The Hank Azaria Apu role was a big source of contention when the actor stepped down from voicing The Simpsons character. Now, he finally apologizes for it.
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Alex Désert makes his debut as the new The Simpsons Carl voice actor, after Hank Azaria departed from the role following a new diversity initiative.
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The Simpsons characters of color will no longer be voiced by white actors, and Mike Henry has left the role of Cleveland Brown on Family Guy.
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A month after Hank Azaria revealed himself to be stepping down as The Simpsons Apu voice actor, the actor is explaining his reasons for leaving.
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Longtime Apu voice actor has confirmed that he will no longer voice the character on The Simpsons following years of controversy.
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In this edition, explore what made Michael Scott such a good salesman on The Office. Plus, Zack Galifianakis delivers the first new episode of Between Two Ferns with Jerry Seinfeld and Cardi B, and Hank Azaria breaks down his most famous roles from film and TV.
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The Hank Azaria Apu racial stereotype controversy on The Simpsons was finally addressed by the actor, who says that his "eyes have been opened" by the discussion around the character.
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Longtime voice actor Hank Azaria was recently asked about The Simpsons Apu problem after comedian Hari Kondabolu called attention to it in a documentary.
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Watch The Wizard of Lies teaser. Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer star as Bernie Madoff and Ruth Madoff in Barry Levinson's film for HBO.
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In a move that will set a new record on television, Fox has made an announcement with The Simpsons renewed for season 29 and season 30.
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The Simpsons Take The Bowl occurred in Los Angeles this weekend and featured dozens of classic songs from the iconic TV show. Watch live videos here.
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Amanda Seyfried's covered more genres in the few of years than some actors do in their entire careers. She's done an indie drama (The End of Love), a thriller (Gone), a musical (Les Misérables), a romcom (The Big Wedding), a kids' cartoon (Epic), and now, she's gonna do porn. Er, that is, a movie about…
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If you were looking for a "debutante falls in with kids from the wrong side of the tracks" movie for seven year-olds this summer, The Smurfs 2 is probably it. The film once again features Hank Azaria as the Smurf-hating Gargamel and Neil Patrick Harris as the human who befriends the little blue guys. This…
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Unless you're still in grade school, odds are you weren't dying for another installment of The Smurfs. But the first film was a runaway hit worldwide, grossing an impressive $563 million worldwide, so now we have The Smurfs 2 to contend with next summer. Directed once again by Raja Gosnell, the CG sequel sees Gargamel (Hank Azaria) hatching a…
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Sony Pictures Animation has released the first image of new characters that will be introduced in The Smurfs 2. In the sequel to the 2011 live-action/animation hybrid, Christina Ricci voices Vexy (left) and comedian JB Smoove voices Hackus (right), two new little monsters nicknamed "The Naughties" created by the evil Gargamel (played again by Hank…
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Thursday marks the end of Jason Reitman's series of live readings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and, for most of us, that's a relief. It's a relief because we can finally stop being insanely jealous of the small group of people who've gotten to experience these incredible events which will never be…
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The cast of Lovelace, one of two competing biopics about porn star and eventual anti-porn crusader Linda Lovelace, has added four actors and might be getting a high-profile fifth. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who co-directed Howl, have already got Amanda Seyfried to play Lovelace and Peter Sasgaard for the role of her husband and…
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Let's call this the "life or death" edition of TV Bits, as it's all about renewals, cancellations, and even one possible renewal of a previously cancelled series. After the jump, more on: Renewals for Cinemax's Strike Back and Adult Swim's NTSF:SD:SUV Cancellations for The CW's H8R and NBC's Free Agents And last but not least,…
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In 2006 Warner Bros. released Happy Feet, the animated singing/dancing penguin movie that was then the latest step in George Miller's strange career. (Mad Max --> Babe --> Happy Feet.) Now he's back with a sequel, Happy Feet Two, and the first teaser is out. The animation looks good, but if you aren't looking for…
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Oh, look, a new Smurfs trailer. The good news is that this trailer is not as painfully horrible as the first one. The bad news is that it is still a trailer for The Smurfs. But if you want to see mushroom houses, Gargamel (Hank Azaria) on the hunt and a moment where Neil Patrick…
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Briefly: Hopefully we'll be all done with the casting updates for The Three Stooges by later this week. Our last update was that Will Sasso was looking like a lock for one role, with Moe and Curly as the 50/50 split for his choice. Curly was the obvious way to cast him, and that's where…
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There is now a full-length trailer for The Smurfs, Sony's live-action/animated hybrid which brings updated CGI versions of the Smurfs to New York City, where they run riot through the lives of Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays as they try to escape the clutches of the wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria). If that doesn't sound…
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Peter and Bobby Farrelly are still on the hunt for their new Three Stooges. The cast was once assembled, with Benicio del Toro set to play Moe, Jim Carrey set for Curly and Sean Penn as Larry. But that splintered, starting when Sean Penn took a sabbatical from work, and late last year the film…
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In Hop, from Alvin and the Chipmunks director Tim Hill, Russell Brand voices a CGI version of the Easter bunny and James Marsden plays the human who gets stuck taking care of him. Well, it isn't the Easter bunny exactly, but a young bunny who has been tapped to be the next global deliverer of…
Read MoreNO PHOTO In April, we posted the first set photos of Hank Azaria as Gargamel in Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures' big screen CGI/live action hybrid 3D adaptation of The Smurfs. Many commentors thought Azaria looked ridiculous. You haven't seen anything yet. The film is currently shooting in New York City, and recently shot a sequence…
Read MoreNO PHOTO The first set photo of Hank Azaria as Gargamel in Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures' big screen CGI/live action hybrid 3D adaptation of The Smurfs. has been released on SplashNews (via: ComingSoon). I'm not sure what to think of this. He definitely looks like the real life version of the animated character, but at…
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UPDATE: Neil Patrick Harris says on Twitter that Hank Azaria will play a live-action Gargamel in the film, not voice an animated version of the character. Original article follows. We've had a good bit of casting for The Smurfs (not Smurfs: the Movie, as we'd seen it written before) so far, including Neil Patrick Harris…
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