The new film trailer is out for the upcoming (on 11/11/11) Adam Sandler film, Jack and Jill, which also noticeably features the one and only Katie “Face of the Future” Holmes. This movie, much like the Guillermo Del Toro produced Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, was strategically chosen by the Holmes camp (read: Tom Cruise) to “diversify” the resumé; that is, Holmes has subjected herself to a token-wife role (not unlike her role in real life) just to prove that she can “do” comedy. You know, unlike what she does each and every day, or something like that. Anyway, here’s the aforementioned trailer:

Kaiser thinks that Katie is totally “phoning it in” here, and I tend to agree. However, I would like to emphasize it’s not merely a case of Katie reverting to autopilot as an actor but also to her default persona in real life. Like, if you witnessed Katie sheepishly shrugging with a good-natured, “Oh, Tom!” when her husband waltzed into the room in drag, you wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest bit, right? In that sense, this is the role of a lifetime for Mrs. Cruise. Never mind Nicole Kidman and her Oscar. This, in comparison, is gold or, at least, the same brand of gold-plated nonsense that coats the Celebrity Scientology Centre.

Beyond the obvious jokes though, isn’t it rather obvious that even Adam Sandler is reaching pretty far with this movie? It’s almost as if one of his agents couldn’t come up with anything even remotely mindless that he hadn’t performed on film already, so his screenwriter buddy thought, “Hey, let’s put him in drag!” To which Adam’s agent replied, “Genius!” And then Katie exclaimed, “Aw, shucks!”

Jack and Jill set photos courtesy of Fame

Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston and Brooklyn Decker are promoting Just Go With It in Germany today. The film is actually named “My Imaginary Wife” in Germany, which makes sense because the original English-release title was The Pretend Wife. Anyhoodle, I learned some new things about the cast of Just Go With It today. I learned that although Brooklyn Decker has a great figure and millions of young guys want to do her, Adam and Jennifer will pull rank and insist that they pose together, just the two of them, before Brooklyn is invited to join them. I also learned that Brooklyn has a pretty good bitchface.

As for the fashion faceoff… Team Aniston on this one. I like her little black dress (designer unknown), and I like the necklaces. My only complaint is that she stole this look completely from Reese Witherspoon’s recent Berlin photocall for How Do You Know?- go here to review Reese‘s identical ensemble, down to the long chain necklace. Perhaps this is all about Jake Gyllenhaal?!?

Meanwhile, Brooklyn Decker wore what I’m sure she thought was high-fashion. Maybe it is. It’s looks like the Marc Jacobs pajama-wear-as-high-fashion look from several years ago. But the real star was Brooklyn’s bitchface!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Jennifer Aniston had her first number one movie in a while! I don’t know when she’s last had a number one debut… Marley & Me, maybe? No, probably He’s Just Not That Into You. So… it’s been a little while. (Just so I’m fair to the Jenloonies, it’s been an even longer time since Angelina has had a number one movie too, it’s just that her movies make more money in their total run.) It’s especially good news for Aniston because many box-office watchers thought that Justin Bieber’s docu-whatever Never Say Never was going to be a resounding champion. In the end, only about $500,000 separated Just Go With It and Never Say Never.

What does this say about Aniston’s draw specifically? Well, it shows that people still actively want to see her in a movie, and that her contributions towards selling and promoting a movie are still a net plus. It means that she can still make bank, especially when she’s paired with a leading man that everyone loves, like Adam Sandler. It means that no matter the horrible reviews, Aniston still has a significant fan base. Although, as Gawker suggests, the film might have done so well because of irresistible 1990s-nostalia with the pairing of Sandler and Aniston. Plus, Brooklyn Decker in a bikini, splashed over every trailer probably didn’t hurt either.

Also – what does it say about Justin Bieber’s popularity that enough of his fans couldn’t get out to support Never Say Never enough to beat one of the most poorly-reviewed films of the year thus far? Oh, the movie was 3D. And it didn’t play on as many screens. That makes sense. A little bit. And if it helps Bieber out a little bit, in a few years, he’s going to be Aniston’s birthday present to herself. I say… probably her 48th birthday. We’ll get a report about Aniston “having an intimate dinner” with her new young cub, The Bieb.

