With Apologies to the late Christopher Hitchens, whose 2007 essay 'Why Women Aren't Funny' elicited outrage, The Heat director Paul Feig rebuts 'The M...
LAS VEGAS -- The director and stars of the new cop comedy "The Heat" say they hope their film will provide some comic relief to Bostonians in the wake...
The night before I interviewed Chris O'Dowd, I observed him dancing -- surrounded by a group of onlookers, of course -- to the A-ha earworm "Take on M...
Who needs a sequel to "21 Jump Street" when "The Heat" exists? The early favorite for "surprise comedy hit of the spring," "The Heat" employs everythi...
Although Freaks and Geeks never got within hailing distance of a second season, that didn't stop Paul Feig and Judd Apatow from imagining what might become of their characters in a further future.
Twelve years after "Freaks And Geeks" was yanked off the air after a brilliant season about the triumphs and trevails of high school, the cast and cre...
Never mind that M.I.A.'s infectious ne'er-do-well anthem "Bad Girls" was already used in the pilot episode of "The Mindy Project"; "The Heat," a new c...
Conventional Hollywood wisdom states that films eyeing the Oscar for Best Picture must to make a splash in Toronto. The Toronto International Film Fes...
Kristen Wiig is, by all accounts, far different than the outrageous characters she so often plays; instead of loud, oblivious and self-destructive, sh...
So what's the deal with the "Bridesmaids" sequel?
Earlier this week, it was reported that Kristen Wiig was unwilling to write or star in a followup t...
Universal sources say the studio is willing to pursue another Bridesmaids without Wiig. "We are over the moon with the success of Bridesmaids, and if ...
First there was The Areas of My Expertise. Then came More Information Than You Require. And now there is That Is All, the final book in John Hodgman's...
Before the Emmy, before her career-making role in "Bridesmaids," and even before her run in "Gilmore Girls," Melissa McCarthy was making people laugh ...
Melissa McCarthy and Judd Apatow struck up a pretty mutually beneficial relationship for "Bridesmaids," he providing her a spotlight, and she bringing...
There are few things guaranteed in the upside down, always changing world of Hollywood, but here's one thing you can bank on: a successful film, if at...
Nearly immediately after the semi-surprising smash hit success of the Kristen Wiig-tastic comedy, "Bridesmaids," director Paul Feig and producer Judd ...
Beyond the anticipation of two hours of solid storytelling and big laughs, the buildup to the new Kristen Wiig-starring flick "Bridesmaids" put the fu...
Funny, it seems, has always been the domain of men, until it wasn't. Somehow, each wave in comedy, from silent films to 50's TV shows and on through s...
In my opinion I think it's a game changer. If you see a script with two great female parts it's a win. But six! Six in a movie, six fully formed great...