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Funny Is Funny, but DifferentGlee's popularity-contest story also recalls the film Election, and more and more TV comedies are finding inspiration in movies. This is only fair, since perhaps the hottest school of movie comedy - that of Judd Apatow and his disciples - comes straight from Apatow's work on TV shows like Freaks and Geeks...
...Since his 2005 hit The 40 Year-Old Virgin, when Apatow became a brand name, almost a genre, in roughhouse comedy, the films he's produced have opened well and, more important, had staying power - what the industry calls "long legs." The final theatrical earnings for Virgin and Knocked Up (which he wrote and directed as well as produced) were about five times their opening-weekend gross; Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Pineapple Express made about four times their openers. People saw these movies, told their friends they were funny and made them hits. The new movie will be hard...
...North American theaters, and it's all but comatose abroad. The studio's one ginormous 2009 hit is Fast & Furious, which has earned nearly $350 million worldwide on an $85 million budget. Except for the Vin Diesel movie, Universal is running on fumes. (Read TIME's profile "Taking Judd Apatow Seriously...
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...sides of the balloon at all times. The two men in question were Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, a young doctor who was exactly as dashing as he sounds, and the Marquis d'Arlandes, an army major. Their dialogue could not have been scripted better by Judd Apatow. (See pictures of Judd Apatow's war on Jay Leno...