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7 October 2008 8:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

While I'm sure we'll all agree that these past few years have given us some wonderful little comedic gems, it's often unfortunate to see most of the attention thrown at one particular sex, or, in some cases, one particular man: Judd Apatow. But this post won't be about Judd Apatow, or Seth Rogen ,or Jonah Hill, or Michael Cera, or Will Ferrell, or Adam McKay, or Vince Vaughn, or Owen Wilson, or Kevin Smith ... or any of the male names that currently populate (and dominate) some of your favorite comedies. Nope, because it's about damn time we give the ladies some respect.

I'm sick of the female roles in comedies today. She's either the bland girlfriend, or the bland friend, or the bland enemy -- she's full of cliches, and only serves two purposes: 1) to help move the story along, and 2) to make her male counterpart appear funnier. That said,

Erik Davis

18 September 2008 4:58 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

When you dive head first into the world of Blu-ray, as I have, you come to realize very quickly that the extra dollar isn't always worth it. In fact, there are many occasions in which the 1080p video quality does nothing for a movie, and if it doesn't come gift-wrapped ...

Neil Miller

16 September 2008 8:14 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Many of us know Amy Poehler from SNL or one of her many movies such as Blades of Glory, Baby Mama, Mean Girls, Mr. Woodcock, and Hamlet 2 which just came out. She is a sought after comedic actress and someone who made their stamp on their career along side best friend Tina Fey. Now she has announced that her stint with Saturday Night Live is official over as of November.

Sean Anthony

16 September 2008 11:59 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Comedienne Amy Poehler will leave her post at hit U.S. comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live to give birth to her first baby later this year.

Poehler announced her pregnancy with her husband, Arrested Development star Will Arnett, in April.

She has been widely-celebrated on the star-studded show for her charicature of former first lady and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

But the Baby Mama star insists she will not be returning to the show following her maternity leave - she will instead star in her own series - a spin-off of Steve Carell's U.S. TV series The Office.

Poehler muses, "It's gonna be really hard - Boyz II Men hard - to say goodbye to yesterday. SNL was dangerous, late-night, last-minute and star-studded, but like any good drug, you need to know when to put it down."

Her last episode will air later this season, following the November presidential election.

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16 September 2008 12:24 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Baby Mama is the type of good-natured adult comedy I want to like more than I actually do. There are some extremely funny moments and some highly agreeable performances, but overall the film moves a bit sluggishly and never catches fire in the ways it should. While the potential for greatness is definitely there, unfortunately there is a feeling of safe blandness bordering on the predictable, and while there's little I can truly rail against here there's just as few virtues to extol. This is a movie that plays almost 100-percent better at home than it did in the theater. Many of the things that initially annoyed me didn't affect me as much while sitting on my couch. The flaws were still there, I just was able to shrug them off a bit easier. That's not exactly a recommendation, but it still speaks volumes as to how the majority of audiences will probably respond.

Sara Michelle Fetters

14 September 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Tina Fey twisted her hair to a formal bun and wore a different kind of glasses to resemble Vice President candidate, Sarah Palin. The comedienne returned to the new season of "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday, September 13, parodying the Republican representative alongside her "Baby Mama" co-star Amy Poehler who portrayed Hillary Clinton.

The skit was labeled as a "non-partisan message" that discussed on the issues of sexism in the hype of the presidential election. Poehler as Clinton said, "I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy." Fey then added, "I can see Russia from my home" as a satire to Palin's lack of knowledge in international affairs.

Fey also touched the issue of global warming that Palin has related to her religious belief, saying that global warming is "just God hugging us closer". The real Sarah Palin reportedly had a good laugh of the sketch, speaking

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10 September 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

Had a chance to checkout Baby Mama on DVD and have to say that although it wasnt as funny as I had hoped it was certainly entertaining and made for a fun night for my lady friend and myself Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she’s finally determined to have a kid on her own.  But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant.  Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to become her un...

9 September 2008 8:52 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Filed under: New on DVD, Home Entertainment

Welcome to Cinematical's revamped but still opinionated guide to movies on disc, whether new-fangled Blu-ray or good old fashioned DVD, Hollywood blockbusters or indie wonders, direct to video debuts or refurbished classics.

Buy: The Fall

Rent: Baby Mama, The Forbidden Kingdom, How the West Was Won

Pass: Foreign Exchange, Seed, Sarah Landon & The Paranormal Hour, Then She Found Me

Blu-ray Spotlight: Exiled, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Jerry Maguire, Cool Hand Luke, Rudy

Indies on DVD: Heckler, The Last Days of Left Eye, Last House on the Beach

Collector's Corner: The Big Lebowski, Child's Play, Pumpkinhead

The Fall.

