Punch-Drunk Love News

Continuing my series of wrapping up the 2000s in genre films is my latest list the 25 best romance films of the decade.

Jennifer Aniston is apparently just that into Adam Sandler . Aniston is in talks to join Sandler's in-development comedy "Pretend Wife" -- formerly "Holiday in Hawaii" -- according to The Hollywood Reporter .

In Jason Reitman 's new dramedy Up in the Air , George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country trying to get to ten million frequent flyer miles, a number only reached by six other people, which would grant him uber elite black card ConciergeKey frequent flier status on American Airlines.

This week's Ketchup include news of plans to remake The Amityville Horror and Disney's The Black Hole , a new project for acclaimed director Paul Thomas Anderson and new roles for Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow and one of the stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon .

Paul Thomas Anderson's next movie, announced this week, concerns a charismatic cult leader, who looks a lot like L. Ron Hubbard , founding his own religion in 1952.

"There Will Be Blood" writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has found religion, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, for his next film.

"There Will Be Blood" writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his next project, a period drama to star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s.

George Adam Sandler Ira Seth Rogen Laura Leslie Mann Leo Jonah Hill Clarke Eric Bana Mark Jason Schwartzman Universal Pictures presents a film written and directed by Judd Apatow.

Judd Apatow's Funny People, starring Leslie Mann, Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Eric Bana is already getting some Oscars 2010 buzz.

Just at the time when an "Apatonian Film" began to take on certain connotations - gross-out humour, pot smoke, full-frontal male nudity - writer-director Judd Apatow changed the formula with Funny People , his autobiographical third feature out this weekend on DVD.

Sometimes, a good actor can make a bad script tolerable and mediocre script enjoyable.

If you're working hard all through this weekend, or couldn't justify squandering precious spondulicks on a babysitter only for a night in the local dive bar, catch some brilliant Monday night burlesque in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

I know, I know. You're already wondering, "where is our beloved Josh Learn and why aren't we reading his witty banter?". Truth is, I'm with you.

After seeing so many top-grade entries from the world's top art-film directors, this year's Cannes Jury had given the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" - a careful, conventional tale of one Jew's six awful years in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.

Judd Apatow has become the twenty first century version of the Mack Sennett comedy studios.

HA: Leslie Mann, Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Eric Bana in Funny People. Casting Adam Sandler to play a depressed and misanthropic comedian must be what passes for a stroke of genius in Hollywood these days.

"What is it, a quirky comedy?" Michael Cera asks Charlyne Yi about the film she's making in next week's docu-rom-com Paper Heart .

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HE MAY BE BARELY ON SERIOUS cinemagoers' radar, but if you have young sons you will know Adam Sandler.

Misunderstood Masterpieces 9.01.09: You Don't Mess with the Zohan Posted by Will Helm on 09.01.2009 ...or, Oh, I Will Mess with the Zohan Whether You Like It or Not Through the '90s, few comedy stars were as bankable as Adam Sandler.