Archive: October 2010 (301-310 of 590)

Oct 15 2010 02:16 PM ET

'Zoolander 2' script coming together: We'd like to meet Meekus' twin brother, please

zoolanderImage Credit: Everett CollectionThose of you still bummed that Anchorman 2 isn’t happening may be happy (or more bitter) to hear Justin Theroux saying that the Zoolander 2 script is coming along nicely. While at New York Comic Con, Theroux, who plans to direct the movie, told MTV News he and Ben Stiller are making “a few little tweaks” before they submit it to the studio, but he’s “very optimistic” it’ll get made. Theroux wants to keep the plot under wraps, but he did say that Zoolander and Hansel (Owen Wilson) are now approaching 40 and have to claw their way back into the fashion business. The current draft anticipates the return of Will Ferrell’s Mugatu and introduces a couple new villains — one of which was inspired by and written for Jonah Hill. I’m officially loving this.

Have a suggestion for making this sound even better? I’ll start with the obvious: Alexander Skarsgard, who had a small role as Meekus, one of Zoolander’s model friends who died in a “freak gasoline fight accident,” returns as Meekus’ twin brother and appears frequently shirtless. (Watch a deleted Meekus scene from Zoolander below.) Your turn!  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 15 2010 02:00 PM ET

'Late Night': Jimmy Fallon and Pee-wee Herman sittin' on a bike

Categories: Late Night, Television

Jimmy Fallon found his inner Pee-wee Herman last night, taking a turn through the Late Night studio on a double-seated bike with the bow-tied man himself. (See video embedded below.) Two things to note: 1) Jimmy Fallon looks like a tan Pee-wee Herman, and 2) Pee-wee Herman (a.k.a. Paul Reubens) sleeps in a cryogenic chamber and drinks potions for lunch. Seriously, the man looks EXACTLY THE SAME. He appeared in character to promote The Pee-wee Herman Show — which hits Broadway at the end of the month — and his man-child schtick seems to have aged just as nominally as his face. He’s still got the secret word and potentially grating catchphrases! And yet … I’m excited. There really is no place like the Playhouse, amiright PopWatchers? Are we all ready for Pee-wee’s next great adventure? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 15 2010 01:50 PM ET

'Glee' does 'Rocky Horror': Listen to the previews here!

Finn-as-Brad-GleeImage Credit: FoxGlee‘s Rocky Horror tribute episode doesn’t air until October 26, but to hold us over, here are some of the musical numbers from the episode. Recall, the trailers look awesome, and Kurt’s Riff Raff is going to be amazing. Also, Adam Shankman directed the episode, which means we can expect his real appreciation for the crazy theatrics of both Rocky Horror and Glee. Dammit, Janet, I love this: READ FULL STORY »

Oct 15 2010 01:15 PM ET

'The Talk' announces its premiere week guests. Surprise -- they're almost all ladies!

CBS_The-TalkImage Credit: James White/CBSIt’s hard to imagine that any show could replace The View in my heart, but CBS’s The Talk will at least compete for similar space on my DVR. In case you haven’t heard of this estrogen-fueled talk show, which premieres Oct. 18, it was created by Roseanne‘s Sara Gilbert(!) and features Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, Julie Chen, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, who will all focus on topics like motherhood.

First of all, I’d like to see the size of this couch these ladies will be sitting on — I counted at least 12 people in that cast. (Okay, I’m exaggerating.) But it must be one helluva sectional. Secondly, prepare yourself for some daytime craziness, courtesy of Talk‘s premiere week lineup of guests, which include Christie Brinkley, Jennifer Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Cheryl Burke (who is seriously messing up the female guest fandango by coming on with a dude, her Dancing with the Stars‘ partner Rick Fox.) Watch the teaser below and just try and act like you’re not excited for The Talk. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 15 2010 12:37 PM ET

'Sarah Palin's Alaska': Hope you like Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin’s new show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, debuts Nov. 14 on TLC, and there’s a new trailer for it. Sarah Palin: She likes to “be free”! This doesn’t look like the kind of show you can really hate-watch, like, oh Jon & Kate back in the day: You’d legitimately have to be really into Sarah Palin to sit through this. From the clip, it doesn’t look like she’s transitioning into regular docureality star — she’s still very on message as a political figure: “I’d rather be doing this than in some stuffy old political office.” Video, after the jump:

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Oct 15 2010 12:00 PM ET

EW Reunions: The 'Pretty in Pink' cast agrees that Duckie would have come out by now

