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Exclusive Judd Apatow Blog: 'Funny People' Director Unearths Some Cutting Room Clips
16 July 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
by Judd Apatow
As arguably the biggest comedy director working in Hollywood today, Judd Apatow is a funny guy and almost as importantly, he’s been a longtime friend to the MTV Movies Blog, acting as one of our first guest contributors way back when “Knocked Up” was coming out. Well, the big guy is back. Apatow’s next project, of course, is “Funny People.” And lucky for us Judd’s re-joining the MTV Movies Blog gang with a series of exclusive columns hitting every single Thursday between now and the film’s release. So without further ado, here’s Judd…
How to Make A Fake Movie
"Funny People" is the story of a famous comedian having a life crisis. Basically, George Simmons finds out he is ill and then wonders what the hell he did with his life. Was it all worth it? In order to make this character
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MTV Movies Team
Natalie Portman Confirmed For 'Thor'
13 July 2009 6:24 PM, PDT | From www.actressarchives.com | See recent Actress Archives news
Confirmed earlier today by Variety.com, following months of speculation, Natalie Portman is now officially set to co-star alongside Chris Hemsworth in Marvel Film's upcoming adaptation of "Thor." Portraying the character Jane Foster - a nurse who falls in love with Thor after he's cast down to Earth - Portman will begin production on the film with director Kenneth Branagh early next year. Currently shooting the Universal stoner comedy "Your Highness" with James Franco, Por ...
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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: July 12, 2009
12 July 2009 1:06 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
This week:
Bruno is the box office king; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle’s want You; Hollywood loves Hooker; Jason Statham goes on a Blitz; Zooey Deschanel is Your Highness and Robert DeNiro and Paul Schrader see The Dying of The Light.
Box Office
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno took the top spot over the weekend with a gross of $30 million. It’ll need legs like a supermodel to reach the coveted $100 million mark.
Crossing the century mark this weekend is Ice Age 3-D: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs $28 million this weekend the animated pics total now stands at $120 million. Expect an Ice Age 4.
Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen banked another $24 million giving the Michael Bay action epic a grand total.
After breaking records last year with The Dark Knight, it has been a disappointing summer for Christian Bale. Terminator Salvation underperformed at the start of the summer and
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Niall Browne
Zooey is a Virginal Princess in 'Your Highness'
11 July 2009 5:51 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
Guys who can't get dates must be sky high about the news that two of the girls they covet the most, Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel, will appear in the same film. It's David Gordon Green's Your Highness, which stars Danny McBride and James Franco.
Portman was announced several weeks ago, but Empire carries the news that Zooey, daughter of the estimable Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, will play Belladonna, "the virginal wife of a noble knight (Franco) who accompanies his arrogant doofus of a brother (McBride) on a quest to save their father’s kingdom."
McBride's character becomes obsessed with Portman's warrior princess along their journey. I know they're not going for historical accuracy - I think Danny McBride kind of gives that away - but an army filled with Natalie Portmans sure wouldn't stave off Visigoths very long.
Colin Boyd
Zooey Deschanel Will Be a Princess For 'Your Highness'
10 July 2009 12:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
I am trying to keep my expectations very low for Your Highness, the medieval comedy headed by Danny McBride and James Franco, but it's so hard, especially since they keep adding such promising cast members. Now The Hollywood Reporter says they have added another fair maiden to keep the testosterone levels down: Zooey Deschanel.
To refresh your memory, Highness centers on a lazy, arrogant prince (played by McBride, naturally) who must go on a knightly quest to save his father's kingdom. Joining him is his heroic brother, played by James Franco. (And he's so perfect for this with those Pre-Raphaelite looks of his.) Natalie Portman plays a warrior princess, who wins the heart of McBride, while Deschanel plays Belladonna, Franco's virginal bride. It's not clear if she goes along on the quest, but something tells me she's probably left behind in a tower, and abandoning her chastity belt.
Directed by David Gordon Green,
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Elisabeth Rappe
The Linkover
10 July 2009 11:28 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
Kenneth in the (212) "about face" is a new photography book restricting itself to just men's faces, unretouched. Lots of actors because they're handsome. I threw Jim Caviezel up to the left there. His career sure turned out odd, right?
THR Let the Right One In's director Tomas Alfredson lines up his next project, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy based on the John Le Carre's 1974 espionage novel
/Film Kate Beckinsale sues a newspaper for libel damages, claiming that they gave the impression her career was in decline. This is the type of thing that could so easily backfire. Suddenly we're thinking: Why is she so touchy about her career? Declining?
The Notorious Nikki Finke hates on Nicole Kidman. But then who doesn't she hate on?
