Over the last week, two new Star Wars movies were announced, but not by Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm. One is a spoof from the filmmakers that brought us the Scary Movie series; the other is a comedy about fans waiting in line for the next Star Wars movie in front of the iconic TCL…
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Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have averaged roughly one release a year for the past several years, starting with 2006's Date Movie, but in 2013 we get to see not one but two of their outrageously broad spoofs. Hooray? Hot on the heels of this month's The Hunger Games parody The Starving Games comes Best Night Ever,…
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If you watched The Hunger Games and thought to yourself, "Man, this movie would be so much better if it were more like Scary Movie," then have we got a trailer for you. The Starving Games is exactly what it sounds like -- a Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer parody in the vein of Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, and…
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As Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are off shooting Fast and Furious 7 with director James Wan, two actors who look alarmingly like them are doing something eerily similar. Genre spoof directors Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are prepping Superfast!, a new comedy that'll poke fun at the Fast and Furious series, along with some other action movies. To…
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The great thing about the sixth Fast and Furious movie is it doesn't take itself too seriously. In a way, it's almost a big-budget spoof of the rest of the franchise, giving fans a bare bones plot filled with the action and excitement they crave. Leave it to the filmmakers behind Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Vampires…
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Getting spoofed by the Scary Movie guys is sort of a Hollywood rite of passage at this point, so maybe in some twisted way this counts as an honor. Except no, not really. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the geniuses who brought you Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, etc., are set to write and…
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At first glance it appears that Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, the screenwriting/directing team credited with ruining the spoof movie genre (Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, Scary Movie series, Date Movie) have run out of material in the Hollywood genre world and are now going to take aim at the Los Angeles independent…
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Something that I came across a couple weeks ago and I've been meaning to post on the site is this wonderful Hack Directors Venn Diagram from MadAtoms. While I don't necessarily agree with all of the selections, or reasonings (for example, attempt at style is counter intuitive to the dictionary definition of "hack"), I do…
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Why does Hollywood still make spoof movies? And why are people still stupid enough to go see them? Moviehole reports that Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the guys behind Meet the Spartans and Epic Movie, are now in pre-production on a SuperBad spoof called Goodie Two Shoes. Yes folks, you read correctly, a SuperBad spoof.…
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