June 30, 2009
More Couples Retreat - Official Website and Poster
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Couples Retreat on Facebook
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Couples Retreat trailer available on Apple.com!
The NEW trailer for Universal Pictures' COUPLES RETREAT has just debuted exclusively on APPLE! The upcoming comedy features an all-star cast including Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Faizon Love, be the first to check out the new trailer!
Couples Retreat is based on an original idea of Vaughn’s, the comedy follows four Midwestern couples who embark on a journey to a tropical island resort. While one of the couples is there to work on their marriage, the other three set out to jet ski, spa and enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon discover that participation in the resort’s couples therapy is not optional. Suddenly, their group-rate vacation comes at a price. What follows is a hilarious look at real world problems faced by all couples.
June 2, 2009
Anything is possible....
Sally Beck
Mirror.co.uk
I've made Potts of money says former Britain's Got Talent winner Paul
Two years ago Paul Potts faced bankruptcy – now his biggest concern is whether Jack Black or Vince Vaughn will play him in a Hollywood biopic.
“When my agent called and told me, I couldn’t believe it,” says Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul. “I never really thought it would happen and then a Hollywood script writer called Justin Zackham flew over and spent a day with us.
“We drove round Mumbles in South Wales where my wife Jules and I had our first date. We looked at where we got married, where we met, and Justin asked about our life.”
A-listers Jack Black and Vince Vaughan are among the names being put forward to play former mobile phone salesman Paul, 38, whose second album, Passione is released tomorrow.
But he reveals that if the judges on the first series of BGT had given him the thumbs down, he would never have sung again.
“I remember standing by the side of the stage watching a married couple performing. The husband was whistling birdsong and his wife was dancing with a scarf. They were booed fiercely.
“I thought, ‘What have I let myself in for?’ I’ve never been someone who’s comfortable taking risks. You have to be confident about the outcome, and confidence wasn’t my strong point.
“It would have destroyed me if I’d had a negative reaction.”
At the time, Paul was working as a £14,000-a-year, debt-ridden mobile phone salesman in Bridgend. Since then, his debut album One Chance has sold 3.5 million copies.
He and and Julie-Ann, 28, who met online, have now moved into a £400,000 house in Port Talbot. It is unlikely they will ever worry about money again.
June 1, 2009
Vince croons for Rahman
Prithwish Ganguly
DNA India
Mumbai: Hollywood star Vince Vaughn might do something for AR Rahman which he has never done before for anyone else. Sources from the industry are saying that the actor is expected to strain his vocal cords for the romantic comedy Couples Retreat for which the South Indian musician and composer has been roped in for the soundtrack.
Directed by Peter Billingsley, the film also stars Kristen Bell and Jean Reno.
Vince has never sung in a movie but had performed for the soundtrack Hollywood to the Heartland in a comedy show called 30 Days & 30 Nights. An insider tipped us about the development, "Rahman is scoring the sound for Couples Retreat in which Vince plays the lead. When Rahman was in the US sometime back, they had met up and had a discussion about the project. It is here that Rahman apparently bounced off the idea that Vince should sing for him in the movie and Vince was very excited about it. It is learnt that he will be singing a romantic track in the movie. This film will have Rahman composing the score for a totally different audience. It will have pure Western sounds." Rahman remained unavailable for comment.
What's Couples Retreat?
The film is a comedy that narrates the story of four diverse couples who settle into a tropical island resort for a vacation, with one of them there especially to work on their failing marriage.
March 28, 2009
March 18, 2009
Jon Favreau Impressed By Newly Engaged Vince Vaughn's Choices
Photo by:Eric Charbonneau/WireImage
By Jed Dreben and Kristin Boehm
Originally posted Wednesday March 18, 2009 09:45 AM EDT
Vince Vaughn, let your pal John Favreau be the first one to welcome you to the "day shift."
Favreau, who has been married with children for a number of years, talked to PEOPLE about his friend and costar's recent engagement at the L.A. premiere of (fittingly) I Love You, Man, and what that means for Vaughn's lifestyle.
"Vince has been single for a number of years and we've been on different schedules," Favreau said. "He was sort of on the night shift; I was on the day shift, living on opposite ends of town."
And, he admits, as he settled down, "town" got smaller. "My trick really so far has been to work in town. I won't work on movies that as a director take me out of town. I like to be in California so I can be involved with my kids' school life, their personal life and be a dad and a husband," he said. "And that helps balance out the crazy hours and bigger than life career that I'm lucky to have."
