The My Name Is Earl actress and her entertainment lawyer fiancé make it official
Judd Apatow is the man behind many of the most successful comic movies of recent years.
Given a cast of Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and the guiding hand of director and writer Judd Apatow ("Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"), perhaps there is no more appropriate title than simply "Funny People."
Comedy is hard; dying is easy. Any stand-up will tell you that.
The drama of the action in-and-around the golf course has enraptured fans of the game through the generations and around the world. But the same drama that pulls in the crowds has also provided rich material for filmmakers too.
Funny People's Leslie Mann tells why she calls the comic star "Ketchup Man"
Mom Goldie Hawn hosts Demi, Ashton, Gwyneth and life of the party, Justin
The actress opens up about her sunny attitude, favorite music – and taste in men
Kevin James is the king of the box office. The actor's latest broad comedy, "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," won the Martin Luther King holiday weekend in decisive fashion, grossing $33.8 million, according to Sunday's estimates. That total far exceeds all expectations.
The My Name Is Earl actress and her entertainment lawyer fiancé make it official
Judd Apatow is the man behind many of the most successful comic movies of recent years.
Given a cast of Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and the guiding hand of director and writer Judd Apatow ("Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"), perhaps there is no more appropriate title than simply "Funny People."
Comedy is hard; dying is easy. Any stand-up will tell you that.
The drama of the action in-and-around the golf course has enraptured fans of the game through the generations and around the world. But the same drama that pulls in the crowds has also provided rich material for filmmakers too.
Funny People's Leslie Mann tells why she calls the comic star "Ketchup Man"
Mom Goldie Hawn hosts Demi, Ashton, Gwyneth and life of the party, Justin
The actress opens up about her sunny attitude, favorite music – and taste in men
Kevin James is the king of the box office. The actor's latest broad comedy, "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," won the Martin Luther King holiday weekend in decisive fashion, grossing $33.8 million, according to Sunday's estimates. That total far exceeds all expectations.
"I went to Trinidad and indulged in everything," says the People's Choice Awards host – and Jenny Craig spokeswoman
If the box office this weekend is any indication of what 2009 will be like, maybe there is a reason for some optimism.
Keri Russell, who stars in the new Adam Sandler comedy "Bedtime Stories," says her own son is a little too young to enjoy a story before bedtime.
Thursday brings one of the biggest slates of Hollywood entertainment to open on Christmas Day in many years.
Packing on the pounds over the holidays? Adam Sandler can sympathize. He recently put on some weight himself.
The comedian and his wife, Jackie, welcome a daughter named Sunny Madeline
There's a certain kind of lamely domesticated, corporate, lit-like-a-floor-wax-commercial rock 'n' roll comedy that makes you feel faintly embarrassed for the people who made it.
Back in his Monty Python days, Michael Palin triumphed as a violence-prone barber who hates cutting hair and dreams of becoming a lumberjack -- a lumberjack who dresses in women's clothing.
Adam Sandler's latest is a virtually bullet-proof blend for the mass, summertime audience
As the Adam Sandler movie is set to hit the big screen, some are wondering if "the Zohan" might be borrowing other's moves
Walter Koenig (Chekov) will be the best man, and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) the matron of honor
The comic actor explains morning sickness and warns that the little one will "take half your toys"
The ACDC dance crew responds with a clip featuring Lindsay Lohan
The comic actor breaks his ankle during a weekend basketball game, says his rep
Lindsay Lohan received an exclamation point on her terrible 2007 at the 28th annual Golden Raspberry Awards on Saturday morning, with her film "I Know Who Killed Me" earning a record eight Razzies -- including three for Lohan herself.
Tom Cruise has been taking a beating in the press lately, but several of the star's pals are standing up for him.
The latest movie from Judd Apatow is the logical conclusion, maybe the dead end, for boy-meets-boy comedies
She's been open about wanting children - even going so far as to joke recently that she wants 15 of them - but for now, Katharine McPhee is satisfied to just fake it.
Call it the battle of the bumps: For pregnant roles in upcoming films, Katharine McPhee and Debra Messing will both don faux bellies, but only one will be brand new.
Jesse Billauer rolls into the Beverly Hills Hotel with a blonde bombshell by his side and immediately attracts everyone's attention as soon as he opens his mouth. The tanned surfer is telling his friends to hold on to their girlfriends tight or he just might nab them up before the night is done. His friends laugh but quickly tighten their grip on their significant others. They know Billauer too well.
Katharine McPhee has always wanted to act - and now she'll finally get a chance, in a new comedy from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions.
