Netflix has debuted the first Fatherhood trailer, giving us a performance from Kevin Hart that leans more into authentic emotion than obnoxious comedy.
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Read all about the Judy Greer directorial debut. The actress will direct A Happening of Monumental Proportions starring Allison Janney and Common.
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The Grandma trailer shows off a feisty Lily Tomlin in the Sundance selected indie following an unlikely bonding trip between grandmother and granddaughter.
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The current season of Amazon original shows offers up another debut series later this month, when Mozart in the Jungle begins streaming on Amazon Prime. The show, from creators Paul Weitz, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Alex Timbers, adapts the memoir by Blair Tindell. The story follows dynamic young conductor Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal) as he shakes up a major New…
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Last year’s Top of the Lake was Jane Campion’s first TV project since An Angel at My Table in 1990. However, she’s not waiting quite so long to return to the small screen next time. She’s currently developing a second season of Top of the Lake with Gerard Lee, who co-wrote the original. The first season…
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The Like Father Like Son remake is moving forward at DreamWorks. They just hired the American Pie team of Chris and Paul Weitz to make the child-swap film.
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It's pilot casting season! And as such, Rupert Grint, JK Simmons, Dylan McDermott, Billy Campbell, Jennifer Beals, and tons more have found new homes on the small screen. Also after the jump: Peter Sarsgaard has joined AMC's The Killing Dexter Season 8 adds a Walking Dead alum Ridley Scott is bringing The Terror to AMC…
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For high school seniors, college admissions board members can seem almost godlike in their power over the futures. From the time the kids send in their application to the time they hear back, the fate of the world seems to rest in the schools' hands.* But as the new trailer for Admission shows, the process…
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Tina Fey built her career on the fast-paced comedy of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, but with the latter almost at an end it's time for her to move on to the next phase. If the trailer for Paul Weitz's Admission for any indication, that may just end up being movie stardom. Perhaps even…
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Today's TV Bits is all great news if you like Garden State, or just mostly great news if you don't. After the jump: Oz and Willow will reunite on CBS' How I Met Your Mother Arrested Development adds Andy Richter and Conan O'Brien Zach Braff develops the Garden State-esque Garage Bar for ABC Steve Carell produces a…
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Tina Fey has had some seriously enviable onscreen suitors over the course of her career -- James Marsden, Jon Hamm, and Matt Damon, just to name a few -- and she may now be about to add Paul Rudd to that distinguished roster as well. Rudd is reportedly circling the male lead in Paul Weitz's…
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When we first heard about Tina Fey circling Paul Weitz' Admission back in January of last year, we were midly surprised to note that the project seemed to be a drama. Considering that Fey's known for stuff like Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, and Mean Girls, and that Weitz's resume includes as many comedies (Little Fockers,…
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Even as I'm rushing to catch up on the 2011 films I've missed before the end of the year, I'm already looking forward to the crop of films that are due to open next year. Focus Features has just announced release dates for three of its upcoming releases I'm most curious about: Wes Anderson's Moonrise…
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After a promising start that included sweet, gentle About a Boy, Paul Weitz's career hasn't been doing so well these past few years. His more recent work include American Dreamz, Cirque du Freak, and Little Fockers, none of which are exactly creative smashes. But if the moving trailer for his next project, Being Flynn, is any…
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Focus Features has send out a press release announcing the start of production on the Paul Weitz adaptation of Nick Flynn's memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. The film is working without a title for now, but as previously reported it does feature Paul Dano as Nick Flynn, and Robert De Niro as his…
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Paul Weitz is scripting and directing an adaptation of the Nick Flynn memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and he has a hell of a cast assembled: Paul Dano plays Nick Flynn, who runs into his down and out father (Robert De Niro) while working at a Boston homeless shelter. Olivia Thirlby plays the…
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For some time now, Paul Weitz has been attached to direct Another Night in Suck City, based on Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. The last time we heard about the film was a year ago, when a report about Robert De Niro casually mentioned that he was attached to a…
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Hot off the $125 million (and counting) success of Little Fockers, director Paul Weitz has chosen his next project and is just about ready to lock up his leading lady. Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress Tina Fey is in final talks to star in Admission, based on a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The…
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We've seen a teaser and an international trailer for Little Fockers, the second sequel to Meet the Parents, and now there is a full theatrical trailer. What's the difference? In addition to showing more plot and (depending on your point of view) jokes, this trailer has a few shots of Dustin Hoffman, whose mart was…
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Not much to say here -- Little Fockers is the third film in the unlikely series spawned by Meet the Parents. The upside is that, based on this trailer, the movie seems to be slightly less about the children of Ben Stiller's character than you might guess. The downside is that, based on this trailer,…
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I'm not sure if these production photos are new, but I certainly haven't seen them posted around the movie news web space. Universal Pictures has released two photos from Little Fockers, the third film in the Meet the Parents series. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] Little Fockers will introduce Gaylord and Pam Fockers as parents of…
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Who knew that reporting on an actor's change of agency could be reason to throw out bare tidbits of info about three upcoming films? In a report about Robert De Niro moving to CAA, Nikki Finke drops three little bombs about future projects for the actor. The biggest one is that he will feature in…
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Drew Barrymore might not be a lock to direct the third Twilight film. THR is reporting that Guillermo Del Toro protege Juan Antonio Bayona is now rumored to be one of the top finalists to direct The Twilight Saga's Eclipse. But then again, reps are saying that they are still looking at a number of…
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Little Fockers, the third film in the Meet The Parents trilogy is finally entering the casting stages -- Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson are in talks with Universal to return. Meet the Parents and Meet The Fockers director Jay Roach will not helm the third film as he's too busy prepping Dinner…
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