Safety first. “Dinner for Schmucks” clings to that mantra like a corporate lawyer with executive overlords deathly afraid of dishing out workers comp checks to injured employees. The production studio, Spyglass Entertainment, must have circulated a memo during pre-production forbidding experimentation of any kind, taking chances, sharpening the writing, casting out of type or any [...]
Film is a fickle medium. In any other industry if you take two of the top performers in their respective spheres and put them together you’ve got a hit. Derek Jeter and A-Rod, peanut butter and jelly, vanilla and chocolate. Like Captain Planet, their combined powers create something greater than the sum of their parts. [...]
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 [...]
The upcoming Jodie Foster-directed flick, “The Beaver,” has just added heavy-hitter Mel Gibson to the cast, according to Variety. Foster will direct and star with Gibson in the Kyle Killen script that follows a depressed man who finds comfort in wearing a beaver hand-puppet. The last time the two stars appeared on screen together was [...]
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