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May 9 2012 08:26 PM ET

Casting Net: Cameron Diaz nears 'The Counselor.' Plus: Matthew McConaughey, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Chris Hemsworth

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• Cameron Diaz is close to boarding director Ridley Scott‘s dramatic thriller The Counselor, as a supporting character named Malkina. Michael Fassbender stars as a lawyer who gets pulled deep into the dangerous world of illegal drugs. Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, and Penelope Cruz will costar in the film, the first screenplay by famed novelist Cormac McCarthy, who penned the book No Country For Old Men. Expect to hear a lot more about this one… [Deadline]

• …and this one too: Matthew McConaughey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard are all eyeing roles in writer-director Lee Daniels’ history-based film The Butler, about Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker), the man who served in the White House from President Eisenhower through President Reagan. Oprah Winfrey will play Allen’s wife. [THR]

• Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler may be rivals on Parks and Recreation, but they’ll romance each other in They Came Together, a meta-romantic comedy from the duo’s Wet Hot American Summer director David Wain. (Yes, that’s the real title.) The film, written by Wain and Michael Showalter, will satirize typical rom-com tropes. It starts shooting this summer. [Variety]

Check out project news for Kyle Chandler, Chris Hemsworth, Luke Evans, and Logan Marshall Green below:  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 27 2012 03:45 PM ET

'This Is 40' trailer: The sort-of sequel to 'Knocked Up'

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Spin-off or sequel? Judd Apatow’s new comedy This Is 40, which picks up with the lives of married couple Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) a few years after the events of Knocked Up, is both.

Of course, saying “a few years after the events of Knocked Up” sounds like a sci-fi catastrophe occurred in Katherine Heigl’s uterus, but the new entry from the Apatow team is a lighthearted spin-off that looks at middle-age married life through the lens of a quarrelling, albeit still in love, couple. Melissa McCarthy and Jason Segel pop up in the trailer, and you can expect appearances from Megan Fox, Lena Dunham, Chris O’Dowd, John Lithgow and Annie Mumolo when the film comes out on December 21. Check out the first trailer below: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 19 2011 09:00 AM ET

'Bridesmaids': Kristen Wiig on her speedy writing process, and why Paul Rudd was cut from the film -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Even if you already caught Bridesmaids in theaters, you’ll want to check it out again at home. Why? Because unlike most comedies on DVD and Blu-ray that boast of hilarious special features, Bridesmaids actually delivers the goods. EW has an exclusive clip below from one of the behind-the-scenes features in which star Kristen Wiig, her writing partner Annie Mumolo, and producer Judd Apatow talking about the Bridesmaids writing process — including how quickly Wiig and Mumolo cranked out their first draft.

If you watch hard enough, you’ll even get a very quick peek of one of the best extras on the DVD and Blu-ray (out Sept. 20): A deleted scene between Kristen Wiig and Paul Rudd, in which they go on a blind date that starts off promisingly but then spirals out of control as Rudd turns out the be a short-fused rageaholic. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 28 2011 03:10 PM ET

Box office report: 'The Help' withstands Hurricane Irene to win slow weekend with $14.3 mil

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In what may be the lowest grossing weekend of the year, The Help finished in first place for the second week in a row with $14.3 million, according to studio estimates. The PG-13 drama dropped only 28 percent — a particularly impressive hold considering that this weekend also marked the debut of Hurricane Irene, which was downgraded to a tropical storm as it made its way through New York City and New England. The Help, which cost $25 million to produce and has so far earned $96.6 million, should cross the $100 million mark by Wednesday.

But while The Help managed to withstand Mother Nature, the overall market took a beating. According to the box office reporting service Rentrak, as many as 1,000 theaters closed at some point during the weekend due to Irene. AMC Theatres, for instance, shut down all of its theaters in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 27 2011 03:47 PM ET

Box office update: 'The Help' stays in first with $4.4 mil on Friday, as Hurricane Irene dampens results

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With or without Hurricane Irene, this was going to be a soggy weekend at the box office. But due to the storm, which made landfall Saturday morning in North Carolina and will travel through New York and the New England region all day Sunday, movie grosses may wind up being particularly weak. Theater chains such as AMC Theatres and Clearview Cinemas started closing locations in affected areas today and will keep them closed on Sunday.

