So far, the scariest thing about Paranormal Activity 5 may be how little anyone involved with it claims to know about it. We are talking about a movie that's due out in just under nine months. After the jump: Katie Featherston and Oren Peli talk Paranormal Activity 5 No, Linday Lohan will not be reprising…
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Groping, fake erections, improv, huge laughs, the latest video Judd Apatow's This is 40 makes Apatow's set look like a playhouse. It's a blooper reel from the film, a sort of sequel to Knocked Up, which features Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd as a married couple dealing with turning 40. In the reel you get…
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Heading into 2012, two films many of us were looking forward to were the new movies from Rian Johnson and Judd Apatow: Looper and This is 40. Now that we've seen them, why not see a bit more? After all, whether or not you loved or loathed either film (read my review of each at these…
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With the likes of Chris O'Dowd, Lena Dunham, and Melissa McCarthy in supporting roles, Judd Apatow's This is 40 is positively overflowing with hot comedic talents. But the film features some more established comic players as well, including Robert Smigel. During what must've been a slow day on set, Smigel decided to bring along his…
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One can only guess how the horribly mismatched Ben and Alison from Knocked Up are faring these days, but in just a few weeks we'll get to see how their pals Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are dealing with being on the cusp of middle age. Universal has just dropped a new red-band trailer…
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Let's just cut to the chase: there's a bit in this red-band featurette explaining Judd Apatow's new film This is 40 where Leslie Mann fondles Megan Fox. That happens at about the 2:45 mark. So just go watch that, and then get back to me. I'll wait. OK, so this is a good attempt by…
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When Judd Apatow announced that his fourth feature film, eventually called This Is 40, would star Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann in the same roles they played in Knocked Up, it created more questions than it answered. If this film is set in that universe, would Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl return? What about the…
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Judd Apatow's movies all have a common thread. A person who acts younger than they should is forced to leave their youthful ways and become a grown up. Exhibits A, B, C and D are Steve Carell in The 40 Year Old Virgin, Seth Rogen in Knocked Up, Adam Sandler in Funny People and both…
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Note: This Is 40 opens everywhere December 21. We saw an early screening made possible by Film Independent at LACMA. For 132 minutes, This Is 40 is non-stop Judd Apatow. The jokes; the emotions; his wife; his kids; and maybe a bit too much of the writer/director's personality. It's a jackhammer of propulsive character action…
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We've been curious about Judd Apatow's This is Forty since the moment it was announced, and as of today we still have two long months to go until the film hits theaters. But if you're really dying to get all the details right this moment, there's a way. Universal has just uploaded Apatow's full screenplay online,…
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Testing a film with a live audience is a huge part of Judd Apatow's filmmaking process. Finding the biggest laughs and gauging reactions is treated as an additional round of editing for the writer/director/producer. The danger in that is, even though most people sign non-disclosure agreements, word is bound to leak out early. So while This is…
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There are some huge, huge laughs in the new trailer for Judd Apatow's "sort of" sequel to Knocked Up, This Is 40. Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann return as Pete and Debbie, supporting characters in the 2007 hit, who are struggling with the reality of turning forty. The kids are now older, the relationships more complicated,…
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Here's the trailer for Judd Apatow's This is 40, a film that is sort of a sequel to Knocked Up (as the trailer admits) and apparently an articulation of midlife angst from the writer/director/producer. Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann are a married couple hitting 40, and the looming milestone (does anyone call it "over the…
Read MoreThursday afternoon at CinemaCon, Universal Pictures presented footage, clips and trailers from their upcoming 2012 line-up and beyond. Included in the presentation were clips from Snow White and the Huntsman, Oliver Stone's Savages, Seth MacFarlane's TED, The Bourne Legacy, Les Miserables, Judd Apatow's This Is 40, Carl Erik Rinsch's 47 Ronin, Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, and…
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Let's kick off another sequel news roundup with some info on a film that will be out soon. Jon M. Chu directed G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and the trailers released so far have generated a good level of interest in the film. In an interview with Moviefone, Chu talks about enthusiasm for various Joe characters and…
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