• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

Filmmaker Smith enlists actors for "Porno"

Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:20am EST
Elizabeth Banks smiles at the premiere of ''Fred Claus'' at Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California November 3, 2007. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

By Gregg Goldstein

Film  |  People

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks will play the title roles in writer-director Kevin Smith's raunchy new comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."

Rogen ("Knocked Up") and Banks ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") play childhood friends who ask their buddies to make a porno to get the pair out of debt. Soon everyone begins having sex with everyone, leading the previously platonic Zack and Miri to re-evaluate their relationship. Longtime Smith ensemble player Jason Mewes plays a supporting role.

The project is set up at the Weinstein Co. whose founders, former Miramax Films chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein, worked with Smith on such films as "Clerks" and "Chasing Amy."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Film
People


More from Reuters

Exclusive: Saudis quit Caribbean oil storage

NEW YORK/HOUSTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has quit a long-held lease for 5 million barrels of Caribbean oil storage near the key U.S. market and state giant PetroChina is poised to move in, industry sources say, a potentially major shift in global oil trade dynamics.

» More Top News
A sign informs passengers of a "High Risk of Terrorist Attack" at the departure security line at Reagan National Airport in Washington December 29, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (

Body scans are Obama's call

The Dutch are doing it. So what's taking the U.S. so long to make airport body scanners mandatory?  Full Article | Video 

U.S.
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is escorted by police and photographed by the media as he departs U.S. Federal Court after a hearing in New York, January 5, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

I beg your pardon ...

Bernie Madoff became the poster boy of crooked investment schemes this year -- but he wasn't alone. Here's a look at the 10 most notorious cases of 2009.  Full Article 

Corporate Crime