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Adam Sandler Teams With Judd Apatow

Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann were recruited by Judd Apatow to play in his upcoming comedy distributed by Universal Pictures.

The screenplay was also written by Apatow, and shooting will commence in the summer or fall, reported Variety.

Sandler and Apatow recently collaborated on the screenplay of the film Don’t Mess With the Zohan by Robert Smigel.  The movie starring Sandler will be in theatres on June 6.

Apatow often works with the same actors. His wife, Mann, and Rogen appeared in his first two films, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up. Mann is also playing opposite Owen Wilson in Drillbit Taylor, co-written by Rogen and produced by Apatow. Paramount will be launching the comedy on March 21.

Before shooting this new comedy, Sandler will be filming the comedy Bedtime Stories for Disney.

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Adam Sandler Not Expecting a New Baby

According to FemaleFirst, the actor denies rumours that his wife, Jackie Titone, is expecting another child.

Earlier this week, certain American tabloids and websites announced that Titone was pregnant with a second child for the couple, but Sandler insists that the stories are false.

A representative for Sandler told TheCelebrityTruth.com, "This is absolutely not true. She is not pregnant."

Sandler and Titone are already the parents of a 19-month-old daughter, Sadie.

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Keri Russell Playing Opposite Adam Sandler

Russell, star of August Rush and a new mother, is back at work and will be acting with Sandler in Bedtime Stories.

In this comedy written by Matt Lopez, Russell will play a woman whose life is turned upside down when the bedtime stories she tells her nephews come to life.

Adam Shankman will be directing the movie, which will start shooting in February 2008, to be in theatres for the holidays 2008.

Russell is just finishing the movie The Girl in the Park, which is also starring Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth and Alessandro Nivola.

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Chris Rock’s New Project

According to Variety, Rock, 41, and Spade, 42, will be starring in a yet-untitled film together. 

Spade will help to write the project’s script, while Adam Sandler’s company Happy Madison will be in charge of production.

The story is expected to be about three families who battle for the same camping spot during the course of one weekend.

Spade is a former star of the television series Saturday Night Live.  Chris Rock recently completed filming the movie I Think I Love My Wife.

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Chris Rock’s New Project

According to Variety, Rock, 41, and Spade, 42, will be starring in a yet-untitled film together. 

Spade will help to write the project’s script, while Adam Sandler’s company Happy Madison will be in charge of production.

The story is expected to be about three families who battle for the same camping spot during the course of one weekend.

Spade is a former star of the television series Saturday Night Live.  Chris Rock recently completed filming the movie I Think I Love My Wife.

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Adam Sandler To Star in Zohan

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sandler wants to join the film, which is based on his story, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan.

The comedy is based on a script by Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel and Adam Sandler.  The story follows an Israeli secret service agent who fakes his death so that he may become a hair stylist in New York.

Zohan will begin filming this summer in New York and Los Angeles, and is expected to be released in 2008.

Sandler, 40, has two feature films that will be released soon.

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Adam Sandler’s Generousity

According to the website IOL, Sandler spent Christmas with a brother and sister who are battling cancer.  The star of the films Punch-Drunk Love and 50 First Dates, among others, gave the teenagers a Sony PlayStation 3 with all of the games, autographed DVDs and a poster from the film The Longest Yard.

Stephanie, 15, and Kevin Hudon, 18, are both residents of Sandler’s home town of Manchester, New Hampshire.  Stephanie has bone cancer that recently spread into her lungs.  Brother Kevin is battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Christine Monahan, a teacher at Manchester Memorial High School, has been helping the family to raise funds for the two teens.  Monahan confirmed that the Hudon’s were thrilled with Sandler’s gifts.

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Watch the Trailer for Reign Over Me

In the drama, Sandler plays a man who lost his family in the 9/11/01 attacks on New York.  He then bumps into his old college roommate, who is now a psychiatrist.  Their renewed friendship helps him overcome his grief.

Directed by Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger, The Sex Monster, The Mind of the Married Man), the feature film will open in March in America.

To watch the trailer for Reign Over Me, click here.

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Adam Sandler Producing Uncool

According to Variety, the 40-year-old star and his company, Happy Madison, will join forces with Kevin Misher to produce the Paramount Pictures adaptation of the book The Day I Turned Uncool:  Confessions of a Reluctant Grown Up.  This is a memoir discussing the life of comedian Dan Zevin.

The screenplay will be written by Paul Bernbaum (Hoolywoodland).  Sandler may have the starring role in this movie.

In this movie, Zevin reflects on the inevitable arrival of the thirties, and the reality of having more responsibilities and commitments as we age.

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No Surgery for Kate Beckinsale

According to Britain’s Sunday Express, Beckinsale feels that only egotistical people are willing to go under the knife.  Furthermore, the beautiful actress says that she doesn’t care what others think of her, as long as they don’t think she is shallow.

Beckinsale, 33, explained, "Nothing bothers me except the connotations of being a person who would have plastic surgery."

At the moment, Beckinsale is starring in the film Click.  In the movie, she plays the wife of Adam Sandler’s character.  For her role, she had to wear makeup to make her look older.  Becksinsale said of that experience, "I didn’t love it. It was really hard sitting in makeup for six hours and then ending up looking worse than you are in real life. I hated looking old."