Monster-In-Law News

Lopez & Fonda caught up in Monster-In-Law lawsuit

• 13 Mar 2009

Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda have found themselves entangled in a lawsuit over their 2005 film Monster-In-Law amid allegations of copyright infringement. Sheri Gilbert of North Carolina claims the film was similar to a script she wrote in 1998 about her struggles with her mother-in-law - and she's accused producers of the Hollywood hit of stealing her work. According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Raleigh, Gilbert and her husband Willie are seeking a share of the near £11 Read more

The Ugly Truth

• Tom Charity
• 03 Aug 2009

Here’s a litmus test for young lovers. If you believe that men are more interested in sports than fine dining (particularly if it’s mud wrestling)… that they’re more likely to be interested in you if you’re not interested in them… and that a short relationship is the only honest relationship, then you’re already on the same wavelength as Mike (Gerard Butler), the straight-talking cable TV sex therapist who passes for the hero in this mediocre romantic... Read more

• 07 Jul 2009

Top Comedy for 2009 It may be a scary thought but we're already half way through the year... So to stop you thinking about the fact that you have less than 6 months to Christmas(!), we have compiled a list of cracking comedies to keep you laughing for the rest of 2009. We can't wait. THE PROPOSAL When: 22nd July Who: Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds Why: To stave off deportation back to Canada, managing editor Bullock orders her assistant (Reynolds) to marry her. This cookie cutter rom-com was Read more

Lopez not doing Dallas

• 04 Aug 2006

Jennifer Lopez will not be going to the oil baron's ball after all, as her publicist confirmed that she had pulled out of Dallas the movie. The Out Of Sight actress was expected to take on the role of alcoholic adulteress Sue Ellen Ewing in the feature length reworking of the popular 1980s soap. Lopez's publicist said: "She is out of Dallas," but denied that the departure was abrupt and didn't offer a reason for the sometime singer's exit from the project. Production of the Dallas... Read more

Chada to direct Dallas

• 06 Apr 2006

British director Gurinder Chada is all set to step into the shoes of Legally Blonde and Monster In Law director, Robert Luketic, and direct the big screen version of 80's soap Dallas. Chada, who rose to fame directing hits like Bend It Like Beckham and Bride And Prejudice, will be charged with extracting the best performances out of a stellar cast that includes John Travolta (Grease, Pulp Fiction, Face Off) as Texan tycoon J R Ewing. Other stars who'll be dousing themselves in hairspray,... Read more