All Things Fangirl has a detailed review of Tom Lenk's (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) stand up show last night at Don't Tell Mama's. I was
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Deschanel Joins ‘Your Highness’ with Franco, McBride
10 July 2009 11:18 AM, PDT | From newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news
Zooey Deschanel is joining the medieval stoner comedy Your Highness, directed by David Gordon Green. Highness, written by Danny McBride and Ben Best, is about an arrogant, lazy prince who must complete a quest to inherit his father’s kingdom. Accompanying him is the prince’s brother (James Franco). According to THR, Deschanel will play Franco’s “virginal bride.” Natalie Portman is also involved, she’s set to play McBride’s love interest and a warrior prince. Plus wizards and dragons along the journey. This will be the fourth pairing of McBride and Green, who worked together on Pineapple Express (which starred James Franco), several episodes of “Eastbound and Down,” and...
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Jeff Leins
Pinkfacialization: Bruno/Humpday
10 July 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news
What is it with straight guys? First they try to muscle in on our monopoly on ball shaving, then they try to claim Michael Jackson and Farrah for themselves when all they did to either of them during their lives was beat them up (both figuratively and literally), and now they’re out to colonize our very gayness on film. And I’m not talking about Sean Penn fucking James Franco to tell the story of a gay hero. I’m down with that. I’m talking about two movies that come out today: Bruno and Humpday, both of which attempt to lay claim to homosexuality as a “topic”.
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Zooey Deschanel Joins David Gordon Green’s Your Highness
10 July 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
David Gordon Green , James Franco and Danny McBride are following their stoner action movie Pineapple Express with a stoner medieval comedy called Your Highness, and Zooey Deschanel has just joined the cast. Shooting starts this month in Northern Ireland, according to THR, with Natalie Portman also in the picture. Ben Best wrote the script, which features "an arrogant, lazy prince (McBride) who must complete a quest to save his father's kingdom." His heroic brother (Franco), or his relatively more heroic brother anyway, joins him, and Deschanel will play his bride. Portman is a warrior princess who is love interest for McBride. Yeah, I love that idea, too. This isn't the first collaboration between Deschanel, McBride and Green. One of Zooey Deschanel's first big roles (after a string of supporting work) was in David Gordon Green's 2003 All the Real Girls. That film was also Danny McBride's first feature credit,
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Russ Fischer
Zooey Deschanel Joins Portman, McBride, And Franco In ‘Your Highness’
10 July 2009 8:53 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman will be coming together for the first time (or third if you count the dream I had last night) in the new film, Your Highness. Per THR, Deschanel has joined the cast of the upcoming David Gordon Green comedy as a virginal bride named Belladonna. The film stars Danny McBride and James Franco as two princes on a quest to save their father's kingdom. One brother is a slovenly and arrogant pot-head and the other is a more traditional and heroic prince figure... can you tell which actor plays which role? Portman also stars as a warrior princess. A very hot and beautiful warrior princess I assume. Green and McBride have previously spoken of the film in the context of Army of Darkness and Krull... McBride once described it as "Barry Lyndon meets Krull." The plan is to make it low-tech, eschewing CGI in favor of practical effects where possible, and
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Rob Hunter
Family Viewed Michael Jackson in Open Casket
10 July 2009 | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
The night before the world paid tribute to Michael Jackson, close family members viewed the entertainer's body in an open casket at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills. "He looked like himself. He looked like he just was laying there sleeping," says David Fossett, 50, a cousin of Jackson's who grew up with him and still lives in Jackson's hometown of Gary, Ind. "He looked peaceful." Relatives gathered around the casket, "talked to each other and cried" during the viewing on Monday night, Fossett tells People. Jackson's parents, Katherine and Joe Jackson, were not among those gathered, but after the viewing,
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Hilary Shenfeld
How Hayden Panettiere Survives the Fame Game
10 July 2009 3:30 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
Just because she's spent her entire life in the spotlight doesn't mean that Hayden Panettiere's life has always been so bright. "I was tortured, emotionally tortured by these girls," the star of Heroes and I Love You, Beth Cooper, 19, tells Details in its August issue about her contemporaries at school when she would return from professional gigs. "Every time I came back from filming, it would be me trying to find my way back into the clique. And they weren't having it." Panettiere started her acting career in New York before she was even 1 year old. But with the
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Xiomara Martinez-White
Zooey gets High
10 July 2009 2:39 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news
Zooey Deschanel has signed on to co-star in the upcoming Universal comedy Your Highness for director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express). Deschanel joins Danny McBride, James Franco and Natalie Portman in the film about a lazy prince (McBride) who must save his father's kingdom with the help of his heroic brother (Franco). Wait. Did I just say that Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman were to be co-starring in the same movie? Warning: Possible Cute Overload. This could only be...
