It’s not Pineapple Express 2, but Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg got much of that pic’s gang back together for Sony/Columbia’s June 12 opener. The duo co-scripted and co-directed the R-rated comedy, which stars James Franco, Jonah Hill, Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson and their young Hollywood cohorts playing versions of themselves. Here’s the red band trailer:
Universal Lands 7-Figure Pitch Deal For R-Rated Seth Rogen-Zac Efron Comedy


EXCLUSIVE: After a feverish day-long bidding battle, I’m hearing that Universal Pictures is closing a 7-figure deal for an untitled comedy that will have Seth Rogen and Zac Efron attached … Read More »
Mandate Pictures Travels To ‘Jamaica’ With ’50/50′ Team
Mandate Pictures is moving fast on the feature comedy Jamaica, which will reunite the studio with the team behind the comedic drama 50/50, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick and is due out in September. Like that … Read More »
Comic-Con #7: Sony ‘Green Hornet’ Panel
Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:
Seth Rogen comes out. “I’m sorry if you were expecting Ryan Reynolds” (who’s in Warner Bros’ Green Lantern.) Introduces footage that expands on the trailer we’ve seen, where Rogen plays a drunken newspaper heir whose father dies suddenly, and becomes a hero when his father’s Asian chauffeur Kato (Jay Chou, stepping in for Bruce Lee) turns out to be an expert in combat. New scenes include Kato removing a beer bottle cap in such a way that it flies like a bommerang… Rogen saying that Kato’s autobiography should be called ‘Balls Deep In Shit-Kickin’ Dudes,’… Kato insisting on “no tights” … Rogen deciding his hero identity should be “the green bee,” which a room full of friends agree is lame (they prefer “hornet” though he still tries to put it to a vote and get “bee”)… Christoph Waltz yelling “Nothing green should survive the night!”… Rogen accidentally shooting himself with gas gun (next thing he knows, he’s out for 31 days)… This clip was not in 3-D. Read More »

