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Did Apatow’s ‘Funny’ Make Any Money?
7:30AM Foster Kamer | Hollywood’s been waiting for the answer to the question Does Judd Apatow have what it takes to be a “serious film” filmmaker? or at least wants to know about his bankability in drama. Take a guess what happened. More »
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Today, A Dick Joke Involving Tom Cruise Becomes Even Funnier
12:40AM Foster Kamer | Michael Jackson’s doctor is still just as sketchy as before. Tom Cruise will raise your kids for you. Jude Law’s new baby’s name, rappers, witches, Heroes, Gossip Girls, and Ashton Kutcher’s fake life. Presenting an epic Saturday Gossip Roundup: More »
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How Dare You Not Be Charmed By Judd Apatow’s Publicity Tour?!
5:09AM Natasha VC | In the waning days of his publicity blitz, Judd Apatow is blogging over at MTV in some kind of meta ‘comedians-are- sensitive-beings-who-have-Google-alerts-and-read-them’ promotion for Funny People. It’s quite enjoyable! More »
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Which Thirty Minutes Of Funny People Did Universal Want To Cut?
5:55AM Richard Lawson | Today The Wrap henpecks at the troubled Universal, citing flagging box office returns and office infighting. But the most interesting tidbit is that the studio tried to cut 30 minutes off of Judd Apatow’s two-and-a-half-hour Funny People, but failed. Why? More »
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Is Judd Apatow’s Funny People Ha-Ha Funny, Or Awkward “Funny?”
12:45AM Foster Kamer | Yesterday, the first reviews of Judd Apatow’s Funny People started to trickle out from the major film critics. How’d it do? Well… More »
Funny People Doesn’t Look Very Funny
3:00AM Defamer Hollywood | When not cobbling his Oscar tribute to comedy together, Judd Apatow has been working on his next directing effort, Funny People, a comedy about the world’s least funny topics: comedians and cancer. More »
Spot The Real-Life Allusions in Judd Apatow’s ‘Funny People’ Trailer!
12:20PM Kyle Buchanan | Here’s the trailer for Judd Apatow’s Adam Sandler starrer Funny People, which looks like it will be hailed as the director’s most mature, personal film yet. How personal? Let us count the ways: More »
Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler and Others End Surprisingly Bootleg-Free ‘Funny People’ Rehearsals
5:45AM STV | We’re more than a little disappointed to find that nobody has yet uploaded any video, audio or any record whatsoever of Adam Sandler, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen or Kevin James’s stand-up sessions last Saturday at UCB. The quartet was concluding rehearsals MC Judd Apatow’s forthcoming comedian opus Funny People, insights into which we’d gone all the way to Canada to retrieve as recently as July. Then we miss one night in Franklin Village and it’s radio silence. Folks, step it up. We’re serious. It’s not a Beatles reunion or anything, but if we have to read abstractly about Hill biting it or Rogen defaulting to his imaginative zenith of aeroplane flatus, there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to see or hear it in all its stumbling, meandering glory: More »
