Archive: October 2011 (181-190 of 382)

Oct 17 2011 06:00 PM ET

'The No Doctor Cop Lawyer Show': Meet 'Adventure Time' creator Pendleton Ward!

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Categories: Adventure Time, Animation, EW Exclusive Video, The No Doctor Cop Lawyer Show
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Image Credit: Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time features a whole madcap array of exciting magical creatures, nobly heroic quests, in-your-face surreality, anthropomorphized candy, and totally sweet music. It’s a massive compilation of all things geeky — 8-bit videogames, high fantasy, cool hats. We’re big fans of the show, so it was a blast when we got to meet  Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward at this weekend’s New York Comic-Con. Ward proved his Renaissance manhood by pulling a random string of words out of a hat and turning those words into an endearingly poignant character. Watch our interview below; the new episode airs tonight.  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 05:51 PM ET

'Titanic' told entirely through Facebook posts! Like!

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Categories: 100% Pure Cheese, British Things, Nostalgia, Ridiculata, Things That Are Awesome!, Things That Make Us Feel Old

If you don’t have three hours to get all nostalgic over 1997′s Titanic, FunnyOrDie has decided to outline the entire movie’s plot with Facebook posts. That way you can relive all the drama of James Cameron’s romance/disaster flick in considerably less time — certainly less time than it took to read through the movie’s exhaustive Wikipedia page. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 04:23 PM ET

McDonald's launching an in-store TV channel: What should they air? (You know, besides 'Super Size Me')

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Categories: Food and Drink, Television, This Could Be Interesting...
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Image Credit: Richard Drew/AP Images

In what sounds like something that could be the brain child of Liz Lemon, McDonald’s will be launching an in-store channel, called, you guessed it, the McDonald’s Channel. It will be a digital network featuring “exclusive original content” aimed at folks who like their fast-food with a side of television.

The channel will be rolled out in nearly 800 McDonald’s California locations over the next few months, with original programming that includes 20-minute “pods” such as a “McDonald’s Channel Music News” (which one can only hope will consist of playing the late, great Wesley Willis’ “Rock N’ Roll McDonald’s” or the Filet-O-Fish jingle on repeat). Here’s some other ideas for more programming the restaurant could air on their in-house entertainment channel:

–An America’s Most Wanted segment chronicling the Hamburglar. He is, after all, one of this country’s most notorious criminals. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 03:20 PM ET

David Fincher tells 'Vogue' why he cast Rooney Mara in 'Dragon Tattoo' instead of Scarlett Johansson

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Categories: Movies, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Image Credit: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott/Vogue

For November’s Vogue, Rooney Mara opened up about her experience working on the sure-to-be career catapulting film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Hand-selected by auteur David Fincher to play anti-heroine Lisbeth Salander in the high-profile American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s ultraviolent series, Mara admitted she had some reservations about taking the role. “My fear with a movie like this is the kind of exposure you get from it,” she said. “I think that can be death to an actor.” Mara, Fincher, Daniel Craig, and Dutch co-star Yorick van Wageningen (who plays sadistic case worker Nils Bjurman) shared behind-the-scenes secrets from filming the wrenching start to Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Which A-list star did Mara best for the role? What did Craig have to say about Fincher and Mara’s relationship? And who spent the entire day crying in a hotel room before a pivotal scene? Read on… READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 02:37 PM ET

Scream Awards: Paul Wesley, Pee-Wee Herman, Chloe Moretz and more on Spike TV's red carpet

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Categories: Television

EW hit Spike TV’s red carpet before this weekend’s taping of the Scream Awards to get the tough questions answered in time for tomorrow night’s broadcast. What sort of hijinks will Harold and Kumar get into this year? What’s coming up next for Paul Wesley on The Vampire Diaries? And finally, most importantly, what makes Pee-Wee Herman so afraid of swimming pools? We also talked to Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kal Penn, John Cho, and Chloe Moretz (interviews embedded after the jump).

Be sure to come back and enjoy our Scream Awards live blog via ViEWer tomorrow night where we’ll feature exclusive backstage interviews from the taping with the stars of Game of Thrones, True Blood, American Horror Story, and more! READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 02:34 PM ET

'Beautiful' singer Christina Aguilera: Why calling her 'fat' is downright ugly

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Categories: Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, Hell to the No!, Hollywood Hate Crime, ShePop, Things That Are Sad, Things That Make Me Die Inside
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Image Credit: Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images

Back in 2009, the Internet decided former reality show darling Jessica Simpson would be its target. Spotting an unflattering photo of the singer wearing a pair of ill-fitting jeans, Internet surfers and blogs unleashed upon Simpson, deriding her for supposedly daring to gain a smidge of weight. And though the singer still struggles with the taunts — and even used them as inspiration for her short-lived Vh1 series examining appearance, The Price of Beauty — our impatient, tabloid-hungry nation has shifted its focus. Now, the Internet is spending its time slamming pop star and The Voice mentor Christina Aguilera.

