Vince Vaughn is teaming with Wedding Crashers director, David Dobkin, for a holiday comedy entitled Fred Claus.

Vince Vaughn is in talks to play Fred Claus, Santa Claus's loser brother. Sounds like more than welcome cross of "Elf" and "Bad Santa."

For his role of Fred Claus Vince Vaughn will receive his career's highest paycheck of $20 million, Variety reports.

It is rumored that Vince's "Wedding Crasher" partner Owen Wilson will also join "Fred Claus" cast. Other stars in talks are Will Farrell and Ben Stiller.

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Vince Vaughn, 36, made his movie breakthrough in "Swingers." Soon after that he was cast by Steven Spielberg in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which gave him an amount of exposure.

From there, Vince Vaughn, whose exotic looks - his mother is of Italian and Lebanese descent, and father is of German and Irish descent, - are topped by mystery and charm went on to play Norman Bates in the 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

In 2000 Vince Vaughn starred in the strikingly goth and stylish "The Cell" with Jennifer Lopez. Since 2003, Vince Vaughn's movie career has skyrocketed and he is now considered a very bankable star. His hit movies Old School, Starsky & Hutch and Dodgeball were reinforced by supporting but visible roles in "Be Cool" and in Doug Liman's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Vince Vaughn's 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers has grossed a little over $200 million dollars at the box office. Vince Vaughn will soon be seen in "The Breakup" alongside his real-life girfriend Jennifer Aniston. 

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