My friend heard they had cancelled this movie so this is interesting to see it has a release date. I saw a trailer for part of it and they have the wrong actors playing so many of the parts that it will be interesting to see how this turns out. The guy playing Morreli is Scottish instead of Italian, Debbie Reynolds for Grandma Mazur is totally wrong - Betty White would have been much better. I can see Neicy Nash playing Lula although I agree that Queen Latifah wouldn't be bad either. My friend & I were thinking that maybe the producers had never actually read the books.