Check out the Crash Test trailer teasing a new comedy special from Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel, who take their UCB Theatre show on the streets of Los Angeles
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9 more actors have joined the Wet Hot American Summer cast including Josh Charles, Randall Park, and John Slattery. The Netflix prequel is now shooting.
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Jason Reitman's latest was a Diner Live Read. He brought in the cast of FXX's The League to read Barry Levinson's 1982 masterpiece. Read a recap here.
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Watch Entertainment Weekly's faux character actor PSA explaining why you should care about "that guy from that thing" more than "that guy on the billboard."
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R-rated jokes can be a good tool for a comedy filmmaker to have in their arsenal. There are some gags that simply don't work when they're toned down to satisfy the MPAA. But that doesn't mean ruder, cruder, and lewder necessarily translates to funnier. A limp comedy is still a limp comedy, no matter how many…
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A hopeful, pregnant couple moving into a decrepit old house: that never turns out well in the movies. In Hell Baby, though, filmmakers Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant try to have a little fun on the way to the inevitable doom that follows such a bad life choice. Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb star as the…
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There are a whole lot of great people in Rapture-Palooza, written by Chris Matheson (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) and directed by Paul Middleditch (Separation City). The film features Anna Kendrick and John Francis Daley as a young couple navigating the slightly hellish landscape of Earth after the Rapture. Craig Robinson is the Antichrist, and Rob Corddry, Rob…
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Since the world failed to end in 2012, 2013 seems to be the year we're all laughing about what could have been. Paul Middleditch's Rapturepalooza is one of three post-apocalyptic comedies due out this year, along with Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen's This Is the End and Edgar Wright's The World's End. Like the others,…
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It's not surprising that most of the marketing materials so far for What to Expect When You're Expecting have focused primarily on the women. It's inspired by a world-famous pregnancy manual, after all, and (Arnold Schwarzenegger in Junior notwithstanding) men don't often get pregnant. But with a comedically gifted male cast that includes Chris Rock,…
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We're moving into a brave new world of CGI and motion capture. No longer will actors be limited to playing characters that move, and no longer will filmmakers be forced to rely on outdated 'props' and 'set dressing.' There is a new wave of motion capture artists who are pushing the boundaries of motion capture…
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The first trailer for The Descendants, Alexander Payne's first feature film as director since Sideways in 2004, set up a lot of story: George Clooney is a relatively uninvolved dad who has to step up and take care of his two daughters when his wife suffers an accident, only to learn that there are things…
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Inglourious Basterds and Beginners actress Melanie Laurent is set to star opposite Jesse Eisenberg in Louis Leterrier's magician heist movie Now You See Me. The story revolves around FBI agents hunting down a group of world-famous bank-robbing magicians (sorry, illusionists) who shower their audiences with the stolen cash. Jake Gyllenhaal, who was previously offered a…
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It has been seven long years since Alexander Payne last had a film in theaters. He's done a lot of work since Sideways, producing some films (Cedar Rapids) and television (Hung) and working to develop quite a few projects. He spent some significant time on the film Downsizing, which was shelved late in development; that's…
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Mean Magazine has created a new series of online short films called CineMash, which lets celebrity talent mash up their favorite scenes from classic movies. In past weeks we've posted Sid and Nancy starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and directed by Marc Webb (the director of 500 Days of Summer) and Cheech & Chong…
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Is it okay to Twitter during a movie? Is it okay to twitter during a movie if the other 40 people sitting around you are also tweeting? Last night, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Scott Aukerman gathered at the Burbank AMC Theater with 30 random Twitter users recruited off the internet to live tweet the…
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When Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, one critic live blogged his review from his cell phone in an attempt to be first. Thankfully this form of reviewing hasn't really caught on (although, I do recall that one of the video blogs live blogging the new…
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