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Five Young Comedians Seen on the New 'Grown Ups' Banner
26 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST
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Didn't we just see a young Adam Sandler in Funny People? If you went to the movies recently, you might've seen this new banner for Dennis Dugan's comedy Growns Ups starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade. The banner has five very young-looking photos of all five of those comedians to make people interested in seeing how these five "friends" will act as grown ups. We featured the first teaser trailer for this back in November. While it wasn't a very long trailer, I thought it looked like it could be good. Even if you're not interested, it's still pretty cool seeing these photos. I wonder if they're real?
Thirty years after their high school graduation, five friends reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Grown Ups is directed by long-time comedy director Dennis Dugan, of You Don't Mess with the Zohan, I
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- Alex Billington
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What are the best and worst movie accents of the decade?
21 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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Yesterday, NPR printed an article about the best and worst movie accents of the decade, asking readers to submit their votes on what actor should nab the award in both categories. As the EW writer who a few years ago helmed our Worst Movie Accents gallery, I decided to look at their choices. (And, unfortunately, since film's all-time worst movie accent -- Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves -- was brought to screens in 1991, it is not eligible for this award.)
As far as the best accents go, NPR offers up four: Morgan Freeman in Invictus, Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean,
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- Kate Ward
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Four
19 December 2009 11:50 PM, PST
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Georgia
Opens: 2010
Cast: Val Kilmer, Andy Garcia, Rupert Friend, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Johnathon Schaech
Director: Renny Harlin
Summary: An American journalist, his cameraman, and a Georgian native get caught in the crossfire of the five-day Russia-Georgia conflict in August 2008, and then have to deal with their obligation to be impartial.
Analysis: A timely parable on war, or Hollywood propaganda filmmaking at its worst? Wherever it goes, especially in Europe and the former Soviet states, "Georgia" will cause a lot of talk and controversy as the incidents depicted are still so fresh in many's minds. Like all topics of the sort, it'll also have its strong supporters and detractors having opinions on the film long before a frame of footage is screened anywhere.
Shot on-location in Tbilisi, the project also marks a potential return to form for Finnish director Renny Harlin. Given the right material the skilled action director delivered three
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- Garth Franklin
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Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston in new comedy?
9 December 2009 4:46 PM, PST
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It looks like Adam Sander and Jennifer Aniston may get together on the big screen and do a lot of pretending in Columbia's upcoming comedy "Pretend Wife." Both actors are in talks for the lead roles.
Plot details are kept under wraps, but the title could give you an idea what this romantic comedy will be about. The Hollywood Reporter says Allan Loeb ("21") and Timothy Dowling penned the script.
Sandler's Happy Madison is producing, and Dennis Dugan is in talks to direct the film. He previously helmed "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" and "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry."
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Jennifer Aniston to Play "Pretend Wife" to Adam Sandler
9 December 2009 10:33 AM, PST
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Columbia Pictures is developing "Pretend Wife," a romantic comedy to star Adam Sandler. Jennifer Aniston is in talks to star opposite Sandler.
Dennis Dugan, Sandler's directing partner on "You Don't Mess with the Zohan," "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," and "Happy Gilmore," is expected to helm.
Sandler's Happy Madison is producing.
Once upon a time, the script by Allan Loeb and Tim Dowling was known as "Holiday in Hawaii." Though the plot is being kept under wraps, we can perhaps conclude that Aniston will play the pretend wife to Sandler, and they will be vacationing in Hawaii!
The Hollywood Reporter told us that Columbia is planning a shoot early next year and eyeing a release on Feb. 11, 2011, the Friday before Valentine's Day.
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Jennifer Aniston Is Adam Sandler's Pretend Wife
9 December 2009 7:14 AM, PST
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Given the ongoing tabloid narrative about poor, lonely, loveless Jennifer Aniston, it seems that she's either tempting fate or giving a giant middle finger to the media by taking on a new project called Pretend Wife. Surely we're about to be deluged in a series of media stories about how the plot of Jen's new comedy mirrors her own sad lonely life, but either she doesn't care, or enjoys running the tabloids around in circles while she's married to Gerard Butler or whoever.
But I digress. No one actually knows the plot of Pretend Wife, but given both that title and working title Holiday in Hawaii, it's not too hard to guess where this story will go. Aniston will star opposite Adam Sandler, and Variety reports that frequent Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan (You Don't Mess with the Zohan, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry) is in line to direct. The
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Is Aniston Sandler's Pretend Wife?
9 December 2009 3:07 AM, PST
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Columbia is developing the romantic comedy Pretend Wife as a star vehicle for Adam Sandler, and Jennifer Aniston is in talks to play oppsite him.
Dennis Dugan, who has directed Sandler several times before on such films as Happy Gilmore and You Don't Mess With The Zohan is top of the contenders list to direct this new project. Sandler's production company Happy Madison is producing.