As for his own history with Vaughn – the 38-year-old ladies' man who is finally settling down himself with Kyla Weber – the guy friends have come full circle, it seems. "It was nice to work with him on Couples Retreat, and that movie is about couples, and it was interesting to explore that with him after our first experience with Swingers. And that was about being single. So, I think as our lives change, the subject matter of our movies change too, reflecting our lives," Favreau said.
He added: "I wish Vince the best. He's always been a smart guy. He's always been decisive at everything he does in his life and his career. I'm always impressed with his choices and the way that he goes about things."
March 5, 2009
It's Official! Local girl’s father confirms Vaughn engagement
By Nick Lewis Calgary Herald, Calgary Herald
It’s true.
Actor Vince Vaughn is set to marry 29-year-old Calgary realtor Kyla Weber shortly, her father confirmed Thursday.
Ken Weber confirmed that his daughter is indeed engaged to the Wedding Crashers funnyman, but chose not to comment further. He says his daughter is presently in Los Angeles and no longer in Calgary.
Weber quickly became a hot topic on Wednesday when news broke that Vaughn had dropped to one knee and presented her a $125,000, four-carat ring on Valentine’s Day. There is no word on when or where the two will get married.
Internet sources claim Weber is originally from the town of Okotoks, just south of the city, and either met the Wedding Crashers star while vacationing in Venice Beach, California, or in Italy. The pair are rumoured to have met through a movie producer friend of Vaughn’s.
In Touch Magazine spoke with a friend of Vaughn’s in December who said that the 38-year-old actor is looking to settle down.
“Vince is ready to get married and has been for a while,” says the buddy. “He wants to start a family.”
Since his previous high-profile romance to Friends star Jennifer Aniston quickly became tabloid fodder, the Minnesota-born actor, has been reluctant to discuss the details of his new engagement.
“I don’t talk much about private matters,” Vaughn told USA Today last year. “But I am in a very happy, serious, committed relationship.”
Coincidently, Vaughn’s Canadian-born mother was also a real estate agent.
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March 4, 2009
Vaughn To Wed Canadian Girlfriend
Still might only be a rumor...but if it's true, congratulations, Vince and Kyla!
Actor Vince Vaughn is to marry his Canadian girlfriend Kyla Weber after proposing to her on St. Valentine's Day.
The Wedding Crashers star, 38, has been dating real estate agent Weber since last summer and the 29 year old moved into Vaughn's Los Angeles home in December.
And now the couple is planning to take the relationship to the next level and exchange vows, according to America's Star magazine.
A source says, "They spent a romantic weekend together. He dropped to one knee to propose and presented her with a gorgeous $125,000 four-carat diamond set in platinum. They'll have their wedding either in L.A. or Alberta, and they're both ready to start a family immediately."
Vaughn has previously dated actress Jennifer Aniston.
February 1, 2009
On set photo from "Couple's Retreat"
CHICAGO – "After being tipped off on Jan. 28, 2009 from a reliable HollywoodChicago.com source that “Couples Retreat” with Vince Vaughn, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis and Jon Favreau (who also wrote the film, directed “Iron Man” and will direct “Iron Man 2” in 2010) would be filming in Chicago, we have now confirmed this information and have a Vince Vaughn set photo so you can visualize the scene."
“Couples Retreat” stars Vince Vaughn, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Tasha Smith, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love and Kristin Davis. Our Vince Vaughn set photo while filming “Couples Retreat” at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport can be found below."
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HollywoodChicago.com reader “Kevin” captures Vince Vaughn filming “Couples Retreat” on Jan. 31, 2009mat O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.
Photo credit: Reader “Kevin” for From HollywoodChicago.com
January 9, 2009
Vince Vaughn at the NHL Winter Classic
I'm a little late on posting this; been very busy these days, but here is a photo of Vince at the NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field, January 1, 2009.
CHICAGO - JANUARY 01: (L-R) NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman poses with actor Vince Vaughn during the NHL Winter Classic between the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks at Wrigley Field on January 1, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for NHLI)
December 18, 2008
First look: Tropical isn't paradise for 'Couples' in Vaughn comedy
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
Photo by John Johnson, NBC Universal
Vince Vaughn finally is getting that tropical paradise getaway so cruelly denied to him in his dysfunctional-family holiday hit Four Christmases.
One catch: He has to share his trip to the exotic isle of Bora Bora with a bunch of married friends who are coping with rocky relationships.
