Jen will be on Today Show on September 26.

We have reached an interesting and, frankly, depressing place in modern political dialogue, where even trying to tackle the subject guarantees that part of your audience will walk away angry. My first political memory involves the Watergate trials, so it’s little wonder I’ve grown up in an increasingly cynical political atmosphere. I do wonder sometimes if it’s even possible to fix things at this point, or if we are simply at the point where there will never be something like a middle ground again.

We ran a piece here about the statement that Harvey Weinstein sent along to be ready before the public premiere of “Butter” at the Toronto Film Festival last week, and while it drew some big laughs in the room and got some play in the press, I felt like it was yet another set of battle lines being drawn. And while there are many things I like about the film, which is definitely worth seeing, there’s a chance that its merits will be ignored in the conversation over the easy targets that the movie singles out, especially in the climate as we’re gearing up towards the 2012 election season. (more…)

ABC has picked up a pair of comedy pitches from two very different voices.

Cartoon Marriage, is a family comedy executive produced by former Alias star Jennifer Garner and based on the book by married New Yorker cartoonists Michael Maslin and Liza Donnelly. Garner and her producing partner Juliana Janes will executive produce through their Vandalia Films shingle. Less Than Perfect creator Terri Minsky will adapt the project.

ABC Studios is behind projects.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/

Jen with cast member talk Butter.

I have added 3 more outtakes from new photoshoot. They are HQ.

GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoot Toronto 2011

The big surprise of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, for me, is undoubtedly Jim Field Smith’s Butter, a hilarious political satire using a butter sculpting competition in Iowa to poke fun at 2008′s political race between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. There is room to find parallels to all facets of politics over recent years in Jason Micallef’s debut screenplay pitting a young black orphan up against a cold-hearted and determined housewife and you shouldn’t need to watch CNN on a daily basis to realize whom the two are meant to represent.

Jennifer Garner’s voice over prepares us for what is to come in the film’s opening moments saying this is a story of “greed, black mail, sex and butter.” However, this film presents the strangest way of devising a political satire I can think of as we’re introduced to the little-known world of butter carving through Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell) and his ambitious wife Laura (Garner). (more…)

Thanks to Pauline for a heads up.

Jennifer Garner isn’t necessarily a political junkie, but she’s spending a lot of time fielding questions about the politics behind her new comedy, Butter, which is teeming with satirical references to the Clintons, Sarah Palin, and Michele Bachmann — it even features a butter carving of Newt Gingrich on a horse! Then again, Laura Pickler, the conniving wife of Iowa’s outgoing butter sculpture champion (Ty Burrell) is a side of Garner we’ve never seen before. Foul-mouthed and ruthless, she terrifies anyone — even adorable 10-year-old orphans — who deigns threaten her grip on power. (more…)