The script, written by Allan Loeb and Tim Dowling and once known as Holiday In Hawaii is being kept under wraps. Shooting is scheduled to begin early in 2010 with an eye to release on February 11, 2011, the Friday before Valentine's Day.
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Jennifer Aniston May Join Adam Sandler in Pretend Wife
8 December 2009 5:47 PM, PST
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The Hollywood Reporter says Jennifer Aniston is in talks to star opposite Adam Sandler in the romantic comedy Pretend Wife set up at Columbia Pictures. Not a whole lot is known about the project other than it was written by Allan Loeb and Tim Dowling and it might be directed by Dennis Dugan. Dugan directed Sandler in Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, The Benchwarmers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, and the 2010 comedy, Grown Ups.
Jennifer Aniston recently completed work on The Baster which, coincidentally, Allan Loeb wrote and produced. Aniston also has The Bounty, an action comedy co-starring Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen), hitting theaters next year.
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'The Howling' ready for a revamp.
22 November 2009 11:14 PM, PST
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Indie producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh from Moonstone Entertainment are to reboot "The Howling" franchise as "The Howling: Reborn." Joe Nimziki, who worked at New Line, MGM and Sony, is set to make ihis feature-length directorial debut on the project, helming from his own screenplay.
Film is due to start shooting in February next year for a release on Halloween. No details as yet on the plot which is being kept under wraps.
The original "Howling" was released back in 1981 and helmed by Joe Dante from a script by John Sayles. Dee Wallace starred along with Patrick Macnee and would-be director Dennis Dugan ("You Don't Mess with the Zohan," "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry").
Pic had six sequels. The first film starred Wallace as a news anchor who was stalked by a serial killer who turns out to be a werewolf.
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First Teaser For Adam Sandler's Grown Ups
13 November 2009 3:25 AM, PST
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Grown Ups, the upcoming film from Dennis Dugan (the director of various early Adam Sandler hits as well as recent clunkers like You Don't Mess with the Zohan) which surrounds its star with other comedy luminaries such as Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and Kevin James in a tale of five high-schoolfriends who regroup to mourn the death of their basketball coach in the same place where many years previously they celebrated their greatest victory, has just released its first teaser over on Yahoo.
To be cruelly honest it looks much like the standard slightly-below par we've come to expect on the big-screen from Sandler and his coterie of Saturday Night Live alumni, but that's not to say it won't be completely without laughs.
Check out the trailer below and be sure to let us know what you think.
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Movie Trailer: Adam Sandler’s New Comedy Grown Ups
12 November 2009 4:49 PM, PST
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Columbia Pictures has released the teaser trailer for the new Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups. The film stars Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Maria Bello, Gary Busey and David Spade, and is directed by Dennid Dugan, the filmmaker behind of some of Sandler's earlier films like Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy, but who recently has been responsible for some comic clunkers like I Now Pronouce You Chuck & Larry, and You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
Five friends and former teammates reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn't mean growing up.
It looks like a fairly generic comedy, even more
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Comedy Central Picks Up Nick Swardson's Sketch Series
29 October 2009 11:17 AM, PDT
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It's Nick Swardson's party ... and you're invited! After numerous hit movies, highly-rated stand-up specials and memorable appearances on Reno 911!, Comedy Central greenlights a new, half-hour weekly sketch series starring comedian Nick Swardson and executive produced by Swardson, Tom Gianas, Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions and Sony Pictures Television, it was announced today by Lauren Corrao, president, original programming and development, Comedy Central. The new series is slated to begin production in November and is scheduled to premiere in 2010.
"We love Nick at Comedy Central and even more importantly, our audience loves Nick," said Corrao. "We've seen it in his movies, his stand-up, with his Reno 911! character 'Terry,' and in the work he's done developing Gay Robot. We can't wait to expand his creative voice into a sketch series."
"I'm very excited to be working with Comedy Central," said Swardson. "They are great people who understand me creatively.
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Sandler 'struggled filming serious scenes'
24 August 2009 1:39 PM, PDT
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Adam Sandler has reportedly said that he found it difficult to shoot his new comedy Funny People's more serious scenes. The You Don't Mess With The Zohan actor plays a stand-up comedian who discovers he has an untreatable blood disorder in the upcoming film. According to Contactmusic, Sandler explained: "I'd rather be funny. When I have to do stuff like that I'm glad when the day's (more)
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'Inglourious Basterds': Five Of Cinema's Badass Jewish Action Heroes
21 August 2009 2:30 PM, PDT
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"Inglourious Basterds" opens this week with one of the most intentionally Jewish casts of action heroes that any writer or director has ever assembled. Quentin Tarantino's ultra-violent tale sets itself historically during a time that many films have tackled, showcasing the tales of real-life heroes in Jewish history like Oscar Schindler in "Schindler's List" and Anne Frank in "The Diary of Anne Frank." I'm talking of course about World War II.
