McG is stepping away from the heavy action driven world of film to tackle a romantic comedy. According to THR, the director will helm This Means War, a rom-com that already has Bradley Cooper and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon attached to star. This will be the director’s first venture into the genre, do you think he can handle it?
Over at Variety, they’re reporting that Twilight star Robert Pattinson is nearing a deal for a new gig. The actor might find himself up against Oscar winners Sean Penn and Reese Witherspoon with the film Water for My Elephants. The title may sound funny but the plot is no joking matter. This sounds like another melodrama that Pattinson can add to his roster of upcoming projects.
Dreamworks introduces the ultimate animated 3-D creature-feature, with Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon’s Monsters Vs. Aliens – that’s right, the battle that children (and those guilt-ridden, imaginative adults) have fantasized about since Monsters Inc. and Space Jam. When Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) is bulldozed by a gunk-infested meteor on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows 49 feet and eleven inches. While imprisoned in a secret government compound, she meets a congenial squad of monsters: Cockroach (Hugh Laurie), Half-Ape/Half-Fish (Will Arnett), and B.O.B. (Seth Rogen). When an alien robot lands on Earth and begins destroying the country, the military releases the monsters to combat the alien robot and, obviously, save the world!
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon make for an interesting yet enjoyable couple in the new Seth Gordon holiday flick – Four Christmases. The movie revolves around the pair and their trials as they have to go to four different homes of their divorced families for Christmas.
The supporting cast has as much to do with how funny the film turned out as Vaughn and Witherspoon, as stars like Robert Duvall (Vaughn’s dad), Sissy Spacek (Vaughn’s mother), Jon Voight (Witherspoon’s dad), and Jon Favreau (Vaugh’s cage fighting UFC brother), all have very solid parts that keep the film flowing.
Continue Reading
Today, Americans from far and wide will go to their respective polling centers to decide the fate of this country. The political atmosphere has been so thick in the world, that you can almost cut it with a knife. To ease the tension a bit, here are some honorable and funny political films to think about. I’m sure there are many that shoulda, woulda, coulda made it, if there are any politically charged and funny films you love, let us know by leaving a comment!
A new 3-D animation starring (the voices of) Seth Rogen, Reese Witherspoon, and Paul Rudd. Monsters Vs. Aliens is a parody of the many “end of the world movies” that seem to be attacking mainly the US and then the rest of the world. I’m a fan of the cast in any form and to tell you the truth, this actually looks pretty good if you have to take a little one to the movies or have a massive hang over and can’t take anything too heavy (you know what I’m talking about.)
The movie comes out March 27, 2009. Check out the trailer below…
