Debbie Singer has launched a website called Dear Seth Rogen:

I’m an actress, writer and comedian. Thanks to a family connection, I’m pretty sure Seth Rogen is going to produce my sitcom pilot!

Seth Rogen is hardly the image that comes to mind when you mention the words “Winter Olympics,” but he and his crew will be hitting Vancouver during the games in a quest for movie-making gold. Rogen will produce and star in “I’m With Cancer” in his native stomping grounds at just about the same time the world will be descending on his fair city to do things like watch figure skating and curling.

The mad logistics of this plan are not lost on one of the “I’m with Cancer” stars. “We’re going to be the only movie filming in Vancouver during the Olympics,” James McAvoy lamented during a press day for “The Last Station.” “There is a reason no one else is filming during the Olympics.” The Scottish star added that there were “fabulous” aspects to the idea and said he planned to take full advantage of the shoot to catch some events. Not that the Scots are a particular powerhouse in the winter games, but you get the idea.

The reasons for the movie location are biographical rather than any Olympic subplots (so there is hope we will never have to see Rogen in one of those form-fitting speedskating outfits). The story deals with Rogen’s Vancouver life and friend Will Reiser’s battle with cancer in his mid-20s. McAvoy will play Reiser, who wrote the screenplay and is executive producing. Rogen plays himself in the movie and Anna Kendrick plays a young, inexperienced psychologist assigned to help McAvoy’s character.

“You wouldn’t call it comedy,” says McAvoy. “But there are bits of it that are funny. Because Seth’s in it, everyone calls it a comedy.” (Source)

Vancouver native Seth Rogen’s movie, The Green Hornet, is back filming. Cameron Diaz returned on set now that she has wrapped Knight and Day, starring Tom Cruise.

The Green Hornet has been plagued by setbacks (including losing both Nicholas Cage and Stephen Chow as co-stars) and the Hollywood industry buzzards have been mercilessly predicting disaster. But don’t count Rogen’s movie out yet. A set source says what’s already been shot is “totally great.” Said the source, “I’m not kidding, the rushes are terrific.” It was originally supposed to open in theatres this summer, but the new release date is December 2010. (Source)

If you’ve been following the coverage of Seth Rogen’s The Green Hornet the past several months, then you’ve read about all the problems the production has encountered — from concept to production — to say nothing of the lack of love it seems to engender online (yes, we’ve been guilty of a few flippant remarks ourselves). Now comes word that Taiwanese actor/musician Jay Chow, who will star alongside Rogen as Green Hornet’s sidekick Kato, isn’t really terribly interested in acting after all, with speculation ensuing that he just sees this as an opportunity to advance his music career.

“I went to Hollywood not just to make it big and develop my film career,” Chow is quoted as saying over at ComicBookMovie. “I went there to also introduce my music to the Americans. So that they will notice me.”

Chow seems dissatisfied with the Hollywood production machine, complaining that it takes too long to make movies.

“In Asia, we get through a movie very quickly. We get the script, we get working and it’s done,” he said. “In Hollywood, they have rehearsals that go on for half a month before they begin shooting, and shooting can go on for months. I’m a newbie. There is a lot of waiting around before my scenes and I cannot speak too loudly. I have to be well-behaved.”

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When it was announced that actor-director Stephen Chow would be dropping out of Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry’s adaptation of the classic radio serial The Green Hornet, many questioned whether this might be the final nail in the coffin of a production already beleaguered by a number of setbacks.

Gondry was offered the director’s chair following Chow’s departure, but that still left the hero without his trusty sidekick, Kato (famously portrayed by Bruce Lee in the ’60s TV show). Enter Jay Chou, an award-winning musician, singer, producer, actor, and director from Taiwan, most widely known in the U.S. for his appearance in Curse of the Golden Flower.

In a recent interview with Channel News Asia, Chou said there were a number of reasons why he simply “had to” take the role of Kato.

It’s a role that Bruce Lee once played, plus it’s a positive Asian role which is rare in Hollywood. Anyway, I went to Hollywood not just to make it big and develop my film career. I went there to also introduce my music to the Americans. So that they will notice me.

In a separate interview with The Star Online, Chou said that he had fun working on The Green Hornet, but that the Hollywood-style production tried his patience.

