Grilled: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Burt Reynolds is lighting up the barbecue for New Line Cinema's Grilled. Juliette Lewis is in negotiations to join the comedy. Jason Ensler is directing the Ray Romano-Kevin James feature, which follows a day in the life of two meat salesmen who will stop at nothing to make a sale. Reynolds plays Cookie Goldbluth, a prospect for the two salesman.

Lewis would play a character who is ditzy and suicidal.

Shooting is scheduled to start July 7 in Los Angeles.

Reynolds next shoots the Paramount remake The Longest Yard. He starred in the 1974 original.