Michael Cera and Abbi Jacobson are part of an ensemble cast of disparate characters living in New York City, in Dustin Guy Defa's 'Person to Person.'
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"Hey, if that other guy can do it..." When Chris Evans talks about wanting to leave acting behind, maybe he's talking about movies like Playing it Cool, once called A Many Splintered Thing. The romcom follows a screenwriter who just wants to write action, but is talked into writing a romcom... and somewhere along the…
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Jason Bateman makes his feature directorial debut with the comedy Bad Words, about a guy (played by Bateman) who hijacks a national spelling bee. How does that happen, exactly? The red-band trailer below will show you a bit, just as it'll let you know how the supporting cast such as Rohan Chand (Homeland), Kathryn Hahn (We’re the…
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Walter White isn't the only prickly small-screen antihero coming back in the next couple of weeks. Larry David is returning to television for the first time since Curb Your Enthusiasm's eighth season ended in 2011 with Clear History, a new movie by HBO. Technically, David's Clear History character is entirely separate from his Curb one. For…
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We already know what Larry David's new film will be about (a marketing exec who misses out on a lucrative startup) and how it'll be distributed (on HBO). Now we also know what it'll be called and who'll star in it. According to a new report, the movie's now going by the name Clear History,…
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The lone secret premiere of the 2011 Telluride Film Festival ended up being Ben Affleck's dramatic thriller Argo. I've never understood the negativity regularly thrown at Ben Affleck. When given the right material, he's delivered some great performances as an actor (Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Boiler Room, Hollywoodland...etc). And in recent years he's made the transition and…
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Who can save actor Philip Baker Hall when he stands up against Loki in The Avengers? Is anyone crazy enough to get a tattoo from The Dark Knight Rises a year away from the release date? Why haven't there been any set photos from Christopher Nolan's new film in the past few days? What was…
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20th Century Fox has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of the Newbery-winning children's book Mr. Popper's Penguins. Directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, Ghost of Girlfriends Past), the the comedy stars Jim Carrey as a businessman whose "professional side starts to unravel after he inherits six penguins, and…
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Century Fox has released the first official photos from the upcoming film adaptation of the Newbery-winning children's book Mr. Popper's Penguins in today's edition of USA Today. Directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, Ghost of Girlfriends Past), the the comedy stars Jim Carrey as a businessman whose "professional side starts to unravel after…
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John Cusack will have company in The Raven, V For Vendetta director James McTeigue's fictionalized account of the final five “mysterious” days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, but Jeremy Renner won't be taking part. His schedule wouldn't allow it, sadly, as he's going to be off shooting the fourth Mission: Impossible. Stepping in for Renner…
Read MoreFor the last two years or so, we've been reporting on Summit Entertainment's Untitled Cancer Comedy, which was formerly titled I'm With Cancer. The movie finally has an official title: Live With It, clever eh? The film is an autobiographical story based on the real experiences of screenwriter Will Reiser, a producer on HBO's Da…
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Consider this a courtesy report on the fact that New Line is making a film based on the Warner Bros. cartoon character Speedy Gonzales, with George Lopez providing the voice of the character. Because, like the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, the Garfield films, et al, this one is a movie purely for the kids.…
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In a previous edition of Big Directors Small Films, we took a look at Paul Thomas Anderson's first film, a 1988 short fictional documentary that inspired Boogie Nights titled The Dirk Diggler Story. From there, Paul went on to attend New York University, but quit after only two days of classes. He became a production…
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IFC Films has posted the first 8 minutes of John Dahl's new dramatic comedy thriller You Kill Me. The film follows Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley), a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. Frank's drinking problem messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril. His uncle (Philip Baker…
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