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OSCARS Q&A: Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 10:05pm PSTTags: Awardsline, Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Oscars

Paul Brownfield is an AwardsLine contributor.

The first scene in Judd Apatow’s dramatic comedy about marriage, This Is 40, is the only love scene. Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are having birthday sex in the shower, but what Debbie doesn’t know is that Pete has popped a Viagra. Thrusting is soon followed by tumult.

First seen in Knocked Up, Pete and Debbie functioned in that film as “the ghosts of Christmas future” for the two main characters, played by Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl. But This Is 40 doesn’t pick up where Knocked Up left off, it starts afresh.

Let us assume the Viagra shower episode hasn’t happened in the real-life marriage of Apatow and Mann. But both the writer/director, edging into more mature terrain, and his actress wife, truly starring in a major Hollywood film for the first time, are aware that they’ve made something that feels, anyway, like an autobiographical film. In the time before making This Is 40, Apatow went back and watched, among others, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From A Marriage, “which had more humor in it than one would expect,” he says.

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Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn, Leslie Mann Eye ‘This Is Where I Leave You’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 29, 2012 @ 1:08pm PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Big Deals Film, Goldie Hawn, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Warner Bros, Zac Efron
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is in talks with Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn, and Leslie Mann to headline the ensemble of This Is Where I Leave You, the Adam Shankman-directed … Read More »

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Cannes: Sundance Title ‘Little Birds’ Lands With Millennium Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 11, 2011 @ 6:47am PDTTags: Cannes, Elgin James, Juno Temple, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Iwashina, Leslie Mann, Little Birds
Mike Fleming

Little Birds, the Elgin James-directed drama about two restless teenage girls who leave their dying Salton Sea hometown to  take a dangerous road trip to Los Angeles with three street kids, has been acquired for North American distribution by Millennium Entertainment. The film stars Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Kate Bosworth and Leslie Mann. James is the reformed former gang member who in March was sentenced to spend a year in jail by a federal judge in Chicago. James had to answer for an incident from his past, the charge involving a 2005 attempt to extort $5000 from a man. I met James at Sundance, and found him to be very honest about himself, his rough upbringing, and in how he had turned his life around with a decision to embrace non-violence. Seeing his movie get a chance to reach audiences has to be a spot of good news in an EKG year in which he debuted the film at Sundance to acclaim, started getting hired to write studio films, and then drew the jail sentence. The plan is to release the film in the fall, and timing will be key here, because James is eligible to be freed 10 months into a sentence rendered in early March. Will he be released before his film is? Read More »

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Albert Brooks In Talks For Judd Apatow Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 7:03pm PDTTags: Albert Brooks, Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Megan Fox, Nicolas Winding Refn, Paul Rudd, Ryan Gosling
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Albert Brooks is negotiating to join the untitled comedy that Judd Apatow wrote and will direct for Universal Pictures. The film will star Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd, who are reprising the roles they played in Knocked Up. … Read More »

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Another Casting For Uni’s ‘The Change-Up’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday September 21, 2010 @ 12:32pm PDTTags: Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Movies, Ryan Reynolds, The Change Up, The Change Up Casting

Leslie Mann has signed on to play the lead female role in Universal’s The Change-Up opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman.

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