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Wanna See SEMI-PRO with Will Ferrell & Director Kent Alterman at the Alamo?
Hey folks, Harry here... This time AICN and FANTASTIC FEST are bringing in 6'3" of unhinged hilarity... That's right, Will Ferrell is coming to Austin, Texas and the Alamo Drafthouse for a crazy event that could only be cooked up from the mad minds of Tim & I. The event is free.... but, you've got to come... well, you'll need to read the below text from the Alamo...
Fanastic Friends!
Ain't It Cool News and Fantastic Fest have an unbelievable special event happening an February 16 at 7:00 PM. The titan among modern-day comedy giants, Mr. Will Ferrell, along with director Kent Alterman will be live in person at the Alamo South Lamar for a special sneak-preview screening of his new comedy feature: SEMI-PRO!
Tickets to this show will be activated online at 1:00 PM on Thursday, February 7 for Fantastic Fest badge-holders only! Tickets will be open to the general public on Friday, February 8 at 5:00 PM.
If you haven't committed to Fantastic Fest 2008, now is the right time! Because of the high demand for these tickets, we don't expect these to last until Friday. Complete 2008 badge options are available on the Fantastic Fest website.
Admission to this event is free, but here's the catch... in order to gain entrance to the theater, all attendees MUST be wearing a Flint Tropics uniform. No uniform, no entry; you're going to have to show your dedication to get through the door.
To enter, you must be wearing ALL of the following:
-sneakers
-white tube socks with gold rings
-gold, white or aqua shorts
-white Flint Tropics tank top jersey complete with team logo and number
-gold terry cloth headband
You can hand-craft your own uniform, but it must be complete. We also have available a licensed unifom set at Mondo Tees which includes everything but the shorts and sneakers (tube socks, headband and Flint Tropics tank top complete with your name ironed-on the back of the jersey in 70s style fuzzy letters). Check it out here.
It should go without saying that afros, 70s hairstyles in general and a very tight cut of shorts are all highly encouraged.
Before the film, we'll have a granny-style free throw competition, plus we'll take a group photo of everyone from the audience in their Flint Tropics gear. This photo will be posted to the web at high-resolution for everyone to download and print.
Fantastic Fest badgeholders are entitled to 1 ticket per badge, and as this show will sell out quickly, we will be scrutinizing the list carefully to ensure that all confirmed attendees are in fact Fantastic Fest badge holders.
Will Ferrell's coming! I, for one, am going to wear the tightest, most golden shorts available! And I hope you do too!
Enjoy the show!
THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMA
See You There!!!
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It's the draft house this- the draft house that.
Newsflash- not every fucking reader of this site lives in Texas, okay?
Yeah, Austin sounds like a pretty cool place but will you fucking shut up about it? Jesus.
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Would be cool to go see Will Ferrell, but not Semi Pro, and def not worth buying a fantastic fest pass for
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Too much trouble.
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Let me shake my magic 8 ball...
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No. No, I don't. Have a nice day.
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I would love to see thi smore than anything right now!
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I don't want another shitty Ben Stille-Vince Vaughn comedy... what? Only Will Ferrell? Really?
Still no. Looks like another Ricky Bobby schlockfest for hillbilly, trailer park audience. No offense for those who liked it, I know it happened to good folks, too. Like my dad. -
I saw love me sexy
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Not trying to be funny, I seriously don't. Let me know when they're done Xeroxing Anchorman / playing Will Ferrell Mad Libs with premises.
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The mind reels at the number of people who both hate Austin and hate Will Ferrell, but spend their time in a talkback for a Will Ferrell appearance in Austin.And I will say, until I sat down at an Alamo Drafthouse for myself, I didn't know what I was missing. Beer & wings with the movie? Hilarious vintage clip pre-shows? No commercials for Pepsi and TNT's newest piece of crap show? And an attentive waiter who brings me another beer every time I raise a little white slip of paper, and then scurries back off into the darkness.And to all the Austin Haters: with all due respect, suck it.
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my snarky comment about hillbillies and trailer parks wasn't directed toward Austin. It sounds like a nice city. But nowhere near Houston or Dallas^^
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is this a poll?
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True story: Kurt Russell was originally cast as Ron Burgundy, and Kate Hudson was cast as 'love interest/reporter.' But then the director found out while reading US Magazine's "Stars, they're just like us" section that Kurt and Kate were related. So he told Kate she'd have to step aside for Christina (also because Kate is Box office poison). Well, when that happened, Kurt stepped out too. In a panic, they called Will Ferrell and what was originally a Rom-Drom became a Rom-Com and the rest was as they say, history.
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Feb 06, 2008 6:58:42 PM CST
Why should Ferrel play different characters? The Marx Bros didn'
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http://www.collegehumor.com/willferrell
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Will Ferrell is a funny guy I'm sure but I have absolutely no desire to meet him or the director of yet another one of Ferrell's formulaic, unfunny movies. Thanks.
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how many more versions of the same film and character does ferrel have to make? seriously, his career is basically over if he can't do anything else. stranger than fiction was a very good movie and one where i hoped will would grow as an actor. however he reverted back to his silly form. fuck him.
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Right on, AICN! Right the fuck on!
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What? No one said that yet?
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I forgot to say 'yes'.
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But thanks for the invite.
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Will there just be a list on their website that you can sign up on to guarantee your spot?
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why. I f'ing hate that dipshit! I dont' find him the least bit funny. Same w/ the other jackass, Sandler. Both of those clowns have made more money than any of us will ever see and they're people on this site are just as talented.