Tarantino's trademark penchant for extreme black humor and overshooting reality, meanwhile, places his ambitions somewhere between those more somber films and other over-the-top performances, like Adam Goldberg in the Comedy Central TV movie "The Hebrew Hammer." Eli Roth and his fellow Basterds will join a long history of Jewish action heroes in film, though. Here are five of the most famous figures who have earned that distinction.
The Thing (Michael Chiklis) -- "Fantastic Four"
Michael Chiklis' character
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: August 4, 2009
4 August 2009 12:30 AM, PDT
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Unfortunately it's a very bad week for DVD and Blu-ray releases, but let's rundown the list anyway as maybe some of you are looking forward to at least renting one or two of these.
The Soloist
The best new film of the bunch has to be The Soloist, but even it isn't a stand-out masterpiece by any stretch. It does have a couple of good performances and is certainly worth a once over, but as far as being a purchase I would definitely recommend against it.
Mutant Chronicles
This action-sci-fi feature starring Thomas Jane, John Malkovich and Ron Perlman is probably the title I am most interested in renting and a little upset I forgot to request a review copy, but Netflix will take care of that.
Race to Witch Mountain
Ugh, just a bad, bad movie. Kids may
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Funny People Top Us Box Office
3 August 2009 12:22 AM, PDT
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The Adam Sandler/Judd Apatow comedy express Funny People got off to a steady-if-unspectacular start in American cinemas this weekend, pulling in $23.4m. Not huge perhaps, especially compared with Sandler's last big summer release You Don't Mess With the Zohan ($38m), but certainly respectable for a celebral comedy with the Sandler goof quotient dialled back, and a ray of sunshine for Universal in a quiet summer. In comparison with Funny People, which was always likely to rely on momentum from positive word-of-mouth, the not-so-slow-burning Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince clocked up second spot at the Us box office. All the expecto patronum spells in the world couldn't prevent it falling 40%, although happily for Harry, Hermione, Ron et al, that still equates to $17.7m, mirroring the performance of The Order Of The Phoenix which went on to gross $292 million in the Us. In a less-than-stellar weekend - 25% down on the
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How Self-Aware is Adam Sandler?
29 July 2009 9:03 AM, PDT
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In the new film Funny People, comedian Adam Sandler plays an actor remarkably similar to, well, Adam Sandler. His character, George Simmons, is a former stand-up comic who's become obscenely wealthy and famous through a series of patently terrible films with titles like Merman and Dog's Best Friend (Erik Davis wrote about these movies-within-the-movie and shared clips -- check it out here). Now a little older and trying to beat a possibly fatal medical condition, Simmons takes a new look at his life -- including the crappy but wildly popular movies that made him a star.
The fake movies are truly awful. But not any worse than some of abysmal actual movies made by Sandler himself, like Little Nicky, Eight Crazy Nights, Mr. Deeds, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, etc. Since the character is so baldly modeled on Sandler, one can't help but wonder what he thinks about the
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Rupert Gregson-Williams: Grown Ups
21 July 2009 1:00 AM, PDT
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Rupert Gregson-Williams continues his working relationship with director Dennis Dugan. Their third film together, after I Now Pronounce Your Chuck and Larry and You Don't Mess With the Zohan, is Grown Ups, which is also a comedy. Starring Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Salma Hayek and Maria Bello, the film centers around the reunion of five friends who went to high school thirty years ago. Adam Sandler also wrote the screenplay together with Fred Wolf. Columbia Pictures will release film on June 25 next year.
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Ask 'Funny People' Stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann a Question
14 July 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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The comedy 'Funny People' has so many great things going for it, it's almost hard to keep track.
For one thing, it's directed by Judd Apatow, the comic -- is "genius" too strong a word? -- behind 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.'
And then there are the stars: Adam Sandler, the former 'SNL' star who's known for crowd-pleasing comedies like 'Big Daddy' and 'The Waterboy,' but who's done his share of introspective dramas as well ('Punch-Drunk Love,' 'Spanglish,' 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan' ... Ok, kidding about that last one).
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Forbes Names Harrison Ford As Highest Paid Actor
15 June 2009 11:08 AM, PDT
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Forbe's magazine has named Harrison Ford as the highest earning actor in Tinsel town. The actor earned .95 million in the last 12 months between June 2008 and 2009.
The biggest paycheck earner for the star was his returning role of archaeologist Indiana Jones in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." The movie earned more than 0 million worldwide.
Surprisingly enough, comedian Adam Sandler came in second place at .9 million after the success of his two latest films "Bedtime Stories" and "You Don't Mess With The Zohan," along with the soon-to-be released "Funny People" with Judd Apatow.
Next on the list is Will Smith at million, followed by Eddie Murphy, thanks to "Meet Dave," and Nicolas Cage, who both earned .9 million.
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