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Alexander Payne, who masterminded “Election,” “About Schmidt” and “Sideways,” has signed on to direct the HBO pilot “Hung,” about a high-school coach with a massive schlong.
The series was created by two writers from “The Riches” -- Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin.
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Hey folks, Harry here... Figured you good folks would like some good news on the version of SPACED that you actually give a shit about.... the real SPACED, which is coming to DVD in the U.S. for the very first time - thus cockblocking the very ill-conceived & unwanted remake. If you've never seen SPACED - and I imagine a goodly portion of you haven't. Well - I envy you. This series is bliss. That we finally have it here - is great - I just hope there's a great deal of push for this. It needs to be seen EVERYWHERE!!!
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Seth MacFarlane, who gave us “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and “The Winner,” has just signed a deal with Fox that could be worth $100 million.
He'll now be churning out episodes for the studio until 2012.
Read all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Verrrrrrrry curious about this one. The script was a canny little game of chess, and the cast is a knock-out. I liked BRICK quite a bit, and I hope this marks a step forward for this idiosyncratic young writer/director.
I know it screened on Thursday night, and we got in two reactions to the screening. Here’s the first...
Hello Harry, I've sent scoops in in the past but never had anything get through maybe this will be the one.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I hate each and every person who is in Austin seeing PINEAPPLE EXPRESS tonight. I couldn’t make it because I had obligations here this weekend, even though Harry put me on the list. There are two comedies I’m dying to see this summer, and TROPIC THUNDER is the other one. Maybe I’ll get to see this soon to help ease the sting of missing yet another screening of PINEAPPLE.
Will it please me? Check out this review.
Hey guys!
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I had a little bit of an e-mail back-and-forth with Garth Jennings back when HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE was still test-screening, and he seemed like a decent sort then. And Edgar Wright swears by these two... says they are the real deal, film fans with their hearts in the right place.
As if SON OF RAMBOW wasn’t proof enough.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I can’t believe this one’s about to hit theaters finally. I’ve been singing its praises for a while now, and I think after you see it, you’ll understand why. I’m not alone in loving it, of course. It seems like every professionally funny person I know loves this. I haven’t seen this kind of genuine word-of-mouth buzz about something in the comedy world since maybe the British OFFICE.
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With which unexpected inconvenience must Pam contend this week? Is it Toby, beckoning her to join him in Costa Rica?
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
THE FOLLOWING IS A CORRECTED INTRODUCTION, REPLACING THE INCORRECT INFORMATION ORIGINALLY HERE:
WAR INC may have hit theaters in Canada last week, but it's actually opening in New York and LA on May 23. It played the Tribeca Film Festival a few nights ago as well.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
It’s funny... there are many film geeks I know who have a general dislike of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 because they see it as a mockery of film, and also because they hate the copycats, people who sit through movies in public, making comments loudly. Harry’s never been a fan, for example.
I am a MST fan, though, and this letter from a guy who went to see a live performance of a new venture called Cinematic Titanic is a really fun read if you’re one as well:
Harry-
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I’ll make this quick.
I didn’t care much for the original HAROLD & KUMAR, although time has mellowed my opinion on it a bit. More than anything, it’s the uneven tone of the first film that drove me crazy.
The second film is... well... more of the same.
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“Simpsons” writer-producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein have joined the staff of Mitch Hurwitz’ animated “Sit Down, Shut Up.” Because "Arrested Development" mastermind Hurwitz wrote the pilot, the move suggests the project will be announced as a series at Fox’s “upfront” in a little more than two weeks.
Variety’s story on the matter indicates that Oakley and Weinstein will serve as the series’ showrunners. Their other credits include “Mission Hill” and “The Mullets.”
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According to Variety:
Penned by Judge, "Extract" explores what it's like to be the boss when everything seems to be shifting around you. Miramax will distribute in North America.
Judge masterminded “Office Space,” “Idiocracy,” “Beavis and Butt-Head” and “King of the Hill.” Mike Judge pwns all.
Jason Bateman was in "Dodgeball" and "Juno."
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Do you feel tardy?
Paramount, which teamed with J.J. Abrams on “Mission: Impossible 3,” “Cloverfield” and the new big-screen “Star Trek,” has bought the script for the Abrams-produced “Hot For Teacher,” a movie about a teen determined to bone his instructor before graduation.
It was written by TV vet Jay Dyer, whose credits include “DAG” and “Andy Richter Controls The Universe.”
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Fox News gossip Roger Friedman is reporting that it’s a “done deal”: Jimmy Fallon will take over Conan O’Brien’s “Late Night” timeslot next year.
NBC is expected to announce the plan around May 11, just as the “upfronts” – events at which the networks announce their fall schedules – get underway, adds the report.
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NBC just announced Oscar-nominated movie star Amy Ryan (“Gone Baby Gone,” “The Wire”), will grace “The Office's” hour-long fourth-season finale. (She is not to be confused with Oscar-nominated Amy Adams, who played The Hot Girl at the end of season one.) My man Mike Ausiello at TV Guide says the May 15 finale will feature two “Office” characters getting engaged.
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Nick Stoller is a busy dude. He has a Universal project with Sarah Marshall's star Jason Segel as well as the reinvention of THE MUPPETS he's doing with Segel... Now he's got another project called GET HIM TO THE GREEK gathering steam. Apatow returns to produce and Jonah Hill will star alongside Russell Brand, who I thought was fucking hilarious in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL.
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I just posted a story for the American Teen trailer, which is a great trailer for a great movie. This trailer below is an okay trailer for a great movie. I think the trailer is a little clunky. If it were me, I'd really sell the nostalgia factor. The movie is a love-letter to the early '90s. Also, the heart of the film is the friendship between Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck, which is just skimmed in the trailer.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Not to borrow the title of another of this summer’s films, but I want to believe that THE LOVE GURU is funny. I do. I am a Mike Myers fan. Unabashedly. I think he’s done way too little original work in recent years, but I’m still a fan. I like the AUSTIN POWERS series without apology. I think the first WAYNE’S WORLD was great fun. I want to believe that Mike’s going to do it again.
I just didn’t love that trailer.
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