Comic actor Shelley Malil, most remembered for his role in the hit movie ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin,’ was convicted of attempted murder on September 16, PEOPLE is reporting. He stabbed his girlfrined Kendra Beebe more than 20 times for talking to another man, musician David Maldonado, at her San marcos home. The verdict was read by a San Diego Superior Court jury in Vista, California. During the trial, Malil testified that he stabbed Beebe in 2008 because he thought she was someone else attacking him in the dark. Beebe testified that during their on-again, off-again one year relationship, he was volatile, jealous and possessive. Malil’s public defender said he acted in…

Actor Shelley Mali, who is most remembered for playing an electronics-store clerk in ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin,’ was calm before he repeatedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend Kendra Beebe in August 2008, she testified on August 31 at his attempted murder trial. People.com is reporting that Beebe told a jury in Vista, California that she felt primal, instinctual fear when Malil calmly walked up to her while they were at a barbecue and pulled a knife from behind his back. Beebe also told the jury that Malil stabbed her more than 20 times, including three times in the torso. At the time of the attack, she said she was socializing with local musician…

According to “Variety”, renowned Hong Kong comedian, producer, and martial arts actor and director Stephen Chow has dropped out of directing the big-screen adaptation of “The Green Hornet”. No new director has been announced yet though producer Neil Moritz and Columbia Studios are setting up to find one and hope to maintain their timeline of starting shooting the action-comedy in the spring. Though he will still be starring alongside “Knocked Up” and “Zach and Miri Make a Porno” star Seth Rogen as the black-clad Kato to Rogen’s take on the masked green-clad avenger in a trench coat, based on the character, created in the 1930′s as a character in a…

Seth Rogen (“Knocked Up”, “The 40-Year Old Virgin”), according to Scifi.com, has told reporters that he has been working out and slimming down for the title role in “The Green Hornet”, a screenplay written by him and Evan Goldberg, based on the classic radio hero Green Hornet and his chauffer/sidekick Kato. While doing press for the upcoming Kevin Smith film “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”, starring Rogen and Elizabeth Banks, he said “You need to physically believe I can run around and jump over s–t and punch people […] It’s all just to serve the movie. Comic book or not, it’s just a commitment to the movie. I mean,…

“The Office” and “The 40-Year Old Virgin” star Steve Carell has been attached to star in “The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard”, a comedy based on storied by Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The title character of the Napoleonic Wars-era film, played by Carell, is both the bravest and the dumbest soldier in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army and follows his from his rise to power to his permanent island exile on St. Helena’s, where Napoleon died in 1821. The script is by John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, and Mike Judge and Krinksy will be executive producers on this film along with Michael Rotenberg and Tom Lassally, which is shooting for…