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Back To School: Access’ Top 10 TV Campus Classics

September 11, 2009

By Jesse Spero

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Pencils are sharpened, the scent of new text books is in the air and fall TV returns with a crop of shows hoping to last an entire season. In honor of all the students heading back to classroom, AccessHollywood.com is counting down the Top 10 TV school classics!

Find out which series is at the head of the class and who failed to make the grade!

Rising Star: Ken Jeong

September 03, 2009

By David Greenwald

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

His name may not be on the marquee just yet, but if you’ve laughed at a movie in the last two years, you can probably thank Ken Jeong.

Since getting his big break as Katherine Heigl’s OB/GYN in “Knocked Up” in 2007, the actor has stood out in over a half-dozen big-screen comedies and TV appearances – and now, he’s AccessHollywood.com’s latest Rising Star.

MovieMantz Review: ‘Funny People’

July 30, 2009

By Scott Mantz

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Did you hear the one about the shallow, jaded, lonely celebrity who’s forced to re-evaluate his priorities after he’s diagnosed with a deadly disease?

It’s not a joke, but rather the plot of “Funny People” – the third film from director Judd Apatow after “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” (2005) and “Knocked Up” (2007). But where those films were straight-on comedies with a heart, “Funny People” is being billed as Apatow’s first “serious” movie.

Among Apatow’s Boyish Men, Leslie Mann Stands Out

July 30, 2009

NEW YORK, New York

In the three movies Judd Apatow has directed, his wife, Leslie Mann, has taken on progressively larger roles.

In “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” she’s a hot-to-trot drunken driver terrifying Steve Carell in the passenger seat; in “Knocked Up,” she played Paul Rudd’s wife; and in Apatow’s latest, “Funny People,” he’s written Mann an even bigger role — the one-who-got-away from Adam Sandler’s character.

A Life In Comedy Leads Judd Apatow To ‘Funny People’

July 29, 2009

NEW YORK, New York

Judd Apatow’s “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” spawned one of the most vibrant and successful runs in American comedy — a frantic, four-year era capped by and summed up in the writer/director/producer’s latest film, “Funny People.”

Eric Bana’s ‘Funny People’ Sex Scenes Banned By Director

July 21, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Judd Apatow’s new comedy, “Funny People,” features the director’s trademark obsession with racy humor and often-raunchy topics – but after casting Eric Bana to star opposite his wife Leslie Mann, Eric’s sex scene were mysteriously left out.

Anticipation Is High For ‘Transformers’ And ‘Potter’ Release

June 22, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Calif

If Hollywood were a poker game, this summer’s question would be: Can a pair beat one of a kind?

The pair are this year’s surefire blockbusters “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” opening Wednesday, and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” coming in mid-July.

Rising Star: Matthew Willig

June 19, 2009

By Eric Anderson

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Matthew Willig’s path to Hollywood has been a bit different from most actors.

At first glance, a resume which includes about a dozen TV shows and two movies — most recently, as the muscle-bound hunter Marlak opposite Jack Black and Michael Cera in “Year One” — may not seem extraordinary.

But then again, there are few actors who also boast a 14-year NFL career and a Super Bowl ring.