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8 December 2009 5:47 PM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »

The Hollywood Reporter says Jennifer Aniston is in talks to star opposite Adam Sandler in the romantic comedy Pretend Wife set up at Columbia Pictures. Not a whole lot is known about the project other than it was written by Allan Loeb and Tim Dowling and it might be directed by Dennis Dugan. Dugan directed Sandler in Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, The Benchwarmers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, and the 2010 comedy, Grown Ups.

Jennifer Aniston recently completed work on The Baster which, coincidentally, Allan Loeb wrote and produced. Aniston also has The Bounty, an action comedy co-starring Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen), hitting theaters next year.

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Jennifer Aniston May Join Adam Sandler in Pretend Wife originally appeared on About.com Hollywood Movies on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 at 01:47:13.

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29 October 2009 11:17 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

It's Nick Swardson's party ... and you're invited! After numerous hit movies, highly-rated stand-up specials and memorable appearances on Reno 911!, Comedy Central greenlights a new, half-hour weekly sketch series starring comedian Nick Swardson and executive produced by Swardson, Tom Gianas, Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions and Sony Pictures Television, it was announced today by Lauren Corrao, president, original programming and development, Comedy Central. The new series is slated to begin production in November and is scheduled to premiere in 2010.

"We love Nick at Comedy Central and even more importantly, our audience loves Nick," said Corrao. "We've seen it in his movies, his stand-up, with his Reno 911! character 'Terry,' and in the work he's done developing Gay Robot. We can't wait to expand his creative voice into a sketch series."

"I'm very excited to be working with Comedy Central," said Swardson. "They are great people who understand me creatively. »

25 March 2009 12:04 PM, PDT | www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news »

I remember Rob Schneider telling us about his directorial debut at the junket for The Benchwarmers. He described Big Stan, almost word for word the scene where the corporate criminal finds out he's going to be raped in prison. That is in the movie and rape continues to play a big role.

On DVD: Big Stan

I couldn't believe he actually got it made so I had to watch the movie. As a directorial debut, it certainly looks like a real movie. Nothing special, but the shots are composed and it's edited. It doesn't look any worse than a standard SNL-alum high concept comedy.

It's an "edgy" Rob Schneider film since the rape and other language makes it R. So that's a tad different, even from Deuce Bigelow which was innocent, if vulgar, sex jokes. This is not innocent. »

3 articles from 2009