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Spending Dollars

Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: 'Celeste and Jesse Forever'

by | February 5th, 2013

Last summer’s comedy-drama Celeste and Jesse Forever, written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack and starring Jones and Andy Samberg as the titular separated couple, is out on DVD and Blu-Ray today. The movie also features Elijah Wood, Emma Roberts, and The Mindy Project’s Chris Messina. If pilot season works in Samberg’s favor then we’ll be able to see both him and Jones in Mike Schur shows. Until that happens, Celeste and Jesse can tide you over.

dance

Your First Glimpse of Nick Frost and Chris O'Dowd's Salsa Dancing Comedy 'Cuban Fury'

by | November 15th, 2012

Yes, Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) and Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids, The IT Crowd) are playing rival salsa dancers in a new movie called Cuban Fury, and we have the photos to prove it. Collider obtained this picture and two more (embedded below after the jump) from the movie that look pretty ridiculous. Cuban Fury stars Frost as a former teen salsa prodigy who abandoned his dreams after a freak accident. He then returns to salsa dancing 20-odd years later to impress his boss (Rashida Jones), becoming rivals with his alpha male co-worker (O'Dowd). I don't want to speak to soon, but Cuban Fury looks [...]

Trailers

Watch the Trailer for 'Celeste And Jesse Forever' For Awhile

by | June 21st, 2012

More like Celeste and Jesse For-NOT-ever. Get it? Because like they're getting divorced in the movie and stuff. The film, which comes out on August 3rd, is about a couple that ends their marriage in an attempt to save their best friendship. The film stars Rashida Jones (who also co-wrote it) and Andy Samberg and they're generally both really great. Also, my name is in the title, which you probably don't and shouldn't care about but hey, I'm always excited for you when your name is in the title of movies, Spider-man.

trade roundup

Trade Roundup: Ben Stiller, Paul Feig, Celeste and Jesse, For A Good Time

by | January 24th, 2012

Ben Stiller will star in, direct, and executive produce a comedy pilot for HBO called All Talk. Written by Jonathan Safran Foer, it's about "the daily and life-altering dramas of a Jewish family in Washington, DC" and is being called “politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent.” That is a lot of ways to be irreverent. Let's see if I can be irreverent in all those ways in one sentence: "Hey Obama, Jesus, Broadway and Noam Chomsky: wanna fuck?" NAILED IT.

Paul Feig is on board to direct and executive produce an HBO pilot of his own, from Darren Star, the creator of Sex and the City. The [...]

Foodstuffs

Amy Poehler, Aubry Plaza And Rashida Jones Confirm Candy Is, Will Always Be Delicious

by | October 7th, 2011

Part of me feels this video of Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza and Rashida Jones taste-testing candy will only teach teenagers it's okay to eat boxes of candy you receive unsolicited in the mail. So in that regard, it's more like the opposite of a PSA. Another lesson learned? How many lifeforms die per year from eating Poprocks: 10 to 20 humans, 20 ducks or waterfowl. "Interesting. It feels like spider babies are being born in my mouth," Plaza notes as she samples the rocks. Kids…do not try to make your own Poprocks at home, no matter how many spider egg sacs you find in your attic.

Deals

Rashida Jones and Writing Partner Will McCormack Sign a Two-Year TV Deal

by | February 1st, 2013

Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones and her writing partner Will McCormack just signed a two-year development deal with Warner Bros. Television. As writers, the duo is best known for penning the screenplay to the movie Celeste & Jesse Forever, starring Jones and Andy Samberg, which premiered at Sundance last year and received generally positive reviews. In addition to the Warner Bros. deal, Jones and McCormack are writing the movie version of Jones's graphic novel miniseries Frenemy of the State, about a 20something socialite working undercover for the CIA. Under their new TV deal, Jones and McCormack will write and produce comedy and drama shows for both network [...]

