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New Year's programming: Dropping balls, bowls and marathons
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TV options for making the end of 2009 more celebratory and nursing your hangover as you usher in 2010:
Festivities
The granddaddy of New Year's Eve TV, "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve," kicks off at 10 p.m. Et on ABC. Host Ryan Seacrest and Clark will do an hour in primetime from Times Square, then return at 11:30 to watch the ball drop and usher in the new year. Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas will check in from Las Vegas. Scheduled performers include Jennifer Lopez, Daughtry, the Peas, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.
NBC has "New Year's Eve with Carson Daly" at 10 and 11:30 p.m. Jay-z, Rihanna and Green Day are scheduled to perform.
On Fox, Carmen Electra hosts "New Year's Eve Live" from Las Vegas at 11 p.m. with performances from "American Idol's" Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta as well as Sean Kingston. Eva Longoria Parker
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First Teaser Poster for The Bounty Hunter with Aniston & Butler
16 December 2009 12:10 AM, PST
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Okay, I'm featuring this poster because I think this movie has some appeal with Jennifer Aniston starring and Gerard Butler. Sure it's another romantic comedy relationship fiasco movie, but it could be something cool as well, like a Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Yahoo debuted the teaser poster for The Bounty Hunter which sees Aniston and Butler as ex-husband and wife. Butler is a bounty hunter who learns that his next target is his ex-wife. Sounds kind of like The Break-Up goes to hell or something like that. You never know, it could be funny. This design is pretty fresh, I like the colors and using the two of them to fill the frame. Looks good!
The film centers on a bounty hunter (Gerard Butler) hired to retrieve his ex-wife, who has skipped bail.
The Bounty Hunter is directed by Chicago-born filmmaker Andy Tennant, of It Takes Two, Fools Rush In, Ever After,
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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Jennifer Aniston Is To Play Adam Sandler’s Wife
9 December 2009 10:01 AM, PST
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The ‘Baster’ actress is reportedly in negotiations to star opposite the ‘Happy Gilmore’ actor in romantic comedy ‘The Pretend Wife’ – formerly known as ‘Holiday In Hawaii’ - though plot details are being kept firmly under wraps.
Adam’s long-term collaborator Dennis Dugan is expected to direct the movie, which is scheduled for release in February 2011, while Happy Madison is producing.
Jennifer – who was married to Brad Pitt and dated a host of famous men, including John Mayer and Vince Vaughn – has previously admitted she wants to be more selective in her movie roles because the storylines seem to come true in her personal life.
She joked earlier this year: “I’m trying to be more careful than I have been in the past about the titles of movies that I choose to be in. It’s funny - I kind of noticed something a couple years ago that there seemed
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Hangover Writers Stick-Up Patrick Dempsey for Their Next Comedy
4 November 2009 10:21 AM, PST
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“Hey! The Hangover writers are writing a new movie! And with ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ heart-throb, Patrick Dempsey? It’s even got a wacky premise where Dempsey caught between two robberies that take place at the same bank at the same time who secretly plots to win the heart of a feisty bank teller! She’s feisty? I’m going to stand in line for tickets Today!”
Slow down. While Dempsey’s recent movies seem like an attempt to position him as American-Hugh Grant, my major concern is with “Hangover” “screenwriters” Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. There’s been some controversy as to whether or not they were actually responsible for the film that ended up making over $450 million worldwide. While the two did write the foundation of the story, director Todd Phillips and un-credited screenwriter Jeremy Garelick (”The Break-Up”), made substantial changes adding, according to Deadline, “the baby, the tiger,
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Steve Carell to Star in Golf Comedy Missing Links
27 October 2009 3:48 AM, PDT
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The Hollywood Reporter writes that Steve Carell has signed on to star in Missing Links, a golf-themed comedy based on a novel by Espn journalist Rick Reilly. The story involves a group of golf buddies who regular play on the worst golf course in the country. They make a bet about which of them can successfully score a round of 18 at the upscale private club next door.
Jay Lavender, who wrote The Break-Up, will pen the script. Reilly previously wrote the screenplay for the George Clooney-directed comedy Leatherheads.
Other Carell projects include next year's comedy Date Night, starring Tina Fey, and Mark Wahlberg. He will also star in the Jay Roach-directed comedy Dinner for Schmucks and lend his voice talents to the animated movie Despicable Me.