Directed by Tarsem (The Cell), this incredible visual feast, filmed over four years, imagines the fantastical, far-flung stories told to a little girl recovering from a fall in a hospital. A wild, weird trip of a flick that cries out to be replayed time and again. Extras include deleted scenes,

Peter Martin

9 September 2008 12:22 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed A quick note before we get started, Blu-ray.com is reporting "that at least one company will offer a limited number of Blu-ray Disc players for under $200 this holiday season." They do suspect these will be the "door buster" style players that aren't exactly the top-of-the-line and will be sold the day after Thanksgiving to make way for the newer players come December. Also, I had a mistaken release date back in August when I said How the West was Won (Ultimate Edition) was released on August 26. In fact it hits stores today and I linked to it in the "Even More" section below and the link will take you to the Amazon page with all three versions of the film that are hitting stores today. You can read my original write-up for the release right here or my DVD review here.

Brad Brevet

27 August 2008 11:37 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Robert Downey Jr. has reaped the benefit of "Iron Man" success with the streaming in of casting roles. After being assigned to portray legendary detective in Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes", the Academy Award-nominee for 1992 "Chaplin" is being linked to DreamWorks' animation "Master Mind".

The 43-year-old actor allegedly is in talks to lend his voice to a super-villain who loses his will to fight after he accidentally kills his archenemy. For this feature film project, he may be teaming up with "Baby Mama" star Tina Fey, who is also touted for a role in the movie, and will be collaborating once again with his "Tropic Thunder" co-star Ben Stiller who serves as "Master Mind" producer.

Originally, "Master Mind" will be made into a live-action film. However, Stiller has chosen to turn it into an animated one saying, "It's a script that my company Red Hour got that was written as

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15 August 2008 10:22 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Steve Carell and Tina Fey have signed on to play husband and wife in Shawn Levy’s “Date Night” for 20th Century Fox, according to Variety.

In the film written by Josh Klausner, the married couple discovers their usual date night goes beyond dinner and a movie. That’s all we know about the plot at this stage.

Levy, whose directing credits include “Cheaper by the Dozen” and “Night at the Museum,” is currently filming “Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian.”

Carell most recently starred alongside Anne Hathaway in “Get Smart.” Fey was last seen opposite Amy Poehler in “Baby Mama.”

Both Carell and Fey are looking at potential Emmy wins for their television comedy shows “The Office” and “30 Rock.”

Neither “Baby Mama” nor “Get Smart” really won me over, but that doesn’t mean Fey and Carell will fail to pull this off. In fact, the

Franck Tabouring

13 August 2008 4:45 PM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

"...I can.t recommend it too highly since it didn.t really provide me with many major hardee-hars, didn.t feature any truly memorable sequences , and will most certainly be appreciated more by women than men. Natch!" JoBlo reviews "Baby Mama" Joblo Note: Since my health has been pretty shitty over the past few years, I haven't been able to review the same amount of films as before, but I'll be slapping some of my more recent reviews up every now and again. Staff reviews Here.

JoBlo

31 July 2008 3:19 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

New Batman movie The Dark Knight has stormed the U.K. box office in its opening weekend, with takings of $17.2 million (GBP8.6 million).

The Batman Begins sequel, starring the late Heath Ledger and Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, toppled movie musical Mamma Mia!, which came in second place with ticket sales of $5.6 million (GBP2.8 million).

Teen film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging made its debut in fourth position, with Tina Fey's comedy Baby Mama also entering at 10.

The Dark Knight has broken U.S. box office records by becoming the first film to pass the $300 million (GBP150 million) mark in just 10 days.

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31 July 2008 2:07 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

The Dark Knight has entered the UK box office chart at number one. Christian Bale's superhero movie took nearly four times as much as Abba musical Mamma Mia!, which slipped to second. Elsewhere, there were new entries for Gurinder Chadha's teen movie Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging at four and comedy Baby Mama at ten. The top ten in full: 1. (-) The Dark Knight - £11,191,824

2. (1) Mamma Mia! - £2,830,207

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By Alex Fletcher

30 July 2008 7:25 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood reports that Mike Myers has started writing Austin Powers 4 with Mike McCullers (Baby Mama). McCullers and Myers worked on the second and third installments in the franchise together. Finke's source tells her the project is very personal for Myers and a father-son relationship will be at the center of the story focusing on Dr. Evil (Myers) and his son Scott Evil (Seth Green). Apparently the film will be an homage to Myers' father who died on November 22, 1991 of Alzheimer's. There is no greenlight for the film per se, but New Line is apparently excited about the project. It seems nothing changed at the studio after being folded into Warner Bros., they are still courting bad ideas. An interesting fact is listed in Finke's article that I had not heard before saying that Myers originally wrote in a character called The Love Guru in the first Austin Powers film.

