Pages tagged “superbad”

Ben Greenman wants you to write.

A postcard. Not an e-mail.

E-mail is the enemy. E-mails are “nasty, soul-killing things,” he says. We have to make peace with them; they’re not going away. But Greenman isn’t willing to give up traditional written forms to reach an armistice.

A few years ago, director Alex Holdridge broke up with his girlfriend, crashed his car and found himself jobless in a strange town. And things went from bad to, well, superbad when he discovered that premise of his 2001 debut film, Wrong Numbers-- which he'd relocated from Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles to pitch to studios-- was eerily similar to a certain Judd Apatow-produced 2007 hit. But now the 29-year-old is rebounding with an autobiographical film about, well, rebounding: the smart, sexy, black-and-white gem In Search of a Midnight Kiss, released Aug. 1 by IFC.

Paste recently talked with the obsessively chatty Holdridge, for whom memoir includes flipped cars, Craigslist, the forlorn architecture of downtown L.A., and a fundamentally romantic heart.

A crossover between two of Judd Apatow's most recent comedies might seem like it's jumping the gun a little bit, or that it's the product of a hash session between the stars of Pineapple Express. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that it sounds like a totally awesome idea.

Among friends and family, my tendency to cry during movies at completely unexpected moments is well-noted. My tear ducts have remained steadfastly dry during many films widely noted for their weep-worthiness: As the Titanic sank and Rose lost Jack to the abyss of the North Atlantic, I was preoccupied with the special effects-- and yeah, I guess The Notebook (see above) was pretty sad, but what really broke my heart was that all of Rachel McAdams' dresses would never be my own.

Jonah Hill was three-years-old when 21 Jump Street first aired in 1987. Now, the Superbad star is in negotiations to develop a big-screen version of the show, Variety reports.

The new version of the police drama will be co-produced by original series creator Stephen J. Cannell and Neal Moritz. Hill is in charge of developing the screenplay for Columbia Pictures and will serve as executive producer.