Rumors have abounded since Friends ended its successful ten year run in 2004 that the cast would make a movie. Every so often one of the cast members would admit they’ve been talking about it, but there was always one holdout, who no one would ever name. Sometimes they’d claim it was one of the guys, though it was often rumored to be Jennifer Aniston.

Supposedly they’re really going to make the film now, inspired by the success (and I’m guessing the money) of the recent Sex & the City film.

The highly anticipated film production of TV series Friends has finally been given the go-ahead, MailOnline has learned. The actors have been inspired by the recent success of Sex And The City, which recently hit cinemas worldwide. A source said: ‘Jennifer, Courteney and the rest of the cast are keen to reprise their roles, under the right circumstances.

‘The box office success of Sex And The City has really got their wheels spinning about how a Friends film could be just as big, if done right. Timing and the script are really important, but now that Courteney and Jen both have production companies, they can potentially get very involved in those decisions.’

While Cox, 44, LeBlanc, 40, Perry, 39, Kudrow, 45 and Schwimmer, 41, were believed to be keen on the reunion, Aniston, 39, is believed to have dragged her heels. Now, however, she is keen to move ahead with the project, which will be produced by Warner Bros. ‘She says she and Courteney have already talked this summer about what they want out of a Friends movie, and if deals can be made with them, everything else can fall into place rather quickly.

[From the Daily Mail]

It sounds like things are as close to happening as they’ve ever been. But when the same rumor has been floating around for four years, it’s hard to tell when/if it’s actually become legitimate. Even though Jennifer Aniston is probably the biggest star from the show, I think all of them could benefit from a successful film. The Daily Mail pointed out that Aniston has had a few okay movies, but she’s still much better known for her personal life than her great movie career. And I’m pretty sure that at this point, Matt LeBlanc should take whatever he can get.

It seemed like there was a bit of a Friends backlash right after the series finale. Suddenly everyone was claiming they never found it funny. Television comedies have really moved in a different direction since then. There are very few traditional sitcoms left on the air – and almost none of them are filmed in front of a live audience anymore. It’ll be interesting to see if people still find the show’s brand of humor funny. Something tells me that no matter what, it won’t compare to the financial success of the Sex & the City film.

Update by Celebitchy: A representative for Warner Brothers has denied that there’s a Friends movie in the works, saying “(There’s) no truth in the story.” Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry’s spokespeople have also denied that there’s a Friends movie being planned. [Details From SFGate]

Courteney Cox confirmed at a charity event on Sunday that her FX show Dirt has been canceled and has not been picked up for a third season. I was surprised that it had a second season, because it was poorly reviewed and even a much talked about on-screen kiss at the end of the first season, between Cox’s character, tabloid editor Lucy Spiller, and a rival editor played by Jennifer Aniston couldn’t manage to boost ratings. Cox and her husband, David Arquette, produced the series together and she says they have plenty of projects in the works for the future:

Courteney Cox Arquette, akin to her Dirt alter ego, offered up some scoop at Sunday’s “A Time for Heroes” Celebrity Carnival, benefiting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: Her FX series is folding. “It just got canceled,” she shared when asked about the prospect of a Season 3 pickup. (Season 2 was cut short by the WGA strike.)

Cox, however, seemed optimistic about the future. She and hubby David, with whom she produced Dirt, have their own shingle, and as such, “We’re developing all kinds of stuff right now,” she said. “We’ll producing more stuff together, for sure.”

[From TV Guide.com via We Smirch]

Cox and Arquette made $23 million from the sale of their Malibu home last August, so they should have plenty of money to live on and use for business ventures.

According to IMDB, Cox’s sole upcoming film is Bedtime Stories, a family film that stars Adam Sandler and is out at the end of this year.

If Cox gets desperate to act, she can always ask good friend Jennifer Aniston to cast her in a movie. Aniston recently created her own production company and has at least six films in the works.

Courteney Cox and David Arquette are shown at “Time for Heroes celebrity carnival to benefit The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatic Aids Foundation” on 6/8/08, thanks to WENN.

