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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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

Thanks to Best Week Ever.tv we have a lengthy blooper real from this summer’s Bridesmaids, directed by Paul Feig and starring Kristin Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendy McClendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Jon Hamm and Chris O’Dowd. It was also the final film for the late, great Jill Clayburgh, who played Annie’s (Wiig) mother. I have to say that I love that the guy Melissa McCarthy’s Megan basically stalks and browbeats into dating her is played by her real husband, Ben Falcone, and I love that that guy is the guy on the Target commercials singing about “…Shaun White hoodies ‘n denim”. (You’re welcome for the earworm).

This is some of the funniest nine minutes and thirty seconds  on film, also some of the raunchiest. I’m not entirely sure it’s a step forward for women to try to compete with men in this category, but you’ll laugh nonetheless. (This is the highest grossing R-rated female comedy ever.) You’ll also renew your insane jealousy of Kristin Wiig as you watch Jon Hamm fondle and make silly noises at her boobs. The cast reportedly spent about two weeks before filming began improving and riffing with each other, some of which made it into the final edit and some of which can be seen here.

Bridesmaids comes to dvd and Blu-ray September 20.

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What would Justin Timberlake hosting Saturday Night Live be without him dressing up in a big-ass costume with big-ass feet? It would be nothing. He was hysterical in the Liquorville skit that saw Lady GaGa join him. Of course Kristen Wiig was in it and she’s funny regardless of what skit she’s in.

But the three of them? It was too funny. I have to say I am very impressed with Lady GaGa’s comedic timing. It was most impressive.

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Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig celebrated her Gotham Magazine cover in New York last night with cast mates Seth Myers and Andy Samberg.  She gushed at the party:

“I’m having one of those days today where I’m like, ‘How did I get here? What’s happening.  “It’s surreal.”

This very talented comic is not just relying on just her SNL fame.  She’s optioning ‘Clown Girl‘ and will star in the film’s adaptation:

“I fell in love with that book before I was even a third of the way through. She (Monica Drake) is just such an interesting writer and I’ve fallen in love the material. I just hope I can do it justice.”

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Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts attended a special screening of the re-release of Stones in Exile at the Museum of Modern Art last night in New York.

Mick Jagger is one of those household-name celebrities that even your grandmother knows about because they are virtually the same age.  And Keith Richards? Well I think everyone is pretty surprised he’s still alive with the hard living he’s done.  He’s defied science for sure.  Charlie Watts is the one that couldn’t be more unlike the others.

Lots of cast (both past and present) from Saturday Night Live attended including Lorne Michaels, Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels, Jason Sudeikis, Fred Armisen, Kristen Wiig, and Will Forte.

I am crushing large on Will Forte these days.  At the opening of SNL when they show the cast I LOVE the intense stare into the camera Willy gives me.  It’s like he’s staring right through my soul and into my loins.

Also attending:  Evangeline Lily and Diane von Furstenberg.

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