Billy Crystal Joins ‘Tooth Fairy’

Taking on his first role in a live-action studio picture since 2002’s “Analyze That,” Billy Crystal will join the cast of “Tooth Fairy,” the Fox comedy that begins shooting Monday in Vancouver.

Dwayne Johnson stars with Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant (”The Office”) and Ryan Sheckler. Johnson plays a minor league hockey player known for loosening dental work with physical play and is sentenced to serve as the real Tooth Fairy for a week. Read more

Movie Review: My Best Friend’s Girl

Top-billed comic-turned-actor Dane Cook is almost too credible for comfort in the lead role of Tank, a customer-service telerep who moonlights as “an asshole” — his own self-description — for fun and profit. In the world according to scribe Jordan Cahan, any fellow who’s dumped by his girlfriend can win her back simply by paying Tank to treat her to the worst date of her life. One night out with the purposefully obnoxious and sexually aggressive lout, and the g.f. will run back to the guy she left behind. Read more

Sarah Jessica Parker Is ‘Spinning Like Butter’

 

Screen Media Films has picked up Sarah Jessica Parker’s racially charged drama “Spinning Like Butter” for North American distribution.

Parker produced and stars in director Mark Brokaw’s adaptation of the Rebecca Gilman play. She portrays a liberal New England college dean forced to confront hidden prejudices and political correctness when one of her few black students (Paul James) receives anonymous racist letters. Mykelti Williamson, Beau Bridges and Miranda Richardson also star. Read more

Movies In Theaters September 26, 2008

Choke

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation

MPAA Rating: R

Trailer

Movie Website: chokeonthis.net

Actors/Actresses: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly McDonald, Brad Henke, Joel Grey

Synopsis: Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Read more

‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ Gets the 3D IMAX Treatment

OK, so Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince won’t be released now until next summer. But the good news is that, when it finally is released on July 17, there will be sections shown in 3-D for those who see it on Imax screens.  Read more

Happy Go Lucky Trailer

Happy Go Lucky

Release Date: October 10, 2008

Genre: Art/Foreign, Comedy, Drama

MPAA Rating: R

Movie Website: happy-go-lucky-movie.co.uk

Actors/Actresses: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Andrea Riseborough, Sinead Matthews, Sylvestra LeTouzel
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Sex Drive Trailer

 

Sex Drive

Release Date: October 17, 2008

Genre: Comedy

MPAA Rating: R

Movie Website: SexDrivethemovie.com

Actors/Actresses: James Marsden, Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, Katrina Bowden, Seth Green, Clark Duke
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‘Lakeview Terrace’ Tops Weekend Box Office

Sony’s Samuel L. Jackson thriller “Lakeview Terrace” captured the boxoffice flag this weekend with a solid $15.6 million in opening grosses.

Focus Features’ Coen brothers comedy “Burn After Reading” finished second, dropping just 41% from week-earlier opening grosses to $11.3 million for this session and a 10-day cume of $36.4 million. Lionsgate’s romantic comedy “My Best Friend’s Girl,” starring Dane Cook and Kate Hudson, bowed third with a limp $8.3 million. Read more

Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau go on ‘Couples Retreat’

 

Universal Pictures is sending Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love on “Couples Retreat,” a Favreau-scripted, Peter Billingsley-directed comedy.

The story follows four couples who go to a tropical island resort. While one couple is there to work on their marriage, the others are there to play but soon discover that participation in the resort’s couples therapy is not optional. Read more

Movie Review: Igor

Everyone wants to get into the potentially lucrative animation game, and “Igor” illustrates the intriguing internationalization of the genre. The often striking animation was designed at the Sparx Animation Studios in Paris, with a large staff of Vietnamese artists. Although the visuals tantalize and the actors providing the voices add a lot of sass, the result is only so-so. Read more

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