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By Jeff Vice Deseret News STEP BROTHERS -- ** -- Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins; rated R (vulgarity, profanity, violence, sex, brief nudity, slurs, brief drugs, brief gore) The hits produced by Judd Apatow and company have always pushed the limits of what's considered cinematic and comic good taste. But what ultimately redeemed the better movies of that naughty- comedy bunch -- "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up," for example -- is that they had a real heart beating...
By Phil Villarreal, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Jul. 24--Compared to the pathetic protagonists in "Step Brothers," Steve Carell's 40-year-old virgin is a ladies' man and Matthew McConaughey in "Failure to Launch" is a go-getter. Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C. Reilly), middle-agers who act like they're in middle school, are forced to bunk together because they're still living with their respective parents, who meet and marry. Funnier roomies haven't been spotted since Felix...
By Barry Caine, The Oakland Tribune, Calif. Jul. 4--HERE'S ALL YOU need to know about "Drillbit Taylor: Extended Survival Edition": The extras are more fun than the movie -- about three nerdy young high schoolers who hire a supposed soldier of fortune (Owen Wilson) to protect them from two older bullies. The Judd Apatow-produced comedy isn't awful; some scenes satisfy. And Apatow regular Leslie Mann (she's his wife) is incandescent in the supporting role of a sexually charged schoolteacher...
By Arifa Akbar Arts Correspondent Sherlock Holmes, the pipe-smoking Victorian super-sleuth with a penchant for drugs, is to become the subject of a face-off by two Hollywood studios which are both bringing out films about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary hero. In one camp is Columbia Pictures, which has announced the making of an as yet untitled comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Holmes and Will Ferrell as his sidekick, Watson. Squaring up to Columbia is Warner Brothers, whose Guy...
Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell are set to play British detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. John Watson in a big-screen Hollywood comedy. Variety.com said Tropic Thunder scribe Etan Cohen is writing the screenplay for the untitled project, while Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce the film inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tales. Baron Cohen and Ferrell previously played rival race car drivers in Talladega Nights, which Apatow and Miller also produced, the...
CULVER CITY, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Comedy superstars Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell will team together for a Columbia Pictures comedy based on the renowned characters Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with Baron Cohen taking the role of the master detective and Ferrell as his partner in solving crime, Watson, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. The screenplay will be written by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder). Judd Apatow and Jimmy...
It has been a tough summer to be a superstar director or writer. Take Larry and Andy Wachowski, the writer/director brother team behind the Matrix franchise and the creative minds behind Warner Bros.' (TWX) megabust Speed Racer. Or M. Night Shyamalan. The 38-year-old Indian-born writer/director was pilloried by movie critics before the opening of his apocalyptic film The Happening, which did surprisingly well in the face of almost universally stinky reviews. [Of course, it then promptly fell...
NEW YORK (AP) - J.K. Rowling's magical, Midas touch has landed her on the cover of Entertainment Weekly as the magazine's entertainer of the year.The magazine said the "Harry Potter" author, who has sold nearly 400 million copies of her boy-wizard series that's been adapted into a megasuccessful movie franchise, deserved props for getting "people to tote around her big, old-fashioned printed-on-paper books as if they were the hottest new entertainment devices on the...
By Tatiana Siegel LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Owen Wilson, who starred in the 2005 hit "Wedding Crashers," has signed on to star in the high-concept comedy "Drillbit Taylor" for Paramount Pictures. Steven Brill is in negotiations to direct. Based on an original idea by John Hughes, who wrote a 70-page scriptment a couple of years ago, "Drillbit" revolves around two high school freshmen who are targeted by the school bully on the first day of the school year. The boys hire what...
By Borys Kit and Tatiana Siegel LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Anne Hathaway, currently on screen as Jake Gyllenhaal's icy wife in "Brokeback Mountain," is joining the cast of Universal Pictures' "Knocked Up." The actress is set to star opposite Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann in the Judd Apatow romantic comedy. Apatow is writing, producing and directing the movie, which follows a twentysomething guy who finds out he impregnated his one-night stand. The picture will be...
