I Love You, Man

Can the WWE reproduce the success in transitioning a wrestler to a movie star it found with The Rock? I think it's a case-by-case basis, because the "Stone Cold" Steve Austin experiment didn't work, and he'd be the next likely candidate.
It's like anything else in Hollywood, though: Tons of talented actors never get that big break or even if they do - other things in the movie or TV show conspire against them - and their careers never take off.

John Cena has had his opportunity, appearing in 2006's The Marine, which managed about $20 million. That's about what the movie cost to make, so it wasn't a big loss for WWE boss Vince McMahon nor a major success. Can Cena fare better with this spring's 12 Rounds?
The bad news is there's a lot of male-oriented viewing around it, with Watchmen, Knowing, I Love You, Man, and Fast and Furious
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I had a chance to see "I Love You, Man" at this year's Butt-Numb-a-Thon, and although it's not a Judd Apatow production, I guarantee a lot of people will think it is.  It's actually written and directed by John Hamburg, whose best credit before this was the underrated and underseen "Safe Men" with Sam Rockwell and Paul Giamatti.  The Apatow confusion will probably result from the presence of both Paul Rudd and Jason Segel in the film, as well as a general bromance tone that the Apatow films have mined so successfully the last few years. I liked the film a...

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The latest poster for the Paul Rudd and Jason Segel comedy I Love You, Man has arrived and you can check it out below. The flick comes from director John Hamburg (Along Came Polly) and also stars Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jon Favreau and Jaime Pressly. It opens March 20. Official Synopsis: Peter Klaven (Rudd) is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey (Jones), discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates," before meeting Sydney Fife (Segel), a charming, opinionated man with whom he instantly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter's relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fiancee and his new found "bro,
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