Andie might have reconciled with Blane at the prom, but we die-hard Pretty in Pink fans know that union wasn’t built to last. Sometime after graduation, Molly Ringwald’s Andie would have packed her bags for F.I.T. with her best bud Duckie (Jon Cryer) and left that “major appliance” Blane (Andrew McCarthy) in the uptight-richie dust. Or, as Cryer told us at EW’s Pretty in Pink reunion photo shoot recently, “Molly had a very good theory about that. She said, ‘Andie and Blane probably did not end up together, but Duckie and Andie ended up friends for life.’” That sounds about right. As does another Ringwald theory: “I’m sure that Duckie came out by now.” READ FULL STORY »

Oct 15 2010 10:56 AM ET

Guns, drugs, and... folk music!: British director Ben Wheatley talks about his new gangster movie, 'Down Terrace'

Down-Terrace-posterWhy did British TV comedy director Ben Wheatley decide to make a feature length film? Because he couldn’t be “bothered” to make a short one. “I said to my agent, ‘I want to do some drama,’” Wheatley recalls. “And he just went, ‘You can’t, they’re not going to let you. You have to go and make a short.’ I thought, ‘I can’t be bothered.’ Because it’s such a lot of effort and money. I thought, if I’ve got to make something off my own back, I’ll make a feature.”

The ultimate result of that reasoning is the darkly hilarious, self-financed gangster movie Down Terrace, which opens in New York and Los Angeles today. Wheatley’s creation stars the director’s longtime collaborator—and Down Terrace co-writer—Robin Hill, Hill’s real-life father Robert, and Spaced actress Julia Deakin as a family of folk music-loving drug dealers who live in the British city of Brighton.

Wait a second: they love folk music? That’s not very gangster-ish! “I find folk really scary,” laughs Wheatley.  “Folk songs are always about the crops failing, and people killing someone, and burying their body somewhere. And also there’s the idea that this family has been around for ever—they’d have been in the middle ages, chopping people’s heads off and being appalling.” READ FULL STORY »

Oct 15 2010 10:25 AM ET

'Drive Angry 3D' trailer: Don't mess with Nicolas Cage

Categories: Movie Trailers, Movies

Free advice for any psychotic death cults reading this: Do not under any circumstances mess with Nicolas Cage, especially if he’s escaped from hell. That is the inescapable lesson of the new trailer for Drive Angry 3D, in which one such cult makes the mistake of killing Cage’s beloved daughter, sending him on a rampage of three-dimensional revenge.

Mostly, that plot is just an excuse to show Cage driving around at unsafe speeds, shooting his gun and blowing stuff up. Is there a more readily badass actor in American cinema today? Drive Angry 3D also features William Fichtner as some sort of Satanic enforcer called “The Accountant” — creepy.

Check out the trailer after the jump. How does Drive Angry 3D look to you? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 15 2010 10:00 AM ET

'Jackass 3D': Oh, the terrible ideas we get from movies

Jackass-stunt-cartImage Credit: Everett CollectionJackass 3D comes out this weekend, which means that mothers of teenage boys should stay on high alert for at least 48 hours after their children return from the movie theater this weekend. (You and I both know that they won’t actually watch Secretariat after you drop them off.)

After all, we’ve seen teens behaving badly before: After the first Jackass movie was released, one of my friends bragged about how he recreated the grocery cart stunt with his friends. (The geniuses piled into a grocery cart and rolled down a hill.) I don’t recall seeing any  blood or injuries on him, but he was a hairy kid so I always assumed they were all hidden. Nonetheless, I remember being glad he and his bonehead friends chose shopping carts instead of attempting something worse. (As we know, recreating stupid scenes from movies can end poorly, people.)

I don’t mean to rib on teenagers — but they are among the worst offenders. This really goes to everyone: Don’t try this stuff at home. And I’m not just talking about obvious bad ideas.

A lesser known risk: Movie scenes that don’t look dangerous, but cause damage nonetheless, like destruction of property. (Anyone else know a carpet that has quarters glued to it because someone who just saw Empire Records thought it was funny?)  Even worse, you might experience terrible embarrassment. Just ask the person I know who tried animal cracker foreplay à la Armageddon. You don’t want me to elaborate.

We all have our skeletons, PopWatchers. So share your knowledge as a cautionary tale to others, and tell me: What bad ideas have you gotten from movies?

More confessions on Twitter: @EWSandraG

Oct 15 2010 09:14 AM ET

Brett Favre scandal gets animated

Categories: Animation, Sports, Super Bowl

Maybe Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz) dodged a bullet when her relationship with Brett Favre fell apart in There’s Something About Mary. The Minnesota Vikings quarterback is in the midst of an NFL investigation after Deadspin acquired creepy texts, voicemails and photos that were sent to sexy sideline reporter Jenn Sterger, allegedly from the future Hall-of-Famer. It’s a pathetic story, really, but that doesn’t make it any less amusing once it’s animated by Taiwan television:

There are no winners in this story. Except Tiger Woods, of course.

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