Brad Brevet

29 July 2008 3:48 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Paramount Blu-ray Extravaganza! Thanks to Comic Con my Blu-ray watching abilities were basically destroyed. I came home to several new Blu-ray discs that arrived in the time I was away and out of all of them eight of them hit the shelves today. Six of them I am going to detail here as they are catalog titles. The others I will get to in a second. The first one was Top Gun of which I reviewed on HD DVD (review here) and was not very kind to considering the HD DVD edition contained none of the features from the 2-Disc Special Edition DVD. Well, I am happy to say the Blu-ray comes with all the goodies (documentaries, music videos, commentaries, etc.) that I loved from the DVD. On top of that... included is a DTS soundtrack, a Huge step up from the HD DVD Dolby DigitalPlus.

Brad Brevet

8 July 2008 3:06 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Wild and wooly, there was little to love, but a lot to look forward to... A lot has happened in the past six months and while there may not have been very many good movies and there were plenty of bad ones there was much more to remember as well as a lot to look forward to. First off, the writers'strike was finally settled, but as we move into the second half of 2008 the actors are now threatening to shut down Hollywood with a strike of their own. We learned of a new kind of woman out in the wild and she is known as a "Twilight Mom", a term that proved it could wreck havoc on your server should you decide to bash any part of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" novels or the film based on said material. I wrote an article called "I Wanna Be a 'Twilight' Mom!

Brad Brevet

30 June 2008 8:45 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Saturday Night Live's roster of veteran "Weekend Update" anchors – Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Dennis Miller, Tina Fey – is about to get younger. "When [Amy Poehler] has her baby, her baby is going to host 'Update,' " SNL star and "Weekend Update" co-anchor Seth Meyers cracked to People at Sunday's Journey to the Center of the Earth premiere, in L.A. Meyers's "Update" partner Poehler, is pregnant with her first child, due later this year. Fear not, SNLfans – it won't affect the "Update" lineup ... much. "That's the newest change. But other than that, it's pretty much the same," Meyers, 34, says,

Nicholas White

18 June 2008 10:35 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Commercials for new movies are the least likely to be skipped by users of TiVo digital video recorders, according to a study by the DVR maker. The study, conducted in April, found that the least fast-forwarded (and most-watched) ad was for Universal's comedy film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which aired during NBC's The Office. (The episode itself, however, did not even make TiVo's list of the ten most-watched shows.) The second least fast-forwarded ad was for Sony Pictures' Hancock which aired during an episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Other movies making the top-ten list included Sony's Made of Honor (#4), Universal's Baby Mama (#7), and Paramount/Marvel's Iron Man (#10).

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10 June 2008 10:28 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

With the top two films earning nearly $100 million between them, the studios and exhibitors had a very good weekend, final reports by Media by Numbers indicated Monday. DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's Kung Fu Panda led the pack with $60.24 million, while Sony's You Don't Mess With the Zohan topped out at $38.5 million. Together, the top 12 films grossed $170.87 million, 31 percent above the $130.43 million reported for the same week a year ago. The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):1. Kung Fu Panda, Paramount, $60,239,130, (New); 2. You Don't Mess With The Zohan, Sony, $38,531,374, (New); 3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Paramount, $22,793,630, 3 Wks. ($253,014,750); 4. Sex and the City: The Movie, Warner Bros, $21,218,305, 2 Wks. ($99,177,283); 5. The Strangers, Universal, $8,941,970, 2 Wks. ($37,298,770); 6. Iron Man, Paramount, $7,477,439, 6 Wks. ($288,847,640); 7. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Disney, $5,658,836, 4 Wks. ($125,977,010); 8. What Happens in Vegas, 20th Century Fox, $3,437,801, 5 Wks. ($72,267,894); 9. Baby Mama, Universal, $806,750, 7 Wks. ($57,931,215); 10. Made of Honor, Sony, $804,055, 6 Wks. ($44,689,497).

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