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Bradley Cooper will receive the ShoWest 2009 Comedy Star of the Year Award on April 2 in Las Vegas.Cooper will next be seen in Warner Bros Las Vegas-set comedy The Hangover on June 12 opposite Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis and his previous credits include Wedding Crashers, Yes Man and He s Just Not That Into You. Ever since bursting onto the big screen as Rachel McAdams hard-driven fiance in 2005 s Wedding Crashers, Bradley Cooper has firmly established himself as one of today s major comedic talents, ShoWest co-managing director Mitch Neuhauser said.ShoWest will take place from March 30-A stanley cup pril 2.TopicsAmericasUnited States No comments Related articles News Sony s Lynton kicks off ShoWest 2010-03-16T1 stanley cup 0:12:00Z By Len Klady The film exhibition industrys bigg stanley cup est convention kicks off in Las Vegas in an uncertain mood despite a strong year of 3D successes. News ShoWest organiser Mitch Neuhauser jumps ship to NATO s start-up convention Astj ICO works with BFI for archive film screening
Dir/scr. Don Roos. US. 2004. 128mins A full seven years since making a splash at Sundance as a filmmaking debutant, Don Roos returns to Park City with this year s opening night attraction. Happy Endings, his third directorial outing, promises a benign beginning to the Park City festivities, if only because few can be offended by this merry, multi-storied meditation on what it means to be deep-down happy in today s complicated times. The end result may not be an entirely happy mish-mash of piercing comedy and mushy pathos, but there are enough charged moments, scurrilous situations and appealing performances across its large ensemble and three interwoven narratives to keep the indie mainstream entertained. Commercially speaking, there is also enough of Roos acerbic wit and transgressive attitude for Lions Gate to be able to market this as a naughty follow-up to his directorial breakout, The Opposite Of Sex. In truth, however, the gleeful tartness that gave his 1998 debut its distinctive edge - winning a healthy indie following in English-speaking territories as well a stanley cup s markets such as Germany - has been sublimated, even softened in the intervening years. Showing through he stanley kubek re is some of that same sincere poignancy that marked Roos surprisingly unironic sec stanley cup ond film, Bounce, whose stars Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow were the chief reasons behind its $36m North American gross.Without such similarly big marquee names, question remains whether the generous-hearted spirit of Happ
Bradley Cooper will receive the ShoWest 2009 Comedy Star of the Year Award on April 2 in Las Vegas.Cooper will next be seen in Warner Bros Las Vegas-set comedy The Hangover on June 12 opposite Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis and his previous credits include Wedding Crashers, Yes Man and He s Just Not That Into You. Ever since bursting onto the big screen as Rachel McAdams hard-driven fiance in 2005 s Wedding Crashers, Bradley Cooper has firmly established himself as one of today s major comedic talents, ShoWest co-managing director Mitch Neuhauser said.ShoWest will take place from March 30-A stanley cup pril 2.TopicsAmericasUnited States No comments Related articles News Sony s Lynton kicks off ShoWest 2010-03-16T1 stanley cup 0:12:00Z By Len Klady The film exhibition industrys bigg stanley cup est convention kicks off in Las Vegas in an uncertain mood despite a strong year of 3D successes. News ShoWest organiser Mitch Neuhauser jumps ship to NATO s start-up convention Astj ICO works with BFI for archive film screening
Dir/scr. Don Roos. US. 2004. 128mins A full seven years since making a splash at Sundance as a filmmaking debutant, Don Roos returns to Park City with this year s opening night attraction. Happy Endings, his third directorial outing, promises a benign beginning to the Park City festivities, if only because few can be offended by this merry, multi-storied meditation on what it means to be deep-down happy in today s complicated times. The end result may not be an entirely happy mish-mash of piercing comedy and mushy pathos, but there are enough charged moments, scurrilous situations and appealing performances across its large ensemble and three interwoven narratives to keep the indie mainstream entertained. Commercially speaking, there is also enough of Roos acerbic wit and transgressive attitude for Lions Gate to be able to market this as a naughty follow-up to his directorial breakout, The Opposite Of Sex. In truth, however, the gleeful tartness that gave his 1998 debut its distinctive edge - winning a healthy indie following in English-speaking territories as well a stanley cup s markets such as Germany - has been sublimated, even softened in the intervening years. Showing through he stanley kubek re is some of that same sincere poignancy that marked Roos surprisingly unironic sec stanley cup ond film, Bounce, whose stars Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow were the chief reasons behind its $36m North American gross.Without such similarly big marquee names, question remains whether the generous-hearted spirit of Happ