The body inspection of Aguilera is nothing new — in the early 2000s, chatter spread about a possible breast enhancement surgery. But now, eyes have moved to her thighs, with bloggers calling her every synonym for “fat,” even slapping her with nicknames comparing her to Jersey Shore‘s Snooki. (Who, by the way, looks perfectly fine too, despite some unwise clothing choices.) But the labels don’t stop on the Web. On Friday’s Fashion Police, Kelly Osbourne unloaded on the singer after some harsh photos from the Michael Jackson Tribute Concert began making the rounds. Said Osbourne, “She called me fat for years. I was never that fat.” READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 01:29 PM ET

Poll: Who's the funniest late-night comedian?

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Categories: Chelsea Handler, Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Late Night, Television, This or That

From Colbert to Conan, Letterman to Leno, and Fallon to Ferguson, the universe of late-night comedians is a diverse one. Which is exactly why we’ve been a little stumped while putting together our upcoming Comedy Issue. Who’s the funniest of them all? Well, it depends on who you ask.

So what’s why we’re turning to you. Instead of us choosing who we think is the funniest, we thought we’d throw the question over to you, our always-wise PopWatch readers: Who’s the funniest late-night comedian? Vote in our poll below, and we’ll publish your favorite late-night host in our Comedy Issue, which hits stands on Oct. 28. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 01:25 PM ET

Jordan Knight makes surprise appearance at all-female Halloween karaoke party: Watch!

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Categories: Halloween, Music, Nostalgia, PopWatch Dance Party

This is like a dream that I, someone whose high school yearbook was filled with classmates wishing her a lifetime of happiness with New Kids on the Block’s Jordan Knight, didn’t even know I still had. Bloggers attending the closing night event of last week’s BlissDom Canada social media conference for women in Toronto were treated to a surprise appearance by Knight, who’d been brought in by eOne Music to thank the ladies for supporting his solo album, Unfinished, which has produced two Top 40 hits in Canada. He was expected to pose for photos, but the women got more than that — he joined a large group of them onstage karaoking NKOTB’s “Step By Step” and “Hangin’ Tough.” Watch a video below, which includes a Queen of Hearts dancing up on him while a Black Swan watches at 1:14, and him admitting that he also needs to look at the lyrics at 2:35.  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 12:57 PM ET

Jason Segel, Emma Stone, and Charlie Day announced as 'SNL' hosts: All is forgiven!

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Categories: Emma Stone, Late Night, Saturday Night Live, Television, Things That Are Awesome!, This Could Be Interesting...
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Image Credit: D Dipasupil/FilmMagic.com

This weekend’s installment of Saturday Night Live, the Anna Faris-hosted Halloween episode, was a disappointment to say the least. Aside from the Digital Short interviews with Drake and the Michigan State cable access send-up “J-Pop America Fun Time Now” providing the few actual laughs during the broadcast, it was an uneven clunker. In fact, the best moment of the night wasn’t even a sketch. It was when the TV screen announced that Charlie Day would be hosting the upcoming Nov. 5 episode with musical guests Maroon 5. Shouting! Possible nudity! This episode will have everything!

But, the excitement doesn’t stop there for fellow SNL fans like me who were worried about the lackluster Faris and Ben Stiller episodes following up the season opening knock-out one-two punches from hosts Alec Baldwin and Melissa McCarthy. In addition to the always-hilarious Day getting his first go at hosting, Emma Stone will return to Studio 8H after delivering one of last season’s best episodes. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 12:32 PM ET

'The Walking Dead': Did you love or loathe the season premiere?

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Categories: The Walking Dead
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Image Credit: Gene Page/AMC

If you’re the kind of TV addict who’s interested in how TV shows are made and unmade, then the behind-the-scenes story of The Walking Dead is almost relentlessly fascinating. The zombie-apocalypse series is based on a great graphic-novel series, but last year’s six-episode first season featured massive plot departures from the comics — despite the fact that Dead co-creator and geek demi-god Robert Kirkman is prominently involved in the TV series. Dead is an unusually lavish production, featuring gloriously grotesque undead makeup — a testament to AMC’s ongoing willingness to push the visual aesthetics of television — but that lavish production appears to have resulted in the departure of showrunner Frank Darabont. In the modern TV landscape, the notion of such an ambitious show losing its showrunner is almost unthinkable — imagine if Lost had fired Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, or if David Simon had handed off The Wire.

After almost a full year of off-season drama and debate, The Walking Dead finally returned last night for a thirteen-episode second season. Reviews have been mixed. READ FULL STORY »

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