Turns out, to my enduring surprise, the answer to my headline query is "yes."
[Kristin] Wiig stars as Annie, the increasingly unhinged maid of honor for her best friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) upcoming up-market wedding. They are surrounded by an ensemble of witty twisted sisters who come in all shapes and sizes (both the wit and the sisters, the unrelated kind, just 'doin' it for themselves'), and a director in Paul Feig, who displays a lot of comedic common sense. This creative...Read Full Story
Turns out, to my enduring surprise, the answer to my headline query is "yes." [Kristin] Wiig stars as Annie, the increasingly unhinged maid of honor for her best friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) upcoming up-market wedding. They are surrounded by an ensemble of witty twisted sisters who come in all shapes and sizes (both the wit and the sisters, the unrelated kind, just 'doin' it for themselves'), and a director in Paul Feig, who displays a lot of comedic common sense. This creative collective...Read Full Story
Taking a page out of J.J. Abrams’s secret project playbook, Judd Apatow told MTV that he’s producing a previously unannounced comedy starring Paul Rudd and written by Ken Marino and David Wain. Fun! No word yet on the plot, but since whatever it is comes from the fertile comedy minds of Marino and Wain — who teamed with Rudd for the underrated Role Models — expect it to be hilarious and filled with genuine pathos. Well played, everyone. [ MTV Movies Blog ]Read Full Story
The project is Business Trip and it was set up a while ago at Universal. But now mogul Judd Apatow has come on to produce with Benderspink, and Judd's wife Leslie Mann (who also was in his Funny People) will star. They want a January 2011 release date. — full article at deadline.comRead Full Story
The "Bridesmaids" producer isn't afraid to get in Chelsea's face. Plus, get the lowdown on what to expect for the "Knocked Up" sequel. Add this to your queue Added: Fri May 13 07:06:12 UTC 2011 Air date: Thu May 12 00:00:00 UTC 2011 Duration: 05:31Read Full Story
What is there to say about Jon Brion that you don't already know (or should know)? A whipsmart songwriter, a dazzling musician (his live shows are legendary), an encyclopedia of music knowledge and history, and a producer extraordinaire who has worked with everyone from Kanye West to Brad Mehldau to Fiona Apple (his unreleased version of her Extraordinary Machine album is worth tracking down). But of course, movie fans know him best for his...
Judd Apatow‘s upcoming film “This Is 40″ might be a spin-off to his 2007 hit “Knocked Up,” but that also marks a first for the comedy director. He’s never before written or directed a follow-up to one of his movies. Thus far Apatow ...
Many of you have probably updated your Facebook statuses or Twitter feeds to reflect our big win in the California courts today. and you’re not alone—a number of celebrities are tweeting their joy as well, reports Entertainment Weekly. Some are expected and others are pleasant surprises.
We’ve listed some of their finds, as well as a [...]
Filmmaker Judd Apatow is to be honoured for his comedy work by the Writers Guild of America Wga The Knocked Up screenwriter and director will receive the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence from Bridesmaids star Kristen Wiig at the Wgas East Coast...
Judd Apatow will probably not be on Jerry Lewis' holiday card list this year.Apatow accepted the Critics' Choice Movie Award for best comedy on behalf of "Bridesmaids" (he produced it) Thursday night (Jan. 12). In his acceptance speech he had a few words for Lewis, who has said in the past that he doesn't find women all that funny.(Specifically, Lewis made some remarks in a 1998 appearance at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival that women doing...
It’s been nearly 14 years since Jerry Lewis infamously remarked that he didn’t find women funny—mostly because he sees a woman as “a producing machine that brings babies in the world,” even though the image that conjures is inherently kind of funny. Does he see like a conveyor belt or...? Anyway, after enduring more than a decade of oppression under the entertainment industry’s ruthless, Jerry Lewis-controlled patriarchy, female comedians have...
A 30 year timeline of Judd Apatow's career.I'm with Judd Apatow on having a best comedy category at the Oscars. The critcs' choice has a category. The Golden Globes have it, and they always butcher it, so why not the Oscars?After all, Apatow argued, animated features have been separated into their own category. “It doesn’t seem like it’s screwing up Schindler’s List for Hangover to have its own category,” he said. “Since comedies are rarely...
Kristen Wiig is to give her Bridesmaids producer Judd Apatow an honorary prize at the Writers Guild of America's East Coast Awards. Apatow will receive the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence in recognition of his career achievements at the WGA East's ...
For the love of Pete, what I would pay to hang out with these two! A source tells me that Jason Segel, who will be honored as Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year on Friday, hung out last night at Bukowski Tavern in Cambridge with none ...
With Melissa McCarthy and Wendi McLoven-Covey already weighing in on the non-controversy of Universal's possible plan to do a "Bridesmaids" sequel into production without its star Kristen Wiig, leave to the film's producer Judd Apatow to make the funniest comment about the absurd situation yet. Last night at the 2012 People's Choice Awards, PopSugar cornered the "Bridesmaids" crew (who won Favorite Comedy Movie) and asked Apatow about the...
Judd Apatow (born December 6, 1967) is an Emmy Award-winning American film producer, screenwriter, director and former stand-up comedian. He is best known for producing a distinct ...