After conquering the North American box office for the last two weekends, the ancient warriors of "300" lost the lead to historical figures from another distant era, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Five years after the cataclysm of September 11, American wounds are still so thinly scabbed that any reference to that real disaster in something as artificial as a movie remains a shock; just the matter-of-fact appearance of the Twin Towers in the New York skyline in a story set prior to 2001 is enough to bruise a viewer's heart, a reminder of all that's missing.
I blame the Academy Awards.
The new season began last week, at the Sony Open, the tournament the players all call Hawaii. The Mercedes-Benz Championship, the one Vijay Singh won at Kapalua in the first week of January? That's a dressed-up exhibition, winners only, another chance for the rich to get richer. The real start -- caddie changes in place, new gizmos on the practice tee, virgin irons in the bag, the exquisite grind of the Tour, all in the name of staying out there -- began for real last week. Charles Howell, who finished a shot back, said you start every season with all manner of golfing resolutions, but they're all on a short leash, one bad shot away from being discarded. The veteran Paul Goydos, a master of deadpan with a fitting nickname, had only one good week in 2006, a second-place finish in the Chrysler Championship, the final full-field event of the year, providing him with a $466,400 paycheck that allowed him to save his card. "I spent 10 weeks hoping that what worked at the end of last year would work in the new o
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" raked in a lot of doubloons at North American theaters over the weekend, making a record $132 million in its first three days, according to studio estimates issued Sunday.
Let's see: Adam Sandler has been an immature, lazy student ("Billy Madison"); an immature, lazy golfer ("Happy Gilmore"); an immature, lazy wedding singer ("The Wedding Singer"); an immature, lazy father ("Big Daddy"); and an immature, lazy son of the devil ("Little Nicky").
When he first showed up in "Swingers," that 1996 indie classic of masculine style and anxiety, Vince Vaughn had a startling shoot-to-kill glee.
Hollywood executives must be breathing a huge sigh of relief.
When the final buzzer rings in "Glory Road," it's not enough that the all-black starting lineup of underdog Texas Western Miners beats the all-white juggernaut University of Kentucky Wildcats to win the 1966 NCAA basketball championship; that story is available in any sports history book.
Adam Sandler doesn't look like a guy who could shave points off a football game, at least not without bursting into tears of remorse and apologizing in a high-pitched burble.
Few could have predicted that Bill Murray, Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler would ever be taken seriously as actors, so hear me out when I say that Will Ferrell, over the next decade, could make a similar transformation.
"The Wedding Singer," that celluloid celebration of the 1980s starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, has been transformed into a Broadway musical and booked for a New York opening -- for April 2006.
"Fever Pitch," a fable that pits true love against baseball love, is one of the most ingratiating romantic comedies in quite some time, yet the fact that it was directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly almost works against it.
In his opening statements to a jury, Michael Jackson's lead defense attorney said Monday that the mother of his client's accuser has a long history of using her son's illness to pry money from celebrities.
Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins are looking to collaborate with a new voice, but the TLC stars insist they're not trying to replace the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.
There's Hollywood, and then there's Hollywood.
OK -- You've finished your holiday shopping before Halloween, you've repeatedly listened to Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song" to the point it's not that funny anymore and you're starting to eat candy canes for dinner. There are only a few more weeks to indulge your thirst for holiday cheer. What do you do?
Once a jock, always a jock.
Now would be a good time to stop and take a look at the state of comedy in film.
After high-profile romances with rockers Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, Pamela Anderson is happily single -- and says being a full-time mom dominates her life.
Remember the comedy "Groundhog Day," in which Bill Murray is forced to relive the same day time and time again? Well, "50 First Dates" has the exact same premise with one big difference: It's not funny.
This weekend gives you a choice between a feature film starring Adam Sandler and a TV movie about Scott Peterson.
Dr. Evil makes his headquarters a giant Starbucks? Adam Sandler disses Hooters? We all know about product placement in movies--a company pays for flattering shots of its product. But why would thes...
When Star Wars: The Phantom Menace opens on May 19, it will cap one of the most intensive publicity pushes for any film in history. But, in true Star Wars fashion, the end will also be the beginnin...
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you want to make a hit movie. If you have big money to burn, you can buy yourself Tom Hanks, computer-generated dinosaurs, or a giant sinking ship. Or all ...
Every October, movie theater owners convene in Atlantic City to schmooze with the major studios and be plied with meals and gifts. At this year's convention, freebies included a Flubber T-shirt fro...
IS RAY SMITH hip? He'd better be. When his Bell Atlantic merges with cable monster TCI, he's going to be cruising in the info-highway fast lane, rubbing fenders with the folks who shape the tastes ...
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