Rounding out the top five this weekend: Gnomeo and Juliet at number three, making $25.5 million for its debut (yay!), The Eagle at number four with $8.6 million, and The King’s Speech at number five with $7.4 million. Sigh… I wish everyone that went to see Just Go With It and Never Say Never had gone to see The King’s Speech. It seriously is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler were on Oprah yesterday to promote Just Go With It, which comes out next weekend. They were surprisingly cute together – Adam and Jennifer did a lot of their junket interviews together, and they have a very easy chemistry together, and you can tell they enjoy each other’s company. Apparently, they’ve been friends for 20 years, although I couldn’t really understand the story Adam told about how they first got to know each other. Something about a friend in common and matzah and Aniston coming to see Adam do stand-up? Something like that. Also: I love LOVE that Adam Sandler only refers to her as “Aniston”. For some reason, that cracks me up. Never “Jen” or “Jennifer”. Always “Aniston”.

During the course of the interview, some new information came up that I found interesting. Well, it’s new information to me. Maybe some of you already knew it. Sandler claimed that before Friends got picked up (probably around the spring of 1994), Aniston came in to meet Lorne Michaels, and she was offered a cast position on Saturday Night Live. Sandler said: “We wanted Aniston to be on the show with us. I remember being on the ninth floor where [SNL exec] Lorne Michaels’ office was, and seeing Jen come in. I was like, ‘Oh my God, there’s Aniston. Is she about to be on our show?’” Aniston then confirmed that she did get an offer, and said that she had said “no” because she believed in Friends, and thought the show was going places, although everyone thought she was making a huge mistake by turning down the SNL offer.

It was a nice little “what if?” moment – what if Aniston had joined SNL? Well, she probably would have had to get out of the contract when Friends got picked up, so it would have been the same anyway. But Aniston could have been Ana Gasteyer! Perish the thought.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

The trailer was recently released for Adam Sandler’s next hit movie (ugh), Just Go With It. In the film, Adam stars as a douche who picks up women by telling them he’s married. In that, the plot copies one of my favorite Cary Grant films, Indiscreet. In Indiscreet, Cary Grant always tells women that he’s married and could never get a divorce, just so he’s never expected to commit – and then he falls in love with Ingrid Bergman (who wouldn’t?). Honestly, this trailer just made me want to watch Indiscreet again. The film also stars Brooklyn Decker in her film debut as the chick who Sandler eventually falls for and wants to commit too – and let’s just say I get the feeling that Meryl Streep’s career is safe. I know, I know – Brooklyn is a crappy actress? Say it ain’t so. Jennifer Aniston is also in it – she plays the chick/coworker/friend of Sandler, and Sandler somehow ropes her into pretending to be his estranged wife.

God, this looks dumb. I also find it interesting that Aniston is “the Cinderella” of the story – she’s the one who gets the makeover, although from what I can tell, the makeover just consisted of taking her hair out of a ponytail, taking off her glasses and putting on a great white shift. I mean… are we supposed to buy Aniston as mousy when she has great highlights and a permanent bronze tan?

Nicole Kidman is also supposed to have a smaller part in the film, but I don’t see her in the trailer at all. I wonder if that’s on purpose? Was her face really, really jacked?

Oh, should I even bitch about the mind-numbing plot point of having a girl who looks like Brooklyn (and is that f-cking young) falling in love with a middle-aged, paunchy Sandler? Jesus.

These are new photos from the set of Jack & Jill, which is currently filming with Adam Sandler taking the part of the two leads. Now…am I an Adam Sandler hater? No, not really. I don’t particularly enjoy his films (except for Big Daddy, which even I will admit to watching at least a dozen times), but I get that Sandler’s films have their place. They fall into the “family friendly” zone… although from what little I’ve seen, I do think Sandler offends people at times. But whatever… kids like him, parents can take him in small doses, and why not? So Sandler’s latest project is Jack & Jill. The story line, Sandler‘s own words: “In Jack and Jill I play me, I play my twin sister. The man version of me is doing okay, he has a family out in L.A.; the twin-sister-version of me lives out in the Bronx and comes out to L.A. for Thanksgiving and then refuses to leave and is spoiling the man version of [me’s] family life a little bit.” Katie Holmes is rumored to be playing Sandler’s wife.

Previously, I’ve mentioned that Sandler makes an unattractive woman. Part of it is that Sandler’s production team made sure he got a particularly busted wig, and some of the worst wardrobe pieces around. Look at that navy dress! A woman that size would never pick that out, especially with that jacket! I will give Sandler some credit though – I think he shaved his legs (or had them waxed). Good for him. And the makeup department is trying to help a dude out – his eye makeup doesn’t look hideous.

Here are some additional photos from last week, with Sandler in the busted wig:

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Adam and Jackie Sandler at the premiere of “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.” Photo credit: Bauergriffin.
Funnyman Adam Sandler and his wife, Jackie, announced the birth of their second child, born Nov. 2. The couple welcomed another daughter, named Sunny Madeline. Sunny joins her older sister, 2-year-old Sadie.