John Mayer is photographed hugging another woman at Courtney Cox’s house

John Mayer has met the parents. But since Jennifer Aniston doesn’t really talk to her parents (or her mother anyway), Mayer met Jen’s equivalent: BFF Courteney Cox and husband David Arquette. As was reportedly the plan according to Mike Walker of the National Enquirer, Cox had Mayer and Aniston over for dinner, as her way of welcoming him into their group of friends/officially evaluating him.

Jennifer Aniston’s burgeoning romance with singer John Mayer must be getting serious - she’s introduced him to her best friend Courteney Cox. After taking their cross-State romance from Miami to New York, Aniston and Mayer made their Los Angeles debut as a couple with a laid-back romantic weekend. On Sunday, Mayer drove his new girlfriend to the beachside Malibu home of her closest pal and ex-Friends co-star Cox and her husband David Arquette for an evening dinner. Complimenting her new boyfriend’s laid back style, Aniston sported a white vest and blue cardigan with sunglasses as they enjoyed the sunny day.

Cox, 43, is said to be very protective of Aniston, who she supported following her high-profile marriage split with Brad Pitt in 2005. The Dirt actress was rumoured to have disapproved of Aniston’s last long-term boyfriend Vince Vaughn, who she dated for 18 months before splitting in December 2006.

On Saturday night, Aniston and Mayer enjoyed an intimate meal at the exclusive Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, before the tattooed rocker drove them home to the actress’ mansion in the Hollywood hills. The following day, Mayer took the steering wheel again as they rode in his Porsche Cayenne Turbo to the Cox-Arquettes’ gated beachside home, where they live with their young daughter Coco, who is Aniston’s goddaughter.

[From the Daily Mail]

According to the Enquirer, Mayer was fairly nervous about meeting Cox, and was well aware that it was Aniston’s equivalent of meeting her family. Apparently Courteney is quite the mother hen. Which is sweet, since Jen isn’t close with her family – but doesn’t help their reputation of being overly bonded/fairly co-dependent. But it’s good that Jennifer has someone looking out for her, as long as she still makes her own decision and doesn’t consider anyone’s word gold.

Jen and John seem pretty darn happy together, though it seems like everyone is still pretty worried about the match. John’s got quite the reputation as a player. But no one really knows what it is Jen wants from him. It seems like everyone assumes she wants a relationship because of the tabloids are always painting her in a “poor pathetic single Jennifer Aniston” light. She could very well be happy as a clam and just want to hang out and have some fun. And John Mayer seems pretty good for that. Just nothing more.

The paps managed to get photos of Mayer, Cox, and Arquette having dinner at their home but somehow Aniston managed to stay indoors the whole time. John is seen hugging an older woman – not Aniston - according to Splash. Images thanks to Splash.

Jennifer Aniston is going to make a second guest appearance on Courteney Cox’s aptly-named FX series, Dirt. Aniston shared a disappointing girl kiss with Cox on the season finale of the show in March. She played the lesbian editor of a tabloid that competes with Dirt, the gossip rag that Courteney Cox’s character runs. The kiss wasn’t all that hot and was more of a friendly goodbye kiss that was turned into something more by the imagination of one of Courteney’s male co-workers.

Now they’re bringing Aniston back for more, and she will have another ratings-raising guest appearance. I bet that there won’t be much action between Aniston and Cox’s characters, but that the show will play up the sexual tension as much as possible:

Jennifer Aniston will reprise her role as Tina Harrod, a tabloid-magazine editor, in her second guest spot on Courteney Cox’s FX show, Dirt, says a friend of Jen’s. No word yet on whether there’ll be an encore of the BFF’s much-fussed-about kissing scene (Jen’s character is gay), but the upcoming episode will include a bigger role for Jen, 38, and more scenes opposite Courteney, 43. “Jen’s blocked off time in December to be available when they need her,” says the friend.

