Roberts, Povinelli on 'Hot' streak

Eric Roberts and Mark Povinelli have signed on because the male leads within the Susan Seidelman-helmed basketball comedy "The Menopausal Flashes," starring Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Melanie Griffith, Wanda Sykes and Camryn Manheim. Principal photography started Monday in New Orleans. Film has been created by Nina Henderson Moore, Kaira Hennig and Seidelman, with Laurie Lacob professional creating. "The Menopausal Flashes," composed by Hennig, focuses on an unlikely team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former senior high school champs, who challenge the present arrogant senior high school girls' condition champs to boost money for cancer of the breast prevention.Roberts will have the estranged husband from the lead character described by Shields Povinelli would be the team's cranky coach.Shields plays the Flashes' team captain while Hannah shows a closeted lesbian battling to deal within the small Texas town. Griffith shows a five-time divorcee who joins they to be able to get even and among her ex-husbands, the mind coach from the opponents. Sykes may be the mayor and just African-American within the small Texas town Manheim is definitely an an overweight teammate having a taste for cannabis-laced desserts.Lightning Entertainment is handling worldwide sales. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com