• 'Eastbound And Down' Season 4 Trailer: Kenny Powers Is Back From The Dead

    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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  • 'Eastbound & Down' Will End After Upcoming Fourth Season

    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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  • Surprise! 'Eastbound & Down' Gets A Fourth Season

    Once upon a time, there were plans for three seasons of the show Eastbound & Down, and three seasons only. That plan came to fruition and the show finished with a third season finale earlier this April. But Eastbound isn't done, as HBO has ordered eight more episodes of the show. So there will be…

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  • Sundance Documentary 'Knuckle' To Become HBO Series

    Though Knuckle premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, it didn't generate quite the same buzz that many of its fellow documentaries did. But well before the film showed up in Park City, several outlets were already interested in purchasing the film so they could remake it. Knuckle, directed by Ian Palmer, follows a real…

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  • Casting Notes: Danny McBride In Bullies, Sam Worthington Offered This Means War; Nicole Kidman And Nicolas Cage In Trespass; Clive Owen And Nicole Kidman In Hemingway & Gellhorn

    I love seeing Danny McBride break out as a legit talent -- The Foot Fist Way, Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express got him in front of audiences, but the HBO show Eastbound and Down really made his name. Now, as the second season of that show prepares to air, there's word that McBride will get…

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  • VOTD: Jody Hill's Toyota Commercials

    Toyota hired filmmaker Jody Hill (Observe and Report, The Foot Fist Way) to direct the advertisements for the 2011 Toyota Sienna. The spots star Brian Huskey and Rachel Drummond as "the self-proclaimed world's greatest parents" in the world. These have been out for a few months now, but I just discovered them today. The funniest…

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  • Danny McBride And Aziz Ansari To Team For Another Comedy Film

    On the heels of their previously announced action-comedy, 30 Minutes or Less, from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, actors Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari are attached to star in a second planned comedy feature, this one currently untitled. Specifics about the project were not revealed in today's press release, but it originates from a pitch credited…

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  • David Gordon Green To Make Biopic About Teen Outlaw Colton Harris-Moore

    Restless authority-types and newscasters have referred to him as “the Teen Houdini,” “the Boy Who Loved to Fly,” and “the Barefoot Bandit.” Over a two year period, he's allegedly stolen and crashed a handful of cars and aircraft, having taught himself to fly from video games and a flight manual purchased using a stolen credit…

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  • Ruben Fleischer To Direct 30 Minutes Or Less. Danny McBride To Co-Star? Update On Eastbound & Down Season 2

    Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is evidently now locked to follow-up his aforementioned hit horror-com with 30 Minutes or Less, a most-likely R-rated comedy about a slacker pizza delivery man facing an explosive ultimatum at the instruction of a pair of goons. It was previously one of several projects being mentioned online for the director, alongside…

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  • Danny McBride To Star In Jody Hill's L.A.P.I.

    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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  • David Gordon Green, Jody Hill And Danny McBride Launch Rough House Pictures

    Mandate Pictures have signed a two-year first-look deal with David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride to produce high concept comedies with their brand of humor under a new label - Rough House Pictures.  The trio have been making movies together since college, where they all attended the North Carolina School of the Arts.…

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