Criticized ad nauseam for his perceived lack of versatility, 21-year-old comedy star Michael Cera gets a chance to stretch a little in Miguel Arteta’s adaptation of C.D. Payne’s novel, “Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp.” His performance as the neurotic, pretentious, socially inept virgin, Nick Twisp, isn’t by any means a departure [...]
Ed Helms will follow his monster smash hit comedy, “The Hangover” with a Miguel Arteta-directed project entitled, “Cedar Rapids.” The trades report that Alexander Payne, director of “Sideways,” will produce the comedy in which Helms will play a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman who goes to an industry convention to try to save the jobs of his [...]
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