Oct 16 2009 'Serious Moonlight' Trailer: More Middle-Aged Marriage Rekindling!
You may have seen Meg Ryan find love by way of radio show, AOL emails, Einstein, and probably hundreds of other ways, but there's one method of Ryanlove still unexplored: Meg Ryan finds love by way of Stockholm Syndrome. Until now! From director Larry David's Fictional Wife, it's Serious Moonlight:
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Jun 17 2009 'Funny People' Provides New Entry in 'Little Man' Genre
In Judd Apatow's Funny People, Adam Sandler plays George Simmons, a comedian-turned-comic actor starring in primarily broad comedies--obviously a role that hits fairly close to home for the Waterboy. So, to promote the film, Apatow and Sandler, along with Justin Long, put together this depressingly believable clip for one of Simmons' fictional films, Re-Do. Description:
Craig, a workaholic lawyer, never made time for his relationships. Alone and depressed on his 40th birthday, he wonders about the life he could have lead. But be careful what you wish for...you might just find yourself in diapers! When a wizard gives Craig a second chance at his youth, he discovers that sometimes it takes becoming a baby to learn how to be a man.
It's really good. They've topped Yo, Teach...!:
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Mar 31 2009 BarryLong Reunites for Long Distance Romance
Remember those halcyon days of yore (last year or the year before or whenever), when Drew Barrymore and Justin Long were a happy couple? Those beautiful times when L.A. was our Camelot, and at its throne was a Charlie Angel and the human manifestation of an Apple computer? Those were the days, yeah? Well, they're back! The BarryLong (I assume this was their couple name) team is reuniting on the silver screen:
Drew Barrymore will star opposite Justin Long in "Going the Distance," a romantic comedy for New Line. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing via their Offspring Entertainment banner, and Nanette Burstein is directing.The story by first-time scribe Geoff LaTulippe follows a couple trying to maintain a long-distance relationship.
LaTulippe was a New Line script reader who segued into screenwriting, and "Distance" contains some imprint from his life: The male lead also is a script reader.
The female lead is a character who moves to Chicago to be a middle school teacher.
A long-distance relationship movie? So like a lot of talking on the phone, using Instant Messenger, and fretting that their partner is being unfaithful? I'm skeptical. Let's save the boring, long-distance, technology-based romancing to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Mar 11 2009 'Drag Me to Hell' Trailer: Suburban Witches Also Hurt by Recession
After years of directing Spider-Men of varying qualities, Sam Raimi returns to the cheesy-but-enormously-enjoyable horror genre with Drag Me to Hell. It's a horrific morality tale that will teach you to place the needs of milky-eyed, nearly-dead women with staples in their head above your stupid promotion, because so long as they possess the black arts (and one of your personal effects), witches will inevitably control our banking system:
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Feb 19 2009 'Battle for Terra' Teaches Kids Humans Are Jerks
Every generation needs their own animated, ham-fisted, humans-as-enemies morality tale. My generation had Fern Gully, a response to deforestation concerns told through ferries fairies and an obnoxious bat. This generation will have Battle for Terra, giving today's youth the clear message that humans should not commit genocide in the name of colonization, even if the native inhabitants of those lands do look like creepy stillborns just begging to be killed. Here's the trailer:
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Jan 16 2009 'Planet 51' Trailer Combines...
...the pop-culture-laden, celebrity-voiced green-creature-filled world of Shrek, the space traveler in suburbia scenario of Suburban Commando, and the outsider invading the idyllic '50s neighboorhood-ness of Pleasantville? I think that works.
Nov 25 2008 'He's Just Not That Into You' or This Lazy Poster
Movie poster designers, there's been a misunderstanding. When myself and other internet people complain about the overuse of Photoshop, we generally mean that the stars are being airbrushed into a featureless oblivion, or that it's very apparent that no one is actually in the same room for the photo, or that Ben Stiller's head has quite obviously been thrown on a different body, and we're suggesting that maybe Photoshop shouldn't be used quite so heavily and lazily. We never meant to not use Photoshop at all, instead choosing to just do a Google image search for each star, grabbing the first image you find of them smiling, and dragging the variously-sized images into a rectangle. That makes it looks like a romantic comedy Atari game where each pixel is a random actor.
