With projects like Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines, David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook, and Susanne Bier's Serena all coming up, The Hangover star Bradley Cooper looks poised to make the move into Serious Actor respectability. But he hasn't left broad comedy behind completely, or at least not yet. Cooper's next big-screen appearance…
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Ladies and gentleman, may we introduce Dax Shepard, feature film writer/director. The star of Idiocracy and Zathura has written and co-directed Brother's Justice, a mockumentary in which he also stars as himself, shopping around a movie pitch in which he'll play a martial arts action star. Featuring Tom Arnold, Jon Favreau, Ashton Kutcher and Bradley…
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For years, various participants in the James Cameron film True Lies -- primarily Tom Arnold -- have talked up the possibility of a sequel. So far it's been nothing more than talk, though James Cameron himself has dropped hints about the possibility of a second film that continues the story of a family man (Arnold…
Read MoreTom Cruise, Will Smith, Anna Kendrick, Milo Ventimiglia and a few other actors were photographed leaving the Saddle Ranch in West Hollywood's Sunset Strip on Tuesday morning. The restaurant is famous for its karaoke, crazy parties and a mechanical bull. Some gossip sites were quick to report that it was a four-hour Scientology event, since…
Read MoreLauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under, Can't Hardly Wait), DC Pierson (Mystery Team, Derrick Comedy), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Cedric the Entertainer and Tom Arnold (True Lies) have been cast in writer-director Stephen Gyllenhaal's quirky Seattle-based political comedy Grassroots. They join Jason Biggs and Joel David Moore Full details after the jump. The…
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The Steve Carell / Ryan Gosling comedy that may or may not be called Crazy, Stupid Love is quickly adding actors. I Love You, Philip Morris directors John Requa and Glen Ficarra have already nabbed Emma Stone and Julianne Moore, and now they're bringing in ex-figure skater Analeigh Tipton. She's been part of America's Next…
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The New York Times has a big profile piece on Tom Arnold in which he's defended by no less than Judd Apatow, but the piece is getting attention for a little quote from Arnold that appears right at the end. Talking about a movie that the NYT admits has no plot or script, the actor…
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From the producer of American Pie and the director of American Pie 2 comes American Summer, which is actually completely unrelated the the aforementioned franchise. AICN called the movie the "American Pie version of Risky Business." The story follows uptight Harvard bound Alex Sperling (Brett Davern), who after a summer internship unexpectedly falls through, has…
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Patrick Sisam's The Year of Getting to Know Us premieres at Sundance, but an early trailer (with a different title - Rocket) has popped up online. Jimmy Falon stars in what Sundance describes as a "darkly comic exploration of the classic dysfunctional-family dynamic" and "a quirky exploration of how the people in our lives make…
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I can imagine a writer standing in the big office of a studio executive's office. He pitches this idea for a comedy where Cavemen who yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones and raw meat. It could be a good movie, right? Wrong. Homo Erectus is directed by Adam Rifkin and stars Adam…
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