Robots, water slides, girls dancing as Santa Claus, machine guns, roller skating, the fourth season of Eastbound and Down has it all. In 60 seconds, the full trailer for the final season of the show has so much insane, jaw-dropping and head-scratching content you'll swear there's no way creators Danny McBride and Jody Hill can…
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HBO is well-known for original dramas, but HBO comedies are pretty good too. Two of the more popular ones are returning soon, and new videos have been posted to tease the new seasons. First up is Danny McBride and Jody Hill's Eastbound and Down which will begin its fourth and final season on September 29.…
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Briefly: People are getting rightfully excited for the September 29th return of Kenny Effing Powers on the final season of Eastbound and Down. Now, the show is adding at least one surprising cast member that's sure to turn some heads. Lindsay Lohan has just signed to play a small but important role on the show.…
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Game of Thrones has ended for the year, but its shadow continues to loom large. After the jump: Portlandia will return for two more seasons What happens of Game of Thrones catches up to the books? A Sons of Anarchy prequel is still a long ways away Dan Harmon closes his Community Season 5 deal Harry…
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Four strikes and Kenny Powers is finally out. The popular HBO show Eastbound & Down is set to start filming its fourth season this week and will premiere on September 29. Then that's it. Though there was some question after the second and third seasons of the Danny McBride/Jody Hill show as to what would…
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Thanks to Independence Day, it's been a fairly slow week for film news -- but it looks like the TV folks have been keeping themselves plenty busy over the past few days. After the jump: Danny McBride talks the surprise fourth season of Eastbound & Down A Fraggle Rock spin-off, The Doozers, will shoot in Canada this…
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Today's TV Bits offers a few things to look forward to in the not-too-distant future, including imperiled lawyers, a**hole baseball players, pretty flight attendants, and a touch of dry British humor. After the jump: NBC drops two teasers for its legal thriller The Firm HBO announces premiere dates for Eastbound & Down and Life's Too…
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In Eastbound and Down, Kenny Powers has stood atop the worlds of baseball and pure assholery. (If that wasn't a word, it is now.) His latest achievement is to land as king of the hill in the business of sports apparel. Kenny Powers is now the CEO of K-Swiss, and he's going to destroy the…
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Saturday Night Live veteran Jason Sudeikis has been doing pretty well for himself as a movie star lately, with three separate big-screen projects in 2011 alone -- Hall Pass, Horrible Bosses, and the upcoming A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy -- but he hasn't left the small screen behind quite yet. The actor has just signed on…
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Fans of Pawnee, Indiana and Kenny Powers are going to want to pay attention. Gallery 1988 has premiered posters for NBC's Parks and Recreation as well as HBO's Eastbound and Down to go along with their upcoming presentations at PaleyFest 2011. For Parks and Recreations, Mike Mitchell (who did the famous I'm With Coco poster)…
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ABC's Charlie's Angels is finally going into production. It was first mentioned almost a year ago that the channel was looking to greenlight a pilot that would bring the series back to television, but it experienced a change in the development process that set it back until now. Originally, Josh Friedman (the creator of Terminator:…
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Now that Danny McBride and Jody Hill ostensibly have the keys to the kingdom by way of their new production company, Rough House Pictures, the world of comedy better watch its stagnant ass. Hill is attached to direct, and McBride to star as a "beaten down, hardboiled private investigator," in a new action-comedy called L.A.P.I.…
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With only two feature films and one TV show to his name, writer/director Jody Hill, is now synonymous with ignoring the boundaries and "genre rules" of modern comedy and creating anti-heroes that laughably burble with nihilistic rage, scary faux pas and hot-air egos. But there is also an internal depth to these macho doofuses played…
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In this episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss how terrible the Antichrist videogame will be, explain why Christopher Nolan directing the third Batman film would be a no-win situation, and wonder if there's anything to get excited about in an 5th Indiana Jones film. Special guest Matt Singer joins…
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Weekend Update: Due to the amazing bitch-session in the comments: the following article is a combination free-form essay/review on the genius, relevance, and influences of writer/director Jody Hill and his works including The Foot Fist Way, Eastbound & Down, and his latest, Observe and Report. It also deals with the growing trend of incredibly dark…
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I just returned from the set of H2 (Halloween 2) and am running off adrenaline, craft services coffee, and an iPod of Brian Jonestown Massacre and MF Doom. And also, a little bit of anger. Let me just say that Twitter has become a HUGE problem on movie sets, and that I do not grasp…
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Living in Las Vegas gave James Cass and Adrian Gonzalez the idea of offering engaged couples a unique option.
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Pulling into the suburbanish neighborhood of Marsh Oaks in Wilmington, North Carolina, one would not expect this quiet enclave to be ground zero for an American Comedy Valhalla, but surprise, surprise. On the sunny backyard patio of an upscale home, a camera is rolling as Pineapple Express director, David Gordon Green, casually pitches one-liners to…
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