Mike Sampson
Zooey Deschanel Joins David Gordon Green's Your Highness
9 July 2009 11:58 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news
Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman are starring in a stoner comedy together?! I think I'm going to faint! Deschanel is the latest to join the cast of the dragon slaying period comedy Your Highness being directed by David Gordon Green that starts shooting this month in Ireland. Danny McBride stars as an arrogant, lazy prince named Thadeous who must complete a quest to save his father's kingdom. Joining him on the quest is his more heroic brother, played by James Franco, and Belladonna, Franco's "virginal bride," played by Deschanel. Natalie Portman is also on board to play McBride's love interest, a warrior princess. Your Highness was co-written by "Eastbound & Down" stars Ben Best and Danny McBride. In our interview with Gordon Green last year, he explained that it was "about a prince that smokes weed and fights dragons." And as for the mythical creatures in it, they won't be CGI
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Alex Billington
Zooey Deschanel Joins Your Highness
9 July 2009 11:27 PM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news
Zooey Deschanel has joined the cast of the David Gordon Green-directed comedy Your Highness. James Franco, Danny McBride and Natalie Portman also star. McBride also penned the screenplay with writing partner Ben Best (The Foot Fist Way). Highness written centers on an arrogant, lazy prince (McBride) who must complete a quest to save his father's kingdom. Joining him on the quest is his more heroic brother (James Franco). Deschanel plays Belladonna, Franco's virginal bride. Natalie Portman plays McBride's love interest, a warrior princess. Deschanel, whose recent credits include Yes Men, The Happening and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, hits the screen later this month in (500) Days of Summer. The offbeat romantic comedy, which has been garnering solid buzz since its debut earlier this year at Sundance, centers on a woman (Deschanel) who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who falls for her.
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James Cook
Your Highness Exceeds Foxy Lady Quota With Zooey
9 July 2009 10:44 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news
Your Highness has become my most anticipated movie of all time. What does it get wrong? It.s a period comedy co-written by Danny McBride and directed by indie-turned-comedy director David Gordon Green. It will star McBride and James Franco. And on top of all that, it will feature Natalie Portman as McBride.s love interest. But wait! There.s more! What? That.s not all, Tim? Nope. THR is reporting today that Zooey Deschanel has signed on to star in Your Highness as James Franco.s .virginal bride,. Belladonna. The minds of every movie geek, hipster douche, and human being that feels attraction towards those without a Y chromosome just got blown. Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel together in One movie? How is that even legal? David Gordon Green is putting together a great flick here. All we can hope for now is that the material lives up to
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Zooey Deschanel Joins Your Highness
9 July 2009 10:11 PM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news
Zooey Deschanel has joined the cast of David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s medieval comedy, Your Highness.Deschanel will play Belladonna, the virginal wife of a noble knight (James Franco) who accompanies his arrogant doofus of a brother (McBride) on a quest to save their father’s kingdom. Along the way, they meet, and McBride falls for, a warrior princess played by Natalie Portman… and we’re only guessing, mind you, but we wouldn’t be surprised if Belladonna turns out to be less than virginal.We’ve always had a soft spot for Deschanel, who’s the right side of kooky and charming, and she’s a further good addition to a movie that we’ve got high hopes for. Not least because McBride also co-wrote the script with his Eastbound & Down writing partner, Ben Best, and if they can bring that show’s offbeat, diffident, sneering attitude to this,
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George Clooney Lends Star Power to Earthquake-Damaged City
9 July 2009 3:35 PM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
George Clooney's next project will allow him to be an actor and humanitarian at the same time. On Thursday, the Oscar-winning star visited L'Aquila, Italy - a city hit by an earthquake in April that killed more than 300 people - and told reporters he plans to help boost the region's economy by shooting a movie there and "draw[ing] attention to this tragedy." "We'll shoot a film here at the end of September, in which I will act," he said, though he didn't name the film. "I think this is the best way to lend a hand and boost the economy.
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Eunice Oh
No Lie - Jim Carrey Will Be a Grandfather
9 July 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
Jim Carrey's rock musician daughter Jane Carrey is expecting her first child. "I am very excited," Jim, 47, says in a statement. "Jane is going to be a great mom." His 21-year-old daughter, who sings for the Jane Carrey Band, is having the baby with her fiancé, Alex Santana of the rock band Blood Money. Jane is the Liar Liar star's daughter with his first wife Melissa. - Mike Fleeman and Julie Jordan Related Article: • 2006: Jim gets serious with Jenny McCarthy! Related Gallery: • People Covers: Celebs share baby news!from Huffington Post James Franco Pokes Fun At Himself Photos:
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Raven-Symoné Clears Up Baby Rumors
9 July 2009 1:40 PM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
The Internet has been abuzz with whispers of a possible pregnancy - and, by some accounts, birth - for That’s So Raven star Raven-Symoné, but the rumors have been put to rest. "Raven-Symoné is not pregnant nor did she give birth," her rep tells People. That much should be evident when the 23-year-old actress and singer-songwriter takes the stage Thursday night at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J.Numerous media outlets have claimed that Raven-Symoné had been hiding a pregnancy, and the stories reached a fevered pitch earlier this week with reports that the former Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
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