The producer and Frat Pack kingpin has beckoned what has become his new crew of regular co-stars — Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau and Faizon Love, plus Peter "A Christmas Story" Billingsley in his feature directing debut — for Couples Retreat, a romantic comedy due this summer.
"I had the concept a while ago, and Favreau did the first draft of the screenplay with specific actors in mind," Vaughn says.
Bateman, hoping to patch up his union with Kristen Bell, wants to go on a therapy vacation and invites three other couples along to save costs. But instead of simply enjoying fun in the sun, the suburbanites are forced to scrutinize the states of their own marriages.
Vaughn sums up the situation: "Jason and Kristen are Type A's struggling to have kids. Faizon and his wife (Kali Hawk) have just separated, and he is dating a young girl from Foot Locker. Me and my wife (Malin Akerman of 27 Dresses) are swamped with the kids and work. Favreau and Kristin Davis are secretly not completely faithful to each other."
As his character gripes to Bateman, "Thank you for bringing me to Problem Island."
Also on board: Jean Reno as Monsieur Marcelle, the resort's mastermind, and John Michael Higgins (Willie the elf from Fred Claus) as a therapist.
The South Pacific locale that provides the setting hasn't seen much Hollywood action before. "I think maybe one other movie has been shot there," Vaughn says. That would be the 1979 remake of Hurricane, a disaster flick of another sort. "We shot there for around four weeks. It's so damn beautiful, it looks like it's done with computers."
While the humor will be "adult," it won't be explicit adult. Expect a PG-13.
"We don't believe in swearing for swearing's sake," Vaughn says. Not that there won't be sexual gags, including "yoga teachers who are overly enthusiastic about putting people into poses."
December 12, 2008
Vince Vaughn Goes Tropical for 'Couples Retreat'
'Four Christmases' co-stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau are re-teaming for the tropical comedy 'Couples Therapy,' in theaters next year, and ET's hanging with the stars on their exotic location shoot!
Vince dreamed up the idea for the movie for the 'Swingers' pals, written by Jon and directed by Peter Billingsley (the child star of 'A Christmas Story' and a frequent producer on their projects, including 'Iron Man'), which follows four couples vacationing on the island getaway -- with one of the couples there to work on their marriage, the rest just tagging along.
"A bunch of average folks get a chance to go to an exceptional place and they go to Bora Bora," explains Vince. "It's a funny background and funny setting to see those guys kind of, [like] fish-out-of-water, go and try to be a little more groovy than they are."
"I have to say, when you get off the plane here and then ride across the lagoon, it's really breathtaking," says Jon, "There's really no place like this I have ever been."
Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Faizon Love, Malin Akerman and Jean Reno also star.
"It's like a playground for us," says "Sex and the City" star Davis. "There's jet skis, you dive off your deck into the ocean, there's sea turtles swimming under your house. I mean, it is heaven if you love this kind of thing."
Watch ET for more with Vince and Jon and the gang in 'Couples Retreat'!
November 30, 2008
'Four Christmases' finds $31.7M in holiday cheer
By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thanksgiving weekend movie crowds gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy "Four Christmases," which debuted at No. 1 with $31.7 million ($46.7 million for 5 days), according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Warner Bros. release, featuring Witherspoon and Vaughn as a couple suffering through four separate family holiday gatherings, raised its total to $46.7 million since opening Wednesday to get a head start on the long weekend.
The only potential competition comes Dec. 12 with the John Leguizamo tale "Nothing Like the Holidays."
The weekend's other new wide release, the Nicole Kidman-Hugh Jackman epic "Australia," opened at No. 5 with $14.8 million for the weekend and $20 million since debuting Wednesday.
The 20th Century Fox film reunites Kidman with "Moulin Rouge" director Baz Luhrmann for a World War II-era romance between an aristocratic British woman and an Australian ranch hand.
Sean Penn's drama "Milk" got off to a great start in limited release, coming in at No. 10 with $1.4 million in just 36 theaters. The film had a strong average of $38,375 a cinema, compared with $9,571 in 3,310 theaters for "Four Christmases."
"Milk," an Academy Awards contender released by Focus Features, stars Penn as gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city supervisor slain by a colleague who also killed the mayor. The film expands to more theaters Friday.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Four Christmases," $31.7 million.
2. "Bolt," $26.6 million.
3. "Twilight," $26.4 million.
4. "Quantum of Solace," $19.5 million.
5. "Australia," $14.8 million.
6. "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa," $14.5 million.
7. "Transporter 3," $12.3 million.
8. "Role Models," $5.3 million.
9. "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," $1.7 million.
10. "Milk," $1.4 million.
