Sandler to star in and direct Shankman's production of 'Bedtime Stories'

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Sandler to star

            in and direct Shankman's production of Bedtime       Stories
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          Apr 05, 2007
          
        
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       Adam Sandler will
            star in and direct Bedtime       Stories for Walt
            Disney Pictures, reports Variety.com. Stories
            will be executive produced by Adam Shankman
            (Hairspray), Jennifer Gibgot, and Ann Marie
            Sanderlin. It will be produced by Gunn Films, and Sandler
            and his       producing partner, Jack Giarraputo, through
            Happy Madison Productions.     
       The comedy will
            feature Sandler as a real estate developer whose life
            becomes chaotic when the elaborate bedtime stories he tells
            his niece and       nephew come true.     
       Shankman directed
                Bringing Down the House and       The
            Pacifier for Disney's Mouse House. (The Advocate)     

        
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Sandler to star
in and direct Shankman's production of Bedtime Stories