John Cusack is set to star in “Dictablanda” (“Soft Dictator”), a screwball comedy of manners which finds the thesp embroiled in international mayhem.

Pablo Bossi’s Pampa Films has already started production on the pic, which Cusack is producing through his New Crime Prods. banner, along with prominent entertainment attorney Kevin Morris and Bossi.

Alejandro Agresti (“The Lake House”) directs from a script he co-wrote with Cusack, Morris and Paul Hipp, who co-stars.

The film, which bares the tagline “People don’t die, they get killed,” is being shot on location in Buenos Aires and Mar de Ajo, Argentina throughout March and April.

Amanda Seyfried’s schedule is plenty packed these days, filming the futuristic thriller Now opposite Justin Timberlake, signing on recently for the kidnapping revenge film Gone, and getting ready to open her revisionist take on Red Riding Hood with director Catherine Hardwicke. But has she made room for one more movie in her lineup, to shoot in Boston this April?

According to Boston film production sources (via Bleeding Cool) she has. They’re hearing that director Patrick Alessandrin will be in the area come April to shoot The Bullet, which has Amanda Seyfriend and John Cusack on board to star. Here’s the only information available about the plot:

“The dark thriller about a man only known as “The Clockmaker” who devises the ultimate plot of revenge against a seemingly random group of people by manipulating them to kill one another.

No word on whether Cusack will play the killer– an interesting change of pace I’d actually be interested to see– or just another one of the victims. Also no confirmation of whether or not the movie is as much of a Saw knockoff as it sounds right now. Both Seyfriend and Cusack have been known to make their share of garbage among actually good movies– Cusack more than ever these days– and Alessandrin’s one major credit is B-13: Ultimatum, the sequel to the French action film that garnered relatively good reviews.

If the news is even true– it’s hard to confirm information on sites like this, and Bleeding Cool doesn’t know anything more than we do– we might have a bizarre Seyfried/Cusack pairing to look forward to, and also some questions about what was supposed to be Alessandrin’s next project, Ten with Bruce Willis. We’ll let you know if we figure out more.

LOS ANGELES – Doom spelled dollars at the box office as the global-disaster tale “2012″ opened at No. 1 domestically with $65 million and pulled in $225 million worldwide.

The Sony Pictures action saga tells the story of a scramble to save remnants of humanity aboard giant arks as the earth’s crust shifts and flood waters pour over most of the planet. With a cast led by John Cusack, Danny Glover and Chiwetel Ejiofor, “2012″ was directed by doomsday specialist Roland Emmerich (“Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow”).