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This is just an epic week for celebrity flip outs! First Christian Bale packs some serious anger on set, and then very genuinely apologizes. But now Tracy Jordan (star of such hit movies as Who Dat Ninja, Death Bank, and Honky Grandma Be Trippin')is having NO NONSENSE on the set of his series The Girlie Show. Apparently some smart ass is pointing a camera at Tracy while he is trying to act. This is just unacceptable. How unprofessional can you be? Everytime Tracy Jordan is acting someone is pointing a camera at him. It's f*cking distracting.
In case you don't watch the NBC series 30 Rock, this is not real.
Bale said, "It’s been a miserable week for me. I know I have a pottymouth, everybody knows that now...I was out of order beyond belief, I was way out of order. I acted like a punk, I regret that and there is nobody that has heard that tape that has been hit harder by it [than me]. I make no excuses for it, it is inexcusable and I hope that is absolutely clear.”
This is definitely what everyone wanted to hear, but Bale dove into it even further, “One thing that has really disturbed me throughout this is I’m not familiar or comfortable with this notion of being a movie star. I’m an actor and I don’t quite know how to handle the movie star thing. The thing that disturbs me so much is that I’ve heard a lot of people saying that I seem to think I’m better than anybody else. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I’m a lucky, I don't want to swear here, but I never forget that and that is why I put so much into what I do and I care so much about it . Sometimes that enthusiasm just goes awry.”
It takes a lot for the guy to take this in stride and he even admits to having some laughs from the guys at KROQ during this whole debacle. If you'd like to listen to the whole phone call, which if you can't tell is very apologetic and a genuinely embarassed guy just trying to put this all behind him, you can check it out at KROQ right here. Finally, put to rest.
Below we've embedded the new full length trailer, and it's not much of a departure from the Super Bowl spot, but with a longer Today Show introduction featuring a couple good moments with Matt Lauer, and a better delivery of Will Ferrell's cursing of Matt Lauer later in the trailer. I think one of the cool factors in this movie is going to be how the time warp has affected this lost land, and see the world the characters find themselves stuck in. Check out the trailer below.
Poster Premiere: 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'
This rumor apparently originated from an InTouch gossip magazine, was picked up by JustJared and then spread like wildfire across the interwebs. Rumor has it that this long talked about Farrelly Brothers film following the infamous comedy team known as the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly with varying other awful replacement stooges) is looking to pick up Johnny Depp and Sean Penn for the roles of Moe (left) and Larry (right) respectively.
Film Drunk apparently picked some info from a source that said "Billy West (famous voice actor from Futurama and Ren & Stimpy, among other things) is meeting with Sean Penn today and tomorrow to help him prep his Larry impression."
Well keeping up with the exlcusive info, I have it on good authrority that while this meeting may have taken place, currently Sean Penn is not comitted to any projects right now and does not have anything on his schedule regarding filming at the moment.
While this is to be taken with a grain of salt, I have to say that if these casting choices were more realistic, it would make for an interesting film, but only if the Farrelly Brothers weren't involved. Their track record has been terrible and they haven't produced anything of worth since There's Something About Mary (maybe Me, Myself and Irene, but that's being generous). I would like to see somebody like Milos Forman attack this film after his stellar job blending comedy and drama when directing the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon. Or even Jerry Zucker the man who was behind comedies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun, but still cranked out Ghost.
Either way, I loved the Stooges as a kid, and would love to have a biopic do them some justice. They were a group of guys who were moreso recognized for the role they played as the Stooges, rather than respected, versatile actors, and while the success was remarkable, their story isn't all glamour. But for now, I won't geet my hopes up, or even regard this rumors as being close to true, no matter how fun it might be.
'Tropic Thunder' Writer Set to Tackle *sigh* 'Candy Land'
All right, we've had our surprise successes in the past. Whether it's turning an amusement park ride into an international box office money machine (Pirates of the Caribbean) or turning a beloved children's toy into a plethora of explosions and action (Transformers) there's been some surprise hits to come out of the most unlikely of sources. But I don't know if I can get behind this one.
