A new trailer for the family comedy Parental Guidance has been released.  Directed by Andy Fickman, the film stars Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as two grandparents who have a hard time finding middle ground with their three modernized grandchildren.  This trailer ups the ante in the physical comedy department, as it features all the hallmarks of a very lame family comedy in under two minutes: nutshots, someone’s pants getting sprayed with water, kids going crazy after eating sugar, etc.  Most of the gags and jokes seem really dated, and I’m not exactly sure Crystal and Midler’s comedy will translate well to modern audiences.  Nevertheless, I’m sure parents will eat this one up.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer.  The film also stars Marisa Tomei and Tom Everett Scott.  Parental Guidance opens on Christmas Day.

The first trailer for the family comedy Parental Guidance has been released.  The film stars Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as two grandparents who have a hard time finding middle ground with their three modernized grandchildren.  The predictable one-liners and nut shots are prevalent in this trailer, but there also looks to be a bit of genuine heart to the film that’s kind of appealing.  The story seems less about the shenanigans that occur when the grandparents babysit and more about the generational gap between their style of parenting and how their daughter raises her children.  When thinking over the library of family films that we’ve all been dragged to during the holidays over the years, Parental Guidance could be worse.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer.  Directed by Andy Fickman (You Again), the film also stars Marisa Tomei and Tom Everett Scott.  Parental Guidance opens on Christmas Day.

A batch of new high-resolution images from the upcoming family comedy Parental Guidance has been released.  The film stars Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as two grandparents who have a hard time finding middle ground with their three modernized grandchildren.  The images have all the staples of an old-fashioned family comedy, with hijinks and shenanigans aplenty.  A trailer will likely be released soon, so we should have a better idea of what to expect in the coming weeks.  For now, enjoy “wet crotch” and “food-covered kids” jokes in image form.

Hit the jump to check out the images.  Directed by Andy Fickman, the film also stars Marisa Tomei and Tom Everett Scott.  Parental Guidance opens on Christmas Day.

We have a couple of quick casting stories to report this morning.  First up, THR reports that Tom Everett Scott has joined the family comedy Us & Them.  Billy Crystal and Bette Midler will play “old school grandparents who have a hard time finding a middle ground with their three modernized grandchildren.”  Marisa Tomei will play their daughter Alice whose rocky relationship with her parents is healed by watching them interact with her children despite their conflicting approaches to parenting.  Scott will play Alice’s husband.  Andy Fickman (The Game Plan) will begin shooting the comedy this fall in Atlanta.

Hit the jump for casting news for Alex Proyas’ adaptation of Paradise Lost.

Tanner Hall played at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival but sat on the shelf of distributor Anchor Bay for almost two years.  Now it’s getting released because of one person: lead actress Rooney Mara.  Because Mara went and got herself cast in the juicy role of Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there’s at least a name that can somewhat elevate the film’s profile and audiences can go “Hey, isn’t that the chick from The Social Network?”.  It’s not much but it’s more than Anchor Bay had last year.

But when you see the trailer, it’s not tough to see why the film sat on the shelf.  It looks like Dead Poets Society with privileged teenage girls at a boarding school flick as opposed to privileged teenage guys at a boarding school.  If you are going to see one girls boarding school drama this year, I recommend seeing Jordan Scott’s Cracks instead.  Back to Tanner Hall, hit the jump to see the trailer.  The film opens September 9th.