GREG MOTTOLA

Greg Mottola (born 1964) is a filmmaker and television director. He wrote and directed the 1996 independent film The Daytrippers before being introduced to television directing. Since, he has directed several episodes of Undeclared and Arrested Development.

He directed the 2007 film Superbad.

Mottola grew up in a Catholic family and received his BFA in art from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA in film from Columbia University.

His project Adventureland is "a movie set in the 1980s, sort of a first love story about college-age people about a guy who thinks he's going off to Europe on a backpacking trip with his buddies, and his family takes it away from him. It was supposed to be his graduation present, but they have money problems and he gets stuck working at an amusement park all summer."[1] It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. (via Wikipedia)

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First Look at Nerd-Style Pegg and Frost in 'Paul'

via iwatchstuff.com ( 59 Days ago )
That Paul movie--the one directed by Adventureland's Greg Mottola that stars longtime collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as sci-fi fanboys who befriend an alien they find near Area 51. You were looking forward to that picture, right? Well, here's the first look at them (along with Blythe Danner and Kristen Wiig) in their geek regalia. Pretty accurate sci-fi geek uniforms, [...]

EXCL: Bill Hader Voices Off on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

via comingsoon.net ( 74 Days ago )
There's no denying that Bill Hader is one of the current members of the "Saturday Night Live" cast who has found the most success when venturing out into movie world, thanks to the likes of Judd Apatow, Greg Mottola and Ben Stiller who have cast the comedian in many of their hit comedies from Knocked Up and Superbad to Tropic Thunder and Night at the Museum: Battle of the [...]

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Pegg and Frost Video Blog Real Details of Paul

via slashfilm.com ( 136 Days ago )
We’ve told you what the movie Paul is about. That’s the road trip movie written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, currently being directed by Adventureland’s Greg Mottola and starring a whole bunch of awesome people. But it’s much more fun to let Pegg and Frost tell you what it’s about, especially with the slightly smarmy haircut and goatee Pegg is now [...]

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Video Diaries for Paul

via screencrave.com ( 150 Days ago )
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s upcoming comedy Paul, which is being directed by the comedy master Greg Mottola (Superbad, Adventureland) has finally started shooting in New Mexico with Bill Hader, Sigourney Weaver, Jason Bateman, Blythe Danner, Jane Lynch and Seth Rogen (who plays the alien voice of Paul and probably won’t be on set much). Pegg and Frost have decided to [...]

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Say Hello From the Set of Paul

via slashfilm.com ( 151 Days ago )
The website for Paul, the film written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and directed by Adventureland’s Greg Mottola, has gone live. Whatispaul.com already has a handful of image galleries with on-set photos and a couple of video blogs featuring Pegg, Frost and co-stars Kristin Wiig and Joe Lo Truglio. The Jo Lo Truglio bit is probably the best, as he shows how the [...]

Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Answer What Is Paul?

via comingsoon.net ( 153 Days ago )
What Is Paul? , the official production blog for Paul , the new Universal road comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg & Nick Frost ( Shaun of the Dead , Hot Fuzz ) and directed by Greg Mottola ( Superbad , Adventureland ) went live this morning with a couple pictures and video blogs from the New Mexico set. The star-studded cast also includes Bill Hader, Jason Bateman, [...]

Joe Lo Truglio Joins Greg Mottola’s Sci-Fi Geek Comedy Paul

via slashfilm.com ( 162 Days ago )
Greg Mottola says that a funny actor from his earlier film SuperBad has joined the already awesome cast of his sci-fi buddy comedy Paul, and I’m pretty sure I know who it is. So far the film’s official cast includes Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver, and Kristen Wiig. Scripted by Pegg and Frost (the duo from Shaun of the Dead and Hot [...]

10 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter

via pastemagazine.com ( 167 Days ago )
As potent as they can be, our interactions with our favorite filmmakers generally only come once every couple of years and last for a scant two hours. What are they doing when they're not sharing their brilliant narrative visions with us? Well, at least some of them are sharing the decidedly less dramatic narratives of their life via Twitter (Greg Mottola: "i'm equally ambivalent [...]

Weaver to Star in You Again and Paul

via comingsoon.net ( 173 Days ago )
Sigourney Weaver (upcoming Avatar ) has been set to star in You Again for Disney and is in talks to join the Greg Mottola-directed comedy Paul for Universal and Working Title. Weaver will first shoot Paul , a comedy about two sci-fi fans (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost) who come across an escaped alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) near Area 51 and try to help it escape. She will [...]

Sigourney Weaver May Join Cast of Paul

via screencrave.com ( 174 Days ago )
Sigourney Weaver is, apparently, joining the cast of Greg Mottola’s new film, Paul. The film stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, and Kristen Wiig. I don’t quite see how Weaver fits in with that lot but I have to say I’m eager to find out. We all know she has a great comedic side, so it will be interesting to see how she mixes with this new [...]