Jennifer Aniston has joined the cast of a new comedy called She's Funny That Way from veteran director Peter Bogdanovich, Variety reports. This will be Bogdanovich's first film since 2001's The Cat's Meow. The story follows a Broadway producer (Owen Wilson) trying to turn a former prostitute into an actress. Aniston plays a therapist whose mother is in rehab for alcohol. The cast also includes Jason Schwartzman, Eugene Levy, Kathryn Hahn, Brie Larson, and Cybill Shepherd. Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbauch will serve as executive producers. She's Funny That Way's original title was Squirrel to the Nuts. They should change its name back to that in addition to changing [...]
Late last year, Ted Danson said that a 90-minute movie based on the HBO show Bored to Death was in the very, very early stages, but now it's been officially confirmed by HBO. The Hollywood Reporter says that HBO Films is developing it as a potential feature film, written by creator Jonathan Ames. This conflicts with Danson's earlier statements that it would be a 90-minute TV movie instead of a full-length feature film, but the project potentially becoming a big theatrical movie sounds pretty appealing. Bored to Death, which ran three seasons before HBO canceled it in December 2011, scored modest numbers with audiences, but its three stars, [...]
It's been an impressive season for guest stars over at Parks and Recreation, with Joe Biden, Lucy Lawless, and John McCain dropping by the critically-acclaimed series, and now, Jason Schwartzman is being thrown into the mix. The Huffington Post reports that the Bored to Death and Rushmore actor will be guest starring in an episode later this season as Dennis Lerpiss, the owner of Pawnee VideoDrome. VideoDrome is the last independent video store in Pawnee, and Leslie tries to save the struggling business by getting it designated a historical landmark. If you know any young Parks and Recreation viewers, this episode will require you to explain to them what a [...]
"A Raymond Chandler line I like is, 'She had a face like a bucket of mud.' Now that’s a very surreal idea, but it’s not flowery writing, it’s very straight. And I sort of feel that that’s one of the things too about Wes' writing. It’s very straight, it’s very direct, but also kind of surreal — the sentences are sort of turned around on themselves, and so I think that’s one thing. And I think that sort of lends to the humor of it, too. It’s like half a beginning of a sentence is funny, and the next half of it is whatever the opposite of funny is." — [...]
Having played Charlie Harper in Two And A Half Men and Disaster Charlie in his own upcoming Comedy Central roast, Charlie Sheen is currently approaching Adaptation-levels of self-critique by signing onto Roman Coppola's A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III. Costarring with Jason Schwartzman, Sheen will depict the titular character, "a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have made his girlfriend breaks up with him, [and] his life heads into a downward spiral." I sincerely hope Coppola understands his movie is about three porn stars and eight tiger blood references away from winning an Academy Award for Best Picture.
