The Hollywood Reporter has an oral history of The Hangover movies out today, and, in it, director Todd Phillips reveals some actors who were almost cast in the movie. Before any actors were hired, Paul Rudd and Jack Black both passed on the project (along with others). Lindsay Lohan was considered for the Heather Graham role and "loved the script,"" but she was deemed too young for the character. Phillips reminisced, "Quite honestly, we were writing the brother-in-law as a younger brother they had to take along with them – like a Jonah Hill character instead of Zach [Galifianakis]. " Jake Gyllenhaal and Thomas Haden Church were both considered for the [...]
Admission, starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, is this week's big new comedy – unless a movie Rob Schneider and the ShamWow guy made together called inAPPropriate Comedy turns out to be much better than it sounds. While the reviews for Admission are faring a lot better than those for inAPPropriate Comedy, they're still pretty mixed. Review aggregators Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic gave Admission 46% and 49%, respectively, with most critics praising Tina Fey and Paul Rudd while sleighting everything else about the movie.
Here's Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen pitching ideas for a Samsung Super Bowl ad to Bob Odenkirk in a 60-second teaser for Samsung's upcoming 120-second Super Bowl commercial. I liked it, but I wish there was a 30-second teaser for the teaser I could have watched before committing to watching this 60-second commercial.
Paul Rudd did Conan last night, and when it came time to play a clip from his new movie This Is 40, he pulled his usual switcheroo, a gag that never stops being funny.
Hit the jump for the rest of Paul Rudd's Conan interview, which includes him talking about growing his hair out for Anchorman 2 and how Will Ferrell told him they were going to make the sequel:
Last week, an audience member vomited in the balcony of a performance of the Broadway play Grace, starring Paul Rudd, and now, here's Rudd on Letterman last night, running through the "Top Ten Thoughts That Went Through His Mind When An Audience Member Vomited During His Broadway Show." This video should unite all you snobs and slobs out there as it has the perfect combination of high art (Broadway) and low (vomit humor).
Here's the trailer for Prince Avalanche, a new comedy-drama starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as a pair of late '80s highway workers. David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, George Washington) wrote and directed the film, which is the first movie he's written since Snow Angels in 2007. The movie is set for an August 9th release, probably hoping to beat all the fall's 1980s highway worker comedy-dramas to the theater.
Tina Fey and Paul Rudd are currently in the midst of promoting their new movie Admission, and they ended up reminiscing to Collider about how they first met – in 2004 filming a special for VH1 called Soundtracks Live that never aired. The special was based on a show at the UCB Theatre in New York that Amy Miles and Amy Poehler ran, in which actors would reenact a movie live on stage while a band played the soundtrack. Here's a bit from the interview, in which Fey and Rudd discuss their reenactment of John Hughes's Sixteen Candles:
Fey: The show came out great and … they just [...]
One of the more memorable moments form Sunday's Golden Globe Awards was Paul Rudd and Salma Hayek standing onstage speechless after their teleprompter unexpectedly crapped out on them while they were presenting the award for Best TV Drama. They had just presented another TV award prior to that, and as Rudd explains to Vulture, he didn't know he was still on TV at first:
"We didn't know, I didn't know they were doing two [categories] — we never had rehearsal. And they didn't tell us, so we were just standing there, and I honestly thought they went to commercial! [Laughs.] I mean, there was nothing on [the teleprompter]! And [...]
This time next year, you'll be sleeping in after a midnight screening of the long-awaited sequel to Anchorman, entitled Anchorman: The Legend Continues. Paramount just announced the film will be released on December 20, 2013, just in time for the holidays. Anchorman 2 will see stars Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and David Koechner return, along with producer Judd Apatow, writers Adam McKay and Ferrell, and director McKay. Little is known about the plot, but Kristen Wiig is in talks to play Steve Carell's love interest and the film will be see the news team dealing with the development of the 24-hour news cycle [...]
Here's the new trailer for a comedy called Admission that stars Tina Fey as a Princeton admissions officer and Paul Rudd as a guy who has some shocking news for her. Admission was directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, American Dreamz) and also stars Lily Tomlin, Michael Shannon, and Wallace Shawn. It comes out on March 8, 2013, which sounds way farther away than it really is. This is Tina Fey's first movie in three years (since 2010's Date Night) because she's been busy with 30 Rock and that whole "raising a family" thing. It's Paul Rudd's billionth move in the last year. Not that I'm complaining; he's [...]
Conan O'Brien and his crew are currently in Atlanta, filming a week of shows to coincide with some sort of basketball sports thing that's going on right now, and Paul Rudd's also in Atlanta, filming Anchorman 2. Rudd dropped by Conan's show last night and premiered an exclusive clip from the Anchorman sequel, which is the first footage we've seen from the movie so far. Fans of Paul Rudd's Conan appearances can see the gag coming from a mile away, but that almost makes it funnier.
Paul Rudd went on The Daily Show yesterday to promote his new movie Admission with Tina Fey, and his facial hair was all grown out for Anchorman 2, which is filming right now. Instead of asking Rudd about either movie, Jon Stewart took the opportunity to practice his Sandra Day O'Connor interview for tomorrow and Paul Rudd rose to the occasion and gave an interview as Sandra Day O'Connor that's certainly better than the one Sandra Day O'Connor is gonna give tonight.
This Is 40, Judd Apatow's fourth film as a director, hits theaters today, and it's receiving mixed reaction from critics and proving less popular with reviewers than anything he's directed so far. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie scored a 52%, compared to 68, 90, and 86 for Funny People, Knocked Up, and The 40 Year-Old Virgin, respectively. On Rotten Tomatoes's less popular little brother Metacritic, it received a 58/100, compared to 60, 85, and 73 for those three same films. Despite the middling marks from critics, This Is 40 is still doing much better than your average big studio comedy in 2012 and has been receiving praise from [...]
Here's the brand new red band trailer for writer/director Judd Apatow's latest opus of filth, This Is 40, which definitely makes use of that red band. NSFW. For Mature Audiences Only. Contains Taint.
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