{"id":561,"date":"2008-06-12T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=561"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:52:05","slug":"apatow-finds-three-more-funny-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/12\/apatow-finds-three-more-funny-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Apatow Finds Three More &quot;FUNNY PEOPLE&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judd Apatow&#8217;s next directorial effort, in a stunning display of efficiency, has received three new actors, a title, and a start date, all in the same day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120809193629\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117987337?refCatId=13\">Variety<\/a> is reporting Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman and Apatow favorite Jonah Hill have signed to join Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann in <strong>Funny People<\/strong>, a film which takes place in the world of stand up comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Bana might be a weird choice to co-star in a comedy for American audiences only familiar with his dramatic work in movies such as <strong>Hulk, Munich <\/strong>and <strong>The Other Boleyn Girl<\/strong>. But he worked as a stand up comedian in his native Australia and appeared in the Australian sketch comedy show <strong>Full Frontal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Production on <strong>Funny People <\/strong>is set to begin in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Judd Apatow&#8217;s next directorial effort, in a stunning display of efficiency, has received three new actors, a title, and a start date, all in the same day. Variety is reporting Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/12\/apatow-finds-three-more-funny-people\/\" title=\"Apatow Finds Three More &quot;FUNNY PEOPLE&quot;\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[21,22],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-casting","8":"tag-in-development"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}