In Asia, we get through a movie very quickly. We get the script, we get working and it’s done. In Hollywood, they have rehearsals that go on for half a month before they begin shooting and shooting can go on for months.

The Green Hornet was adapted for the screen by Rogen and his frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg. The movie also stars Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Edward Furlong, and Edward James Olmos. (Source)

The Huffington Post has released their Top 10 Films of 2009 list. Surprising to many, “Observe and Report” made the list! Below is what they had to say:

7. “Observe and Report”
Where have all the Travis Bickles gone? Quick answer — the shopping mall. And if you got behind (me Satan), or rather, director writer Jody Hill’s subversive, hilarious, weirdly poignant and almost horrifyingly timely Observe and Report, you’ll see Travis, not only as a power-hungry security guard in the form of a schlubbier Seth Rogen, but also as a regular Joe consumer. He might be traversing the food court or staring at the ice skaters in the center rink or wondering if he can afford a flat-screen TV while making his mortgage payment, but he’s there, facing down all of that cheaply made fast food, recycled air and overpriced merchandise. He’s killing time and, to become even more of a downer here, he’s killing his soul. Yes, he’s killing his soul at…Cinnabon. It’s funny and yet it’s not. It’s heartbreakingly sad. And weirdly joyful (especially in a heroin moment. That’s right, a shooting-up heroin moment). It was also one of the bravest, most underrated movies of the year. One day it will be considered a classic.

Newsblaze.com complied their list of the “1 Worst Films of 2009″ stating: To land on this 10 Worst List, a movie has to be more than merely disappointing. No, it must be walk-out bad, except that my job as a film critic is to sit there and watch it anyway, and simply be subjected to the torture. Sometimes, a film turns out to be so awful that it’s actually funny, but that doesn’t count as a miserable enough experience to warrant inclusion here. No, these flicks are the ones with no redeeming qualities which left me savoring this opportunity to get even.

3. Observe and Report
Seth Rogen stars in this raunchy teensploit, a relentlessly-dark and disturbing celebration of depravity unlikely to resonate with any decent demographic. Director Jody Hill ostensibly decided to up the ante in terms of the shock genre’s profane, prurient and politically-incorrect index.

‘The subject-matter mined for laughs here includes drug addiction, date rape, stun gun tasering, stalking, bullying, stealing, sexual assault, abusive relationships, ethnic, gender and sexual preference slurs, and prolonged, full-frontal nudity. And despite pushing the envelope, the film breaks a cardinal rule of comedy by failing to be funny.

Most of the offensive antics involve the head of security (Rogen) at the Forest Ridge Mall where a lowlight includes an exchange between the foul-mouthed protagonist and a suspected terrorist named Saddamn Hussein (Aziz Ansari) during which they take turns yelling “[Expletive] you!” back and forth at each other dozens of times. But the movie’s most offensive moment has to be the chase scene featuring lingering, slow-motion shots of a flasher’s family jewels in all their glory.

I suppose this movie could’ve been worse. I’m just not sure how.

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British actor Simon Pegg had been forced to pull out of Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie, Inglourious Basterds alongside Brad Pitt. Pegg was forced to pull out of the project because it clashes with the filming of his movie Paul which features, Seth Rogen.

A spokesman for the star says, “Unfortunately, the schedule overlaps with another film Simon is already committed to.”

“The Green Hornet” is the classic crime-fighting character of film, television, radio and comic books, returning to the big screen in Columbia Pictures’ new feature, starring Vancouver actor Seth Rogen as the disguised vigilante.

Production started in Los Angeles on the Michel Gondry-directed film, produced by Neal “I Am Legend” H. Moritz. Executive producers are Michael “The Accidental Tourist” Grillo, Rogen, Evan “Pineapple Express” Goldberg, Ori “Evan Almighty” Marmur and George W. Trendle, Jr. “The Green Hornet” also stars Taiwanese actor-pop star Jay Chou as ‘Kato’, Cameron “The Mask” Diaz, Edward James “Miami Vice” Olmos, David “Revolutionary Road” Harbour, Tom “Valkyrie” Wilkinson and the villain ‘Chudnofsky’ played by Austrian actor Christoph “Inglourious Basterds” Waltz.

