How Personal is Judd Apatow’s Funny People?
Lets face it, Judd Apatow likes to keep it in the family. His films feature many of the same familiar faces — a comedy troupe he has collected, whom often star in the films that he directs and produces. But not only that, his wife Leslie Mann has appeared in every one of the films he’s directed thus far. In fact, the couple met on the set of The Cable Guy , which Apatow produced. Apatow and Mann have two daughters named Iris and Maude. The kids made their big...

Judd Apatow On P. Diddy's Role In Get Him To The Greek
MTV News caught up with producer Judd Apatow to talk about his upcoming film "Get Him to the Greek" and whether Sean 'Diddy' Combs (Monster's Ball) is having any problems starring in a comedy. " We did a table read and I thought to myself, 'I wonder how funny [Sean's] going to be and how much help he's going to need,' " said Apatow . " And I found out the answer was none. He needs no help. He was riotously funny. As a man with one skill, I was annoyed that he was also funny. You shouldn't be...

Worlds Been Had Colliding: Diddy And Judd Apatow Edition
Wait a second, I'm starting to see a pattern. This is the third Worlds Been Had Colliding featuring Diddy. First it was Diddy and iconic smut street photographer Terry Richardson . Then it was Diddy and the Arctic Monkeys . And now it is this. More like Diddy been had colliding. This guy will hang out with anyone. What do you think they talked about? Knocked Up 2 the Streets ? Raisin in the Sun 2 the Streets ? Let's go, y'all!!!

Arts & Leisure Preview: Green Day, Judd Apatow, 'Terminator Salvation' and More
Wisdom, insights and random observations from this weekend’s Arts & Leisure section. (Click on links for complete stories.)

Judd Apatow - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com
From All Movie Guide: A talented screenwriter/producer whose television work is often critically praised before being prematurely canceled, Judd Apatow has a dedicated fan base that has nevertheless continued to grow thanks to such winning efforts as The Ben Stiller Show and Freaks and Geeks. Work on a high-school radio show offered the showbiz hopeful his first taste of success, and in the years following his high-school graduation, the quick-witted aspiring standup comedian hit the comedy...

Adam Sandler - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com
From All Movie Guide: One of the most endearing goofballs to ever grace the stages of Saturday Night Live, affectionately offensive funnyman Adam Sandler has often been cited as the writer/performer who almost single-handedly rescued the long-running late-night television staple when the chips were down and it appeared to have run its course. Though his polarizing antics have divided audiences and critics who often dismiss him as lowbrow and obnoxious, Sandler 's films, as well as the films...

Summer Movies: Funnymen With Serious Ambitions
ASSUMING Judd Apatow doesn’t change his mind, and he often does, his new movie, “Funny People,” will begin with a scene of Adam Sandler as no paying audience has ever seen him. In grainy video a boyishly goofy Mr. Sandler, still in his 20s with a tilted baseball cap on his head, is shown as he lies across a messy bed in a dingy Los Angeles apartment, making prank phone calls to the delight of a few off-screen observers. In the context of the movie (set for release on...

Summer Movies
Judd Apatow trades stoner jokes for mortality, taking Adam Sandler along for the ride.

My MTV Blog #1: Year in Comedy
Hey folks! MTV News asked me to write a series of guest columns for them over the past few months.  Check out the first column about my thoughts on the year in comedy... kicking off with my pick for most interesting comedy of 2006- BORAT!

Summer Movies
Judd Apatow trades stoner jokes for mortality, taking Adam Sandler along for the ride.

Tonight Show w/Jay Leno- Guest Appearance on May 22!
Check out my guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC- Tuesday, May 22nd

‘Deal or No Deal’ Strikes New Deal in Connecticut - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
If you’re a resident of a Waterford, Conn., who’s suddenly noticing that all your neighbors are scantily clad models toting metal briefcases, here’s why: the game show “Deal or No Deal” has agreed to move to Connecticut from its studio in Culver City, Calif., for tax incentives, Variety reported . The game show, hosted by Howie Mandel , is one of several shows that have recently been lured to Connecticut, which offers 30 percent tax credits to television series...

Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine
How does a studio get Ain't It Cool News's Harry Knowles, the Internet's easiest critic, to tell his readers not see their movie? It is, technically, possible! "I officially recommend skipping X-Men Origins: Wolverine ," he writes. "Fox refused to invite one [of] the AICN editors to an advance screening." [ Ain't It Cool News ]

Warning: Do Not Accept Cab Rides From This Man - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
No matter how bad this recession gets, you’ll probably never see Robert De Niro behind the wheel of a taxicab again. But if you’d like to see the actual hack license Mr. De Niro wielded while he was preparing for his role in “Taxi Driver,” along with other artifacts and papers from 68 of his other films, they’re now easy enough to find. On Monday, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced that it had made available more than 1,300 boxes of papers,...

Billboard: Ghostface Thinking ’Big’ With Albums, Book

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Johnny Knoxville made an appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival this week to discuss the documentary “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia,” which he worked on as an executive producer. The film, directed by Julian Nitzberg, takes a look at the long-branching family tree of the Whites, a West Virginia clan notorious for wreaking havoc around the state. I asked Mr. Knoxville about what he found compelling about the family at the center of the movie. ...

Last Night’s ‘Lost’: How’s It Going to End? - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
As the castaways of Oceanic 815 celebrated the 100th episode of “Lost,” what did we viewers receive as party favors? Another episode in which the big reveal is that a supporting character is secretly the child of two other supporting characters. (Will we next learn that Ben is the son of the smoke monster and the four-toed statue?) And another episode in which the plot increments could be measured only at the sub-atomic level.

Seth Rogen - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com
From All Movie Guide: Canadian-born actor Seth Rogen tapped into his skills as a comedian when he was only 13, signing up for comedy classes and honing his deadpan style. He tooled around as an amateur for a few years but eventually took his act down south, hoping to find success as an actor and standup comedian in the U.S. He was soon discovered by Judd Apatow and was cast in his short-lived series Freaks and Geeks. After its cancellation, Apatow cast Rogen in his next series,...

Universal remaking 'Drop Dead Fred'
Dennis McNicholas, one of the writers of Universal's upcoming "Land of the Lost," will pen the remake. Marc Platt is producing via his studio-based Marc Platt Prods. along with Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.

Movie Review - Step Brothers - Once More to the Well of Goofball Comedy - NYTimes.com
“Step Brothers,” which was produced by Judd Apatow and his and Will Ferrell ’s manager, Jimmy Miller, is nowhere near as good, funny or polished as “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” the Nascar spoof directed by Adam McKay, which was also produced by Mr. Apatow and Mr. Miller. In that movie, Mr. Ferrell and John C. Reilly play best, not terribly bright, friends. Here, again directed by Mr. McKay, they play not terribly bright slackers turned brothers turned...

The 40-Year-Old Virgin - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com
Sex has become so desacralized, it seems hard to believe that anyone, especially an apparently healthy man, has managed to avoid getting some with someone, somewhere, at some point. But such is the case with Andy Stitzer, the title character played by Steve Carell in the charmingly bent comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin." A loner geek by circumstance rather than conviction, this accidental virgin works in an electronics store with the usual bunch of genial misfits. The rest of the time, he tends to...

Knocked Up - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com
It may be a bit, um, premature to say so, but Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up” strikes me as an instant classic, a comedy that captures the sexual confusion and moral ambivalence of our moment without straining, pandering or preaching. Like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” Mr. Apatow’s earlier film, it attaches dirty humor to a basically upright premise. While this movie’s barrage of gynecology-inspired jokes would have driven the prudes at the old Hays Office mad, its story, about a young man...

DVD Reviews - Movies - New York Times
There are musical films and then there are films based on musicals, a distinction driven home by a new batch of movies released on the high-definition Blu-ray format.

Role Models - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com
Judd Apatow neither wrote nor directed “Role Models,” the newest entry in the increasingly worn-out “boys will be babies until they are forced to grow up” school of arrested-development comedies. But he might as well have. Directed by David Wain (“Wet Hot American Summer”), it follows the silly misadventures of two flailing Peter Pans who are forced to do community service to avoid jail time.

CORRECTED: Eric Bana's beast love rivals his acting passion | Entertainment | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eric Bana, Star of movies such as "Troy" and "Munich," let New Yorkers in on a different slice of his seemingly glitzy life this week at the Tribeca Film Festival -- his passion for cars and motor racing.