Adam Sandler, the star of many funny movies such as Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Anger Management, and Mr. Deeds, is co-starring with The King of Queens tv star and stand-up comedian, Kevin James.

The two men are playing firefighters in Philadelphia who pretend to be gay in order to receive domestic partner benefits. The movie, in theatres July 20, 2007, is called “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.”

Another perk to this movie? Jessica Biel is also in this movie. Along with Armageddon actor Steve Buscemi and SNL alum Dan Aykroyd.

And hey, if you have Myspace then you know who Tila Tequila is. She’s the biggest Asian “Myspace whore” ever. She’s been liked to Jared Leto (poor girl) and she just came out with a new album. She’s pretty cute. She is making, what I presume to be, her acting debut in this film, as well.

Until this movie is released, I suggest you check out The King of Queens. The re-runs are now playing on TBS. That show is hilarious. I saw Kevin James’ stand-up on Comedy Central once and it was hilarious. I hear he’s skinny now?

Or.. if you’re an Adam Sandler fan, check out his new movie Reign On Me, about a man who loses his family to 9/11 and then, sadly, starts to lose himself. It looks super sad and emotional, but possibly Academy Award stuff.

The new movie 300, from the writer of Sin City, was released this weekend and apparently is extremely popular. Just in the US, the film pulled in an amazing $70 million for it’s opening weekend, Friday through Sunday.

Here are some facts about the movie:

• The film was shot in 60 days.
• The film was shot on green screen in Montreal.
• There are 1500 cuts in the film, and about 1300 involve some sort of visual effect.

• The work was photographed completely in Montreal, with the exception of two days of insert shooting in Los Angeles.
• Ten visual effects vendors contributed to the film, spread over three continents.
• The filmmakers used bluescreen 90% of the time, and greenscreen for 10%. They chose blue because it better matched the lighting paradigm (green would have been too bright) and because red garments (a la spartan capes) look better when shot over blue.
• There was one day of location shooting, which was for the horses that were shot for the ‘approaching sparta’ scene.
• Post production took almost a year. The film was edited on an Avid, with an HD cut also maintained in Final Cut Pro The 3D was made using Maya, XSI, and Lightwave The 2D composites were made with Shake, Inferno, Fusion, and Combustion. The filmmakers prefer Macintosh, but large portions of the movie were made under Linux. Asset management was handled by custom software written in the Panorama development environment, made by Provue. Color management was handled by Truelight software. The film was scanned on a northlight scanner and was recorded on the arrilaser. Most of the film was shot at high speed, between 50 and 150fps. Normal film is at 24fps. The film was transferred to HD SR tape and quicktime, and HD quicktimes were the basis for the HD preview cuts. The working resolution for the film was 2K, at a working aspect ratio of 2.11 and a projected aspect ratio of 2.35.
• The script demanded that most of the male cast spend the majority of their screen time bare-chested, as per Frank Miller’s original graphic novel. Therefore, in order to adequately present themselves as the most well-trained and marshalled fighting force of the time, the entire principal cast underwent a rigorous and varied training regime for 6 weeks prior to shooting.
• Sienna Miller was considered for the role of Queen Gorgo.
• According to an interview with IGN.com, Director Zack Snyder says that fighting styles and formations (particularly the Spartan’s phalanx) were purposefully changed – making them historically inaccurate – so they’d “look cool” and work better for movie purposes.
• The movie never claims to be historically correct. It is based somewhat loosely on Frank Miller’s 1998 comic book mini-series. Changes from history were made by Miller and Snyder so as to appeal to a wider audience and create a more exciting and visually stunning action movie, rather than a typical historical epic.
• Frank Miller was inspired by the original Battle of Thermopylae after viewing the 1962 film “The 300 Spartans” as a child. His perception of the ‘hero’ concept changed greatly after seeing the Spartans make their sacrifice.

I’m going to go see it today. Have you seen it? What did you think??

(Source: IMDB)