Adam Sandler is a big daddy again!

The comedian, 42, and his wife Jackie, 34, have welcomed their second child, he announced on Tuesday.

“Jackie and Adam had a beautiful baby girl, Sunny Madeline on November 2,” Sandler posted on his Web site. “Everyone is happy and healthy.”

Sandler joked that his wife had been suffering “all day” from morning sickness during his appearance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in May.

“In the beginning, I would rub her back and go, ‘It’s worth it. We’re going to have another beautiful baby, I love you, thanks for doing this,’” he said.

Their daughter Sadie is 2.

Of being a dad, Sandler has said, “It’s a lot of fun.

“You know what is surprising? That the kid looks through me. The kid… there’s no focus… Every time I think the kid likes me I’m like, ‘Oh, she’s staring at my forehead right now.’”

[From US Weekly]

I guess it would be kind of fun to have Adam Sandler in the delivery room with you. I’d want him to sing funny songs whenever a contraction started. Or maybe we could watch “Mr. Deeds,” since that would be more painful than labor pains. Congrats to the couple and big sister Sadie. They seem like a close, happy family.
Adam, Jackie and Sadie are shown walking in Los Angeles to have lunch with family. Photo credit: WENN.

Australian actor Michael Caton a few years ago starred in a film titled Strange Bedfellows, where he and Paul Hogan pretend to be gay in order to claim financial benefits.

Sound similiar to the plot of I now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry? Well, it is. And Caton claims that he gave a DVD of the film to Rob Schneider, and that ‘You owe me one pal.’

Schneider now gives him one, in an open letter featured in the Sydney Morning Herald.

“It is true you gave me a DVD copy of Strange Bedfellows but I must confess I’ve never watched it, as it is not on the same format as I have and it makes quite a nice drink coaster,” he writes.

Schneider, who plays an Asian minister in Chuck and Larry, claims the movie is based on a true story about two firemen from Virginia in the 1970s.

“I know that you recently made an early (and deserved) exit on Dancing with the Stars, still in my wildest imagination I never could see you as one who would ever become ‘bitter’,” he writes to Caton. “Unfortunately, that is the conclusion that you have forced me to come to. Now Paul Hogan I can understand!”

I thought the open letter might be a joke, but apparently Rob Schneider has an opinion on a lot of things, and an open letter is often his way of dealing with it. He took out an advertisement about a journalist who called him a third-rate comic after the first installment of Deuce Bigalow, and last year he took out another vowing never to work with anti-Semitic Mel Gibson. This week he’s commented on Dina Lohan’s parenting skills.

Now, script analysis of the two films has been undertaken and Strange Bedfellows producer Shana believes that legal action may result.

“The initial results have caused us to be more confident that there has been a copyright violation,” she said. “We are investigating all avenues open to us.”

The Age

One thing isn’t clear to me – when Michael Caton made the initial ‘you owe me one’ comment, was he serious? Or was it that dry, underplayed Australian joke-tone that doesn’t translate very well to America? Have we got open letters appearing in Michael Caton’s local paper because of a throw away comment?

Overall, the whole thing just doesn’t seem very gentlemanly.

Note by Celebitchy: I checked IMDB and couldn’t figure out how Schneider was involved with I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry apart from a bit part in the film. The story is that Canton gave Schneider the script for Strange Bedfellows when they were working together on The Animal. Canton thinks that Schneider passed it on to Adam Sandler. Strange Bedfellows, which came out in 2004, is described by Wikipedia as “a movie about a straight businessman and a straight mechanic both volunteer fire fighters who lodge some forms indicating that they were gay in order to obtain a financial advantage. Upon being investigated by a government officer, they must act gay in order to pull off the illusion.” Sounds just like I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry down to the professions of the pretend gay guys and the plot.

Rob Schneider is shown in the header photo at the Kids’ Choice Awards on 4/1/06.

Adam Sandler and Kevin James star in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, a film about two straight Brooklyn firemen who try to act like they’re a couple in order to get domestic partner benefits. Jessica Biel also stars, and I just bet she’s what blows their cover.

Here’s the trailer:

It looks kind of funny but it could also be dumb and overdone. It’s directed by Dennis Dugan, who also directed Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, and Saving Silverman.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is out in theaters on July 20.

Also shown at the premiere are Katherine McPhee, Steve Buscemi, Ian Ziering, and Anna Faris, who looks nothing like she used to. Thanks to WENN.com.