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16 July 2008 6:29 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Knocked Up star Seth Rogen finds it tough watching TV show Entourage - because his idea for a similar inside-Hollywood expose series was turned down by the same network bosses who greenlighted Mark Wahlberg's project.

Wahlberg's show has become a huge success and Rogen can't understand why HBO bosses didn't pick up on a similar idea he pitched them years before.

The 26-year-old tells Eonline.com, "I just remember feeling really bitter. We thought the stuff we were writing was funny... and it just seemed crazy that no one else liked it.

"You start to question your own sanity. Like, 'Our HBO pilot isn't funny, but Entourage is?'"

Rogen insists the idea he came up with with his Knocked Up co-star Jason Segel would have been a huge hit: "We all used to smoke weed all day instead of working, and we'd just play video games for months on end. But we all really wanted to work and make movies."

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5 June 2008 1:00 AM, PDT | From buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news

While we know Ashton Kutcher for his wacky stunts on Punk’d and That ‘70s Show and his brainchild, Beauty and the Geek, more recently, the actor has tended to some serious matters, including last week’s exclusive Butterfly Ball benefiting Chrysalis, a Los Angeles-based organization which aims to help homeless men and women find jobs and homes as well.  Joining Kutcher at the event was Demi Moore, and newly-weds Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller.

“We love it, and we really believe in it,” Moore said before the event, the Associated Press reports.

At the purple carpet entrance before the event, Sheen and Mueller caught the attention of the media as it was the couple’s first appearance as husband and wife.  In fact, the Two and a Half Men star and the Mueller, a real estate agent, began dating last summer after meeting at the Chrysalis event of 2006.  However,

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27 April 2008 7:17 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel narrowly avoided serious injury in a motorcycle accident, thanks to his height.

The tall actor negotiates his way around Los Angeles on a Vespa scooter, even after a nasty scrape with a car.

Segel - who measures six foot, four inches (1.96 metres) - says, "I stood up to stretch my legs out. All of a sudden I heard a car screeching up behind me and boom, I get whacked.

"But because I'm so tall and I'm standing, the Vespa shot out from beneath my legs and I'm left standing there like Wile E. Coyote.

"The guy thought I was crazy because I just started laughing hysterically. It was amazing."

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23 April 2008 2:12 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Russell Brand's comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall has topped the Australian box office chart on its first week of release.

Jason Segel's latest vehicle held off competition from Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker crime thriller Street Kings, which landed at two.

The only other new entry came from Ben Affleck's drama Gone Baby Gone, which entered at number ten.

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21 April 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Forbidden Kingdom, the martial-arts family film that brought together Jackie Chan and Jet Li for the first time, wound up at the top of the domestic box office over the weekend with an estimated $20.9 million in ticket sales. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers, said, "The film is a good, solid action movie and audience, especially young audience, is looking for that shot of adrenaline. ... This was kind of warming up to summer." Coming in second was the Judd Apatow R-rated comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, written by and starring Jason Segel, which brought in $17.3 million. Several analysts had predicted that it would emerge as the weekend winner, citing its much-talked-about billboard campaign that had heightened awareness of the movie. Two other newcomers flopped. Sony's 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino, which had been mercilessly drubbed by critics, opened in fourth place with just $6.8 million, while the Ben Stein documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which argued on behalf of "intelligent design" -- that is, the biblical view of creation -- failed to bring out church groups in big numbers and settled for just $3.1 million to wind up in ninth place. Overall, the box office was up for the first time in five weeks, with the top 12 films earning $82.1 million, up 12 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago. "There is a collective sigh of relief in Hollywood," Dergarabedian told the Associated Press. So far this year, revenue is down 3.4 percent from last year while attendance is down 6.5 percent. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers:1. The Forbidden Kingdom, $20.9 million; 2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, $17.3 million; 3. Prom Night, $9.1 million; 4. 88 Minutes, $6.8 million; 5. Nim's Island, $5.7 million; 6. 21, $5.5 million; 7. Street Kings, $4 million; 8. Horton Hears a Who!, $3.5 million; 9. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, $3.1 million; 10. Leatherheads, $3 million.

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17 April 2008 2:09 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

The defining moment in Jason Segel's young career came in the dearly departed TV series Freaks And Geeks, when Segel serenaded would-be girlfriend Linda Cardellini with Styx's creepy ballad "Lady." For Cardellini's character, who opened the door to their relationship more out of pity than desire, it's a nightmarish scenario, but Segel gives a performance that's awkward and embarrassing, yet also sweet, disarming, and courageous. Judd Apatow helped carry those open-hearted-but-crazy qualities over to Undeclared, and they're front and center in the brutally funny Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which Segel wrote and Apatow produced. As the spurned boyfriend of a TV star, Segel leaves himself exposed—literally, in the first scene—and scores painful laughs out of his petulant reaction to a broken heart. First shown sitting around in his sweatpants, working through a trough of sugary cereal, Segel doesn't present himself as much of a catch, so his longtime girlfriend.

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14 April 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

With such variety this week, we could be tempted to go nuts and combine them into one super movie. Osama Bin Laden would have 88 minutes to paint an anamorphic picture that disproved Darwinism while riding the winner of the Kentucky Derby through ancient China with his gay lover who is also an Oscar nominated composer moonlighting as a zombie stripper...we smell a Golden Globe!