As for Friday’s business, the top 10 films made an estimated $22.5 million — the worst Friday figure so far this year. The Help fended off three new releases to hold on to first place with $4.4 million on Friday, according to early estimates. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 25 2011 11:13 PM ET

Box office preview: 'The Help' prepares for 'Don't Be Afraid of Our Colombiana Brother'

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Like last weekend, it’s going to be another quiet session at the box office, especially with Hurricane Irene heading straight for most of the East Coast. Unlike last week, when Hollywood bombarded moviegoers with three new 3-D pictures (and one supposedly British Anne Hathaway), this weekend is thankfully all two-dimensional. The breakout hit The Help should remain in first, while three new releases battle for second place: the indie comedy Our Idiot Brother, the haunted-house thriller Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, and the revenge action film Colombiana. In what could be an incredibly close race, here’s how I think the top five will finish: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 2 2011 05:27 PM ET

'Wet Hot American Summer' 10th anniversary: David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Joe Lo Truglio remember their days at Camp Firewood

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Think it’s impossible to make a comedy for just $1.8 million, get it into theatres, and still wind up with a financial disaster? Think again!!! It is almost exactly 10 years since writer-director David Wain did just that with Wet Hot American Summer, his camp movie spoof which starred co-writer Michael Showalter, Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Meloni, and Joe Lo Truglio, amongst many others.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the movie’s release — and to celebrate the film’s elevation to cult classic status — Wain, Showalter, and Black are hosting a special Wet Hot event tonight at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y. The bad news? The event is sold out. The good? You can read the Camp Firewood reminiscences of Wain, Showalter, and Lo Truglio below.

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Jul 12 2011 10:20 PM ET

Paul Rudd to put the dead on ice in film based on 'This American Life' story

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paul-urddImage Credit: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.comEW has confirmed that Paul Rudd is attached to star in documentarian Errol Morris’ untitled feature film based on a 2008 This American Life story about the cryogenics craze of the 1960s. As Morris first told The Washington Post, Rudd will play Bob Nelson, a TV repairman who started his own cryogenics operation in Southern California — freezing dead people with the hope science would learn how to revive them some time in the distant future — with disastrous results. Zach Helm (Stranger Than Fiction) is penning the screenplay, and Morris told The New York Observer that he is also collaborating on the film with TAL‘s Ira Glass.

Rudd will next appear in Our Idiot Brother (Aug. 26) and Wanderlust (this fall), and is currently filming an untitled film with Leslie Mann and directed by Judd Apatow.

Read more:
‘Our Idiot Brother’ trailer: Now with more heart
Sundance: Paul Rudd and friends on ‘My Idiot Brother’
Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann to reprise ‘Knocked Up’ roles: What other supporting characters deserve the star treatment?

Jun 27 2011 01:06 PM ET

Paul Rudd remembers 'Wet Hot American Summer'

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Camp comedy spoof Wet Hot American Summer opened on July 27, 2001, garnering a lot of hostile reviews and tepid audience interest. A decade on, David Wain’s debut movie is a widely beloved cult classic while several members of its then-mostly unknown cast have emerged as major stars, including Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper, and Amy Poehler. To mark the film’s 10th anniversary, we asked the film’s stars to recall their time at Camp Firewood.

First up? Paul Rudd, who played the lazy, womanizing, and dangerously incompetent counselor, Andy. Below, the actor talks about getting the role, slobbering over Elizabeth Banks, and why a sequel would need to be even weirder.

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Jun 24 2011 05:44 PM ET

'Our Idiot Brother' poster: Paul Rudd's got flower power

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My brother was an economics major at University of Chicago who is currently getting his Ph.D in mathematics, so I only have one thing to say to the poster for Our Idiot Brother: You lie! Yet, it’s still impossible to resist the image of a bearded, long-haired Paul Rudd in Crocs. The cozy/ugly shoes = immediate comedy.

This poster for the film — which follows a pothead (Rudd) who returns home and causes mischief in the lives of his sisters (played by Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer) — very adeptly tows the line between rowdy comedy and heart-warming tale, much like the trailers for the film. But regardless of which genre the movie fits into, I’m in. See a bigger version of the poster embedded after the jump. Is there anything better than an enlarged Rudd? READ FULL STORY »

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