Jimmy attended ‘Despicable Me’ Premiere during the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles yesterday. I’ve uploaded 51 high quality photos from this event to the gallery.

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Public Appearances > 2010 Appearances > [2010.06.27]2010 Los Angeles Film Festival – “Despicable Me” Premiere (HQ)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced plans to release the 2010 Death at a Funeral remake starring Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, Zoe Saldana, Columbus Short and Luke Wilson on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on August 10. Also announced today is the direct-to-video Blu-ray and DVD debut of Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming set for September 21.

Both films will be presented in high definition 1080p video and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming will include a featurette titled ‘Stomp on the Yard,’ while the more extensive bonus features for Death at a Funeral are listed below.

movieIQ+sync and BD-Live
Commentary with Director Neil LaBute and Chris Rock
Deleted Scenes
Family Album
Death For Real
Death at a Funeral: Last Rites, Dark Secrets

Actress Elizabeth Perkins is ending her five-year run on the Showtime series “Weeds,” for which she had earned three Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations, to play another mother figure in I Hop, the live-action/CG-animated hybrid comedy from Illumination Entertainment and Universal.

Directed by Tim Hill, the April 1, 2011 release tells the tale of an out-of-work slacker (James Marsden) who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny (voiced by Russell Brand) and must take him in as he recovers. As Fred struggles with the world’s worst houseguest, both will learn what it takes to finally grow up.

Perkins will play Marsden’s exasperated mother.

The Enchanted actor and former Versace model confessed he used to be a singer in a cheesy band when he was first starting out.

Speaking at A Fine Romance, a charity fundraiser of celebrity performances honouring musicals from stage and screen, James said: “I was in Oklahoma so I was in a country band called Trailblazers or something embarrassing like that.”

He joked that he and Hugh Jackman – who was also at the event – could work together in music, laughing: “We could do the X-Men duet.”

Jimmy performed at the 5th Annual “A Fine Romance” Benefit at Fox Studio Lot in Century City on May 1, 2010. I’ve uploaded high quality photos from this event.

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Public Appearances > 2010 Appearances > [2010.05.01]The 5th Annual “A Fine Romance” Benefit (HQ)

Actor James Marden says the resources afforded him as a drama student while attending high school far exceeded the experiences of his peers in Hollywood.

Marsden spoke of the importance of strong arts programs in public schools as he was inducted into the Putnam City Schools Foundation’s 2010 Wall of Fame Tuesday. The 36-year-old attended Putnam City North High School in west Oklahoma City.

Marsden, whose films include “X-Men,” ”The Notebook,” and the recent comedy “Death at a Funeral,” says most of his peers didn’t have a stage to perform on, “much less a 1,600-seat performing arts center.”

Jimmy and Lisa attended the Tod’s Boutique Grand Opening at Tod’s Boutique in Beverly Hills yesterday. I’ve uploaded 24 HQ photos from this event to the gallery.

(Edited: I added 30 more HQ photos from this event.)

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Public Appearances > 2010 Appearances > [2010.04.15]Tod’s Boutique Grand Opening (HQ)

Getting laughs can be a challenge when you’re starring alongside professional funnymen Tracy Morgan, Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock.
So what’s an actor to do? If you’re James Marsden, who stars in Death at a Funeral, opening today, you creatively lose your mind.

“I’ve never taken acid or any hard drug,” Marsden, 36, says. “My wife (former Days of Our Lives actress Lisa Linde) tried to get me to take a mushroom, but I was too scared. Instead I watched a documentary on the man who invented LSD. But the most important research I gathered was from the crewmembers. I asked them about their acid trips in the 1960s and 1970s.”

For Marsden, the role was liberating.

Actor James Marsden’s wife was so keen for him to land his drugged-out role in new film Death At A Funeral, she suggested he take hallucinogens to experience a real life drug trip before his audition.

The actor’s character, Oscar, accidentally mistakes acid for Valium and trips throughout the comedy.

And his wife, former actress Lisa Linde, was convinced getting high on mushrooms would help him ace his audition.

Jimmy and Lisa attended Sony Pictures Releasing’s “Death At A Funeral” premiere held at Arclight Cinema in Los Angeles yesterday. Just uploaded 81 HQ photos from this event to the gallery.

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Public Appearances > 2010 Appearances > [2010.04.12]”Death At A Funeral” Los Angeles Premiere (HQ)