 I’m sure SoCal and New York denizens are used to seeing places they frequent being used in movies, but it was so much fun seeing buildings from my alma mater Georgia Tech (go Yellow Jackets!) in this trailer for The Internship, even if the real building is in the Silicon Valley. The movie is about two men (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) who get laid off and decide to try and make it as interns at Google, where their managers are in their twenties. The cast for the film also includes Dylan O’Brien, Will Ferrell, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, B.J. Novak, Max Minghella, Josh Gad and John Goodman. Check out the trailer after the jump!
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That’s right, Vince Vaughn, the star of such films as Swingers, Dodgeball, and The Wedding Crashers is going to receive an award named after the late, great John Cassavetes at the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF). Here is the press release:
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A nightwatchman gets skinned alive and obliterated at a Costco in a suburban town and store manager Evan (Ben Stiller) assembles a neighborhood watch group to find his co-worker’s killer in The Watch, a science-fiction/comedy which, in fits and starts, is an amusing movie. Proudly crude and vulgar, The Watch tells an aliens-attacking-Earth story with an underlying mix of subplots which take the film down tangential paths that never truly lead anywhere. The film lacks a focal point, unless that focal point is to simply throw a little graphic violence, graphic humor, and star power at the wall and see what sticks. And the problem is, little really does.
Seeing Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade riff with one another has intermittent hilarity, but ultimately The Watch suffers mightily from its poorly constructed story which incorporates way, way too much. As a result, the screenplay by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Jared Stern delivers moments too scattershot to mean anything once the film, or in some instances the scene, comes to an end.
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Prepare yourself for a very long month where The Dark Knight Rises will more than likely dominate the box office. Christopher Nolan’s final film in his acclaimed trilogy made an estimated $162 million last weekend, and is on track for a $75-$80 million intake for its second go-around. The only other major new release, The Watch, can best be summed up by this image:
No, ladies and gentlemen, that is not a Pokémon being released — though admittedly, that would certainly be a lot more entertaining than what this generic comedy-meets-science fiction romp will be offering us — but is instead an alien device that tries its best to bring cows back to movie relevancy a la the glory days of Twister. In other words, The Watch probably won’t offer you anything new that you haven’t already seen before in any comedy, science fiction, apocalyptic, Jonah Hill/Vince Vaughn/Ben Stiller movie. So why are moviegoers going to flock to this film? Because Jonah Hill is just so likeable and endearing, even when he physically assaults a woman in a department store (see: 21 Jump Street) and thinks silencing his mother means caressing his fingers over her lips (if this sounds as gross as it does, it’s because it is). Oh, it also has Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, and while they may be “So 5 Minutes Ago” as opposed to Jonah Hill’s “Currently Trending” status, plenty of film goers still can’t seem to get enough of these golden guys of comedy (okay, that came off harsher than I meant it to). The film may have a difficult time surpassing the $30 million mark this weekend, as the reviews so far have been predominantly damning. Opening in 3,168 locations, I’m projecting a soft yet not terrible $25 million debut. Richard Ayoade and Rosemarie DeWitt co-star alongside the comedic trio. Read more on Weekend Openings (July 27-29)…
Categories: Weekend Openings Tags: Ben Stiller, gina gershon, Jonah Hill, Killer Joe, Matthew McConaughey, Paul Dano, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ruby Sparks, Step Up Revolution, the dark knight rises, The Watch, Vince Vaughn, William Friedkin, Zoe Kazan
 Hello readers! Late Pass is back with your quick update of news we’ve missed this week.
Casting News
Vince Vaughn will play a man who fathers 533 children in a new movie Starbuck- Variety
Cameron Diaz and Benicio del Toro will team up for action comedy Agent: Century 21. Diaz seems to fit this movie well having made Knight and Day but del Toro? Action comedy? Should be an interesting project. – The Hollywood Reporter
Michelle Monaghan will join Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan in action thriller The Coup. The story “revolves around American family that moves to Southeast Asia and finds themselves embroiled in a violent coup where rebels mercilessly attack the city.” – The Hollywood Reporter
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