laughs together? We’re about to find out, because THR is reporting that New Line is putting together a comedy called Tag, which has them attached as co-stars. The basic story of the film comes from a “Wall Street Journal” article about ten classmates from a Washington prep school, now all in their 40s, who get together one month out of the year to play an elaborate game of tag. This conceit, of course, is just the sort of manchild nonsense that these two should be able to knock out of the park, as long as they get a script everyone likes and the thing actually comes together.

Over the years, the term “Black List script” has become much more prevalent when it comes to the reporting of new projects, thanks to the increased awareness of Franklin Leonard‘s annual list, one that just seems to balloon as the years go by. So just what is on this year’s list? Well, a lot of stuff we’ve already heard of. This year’s list was “compiled from the suggestions over 290 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2012 and will not have completed principal photography during this calendar year.” To keep things a bit slimmed down (this list is not even remotely slimmed down), each script had to receive at least six votes in order to be eligible. The list was announced via The Black List‘s official Twitter earlier this morning. Of the 78 picks that made the list, 50 of the films are already in some form of production or are already financed (here’s a nifty trick – if a film listing contains a slug for “Production” or “Financier” that baby is already in production or financed for prouduction). Oh, for the days of truly “unproduced” screenplays. The top pick, Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman’s Draft Day, has already gotten plenty of heat, thanks to past rumors that Kevin Costner was attached to star in it. The project is currently in turnaround at Paramount, but we suspect that will change

Whoever Kevin Costner‘s agent is deserves the most ostentatious, wallet-busting, heart attack-inducing gift basket on the planet because they are working hard for the money. Let’s recap. Costner, who, as of a year or so ago, everyone had pretty much sort of forgotten about other than to mention in passing, “oh, yeah, Kevin Costner, I liked that guy” came smashing back into the collective Hollywood consciousnesses with last summer’s rumor that he would co-star in Django Unchained (though that proved fruitless), used that zing to get cast in Man of Steel, then grabbed an Emmy-winning role in Hatfields & McCoys, a major part in Jack Ryan, and a starring role in McG’s next thriller. Is Costner done yet? Not by a mile. Vulture reports (via The Playlist) that Costner will now topline Ivan Reitman‘s Draft Day, an NFL-centric film that follows the manager of the Buffalo Bills (Costner’s new role) on one heck of a day: the day he’s trying to land the number one draft pick in order to make all sorts of nutty trades, made all the more complicated by personal drama (you know, draft day). Sounds fun and all, but now it seems like Draft Day may have another feather in its cap, and not just of the Costner variety.