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Sigourney Is The Best Medicine

4 June 2009 7:52 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

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Ja from Mnpp here. Earlier this week came the news that my beloved Sigourney Weaver would probably be joining the cast of Paul, the alien-comedy directed by Greg Mottola (director of Superbad and Adventureland) and written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (aka the stars of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) as well as co-starring the two of them plus Jason Bateman and Kristen Wiig and Seth Rogen and Jane Lynch, and I wondered if there'd ever been a cooler thing ever. I still haven't found one.

But today comes word that besides officially joining that movie, Sigourney has also added another comedy to her upcoming roster (via):

"... [Sigourney] will then star in “You Again” with Kristen Bell for director Andy Fickman. Bell will play a young woman who returns home for her brother’s wedding and is horrified to find he’s marrying her high school nemesis. »

- JA

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Jake Kasdan to Direct Bad Teacher

28 May 2009 2:58 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg are quickly becoming hot commodities in the world of comedy screenwriting. They broke into the industry as writers for NBC's The Office, and from there they also penned the upcoming Harold Ramis comedy Year One, which then landed them the coveted job of writing Ghostbusters 3. Talk about a pay off! Now it looks like one of their unproduced spec scripts has also been picked up and assigned a decent director over at Columbia Pictures. According to The Hollywood Reporter [1], Jake Kasdan will direct Stupnitsky and Eisenberg's Bad Teacher, a comedy about a foul-mouthed seventh-grade female teacher who tries to steal the boyfriend of a colleague. This, like Kevin Smith's A Couple of Dicks, is another script that was on the 2008 Black List [2], meaning it was highly regarded within Hollywood. Kasdan previously directed Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and while I still have yet to see that film, »

- Sean

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‘Office’ Writers Nab Jake Kasdan for ‘Bad Teacher’

27 May 2009 4:09 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

I've been a Jake Kasdan fan ever since I got to see The TV Set at the Austin Film Festival a few years back. Even if Walk Hard had more than a few missteps, it had its share of fun moments, and I think he's a talented comedic director that just needs to find the right projects. Hopefully, he's found one with the original screenplay penned by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, two writers on "The Office" who are also writing/producing Ghostbusters III (if the world doesn't end in 2012). According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script for Bad Teacher focuses on a "foul-mouthed" teacher who romantically pursues one of her colleagues. Kasdan has signed on to direct the project for Columbia - and it looks like this might be the right brand of intimate story that works best for his style. No word yet on casting since it's still early in the ball game. Any »

- Neil Miller

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Jake Kasdan to Direct Sony's Bad Teacher Comedy

27 May 2009 11:55 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Columbia Pictures has hired Jake Kasdan to direct the comedy Bad Teacher co-written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (writers on "The Office" as well as the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel). The screenplay centers on a foul-mouthed seventh grade teacher who is dumped by her sugar daddy. She starts to pursue a colleague instead, which provokes a conflict with the school's model teacher, who is after the same guy. Kasdan wrote and directed Zero Effect and The TV Set and also directed Judd Apatow's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story for the same studio back in 2007. This should be a good fit for Kasdan. Not to make this comparison right off the bat, but we're all familiar with school-based comedies like Election, School of Rock, Clueless, and of course, Rushmore. I'm hoping that Bad Teacher (which has a title like Bad Santa that implies some down 'n dirty humor) can »

- Alex Billington

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