Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to Direct He Loves Me

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Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the duo behind the critically-acclaimed and Oscar-nominated dramatic comedy Little Miss Sunshine, have signed on to direct He Loves Me. Paul Dano, who starred in Little Miss Sunshine, will topline He Loves Me alongside his girlfriend, Zoe Kazan, who wrote the script. He Loves Me tells centers on a young [...]

Russell Brand Tuning Up For Rock Of Ages

According to rumour, Russell Brand is the latest star hoping to get involved with Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages, a screen adaptation of the stage musical set for production at New Line. Brand, who previously worked with Shankman on Bedtime Stories, has reportedly taken a liking to the role of Lonnie, who runs an ’80s [...]

Fun Montage Covering 15 Years of Fox Searchlight

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It’s hard to believe Twentieth Century Fox’s indie offshoot Fox Searchlight is 15 years old this year. Ed Burn’s debut The Brothers McMullen was the first production for this multiple award-winning company, whose input has successfully straddled the line between audience pleasers and work of a more serious nature, as The Full Monty and The [...]

Fox Searchlight Acquire Mother***er; Anne Hathaway Interested in Lola Versus

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Fox Searchlight, the studio behind Little Miss Sunshine and and Juno, have acquired the rights to Motherf***er, an original comedy script penned by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister Jones. Wein and Jones previously wrote and starred in the indie comedy Breaking Upwards, which attracted some moderate buzz from critics, including the New York Times. Synopsis: [...]

The Abstinence Teacher Recruits Bullock and Carell?

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In 2007 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, directors of the hugely successful, and Oscar-winning film, Little Miss Sunshine, announced their plans to develop a big-screen adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel, The Abstinence Teacher, which centres on a sex education teacher who comes into conflict with the conservative members in her town who criticise her teaching style, and support of sex before [...]

HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 3

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The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, [...]

Paul Rudd Joins Zach Galifianakis in New Comedy, Will

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Paramount Pictures knew they were on to a good thing in bringing together Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis for the forthcoming comedy Dinner for Schmucks and so have signed up the pair for a high concept comedy film Will, according to THR. If you ever thought that your life was being controlling by the Gods [...]

Gary’s Best Films of the Decade

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With HeyUGuys recently posting the Top films of the Decade as voted by you the reader, I thought I would look back into noughties myself and do my own top 10 films of the last decade as I was a bit disappointed with a majority of the top 10 choices like Kill Bill, There will [...]