Academy Award-nominee John “Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian” Schwartzman is director of photography, production designer is Owen “The Matrix Revolution” Paterson and Kym “Speed Racer” Barrett is costume designer.

“The Green Hornet” debuted January 31, 1936 on radio station WXYZ Detroit, the creation of George W. Trendle and Fran Striker of “The Lone Ranger” fame. Broadcasting until 1952 on the Mutual and NBC Blue networks, the series followed the adventures of ‘Britt Reid’, a bored playboy whose life changes when he inherits his father’s newspaper ‘The Daily Sentinel’ and saves the life of ‘Kato’, a Japanese man with technical and martial-arts skills.

After Reid and Kato witness a brutal crime, Reid becomes a crime-fighter, using two special, non-lethal guns, with one firing ‘knock-out gas’ and the other producing a ‘Hornet’s Sting’ electric shock. Following its successful run on radio, “The Green Hornet” ran in several comic books and a 1940′s movie serial from Universal. In 1966, the character made the jump to the ABC Television network, starring actor Van Williams as the Hornet and catapulting martial artist Bruce Lee as Kato to stardom.

“The Green Hornet” is set for release December 22, 2010. (Source)

Johnny Depp, recently anointed People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, is complicated. He looks like a pirate but is actually a doting father of two. He owns a private plane but rolls his own cigarettes and frequently dresses like a hobo. Despite cheekbones that have been touched by the hand of God, he regularly plays down his good looks in roles that feature bad teeth, bad hair and funny voices.

No problem. Women’s reasons for finding men attractive are also complicated, at least according to a new book called Why Women Have Sex, which lists 237 distinct reasons for falling into bed. It turns out that sexual attraction is a complex collision of evolutionary biology, individual psychology, cultural forces, free will and fluke, all of which get dishy coverage in People’s latest issue.

For example, Why Women Have Sex authors Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss point out that women like symmetry, which for early humans acted as a visible marker of genetic health. Certainly, People’s “110 hottest guys on the planet” are a pretty symmetrical bunch. Lenny Kravitz could even be promoted to the “fearful symmetry” category, so platonically perfect are the planes of his face.

Women love a high “shoulder-to-hip ratio,” as evidenced by Jerry O’Connell, who was snapped earlier this year wearing a Speedo during the filming of Piranha 3-D. People has jokingly followed up with a photo layout in which O’Connell shops for groceries and mows the lawn wearing nothing but a teeny-weeny red bathing suit. So yes, a V-shaped torso is nice, but constant evidence of shoulder-to-hip ratio is, frankly, alarming. (Bonus sexy points for self-deprecating humour, though. Chicks dig that.)

Women also value “resource acquisition ability,” which used to mean woolly mammoth meat but in the currency of People magazine means fame, and lots of it. Famous alpha males (think George Clooney) appeal to ovulating women, according to Meston and Buss, while nice, nurturing fellas (like The Office’s John Krasinski) get the glad eye the rest of the time. Covering both cads and dads, People veers between Eddie Cibrian looking dangerous at the Palms Hotel in Vegas and Hugh Jackman bending down to button his daughter’s sweater.

Then there’s relationship status. Single guys are tempting, of course — and People somehow makes it seem as if these guys are free this weekend and might just call you. But married men have built-in proof of their ability to commit: paradoxically, what makes them dreamy also keeps them off limits. The magazine plays it safe by mixing up bachelors with solid, steady family men.

Harder to explain, at least in scientific terms, is the mag’s homage to the current vampire craze. This may be the “sexiest men alive” issue, but it dedicates a whole section to guys who are technically dead, with breathless coverage of New Moon’s Robert Pattinson, True Blood’s Stephen Moyer, and The Vampire Diaries’ Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder.

Many of People’s choices have a kind of beefy inevitability: Madonna’s beau Jesus Luz, who is featured on the “Best Chests” page, has pecs you could break bricks on. But some of these guys offer quieter, stealthier qualities. Jim Parsons, who plays the physics geek on Big Bang Theory, proves that intelligence is sexy, while Seth Rogen makes the case for comedy.

And in the end, little things mean a lot. As Tina Fey says in support of the attractiveness of Alec Baldwin, her 30 Rock co-star: “If you went out to dinner with him, he’s not one of those guys who would judge you if you ate a lot.” Ooooh, now that’s sexy.
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