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Movie Review: Year One Is A Lifeless, Laughless Throwback
Posted on Friday, June 19th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
In the wickedly underrated David Wain comedy Wet Hot American Summer, there is a sequence where Michael Showalter, in character as a stand-up comic geezer, entertains a bunch of kids at camp with awful jokes about the Stone Age. The joke isn’t his routine, but that the kids are laughing at these terrible, stale caveman gags. Thinking along those lines, I’d be happier (though unconvinced) if Harold Ramis argued that his new movie Year One was a full-length meta comedy about terrible jokes, though I know it’s just a bad, ramshackle movie that assumes its audience is comprised primarily of children. Read More »
Michael Cera Has No Interest In Ghostbusters 3, Jack Black Would Bust Ghosts If He Could
Posted on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Even before a third Ghostbusters film was officially announced, I heard rumors that Year One/The Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky were working on a script and that they were writing a role for Year One star Michael Cera. While the details of Eisenberg and Stupnitsky’s role in the project turned out to be true, and quickly spread around the world, nothing has ever been said about Cera’s possible involvement.
VOTD: Jack Black and Michael Cera Are Proud of Their Son Andy Samberg
Posted on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Jack Black and Michael Cera appear as Andy Samberg’s parents in this funny new one minute advertisement for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. For those of you who don’t follow (or watch mindless reality tv on the channel), Samberg is hosting this year’s ceremony, which airs live on Sunday May 31st.
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Paper Heart was one of the most talked about films going into Sundance 2009, and ended up winning the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. The film starts out as a documentary.Charlyne Yi does not believe in love. Paper Heart follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to explore the the one subject she doesn’t fully understand.But the film is also partly a scripted, telling the blossoming relationship between Charlyne and real life boyfriend Michael Cera. Will Charlyne be transformed into a true believer? The answer is more complicated than what you might expect.
The film’s trailer was attached to 17 Again, and is now available online thanks to Apple. Overture Films will be releasing the movie in theaters on August 7th. I think this film is actually quite clever, and that most people that screened the film at Sundance almost completely missed (or should I say, didn’t even notice) the story’s multi-layered story (read the spoiler section of my review ONLY after you have seen the movie). Check out the trailer after the jump and tell me what you think in the comments below.
Scott Pilgrim Video Blog #2: First Day of Principal Photography
Posted on Friday, April 17th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Edgar Wright has released a new video blog showing the first day of principal photography on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Wright talks about why he directs the start of a scene with “Go!” instead of “Action!” Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera and the other cast members talk about the start of filming. Watch the video after the jump.
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Scott Pilgrim Video Blog #1: Welcome To The Stunt Stage
Posted on Friday, April 10th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Edgar Wright has posted the first of a series of weekly video blogs for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on the film’s official website. The video was recorded on the stunt stage, and we get to see a lot of stunt action, sword fighting, and even some footage of the bands rehearsing. Watch it after the jump. Also, after the jump, we have the film’s first studio released plot synopsis.
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Scott Pilgrim Pap Snaps Show Comic Characters Come to Life, Dakota Fanning Mysteriously Linked to a Role?
Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has finally entered principal photography today and, true to form, the long lens brigade have cracked off a few snapshots of the cast. Canadian Tabloids have pictures of Michael Cera as Pilgrim, Kieran Culkin as Wallace Wells, Chris Evans as Lucas Lee and Alison Pill as Kim Pine. None of them are actually in character in any of the shots (well, I’m guessing not - does Cera strike you as being method?) but they are in costume, with hair and makeup done and that’s the best we’ve been given yet. (Editor’s Note: The photos have been removed)
There’s a little look at each of them below the break (and I do mean little) as well as details of Dakota Fanning’s apparent casting in the movie.
Columbia Pictures has released the full theatrical movie trailer for Year One. The film stars Jack Black and Michael Cera, as a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers who are banished from their primitive village, and set off on an epic journey through the ancient world. Directed by National Lampoon’s Vacation and Groundhog Day helmer Harold Ramis, and written by Office scribes Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg (you know, the guys working on the new Ghostbusters script).
I feel like I should be into this a lot more than I am. The movie is being unofficially billed as “this generation’s Life of Brian”, but I’m not impressed with that I’ve seen thus far. I’m a fan of most of the comic cast, a big fan of the director’s earlier work, and the concept has a lot of potential, but I’m not finding many of the jokes particularly funny or clever. It seems like they chose to go for more of a traditional comedy than play with the abundance of possible biblical jokes. Watch the new trailer after the jump and leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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First Look: Aubrey Plaza and The Bands of Scott Pilgrim
Posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
You might not know who Aubrey Plaza is right now, but you will soon enough. The Upright Citizen’s Brigade comic was featured in the Sundance comedy hit Mystery Team and has co-starring roles in Judd Apatow’s Funny People and Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Speaking of which, it has been quite a while since we last posted an update on the comic book adaptation. Today, Wright posted the first photo of Plaza (seen above), who plays Julie Powers, the obnoxious on-off-on-again girlfriend of Stephen Stills, the lead singer and guitarist of Scott’s band, Sex Bob-omb, and Stacey Pilgrim’s (Anna Kendrick) coffee shop co-worker. And guess what? You can see the first photo of the band rehearsing after the jump, as well as a photo from and their rivals — The Clash At Demonhead.
Michael Cera Stops Holding Out On Arrested Development Movie
Posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
Nameless inside sources have apparently told E! Online’s Watch With Kristin that Michael Cera has buckled and agreed to board the Arrested Development movie. I suspect the film would have happened in some fashion even without him, but this should make the fans happier and more optimistic at least. I like Michael. He’s genuinely charming, I think.
The best bit of the story? A quote from Ron Howard, speaking on the Oscars’ red carpet: “It’s looking very much like we’re going to make [the movie], but we’ve now been asked to stop offering any details. It’s cloaked in a little mystery, but it’s looking good.” Yeah - they have been running off at the mouth an awful lot these last months.
Just when you thought the non-casting-news photo teases from Edgar Wright behind-the-scenes Scott Pilgrim photo blog were getting annoying, today we get some huge casting exclusives. Who will be playing Thor in the big screen Marvel comic book adaptation? We think that might be Michael Cera behind the photo, but it could be Brandon Routh. We’re not sure.
Also, apparently Edgar has been cast as Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider reboot/prequel. Of course, we’re kidding (about everything). Photo after the jump.
More Scott Pilgrim Photos: Michael Cera, Anna Kendrick and Edgar Wright’s Notepad
Posted on Monday, February 16th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Most of you reading the site already know that we’re very excited for Edgar Wright’s big screen adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. The fact that Wright has been releasing new images every day from behind the scenes has been driving us nuts. We’d like to report on each and every one of them, but we know you guys would pull a “WALL-style backlash” on me if that happened. So we’re trying to space these out the best we can, just so you know.
Wright’s latest photos include the hallway model photo above (which we can only assume will be used to plan one of the fight sequences or possibly the confirmed inclusion of animation. After the jump we have included new photos which show Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim, and Anna Kendrick (Rocket Science, Twilight) as Scott’s sister Stacey Pilgrim, and Edgar Wright’s notepad.
