After a morning packed with Christmas presents, consider this Movie News Cheat Sheet a bit of an after dinner drink to the main meal. Okay, not every item on this week’s list will bring you comfort and joy, but the good most certainly outweighs the not so good. Not a fan of 3D? It pains me to report that both The Avengers and Star Trek 2 will go under the post conversion knife. On the bright and unrelated side, the big screen adaptation of Ender’s Game just snagged a slew of new cast members including Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin. In other casting news, Lovelace picked up four and might…

Eva Mendes has joined the cast of Adam McKay’s upcoming comedy “The Other Guys,” formerly known by the title “The B Team”, which McKay and Chris Henchy (“Land of the Lost”) wrote the screenplay for. The action-comedy film already has Michael Keaton, Damon Wayans Jr, Will Ferrell, and Mark Wahlberg attached and all set to star as police officers. “The Other Guys”, which is being produced by Gary Sanchez Productions and Mosaic, is scheduled by Sony for release in August of 2010. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and more from “The Other Guys” and actress Eva Mendes. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

Variety reports that Sony Pictures Entertainment has won the bidding war for the Adam McKay-directed comedy The B Team that will star Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. Screenwriter Christ Henchy, who recently wrote the script for the upcoming Ferrell comedy Land of the Lost, is teaming up with McKay to write The B Team with Ferrell and McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions, and Mosaic producing. Sony has not set a release date for the film, but it is expected to go into production as quickly as the filmmakers can get it ready. Sony Co-President Matt Tolmach reportedly felt comfortable committing to the film without a finished script because Columbia…