Interview: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa make grown-up one summer movie to fill the crazy stupid love

2011-07-27 15:47:54 Author: Katey Rich Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s second film as a directing duo is hitting theaters just seven months after the release of their first film together, but they haven’t been nearly as busy as that timing might suggest. After working together on screenplays like Bad Santa and Bad News Bears they teamed up to direct I Love You Phillip Morris , a dark comedy about a romance between two prisoners played by Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. They shot the film in spring 2008, premiered it at Sundance in early 2009, and then watched their movie languish unreleased until their financier…

Kristen Wiig is not Katherine Heigl: Can deliver the comedy 5 women

2011-05-12 02:07:21 Author: Josh Tyler Name five, legitimately funny comedies with a female lead (not a co-lead or an ensemble lead mind you), released in the last five years. Ready? Here we go. Easy A , Baby Mama … Mean Girls ? No, Mean Girls was 2004. House Bunny ? God no, that was terrible. Date Night ? Tina Fey was at best the co-lead opposite Steve Carrell. Morning Glory ? I’m not sure that was a comedy. Bad news, I can only think of two. Partly it’s a problem of quantity. Hollywood just doesn’t make movies in which women are relied…