[From Life and Style, print edition, November 19, 2007]

We’ll have to see if Aniston’s scheduled appearance survives the writer’s strike, and it doesn’t sound like that episode has been written yet. The strike is not expected to end by December, but maybe the parties will work it out by then and Aniston will be able to help save her friend’s show for yet another season.

In other Jennifer Aniston news, she is said to be dating Sex and The City hottie Jason Lewis, who dated Rosario Dawson for years and has been linked with Jennifer Esposito and Laura Prepon. She is said to have had a couple of “secret” dates out with Lewis in NY City, and to have a lot in common with him. He is a pretty boy type, just like her ex husband.

They look cute together and it would be nice to see Aniston in a new relationship with someone who wants to commit long term. Lewis seems like the type of guy who is able to go the distance and doesn’t try to act single when he’s in a relationship. He was never afraid to be photographed out with Dawson and seems like the loyal, super-hot boyfriend type who will also go shopping with you and help with the dishes. Pretty much an excellent catch.

Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are shown in the header image at the premiere of The Tripper on 4/11/07. Jason Lewis is shown below at the Angel Ball on 10/29/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

This week’s National Enquirer features Brad and Angelina’s supposed custody battle for Shiloh on the cover along with an inset photo of Courteney Cox and David Arquette with the headline “Split: Courteney Cox’s marriage falls apart.” Just like the Brad and Angelina non-story, which we covered on Monday, the Courteney Cox and David Arquette split is a whole lot of speculation based on known facts about the couple.

Courteney is working on her show Dirt, and the Enquirer says that David must be pissed because she’s focusing on her career, and they haven’t had another baby yet. It’s also supposedly a big deal that they show up to events without each other. Courteney’s old admission that they sought therapy for their marriage is repeated several times, even though it’s a quote from last summer. All this speculation is done tabloid-style in the guise of nasty insider quotes. There hasn’t been one public fight, one staff member who blabbed, or any other detail to back up this story. It’s all “experts” and “insiders” saying they must be having trouble.

What’s more is that their vacation in Hawaii with Jennifer Aniston, in which they were seen kayaking with their daughter and having fun, is used as some kind of twisted evidence that they’re doomed, since Aniston and Pitt broke up right after a vacation with Cox and Arquette back in 2005.

In a recent effort to work on their relationship, they took a trip to Hawaii together - but it was hardly a second honeymoon because Courteney’s best friend Jennifer Aniston traveled with them!

Ironically, Jen and Brad Pitt announced their split just days after taking a tropical vacation with Courteney and David in 2005. And insiders don’t expect Courteney and David’s trip to work miracles for their relationship, either.

Long considered an odd couple because of their contrasting personalities - Courteney, 43, is a self-described perfectionist, and David, 35, is known for being laid-back and kooky - they were once believed to have one of Hollywood’s most loving marriages.

But sources say David and Courteney appeared to have grown apart in recent years - spending a substantial amount of time away from one another.

“They seem to be living separate lives,” said the insider.

While Courteney is hard at work on the second season of her TV series “Dirt” - and although David is involved in the production - she spends a lot of free time with the other cast members.

I think David wanted Courteney to shlow down after the first season ended, so they could work on getting pregnant with their second child, “but she went straight into pre-production for the second season,” added the insider.

“Courteney’s first child had to be conceived in vitro, so if she wants another, she has to really stop what she’s doing and focus on getting pregnant.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 3, 2007]

The article goes on to say that Courteney “must… feel like she just married a big kid who will never be as mature as her,” and that they “are hanging on right now, but it’s by a thread.”

Can you imagine being a celebrity and having to read shit like that? It’s the nastiest kind of gossip, stuff that declares your relationship is doomed based on your careers, your personalities, and the fact that you brought a friend along on a family vacation.

Reading those “insider” quotes makes me picture a bitter old housewife sitting in her 1970s kitchen wearing a housedress and smoking a cigarette. She’s bitching to her meek neighbor, who just hangs around for the lousy company, about all their other neighbors who are much happier than she is and don’t think about her much. Everyone knows her husband is cheating on her with his secretary, but she’s so busy focusing on other people that she’s oblivious.

