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		<title>Samuel Bayer wants in on THE BOYS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samuel Bayer, who made his directorial debut with the upcoming remake of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street has not only told /film that he has no intention of returning for a Freddy sequel, but he has also spilled to Shock Till You Drop exactly what he wants to make instead.

And well, I'm hoping Bayer is as talented as the trailer for the Nightmare suggests because the source material he wants to adapt is kinda special. It's Garth Ennis' wonderful graphic novel The Boys!!!


"Yeah, I’m catching my breath but I’ve been offered some stuff. There’s one comic book I really dig that I want to go after that’s bad-ass. I’d like to get it, it’s called The Boys. It’s about a group of mercenaries and they’re job is to kick the shit out of superheroes who get out of line. It doesn’t get any better than that. In the world of The Boys, superheroes are scumbags. My youngest brother is a comic book historian and he introduced me to a lot of graphic novels like “The Dark Knight.” There are some great books I don’t think people have tapped into yet".
Columbia Pictures have owned for the past two years...

The ...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: John Landis directs Serkis &amp; Pegg in BURKE &amp; HARE!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Moving Image site...
Last night I was on the set for a small scene of John Landis’ latest, Burke and Hare.  The scene feature Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg running down an alley, chasing something, until Pegg notices a strange sound.  In the video below, they turn around and director Landis is the one describing the CGI barrel coming toward them, going over their head (“BOUNCE!”), and crashing behind camera.

Word is - they are shooting in Sterling, then returning to Edinburgh to shoot Thursday-Saturday morning before moving on somewhere else. It's a 7 week shoot according to a camera guy on set.

Now I know I go on about Inception &#38; Iron Man 2 etc until I'm blue in the face but really, there is a little part of me that is looking forward to this movie more than anything else right now.

I mean after all, any black comedy/serial killer horror that manages to have Tom Wilkinson act alongside Ronnie Corbett, Tim Curry and John Cleese - is all right by me.
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		<title>Gollum replaces former Dr. Who in John Landis&#8217; BURKE &amp; HARE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A now deleted tweet from Simon Pegg has revealed that Gollum himself Andy Serkis has replaced fellow Brit actor David Tennant in Burke &#38; Hare - the Hammer Horror style black comedy that centers on a pair of Irish immigrants who took to murdering their tenants "Sweeney Todd style" when they needed cash.

The pair would sell off the bodies of their 17 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College who used them for medical dissections.

We presume the tweet was deleted because Pegg wasn't supposed to make the announcement just yet as it isn't quite official. Here's what Pegg said yesterday...


“David Tennant had to drop out of B&#38;H but by sheer glorious serendipity a legend of Middle Earth and Skull Island has come aboard. Welcome AS.”


Sad to see Tennant leave the project as I'm curious to see how his transition to movies post-Dr. Who goes - but Serkis is always a delight on screen, and suits this tone more. His role in the small time British horror The Cottage last year is possibly a nice pre-cursor to what we can expect from Serkis here.

As exciting as a Pegg/Serkis team-up is, it's cranked up by about a thousand when you remember that John ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike boldy goes where he has never gone before&#8230; STAR TREK!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child my Dad used to watch a fair amount of Star Trek. He watched the original Battlestar Galactica too, as well as Star Wars on video - repeatedly. I have to say that of all the sci-fi he watched I liked Star Trek the least, and that was for one simple reason: it didn't have any robots (at least not that I saw). It's the future for God's sake! Why would they not have robots doing the menial stuff? The reason I say this is that this very simple childhood logic has meant that I have spent my whole life ignorant of the Star Trek phenomenon. I didn't get into it when I was young and have never bothered to try since.



So when the best robot of them all - the J.J. Abrams hype machine - began clunking into action I was not bothered. When the trailers came out I just thought it might be a corny action film that would mobilise Trekkies, but I could not guess whether it would be for good or bad reasons. Once the whole secret screening marketing campaign began I did become intrigued. Why hide it as The Wrath of Khan?