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Steve Carell Adapts Rick Reilly’s Missing Links
27 October 2009 3:10 AM, PDT
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I enjoy Rick Reilly. Everything gets a little funnier when you see sporting life through his perspective. A 1998 article about Ohio State linebacker Andy Katzenmoyer began, “How are you with condoms?” And in a seamless transition, he pivots right to their national championship hopes, as if the two ideas have any kind of connection together, when he continues to say, “Anything you might know about them could help No. 1-ranked Ohio State win college football’s national championship.” The idea being that Katzenmoyer couldn’t pass an AIDS awareness class. Reilly’s defection to Espn was like Benedict Arnold; it’s strange to see an eleven time sportswriter of the year switch boats in midstream.
Unfortunately, he co-wrote Leatherheads, which not even George Clooney could save. But the good news is that now his comedic novel Missing Links is being adapted by screenwriter Jay Lavender (The Break-Up), according to Risky Business.
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Steve Carell finds Missing Links
27 October 2009 1:34 AM, PDT
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Steve Carell might well be hitting the fairway for new golfing comedy Missing Links.
Warners has nabbed the rights to Espn writer Rick Reilley's 1997 titular novel, which finds a group of bumbling players who dream up various schemes to move them from their run-down local course to membership of an elite nearby club.
Jay Lavender, one of the writers behind The Break-Up, has been hired to write the script, and once it's been developed the film will have to wait in line as Carell picks between various projects to cram into the gaps between...
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Steve Carell Might Be Missing Links
27 October 2009 1:17 AM, PDT
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Warner Bros. has picked up Missing Links, a golf comedy based on a novel from Espn.s Rick Reilly, with Carell loosely attached to star as a golfer angling for a better place to play.
Steve Carell for Missing Links
Carell will at least produce Missing Links and, if he likes what he sees from the script, he will likely get in front of the camera for it also. Warner Bros. has given the task of writing the screenplay to The Break-Up scribe Jay Lavender. As long as the comedy is nothing like The Break-Up, the production is off to a good start.
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Steve Carell Taking to the Links
26 October 2009 6:26 PM, PDT
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Warner Bros. studios recently picked up the rights to Missing Links, a comedy based on a novel by Espn magazine columnist Rick Reilly.
The novel tells the story of a group of golfers who get tired of playing the shabby municipal course in their working-class neighborhood, and try to scheme their way to moving up to an elite club instead.
Steve Carell has signed on to produce the film under the Carousel Prods. banner, and is unofficially set to star in Missing Links as well. Jay Lavender, writer of The Break-Up, will be writing the screenplay for the film.
No production details have been revealed yet.
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Steve Carell May Star in Missing Links
26 October 2009 6:18 PM, PDT
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Steve Carell may be filling some of his downtime from The Office with a little golfing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Carell is considering starring in the big screen adaptation of Espn journalist Rick Reilly's golf novel, Missing Links. Missing Links is set up at Warner Bros with Carell's company, Carousel Productions, producing. The Break-Up screenwriter Jay Lavender is adapting Reilly's novel.
Reilly's book tells the story of three guys from outside of Boston who are obsessed with golf. Although their regular course of choice is the worst public golf course in America, they have a shared dream of one day getting to play on Boston's most exclusive course - the Mayflower. Fed up with having to just dream about the Mayflower's gorgeous, manicured greens, they make a $1,000 bet payable to the first one of the group who plays the exclusive course.
Carell was last seen on the big screen in 2008's Get Smart.
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Steve Carell on Par for Rick Reilly Golf Comedy 'Missing Links'
26 October 2009 5:50 PM, PDT
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While I admit that I do still love the curly haired comedic force that is Will Ferrell, his recent foray into nonsensical off-the-wall sports comedies (e.g. Semi-Pro) is beginning to lose its appeal. Thankfully he's moved on and seems to be passing the reins over to Steve Carell, as THR's Risky Biz Blog reports that the actor will star and produce Missing Links, a comedy set in the world of golf about a player angling for a better place to drive his balls. Okay that sounded dirty, but we've all seen 40-Year-Old Virgin so I think we can handle it. Writer Jay Lavender (The Break-Up) adapted the script from a novel by Espn’s Rick Reilly.
More specifically, Reilly's novel "tells of a group of bumblers who, after playing for years at a run-down municipal golf course in a working-class Boston neighborhood, concoct a series of schemes that they
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Steve Carell to star in new golf comedy
26 October 2009 5:48 PM, PDT
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The guy from "The Office" gears up for a round of big-screen golfing. Steve Carell is in talks to join "Missing Links," a sports comedy Warner Bros. is developing based on the novel by Espn journalist Rick Reilly.
Risky Business says funny guy Carell would play a golfer who's played at a run-down Boston golf course for years and now finally decides to do whatever it takes to get to play his favorite sport at an elite club.
Jay Lavender, who previousy penned the shockingly terrible comedy "The Break-Up," is taking a stab at the script. He's also prepping "The Golden Tux."
