The Talent Show: Jaime Pressly

You know that phrase, "The kind of girl you take home to meet your mom"? Yeah...that ain't Jaime Pressly. The blonde stunner has held the title of "Hottest woman you'd ever find in a trailer park" for almost two decades and still has that market cornered in Hollywood. Her latest endeavor, this weekend's A Haunted House 2 sees her step into the role of Marlon Wayan's new girlfriend after the death of Kisha (the equally hot Essence Atkins). Best known for her role as Joy Turner in the surprisingly funny My Name is Earl, Pressly has been all over Hollywood screens big and small every since she raised eyebrows...yeah...eyebrows, in Poison Ivy 3: The New Seduction....not that I've seen it, this guy I know told me she was hot in it, yeah that's it. You can find Jamie popping up all over the place from Not Another Teen Movie to I Love You, Man, even taking on the role of video game vixen Tina Armstrong in a favorite of Travis's, D.O.A.: Dead or Alive.  Pretty much flawless and one of the few women who can pull off that gravely 40-year smoker voice in a sexy way. Here's hoping Jamie get's picked up for quite a bit more in the coming years!

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Red Band Trailer for Marlon Wayans' 'A Haunted House 2'

Before you ask the obvious question, "Does A Haunted House 2 really need to be a thing?", just consider the $2M A Haunted House, which Marlon Wayans mostly scrounged up the cash for himself, earned nearly $60M worldwide last year. Those are numbers any studio is going to be happy about, and so a sequel to the Scary Movie rival was quickly ordered up with a new red band trailer released.

Wayans is back to star, co-write and produce the horror comedy which spoofs some (slightly) newer movies this time around.  But really this is just a showcase for Wayans to do more screaming. This time around he's moved on from his possessed girlfriend (Essence Atkins) and shacked up with a white chick (Jaime Pressly), so let the crude interracial humor fly! Cedric the Entertainer returns because....well, what else is he going to do in-between hosting game shows and stuff? Basically this looks like it was made for those who laughed their asses off at the first movie, and nobody else should bother. The whole Facebook timeline thing, too? Nah, it's already dated.

A Haunted House 2 opens April 18th.

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Marlon Wayans is Spooked Again in First Trailer for 'A Haunted House 2'

At a cost of only $2.5M, it wasn't going to take much for A Haunted House to be a hit. And sure enough, Marlon Wayans and Co. didn't offer up much in the way of laughs, but it was apparently enough for the small-budget spoof to bank nearly $60M. At the very least it turned out far better than Scary Movie 5 came close to achieving. Wayans and Open Road Films got moving on a sequel after a strong opening weekend, so America you only have yourselves to blame now that the trailer for A Haunted House 2 is here.

Well, at least there doesn't seem to be any occurrences of supernatural rape in this footage....at least not yet. Still this looks pretty terrible, even if the spoofs have been updated to include more successful films like The Conjuring and Sinister. Wayans is back as the cowardly Malcolm Johnson, who is attempting to move on after his wife (Essence Atkins) was killed in a car crash. Now shacked up with his white girlfriend (Jaime Pressly), their home comes under attack from a new and very jealous evil spirit.

Eh, it's exactly what you think it is, more of Wayans screaming a lot.  Directed by the returning Michael Tiddes and co-starring Cedric the Entertainer and Gabriel Iglesias, A Haunted House 2 opens its doors March 28th 2014.


A Haunted House 2 – Official Trailer by FanReviews

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Domhnall Gleeson is 'Unbroken'; Tye Sheridan is 'The Forger'; Jamie Pressly Enters 'A Haunted House 2'

* Domhnall Gleeson, still probably best known as one of the Weasley brothers in the Harry Potter series, has joined Jack O'Connell in Angelina Jolie's next directorial effort, Unbroken. The incredible true story, based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand, is of Olympic track star-turned-POW Lou Zamperini who survived a plane crash only to become a prisoner at a Japanese prison camp during WWII. O'Connell will play the young Zamperini, with Gleeson as Phil, another who survived the crash and drifted on a life raft with him for 47 days. Also joining the cast is up 'n comer Finn Wittrock (All My Children) as Mac, another aboard the raft. Gleeson is just coming off an acclaimed performance in Anna Karenina, and will be seen later this year in About Time opposite Rachel McAdams. [Deadline]

* Just days after signing on for an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Dark Places, Tye Sheridan (Mud, The Tree of Life) has agreed to join John Travolta in The Forger. The heist drama directed by Philip Martin has Travolta as an art prodigy and thief who makes a deal to get out prison early and take care of his ill son (Sheridan), only to have the people responsible for his release rope him into one last job. Travolta hasn't done much worth talking about in forever, but at only 16-years-old Sheridan's career has taken off with a bullet. [THR]

* Oh quit your moaning. After Marlon Wayans' horror spoof A Haunted House cleared about $60M on a $2M budget, a sequel was inevitable. Announced months ago, the film goes into production tomorrow, and thus the cast has been rounded out with the additions of Jaime Pressly, Gabriel Iglesias, and Ashley Rickards. Wayans will again star, co-write- and produce, joined by the returning co-stars Essence Atkins, Affion Crockett and Dave Sheridan. Michael Tiddes is back to direct with a release date planned for next March. Excited yet? Pressly, who somehow found her way into that creepy Oogieloves movie last year, hasn't had a major big screen role since 2009's I Love You, Man. I always thought she was a talented comedic actress, and she was great on My Name is Earl all those years. Even though this film is likely to stink, maybe she can make a good enough impression that we start seeing her more often.

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