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I LOVE being a journalist. Yeah, that's right, I'm name-dropping. I'm allowed. I'm still new to it all.
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1) Will takes his clothes off and acts like his body is a thing of beauty 2) Will has a profane outburst that's way more heated than the situation warrants (oh wait, we already saw that in the preview "Suck my dick! I'll kill your family!" 3) Will forgets which movie he's in and accidentally slips back into Ron Burgundy mode (actually, we saw that too, this time in his Bud Light commercial). I loved Anchorman, but each wacky named sports persona he takes on makes me love it a little bit less.
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Is there any chance that maybe for some of the events you could go back to when you had to email in for tickets? While this might make the decision easier for a genre lover to buy a badge, I love these special events you do but I'm not much of a fantastic fest kind of person. Semi-Pro is a comedy and really doesn't have much to do with Fantastic Fest, so it's just leaving alot of people out. I guess I'll try on friday,crossing fingers.
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He was alright.
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http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/quantum-of-solace-teaser-poster-full.jpg
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wonder what kind of badges you have to have? full film or will even a 1 day pass work
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...AbKing would be his number one fan, and would be there front and center in the Alamo to suck on his balls.
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You guys who have nothing better to do than hatin' on Will or Austin should go get a life. First of all, your comments are about like me going 'Waahhh!! All the movie premieres are in hollywood -- why not here?' It's not -- grow up. And Austin is just as nice as Houston or Dallas, just not as big. Most people here like it that way though.
As for Will, also a big fuck you. What so he should try to be a 'serious' actor because it's gone so well for people like Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler? What you're going to tell me if you were in his spot you would turn down the millions he's offered on a movie like this... ok, whatever you want to say (liar). -
No, both Austin and Dallas are nicer than Houston. Houston's terrible. You have to go up into the Panhandle to find worst cities than Houston.
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he keeps hitting that one string over and over and the brainless fattys keep going to see his movies and saying to their mindless fatty friends, 'hey that was a fresh and new movie concept there!'
Will Ferrel's big Hollywood secret? His films dont have screenplays - they're all just one massive, 100 page MAD-LIB where Wil and his equally uninspired friends sit around a room and say, "okay now we need five thousand forty-to adjectives." A week later, the new screenplay is ready to shoot. -
The guys shows and productions were littered with very NOT-SUBTLE cues as to his homosexuality. He passed away during a time in our culture where homosexuality was still very very taboo (sure it still is now, but at least people can admit it without being banished to a colony). For the truth to come out about his life, it would have brought his entire enterprise to ruin.
I wonder if the biopic will finally be brave enough to tell the truth, or if its just more of the same lies to ensure the money keeps rolling in. -
was in dublin recently to pick up the UCD James Joyce award. other recipeints include Hans blix. Ferrell, whose grandparents or maybe greatgrandparents are from longford joked that he knew hans blix really well and that he and hans's son go holidaying in St.barts. Hilarious. 200 of ferrell's irish fans turned up. He even wore an Irish rugby shirt on the day. Took questions from the student audience.
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Occasionally funny, vastly overrated.
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Let's leave it at that.
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negative
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I thought Will Ferrell's (don't care how his name is spelled) character in Semi-Pro was going to have the initials "R.B." to finalize his "mediocre-American-who-is-uunjustifiably-in-love-with-himself" trilogy. Whatever the case, Semi-Pro is going to be a blast. Anchorman remains laugh-out-loud funny after seventeen viewings. I had to go see Taladega Nights twice in the same day because I missed half the jokes while laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. Old School was awesome and Blades Of Glory rocked. I'm sure all the haters who have nothing better to do than bash screwball comedy will watch something English and whitty. Screw that! You stay classy AICN. I love lamp.
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But now that the star of Bewitched will be making an appearance at Fucktastic Fest, i'm there!
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The car movie of his I reluctantly watched was pretty rubbish, don't mind the guy and in interviews (unless he's being interviewed by someone a lot funnier like Russel Brand or Jonathon Ross)he seems like a nice guy, but why just do one silly sports piss takes after another? and the trailer to this one looked extra non-funny.
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Gotta be jokin...he sucks...ain't his career over yet?
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To answer the question asked.
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in The Guardian, only because he got shot in the head.
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Not in a million years
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Rob Schneider, Jim Carey, and Will Farrel. Three men who are not just unfunny but supremely overwhelmingly unfunny when given free rein to improvise. It is only when held under tight control and a well written script that they can act their way out of a paper bag. Why is it that every alumnus of a comedy improv show thinks that every word that comes out of their mouth is comic genius. Will Farrel is the Uwe Boll of humor.
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I've seen Anchorman. I've seen Blades of Glory. A humorous premise does not make a film funny. Are there jokes or humor in this film or is it all just, "look, he's the owner of a bad basketball team!"
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It was big, clean and friendly. Perhaps I just have lower standards. Then again, I can't think of a single person who would go and watch a free Will Ferrell movie if it means having to pay for and dress like a complete fucking corporate dickhead tool to do it.
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Will has become a DVD act for me. At least until he can prove, I mean PROVE, that he's got more than one note to really on as an actor. I do think he's funny, but it's the same funny in every oddball character. I'm just hoping he can show that he's got some more in there. Carey and Sanders were both able to pull that off, to some degree, anyway. And I've seen Stranger Than Fiction, twice actually. Ferrell just seemed lost and out of place in that film.
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