Thursday, July 23

• The Ugly Truth Reviews: Rom-Com Delivers on Modest Goals

  The Ugly Truth looks like the output of a movie factory: Put two of Hollywood's biggest stars (Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler) in a romantic comedy and set to "cute." Voila! $100M grosser!

  "The ugly truth is that it's the ultimate chick-flick cliché."

  — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

  "Even though the picture sputters and stumbles, it arrives at the ending that audiences crave."

  — Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter

  "...an arch, contrived, entirely predictable romantic comedy assembled with sufficient audience-friendly elements to put it over as both a good girls' night attraction and a date-night lure raunchy enough to leave couples in the right mood afterward."

  — Todd McCarthy, Variety

  
  

  Posted 07/23/2009 by reelz

  Related: Gerard Butler | Katherine Heigl | The Ugly Truth

Sunday, November 18

• Movie news: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl & Kristen Stewart

  Seth Rogen is the newest member to join Kevin Smith's fold. The star of Knocked Up and Superbad has been cast as the lead in Smith's upcoming comedy, Zack & Miri Make a Porno, opposite The 40-Year-Old Virgin costar Elizabeth Banks, as two friends who make a porn to alleviate debt and discover they have feelings for each other.

  Rogen's Knocked Up costar Katherine Heigl also has a deal going this week. Heigl has signed to star in The Ugly Truth, a romantic comedy about a morning show producer who is tested by her chauvinistic correspondent's theories on love. Robert Luketic (Legally Blond, Monster-in-Law) will direct.

  And finally Kristen Stewart will star in Twilight, a thriller/romance adapted from Stephanie Meyer's novel about a young girl's relationship with a mysterious classmate when she moves to a small town. Catherine Hardwicke (The Nativity Story) will direct.

  Source: Variety. 

  
  

  Posted 11/18/2007 by reelz

  Related: Kevin Smith | Catherine Hardwicke | Robert Luketic | Seth Rogen | Kristen Stewart | Katherine Heigl | The Ugly Truth | Twilight | Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Saturday, May 19

• Get Knocked Up online

  To get fans amped up for their upcoming summer blockbuster Knocked Up (aka Judd Apatow's follow up to The 40-Year-Old Virgin), our friends at Universal have put together quite a fancy website.

  The Knocked Up website has all sorts of features for fans who just can't wait for the movie to reach full term, including The Edit Bay (additional movie clips, deleted scenes, Apatow's Director's Video Diary, etc.), Freebies (a free ticket to Knocked Up for those who buy the all-new unrated Double Your Pleasure edition of The 40-Year-Old Virgin), and more.

  My favorite? Easily the Knocked Up Baby-Maker. You just upload pix of you and whomever you want and it will whip you up a potential future baby. It's very easy. I took a stab at it with a picture of my husband and myself, and suffice it to say, I will be filing for divorce in the morning.

  You can visit the Knocked Up website at KnockedUpMovie.com.

  
  
  Next Showing: Knocked Up is due in theaters June 1, 2007.
  

  Knocked Up trailer

  From the director of The 40 Year Old Virgin.

  Posted 05/19/2007 by reelz

  Related: Judd Apatow | Seth Rogen | Katherine Heigl | Knocked Up