Anyone else who watched NBC's Ed notice this reunion of Warren Cheswick and Diane Snyder? Anyone else watch Ed at all?
Not Into You Poster [Jo Blo]
Oct 29 2008 'Drag Me to Hell' Looks a Lot Like Being Dragged to Grandma's
Sam Raimi is finally returning to (somewhat) low-budget horror with Drag Me to Hell, and MTV has the first shots from the production, including the one above. If you think it's terrifying that this lady's teeth, Marilyn Manson eyes, head staples, and expression of utter madness are terrifying, wait until you come to the realization she's also wearing lipstick and earrings. The only thing worse than being attacked by a horrible hag-thing is having to awkwardly reject one that's hoping to date you.
Raimi interview and more shots here.
May 28 2008 'He's Just Not That Into You' Trailer Informs Unlovable Women of Their Status
Women: they can never tell if we like them, hate them, or just want to see them be naked in a pool. So Greg Behrendt (consultant on Sex and the City, there to "keep it real," and one of the few comedians known who looks like more of an asshole than Dane Cook) and Liz Tuccillo (one of the sad ladies writing Sex and the City dialogue) co-authored He's Just Not That Into You, a self-help book meant to help women confused as to why men are avoiding them after initial contact. (Spoiler: it turns out it's a lack of interest.) Now the book has been turned into a movie--or, more specifically, turned into like five star-studded romantic comedies fused into one, creating the powerful beast known as the Voltrom-com. Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, and Mac Commercial Guy form the appendages of this particular Voltrom-com, and there's a trailer for the film below the cut. It looks something like Love Actually if you sucked out all of the Christmas elements and saccharine charm that made it tolerable.
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Dec 18 2007 'Walk Hard' Viral 'Backlash' Video Creates Laughter
Between all the amusing videos about cats doing human things you'll probably watch today, I strongly recommend squeezing in this promo for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. I doubt you'll find a funnier combination of Paul Rudd, Judd Apatow, Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, anti-semitism, self-aware viral marking, Garage Rock Band, and obnoxious techno action music this calendar year. Merry Christmas, guy who made the terrible theme to Mortal Kombat; your long-awaited royalty check is on its way.
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Dec 12 2007 See The Beatles in 'Walk Hard'
Regardless of how funny Walk Hard ends up being, this scene with The Beatles, as played by Jack Black, Jason Schwartzman, Justin Long, and Paul Rudd, should go down with I'm Not There as one of worst yet funniest group impressions in history.
Nov 13 2007 AM Poster Post: 'Strange Wilderness' is Future of Comedy Posters
For the last few years, it has been thought that the only way to effectively communicate that your movie is a comedy is with a white poster and giant, goofy red lettering (like this one). The white emptiness suggests you are in a void where anything could happen (such as hilarity) and the rules of Earth do not apply (granting the ability for one actor may play multiple parts, with fat suits). There is nothing to remind you of the woes of this world, only the comedy ahead, in the white vacuum of laughter.
That's why it's even funnier when we see the wacky red letters! Where did those come from?! That bold type and close kerning just screams comedy, nearly as much as the Comic Sans I always use in my community newsletters. If the scarlet letter from The Scarlet Letter looked anything like this, I bet adultery was hilarious.
But now a new contender is rising: subjects over a disgusting green with a diffused spotlight. First seen in Knocked Up, the solid nothingness of the background takes our mind straight to the comedy abyss, while the spotlight says, "Hey! Look here! Look at these funny faces! Ignore that this appears to be an '80s teen comedy, and has the Mac hipster everyone hates! Be blinded by the harsh light of forced humor!"
Strang Wilderness Poster [Yahoo!]