Carell is a busy man these days. The star of "Get Smart" has several projects coming soon, including "Date Night" and "Dinner for Schmucks." He is also voicing a character in 2010's "Despicable Me."
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WB Buys 'Missing Links' for Steve Carell
26 October 2009 4:39 PM, PDT
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By the Hollywood Reporter
Warner Bros. has acquired “Missing Links,” a golf comedy based on a novel from Espn’s Rick Reilly, with Steve Carell attached to star as a golfer angling for a better place to play.
Carell will produce via his Carousel Productions banner. “The Break-Up” scribe Jay Lavender is writing the screenplay.
Read more in the Hollywood Reporter.
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Carell plays golf
26 October 2009 3:31 PM, PDT
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Is funnyguy Steve Carell thinking about putting his little white balls in some holes while everyone watches?
Seems to be the case -- Carell is attached to a Warner Bros. golf comedy called Missing Links, being written by Jay Lavender (The Break-up).
Based on a 1997 book by Espn’s Rick Reilly, the story follows a "group of bumblers who, after playing for years at a run-down municipal golf course in a working-class Boston neighborhood, concoct a series of schemes that they hope
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Steve Carell Set to Hit Some Missing Links
26 October 2009 12:07 PM, PDT
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Steve Carell is set to tee off in a golfing comedy. According to The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog, Carell has been set to star in Missing Links.
The film is based off the 1997 comedy novel by sportswriter Rick Reilly, which follows the comedic escapades of four golfing buddies who tire of golfing at shoddy public course and hatch a series of plots to try and golf at a high-class country club.
Jay Lavender (The Break-Up) will adapt Reilly's novel for the big screen. No production schedule was announced for the film.
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Weekend Report: 'Couples Retreat' Advances, 'Paranormal Activity' Spikes
12 October 2009 11:48 AM, PDT
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While weekend business as a whole was relatively modest for the time of year (albeit up seven percent from last year), the sole new nationwide release Couples Retreat, the spreading Paranormal Activity and holdovers Zombieland and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs all boasted impressive showings.
Landing smack dab in the middle of the debut weekends for star Vince Vaughn's previous relationship comedies Four Christmases and The Break-Up, Couples Retreat attracted $34.3 million on approximately 3,800 screens at 3,000 sites, claiming the highest-grossing Columbus Day weekend gross on record ahead of the similarly-appealing Meet the Parents (which still had greater attendance). In its marketing, the picture was presented in the same vein as Meet the Parents and the other Vaughn movies, featuring relatable themes and verbal and slapstick humor, topped off with a sunny vacation setting. Distributor Universal Pictures' exit polling indicated that the "humor" and "Vince Vaughn" were the top
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'Couples Retreat' Takes #1 Spot At Box Office
12 October 2009 6:54 AM, PDT
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Vince Vaughn's romantic comedy wins the top spot, but 'Paranormal Activity' has a strong showing at #5.
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Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman, Vince Vaughn, Faizon Love and Kristin Davis in "Couples Retreat"
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The Box-Office Top Five
#1 "Couples Retreat" ($35.3 million)
#2 "Zombieland" ($15 million)
#3 "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" ($12 million)
#4 "Toy Story" & "Toy Story 2" 3-D Double Feature ($7.7 million)
#5 "Paranormal Activity" ($7.1 million)
When Vince Vaughn takes to the big screen, he typically steals the spotlight. And while the funnyman certainly ruled the box office this weekend with his comedy "Couples Retreat," all eyes are on another movie's theatrical success story.
The surprise hit of the weekend was none other than the fifth-place-finishing "Paranormal Activity," a horror flick directed by Oren Peli that was filmed entirely with a handheld camera. Produced on a meager budget of less than $16,000, "Paranormal Activity" actually debuted on September 25 but only
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'Couples Retreat' Dominates North American Box Office
11 October 2009 7:29 PM, PDT
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Off to a strong start following its Friday, October 9 release, Universal Pictures' romantic comedy "Couples Retreat" debuted atop the North American box office. With no other new releases as its competition, the movie that was projected to open in the $20 million range exceeded expectation by pulling in an estimated $35.3 million worth of ticket sales.
The solid opening gave this Vince Vaughn's movie the highest-grossing Columbus Day weekend gross on record, besting over "Meet the Parents". And, despite the negative reviews, it also became Universal's first strong domestic opening since "Fast and Furious" in April, and marked Vaughn's best opening since "The Break-Up" in 2006.
Commenting on "Couples" success in landing the top slot was Universal's head of distribution Nikki Rocco. Of the movie that stars also Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Malin Akerman, the studio topper said, "I feel pretty good today. Happy to have a hit.
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