Forgetting Sarah Marshall finds Jason Segel vacationing in Hawaii to forget the girl (Kristen Bell) who just dumped him. Alas, she's at the same resort with her new beau! It's the latest comedy from the Apatow camp, and it hits theaters this weekend. Cinematical spoke one-on-one with the film's director, Nicholas Stoller, regarding the movie, his upcoming Muppet project, and how much onscreen penis is too much onscreen penis.

Cinematical: Is it intimidating for you knowing that every movie associated with Apatow these days is such a comedy event? Does that put pressure on you as the director to live up to that standard?

Nicholas Stoller: Not really, I'm still excited I got to make a movie, so I'm not really thinking in terms of if it's going to be a big event. Our movie was cheap so we don't have to make up that much money. It amuses me, and I hope that it amuses more people.

Cinematical: It amused me, so there's one extra person anyway.

NS: We have you and me and we just need 30 million more Americans.

The news that Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, the duo behind the upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall, were pairing up for a Muppet movie was pretty exciting. Longtime fans of the Muppets have been hoping this would be a return to the truly funny Muppets of the 70's and 80's, and not the watered down version of Muppet Treasure Island.

But if you're wondering if the Muppets would begin to resemble Seth Rogen's roommates in Knocked Up (of which Segel was one), you would be very wrong indeed.

ComingSoon.net asked Segel about getting to work with the Muppets, and he responded with what can only be called ecstasy: "It's hilarious, fantastic, heart-wrenching, beautiful, nostalgic and remarkable." Asked if he was a big fan of the show (why do they think he told the Muppets he wanted to do a movie?), he continued to enthuse. "I just remember being 10 years old and for me Kermit was Tom Hanks. Kermit is like the original every man and I remember watching the old Muppet with my parents and seeing Peter Sellers and people like that on. I've always had Muppet pictures and figurines all through my house. Now that I'm getting to write it, I feel like all if my dreams are coming true."

Segel couldn't say whether he would be appearing in the film as himself or as a Muppet. "We'll see what they come up with."

Forget Sarah Marshall, hello Miss Piggy!

According to Variety, Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, the writer-director duo behind the upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall, have just inked a deal with Disney to create a new Muppet film. They'll collaborate on the script, and Stoller will direct.

Apparently, this partnership with Disney came about entirely due to Marshall. In the film, Segel's character writes a Dracula musical performed by puppets. The puppets were custom made by the Henson geniuses. Segel took the chance to pitch a concept to the Muppets, and the rest will be history.

I think this is fantastic news. It's been far too long since we had a Muppet movie, which is quite sad when I remember what childhood staples they were. And remember how adult and edgy they were in their heyday? If anyone can bring that back to the Muppets, it is Segel and Stoller. It will be really interesting to see what they might get away with -- and what cameos will pop up in the movie. I hope this brings in a Muppet Renaissance!

I shouldn't admit it, but I am losing track of what all Judd Apatow is bringing to the screen in the coming months. It is like he is producing or directing everything!

At any rate, there's a new one on the horizon. Variety reports that Judd Apatow, Nick Stoller and Jason Segel are teaming up again with Universal Pictures for Five Year Engagement. They are fresh off their last collaboration, the upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Segel and Stoller will once again co-write the script, with Segel reassuming leading man duties. Apatow will produce with Shauna Robertson. Not surprisingly, it is another raunchy comedy about a couple, this time charting the ups and downs of one that is engaged to be married. "It's definitely an extension of our desire to explore the depth of human misery," Stoller says. "If Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell) and Jason's character had stayed together, this might be the sequel."

I think we can all agree that no one captures the ugliness of a relationship quite as well as Apatow's crew. Will the formula be utterly worn out by Five Year Engagement, or is there still plenty of miserable depth to explore?

Actress Kristen Bell, who I first encountered as a teenage hooker and thief named Flora in the TV show Deadwood, has been steadily building up credits for the past few years, and now appears poised for a breakthrough. Production Weekly has learned that Bell will headline a romantic comedy called Forgetting Sarah Marshall during her next hiatus from the television show Veronica Mars. The film will mark the directing debut of Nick Stoller, who I assume is the same Nicholas Stoller who wrote the Jim Carrey vehicle Fun With Dick and Jane. Bell and co-star Jason Segel will play a boyfriend and girlfriend who break up and then accidentally head to the same vacation resort to get away from each other. Production on the film is scheduled to commence in April, in Hawaii and Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Bell has also lined up another role, this time co-starring alongside William H. Macy in the film Antique, from Renji Philip. Bell's role will be Claire, a girl who befriends a homeless man played by Macy, and presumably learns some kind of life lessons from him. Anne Archer, Rachel Leigh Cook and Lolita Davidovich also have roles in the film. Other upcoming projets for Bell, previously announced, include Fanboys, about some youngsters who embark on a road trip to see Star Wars: Episode 1, and the animated film Flatland: The Movie.