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Actor Jason Segel has written a series of three young adult novels, based on a script he wrote when he was 21, he revealed at a Q&A following a screening of Forgetting Sarah Marshall in New York. "It's about kids facing their biggest fears, that's all I can tell you," he said.

Four wide releases are vying for your box office dollars this weekend, but they are in the unenviable position of having to open a week before The Avengers. But hey, it's better to open the week before than a week after. In the romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star as an engaged couple who puts off saying I do for a couple of years. The movie will mine their obstructions in getting to the altar for laughs until the very last frame.

This week at the movies, we've got a Muppet caper (The Muppets, starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams), a special delivery (Arthur Christmas, with voice work from James McAvoy and Hugh Laurie), and a cinematic fantasia (Hugo, starring Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz). It's been more than a decade since the Muppets were in multiplexes, but critics say it was worth the wait: they find The Muppets to be a joyous musical comedy.

If you have seen “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” you probably saw this unusual trailer for “The Muppets,” the movie that marks the return of Kermit the Frog and co. to the big screen.