French, 55, is set to star in James Corden's new BBC Two comedy thriller The Wrong Mans later this year.

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Rush Hour, Chan's new action-comedy-thriller, set box office records in the U.S. and is about to do the same across Asia.

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Joining a hive could be as simple as laughing or gasping along with an audience at a comedy or thriller (movie attendance is up 17.5 percent this year).

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Affleck had to combine a tense thriller with a comedy that takes place over the course of a very unwieldy series of events with a lot of players, while also trying to keep the essence of the story true.

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Jill and I will be shooting for a romantic comedy, as opposed to the more popular psychological thriller.

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He's putting his money behind films like The Rebound, a romantic comedy starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Law Abiding Citizen, a thriller staring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler.

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She's co-starring with Samuel L. Jackson in the feature thriller "Reasonable Doubt, " will be appearing with Geena Davis in a comedy pilot for TNT, and has a recurring role during the third season of that network's sci-fi series "Falling Skies, " a gig that reunites her with "ER" alum Noah Wyle.

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