Kevin Hart is Every Groom's Best Friend in 'The Wedding Ringer' Trailer

Has there been a more successful actor over the last two years than Kevin Hart? The string of hit movies beginning with Think Like a Man and stretching to this year's Ride Along, About Last Night, and Think Like a Man Too make the case that he is one of today's biggest draws. Next year he'll try to keep the momentum going in The Wedding Ringer, which will give him a chance to kick it opposite Josh Gad.

Directed by Jeremy Garelick (writer of The Break-Up), the Hitch-style comedy stars Hart as Jimmy, who runs Best Man Inc., providing "best man services" to grooms who don't have any friends to stand up for them. When Doug (Gad) hires Jimmy for his impending wedding to Paige (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), a bromance develops between the two in the midst of all the matrimonial chaos.

The Wedding Ringer walks down the aisle on January 16th.

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Kevin Hart is The Best Man in First Trailer and Images from 'The Wedding Ringer'

This weekend will see Kevin Hart play the worst best man ever in Think Like a Man Too, the sequel to the film that sparked his career and led to hits such as Ride Along and About Last Night. Next year Hart will reteam with uber-producer Will Packer for The Wedding Ringer, and again he'll be part at the center of someone's impending nuptials.

The first images and trailer for The Wedding Ringer have been released, and they feature Hart getting his groove on alongside Josh Gad. Directed and co-written by Jeremy Garelick (The Break-Up), the film has Hart playing a guy who runs a best man service, standing up for grooms who don't have a friend close enough to be part of the wedding. Gad's character hires him, but also decides to fabricate nine other friends and the two must keep things from spinning out of control and ruining the wedding.

Also starring Olivia Thirlby, Kaley Cuoco, Alan Ritchson, and Mimi Rogers, The Wedding Ringer opens January 16th 2015.


THE WEDDING RINGER (2015) Official HD Teaser Trailer by NewTrailers BOS
 

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Will Ferrell is 'The Yank'; Johnny Knoxille Takes 'Sick Day'; Michael Ealy is 'The Perfect Guy'

* Will Ferrell is circling a starring role in The Yank, a fish-out-of-water comedy written by Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) and Jeff Morris. TriStar has picked up the pitch about an insurance agent who gets caught up in a scheme to steal the Crown Jewels from England.  Ferrell has been plenty busy this year, already starring in the (unfunny) miniseries The Spoils of Babylon and voicing the villain in The Lego Movie. He'll be seen next opposite Kevin Hart in Get Hard.

* Johnny Knoxville is about to take a Sick Day for director Jeremy Garelick (The Break-Up). The head Jackass is attached to star in the film originally penned by Garelick and rewritten by Jordan Cahan, which follows three friends "who uphold a tradition of calling in sick one day a year to fulfill fantasies while not getting caught." Ferris Bueller called and he wants his plot back. [Deadline]

* There are a lot of ladies who see Michael Ealy as The Perfect Guy, and apparently so does director Sylvain White. Ealy, along with Sanaa Lathan and Morris Chestnut, have been offered roles in the steamy revenge thriller about a woman who enters into a sexually-charged relationship with the "perfect guy", only for his violent and obsessive side to emerge later on when she tries to call it off. The script was written by former U.S. prosecutor Barbara Curry, and the project is housed over at Screen Gems who have worked with Ealy on About Last Night, Takers, and Think Like a Man.

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Key & Peele Producing 'Police Academy' Reboot

The Police Academy franchise is one of the most memorable in Hollywood, but it's been dormant for quite awhile. We've seen seven films and a pair of TV series based on the bumbling cops, with the last movie being 1994's Mission to Moscow. But last year we learned New Line Cinema was looking to revive Police Academy with a big screen reboot, and now its gotten a much-needed comedic boost.

The Wrap has confirmed an earlier Tracking Board report that Comedy Central duo  Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are in talks to produce the reboot, with the possibility they could come aboard and star. Scott Zabielski (Tosh.0) had been set to direct but he's now dropped out, and a rewrite is underway from Jeremy Garelick (The Break-Up).

As it stands right now they are only producing, and chances are they will wait for a completed script before making any further decisions. It certainly seems like the sort of project they'd be quick to join, considering they've recently appeared in stuff like Hell Baby, Wanderlust, and Let's Be Cops. As distasteful as the idea of bringing back Police Academy is, Key & Peele could at least make it worth paying attention to.

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Kevin Hart and Josh Gad to Team Up for Untitled Comedy

Fellow scene-stealers Josh Gad and Kevin Hart both have surprisingly funny comedies in theaters right now in The Internship and This Is the End. While neither is on screen very long, and in the case of Hart his death is all that really matters, they both make the most of their time and are always good for a laugh or two. But we'll be able to see what they can do as a comic duo in a new untitled comedy from Miramax and Screen Gems.

Deadline reports that Jeremy Garelick (The Break-Up) will co-write and make his directorial debut on the buddy comedy, has Hart as a guy who uses his natural charisma to provide Best Man services to those who can't find someone to stand up for them at their wedding. Gad would play a groom-to-be in need of Hart's help, only he's made matters worse by also making up the names of nine groomsman. Hilarity ensues as they try to pull off one major wedding day charade to make Gad look his best.

Gad was recently seen in the canceled NBC series 1600 Penn, and will also appear opposite Ashton Kutcher in Jobs. Hart will star alongside Ice Cube in Ride Along, and has the About Last Night remake and Think Like a Man Too coming up.

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