Less Money - Mo Problems

Why 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' Took Forever to Be Made

by | August 1st, 2012

"Oh boy. It was so difficult. It was so difficult. Originally we wrote it, and we wrote it in about four months, and then we sold it really quickly to Fox Atomic, which was the best day of my life, and then a month later they folded. And then we sold it again to this company Overture Films, and then they folded a couple months later." - Rashida Jones in a Hollywood Reporter article on how Celeste and Jesse Forever went from a $20 million movie to a $12 million movie to ultimately an $840,000 movie.

Beach Vacation

Rashida Jones and Craig Ferguson Lounge on the Beach; Evade Swan Attacks

by | May 16th, 2012

Craig Ferguson is in Scotland this week, hosting his show and doing Scottish things with celebrities that look out of place. The result is Craig sitting shoeless (don't get your hopes up, foot fetishists, only he is barefoot) with Rashida Jones on a particularly scenic beach. They talk about smelly flamingos and vacations and Scotland. One thing is clear, do not compare anything to sausage around Rash-Jo, or she'll get mighty pissed, like a hot flamingo.

Interviews

Rashida Jones on Celeste and Jesse Forever and If She'll Write a Parks Script

by | January 23rd, 2012

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack are totally Armisen-Brownsteining it, world. (That's shorthand for "being a cool platonic man-woman best friend writing team.") First they dated, then they broke up, then they wrote Celeste and Jesse Forever, and then they did this interview about it, describing it "sort of as an Apatow movie, but for a girl." I plan to start chanting "this year's Bridesmaids" over and over for ten minutes every hour on the hour, gradually getting louder and louder until the trailer comes out.

Plus, now that she's got all this writing street cred, it sounds like only a matter of time before Rashida Jones joins [...]

Trailers

Paul Rudd Is an Irresponsible Stoner in the First Trailer for Our Idiot Brother

by | April 25th, 2011

Here's the first trailer for Our Idiot Brother, which features Paul Rudd as a freewheeling stoner who's taken in by his three sisters, played by Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer, after he gets in trouble with the law. He wears some pretty amazing tank tops in it! I'm on board.

song parodies

Jimmy Fallon and Rashida Jones Sing a Holiday Parody Song Medley

by | November 26th, 2012

Here's Rashida Jones on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night, joining Fallon for a rapid-fire series of holiday-themed parodies of pop songs. Don't worry, they don't skip "Gangnam Style."

Acting!

Jon Stewart Shows Rashida Jones the Range of His 10% anger

by | July 31st, 2012

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"Didn't you act a little bit?" is so accidentally condescending. You can tell she meant: "Weren't you the star of Elmopalooza? Oh, you just played yourself hosting a fake party for Elmo. Hmmm, also, you were in that movie about crossword puzzles, so that's like acting." Forget her, Jon, she's Welsh. Who's the most famous Welsh actor, Anthony Hopkins? More like Anthony Mop-hims because you'd wipe the floor with him [...]

Recaps

Parks and Rec Recap: "Operation Ann"

by | February 3rd, 2012

Holiday episodes can serve as a nice reminder that the particular holiday in question is coming up — in a couple of weeks. Parks and Rec celebrated Valentine’s Day 12 days early this year because the show’s pre-empted next week to clear way for a two-part 30 Rock episode. It’s actually kind of nice to get a Valentine’s-themed show out of the early before every other sitcom starts tackling the holiday in the coming weeks and makes audiences really sick of it.

This is Parks and Rec's first Valentine’s episode since Season Two, but we got a return appearance from Leslie’s “Galentine’s Day" Party, the event she holds for [...]

Festivals

Sundance Premieres Will Feature Celeste and Jesse, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan & More

by | December 6th, 2011

The Sundance 2012 premieres have been announced, and like this year's film selections they include lots of comedyfolk! We've got Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones in the long-awaited Celeste and Jesse Forever (with more photos here), Chris Rock in 2 Days in New York, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Scott in Bachelorette (Party Down reunion alert!), and Josh Radnor in Liberal Arts. And Justin Long and Ty Burrell and Parker Posey, oh my. Full synopses below.

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