Comedy

In the comedy Lottery Ticket, Bow Wow plays Kevin Carson, a poor kid in the projects whose winning numbers in a Friday night drawing on the Fourth of July 3-day weekend may make him an instant multimillionaire — if he can hold onto the ticket long enough to claim the prize with so many of his neighbors trying to steal it from him. With friends, neighbors, local thugs and even his minister hot on the trail of the ticket, Kevin is going to have one wild weekend. Bow Wow says of the predicament his character finds himself in, “Kevin’s just […]

“I wanted to portray a bigger worldview of women because when we opened the first movie in cities like London and Berlin and France and Tokyo, I started to see that this was reaching more than just American women, that women around the world were identifying with these storylines and these issues and these characters,” says director Michael Patrick King on his decision to set Sex and the City 2 in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Unfortunately, the film was banned in that conservative country because of its “salacious” content and the word “Sex” in the title. Women there will be able […]

By Elaine Bergstrom Russell Brand’s portrayal of rock god Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall made such a strong impression on the film’s director, Nicholas Stoller, that he brought Brand back for an encore performance in Get Him to the Greek. Here Brand experienced life as an out-of-control star. “I’ve been plunged into water for seven hours. I’ve had to hang off a building on a wire, had to mimic having broken bones and been covered in vomit. I’ve been in sexually compromising positions, and I’ve had to take all manner of ‘narcotics.’ I’ve performed live rock ’n’ roll. I’ve […]