If you’ve never heard of director Will Gluck, then learn his name now because he is one filmmaker that you will be hearing from for a very long time. Gluck first made a name for himself as a feature film director last year with his sophomore outing Easy A starring Emma Stone, which went on to become both a critical and box office success. His recent release Friends with Benefits, has received positive reviews and earned almost $20 million in its debut last weekend despite opening opposite Captain America: The First Avenger on the second weekend of Potter-mania. All things considered, Gluck is well on his way to becoming one of the most interesting and unexpected mainstream directors working in the industry today.

Will Gluck began his career on TV writing for such short-lived but popular shows as Grosse Pointe, and Andy Richter Controls the Universe, as well as creating series like Luis, and The Loop. He made the jump to the big screen by helming the collegiate comedy Fired Up in 2009 before producing and directing Easy A, and eventually Friends with Benefits. His newest outing, the “will they or won’t they” comedy Friends with Benefits starring Justin Timberlake (The Social Network), and Mila Kunis (Black Swan), hit theaters on July 22nd and features the two sexy stars as platonic friends who engage in the age old experiment to see if acquaintances of the opposite sex can sleep together with out letting their emotions get in the way of their friendship.

Some things that are enjoyable about the latest red band trailer for Friends with Benefits, in no particular order.  1. Two sexy people (Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake) not infrequently being sexy together.  2. An abundance of casual expletives.  3.  An even greater amount of even more casual sexy talk, sometimes dirty, sometimes euphemistic, sometimes both at once.  4. Woody Harrelson going way over the top while engaging in behavior established in number 3.  5 and 6.  Emma Stone and Andy Samberg in what are sure to be brief but funny roles, with Stone in particular going amusing crazy on the subject of John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland." 

Despite these enjoyable aspects, Friends with Benefits does look as though it will adhere rigidly to a romantic comedy formula, but I suppose that for many people, the predictability of the genre can actually be a plus.  Either way, enjoy the film's second red band trailer, which is quite different from the first one released many moons ago.

Too often in film, and in comedy in particular, talented actresses are consigned to playing shallow objects of male desire, characters who exist purely as a reflection of a male lead's motivations.  Making her feature debut in 2007's Superbad, however, Emma Stone played a love interest who could very well have been just such a character, but Stone turned in a performance that imbued her with confidence, charm, and a real identity.  Since then, the actress has displayed her formidable comedic timing in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, The House Bunny, and of course Zombieland, but it was her Golden Globe-nominated work last year's Easy A that Stone demonstrated her ability to carry an entire film as an appealing and charismatic lead.

This summer, she's starring alongside Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling in the ensemble romance Crazy, Stupid, Love. and heading up a cast that includes Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Jessica Chastain in The Help, based on the bestselling novel by Kathryn Stockett.  She also turns up in Easy A director Will Gluck's new comedy Friends With Benefits.  Next summer, though, she'll star in the 3D reboot The Amazing Spider-Man as Gwen Stacy (a role previously played briefly by Dallas Howard in Spider-Man 3) alongside Andrew Garfield as the new Peter Parker.  Covering the press junket for The Help on behalf of IAR, Krystal Clark had the opportunity to chat with Emma Stone about the high-profile role as a beloved character the new cinematic origin of Spider-Man.

After the success of The Social Network, several of the producers for that film – Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti – acquired the rights to the upcoming book Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich, who wrote The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, on which The Social Network was based.  Now, The LA Times (via Dark Horizons) reports that the adaptation has found a writer and director in Will Gluck, the man behind last year's surprise success Easy A.

You know what the No Strings Attached was missing?  That romantic comedy about two attractive people agreeing to enjoy carnal pleasures without emotional connection may have had Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, but it didn't have any songs by Kriss Kross.  The new trailer for Friends With Benefits, starring Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, indicates that this is one romantic comedy with the courage to proudly include the song 'Jump, Jump'.  In my book, that makes it the superior film by default.  See for yourself:

Can two people have a sexual relationship without getting into the schematics of something deeper? That is exactly what the new trailer for Friends with Benefits explores.

Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis star as a couple who are exploring that very option. Clearly the two are attracted to each other, but neither seems to want to get serious. Thus a conflict is about to happen. We all know that no matter how casual you make it, sex can always get complicated.

Check out ARTISTdirect's Editor-in-Chief, Rick Florino in our Exclusive interview with Emma Stone and Penn Badgley from the movie Easy A.

Emma Stone is shockingly cool.  Ever since her fantastic performance in Superbad, she has become one of the most charming young talents in Hollywood.

In Easy A, she plays a good girl who helps start a rumor about her and her gay friend which goes out of control.  And since this is high school, we all know how quickly that kind of thing can spread.

iamROGUE.com and ARTISTdirect.com had the chance to speak with Emma and her on-screen love interest Penn Badgley (who plays Woodchuck Todd).  The two spoke about the film, music and just how many sides there are to a story like this.

Easy A opens 9.17.10 at a theatre near you so go check it out!

The first ten minutes of the new Emma Stone comedy Easy A have popped up online, and we've got 'em for your viewing pleasure, embedded below. Here's another movie where we have to pretend Emma Stone can be "anonymous" to the opposite sex. Yeah, okay... But, that said, because she's so appealing and likable, we're apt to just follow along on her goofy journey. (Plus you get to see her in the shower at one point!)

There are always going to be dueling projects in Hollywood: dueling volcano movies, dueling Capote movies, dueling giant rock crashing into Earth movies... Heck, right now there are even Marilyn Monroe movies fighting for first dibs...

Well, it would seem as though there are dueling Friends With Benefits projects going on right now: one is being directed by Ivan Reitman and stars Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman; the other - the one I'll be talking about here - stars Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake. (There's also a t.v. show with the very same title in production; hasn't this term been around a long time already? Why is Hollywood just catching on?)

In any event, the Kunis/Timberlake one is adding a healthy amount of supporting players to its cast - according to The Wrap, Zombieland co-stars Emma Stone and Woody Harrelson have signed on to the flick. This will also reunite Stone with her Easy A director Will Gluck.