The trailer for the Farrelly brothers comedy Hall Pass has just hit the web. The movie — which stars Jenna Fischer, Owen Wilson, Christina Applegate, and Jason Sudeikis as two boringly married couples — revolves around the concept of a marital “hall pass” — that is, “A week off from marriage to do whatever you want without consequences.” I must say, I’ve never heard of that before. (Have you?) These two couples aren’t exactly happy in their marriages, as the guys constantly check out other ladies, so one week free seems like the right thing to do. Wrong! As you might imagine, there are a lot of dude-ish laughs (to boot, the movie is touted in the trailer as “from the guys that brought you There’s Something About Mary“) to be mined from this set-up — the trailer features Wilson and Sudeikis petting each other while stoned; gorging themselves at Applebee’s; and learning modern pick-up techniques in bars. One of the best parts of the clip? Joy Behar! The ever-sassy View co-host shows up in what seems to be a cameo role to give the wives her sagely brand of advice: “”Married men believe that, if not for you, they could actually be with these other women.” Ha! Clearly, they cannot. Check out the looks-pretty-good trailer here:
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'Four Lions' director Chris Morris talks about his new suicide bomber comedy. Yes, you read that right
Chris Morris may not be a household name in the U.S. But in Britain, he is an extremely well known writer, comic performer, media prankster, and all-around agent provocateur. Certainly, he is the only man to get a British MP to gravely ruminate in the House of Commons about an entirely made-up drug called “cake.”
Morris made his TV reputation in the early ’90s with fake news show The Day Today, on which his demented if convincing anchorman routinely declaimed such hilariously nonsensical headlines as “’BRIAN FERRY BATH MAT POISONOUS,’ SAY LAB” and “NEWS!!! LONDON TRANSPORT SAY THEY MAY HAVE TO CLOSE THE UNDERGROUND SYSTEM DUE TO AN INFESTATION OF HORSES.” Morris was also responsible for the much more contentious Brass Eye, another faux current affairs show that lampooned media hysteria but which itself caused controversy with a special pedophilia-themed edition. More recently, he co-wrote the sitcom Nathan Barley, a vicious dissection of London hipsters, and appeared in writer Graham Linehan’s award-winning show The IT Crowd.
Morris has now made his big screen directorial debut with Four Lions, a comedy about Muslim suicide bombers in the north of England, which opens today.
After the jump, Morris, who also co-wrote the film, talks about how he located the comedy in terrorism, and why it’s okay to shoot a Wookie.
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Vote in our Under-appreciated Entertainers of the Year Bracket Game: Round 1, Day 1!
Image Credit: Claire Folger; Frank Masi; Rankin; Valerie PhillipsYou love our EW.com Bracket Games! You want to have, like, 10,000 of their babies, all of whom may turn out to be Psycho Killers or Sexy Beasts. Or both! This month, in anticipation for our annual Entertainers of the Year print issue, we’ll be looking at some of the more under-appreciated all-star entertainers. Not unappreciated by YOU — you nominated ‘em! (Movies, Music, TV, and Reality TV.) Just under-appreciated by the box office, TV ratings, Emmy voters, album sales charts, etc. Basically: people who need more money. Ugh, as if.
Image Credit: Liane Hentscher/Fox; Mike Yarish/AMC; Frank Micelotta/Fox; Carol Kaelson/ABC via Getty ImagesUp first, we have actors Pete Postlethwaite (The Town) vs. Karl Urban (Red) in the Movies category; Swedish pop fairy Robyn vs. American folk-rock singer Lissie in Music; Fringe‘s John Noble vs. Mad Men‘s Vincent Kartheiser in TV, and So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley vs. the Dancing With the Stars band in Reality TV. Check out the entire bracket of 64 competitors here (click the image to zoom in), then vote in round 1 of our polls!