"Anamorph"

Utilizing the painting technique of anamorphosis, whereby the nature of an image changes depending on the viewer's vantage point, filmmaker Henry Miller marks his directorial debut with this intricate and cerebral thriller that reads like "Saw" by way of "The Da Vinci Code." Willem Dafoe stars as the dogged but haunted Detective Aubray, on the trail of carefully placed clues and elaborate puzzles, trying to catch a serial killer whose crimes bare a striking resemblance to an old

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3 April 2008 12:24 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Jason Segel was left red-faced on the set of U.S. sitcom How I Met Your Mother recently - when guest star Britney Spears blanked him after he made a joke.

Segel was bemused by the paparazzi in helicopters circling the show's Hollywood set trying to get a shot of Spears, who had a cameo role as a secretary on the TV comedy.

So the comedian approached the Toxic singer to offer an alternative explanation for the choppers in the sky - but she didn't get his joke.

Segel says, "I went up to her and said, 'I'm sorry, I have this big movie coming out - this is what it's like for me.'

"She looked at me strangely and walked away."

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30 March 2008 3:52 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Knocked Up star Jason Segel was once humiliated in front of an ex-girlfriend - by a dominatrix.

The TV star, who plays an unlucky ex who winds up holidaying with his former girlfriend and her rock star beau in new film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, was left crushed when a theatre date turned into a disaster.

Recalling the unfortunate incident, Segel says, "One night I'm at this little black box theatre, I'm wearing a suit and, as the lights go down, in walks this ex of mine with her new boyfriend.

"I started to feel hot and uncomfortable but then it dawned on me, 'Hey kid, you're wearing a suit. You can handle this.'

"Knocked Up had just come out and I was doing really well. I thought, 'She's gonna really regret it when she sees you buddy.'

"Then the play begins and this woman walks out dressed as a dominatrix and she's like, 'People come to me for all sorts of things, real sickos for nipple pinching, back scratching, butt play. In fact one of the scum is here tonight,' and she looks down at an audience list and says, 'Would Jason Segel please stand up.'

"I didn't know this thing is audience participation. So I stand up and there's my ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend looking at me, laughing hysterically, just cackling.

"The woman proceeds to make me get on my knees and bark like a dog and say out loud in front of my ex-girlfriend over and over, 'No woman would ever want to be with me.' It was awful."

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27 March 2008 8:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

How I Met Your Mother star Jason Segel fears he has ruined his dating life after revealing all in his new movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

The single Knocked Up star shows off his genitals in the film and now fears any future girlfriend will use the movie for research before agreeing to romance him.

He says, "I thought it would be fun. I thought I'd walk out naked and they'd yell, 'Action,' but no, it's not like that at all. You show up and realise you're about to be naked in front of 300 people.

"I also had a realisation right before I walked out that did not help... there aren't too many women out there who just love a small penis. That's all I kept thinking.

"The (censors) Mpaa made a specific rule that as long as it's flaccid, it's still an 'R' rating, but you don't want to be too flaccid!

"At one point there were seven penis shots and now we've got it down to four. There was one shot that really disturbed me. One of the shots they framed was just half my penis and it looked really, really weird. People fainted and cried.

"I'm interested to see how it affects my life. It's weird when my family sees it. I saw it with my mother at the first test screening which was horribly embarrassing.

"I don't know how it's gonna affect my dating life. It'll be like, 'You've already seen me naked!'"

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24 March 2008 8:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Writing the new Muppets movie is a dream come true for funnyman Jason Segel - he grew up wanting to be Kermit The Frog.

The actor/writer begged Disney bosses to let him pen the new film, and when they initially turned him down he wowed them with his knowledge of the loveable puppet stars.

The Knocked Up star says, "I've had a fascination with puppets my entire life. I remember thinking that Kermit The Frog was Tom Hanks. He was the everyman, like Jimmy Stewart.

"I wanted to be him, which was weird because I knew he was a puppet but I still wanted to be Kermit The Frog.

"I went to Disney and I said, 'Guys, I would like to write the new Muppet movie,' and there was a weird spattering of laughter in the room.

"Then I pitched it to them and gave them my Muppets knowledge and they brought the pitch, so it's a little boy's dream come true."

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13 March 2008 10:45 PM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Britney Spears completed two days of filming on Tv's How I Met Your Mother, receiving praise from the sitcom's cast for her attitude and comic skills. "There was not an ounce of the dark side that we've all read so much about," star Neil Patrick Harris, 34, said Thursday night at a West Hollywood party for the show. In the episode, which will air March 24, Spears plays a receptionist at a dermatologist's office, and she falls for one of the show's main characters, played by Josh Radnor. Spears, 26, shot her scenes Wednesday and Thursday. "She was hilarious in the table-read, and

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13 March 2008 5:54 PM, PDT | From Watcher | See recent Watcher news

There's stuntcasting. Then there's Britney-casting.

The worthy comedy “How I Met Your Mother” isn’t usually a font of gossip headlines, but last week the show, which returns 7:30 p.m. Monday on Wbbm-Ch. 2, pulled off a surprising coup.

What put the tabloid world in a tizzy was the news that Britney Spears would make a guest appearance on “Himym.” Her agent approached the show about her taking on a role, and her appearance came together quickly. She's taping her episode this week and will appear as a receptionist in an episode that airs March 24.

“She’s been hardworking and has really brought her own approach to the character,” executive producer Craig Thomas said midway through the taping of her episode. “She has solid comic timing.”

(Update: At right is the first picture of Britney Spears as Abby and Sarah Chalke as Dr. Stella Zinman in the March 24 episode of "How I Met Your Mother.

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13 articles from 2008