One look at The Five-Year Engagement and you’ll know it’s a Judd Apatow production. It’s got all the Apatow touches like profanity, men acting like children and a stellar supporting cast. Co-written by Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, the movie stars Emily Blunt and Segel as Violet and Tom, a recently engaged couple who go through many obstacles to keep their relationship afloat.

Check out our review of The Five-Year Engagement…

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Judd Apatow has become the face of modern comedy films.  Whether it’s as director, writer, producer or all three, he’s the brains behind the operation. His latest is the upcoming romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement, directed by Nicholas Stoller, the man behind Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek (also movies of the Apatow universe). We recently had the chance to talk to Apatow and Stoller about the hallmarks of a successful comedy, as well as casting what feels like most of NBC’s Thursday night lineup in the film. Check out our interview below.

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Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel are quite the comic duo – at this point they’re making a movie a year together, and are just coming off The Muppets. Their latest is The Five-Year Engagement, and it’s due out April 27, 2012. It’s even more of a reunion as the duo have also made two of their other recent films with Emily Blunt. She shows up in The Muppets, and also appeared with Segel in Gulliver’s Travels. Check out the trailer…

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There’s something curious about relaunching a famous brand that has gotten dusty. Sometimes reboots are done out of love, but more often than not it’s just a cashgrab. But don’t worry about 2011′s The Muppets, it was made by the right people for the right reasons. There’s no denying that The Muppets are a beloved group of performers, but between lesser films and TV movies, the gang has fallen from the spotlight – something that was inevitable after the passing of creator Jim Henson. Enter Jason Segel, who obviously helped will the production into existence, and now the muppets are back and as good as they once were. And if the movie mostly serves to push nostalgia buttons, it pushes them well.

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For anyone who saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the idea of Jason Segel and writer/director Nicholas Stoller making a Muppet movie seemed like their greatest dream. That film ended with a muppet musical, and it was obvious everyone involved loved The Muppets. So it’s nice that Disney gave the two the keys to the kingdom, the keys to reboot the beloved franchise. And they pulled it off. Segel and Stoller are old friends, and they have a natural comic rhythm together. Our chat follows, check it out…

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This weekend the familiar combo of Jonah Hill and Russell Brand will return to the big screen in Nicholas Stoller’s spin-off of 2008′s, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Get Him to the Greek focuses on the outlandish and politically incorrect rocker Aldous Snow and a young unsuspecting assistant from his record label. When you take Brand, Hill, Stoller, and throw in a real music mogul like Sean “Diddy” Combs you have the makings of a decent but not great comedy…

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Over the past few years, Nicholas Stoller has found his calling as a feature film director. What started as a career in screenwriting branched out in 2008 when he helmed Jason Segel’s love lorn comedy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Not only did the movie expose audiences to British comedian Russell Brand but it gave us the opportunity to check out Stoller’s directing chops.

With Get Him to the Greek, he’s both the director and the screenwriter for the Sarah Marshall spin-off. Even though the movie includes a lot of the same ingredients as its predecessor (Brand, Jonah Hill) it’s thematically different. This isn’t a romantic comedy. It’s a coming of age raunch-fest with the music industry as its backdrop…

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Nicholas Stoller is the director behind one of our favorite films, the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Since then he’s expanded his horizons going from Marshall to Get Him to the Greek to Gulliver’s Travels to Stretch Armstrong. He’s rewriting the live action toy adaptation featuring Taylor Lautner as the title character. Stoller recently spoke to the folks over at Coming Soon where he described Armstrong as “a superhero origin story..kind of like Iron Man” (face palms).

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Depressing news to report, Nicholas Stoller a man who’s written and directed some pretty decent comedies has decided to take on the live action adaptation of Stretch Armstrong. The film will feature Twilight star Taylor Lautner as the famous flexible hero who will be modernized for today’s young audiences. Just typing that last sentence made my stomach turn but there’s more…

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