matthew perry

8:50AM Seth | And just as we anticipated, Gunther and Naked Guy holding out on the rumoured Friends reunion movie has unravelled the project completely, with various cast members now saving face by acting like it was never in the cards to begin with: “‘Nothing is happening in this regard,’ said Matthew Perry’s rep in a statement. ‘The rumour is false.’ This sentiment was echoed by David Schwimmer’s publicist, who said, ‘there’s been no discussion about it.’ And dealing the final blow to the rumour was a rep for Jennifer Aniston, who said that his client was unaware of any such project, and who questioned by she would have any interest in revisiting her sitcom days.” [OK] More »

Trade Roundup: It’s Like ‘Big,’ But Backwards, And With Only Enough Money In The Casting Budget To Get Matthew Perry

6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · Hollywood Out of Ideas, Tom Hanks On A Budget Edition: Matthew Perry will play a grown-up version of Disney superstar Zac Efron in Big-in-reverse project 17, in which a suddenly teenaged, mysteriously overtanned Perry/Efron enrolls in high school so he can hang out with his children, who wonder why the “new gay kid” keeps trying so hard to become friends with them. [THR] More »

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6:25AM Defamer Hollywood |

Matthew Perry Just Solid Enough For An Ad Buy

6:33AM Defamer Hollywood | If NBC or Warner Bros. recently ponied up for a For Your Consideration ad for Matthew Perry’s fine Studio 60 work (if nothing else, he showed consummate professionalism in not walking out when Aaron Sorkin forced that “hallucinating a drug-addled staff writer alter ego” storyline on him), we completely missed it, but we were heartened to see that TNT wasn’t too cheap to pimp its drama The Ron Clark Story in today’s trades. Unfortunately for Perry, TNT didn’t quit while it was ahead on the “captivating performance” pullquote, instead diminishing his chances by including blurbs damning him with faint “solid!” and “likeable, kind of!” praise. And, of course, things always could be worse, had the network dug up a review describing their original movie with the words, “By its third act, no longer a ‘made-for-basic-cable drama about Matthew Perry playing a teacher,’ this story evolves into one about Matthew Perry playing a person”. [Image: Digital Variety] The Ron Clark Story[TNT.tv] More »