The first official synopses for two Universal flicks have been released: the live-action/CG-animated Ted and the comedy The Five-Year Engagement.

Directed by Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), The Five-Year Engagement stars Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Alison Brie, Chris Pratt, Rhys Ifans, Mindy Kaling, Lauren Weedman, David Paymer, Kevin Hart, Jacki Weaver and Dakota Johnson. Co-written by Segel and Stoller, the film follows a young couple’s (Segel and Blunt) extended engagement and the bumps and bruises that they undergo along the way. Judd Apatow is producing.

Genre: Comedy
Cast: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie and Rhys Ifans
Directed by: Nicholas Stoller
Writers: Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller
Produced by: Judd Apatow, Nicholas Stoller, Rodney Rothman
Executive Producers: Richard Vane, Jason Segel

The director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. The film was written by Segel and Stoller.

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You can watch Alison Brie in the short film Salvation, Texas below! This film ran the film festival circuit back in 2008 and was never released on a wide scale until recently.

The Alison Brie Source photo gallery has been updated with 331 HD screen captures of Alison Brie from the season 2 finale episode of Community titled “For a Few Paintballs More.” Also added are screen captures from the special opening credits!

Alison Brie, one of the stars of NBC’s Community, was thrilled when she learned there would be another campus paintball war at Greendale Community College. “Our first paintball episode [in Season 1] had been so epic and so well-received,” says Brie, who plays Annie, the high-strung perfectionist of the mismatched study group. “People consider it a turning point for our show.” Besides, she adds, “I was especially excited because Annie got taken out pretty early when we did the original paintball episode and this time I really have a lot more to do.” In the two-part movie Western-themed season finale, Annie has toughened up quite a bit. She has “more swagger” and an element of “cool badassery.” But isn’t it always the way? There’s also an inevitable downside. And in the case of paintball episodes, Brie says, it’s that paint winds up in the most inconvenient places. “Like deep in the caverns of my ears,” she says. “I clean my ears. I’m not a dirty bird. I swear! I’ll clean them every time I shower, every day, and I still had paint coming out of my ears, like, a week later. I couldn’t believe it. It grossed me out.” The things actors endure for their art. “It’s true!” The season finale of Community, titled “For a Few Paintballs More,” airs at 7 p.m. CT Thursday, May 12.

What’s the deal with Annie’s clothes — or lack of them — in these season-ending paintball episodes?
“Annie starts out kind of dressed, but then she just loses her clothing. She’s a girl who has been through a lot. When we catch up with Annie, pretty much at the beginning of the first of the two episodes, she’s already been through quite a bit and the clothes were just slowing her down. So she had to just, you know, let them go. Somehow I don’t think the male viewers are having a problem with the costume.”

If you could cook up your own offbeat, movie-themed homage episode, what might it be?
“Gosh, an underwater episode. I think a mermaid episode, like The Little Mermaid. That would be the best. That would be kind of awesome. Like a Splash episode where Annie just shows up, like, naked on a beach and then you’re like, ‘Oh, my God, she’s a mermaid.’ I’m going to pitch it.”

Is there a lot of you in the character and a lot of the character in you?
“I think there is a lot of overlap. More so now than there was at the beginning of Season 1, just because our writers pay attention. They kind of just put little things that we do in the scripts all the time. I mean, obviously we’re playing characters and nobody on the show is exactly like their characters. But all the characters and actors are slowly morphing closer together with each episode that we do. So it’s not a huge stretch for me. Also, there are ‘Annieisms’ that are not totally me, but they’re becoming habit.”

Do you think Annie’s romantic feelings toward Jeff (Joel McHale) will ever amount to anything?
“I think she definitely still has a thing for Jeff. I just think she’s young and impressionable. They shared a very romantic kiss, an exchange. I think that she looks up to him in a lot of ways and I think a lot of her journey is her trying to be her own leader, as opposed to always kind of everybody following Jeff and looking up to Jeff. I would imagine that’s hard for her, since she has a crush on him. Maybe she’ll always have a crush on him. Of course, there was a great moment this season with Troy (Donald Glover) and Annie. They went to school together. They grew up together. They’re the same age. So the Troy and Annie thing I still find appealing. However, she could end up with anybody. You never know.”

Now that you put it that way, there also was an episode in which Annie and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) came close to kissing, wasn’t there?
“It was such a funny thing, because it wasn’t in the script. We just sort of like kind of improvised it when we were doing it. Joe Russo, one of our producers, was there. He was like, ‘I’ll just yell, “Kiss her,” and then you guys do that.’ I couldn’t believe they kept it in the episode, to be honest.”

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Alison Brie has teased that her character Annie might go lesbian on Community. But would good girl Annie be into girls for good, or would she actually be bi (leaving her open to dating more guys)?

It’s hard to imagine Annie turning out to be a full-fledged lesbian after seeing her reveal her feelings for Jeff a few times on the show, but it’s pretty easy to see her experimenting with her sexuality — she seems to be trying really hard to break out of her squeaky-clean shell.

However, Annie wouldn’t start hanging around a lesbian for the same reason Britta did in “Early 21st Century Romanticism” — she would have to actually find a girl she has strong feelings for. In that episode, hipster Britta befriended a girl she thought was a lesbian to show how accepting she is, a faux friendship that ended in a self-righteous make out session. Annie, on the other hand, actually seemed to want to make out with Britta at the end of the episode, so it’s not hard to see her experimenting with girls (after all, lots of girls have similar college experimentation stories).

Plus Alison Brie bears a striking resemblance to “I Kissed a Girl” singer Katy Perry, while her character seems to share the same sheltered upbringing as the pop star that wasn’t even allowed to have “deviled” eggs (a joke that definitely would work on Community). Annie could become a sort of Jewish version of Katy Perry, dressing in kitschy, crazy clothes and dating a lesbian that looks like Russell Brand (the guy already wears girl’s pants). And instead of just writing a song about it like Katy, Annie could actually kiss a girl and like it.

Unfortunately Alison Brie has only said that there’s a possibility that “more gay stuff could creep in” in the future, so Community fans hoping to see Alison hook up with another girl will just have to wait and see if it actually happens (and if it does, Britta is going to be so jealous of her friend’s cool new lifestyle).

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Alison Brie is featured on the cover of the May 2011 issue of “Pasadena” Magazine! You can check out a preview of the cover below.

The Alison Brie Source photo gallery has been updated with 209 HD screen captures of Alison Brie from this week’s episode of Community titled “Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts.”