Now I can see where this might be fun for a family film. Kids get stuck in a game or something along those lines a la Jumanji (not the best movie, but enjoyable for kids and parents alike). But it just seems like studios are struggling to find the most nostalgic items from our childhood and turn them into feature films. This movie definitely sounds better than the supposed Ridley Scott film based off everyone's favorite real estate trading game Monopoly (yes that's true). I just don't know if people are ready to see such dynamic characters as King Kandy, Mama Ginger Tree or Lord Licorice brought to the screen.
Personally, if anything this gets me excited for other board-game-to-screen adpatations. My favorite being the suspense thriller focusing on a surgeon who's racing against the clock to perform several very dangerous and invasive surgeries on an ailing mob boss or the mafia will kill his family. Yeah that's right...it's a movie based around Operation. You're welcome.
If you're unfamiliar with the hero, that's fine because there's actually more than one Green Lantern. "Each Green Lantern possesses a power ring that gives the user great control over the physical world as long as the wielder has sufficient willpower and strength to wield it." The last time we heard about Green Lantern was when the character was involved in the live action Justice League movie (and set to be portrayed by rapper turned actor Common) which has since been tabled. And then again in 2007, writer and director Greg Berlanti was said to be helming a big screen adaptation with other writers Michael Green (Heroes) and Marc Guggenheim (comic book writer). Since then not much has gone forward.
But now with negotiations between Campbell and Warner Bros. it looks like we may be seeing the power of the ring sooner than we expected. This seems like a good choice. Campbell did wonders with James Bond, and I'm really interested in seeing what he does with source material that's much more fantastical than the Bond that he directed on-screen. We'll be keeping our eye on this one. What do you guys think? Excited for Green Lantern or is there another hero you're dying to see jump to the big screen?
'Saturday Night Live' Team's 'Incredibad' Almost Here
A couple years ago there was a very in depth retrospective about the cast and seasons of SNL during the 90's. My favorite commentary in this look back came from producer Michael Shoemaker when he looked back on the ratings free fall that took place in the mid 90's when there was a huge drop of cast members followed by an influx of fresh meat. This new talent consisted of future SNL favorites and now multi-million dollar comedians Adam Sandler and Mike Myers. But there was still backlash and criticism and a blasting New York Magazine cover story didn't make things any easier. Shoemaker points out "Now people look back and say, 'Those were the good times; it's this bunch I don't care for.' And it's always that way."
Having said that, despite some break out hits, this is once again one of those times. The cast is full of young new talent like Bobby Moynihan, Abby Elliot, Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson, and even the veteran players are young in their own right, especially Andy Samberg. But personally, I think the show is as good as it's always been, but people are blinded by continually seeing only the good sketches from the infamous "good ol' days." Luckily the release of the full seasons of SNL on DVD put things in perspective and we can see that the sketch comedy show has always had it's highs and lows.
But there's been one recent part of SNL that has been as consistently funny as the staple Weekend Update segment. I'm talking of course about the SNL Digital Short. Brought to the table by Andy Samberg and his comedy troupe known as The Lonely Island, this has become a staple of every episode of SNL. Modern classics like Lazy Sunday, and D*ck in a Box (as well as the very recently popular Jizz in My Pants) border on Weird Al Yankovic kind of comedic musical brilliance. Lucky for us The Lonely Island has decided to release an entire album of their outrageous and vulgar musical stylings (including the aforementioned hits). Collaborators on the album include Jack Black, Justin Timberlake, Norah Jones and more. Even professional rapper T-Pain gets in on the action in the newly released single of the forthcoming album Incredibad hitting stores next Tuesday, February 10. The single is "I'm on a Boat" and takes aim at the glamorous cash money lifestyle represented so fruitfully in today's musical culture. We've embedded the audio below, and I anxiously await a proper video...maybe even on Saturday Night Live.
The biggest impact has to be with the e-bayers of the world, of which I am one. I have an entire storage space full of converter boxes and now I have to wait til June when they run out in stores to list them? Not cool Congress, not cool at all.