When I first heard that there was a movie called The 41 Year Old Virgin…, I seriously thought there was going to be some second-rate, independent sequel to Judd Apatow‘s brilliant 40 Year Old Virgin. I was actually relieved when I found out it was really a full on spoof movie called The 41-Year-Old Virgin [...]

“Funny People” stars Adam Sandler as a dying comic who looks to Seth Rogen’s apprentice as a way for his comedy to live on. Hard to believe this is set up to be a comedy, but Apatow has often seemed to border on dramedies more than just straight up comedies. Check out the “Funny People” [...]

Judd Apatow is going to start reminding me of Tarantino if he keeps up with numbering his films on the posters. Anyway, here’s the poster for Apatow’s newest film, “Funny People”, which he both wrote and direct and stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Leslie Mann. If you’re looking for hilarious then this will be [...]

Rumors floated around like Slimer that Ghostbusters was being renewed by Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow’s clan. Both Rogen and Apatow denied the story, but turns out there was at least some truth to the matter. Ghostbusters is in fact being revived, just not by funnyman Apatow. Not yet at least. E! went straight to [...]

Will Ferrell, the perpetual “buddy” comedian, has found a new role to team up on: Watson. Columbia Pictures is bringing Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) back together with Ferrell again after their turn in Talladega Nights with a new Sherlock Holmes film. It’ll be a comedy, of course, and looks to have quite the pedigree, according [...]

Judd Apatow‘s next project is no longer known as “Judd’s Apatow’s next project”. Instead you can look forward to “Funny People“, which is hopefully much more appropriately named than this year’s earlier movie “Smart People”. “Funny People” has so far cast Adam Sandler, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, Seth Rogen, and Leslie Mann. One [...]