Monday, June 9

• Witherspoon and Stiller Team Up in New Cameron Crowe Movie

  Writer/director Cameron Crowe has a new movie in the works. He of Say Anything and Almost Famous fame will be rolling out a romantic comedy/adventure, which is scheduled to start shooting in January. Reese Witherspoon and Ben Stiller have signed on to star.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 06/09/2008 by Heather

  Ben Stiller | Reese Witherspoon | Cameron Crowe | Untitled Cameron Crowe Romantic Comedy

Wednesday, April 2

• Ben Stiller to adapt The Return of King Doug

  Funnyman Ben Stiller is the latest Hollywood player to enter the comic book game, having snapped up the rights to adapt Greg Orb and Jason Oremland's yet-to-be-released graphic novel The Return of King Doug for the big screen, says The Hollywood Reporter. The Night at the Museum star will produce and possibly star in the flick, about "a man who must return to the fantasy world which he abandoned 30 years earlier." A high-concept plot if there ever was one.

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter

  
  

  Posted 04/02/2008 by Thomas

  Ben Stiller

Wednesday, March 5

• Robert Downey Jr. in blackface: It's laffensive!!!

  Blackface technology has certainly come a long way since comedians first employed the offensive practice in the cartoonishly racist "minstrel shows" of the early 1900s. Witness EW.com's preview of Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller's new comedy about a film crew shooting the most expensive Vietnam movie ever, which features the first-ever image from the film. Standing in between stars Jack Black and Stiller is a fairly innocuous-looking African-American man; look closer, though, and you'll discover it's none other than Robert Downey Jr.

  Funny? Offensive? Either way, you have to admit it's a darn good makeup job.

  Source: EW.com

  
  

  Posted 03/05/2008 by Thomas

  Ben Stiller | Robert Downey Jr.