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In terms of revenue, it was Hollywood's second-biggest Thanksgiving period ever. The top 12 movies took in $223.7 million from Wednesday to Sunday, trailing only the $232.2 million haul over Thanksgiving in 2000.
Summit Entertainment's vampire romance "Twilight," which had a huge No. 1 opening the previous weekend, took a steep 62 percent decline from its $69.6 million debut and was neck-and-neck for second place with Disney's animated family flick "Bolt."
Based on Sunday's estimates, "Bolt" had a slight lead with $26.6 million for the weekend, compared to $26.4 million for "Twilight." Their rankings could change once final numbers are released Monday.
"Twilight' is still a phenomenon, but you can't really maintain that level of intensity week after week," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers.
"Twilight" raised its 10-day total to $119.7 million, while "Bolt" lifted its sum to $66.9 million.
Hollywood typically releases a handful of holiday-themed movies starting in November, but "Four Christmases" has the market virtually to itself this season.
"It was the perfect time. It's the only movie out there that deals with Christmas," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros.
November 28, 2008
'Four Christmases' Beats 'Twilight' For No. 1 Thanksgiving Box Office
Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood
FRIDAY AM: Waistlines expanded on Thanksgiving Day, and this 5-day holiday is shaping up as big for moviegoing, too. Maybe it's because of the grim economy that audiences wanted laughs, but the mediocre comedy Four Christmases, helped by a short 80-minute running time, knocked off Twilight for No. 1 on T-Day and should stay on top all weekend. I toldja it was too soon to call the weekend movie-wise based just on Wednesday's grosses. But the expected frontrunner, New Line/Warner Bros' PG-13 Four Christmases, found its footing Thursday, earning $9M from 3,310 theaters. That's a big 47% increase after opening only No. 2 Wednesday with $6.1M -- well behind $8M from 3,419 venues for Summit Entertainment's no-sex, no-violence, no-stars vampire romance beat the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling book. But Twilight's tween/teen female fans must have been with their families on Thanksgiving because the PG-13 pic made only $5.1M.
My box office gurus had predicted that Four Christmases had "the best shot" to beat Twilight this weekend. The Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon starrer is on track to overperform; it should debut with over $32M for the 3-day weekend (which is far better than Vince's last seasonal outing of $18.5M in the just plain awful Fred Claus) and $47M for the 5-day holiday. Twilight should make $25M for the 3-day weekend and $38M for the 5-day holiday.
November 9, 2008
Vince graces the cover of Esquire magazine
Esquire
December 2008 / vol. 150 / no. 6
THE BIGGEST MAN IN THE ROOM
He’s also usually the funniest and best liked. So what’s VINCE VAUGHN so afraid of? BY CHRIS JONES
Photographs by Jake Chessum
VINCE VAUGHN LOOKS A LOT LIKE VINCE VAUGHN, ONLY BIGGER. He's tall enough to have to duck through doorways, as he just did, and wide enough to spend a lot of time walking sideways through tight spaces, like this steakhouse. He wears a pair of old-school Nike sneakers that could be used as war canoes. About six and a half feet higher up, his hair rises like a wave above the low-tide beach that is his forehead. (He calls it his fivehead.) His face is full, puffy enough to make him sometimes look as though he's fighting to keep his eyes open—not as though he's just woken up but as though he's never bothered to go to bed in the first place. His shirt is open at the collar, probably because it has to be. It's also open at the waist. Even from across this crowded restaurant, it's possible to see a jumbo slice of Vaughn's naked belly. It's too much to ignore, this great golden acreage, because he leads with it and because it's probably been kissed by Jennifer Aniston, standing on her tippy-toes. The man doesn't just occupy airspace; he fills it.
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Like many giants, Vaughn gave up trying to hide a long time ago. (He's a regular at this restaurant, a touristy joint on the busiest stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, and he's fine with the table in the center of the room, surrounded.) Unlike most big men, however, his stature doesn't offer him any protection, leaving him twice defenseless, omnipresent without being ominous: Nobody's scared of Vince Vaughn. He sits down and almost immediately people come to spend time in his shadow, beating even the waiter. The first is a kind of Gothic-looking girl, a photographer who delivers her pitch in a disturbing monotone: "I never come up to people like this, but I would love to take your picture," she says, her eyes staring hard into his. She hands him her business card, which disappears inside his paw.
Continue reading "Vince graces the cover of Esquire magazine"'Four Christmases' Website updated
Just in time for the November 26 release! CLICK HERE
Not the most exciting website, but there's a gallery, video section (still under construction), a downloads section with buddy icons, wallpapers, etc.
