Seth Rogen Calls Out Christopher Nolan’s Pandemic Release Plans For ‘Tenet’

After weeks of delays and months of anticipation, “Tenet” is almost upon us. And now, just a week before it arrives in theaters around the world (with sneak peeks coming to the US also before it’s September release), we have our first reviews of Christopher Nolan’s feature film.

According to Seth Rogen, the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is making it tougher to launch big-screen comedies.

Judd Apatow, Jonah Hill and James Franco to ride a new wave of big-hearted, bad-mouthed slacker movies throughout the 00’s and 10’s. Side-stepping into drama, kids’ animation and big-budget superhero franchises, Rogen is one of Hollywood’s most unassuming leads – the only guy who could do voices in Sausage Party and Kung Fu Panda 3 in the same year.

While there is no tried and true formula for box office success, there are a few constants that seem to always hold true in an industry known for its unpredictability—Marvel Studios films will always dominate; Jason Blum can make a micro-budget horror film a hit; And Seth Rogen movies always end up turning a profit. And the latter of which makes the move from Sony to sell “An American Pickle” to HBO Max a bit surprising.

There’s a charming weirdness at the core of An American Pickle, the latest Seth Rogen star vehicle. It’s a movie that sounds like it could be either amazing or terrible, depending on the execution.

Seth Rogen spent 10 months growing out his beard just to shoot one additional scene for his new movie An American Pickle.The Pineapple Express star takes on double duty in the film, which is based on 2013 New Yorker novella Sell Out, about 1920s factory worker Herschel Greenbaum, who falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years, only to emerge in his great-grandson’s modern-day New York without having aged a day.Rogen grew out his facial hair to play Herschel first and then went

Seth Rogen says the invisible work of two different people helped him pull off his performance in HBO Max's An American Pickle. Appearing virtually on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the actor revealed that during one table read, Ike Barinholtz played opposite him.

Seth Rogen has scripted and starred in any number of movies that have pulled inspiration from his life, but he says, the HBO Max time-travel farce adapted from a short story by Simon Rich, is perhaps the story he relates to most.The film stars Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a ditchdigger living in a fictional Eastern European country circa 1919.

The Interview.The film, which centres on a TV host and producer enlisted by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un, saw hackers infiltrate employees at Sony Pictures and release thousands of private company emails to the public in 2014.As a result the movie, which also starred James Franco, was released through streaming services such as Netflix instead of getting a standard wide cinema release in the US.Eventually being shown in selected cinemas, it was released in the UK in February 2015.Speaking

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorReconnecting with his Jewish heritage was part of the creative process for Seth Rogen on his new comedy, “An American Pickle.” For one, the actor learned to speak Yiddish for the first time for the film.“I had heard [Yiddish] my whole life, but I did not know it,” Rogen said Tuesday during the film’s virtual premiere, in a 30-minute Q&A following the screening. “I did have to learn it, basically phonetically, for the movie.

HBO Max film An American Pickle goes to Seth Rogen, who plays dual roles as a 30-something app developer and his 30-something great-grandfather (more on how that comes to be in a bit), but the better name to pay attention to to get a feel for An American Pickle's essence is Simon Rich, whose short story is the basis for the movie (Rich also wrote the screenplay).

When you think of Seth Rogen films, many of which he stars in and produces, you might imagine a raunchy comedy with a wee bit of heart.

The funniest part of “ An American Pickle ” isn’t even really in the movie. It’s a little scene in the middle of the credits in which Seth Rogen’s Herschel Greenbaum, a 1920s laborer who wakes up 100 years after falling into a vat of pickle juice, watches “Yentl” with his millennial great-grandson Ben Greenbaum (also Rogen).

Based on an utterly ridiculous premise—a man who is preserved in pickle juice for 100 years and comes out of his hibernation unscathed in modern-day Brooklyn—it’s kind of unbelievable that Seth Rogen’s “An American Pickle” is a film at all, and a movie that someone actually greenlit.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“An American Pickle” is a comedy that connects you to something so old world that it seems, at times, to be an artifact of prehistory.

Sure, the world is seemingly falling apart, as a global pandemic still continues to wreak havoc all over the planet. And in the US, we’ve decided to also add a bit of civil unrest and a Presidential Election to the mix, just to spice things up.

Seth Rogen doesn’t mince words when talking about controversial subjects.

If there is one movie that has been creating quite a lot of buzz in the media, it is definitely Tenet. The release date of Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited thriller had been postponed owing to the COVID-10 pandemic that hit the entire world.