Jon Hamm gave up a significant amount of money to make sure Confess, Fletch happened.

Confess, Fletch, starring Jon Hamm, is a snarky, triumphant return to the screen for the role Chevy Chase made famous in the '80s.

This could be promising.

Loyal fans of The Sneider Cut will recall last month's juicy rumor that Jon Hamm would star in the long-gestating Fletch reboot, and now Miramax has made it official, sending a press release to all the trades so they could repeat what I already told you. This news has been brewing for much longer than a mere month, mind you. Collider broke the news in early March that Hamm had signed on for a key role in Steven Soderbergh's Kill Switch, and while hunting for confirmation of that scoop, I learned that Hamm was poised to produce …