And speaking of gallery photos, I uploaded a few to the Four Christmases album in the gallery.
Fred Claus on DVD
Don't forget that Fred Claus comes out on DVD on November 25. This is a fun, family holiday movie that you will love.
Pre-order on Amazon.com
October 28, 2008
Vince Vaughn set for 'Sunny and 68'
Gavin O'Connor to direct Universal drama
By Michael Fleming
Universal Pictures is acquiring "Sunny and 68," a spec script drama that Vince Vaughn will star in and Gavin O'Connor will direct.
O'Connor, who wrote the script with Anthony Tambakis, will produce with Vaughn's Wild West Picture Show Prods. banner. Universal got first crack at the script because Vaughn has a deal there. He's currently starring in "Couples Retreat," which he produces with Scott Stuber.
O'Connor, whose "Pride and Glory" was released this past weekend by Warner Bros., said he and Tambakis wrote the script, a drama with comedic overtones, with Vaughn in mind for the lead character.
Vaughn will play a superstar on the poker circuit whose alcoholism and recklessness cause him to flame out on national television. Wiped out and owing $500,000 to bookies, he heads home to upstate New York for the first time in 20 years, looking to take back cash he'd been sending his mother. Instead, he finds his mother dying of cancer and raising a 5-year-old girl who is actually his daughter. Mom has been positioning his former high school g.f. to become the girl's eventual caretaker.
"It's a story of how three generations of women teach this character to become a man," said O'Connor. The title comes from the character's mother, who, despite the cold weather, insists that "it's sunny and 68."
O'Connor is prepping his next directing project, "Warrior," a mixed martial arts drama he wrote with Tambakis that he'll shoot next year for Lionsgate. Plan is to shoot "Sunny and 68" in upstate New York in February 2010.
October 21, 2008
Vince Vaughn drawn to Fox sitcom
Actor to develop, exec produce half-hour pilot
By CYNTHIA LITTLETON
Variety
Vince Vaughn is bringing his guy’s guy sensibility to a laffer in the works for FoxBroadcasting Co. and 20th Century Fox TV.
Vaughn is in final negotiations with the network and studio on a deal to develop and exec produce a single-camera half-hour pilot about a couple of young men who are just out of college and starting to experience the real world.
Sibling scribes Jim and Steve Armogida have been tapped to pen the pilot script for Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show Prods. Victoria Vaughn, Vince’s sister, will also exec produce.
Vaughn is known to have made the rounds of TV shops in recent weeks to suss out the development marketplace. It’s understood that the pact Fox is offering would give him a wide berth to cast the show and assemble the other creative elements as he sees fit.
The Armogida brothers’ recent credits as writer-producers include CBS’ short-lived Jenna Elfman comedy "Courting Alex," the WB network’s "Grounded for Life" and the PBS drama "My Family."
Victoria Vaughn served as an associate producer on her brother’s 2006 hit "The Break-Up" and is an exec producer on his upcoming project, "Couples Retreat," for Universal, where Wild West Prods. has a feature deal.
Vince Vaughn will next be seen onscreen opposite Reese Witherspoon in New Line’s "Four Christmases," to be released next month.
Vaughn and the Armogidas are repped by CAA.
October 15, 2008
Three set for 'Couples Retreat'
By Borys Kit
The Hollywood Reporter
Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman join cast
Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis and Malin Akerman are signing up for "Couples Retreat," a Jon Favreau-scripted and Peter Billingsley-directed comedy for Universal.
The story revolves around four couples who go to a tropical island resort, with one couple working on their marriage and the others sucked into the resort's couples therapy. Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love are the men.
Bell is playing Bateman's wife, Davis plays Favreau's wife, and Akerman plays Vaughn's.
Scott Stuber is producing.
The movie will shoot in Bora Bora and Los Angeles.
Bell, repped by CAA and Brookside Artists Management, toplines Disney's romantic comedy "When in Rome" and is doing voice work for "Astroboy." She continues to recur on NBC's "Heroes."
Davis, repped by WMA and Mosaic Media, is coming off of the "Sex and the City" movie, which grossed $408 million worldwide.
Akerman, repped by Endeavor and Sanders Armstrong Caserta Management, next appears in "Watchmen," the adaptation of the Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons graphic novel. She also will appear in "The Proposal" with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.
