Coming off the Academy Award-winning success of their Descendants script, and the lesser commercial success of their respective sitcoms, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon are giving directing a shot with The Way, Way Back. The film is essentially just a classic boy-meets-girl-at-a-summer-job coming-of-age story, but in the mode of Adventureland, it pads it out with enough likable ringers to keep things interesting. Little Miss Sunshine's Toni Collette and Steve Carell reunite under the flag of indie dramedy to play the kid's mom and would-be stepfather, while Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney, Maya Rudolph, Rob Corddry, Amanda Peet, and AnnaSophia Robb fill out the cast. Rash and Faxon also appear, and Rash puts out an idiotic outfit to dance and squeal. After Community, that's just something we expect every time we see him.
Here's the trailer:
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- British actor Tom Mison will reportedly star as Ichabod Crane in Fox's pilot for Sleepy Hollow. The show of course modernizes the tale, but probably not the way you're thinking: Crane somehow time-travels to the present day, where he joins the modern Hollow police force and at last gives Washington Irving's tale of a decapitated ghost jockey the few extra levels of convolution it always needed.
- With several networks already interested, Maya Rudolph is reportedly working on bringing back and hosting a variety show, before NBC ends up turning Up All Night into one.
- Scary Movie 5 will for some reason not be the last time we see Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan reclined together outside a funeral parlor. Lohan has now signed on for a guest appearance on Sheen's Anger Management series, where she'll play his patient-cum-love-interest and, naturally, herself.
- Alicia Silverstone has joined Lifetime's pilot for HR, a series that would see her as a human resources director who "inspires the business to strive for new ambitions and profits" following a personality-altering head trauma. See? There's a way through the glass ceiling. Concussion.
- AMC's Revolutionary War-era drama Turn has found a lead in Jamie Bell. He'll play a black market cabbage farmer captured and turned a Patriot spy, because originality is dead.
- Chris Onstad's cult-adored webcomic, Achewood, might be becoming a series. Here's some test footage:
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Amanda Peet, Cobie Smulders, Rob Corddry, The Marriage Ref's Marriage Ref, and others have signed on to some movies. If you care at all about them or yourself, you'll skim the details below.
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Well, apparently Jennifer Westfeldt really loved the shit out of Bridesmaids. The writer and star of Kissing Jessica Stein makes her directorial debut with Friends with Kids, and in it she's crammed herself against Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph, and Chris O'Dowd--as well as Adam Scott, whose omission from Bridesmaids was sort of an oversight to begin with--and she has once again forced them all to drink wine and have sex for our amusement. This time, though, the focus is on Jessica Stein and Scott, the single friends among a group of happy couples. Their respectively empty womb and heavy testicles aching to produce offspring, the two make an arrangement to have a kid together but not actually start a relationship, both seemingly unaware that NBC already passed on that sitcom pilot several years ago.
Here's the trailer. You can decide for yourself which aspect is least convincing: Chris O'Dowd's American accent, the notion that any guy outside the universe of Three Men and a Baby would just want to raise a kid with his friend, or Megan Fox?
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The red-band trailer for Bridesmaids is here, finally giving the Kristen Wiig ensemble comedy the room to show of a little more of the swearing, Jon Hamm screwing, and inebriated Hitler impressions that an audience demands. Watch it now, and mark this milestone in gender equality for broad, decent-enough gross-out comedy that you'd at least watch on a plane.
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While Meg Ryan has been off deciding she's actually a director, Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, and Funny or Die have been hard at work giving the people what they want: a sequel to When Harry Met Sally with Helen Mirren as New Sally. Mike Tyson also got involved. Give it a watch.
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You know those "always a bridesmaid!" movies where Katherine Heigl or whoever (probably Katherine Heigl, though) is a perennially single bridesmaid, but then it's okay by the end because she marries some dude? Here's one of those that doesn't look quite as awful as usual! Mostly because it has a respectable ensemble cast (Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, and Melissa McCarthy), writing by Kristen Wiig, and the involvement of the Freaks & Geeks team of Judd Apatow and director Paul Feig--plus, an outcome that doesn't seem to hinge on the success of a trite romance. But, man, how many "she's single!" jokes can you cram into a single trailer? (Many.)
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O Chris Farley, why did you have to die so young, before you had the chance to partake in a weird joke about all your SNL Bad Boy brethren simultaneously pissing in a public pool?
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Look, this is cute and all--the little line drawings, the washed out colors, the unmissable similarity to the Juno credits--but I'm a firm believer in the design rule that a film's poster should not work equally well as a parody of what the film's poster would be. If the spoof comedy duo Friedberg & Seltzer's ever decide to continue their [Genre] Movie franchise with Indie Dramedy, this would be the poster, except their version would feature Austin Powers and Amy Winehouse as the couple, because imagine those two together!
Away We Go Poster [JoBlo]
Hey, 20-somethings: time to stop hogging all the lack of direction! Being in your early thirties is quirky and smothered in non-diegetic music too! Example: this trailer for Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, starring John Krasinki, Maya Rudolph, et al.
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Can you believe actors are still being used in movies? Despite startling advances in android artificial intelligence, holograms, and computer graphics, each year countless human thespians are paid a predetermined price to pretend they're someone else, all for our entertainment. The latest stars to find parts in such a production? John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph--perhaps better known as Jim from The Office and some terrible impression of a diva on SNL--have been cast in a new comedy by director Sam Mendes, with a script by author Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida. This untitled picture is shaping up to be more than adequate, no?
Krasinski, Rudolph join Mendes comedy [Variety]
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