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Today in showbiz news: The Canadian maple syrup heist gets the movie treatment, FX renews The Bridge, and Lifetime cancels Army Wives.

Sony has just bought a comedy starring Jason Segel about last year's heist of over $20 million in maple syrup in Canada. It'll be a comedy, directed by Identity Thief's Seth Gordon, even though this was a really serious crime. Because you just can't make a movie about a Canadian syrup heist and not have it be funny. You can't. Many have tried, and they have all failed. It's gotta be a comedy. Well, OK, Deadline says the movie will have "dramatic overtones," but it's still definitely a comedy. I mean, Bridesmaids had dramatic overtones, but you wouldn't call that anything but a comedy. So it's a syrup heist comedy, the one we've all been anticipating since this crazy story broke. [Deadline]

FX has renewed the border town mystery series The Bridge for a second season. The show gets consistently strong ratings, up near The Americans territory, and has done well overseas too. That said, you don't really hear people talking about this show much, do you? It's not one of the buzzed-about shows, it's just sort of... on. But, FX doesn't care so much about that as it does about numbers, and the numbers are good, so Diane Kruger, Demian Bichir, and the rest of the gang get to keep their jobs for another year. Felicidades to them all. [The Hollywood Reporter]