J.J. Abrams' 'Undercovers': Three reasons why it went under
Image Credit: Art Streiber/NBCA new drama about sexy spies from J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias? That would seem to have “HIT” written all over it. And so it went that NBC’s Undercovers arrived this fall as one of the season’s most promising new shows. But even with an energetic pilot helmed by Abrams himself, appealing and strikingly attractive actors in the lead roles, and an undemanding, easy-breezy approach to storytelling, the newfangled Hart to Hart failed to stir any true passion among TV viewers. It bowed to weak numbers (8.6 million), and only grew weaker as the weeks progressed (Wednesday’s episode: 5.8 million). Why did Undercovers go under? Here are three reasons:
It wasn’t Alias-y enough for J.J. Abrams fans.
Undercovers was engineered for a marketplace that was seemingly weary of the kind of shows that Abrams’ has been linked to over the past several years—ambitious, serialized sagas with heady, trippy ideas and lots of backstory mythology for the viewer to recall and track. The gradual decline over time of Lost as well as the inability of shows like Fringe to consistently click with the masses would seem to be proof that Undercovers might benefit from an alternative creative approach. The good news: Viewers got the message that Undercovers was a different kind of Abrams spy-fi series. The bad news is that the viewers who actually liked the other kind of Abrams spy-fi series all went: “Okay, then. Not for me.” READ FULL STORY »
Johnny Depp is ready to sink his fangs into Tim Burton's 'Dark Shadows'
Image Credit: PR Photos; Everett CollectionSeveral years into the pop culture vampire craze, the bloodsucker genre is still showing some signs of life — or undeadness, as the case may be. After years of kicking the idea around, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are finally set to start production next April on their big-screen remake of the cult vampire TV series Dark Shadows, according to Deadline. The macabre daytime soap, which ran from 1966 to 1971, starred Jonathan Frid as the vampire Barnabas Collins and worked werewolves, ghosts, witches, zombies, and other gothic goodies into its storylines. Burton and Depp — who will be making their eighth film together — are both longtime fans of the series; Depp has called it his “childhood dream” to play Barnabas Collins. Seth Grahame-Smith, who wrote the best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, has been hired to work on the screenplay.
How the Dark Shadows schedule will affect the other projects Depp has reportedly been linked to — most notably, director Kathryn Bigelow’s next drama, Triple Frontier, co-starring Tom Hanks – remains to be seen. But given the complicated mythology of Dark Shadows, which included time travel, parallel universes, and a whole array of monsters, one could imagine it potentially becoming an ongoing franchise, à la the Twilight movies (which, just for the record, Depp and Burton, interviewed in February before the release of Alice in Wonderland, told EW they’ve never seen).
What do you think? Are you a fan of the original Dark Shadows? Does the idea of Depp playing Barnabas Collins feel right to you? Or are you just ready to put a stake through the heart of this whole vampire fad?
'Cougar Town' does 'Spaced'-inspired finger gun shootout: Watch!
If you’re still laughing at Cougar Town‘s episode-ending finger gunfight (and Ellie resurrecting herself from the dead to drink some wine), odds are you will wet yourself when you watch the scenes from Spaced, the British series starring Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, and Nick Frost, to which it’s paying homage. (You can hear Cougar Town‘s Travis say “I love Spaced” as he falls, but it’s co-creators Kevin Biegel and Bill Lawrence you need to thank: In a joint statement to EW, they admit, “We are both self-proclaimed TV nerds and Spaced is such an awesome show that we wanted to give it a ‘shout-out.’ Plus, it was easier than writing our own joke.”) Watch the Cougar Town and Spaced scenes below. Cougar Town isn’t the first show to whip out the finger guns on American TV — The Office and Psych come to mind — but it was a nice surprise. After Jules’ therapist (Jennifer Aniston) cured her of the nervous tick, we feared they were gone for good. Instead, everyone’s packin’, and the fire is no longer friendly. UPDATE: Pegg has tweeted his approval: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That was always our motto.”