Back in November Courteney said she wasn’t trying to have a sibling for Coco yet as she wanted to wait until she was old enough to help with the baby, but that they were considering another child. It doesn’t sound like she’s desperate for another one or anything. Maybe she should just give vague quotes to the press from now on instead of letting us know anything about her life, because it’s bound to be used to generate any type of story they want to. You can see how the celebrities flip out at the paparazzi. They get the pictures that are used for obnoxious stories like this one, and they’re always buzzing around like flies.

Header image is of Courteney and David at Il Sole back in May. Thanks to Splash News.

Jennifer Aniston is going to appear as a guest on the final episode of Courteney Cox’s FX show Dirt. She was said to be encouraged to appear by producers asking her if they should create a cheating Brad Pitt-like character to ridicule on the show. Aniston was said to be all for it, and word is that the plot will include a married celebrity falling for his sexy female co-star, just like Brad and Angelina:

An insider told The Enquirer: “Jen wants to be on ‘Dirt.’ She just hasn’t decided who she wants to play or when she’ll do it.

“But insiders say she [Jen] will definitely want her [Courteney] to include a Brad-like character, as well as an Angelina character.

“I think Jen would like to have her ex-hubby squirming in his seat seeing some guy dump his adorable - and adoring - TV star wife for a sexy co-star!”

The idea of Jen appearing on “Dirt” was a joke at first, said the source.

But after Courteney asked Jen if she wanted to play herself, someone suggested getting an actor to play Brad - and the idea took off.

“A thinly veiled character based on Brad would be a natural for ‘Dirt,’” said the source.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, January 29, 2007]

The article is worded kind of tentatively, like someone thinks it would be a good idea rather than it being a done deal, so we’ll have to see. They’re right though, it sure would boost ratings.

Our posts about the Aniston/Pitt/Jolie triangle are always heated. I’ll add to the controversy by mentioning that while googling something else I ran across a website that discussed the different ways that people cheat by examining high-profile celebrity infidelity. They claimed that the way Pitt left Aniston was “emotional cheating” and that it is often the most dangerous. A relationship expert said if you suspect your spouse of having an emotional affair with a friend or coworker you should not wait for it to progress and should confront it right away.

Another site I found detailed the many ways Pitt’s “friendship” with Jolie undermined his marriage, and how it’s a lesson to jilted wives everywhere. Note that I am just reporting this in response to a lot of heated comments on it and am not saying I agree. Personally I think that relationships end for a lot of reasons, and I have the kind of hoaky notion that things happen for a reason and that no one party is to blame. A lot of people are firmly in one camp though, and that article lays out the arguments for team Aniston.

Brad and Angelina are shown at the Bridge of Life Museum of Bio Diversity in Panama City on 12/28. Pictures from SimplyBrad.

Update: Sorry for beating a dead horse you guys, but it’s still fun. Now there’s news that Aniston and Cox are going to play lovers in Aniston’s guest episode. Given their friendship with Sheryl Crow, it doesn’t seem so far-fetched to me.

Jennifer Aniston was noticeably absent at last night’s Golden Globes. Everyone was wondering if she would show up and how she would handle it if she ran into Brad and Angelina. At least she can revel in the fact that her rival Angelina couldn’t even manage to act happy on the red carpet.

I didn’t see Jen’s good friend Courteney Cox there, either. Now the news is that Aniston is going to make a guest appearance on Cox’s critically-panned new FX series, Dirt:

Former Friends costars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are going to share the small screen once again – but this time the pals will play rivals on Cox’s new FX drama, Dirt.

Aniston will appear on the show’s March 27 finale as Tina Harrod, a rival magazine editor to Cox’s character, Lucy Spiller.

“We’re shooting this Thursday – I can’t wait,” Cox told PEOPLE on Monday. “We’ll have a ball. We’re just going to have fun.”

