In the history of men's fashion, there have been missteps, faux-pas, and downright travesties. And then, somewhere in the distance, there are scarves.
Where did this new trend come from? What the heck do you make of a dude who always wears a scarf? Newly minted leading man Jason Segel has absolutely no idea either.
"After a while you're not so sure where I'm coming from. You don't know what to make of me," Segel said of his character in the new Paul Rudd comedy, "I Love You, Man," the story of a guy who "realizes he doesn't have any close friends to be his best man. He needs to go out and find a best friend," Segel said. "And I am the candidate for that." Read more...
Look out, Paul Rudd: You've just been "Wainyized!" Almost a year after the "Knocked Up" star enthusiastically spoke to MTV News about an upcoming project called "Little Big Men," his "Wet Hot American Summer" director revealed that he's taken over the project, "and basically rewrote it from scratch."
"I came in fairly late in the game. This was a movie that was in motion and needed a director," Wain said. "We cast a huge part of our familiar troupe in a lot of the roles. It's the concept of the movie I was handed but at the same time is infused with my comic sensibility." Read more...
A deep, soulful love anthem blares on the soundtrack. "I want you inside of me," the singer croons to his unrequited mistress.
Hold on. Say that line again? "I said, 'Oh hey, from before," the singer bellows.
No, we're not going crazy at the MTV Movies Blog - we're just busy thinking what sort of rock ballads the kids will be shouting if "Wet Hot American Summer" director David Wain has his way. Read more...
If taglines are any indication of how funny a movie will be, than you might want to start counting down the days until "Walk Hard," whose new poster brags: "Life made him tough/Love made him strong/Music made him hard."
"It's pretty breezy and quick, but it'll feel like a large meal hopefully," director Jake Kasden ("Zero Effect") told us this week about his latest cut of the upcoming biopic spoof. "It's not that long. A little over an hour and a half. Apatow likes the two hour comedies, but I like them 90 minutes, so it'll be somewhere in between."
Judging by the hilarious trailer (watch it at the bottom) -- and a plot that has John C. Reilly playing a Johnny Cash-like rocker opposite Jenna Fischer, Kristen Wiig and Paul Rudd -- we say give Mr. Apatow whatever he wants. "We're doing a couple of pick-up days," Kasden said of some recent re-shoots. "We're rounding it out, filling in some holes." Read more...
Paul Rudd can do no wrong in my book. Sure he's great at the acting thing, knocking it out of the park in films like "Knocked Up" and "The Ten" (opening this Friday). But I'm really talking about interviews where he never fails to prove that he's one of the wittiest guys out there. My recent conversation with Mr. Rudd didn't fail to meet my lofty expectations. You can watch the whole Paul Rudd interview here, and see him explain why he hates condiments and feels like a junkie for playing fantasy baseball.
Then there's the clip below where Paul tells me about the part he wants to play in "Indiana Jones IV." Let the campaigning begin!
There are a lot of sequences in Judd Apatow's upcoming sure-to-be comedy smash "Knocked Up" that still bring a smile to my face (I've seen the flick twice already if that's any indication). One is when new best buds Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd engage in a bit of male bonding in Vegas by taking in Cirque du Soleil under the influence of some truly unsafe hallucinogens. It all gets started in the car ride as the two rock out to the music of Britney Spears.
When I caught up with Apatow and Rogen last week I had to find out what the Britney obsession was all about. Check out the answer in the clip below and for a whole lot more of a very funny interview with Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen you can do a lot worse than going here.
We don't like to deal in rumors and hearsay, but this tidbit straight from the mouth of Judd Apatow himself is too juicy to pass up. While Apatow's next movie "Knocked Up" stars longtime friend Seth Rogen, it wasn't meant to be that way. In fact, on the list of candidates to play the male lead of "Ben Stone," Rogen ended up near the bottom.
"Seth was the tenth actor to attempt to play the part, and nine other actors were fired," Apatow revealed to MTV. "We would ask an actor to come out and shoot [a] scene, and I would come out and fire them or they quit."
That revelation was an especially uncomfortable moment, particularly since Apatow was sitting next to Rogen at the time. So thank goodness he was kidding. The notion that rogen was the tenth choice to play the role is the concept for a fake documentary that Apatow will include on the "Knocked Up" DVD as a bonus feature. "[It's] called 'Finding Ben Stone' and it's a search for who will play this character," said the director who's quickly becoming a comedy legend. "You see all of the other actors who I fired before I found Ben. So we have James Franco, and David Krumholtz, and Gerry Bednob who is Mooj from the '40 Year Old Virgin.' At one point I thought I could be the lead, and Justin Long is in it. It's very funny, and it makes me look like an ass."
Is Apatow turning into Christopher Guest? "Finding Ben Stone" isn't the only fake documentary Apatow is planning for the DVD, he divulged. "There's another fake documentary about the fact that I'm fighting with the studio so much, that they send ["Capote" director] Bennett Miller to oversee the shoots," Apatow chuckled. "He's trying to take control of the movie and it ends up in a big fist fight between me and Bennett. [Very] funny."
"Knocked Up," starring Seth rogen, Katherine Heigl and Paul Rudd, arrives in theaters on June 1st.
Would you want your kid mentored by "Anchorman" horndog Brian Fantana? How about by the Pale Ale-drinking artist formerly known as Stifler? Well, look out moms and dads, because you're about to get both. That's what "Knocked Up" star Paul Rudd joked while spilling the beans about his new film, "Big Brothers," co-starring Seann William Scott.
"It's about two guys who have a great life but they do something that gets them in trouble with the law, and they have to do community service [with] the big brothers program," Rudd said of the upcoming comedy. "They are horrible!" The Luke Greenfield-directed flick might need a mentor of its own, Rudd confessed. The 38-year-old non-virgin (we know, he's got a kid!) revealed that shooting was currently on hiatus.
"It's kind of going through this whole rewrite right now," he divulged. "So that's supposed to go to about July before we start shooting again."
Rudd and Scott shaping the minds of tomorrow? Leave your thoughts below.
