Couples Retreat now has a release date: October 9, 2009. Mark your calendars.

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Vince Vaughn finally is getting that tropical paradise getaway so cruelly denied to him in his dysfunctional-family holiday hit Four Christmases.

One catch: He has to share his trip to the exotic isle of Bora Bora with a bunch of married friends who are coping with rocky relationships.

The producer and Frat Pack kingpin has beckoned what has become his new crew of regular co-stars — Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau and Faizon Love, plus Peter “A Christmas Story” Billingsley in his feature directing debut — for Couples Retreat, a romantic comedy due this summer.

“I had the concept a while ago, and Favreau did the first draft of the screenplay with specific actors in mind,” Vaughn says.

Bateman, hoping to patch up his union with Kristen Bell, wants to go on a therapy vacation and invites three other couples along to save costs. But instead of simply enjoying fun in the sun, the suburbanites are forced to scrutinize the states of their own marriages.

Vaughn sums up the situation: “Jason and Kristen are Type A’s struggling to have kids. Faizon and his wife have just separated, and he is dating a young girl from Foot Locker (Kali Hawk). Me and my wife (Malin Akerman of 27 Dresses) are swamped with the kids and work. Favreau and Kristin Davis are secretly not completely faithful to each other.”

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Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis and Malin Akerman are signing up for Couples Retreat, a Jon Favreau-scripted and Peter Billingsley-directed comedy for Universal.

The story revolves around four couples who go to a tropical island resort, with one couple working on their marriage and the others sucked into the resort’s couples therapy. Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love are the men.

Bell is playing Bateman’s wife, Davis plays Favreau’s wife, and Akerman plays Vaughn’s.

Scott Stuber is producing.

The movie will shoot in Bora Bora and Los Angeles.

Bell, repped by CAA and Brookside Artists Management, toplines Disney’s romantic comedy When in Rome and is doing voice work for Astroboy. She continues to recur on NBC’s Heroes.

Davis, repped by WMA and Mosaic Media, is coming off of the Sex and the City movie, which grossed $408 million worldwide.

Akerman, repped by Endeavor and Sanders Armstrong Caserta Management, next appears in Watchmen, the adaptation of the Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons graphic novel. She also will appear in The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.

Credit: HollywoodReporter.com