Serial monogamist Leslie Mann has found herself yet another role to cement her legacy of being described as the wife in something. She's and Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau are in talks to co-star in the Nick Cassavetes comedy The Other Woman. Cameron Diaz is already signed on to the film, playing oblivious girlfriend to the married Coster-Waldau. When she discovers that she is, in fact, The Other Woman, she teams up with Mann, who plays a character that may or may not have a name or distinct personality but THR helpfully paints as "the wife." Hopefully she will be pleasantly attractive and genial outside those times she becomes reasonably annoyed with her husband's childish behavior.
The subject of whether or not you can see Megan Fox's vagina deemed an adults-only topic--even though kids can't help but sometimes wonder about it, too--this latest trailer for Judd Apatow's This Is 40 has been slapped with an R rating. The preview also has a lot of talk about sex, anuses, dicks, and boners, so use care when watching this at a public library, or you're going to get banned from this one too.
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Explore the topics of resilient breasts, constipation sex, Viagra boners, cartoon dicks, underwear starfish and more in this new red-band featurette to show off the filthier bits of Judd Apatow's This Is 40. Forty is a lot like Adult Mad Libs, basically.
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"THIS IS EVERYONE'S STORY," promises this trailer for Judd Apatow's Knocked Up sort-of-sequel, This Is 40. But mostly it's everyone who is 40-ish, white, comically-charming, and relatively well-off's story, with this latest preview focusing on such sitcom-level struggles as fake-pooping with an iPad, argumentative fellow parents, the trauma of having breasts less ideal than Megan Fox's, and the bickering that accompanies the constant wish of kind of wanting your spouse to die. The new trailer also reveals some story beats seemingly lifted straight out of Knocked Up, like Seek Wisdom from Fat Jewish Dad, and Do Drugs on Vacation with Paul Rudd. Still, it's hard to deny the appeal of Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann's on-screen mugging, and appearances by Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd, and Albert Brooks provide a welcome distraction for when you start noticing how weirdly-stitched-together Mann's voice consistently sounds. Have a look below.
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Here's the trailer for This Is 40, the upcoming comedy that returns writer-director Judd Apatow to the characters of Knocked Up and the desperate mid-life crisis of The 40 Year-Old Virgin. In this case, though, the arrival of a fortieth birthday is not disconcerting because of a lack of vaginal contact. Rather, Leslie Mann's impending fortieth birthday is just making her feel old and unsatisfied, so she takes action by making a self-improvement list for her and husband Paul Rudd that includes sensible items like daily exercise, more involvement in school, and having more patience with their children. Because this is still a movie by Judd Apatow, those items somehow lead to boners from Jason Segel, nipple-touching waged against Melissa McCarthy, and a graphic self-exam of either the taint or b-hole. Of course now I'm going to have to buy a ticket to find out which.
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UPDATE: Someone close to the production has informed me that--in a Lenny Kravitz-in-Hunger Games-esque casting move--musician, infrequent actor, and Zoolander cameo artist Gavin Rossdale has also joined the film.
Sofia Coppola's upcoming Bling Ring concerns a group of real-life teenagers who, over the course of a year, repeatedly burglarized the homes of various Hollywood Hills celebrities. Since Coppola is dealing with the lives of teens here, obviously some parents will show up at some point, and because one dominant motherly presence has risen up to create a nurturing monopoly under which no other attractive 40-ish woman may practice screen motherhood, at least one of those parents is going to be Leslie Mann.
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Going in knowing that ParaNorman has a celebrity voice cast that includes John Goodman, Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann, Casey Affleck, Vanessa Huxtable, and more--and also knowing that filmmakers decided on the title ParaNorman--how surprising is it that the trailer doesn't let you hear any of those name voices, nor does it throw in any pop culture references or Smash Mouth tracks? I believe it to be surprising! Instead, the minute-and-a-half teaser plays Donovan's Season of the Witch and lets the film's Coraline-like visuals speak for themselves, hinting at a plot somehow involving a boy fighting supernatural stuff--some of which includes spectral toilet paper. Well done, ParaNorman. I give you my cyberapplause.
Here's the trailer:
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Yes, it's exactly what it looks like. Married-with-children Jason Bateman switches bodies with single asshole Ryan Reynolds. Two of our most generally likable actors have been placed in the thoroughly unlikable position of taking the tired, married-guys-trying-to-act-single comedy of Hall Pass into the realm of clichéd mysticism that is the strangely resilient body-switch genre. And you know why it happens? Because they piss into a fountain--which is either the tritest, When in Rome-iest explanation possible or a reasonable metaphor for the film's contribution to the cinema pool.
Anyway, you get what you're getting into now, so let's spray some baby poop into Jason Bateman's face already...
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- Congratulations, married couple Pete and Debbie from Knocked Up: you're getting a spin-off. And it will be a feature-length film, not just a CBS sitcom.
