Bachelorette (movie)

Sundance darlings eye alternative distribution platforms

2013-01-17 00:00:00

Not that long ago, premiering a star-driven Sundance Film Festival movie on a video-on-demand channel was an admission of failure. But last year's festival produced two huge on-demand hits, Richard Gere's crime drama "Arbitrage" and Kirsten Dunst's...

Sundance 2013: 'Twenty Feet from Stardom' wows crowd, nears sale

2013-01-18 11:32:00

The Sundance Film Festival is poised to see its first acquisition, with Weinstein Co.'s VOD label Radius hammering out final details on a deal to buy the backup-singer documentary "Twenty Feet From Stardom," according to a person familiar with the...

Rebel Wilson will host 2013 MTV Movie Awards

2012-12-21 12:11:00

Australian comedian Rebel Wilson is coming off a banner year in 2012 with a new high-profile gig: host of the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. Wilson, who appeared in the box office sensation "Bridesmaids" last year and starred in "Pitch Perfect," "Bachelorette"...

'Words' can't express on the slowest movie weekend since 2001

2012-09-09 09:35:00

Not even the Sexiest Man Alive could lure moviegoers to the box office this weekend. On the the slowest weekend at the multiplex thus far this year, "The Words," a new film starring Bradley Cooper -- deemed by People magazine to be the most attractive...

Isla Fisher finds her comfort zone in supporting roles

2013-05-16 09:34:02

ORLANDO, Fla. _ At some point as she was hitching up her fishnet stockings and having her lips painted bee-sting bright to play the working class tart Myrtle in "The Great Gatsby," Isla Fisher had an attack of conscience. "I was pretty tacky and man-...

Add David Foster Wallace to 'unlikable' pantheon

2012-09-13 13:48:00

The last time filmmaker Jason Reitman came through town we got into a conversation about unlikable characters. He knows something about unlikable characters: "My first movie was about the head lobbyist for Big Tobacco ('Thank You for Smoking'), my...

'Pitch Perfect' is thin, and sometimes on key ★★ 1/2

2012-09-28 00:00:00

Who knew there was this much fun left in glee clubs so long after "Glee" jumped the shark? Sweet little Anna Kendrick, usually cast as too-young/in-over-her-head ("Up in the Air," "What to Expect When You're Expecting") plays the cynical, rebellious...

'Bachelorette': Dysfunctional wedding redux, with added raunch ★★

2012-09-06 00:00:00

You could, if you wanted, sit in a dark theater and simply check off the similarities between the blockbuster "Bridesmaids" and this fall's "Bridesmaids" knockoff, titled "Bachelorette." Female bodily function jokes? Check. Inappropriate come-ons on an...

Lizzy Caplan, left, Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher star in the movie "Bachelorette."

2012-10-05 00:00:00

R; 1:31 running time You could, if you wanted, sit in a dark theater and simply check off the similarities between the blockbuster "Bridesmaids" and this fall's "Bridesmaids" knockoff, titled "Bachelorette." Female bodily function jokes? Check. Inappropriate come-ons on an airplane? Check.

2012-09-06 07:53:00