Redbox, the Blu-ray and DVD kiosk renter, announced with a little fanfare their movies that were rented the most, by genre, during the course of last year. You will notice that most of the popular rentals were not award winners or box office stand outs.

Here are the results announced via a 5-minute video presentation by Redbox:

•Most Rented Action Movie: Green Hornet
•Most Rented Family Movie: Rango
•Most Rented Horror Movie: Insidious
•Most Rented Comedy Movie: Just Go With It
•Most Rented Drama Movie: The Tourist

Looking at the Redbox’s tally for individuals, we start with Natalie Portman who is honored with the most-rented actress of 2011, due to Black Swan, Your Highness, No Strings Attached and Thor.

Your Highness

Next is Kevin James who took the praise as lifetime achievement award for entertaining Redbox users year-after-year. His Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) is the fastest Redbox DVD to reach the one millionth mark.

Thus, it’s hard for me to believe, the most rented Redbox film of 2011 was Just Go With It. The silly comedy stars Adam Sandler and Jennifer Anniston. Anniston was even honored with a bonus award for her other comedy role as the sex-crazed dentist in the dark-comedy Horrible Bosses.

Just Go With It

You may be asking yourself why relatively unsuccessful box office movies, like Green Hornet, are so popular at Redbox. It’s easy to surmise that movie goers wait for the box office duds to arrive on the disc rental market to rent them. If you do the math, box office money makers stay in the theaters longer, such as Fast Five, Kung Fu Panda 2, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and their Blu-ray and DVDs counter-parts are purchased by movie goers – instead of rented — whereas less-popular movies are rented via kiosks or Netflix.

The Redbox results indicate the older releases have better records because titles like Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean, arrived closer to the end of the year. Still, not a single one of the award winners takes a position on the current Redbox Top 20.

It will be interesting to watch Redbox during 2012 because from the looks of it, see the above graphic, the kiosk movie renter is sure to expand even more.

I can’t believe that I am writing this and saying that Jack and Jill looks like a funny movie. Adam Sandler plays both Jack and Jill. They are twins; one is a boy and one is a girl. Neither one looks very handsome or pretty.

But that’s not the point. The point is that it is a little raunchy, most Sandler movies are, but I had fun watching this trailer.  Call me crazy or stupid, it still looks like a winner.

Katie Holmes also stars as Jack’s wife; she is adorable. Al Pacino also stars as a love struck man hitting on Sandler as Jill.

I wish Sandler could just let the humor unfold because the story is a great idea.  He could learn from the best: Billy Wilder, Michael Curtis and Charlie Chaplin.

With that said, the movie is about a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant’s kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

Directed by Dennis Dugan the comedy stars Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman (she’s not in the trailer but listed as cast member), Brooklyn Decker and Dave Matthews.        

The movie opens February 11, 2010.

Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg are negotiating with Columbia Pictures to star together in I Hate You Dad, a comedy that Sandler’s Happy Madison banner is producing, according to an exclusive report from THR.

The story is about a father who moves in on the eve of his son’s wedding and promptly begins feuding with the bride-to-be. Sandler would play the dad, with Samberg as the son, even though less than 12 years separate the two in real life. 

A director is not attached with Dad in the development stages, but the two actors are attached. Dad was written by David Caspe with a rewrite by David Wain and Ken Marino. 

While Sandler is a former Saturday Night Live cast member, Samberg is among the current members of the long running program. Working with Sandler could possibly give Samberg his biggest movie break yet.

Sandler will next be seen in Just Go With It opens February 11, 2011. Samberg will next be seen in Friends With Benefits, a take on the sex-with-buddies genre that stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis.

I like the idea of the story and can see how it could work, but Adam Sandler adds too much raunchy humor.  It’s too much like Jell-O.  Why does he have to be gross to be funny? Why can’t he just let the humor unfold?   

He could learn from the best: Billy Wilder, Michael Curtis and Charlie Chaplin.

With that said, the movie is about a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant’s kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

Directed by Dennis Dugan the comedy stars Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman (she’s not in the trailer), Brooklyn Decker and Dave Matthews.        

The movie opens February 11, 2010.

Before Adam Sandler embarked on a movie career of dubious quality playing essentially the same character over and over again, he was a character actor of reasonable quality who really made Saturday Night Live fun. And that’s what we’re going to get here with Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler, a copy of which the folks at Lions Gate sent me to cover.

Yes, all the great songs–the Christmas Song, the Hanukkah Song, the immortal classic Lunch Lady Land, and so on–all the great Weekend Update characters (both Cajun Man and Opera Man are here), along with the Gap Girls, are right here, and they’re still pretty funny.

Though time has done some unpleasant things here–for instance, the Schmitts Gay commercial had its musical score replaced with something instrumental, and that took a little bit out of it as I still remember the original score. It’s the same deal with The Denise Show, but at least they kept the Springsteen song with Courteney Cox’s appearance–many of the laughs are still here, as are some really nifty history lessons.

However, there are some problems here–as was the case with Eddie Murphy’s installment, much of the topical humor depends on an understanding of early nineties history, like the L.A. riots and Fergie’s topless photos. And some sketches have an unsettling tendency to drag on way too long and flog the dead horse of the joke–the Springsteen sketch is a perfect example, and Canteen Boy is a masterstroke of awkwardness–but still, there’s lots of great laughs here, and that’s a whole lot better than the alternative.

Actually, in an aggregate sense, Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler may be the best of the lot so far.  I think I laughed at this one more than I did with most any other one, and while the sheer audacity of the Eddie Murphy collection (I still laugh when I think of Cill My Landlord) wasn’t here, it definitely outclassed Tracy Morgan’s version, and Will Ferrell’s paled in comparison.

The Screenhead Ten Scale recognizes a fun time when it sees it, and hands over an eight of ten for a series of cheap but terribly effective laughs.

Adam Sandler talks about family.

Adam Sandler talks new movie Grown Ups.

Kevin James will work with Sony as producer and actor on the action comedy Here Comes the Boom. Salma Hayek may join James as the film’s female lead, but no casting deals are in place yet.

The film might start as early as January, and story details for Boom are being kept under wraps. James wrote the script with Rock Reuben, who wrote The Zookeeper, which James is also starring in.

Adam Sandler, who stars with James in Grown Ups, has agreed to produce Boom through his Happy Madison shingle, but he will not star in the comedy.

Adam Sandler is making a new film with Jennifer Aniston, and one of his co-stars will be Brooklyn Decker.

Decker, who appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, will appear in her first role ever, in a film entitled Just Go With It, which was originally entitled Pretend Wife.

Sandler is once again working with Tim Herlihy on the script, which will more than likely be another Happy Madison production from director Dennis Dugan (You Don’t Mess With the Zohan).

Supposed production will begin in March, with a release date set for Valentine’s day weekend next year. So, will it be next year’s Valentine’s Day?

Grown Ups promotional banner is hanging at your local theater this week for Dennis Dugan’s upcoming comedy, which stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider. Kevin James is by far the cutest of them all while Chris Rock appears to have not aged one iota.  The comedy opens June 25, 2010.