- The Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges film--originally set to star the bizarre, surprising combination of Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, Benicio Del Toro--is now looking like it will star Johnny Knoxville, Andy Samberg, and Australian comic Shane Jacobson. Ah, that's more like it.
- Eminem has decided he'll be an actor again--not playing a boxer, previously reported, but as an ex-con in the crime thriller Random Acts of Violence. Plus, he can rhyme all kinds of shit with "orange," so...
- Édgar Ramírez, Bill Nighy, Toby Kebbell, and Hayley Atwell are all likely joining the sequel to Clash of the Titans, and it's not like we're their parents or something, so who are we to tell them better?
With Pixar canceling plans for Newt--the studio's animated story of the last remaining pair of rare newts, who hate each other but must mate to repopulate the species--you probably thought you were just going to have to settle for Alpha and Omega's very similar but far more poorly-animated version of that story. Not the case! 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios have made their own they'll-never-get-along!-oops-they're-in-love rom-com with Rio, the story of the last remaining pair of rare macaws, who hate each other but must mate to repopulate the species. Here's the latest trailer:
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My computer's MMX processor isn't powerful enough to properly watch it, but hey, there's a new, red-band (cussin'!) trailer for Funny People! From what I could tell through the stuttered audio and slideshow-esque video that I was able to see, this film still looks funny (but not too funny, you know?) and genuine, so try to look past your seemingly-arbitrary resentment of Judd Apatow & Friends and let's all agree this looks pretty good:
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Is there a second Adam Sandler movie I want to see in my adult life? I think there might be! Funny People may be a formulaic finally-truly-living-after-nearly-dying romantic comedy, but how can you resist Adam Sander, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, and others all acting not-that-hammy in a Judd Apatow film? You can't. Unless you're one of the people who are sick of the overexposure of Judd Apatow and all of his cronies, in which case you'll hate this:
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After so many movies ripped-off the look of Judd Apatow posters, he's decided to just go ahead and make the most boring poster possible. Steal this one, a-holes. See if he cares.
I know Funny People is supposed to be more of a drama than a typical Apatow production, but unless it's also a mid-'90s ABC series about best friends/roommates coming to terms with adulthood (Weds, 10/9 central), this is awful.
Judd Apatow's Funny People Teaser Poster [/Film]
I find it so hard to grasp that age-changing movies are a genre unto themselves. What is this, like the twentieth since 1980? It makes sense to do it once as a funny concept, but come on. This is like basing a genre on Being John Malkovich--every year, another high concept comedy where someone takes over the body of a new celebrity. "This horny high schooler wanted nothing more than to get inside Jessica Simpson. Until one day..."
There's no way we'd tolerate that as a genre, would we? Actually, yeah, we probably would. Just like we're putting up with yet another age-changing movie. This time: Matthew Perry just can't seem to connect with his kids--until he is a kid! The kid from High School Musical! Again!
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Nowadays, we tend to think of Eric Bana as Munich, The Guy From Troy Who Wasn't Brad Pitt, or Oh, Right, The Hulk. But prior to any of those stateside roles, Bana was a comedian, and even had his own sketch show--like Amanda Bynes! Thus, he's been cast alongside other well-known funnies in Judd Apatow's Funny People, a dramedy looking at the world of standup comedy. From Variety:
Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman and Jonah Hill have joined the ensemble of "Funny People," which will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures, with Universal distributing worldwide next summer.
Apatow set Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann in the comedy earlier this year.
The filmmaker, who last wrote and directed "Knocked Up," was deliberately vague about subject matter, allowing only that the movie takes place in the world of standup comedy and the focus is on a comedian who has a near-death experience.
Below the cut, see a promo for 1997's silly-wig filled The Eric Bana Show, and learn that, as it turns out, Bana does an alright Columbo.
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- Billy Ray Cyrus has been cast as the lead in a non-PAX-sponsored movie, blowing my achy-breaky mind. [Hollywood Reporter]
- Jessica Biel will play the lead in Die a Little, a role she reportedly took in place of Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, I will have sex with an older, barely-conscious woman I find at a bar, taking the place of my fantasies of Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman. [Variety]
- Ty Burell has joined the cast of The Incredible Hulk as the green-haired, super-strong Doc Sampson. Burell can currently be seen on Fox's Back to You, which should not be considered an endorsement to watch that for any reason. [IGN]
- Pirates of the Caribbean writers Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot are working on a Lone Ranger script for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who will mold it into a multi-billion dollar turd. (PS: Entertainment Weekly, you're really stretching with that "Kemo-savvy" headline.) [EW]
- Leslie Mann has joined the cast of 17 as the wife of Zac Efron, a man who awakens to find himself in the body of a 17-year-old boy again. It all sounds a bit ridiculous to me. I mean, Zac Efron with a wife? [Hollywood Reporter]
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