North Korea is none too happy with Seth Rogen and James Franco’s upcoming movie, and not because the famed movie-loving Kim family thought This is the End had a messy third act. The Interview, directed by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, stars Franco as a television host who scores an interview opportunity with Kim Jong-un, and […]
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Seth Rogen considers sequel to ‘Bad Neighbours’
June 9, 2014 
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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have revealed they’re taking meetings about a potential sequel to their surprise hit Bad Neighbours (simply called Neighbours in the US). Just don’t expect anything to come of it. Speaking at the Produced By conference over the weekend, the screenwriters-producers discussed the success of their $18 million comedy, which has so far […]
Continue readingWar of the broses – Bad Neighbours review
May 5, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo May 5, 2014 A man and woman get to be best friends in Bad Neighbours, making it the most revolutionary comedy of the post-Apatow age. Seth Rogen, who not so long ago starred as Freaks and Geeks‘ resident sarcastic stoner, is, in 2014, charming dad material, playing Mac Radner, loving husband to […]
Continue readingJames Franco and Seth Rogen are making a movie about the making of ‘The Room’
February 10, 2014 0 Comments
James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg are teaming up to adapt The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room. According to Deadline, Franco’s Rabbit Bandini Productions has purchased the book and life rights to Greg Sestero’s memoir, detailing his troubled time on the set of The Room, one of the most infamous film failures of all time. […]
Continue readingLizzy Caplan to join Rogen and Franco in The Interview
October 2, 2013 0 Comments
Lizzy Caplan is in talks to take a leading role in The Interview, Variety reports. She would star opposite Seth Rogen and James Franco in the flick, set to be the next directorial effort for Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Rogen and Goldberg had a hit earlier this year with This Is The End. In The […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Neighbors
September 5, 2013 0 Comments
Zac Efron and his frat-house buddies cause nothing but trouble for Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne in the new comedy Neighbors. Rogen and Byrne (keeping her Aussie accent, for once!) play a married couple with a young baby whose suburban life is turned upside down when a raucous Fraternity house sets up shop next door. […]
Continue readingHoly Seth – This Is the End review
July 15, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 15, 2013 This is… a very strange movie. An assortment of A-Listers – playing themselves – assemble for a pitch-black, gross-out apocalypse comedy, debating the value of their lives when confronted with the confirmation of God’s existence. Imagine if this vanity project had been conceived by Tom Cruise, Will Smith, and […]
Continue readingInterview: Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies)
April 10, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 10, 2013 Jonathan Levine‘s Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy set in a world in which humanity has been lost and monsters roam the streets. So too, you might say, is Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve, He’s Just Not That Into You, and anything starring Kate Hudson. And you’d be right. But […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: This Is The End (Red Band)
April 2, 2013 0 Comments
The red-band trailer for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s all-star directorial debut This Is The End has arrived online. The picture stars Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Jay Baruchel as themselves; the only survivors of a house-party gone catastrophically wrong. In this new clip, we see their famous friends – namely Rihanna, a coke-snorting […]
Continue readingSeth Rogen and James Franco likely to reteam for The Interview
March 25, 2013 0 Comments
The Hollywood Reporter confirms funny-man Seth Rogen will star in, produce, and co-direct The Interview for Columbia Pictures. Rogen will share his director duties with long-time pal and collaborator Evan Goldberg (Pineapple Express) and may even re-team with his Freaks and Geeks co-star James Franco. Goldberg and Rogen co-wrote the screenplay based on a story […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Guilt Trip
October 8, 2012 0 Comments
Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand team up as mother and son in the first trailer for Anne Fletcher’s on-the-road comedy The Guilt Trip. Rogen plays Andy Brewster, an inventor, who invites his Jewish mother Joyce (Streisand) with him on a road trip as he tries to flog his environmentally friendly cleaning solution. Joyce hasn’t remarried […]
Continue readingThe top 10 Seth Rogen performances
July 13, 2012 1 Comment
The top 10 Seth Rogen performances. By Simon Miraudo. Canadian comedian Seth Rogen made his debut in Judd Apatow and Paul Feig‘s TV show Freaks and Geeks at the age of 17, but it would take another six years before he broke out in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (his two-second appearance as ‘Eager Cameraman‘ in Anchorman […]
Continue readingThe laughing cure – 50/50 review
July 10, 2012 0 Comments
50/50 – Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Rated MA. Originally published February 29, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. 50/50 arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia July 12, 2012. Whoever was responsible for christening this funny movie about a serious disease did not have an enviable task. Jonathan Levine‘s 50/50 went through a number of name changes before landing on […]
Continue readingBlue again – Take This Waltz review
June 13, 2012 0 Comments
Take This Waltz – Starring Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, and Luke Kirby. Directed by Sarah Polley. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Michelle Williams should surely be crowned the Queen of Cursed Cinematic Courtships, having endured break-up after devastating break-up in her finest features; Blue Valentine, Synecdoche, New York, and Brokeback Mountain. If that weren’t enough, […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Watch
May 7, 2012 0 Comments
The first feature trailer for Akiva Schaffer‘s alien-invasion comedy The Watch has landed online. The pic stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade as wannabe vigilantes who patrol their local streets, and unwittingly happen upon an intergalactic plot for world domination. The picture was originally titled Neighbourhood Watch, but 20th Century Fox changed the title to distance it from the George […]
