About a month ago we showed you the first trailer for a new movie: Friends with Kids, written, produced and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein, Ira and Abby). It’s a topical adult comedy about two best friends Westfeldt and Adam Scott) who decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship platonic, so they can avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships.  I liked that first trailer. I didn’t love it. (It felt like a Saturday Night Live skit drawn out to feature length.) Now we have a red band trailer that gives us a taste of the “adult” in the phrase, adult comedy. It's actually pretty tame. (The red-band for Bridesmaids was wilder.) There’s a lot of “sex” talk, that while not graphic is explicit. (I’m also wondering who exactly has conversations like that. Is this what’s going on between thirty-forty somethings in chic UWS apartments these days? Damn it. I miss everything.)

Costarring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd and Jon Hamm (Westfeldt’s real-life partner, these two are one of the longest running ‘non’ marriages in Hollywood and certainly one of the best looking couples to ever grace a red carpet), -basically, the cast of Bridesmaids with Westfeldt and Scott thrown in. Oh yeah…and Megan Fox and Ed Burns, Friends with Kids has a lot of serious talent involved. Along with Westfeldt, also wearing producer’s hats are Jake Kasdan and Mike Nichols. Friends with Kids debuted at TIFF last fall and opens wide in the US on March 9. 

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We brought you some great pics from last night’s red carpet in front of the 65^th annual BAFTA  Awards and told you about Miss Piggy’s debut as a celebrity interviewer of celebrities, and apparently she was a big hit. We just found some footage and I have to share it with you.  Gary Oldman told her she was “the most sincere person I’ve met on this line so far”

Miss Piggy, who looked lovely in custom-made Louis Vuitton,  lined up a new film with Jessica Chastain (a “buddy comedy”), thought The Help was a remake of a Beatles movie (and told Octavia Spencer she was  a good Ringo) and talked, and shamelessly flirted, with the likes of Michael Fassbender and got flirted with by Jonah Hill, who demanded a kiss, and Adam Deacon who asked her for a date. Tom Hiddleston seemed genuinely, and very sweetly, star-struck.

Of course La Porker, whose real name is Pigathia although she told Daniel Radcliffe to call her “Miss”, saved her affections for Jon Hamm (even if she didn’t get the joke).

Enjoy the video!

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If you are a fan of all things Don Draper (played by the delicious Jon Hamm) and Mad Men in general you will kind of die a little at the thought of this spoiler alert. I personally hope it DOESN'T happen because it's just kind of annoying.

TV Guide's William Keck spoke with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner where they discussed the Season 5 March 25 two-hour premiere entitled 'A Little Kiss'. Remember how Don Draper was engaged to that new girl Megan? Well sometimes things aren't always meant to work out (ask Kim Kardashian). Weiner's statement may just knock your bobby socks off:

"Who says Megan's even going to be part of Don's life?" says Weiner. "He may be back with Betty. One of my favorite scenes from [last season's finale] was when Betty offered herself to him again. And let's face it — those two look really good together." 

Would you be happy if Don and Betty (played by January Jones) got back together? Please dear god NO. She is SO annoying what without having any personality and stuff. Don Draper needs his sexual equivalent to really steam the screen up.

Usually Weiner is very tight-lipped about the script so perhaps he's just teasing us with such cruelty?

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New Year, new movies: Friends with Kids, directed by Jennifer Westfeldt is a topical adult comedy about two best friends Westfeldt and Adam Scott) who decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship platonic, so they can avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships.  How very 2012 of them. Seriously, I think every single woman over 30 who really wants to have a child has thought about or had this conversation with a best friend. (The best friend is usually gay, but that’s another movie. Object of My Affection and The Next Best Thing spring to mind.)

Costarring Jon Hamm (Westfeldt’s real-life partner, these two are one of the longest running ‘non’ marriages in Hollywood and certainly one of the best looking couples to ever grace a red carpet), Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Chris O’Dowd, the cast is certainly likeable. You’ve loved them separately, you’ve even loved most of them together, since this is essentially the cast of Bridesmaids with Westfeldt and Scott thrown in. Oh yeah…and Megan Fox.

I liked the trailer. I didn’t love it. It felt like a Saturday Night Live skit drawn out to feature length. That’s certainly been done before with mixed results. Written as well as produced and directed by Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein, Ira and Abby), I do think that Friends with Kids has the potential to land at the more successful end of the spectrum (Wayne’s World as opposed to Ladies Man). She’s got some heavy weights on board, with Jake Kasdan and Mike Nichols earning 2 of the many producer credits as well.

Friends with Kids debuted at TIFF last fall and opens wide in the US on March 9. (Well, we know I won’t be seeing it opening weekend, don’t we?*)

Check out the trailer below.

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*also opening March 9, Playing the Field with Gerard Butler

Mad Men is heading into Season 5 and Jon Hamm is set to direct the season premiere. He says of his behind-the-scenes directorial debut:

The wheels have officially been set in motion to make that happen “It’s a very exciting challenge that I’m looking forward to with a mixture of utter fear and excitement.”

He was inspired by his Mad Men co-star John Slattery who has in the past directed episodes and it has been:

“in the back of my mind” for a while now,” says Hamm. “It helps to have people you know and trust surrounding you. We’ve been fortunate enough to have very little turnover not only in our cast but in our crew.” “I watched Slattery do it, and he handled it with such grace and ability and ease,” he continues, before adding with a laugh, “I figured if he can do it, s–t, I can do it too.

Season 5 of Mad Men doesn’t hit our TVs until sometime in 2012 but something tells me it will be worth the wait.

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I miss Derek Hough on Dancing With The Stars. His personality is infectious and he has some killer dance moves. Sure Derek has nothing to do with the Sucker Punch movie premiere other than he attended it, but that’s good enough for me.

Starring in and attending last night’s premiere of Sucker Punch: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Jena Malone and others. Also attending was Joe Jonas.

The movie:

A young girl is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.

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The movie hits theatres on Friday. Will you be seeing it?

Pictures after the break

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