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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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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As we head toward the Oscars and therefore the end of awards season, it's time to take a better look at some of the films we're anticipating from 2012. We have for you today an eclectic mix of photos from some of the entertainments we're most looking forward to, from Gary Ross' deadly serious YA…
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Jason Segel is probably most recognizable to moviegoers as the star of such R-rated comedies as Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (in which he did full-frontal male nudity before Michael Fassbender made it cool). But his next big screen appearance will be in Thanksgiving's all-ages movie The Muppets, which he wrote with Forgetting Sarah Marshall…
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When Judd Apatow announced his upcoming film, once tentatively titled This is Forty, we immediately wondered about the cast. That's not just a result of Apatow's fondness for a stable of comic actors that goes back to the Freaks & Geeks days, but a natural question given that the film is a spin-off from Apatow's…
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I'd like to make this the 'leading lady' edition of Casting Bits, but I don't think Caleb Landry Jones would like that very much. (Jason Segel would probably be OK with it.) Still, after the break you'll find that two films have chosen their lead actresses, while Jones joins Jordan. Ahem. To wit: Alexandra Maria…
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Three more have signed on for What to Expect When You're Expecting, Kirk Jones' adaptation of the classic pregnancy manual. The comedy follows several different couples, Love Actually-style, as each experiences pregnancy and the miracle of childbirth. Bridesmaids actress Wendi McLendon-Covey will play a colleague and friend of Jennifer Lopez' character; True Blood's Joe Manganiello…
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Having previously starred on Gilmore Girls and her own show Mike and Molly, Melissa McCarthy was well-known to TV audiences before her breakout performance in this summer's surprise smash Bridesmaids. Since then she's been mentioned as the possible star of several projects and now she's finally committed to one. She'll appear in Judd Apatow's Untitled…
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It's no secret that Judd Apatow likes to cast people over and over again in his movies. Large chunks of The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Funny People all feature the same actors, not to mention those populating the many films he's produced too. His currently-untitled next directorial feature, rumored to be called…
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That new Judd Apatow project that's neither a prequel nor a sequel to Knocked Up now has a name -- maybe. As you probably recall, Apatow announced some time ago that he was planning a spin-off film centering around Pete and Debbie, the bickering married couple played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann in the…
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