Dating can be a tricky proposition under even the best of circumstances, but in The Oranges, Hugh Laurie's divorced dad David Walling finds himself in a particularly sticky situation when he falls for the much younger daughter (Leighton Meester) of his best friend (Oliver Platt). Toss in a jealous ex-wife (Catherine Keener) and a son…
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Proving that just because you can doesn't mean you should, the new green-band trailer for That's My Boy drops much of the cursing, nudity, and bodily fluids that comprised last week's red-band trailer, and is, frankly, all the better for it. The jokes are still pretty hit or miss, but the fact that it has jokes at…
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The first red-band trailer has dropped for Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg's That's My Boy, formerly titled I Hate You Dad. Sandler plays an aging party boy and horrible father who falls into deep debt. He decides to move in with his more tightly wound son (Samberg), who's on the verge of getting married, to…
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Briefly: Adam Sandler is going to play dad to SNL's Andy Samberg in I Hate You, Dad, and now the same movie is going to see him eventually shacked up with hot teacher Mary McGarricle, played by Susan Sarandon. Sean Anders and John Morris are directing the film, which is about " a father (Sandler)…
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It goes without saying that Transformers: Dark of the Moon will win the box office over the fourth of July weekend. But, being as the audience for that film is primarily young men, Hollywood is wisely counter-programming. For adults, they've got Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in Larry Crowne and for young girls, there's Monte…
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Lionsgate has just signed a new two-year first-look deal with Tyler Perry, and no wonder: the guy is a machine who turns out films that cost little and make a mint. The director's latest for Lionsgate will be Good Deeds, which he'll write, direct, produce and star in, as Glen Deeds, "an affluent and successful…
Read MoreScreen Gems has released a movie trailer for their new horror/thriller The Roommate. The film stars Minka Kelly as a college student named Sara who finds her safety jeopardized after she's assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate, Rebecca (played by Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester). The film co-stars Alyson Michalka (Easy A, Bandslam),…
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Here's something a little different from Screen Gems, which is far better known for mid-budget genre fare like Resident Evil and Priest than a movie about a country singer trying to get her career back on track. But looking at this trailer for Country Strong, you might make the argument that this movie is courting…
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I talked a bit about The Oranges just the other day -- that's the indie that will put Hugh Laurie back on the big screen in a May-September romance with Leighton Meester. When I mentioned the film last week Catherine Keener was noted as being in the mix as the mother of Meester's character. Now…
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I'm excited about the upcoming version of Mildred Pierce to be directed by Todd Haynes. Already set to star Kate Winslet in the title role, the HBO mini-series has just added a couple more good names: Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood. Sure, Wood's career has been spotty, but there's something that suggests she can…
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Screen Gems is getting into a different kind of genre film -- while still working with Resident Evil and Underworld movies, the outfit is also putting together Love Don't Let Me Down, a country music picture produced by Tobey Maguire. The primary cast now includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester. Shana…
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There have been a bunch of movie trailers to hit over the last 24 hours: Clash of the Titans, Kick-Ass, and now 20th Century Fox has released the first teaser trailer for the Action romantic comedy Date Night. The film stars Tina Fey and Steve Carell as Claire and Phil Foster, as a bored married…
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Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Common, Kristen Wiig, Taraji P. Henson and Leighton Meester have all signed up for roles in Shawn Levy's Date Night. The headline stars, already announced, are Steve Carrell, who I love, and Tina Fey, who most people love and I kind-of-like-a-bit. The films seems set to be some kind of rom-com…
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