Is this just a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Simon finds out HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS &amp; ALIENATE PEOPLE&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Release Date: 16th March 2009

Available from Amazon priced at £9.98

Now is the time of yet another British comedians’ invasion on Hollywood- Steve Coogan’s still there somewhere, Sacha Baron Cohen looks set to cement his position with BRUNO, Ricky Gervais has so far hinted at some good potential, and even Russell Brand seems set for a career of some sort. So it is little surprise that Simon Pegg is defying those critics who see his collaborations with Edgar Wright (and thus by inference Nick Frost) as the be all and end all of his Hollywood career. Even I admit that RUN FATBOY RUN was some way wide of the mark, but one sick swallow does not a shitty Spring make. I for one wait with baited breath for the arrival of first STAR TREK and then PAUL, before Pegg eventually returns to the Pegg/Frost/Wright triptych to complete the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy.

With the significant televisual comedy chops of Pegg (SPACED) and Robert Weide (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM) combining you might be forgiven for expecting something more self-consciously cult seeking than HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS... And yet, despite obvious indie affiliations- the casting of Pegg and the wonderful Jeff Bridges chief among ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greg Motolla talks Paul, the CGI &#8220;alien comedic method actor&#8221; in PAUL!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUPERBAD director Gregg Motolla, who is gearing up to premiere his new movie ADVENTURELAND at Sundance, has discussed the CGI alien creature which is at the heart of his soon to be filming PAUL, the Nick Frost/Simon Pegg alien comedy he will direct later this year.
“That movie is a far more technically challenging movie than Adventureland was because one of the main characters is a fully non-existent creature. He’s basically an alien who may be, let’s say, 70% CGI and the big challenge is that he needs to be a very funny, comedic method actor.  It’s not the kind of CGI character where we people to say ‘Oh wow, look what they did, that’s so cool’ it’s actually the kind of CGI character where we want people to just treat like another actor in the film, and he should be fully believable and multi-faceted and has to give a great performance, he just doesn’t exist. We’ve been doing a lot of test trying to figure out how to pull that one off.”
Basically he is trying to avoid this...



PAUL finds Frost and Pegg as two British slackers who after visiting Comic-Con go on a road trip to Area 51 where ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pegg &amp; Frost confirmed for TINTIN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first what we thought of as gimmick casting, has actually been confirmed today for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's TINTIN 3-D motion captured trilogy.

AICN say Brit duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will play the bumbling Thompson Twins. Which should be interesting because neither Pegg or Frost looking anything a like.

It's also been confirmed that Andy Serkis is also still on board as Captain Haddock but LOVE ACTUALLY youngster Thomas Sangster dropped out as the lead character when the Autumn shoot was pushed back to February 09.

After losing Universal's financing in the Summer, Sony Pictures stepped in to co-finance this $130 million production alongside Paramount Pictures - remarkably neither of them have as much faith in the worldwide appeal of TINTIN to finance it solo.

The first in the TINTIN trilogy will be released next Summer and will be directed by Spielberg. Peter Jackson's second installment will come sometime later. ]]></description>
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		<title>Plot details for Simon Pegg &amp; Nick Frost&#8217;s PAUL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Variety carry the plot for PAUL, the third on screen partnership from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost but their first venture together without their great friend and close collaborator Edgar Wright (director of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ).



Previously we had only ever known this movie as being about two comic book geeks who make the road trip across the U.S. Well it's a bit more meatier than that...
"Story revolves around two British slackers who after visiting Comic-Con go on a road trip to Area 51 where they encounter a small alien named Paul, who enlists them to help him find his way home."
Simon Pegg wrote the script for the movie which will be helmed by SUPERBAD director Gregg Mottola.

I've been more than a little critical of Pegg's effectiveness on screen in comedy roles outside of the Wright partnerships, I was neither keen of RUN, FATBOY, RUN or HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE.

But we know he always has great chemistry with Frost and even though the evil genius that is Edgar Wright is busy with Hollywood right now, the plot sounds rather fun. ]]></description>
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		<title>Edgar Wright calls Abrams&#8217; STAR TREK better than STAR WARS prequels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edgar Wright's great friendship with the new "Scotty" Simon Pegg has meant the British director has become one of the few people on the planet not directly involved with the production of the new movie to have seen J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK months before it's release in May.



We already know that Kevin Smith has seen a rough cut of the movie and liked what he saw. And though Wright never mentions TREK in particular, it's obvious that is the movie in question when speaking on his blog...
I am a lucky bastard…

Yesterday I saw a film that does not get released until next summer.

