After the painfully unfunny green band trailer, Kevin Smith and co. have redeemed themselves with a new red band trailer for Cop Out. While Smith didn’t write this one himself, it still features the crude dialogue he is known for. The film stars Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak, Rashida Jones, Seann William Scott and Jason Lee. Check it out below. Read the full story

In 2007 Seth Gordon unleashed the insanely entertaining documentary The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters. He followed up with the less (critically) successful bigger budget Four Christmases. It looks as though he is staying in the studio system with his next film, THR reports. The director is in negotiations to direct a divorce comedy titled Celeste and Jesse Forever. Parks and Recreations star Rashida Jones is attached to lead, as well as helping to write the script with Will McCormack. The project has been moved to Overture after Fox Atomic fell apart. The film “tracks a couple in the midst of a divorce attempting to maintain their friendship while pursuing new relationships.”  Read the full story

David Fincher’s The Social Network is currently shooting, but Variety reports they have just added another cast member. The star from I Love You, Man and Parks and Recreation, Rashida Jones will be joining Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew Garfield in Fincher’s latest. Coming Soon has also learned the $47 million budget film will be released October 15th, 2010. The film is based on Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal which you can find a synopsis of below:

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance–and sexual success–was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order. Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university’s computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus–and subsequently crashing the university’s servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.

What followed–a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers–makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost–and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.

The Social Network hits theaters October 15th, 2010.

What do you think of Jones joining the cast? Looking forward to the film?

Editor’s note: We have already reviewed I Love You, Man on our 1st podcast, but here is a text review. Enjoy!

When I first saw the trailers for I Love You, Man, I thought this movie would be comedy gold. Starring the always hilarious Paul Rudd (Role Models) and Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and featuring supporting performances by Andy Samberg, Rashida Jones, Jamie Pressly, J.K. Simmons, and Rush (!) , I had tremendously high hopes for this film. Despite the fact that it was co-written and directed by John Hamburg, whose last comedic attempt was the disastrous Along Came Polly, I went into the theater hoping for Apatow-esque levels of laughter. Instead, I Love You, Man is a wholly different film from the one I expected, but it still delivers a significant amount of laughs. Instead of being a hard-R comedy as the trailers and TV spots would have you believe, I Love You, Man is more of a romantic comedy with hard language than a straight comedy. As a result, there is a lot of sentimentality and heart in this film, some of which comes at the expense of laughter.

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By Dan Mecca

If honesty is the best quality, Adventureland is the gem of the cinematic year so far. Written and directed by Greg Mottola (the guy who directed Superbad) this dramedy is a throwback in every way – from the setting of the film (summer 1987) to the laid-back comic delivery. There’s barely anything that can be defined as a joke in this thing.

For the most part, all the movie’s laughs are natural and observatory rather than fed and forced. This is not to say that the latter doesn’t work – see I Love You, Man for proof of this, a film that feeds jokes consistently with a natural rhythm that does not overwhelm.

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