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Sony has pushed back the Cameron Diaz comedy “Bad Teacher” from its originally scheduled April release date to June 17.

According to Variety, this comes on the heels of a positive screening for Sony executives last week, which prompted them to move the film to a potentially more lucrative summer opening.

Jake Kasdan directed from a script by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky. Jimmy Miller and David Householter produced through their Mosaic production company.

The cast includes Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch, John Michael Higgins and Jason Segel.

Story centers on a foul-mouthed, greedy middle-school teacher (Diaz) who, after being dumped by her boyfriend, competes with a rival teacher (Punch), who is dating the school’s model teacher (Timberlake).

In its new release date, “Bad Teacher” will go head to head with Warner Bros.’ tentpole “Green Lantern.”

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Jason is featured in People ‘Sexiest Man alive’ issue. I added the scan in the gallery.

Our spies tell us that Emily Blunt will soon get an offer to star opposite Jason Segel in director Nicholas Stoller’s new relationship comedy, Five-Year Engagement, with Judd Apatow producing at Universal. Normally, this blog wouldn’t put too much stock in a role merely being “about to be offered”; after all, Stoller and Segel had previously offered Blunt the part of Jackie Q in another of their Universal comedies, Get Him to the Greek.

But as our spies point out, the reason that deal didn’t happen was only because 20th Century Fox still had an option on Blunt left over from her turn in The Devil Wear Prada, and had conscripted her into the forthcoming Gulliver’s Travels (which Stoller also wrote) . As such, Blunt was forced to drop out of Get Him to the Greek, and the role of scandal-plagued chanteuse was handed to Rose Byrne instead.

Now that Blunt is free and clear of Fox’s legal clutches, we’re told that a collaboration with Mssrs. Stoller Segel and Apatow likely isn’t too far off.

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I added 3 ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ stills.

Despite recent casting announcements made in the media earlier this week, Jane Lynch says she is not attached to Disney’s upcoming Muppets movie.

The Glee star and Emmy winner told The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday night at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s 39th annual gala fundraiser that she has not been approached to participate in the project being written by How I Met Your Mother’s Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller (Yes Man).

“I’m not doing the Muppets movie,” Lynch said. “They haven’t asked me. I would do it if they asked me.”

The recent Emmy winner was on hand to pick up the Rand Schrader Distinguished Achievement Award, the Center’s highest individual honor, which was presented to her by Glee co-star Matthew Morrison and writer-director-creator Ryan Murphy.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

I added 22 photos of Jason and Amy Adams filming ‘The Muppets’ in Los Angeles yesterday.

I added 2 HQ stills from ‘The Muppets’.