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Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis are ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’

Long-time pals Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis are joining forces to star in the comedy Keeping Up With the Joneses. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Greg Mottola (Superbad) is attached to direct the flick, based on a script by Mike LeSieur. Producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have spent several years developing the project, about […]

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Larry David movie gets official title and impressive cast

Larry David has had no difficulty securing impressive guest stars for his hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm, and so it goes for his upcoming HBO feature film Clear History. According to The Hollywood Reporter, David will star opposite Jon Hamm, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Michael Keaton, Amy Ryan, Eva Mendes, Philip Baker Hall, Kate Hudson, and his Curb co-star […]

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Greg Mottola adapting The Marriage Plot

Greg Mottola (Superbad, Paul) is in talks to adapt Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Eugenides novel The Marriage Plot to film, Variety reports. The novel is a coming of age story set in the early 1980s, so we can assume Mottola was pegged for his similarly styled recent movie, Adventureland, which he also wrote. Eugenides […]

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Double spaced – Paul review

Paul – Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen. Directed by Greg Mottola. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Paul is a fun tribute to sci-fi films (and film geekery in general), but did it have to be so … dumb? Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the writers and stars of this road-movie-cum-science-fiction-spoof, have proven […]

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>New trailer for Paul longer, funnier

>That headline kind of sums it up, but an extended trailer for Greg Mottola‘s sci-fi comedy Paul has debuted online. Paul stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (who also penned the screenplay) as a couple of sci-fi geeks who meet an alien on the way to Area 51. Seth Rogen gave a motion-captured performance as […]

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Teaser Debut: Paul

Back in May of 2009, we (rhetorically) asked if Greg Mottola‘s sci-fi flick Paul had “the comedy cast of the year”. Which year were we talking about? It’s hard to say. But our basic sentiment was that Paul featured a cavalcade of brilliant comic performers. We now have our first glimpse of them in action, […]

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