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We’ve learned that Melissa McCarthy will host Saturday Night Live on April 6. This will be McCarthy’s second time hosting SNL in two years and she received rave reviews the first time around in October 2011. One of the highlights of that appearance was a reunion with her Bridesmaids co-star Kristen Wiig in The Lawrence…

SATURDAY 11:45 PM, 7TH UPDATE: Well, Winter Storm Nemo raged over the Northeast Friday but box office stayed really solid. Despite movie theaters closed by nightfall and venues with lost power. Even though Northeast governors shut down all road traffic and imposed fines and even jailtime. That could have been terrible…

UPDATE: Now here’s why Freaks And Geeks creator and Bridesmaids helmer Paul Feig is a highly paid screenwriter, and I am not. It’s all about economizing your words. What took me three long paragraphs to convey, Feig does in this simple tweet: @Paul Feig: For his catty and school bully name-calling of the supremely…

Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for Identity Thief, the Seth Gordon-directed comedy that stars Jason Bateman as the victim of a woman who has swiped his identity and destroyed his credit. Somehow, his only way out is to apprehend the thief and accompany her on a road trip. She’s played by Melissa McCarthy…

The first trailer for Universal‘s comedy Identity Thief appeared today. It stars Jason Bateman as a successful guy and Melissa McCarthy as the con artist that ruins his life. It is directed by Bateman’s Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon. The studio had set a May 2013 release date for the pic but recently moved it…

Morris Chestnut has joined the cast of Universal‘s Identity Thief, opposite Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. The Seth Gordon-directed comedy is produced by Bateman and Scott Stuber. Chestnut will play a Boston police detective in the caper comedy about a successful man whose life is ruined when a women steals his…

Rapper-turned-actor T.I. will play a bounty hunter in Identity Thief, the Universal Pictures comedy that stars Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. T.I.’s character hunts both of them, as Bateman’s character becomes an unlikely companion for McCarthy’s character after she steals his identity. T.I. is co-starring in Kels…

Genesis Rodriguez has joined Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy in the Universal comedy Identity Thief. She will play an associate to a local crime boss that comes looking for McCarthy's character after she scams them out of money. Rodriguez starred in Man On A Ledge and Casa De Mi Padre and just opened in What To Expe…