This appearance will mark the first time the friends will have been on a show together since Friends went off the air in 2004.

From most accounts, Dirt is a rather humorless show, and people speculate that it will be cancelled soon. Cox herself doesn’t seem too enthused with it, and didn’t do that well in a promotional session for the series at the Television Critics Association. It might not be the best idea for Aniston to make an appearance on what could be the last episode.

Update: Thanks to Kellie and Diva for pointing out that Courteney Cox was a presenter at the Golden Globes. I should have watched the whole thing, but there’s just too much going on at our house this week.

Jennifer Aniston and K-Fed, yes there’s no other K-Fed I could be referring to, supposedly met up unexpectedly at a club and spent the evening bonding over shots of Limoncello, the same lemon liquor that led to Danny Devito’s drunken appearance on The View. They then slipped out together through the back door. What happened next is anyone’s guess:

After hanging out with former ‘Friends’ costars, Jen made for Club Citrus with some gal pals for some laughs and what became a few too many Limoncello’s. Jen was first introduced to the high-octane cocktail in Italy by the same guy that sent his pal Danny DeVito to be on “The View” while he was in a state of mild delirium.

And what other newly exed celeb happened to be in the same place, slamming a Colt 45 while wearing a too-large-for-his-frame velour sweatsuit? None other than FedEx and his posse, all of whom went nuts when they saw Jen. My sources tell me they spent the rest of the night in a private area, making fun of their exes.

When the lights of the club finally came on, the two were seen escaping into the shadows through a back door. Citrus owner Peter Chin, always tight-lipped about his mega-star clientele, would neither confirm nor deny the story, then gave me his signature ‘wink.’

Aniston had made an appearance earlier in the night at the premiere of pal Courteney Cox’s new series for FX, Dirt, in which Cox plays a no-holds barred tabloid editor. Incidentally, Cox has said that she would be open to a Friends reunion, but said that it wasn’t in the works yet.

As to what prompted Aniston to perhaps go home with the FedEx, we can only guess it was the liquor. The whole scenario sounds like it was made up by the Limoncello marketing people, who were so grateful for Danny Devito’s on-air plug that they sent a case of the stuff to The View afterwards.

I’m not an Aniston fan, (I mean I was back when she was on Friends, but that was ages ago) but I feel sorry for the woman at this point if this news is true. She went from Brad Pitt to Vince Vaughn to K-Fed. You can just hear the rock dropping into the well.

As for whether she’s pregnant or not, that probably not true. The British newsletter that reported the dubious news two weeks ago said just last week that it was probably water retention. And wishful thinking. She’s not helping matters with outfits like this though.

Thanks to reader Borat for the tip!

Pictures from Superior Pics.

The NY Post’s Cindy Adams reports that a long-rumored “Friends” reunion is now in the works, and that holdout Jennifer Aniston finally agreed to it:

A while ago it was rumored that Lisa Kudrow said that “one of the guys” was holding up the reunion after Kathleen Turner let it slip that she was approached to reprise her role as Chandler’s mom, but then Kudrow denied that a reunion was in the works.

Now that Cindy Adams has reported it, it’s probably true, and I can’t wait! I love that show, although it’s hard to watch now that I have such a poor opinion of Aniston. She must have realized how much she owes to “Friends” and maybe she’ll be grateful to the show for making her famous.

Coco Cox pulled her mom’s top down while they were swimming. Courtney seems to think it’s funny, and these pictures are pretty cute. My husband appreciated them too.

Jennifer Aniston sent Courteney Cox a bizarre present for her 42nd birthday on June 15th - a transexual performer that looked like her character Rachel Green from “Friends”:

Too bad there aren’t any pictures of the tranny with Courteney. That would have been much better than Tori Spelling and her tranny inpersonator.

Courteney has a great beach body and hasn’t succumbed to the super-thin look of some celebrity mothers. There’s a picture of her power walking with weights in the latest Us Weekly.

Pictures from Egotastic via Mollygood.