The Lonely Island making a musical-comedy for Judd Apatow

Hold up: The Lonely Island is getting a movie. Today, nothing else matters. According to Deadline, the trio will make a musical comedy for Universal, with Judd Apatow producing. The Lonely Island – for those unfamiliar with their turtlenecks and chains – is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. Hired to Saturday Night Live as […]

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Trailer Debut: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, the follow-up to 2009’s surprise animated smash, has a brand new trailer positively overflowing with food puns. Though the directors of the original, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, are gone (having graduated to live-action with 21 Jump Street), the voice cast returns. Hear the hilarious Bill Hader, Anna […]

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Buddy love – Celeste and Jesse Forever review

Celeste and Jesse Forever – Starring Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, and Chris Messina. Directed by Lee Toland Krieger. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. It seems a little unfair that Rashida Jones – the great talent who has long gone unappreciated and underrepresented on TV shows The Office and Parks and Recreation – didn’t get a meaty big […]

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Hotel Transylvania 2 in the works

A sequel to Sony’s surprise hit Hotel Transylvania is in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a September 2015 date has been set for the follow-up. The picture has grossed more than $253 million worldwide, and is the highest grossing Sony Pictures Animation title ever. That impressive tally can be tied to its clever pre-Halloween release […]

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Oh boy – That’s My Boy review

That’s My Boy – Starring Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, and Leighton Meester. Directed by Sean Anders. Rated MA. By Richard Haridy. When I was 16 years old, my younger brother and I saw Happy Gilmore at the movies twice in two weeks. We unreservedly loved the film and thought the world of Adam Sandler. A […]

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Teaser Debut: The To Do List

The red band teaser trailer for Maggie Carey’s raunchy comedy The To Do List sees Aubrey Plaza seeking to not only lose her virginity before college but check off an entire list of sexual acts. The film is set to hit cinemas Valentine’s Day 2013, and Plaza introduces the trailer in her least deadpan performance […]

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Trailer Debut: That’s My Boy

Forget the fact that Adam Sandler is just 12 years older than Andy Samberg. The two of them star as father and son in the new comedy That’s My Boy. Though we’ve been given enough recent examples to abandon all hope for Sandler’s cinematic output, like an amnesiac klutz or a sadomasochist, we keep returning to […]

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Paltrow, Witherspoon, Diaz, Knowles and Samberg are One Hit Wonders

A cavalcade of stars (sorry; that’s a silly phrase) are set to appear in a new film from the creator of Glee and director of Eat, Pray, Love, Ryan Murphy. According to Deadline, Sony has paid seven-figures to secure Murphy’s pitch for One Hit Wonders. The project would feature the stunning starlets Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, and Beyoncé Knowles. […]

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Andy Samberg, Donald Glover join Aubrey Plaza in The Hand Job

Up-and-coming comic actors Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live), Donald Glover (Community), Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) , Mae Whitman (also AD) and Johnny Simmons (Scott Pilgrim) are set to join Aubrey Plaza in The Hand Job, The Playlist reports. Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader divulged details about the upcoming project – which will be written and […]

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>Andy Samberg to ‘Hate’ Adam Sandler

>The Hollywood Reporter has announced Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg are in talks with Columbia Pictures to star in a new comedy called I Hate You Dad. Before you get too excited and think Sandler and Samberg would make perfect brothers on screen, I Hate You Dad looks to cast Sandler as the ‘dad’ part […]

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