I can’t say much more than that, except that it delivers all the goods sorely lacking from a certain trio of prequels.

Exciting stuff.
Trek Movie claim a trailer for STAR TREK could be attached to QUANTUM OF SOLACE (though likely not in the U.K. as it opens in just over 2 and half weeks here) in late November.

They also clock the running time at 2 hours with Abrams quoted as saying he hates the current trend of Summer tentpoles going over the 2 and half hour limit.

via - /film ]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Pegg &amp; Nick Frost in TINTIN?!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Pegg visited Steven Spielberg on the motion capture set of TINTIN where the actor claims/suggested/jokingly refers to the Times Online that he and his good pal Nick Frost may have been offered the chance to play the bumbling detectives The Thompson Twins in the soon to be filming movie...


“Steven’s smoking a stogy, cap on head, like he’s always been since I was a baby,” Pegg says, shaking his head in wonder. “I shook his hand and chatted about films. He gave me the mo-cap [motion-capture] camera, and I had a play around with it. Then he said, ‘Hey, maybe you and Nick Frost could play the Thompson Twins.’ In Tintin. A Spielberg movie. To work with him is beyond .. . ” He trails off, lost for words.
How truthful Spielberg was about being interested in the two guys, we can only speculate but you have to wonder why Pegg was on set anyway?

We know Pegg is great friends with Spielberg's co-collaborator Peter Jackson who even made a very rare cameo in HOT FUZZ, so there could be a lot of fuel to this fire. Despite Thompson and Thompson being twins, the movie will be motion captured so presumably they ...]]></description>
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		<title>Poster: HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS &amp; ALIENATE PEOPLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to look forward to this one, I really do. I don't want to see a bad Simon Pegg comedy, it's not fun to see funny people in unfunny movies.

It's like when Matthew Perry from Friends did a string of comedies at the turn of the century, never quite living up to his potential with material that was beneath him.

The folks behind his new comedy How To Lose Friends &#38; Alienate People have sent over the new U.S. one-sheet for the upcoming movie whose imagery I can't quite understand. Are they trying to convey over the message that Pegg is an idiot and buffoon who does stupid things whilst spilling drink over hot actress Megan Fox with Kirsten Dunst looking over his shoulder at the mess?

And is "the most hilarious comedy of the year" not the most bland tagline you have ever heard in your life?
The previously released posters for the film are just as lame...



The movie opens October 3rd 2008 in the U.K. and U.S. from Curb Your Enthusiasim director Robert B. Weide and based on the memoirs of Brit journalist Toby Young. ]]></description>
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		<title>Greg Mottola to direct Pegg/Frost&#8217;s PAUL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's third big screen outing as a comedy duo in Paul will be directed by Superbad helmer Gregg Mottola, Pegg has announced on his Myspace page.

Mottola who has just finished shooting the amusement park comedy Adventureland with Ryan Reynolds, Kirsten Stewart and Bill Hader - will direct Paul as his next feature.

Pegg and Frost will play two British comic book nerds who embark on a road trip across America. Rumors also suggest that it will Frost who actually plays the straight man this time around with Pegg being the comedy sidekick - a complete reversal of roles from their previous outings in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.


In related news, filming on that movie has meant Simon Pegg has had to pull out of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. He was set to play a British Lieutenant but the role will now have to be re-cast, presumably British comedians Martin Freeman and especially Ricky Gervais may become front runners for the part.
"Much to our mutual disappointment, I won't be appearing in QT's forthcoming 'Inglorious Bastards' due to insurmountable scheduling difficulties," he said. "We really tried to make it work but in the end, it just was ...]]></description>
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		<title>STAR TREK poster gives first looks at&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like they did for the San Diego Comic Con, Paramount have released four new character posters from next May's tentpole release Star Trek, this time at the VegasCon 08 which gives us our first look at Sulu, Scotty, McCoy &#38; Chekov.


Of course it goes without saying they all resemblance in some way the original actors playing their parts. John Cho as Sulu was especially inspired casting and although I've yet to see him in a movie, this Anton Yelchin kid is getting a lot of studio backing right now with roles in Terminator and you may remember he was cast in JLA before it went defunct.