Excess Hollywood: Aaron Eckhart is an 'Expatriate'
- Aaron Eckhart has been tapped to topline The Expatriate, an action flick about an ex-CIA agent who tries to save himself, his power chin, and his 15-year-old daughter from danger. [Variety]
- Joan Allen will join HBO’s Luck — starring Dustin Hoffman — for a multi-episode arc. In the series, centered on the world of horse racing, Allen will play the head of a program that allows prison inmates to help injured horses. Hopefully not the inmate who did this. [Deadline]
- Bravo has ordered Rocco’s Dinner Party, a new reality series in which chef Rocco DiSpirito will crown one of four aspiring chefs the champion of each episode after sampling their dishes at a private dinner party. [THR]
- Pick up your Booty Sweat and toast this Tropic Thunder reunion: HBO has picked up a 30-minute comedy — executive produced by Ben Stiller and Paul Simms — which will star Tropic Thunder co-writer Justin Theroux and Tropic Thunder star Steve Coogan. In the pilot, Theroux plays a documentary filmmaker who chronicles a not-so-talented filmmaker’s return to documentary work. [Deadline]
- Maya Entertainment announced via press release that it has acquired rights to Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut, Sympathy for Delicious, about a “newly paralyzed DJ who gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.”
- Cue the hijinks: Fox has picked up a comedy from Meet the Parents writer John Hamburg about a newly single father and son who decide to become roommates. [Deadline]
- Relativity Media announced today via press release that it has nabbed rights to Michael Drosnin’s Bible Code series, about a “3,000-year-old code in the Bible found by a top Israeli scientist and confirmed by a senior code breaker at the U.S. National Security Agency … [that] reveals momentous historical events, and predicts the future.” Apparently, the code has predicted President Obama’s election, among other events. So why didn’t it warn us of this?
- The Weinstein Company has acquired rights to Santa’s Apprentice. Best scene: When Vixen calls Prancer a “whore pit viper” while they serve hot dogs for charity. [Variety]
'Harry Potter': Watch Rupert Grint age before your very eyes!
From about age 12, when he made Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, through The Order of the Phoenix, Rupert Grint’s two (perhaps only) adjectives for everything were “wicked” and “cool.” But his near-silence has earned him a certain mystique — after he got his driver’s license, he bought an ice cream truck to drive around instead of, say, a Ferrari — and he’s built a fanbase who seem to get his offbeat sensibilities. Part of the genuine thrill of the Potter films have been watching its three stars grow up before us on the big screen, in real time. But it’s easy to forget just how young they really were when they first started out. So we used some fancy computer age wizardry to age Mr. Grint from when he was a wee 11 years old to his current age of 21 in the final film(s) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Hold on to your caps — this is kinda wild: READ FULL STORY »
PopWatch Confessional: Which concerts have made you cry?
Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage.comLast night was not the first time a live performance from a musician has brought me to tears, but it was certainly the most unanticipated.
I went to the 4th Annual Stand Up for Heroes event, presented by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York Comedy Festival, at the Beacon Theatre in New York anticipating a certain amount of emotional response. (Most event organizers are well versed in the art of heartstring tugging.) But I managed to keep myself in check through the personal stories of triumph and the inspiring videos about veterans’ courageous recovery. I was there for work, after all, which meant I had to wear my (p-p-p-)poker face. Well, I tried.
Enter The Boss for a three-song set. READ FULL STORY »
'Expedition Impossible' sounds like an amazing race
Image Credit: Bob Charlotte/PR PhotosABC announced a new reality contest show today: Expedition Impossible, produced by Mark Burnett. The show will follow “ordinary” people, in teams of three, as they “solve problems while racing across deserts, over mountains and through rivers.” How totally unlike The Amazing Race!
Burnett described the show as “an epic Indiana Jones-style experience,” which I hope means there’s an emphasis on puzzle-solving and cryptology. Jehovah starts with an I in Latin! Or something along those lines. The Amazing Race has occasional puzzle-solving, but I’d love to watch a show that had more of an emphasis on reasoning skills, because I’m a huge nerd, and I like to feel represented on television. READ FULL STORY »
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