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America To Critics: Drop Dead! Couples Retreat Owns Weekend
3:30AM Richard Rushfield | When it comes to comedy, there’s no arguing with taste. And if what America wants in their humour is the smirking, manic, his-lips-say-wacky-but-his-eyes-say-death-can’t-come-quick-enough antics of Vince Vaughn, then who are we to argue? More »
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Bad Vince Vaughn Movies Will Save Economy
8:50PM Andrew Belonsky | Can someone please explain why Vince Vaughn’s so popular? Seriously. Despite horrid reviews, his movie, Couples Retreat, which starred other, non-advertised celebrities like Jason Bateman, made $US35 million this weekend. The recession sure isn’t deep enough, huh? [Reuters]
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Movieland Braces For Full Frontal Assault Of Couple’s Retreatmer
4:21AM Richard Rushfield | The big question is whether a trio of decent looking British imports can make a dent in the latest instalment of Vince Vaughn’s crusade against comedy. Our guess is no. More »
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As Exciting As Stroller Set Gossip Gets
1:26AM Brian Moylan | Amy Sohn’s new book, Prospect Park West, sure does have some some hot dish: Sean Penn’s bad in bed, Robert Downey Jr. cheats, and Kate Hudson is an evil bitch…in her mind. The celebs don’t care, but the New York Post does! More »
‘Esquire’ Wants You to Know That Vince Vaughn is Fat Now
8:44AM Kyle Buchanan | When Vince Vaughn first made his mark with Swingers, he was so whippet-thin that his wild, improvised riffs almost seemed to be a unique form of cardio. Now that a decade has passed, though, things have changed — a fact that Esquire’s new issue takes great pains to point out. Vince Vaughn is not thin anymore, each line of its cover story (entitled “The Biggest Man in the Room”) seems to say. No, Vince Vaughn is now a fatty, a great big fatty fat person. Think we’re joking? Enjoy this opening paragraph, with all the ooky, relevant parts bolded in Defamer ChubbyFont™: More »
‘Hellraiser’ Summoned For Remake
5:17AM Seth | The End of Ideas: It’s Time to Redo Hellraiser Edition. French horror director Pascal Laugier is in final negotiations to direct a “re-imagining of Hellraiser” for Dimension. Laugier reassured Cliver Barker fans that he “would never betray what [Barker] has done,” and to look forward to a mostly faithful adaptation starring a new icon of horror, Velcroface. [THR] Barry Diller will vote YES on Obama, and NO on Prop 16, an initiative titled Eliminates Right of Media Moguls to Carry On Marriages of Convenience with Noted Fashion Designers. [THR] Robert Downey Jr. has agreed to star as Tony Stark in the next two Iron Mans and The Avengers, the last of which is scheduled for release on July 15, 2011, aka International Fanboy Pants-Crapping Day. [Variety] After the jump: Vince Vaughn is ready to tackle his most dramatic role since Norman Bates. More »
Vince Vaughn Wants A Piece Of The Sitcom-Creating Action
5:05AM Seth | Vince Vaughn is developing and executive producing a single-camera sitcom for Fox, about “a couple of young men who are just out of college and starting to experience the real world.” No title yet, but we submit Just the Tip. [Variety] Intermittently engaging, Jimmy Smits-employing serial killer dramedy Dexter gets two more seasons on Showtime, promising we’ll at least get to see Junior Dexter develop to his Terrible Dayschool-Slaughterer Twos. [Variety] Universal wants to sell Rogue Pictures—the studio behind The Strangers and its sequel, The Strangiers— to Relativity Media. [Variety] After the jump: Which of NBC’s homoerotically-charged new series just got a full season pickup? More »
Why Can’t Reese Witherspoon Get First Billing?
3:57AM Defamer Hollywood | Correct us if we’re wrong, but didn’t Reese Witherspoon, y’know, win an Oscar just a few years ago? We’re pretty sure she did, but you’d never know it from this poster for Four Christmases, the upcoming comedy she stars in with Vince Vaughn. Despite the fact that Vaughn fired UTA and his manager after the star vehicle Fred Claus opened to less than his first $20 million paycheck, the poster still gives him first billing over the Oscar-winning, A-list Witherspoon (and for another Christmas movie, no less!). To be fair, Witherspoon’s last film Rendition was a box-office bust, but she wasn’t top-billed on that, either: new beau Jake Gyllenhaal was, despite the fact that he’s not yet proven himself as a box office draw. After winning the industry’s highest award and proving her ability to single-handedly open a comedy with films like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama, what more does Witherspoon have to do to be called first in the billing block? More »
Vince Vaughn: Feelin’ Great
3:15AM Seth | Pictured, recent CAA defector Vince Vaughn is captured taking a brief moment out of his Griffith Park power-walking regimen to soak in the Southern California sunshine. After the jump, the Fred Claus star makes eyes at a passing fellow fitness enthusiast, then celebrates with his favourite post-workout ritual: flashing what remains of his quickly evaporating belly at his easily spooked, navel-lint-phobic driver. More »
