Youth in Revolt stars Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, and Justin Long, with Michael Cera in the lead.  I always get people in the comments complaining about Michael Cera sucking, or playing the same character over and over, but what can I say, he still cracks me up.   Especially when he’s playing his own mustachio’d evil twin.  I’ve read he was the only actor allowed to ad lib on the set of Arrested Development, which makes sense, he has impeccable timing.  Unlike someone I know. (*points to crotch*)

Opens January 8th.

Well this sounds like it might be cool.  Ed Helms is attached to star in Cedar Rapids, a spec script (read: an entire script, not a pitch based on some exec’s derivative, half-baked idea) written by Phil Johnston. To be produced by Sideways writers Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor.

The story centers on a wholesome and naive small-town Wisconsin man (Helms), who, when his role model dies, must represent his company at a regional insurance conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big-town experience.

Phil Johnston wrote the script on spec. He was a broadcast journalist in the Midwest who moved to New York to attend film school at Columbia. [THR]

Other facts about Cedar Rapids I learned from Wikipedia: Ashton Kutcher, Elijah Wood, and Ron Livingston all once called Cedar Rapids home.  Cedar Rapids’ nickname is “the City of Five Seasons,” for the traditional four seasons, and a fifth season which is a time to enjoy the other four. Cedar Rapids was the setting for a musical, “The Pajama Game.”  Also, I think I heard this somewhere, Cedar Rapids’ most popular postcard is a dog wearing a baseball cap.  Here is a picture of some people enjoying Cedar Rapids: