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Cera + Wright and Sandler + Apatow

Christopher celebrates his birthday with news of two newly cast comedies.

I’m F**cking Hating Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith is probably fucking himself by ripping off the new guy.

Trailer of the Day: Pineapple Express

A hugely successful producer. A newly minted comedy star. A whole lot of marijuana. One of these things may be a problem for the marketing of David Gordon Green’s Pineapple Express.

David Gordon Green Wades in the Main Stream — ‘Snow Angels’ Trailer

Oh look: it’s that movie I heard so many great things about and wanted to see twelve months ago.

Spinning The Fall of WALK HARD

The biggest box office news of Christmas weekend was the utter failure of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Sony launched a wide and varied marketing campaign, the film was fairly well-reviewed (it earned a 78 percent “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes), and yet, it only managed to gross $4.1 million over three days. That’s [...]

SpoutBlog Week in Review

Unwanted pregnancies, a censorship squabble, gratuitous references to 30 ROCK, and the Joker: join us in reliving the week that was.

Judge Reinhold is Back! (in Spirit): ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ Trailer

Unfortunately Reinhold is not actually in this movie (he’s too busy with the ‘Santa Clause’ franchise, apparently). The real title should read “Jason Segel Has Arrived!” But nobody really knows who he is yet.

Viral Marketing in the Meta Stage Still Funny

The point is not to think about how this promotional sketch breaks down its own form of movie marketing. The point is to laugh at Paul Rudd’s hilarious delivery of a stale, old Jewish joke.

Heigl Jumps On KNOCKED UP Backlash

Six months later, the KNOCKED UP realism debate continues.

Armond White Defends Tyler Perry, Trashes Judd Apatow

After explaining why Lionsgate declined to screen the film for critics, Armond White begins his review proper of Why Did I Get Married? on contrarian autopilot: “Most critics don’t ‘get’ Tyler Perry basically because most critics are whites who are not only clueless about Perry’s African-American culture, but unsympathetic to his particular expression.” Okay, probably. [...]