The latest female-driven R-rated comedy is Leslye Headland's film Bachelorette, which wouldn't mind finding some of last year's Bridesmaids audience. The film hit at Sundance and got some good buzz for being a little more dark than the Kristen Wiig film, without sparing any of the laughs. A green-band trailer we saw a couple weeks…
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The success of last year's Bridesmaids got the wheels in motion for a wave of female-driven wedding comedies, among them Leslye Headland‘s Bachelorette. But this first trailer for Bachelorette should dispel any notion that it's simply a watered-down Bridesmaids retread. Early buzz out of Sundance was that Bachelorette was sharper and darker than last year's…
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First-time filmmaker Leslye Headland's Bachelorette will get a lot of comparison’s to Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids. These comparisons are unfair. Each do have famous female actresses starring in comedies about crazy stuff that happens leading up to a wedding but, where Bridesmaids is funny from start to finish and has a heart to boot, Bachelorrette has…
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Not going to brave the icy roads and chilling winds of Park City, Utah this January for the Sundance Film Festival 2012? No matter. The festival is once again going to bring the films to you if you live in Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; Nashville, TN; Orlando, FL;…
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The Paul Feig-directed Bridesmaids won't be opening until next weekend, but it looks like Hollywood has already taken notice of the wedding-themed female-driven comedy's mainstream appeal. Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Adam Scott and Casey Wilson have just signed on for Bachelorette, an indie comedy produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay that sounds like it…
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