Karl Urban was also a fine, fine choice as Bones. Simon Pegg as Scotty, the more I've had time to digest the casting the more I actually don't mind it. I know in your head he isn't really like Scotty but I'm telling ya, if you go back and watch the original series - there was always a smirk from James Doohan, not to dismilar to the cheekiness that Pegg can portray where Doohan was kind of sharing a joke about how silly a given situation was.

Of course it's alright physically resembling the former ...]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Pitt is officially a BASTARD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino/Universal/Weinsteins have finally secured their A-list star. Brad Pitt has signed on to the World War II drama Inglorious Bastards, spearheading a project that might not have as many well known movie stars present as we previously thought.

Variety say British comedian and good friend of Tarantino, Simon Pegg has also surprisingly joined the cast as a British lieutenant. Pegg is making a career out of "it's not what you know but who you know".

It would also appear that Tarantino has cast his first "career resurrection" role as former German star Nastassja Kinski who led the 80's remake of Cat People and has been very quiet for a decade or more has also joined Inglorious Bastards as a German movie star queen.

Not finished yet. The trade also say relatively unknown actor David Krumholtz, a regular on the t.v. show Numbers is cast as an American solider.





A few more details about the project are starting to leak. Variety say most of the dialogue is in German or French with subtitles helping out the English speaking audience. Only the English actors will speak English.
So the eight (or nine because the trade's don't make it clear if that involves Pitt) Jewish-American soldiers that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Trailer: TERESA: THE MAKING OF A SAINT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MGM have posted the official trailer for Teresa: The Making of a Saint online, a piece of viral marketing from the upcoming comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People which stars Megan Fox as Sophie Maes, a hopeless and dumb film star who is clearly given roles only because of the way she looks.

She is basically playing a parody of herself. This trailer then is for a movie that Maes is apparently due to star in...

BETTER QUALITY HERE
Well the fake trailer was funnier than the actual real trailer for the upcoming Simon Pegg/Kirsten Dunst comedy that was released last month. I'm not kidding, I think I would rather watch this!
I'm hoping the real movie is good, the last thing I wanna see after Run, Fatboy, Run is another disappointing Simon Pegg comedy when it opens in the first week of October.




source - coming soon ]]></description>
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		<title>Trailer: HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British comedy actor Simon Pegg worried me last year with his first major starring role outside of his Edgar Wright/Nick Frost team with Run, Fatboy, Run - a movie so incredibly unfunny and stupid that it was 2 hours of pain watching Pegg take the material seriously.

For actors like Pegg, much like Ricky Gervais - it takes a special kind of role and clever writing material to really use them at their best because they are comedians first and not actors. I find it pretty interesting that both men are playing similar roles in American produced movies at around the same time and they both fall down to the same problem.

With straight characters... Pegg and Gervais are not the leading man, or shouldn't be.

Here's the trailer for Pegg's second attempt at this, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People which similarly to Run, Fatboy, Run descends into a kind of gag so over-used, so wretchedly banal and so bottom of the barrel, it's impossible to not cringe. It's the spit the food on the lady gag!


SEE IT IN HD HERE

Simon Pegg should not try and be the British version of Adam Sandler. He is way better than that and to ...]]></description>
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		<title>RUN, FATBOY, RUN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been intrigued by Run, Fatboy, Run ever since I saw it's trailer play alongside the awesome Hot Fuzz earlier this year but at the same time I've also been extremely cautious. Intrigued because of Simon Pegg's involvement but cautious because he's leading the movie solo without Edgar Wright feeding him lines and directing him behind the camera.

The heavy American presence also felt odd for what was very much a British rom-com and after hating writer Michael Ian Black's pointless comedy The Wedding Daze earlier in the year (which apparently didn't play any better known as The Pleasure of Your Company in the States) and from a director whose only real experience was helming episodes of Friends and Joey (the kind of environment where it's impossible to have any artistic training), I had visions of a disaster here.

Out of the three guys behind this movie, Pegg/Schwimmer/Black, it's unfortunately Black's work which is the most prominent and once again his formulaic script is a huge snooze fest. Every single cliche you have ever seen about a guy who tries to win back his former girl in a rom-com is utilised here, with more cheap slapstick and pop record emotion than I ...]]></description>
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