September 25, 2008
More on Vince at Saturday's Cubs Game
Vince Vaughn attended Saturday's game, which ended with that great on-field celebration after the Cubs earned the National League Central championship. If you weren't aware he was going to be there beforehand, you would have realized as soon as you heard the fans in the Terrace Reserved seating, going from leftfield to behind the plate, cheering wildly as he walked above them.
Vine Line columnist Jen Nowak spoke briefly with Vince and had the following to say:
"I first asked him what he was doing in Chicago. He replied that he lives in Chicago and that he was in town for the team, of course.
I spoke to him after he performed 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame,' so I asked about what he thinks about his singing voice. He usually thinks its pretty good, he said ... until he hears it. Though he did clarify that he doesn't get nervous.
That's about all we could discuss before fans swarmed him on the ramp!"
September 20, 2008
Vince and Ernie Banks at the Cubs Game
(Tribune Photo by Phil Velasquez / September 20, 2008)
Vince sang "Take Me out to the Ball Game" at today's Cubs game. Here he chats with Ernie Banks, probably the most legendary player in the history of the Chicago Cubs franchise.
And congratulations to the Cubs for their win over St. Louis!
September 19, 2008
Vince to sing at Cubs game this Saturday
Vince is set to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" once again at Saturday's Cubs game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Game starts at 3:55 PM ET.
Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau Reunite at 'Retreat'
They were "Swingers" and "Made" men, but now Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau are packing for a "Couples Retreat."
According to Variety, the frequent co-stars will join Jason Bateman ("Hancock") and Faizon Love ("Elf") in the comedy "Couples Retreat." Set up at Universal, the film is based on a script by Favreau and will be directed by Peter Billingsley.
Vaughn actually hatched the idea for "Couples Retreat," which focuses on four couples who go to an island resort to work on their marriages, some committed to the process, others just committed to a vacation. Hilarity ensues when it becomes clear that the resort's therapy isn't optional.
In addition to generating the premise, Vaughn's Wild West Picture Show will also produce along with Scott Stuber's Stuber Productions.
"Couples Retreat" could shoot as soon as late October in Bora Bora and Los Angeles.
Favreau will fit in his "Couples" acting stint before going back behind the camera for a second "Iron Man" feature.
Vaughn will be seen in this fall's "Four Christmases."
Oh and yes, "Christmas Story" fans, the Billingsley directing this film is, indeed, little Ralphie, all grown up. While this will be his feature directing debut, Billingsley has been working regularly as a producer on films including "Made" and "The Break-Up."
September 12, 2008
September 10, 2008
August 22, 2008
Vince visits Beijing for Olympics
From "Shooting Blanks in Beijing"
"Club Bud has fired up in Beijing. Finally a star has turned up at these Olympics. Right at the end!!! Better late than never. Vince Vaughan came solo, no entourage and was more than happy to have a yarn about the Olympics. Please be warned that this is a Budweiser Party and this interview took place at 12.30 am. I got to the party at 9pm. So I am a little tired by this stage of the night. Maybe Vince was too. I wonder if he went in to the party and met Stephanie Rice - she rolled in with quite an entourage earlier in the night. Good on her."
August 15, 2008
Four Christmases - Entertainment Weekly
20 Fall Movies We Can't Wait to See
Found Here
This holiday romp — starring Witherspoon and Vaughn as a couple obliged to celebrate Christmas with each of their divorced parents — is Reese's first romcom since 2005's Just Like Heaven. And in case having her back in high spirits isn't gift enough, the movie also marks the feature-directing debut of Seth Gordon, who made last year's terrific The King of Kong.
And the print article in EW's Fall Movie Preview:
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek Written by Matt Allen, Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, Caleb Wilson Directed by Seth Gordon
Every holiday season, treacly yuletide-themed romantic comedies pile up like so much unwanted fruitcake, but Four Christmases goes for a bitter twist: A young couple (Vaughn and Witherspoon), each with divorced parents, are forced to celebrate one excruciating Christmas with all four of their screwed-up families. "This script had a fun outlawness to it," says Vaughn, starring in his second straight holiday comedy after last year's Fred Claus. "This couple tries to avoid their families on the holidays because it's too overwhelming." Also bucking convention, Vaughn and Witherspoon—who are both producers on the project—brought on Gordon, who directed last year's critically lauded videogame documentary The King of Kong but has never helmed a non-doc feature. "It was baptism by fire," says Gordon. "I was either going to be ready or I wasn't." Scary Christmas! Our Two Cents In a genre that can be ho-ho-hum, the oil-and-vinegar pairing of Witherspoon and Vaughn offers a little bite. 11/26