Continue readingWatson, Cera, Segel, and Rihanna joining Rogen’s Apocalypse party
May 2, 2012 0 Comments
Even more stars have joined Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut/end-of-days party, The Apocalypse. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harry Potter‘s Emma Watson is in negotiations to appear in the flick. Rogen previously revealed that Harry himself, Daniel Radcliffe, turned down an opportunity to star, stating, “it doesn’t look like he’s willing to push things […]
Continue readingSteve Carell makes an offer we can’t refuse
April 16, 2012 0 Comments
Steve Carell and New Girl‘s Jake Johnson are set to star in a new mob comedy for Warner Bros. According to Deadline, the pitch is based on an original idea by Johnson and Max Winkler, for which WB paid six figures. There are no further details on the currently untitled project, though Letterman writer Rodney […]
Continue readingAziz Ansari brings in The Apocalypse
April 10, 2012 0 Comments
Aziz Ansari will join his buddies for an unforgettable end-of-the-world party in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut, The Apocalypse. His casting was revealed in an interview with Grantland. Ansari – like fellow cast members James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Rogen – will play a version of himself. Rogen and Goldberg’s script […]
Continue readingRogen and Hart to play “first” interracial police team
March 21, 2012 0 Comments
Here comes fun. Seth Rogen is confirmed to star opposite Kevin Hart in a buddy cop film about the first ever interracial police partnership, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The pitch by screenwriter Rodney Rothman (Late Show with David Letterman) has been acquired by Paramount Pictures. Rothman and Rogen have worked previously together on the […]
Continue readingThe laughing cure – 50/50 review
February 29, 2012 2 Comments
50/50 – Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Whoever was responsible for christening this funny movie about a serious disease did not have an enviable task. Jonathan Levine‘s 50/50 went through a number of name changes before landing on that vague final figure (the […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Take This Waltz
February 7, 2012 0 Comments
About time! The trailer for Sarah Polley‘s Take This Waltz has arrived online, ahead of its (fingers crossed) 2012 Australian release. So much for us listing it as our 17th most anticipated film of 2011! The film features Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen as a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. Luke Kirby plays the […]
Continue readingMelissa McCarthy sells raunchy road-trip script Tammy
October 20, 2011 0 Comments
New Line has preemptively acquired a script by Bridesmaids‘ break-out star, recent Emmy winner and future Oscar nominee (we’re calling it!) Melissa McCarthy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script – titled Tammy – tells the story of an overweight woman who decides to go on a road trip with her “alcoholic, foul-mouthed, diabetic grandmother” […]
Continue readingFranco, McBride, Hill and Robinson joining Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse
September 23, 2011 0 Comments
Seth Rogen’s horror comedy Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse has added several Apatow alumni to its cast, Rogen confirmed in an interview with MTV. Taking time out from promoting his latest dramedy 50/50 (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Rogen revealed Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson and James Franco will join him and Jay Baruchel when […]
Continue readingIT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade signs up for Neighbourhood Watch
September 15, 2011 1 Comment
Richard Ayoade – best known as Moss from The IT Crowd, and director of the sublime coming-of-age flick Submarine – has been cast opposite Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill in the new comedy Neighbourhood Watch. The film centres on a group of dads who accidentally happen upon an alien plot to destroy the world. Jared Stern’s original screenplay was recently […]
Continue readingSeth Rogen won’t appear in Knocked Up spin-off
September 8, 2011 0 Comments
Judd Apatow is busy at work on his Knocked Up spin-off (tentatively titled This is Forty), which focuses on Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), the disgruntled married couple who supported Ben (Seth Rogen) and Alison (Katherine Heigl) during their pregnancy in the 2006 box office hit. Rogen has told Movies.com that he will […]
Continue readingMegan Fox goes swimming in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up spin-off
August 25, 2011 0 Comments
Megan Fox has shared a new picture from the set of Judd Apatow’s upcoming Knocked Up spin-off, tentatively titled This is Forty. It was previously reported that Fox would have a small role in the film, which follows Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), the disgruntled married couple who supported Ben (Seth Rogen) and […]
Continue readingNew trailer for cancer comedy 50/50 plays up the yuks
August 12, 2011 0 Comments
A brand new trailer for Jonathan Levine‘s ‘cancer comedy’ 50/50 has debuted online. Although a full minute shorter than the trailer released back in May, it gives us a better idea of the film’s sense of humour (something that needs to be stressed to any potential viewers who are hesitant about seeing a comedy about […]
Continue readingRogen and Efron to co-star in raunchy frat comedy
July 26, 2011 0 Comments
Seth Rogen and Zac Efron are set to star in a raunchy new comedy in the vein of Animal House and Old School, Deadline reports. Universal Pictures paid screenwriters Andrew Cohen and Brendan O’Brien seven-figures for their script; the studio is no doubt eager to recapture the success of their last American R-rated comedy Bridesmaids. […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: 50/50
July 13, 2011 0 Comments
The poster for Jonathan Levine‘s upcoming dramedy 50/50, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young man battling cancer and Seth Rogen as his BFF, has debuted on Slashfilm. We say ‘dramedy’, but don’t expect a solemn, Stepmom-style weepy. Hopefully the tagline there offers a better insight into the film’s sense of humour. Check out the trailer […]
Continue readingSeth Rogen taking on Jamaica
July 7, 2011 0 Comments
Seth Rogen is reteaming with his 50/50 director Jonathan Levine and regular collaborator Evan Goldberg for a new film titled Jamaica, based on a screenplay written by Will Reiser. According to Variety, Reiser’s screenplay is based on a holiday he took with his grandmother to Jamaica at the age of 14. Rogen and Goldberg will produce […]
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