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'Harold & Kumar' To Return

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movie News on 25 July 2008 02:49:29 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movie News

Comedy duo Harold & Kumar are returning for a third movie, after this year's sequel proved a box office hit.[...] Read more!

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Row Threes Coverage of TIFF 08

post from Row Three on 25 July 2008 02:47:17 PM. © Row Three

I just wanted to let you all know that we have just set up the TIFF section for Row Three. It is[...]

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Stalking 'Funny People': A Defamer Chat With Judd
Apatow [Defamer Interviews]

post from Defamer on 25 July 2008 02:45:39 PM. © Defamer

Accosted recently by a Defamer correspondent moments after receiving the first ever Just For Laughs Comedy Person of the Year Award in Montreal, Hollywood comedy baron Judd Apatow somehow agreed to commit to a short interview. Later that night, he'd appear before a rowdy crowd at Club Metropolis, hosting an all-stars comedy event billed as Apatow for Destruction. Judd opened the show by launching into a funny set that explored the not-always-tidy-side of family life and getting older. Soon after came Seth Rogen—basically Judd minus 15-or-so grounding years—with a raunchier act that included a riff on frequent self-pleasuring ("I forgot you could use hand lotion for something other than jerking off..."), and a notable preoccupation with all things gay. (On late-in-life movie star Ian McKellen: "As soon as Magneto lifted those cars, the guys sucking his dick dropped 50 years in age.") Newly announced VMAs host Russell Brand closed out the show. A deeply charismatic stage presence with an indelibly dirty mind, he's as comfortable dropping psychoanalytical insights as he is being a horny goofball (a hilarious bit about the gulping sound that means your oral sex partner really cares) or flippantly self-deprecating ("I use homeless people as scabby wishing wells. Vending machines for good karma...").

We caught up with Apatow shortly after the show, where he talked to us about what it felt like to stand in the live-comedy spotlight after all these years, gave us a little taste of what to expect in his upcoming movie, Funny People, and submitted to a round of Desert Island DVDs that you might find surprising. It's after the jump.

DEFAMER: Congratulations on what we'd call a very successful return to your stand-up roots. What spurred this on? Was it research for Funny People, or did Funny People come out of a desire to revisit the world of stand-up?

APATOW: I figured if I was going to make a movie about stand-up comedy I, unfortunately, needed to start doing it again. Mainly, because I have to start writing jokes for the stand up sequences in the movie, but also so I can remind myself how it makes you feel great and like crap, almost simultaneously.

DEFAMER: Is that how it feels?

APATOW: You get a high, but I always feel ashamed afterwards. Embarrassed about what I said. Embarrassed about the ego it takes to think anyone would want to listen to you talk. The instant need to do it again. It's like comic crack.

DEFAMER: So Funny People is going to be like Punchline, only with Seth Rogen in the Sally Field role?

APATOW: The movie isn't about stand-up comedy. It's about a few characters who are having a crisis, but what makes it different is that they are people who make comedy.

DEFAMER: Your willingness to collaborate and promote lesser-known talents is probably one of the first things people think of when they think of the "Apatow" brand: You're not just getting one vision, your getting a bunch of complimentary sensibilities.

APATOW: It was an easy show for me because I knew that no matter how well or badly I did, I had Seth Rogen, Charlene Yi, Million Dollar Strong, Craig Robinson, Bill Hader and Russell Brand coming on after me. No matter what the show would be fun. The idea was to put on a show that starred all of the people who have acted in our films. So many of them are great comics so it made for a great, raucous show.

DEFAMER: Now onto the hardballs: You're stranded on a desert island with no one but a naked Jason Segel. Miraculously, you happen to have your three favorite L.A. takeout meals, and five favorite movies or TV series on DVD (excluding your own) with you. What are they?

APATOW: My five DVDs would be Mad Men, Season Three of The Wire, Broadcast News, Being There, and Punch Drunk Love. My three take-out meals would be PF Changs, Vitorrio?s Pizza, and A Votre Sante chicken and asparagus—so I don?t feel unhealthy.

DEFAMER: Seth Rogen did a bit in his act about being considered a bear by the gay community, and how he wished there was a straight equivalent. Have you ever been pegged as a bear? Ever thought about making the first mainstream bear comedy—or, failing that, a movie with a prominent gay character?

APATOW: I almost wrote a movie which was about gay characters but I ultimately realized I didn?t know enough about the subject. That may have been the moment when I first realized I had heterosexual tendencies.

DEFAMER: And finally, what can you tell us about this mysterious Sacha Baron Cohen project about Sherlock Holmes that you're producing?

APATOW: Sherlock Holmes is being written by Etan Cohen, one of the writers of Tropic Thunder.

DEFAMER: Hmm. Mysterious. Thanks, Judd!

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Movie Critics: Who Needs Em [Opinions]

post from Film School Rejects on 25 July 2008 02:44:00 PM. © Film School Rejects

Have you ever had a conversation with a crusty, old farmer? Some of those guys have one hell of a way with words. They cut right through the veneer of polite society and tell it like it is. And, they have a wonderful phrase for something that's utterly superfluous.They'll tell ...

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Redbelt

post from i hate movies on 25 July 2008 02:41:00 PM. © i hate movies

(2008, David Mamet)

Okay, the more I sit around not writing, the easier it is for me to sit around not writing, so here it goes, for better or worse…

Not being a fan of either old-Hollywood-liberal-turned-neo-con David Mamet or mixed martial arts, this was kind of a slog for me. The plot is pretty unimportant, I guess; the movie is more about ideas and stilted, theatrical dialogue.

Thank goodness, then for Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is one of the better actors of his generation. I predict big things from this young man. Remember you read it here first. Anyway, Ejiofor (who you might remember as Denzel Washington’s brother in American Gangster) owns this movie and thank goodness for that. Without him, it would have been unbearable.

He somehow manages to take Mamet’s ridiculous script and make parts of it seem real. Also good, surprisingly, is ex-sitcom/Disney star Tim Allen - now looking bloated and tired - playing a bloated and tired-looking ex-action movie star. Unfortunately, it seems that most of his footage was left on the cutting room floor.

Mamet lovers and/or fans of mixed martial arts (which is apparently quite popular these days; who knew?) will probably find this more appealing than I did. I say: let ‘em have it.

Grade: C+

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Hamlet 2s Sexy Jesus Takes Over Comic-Con
[Comic-Con 2008]

post from Film School Rejects on 25 July 2008 02:21:00 PM. © Film School Rejects

Do you have Sexy Jesus in your life? I know I have had him in mine since late January when I first saw the Focus Features release Hamlet 2 at the Sundance Film Festival. And soon, very soon, you too will be able to get yourself a healthy dose of ...

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Gears of War goes Legendary

post from Filmstalker on 25 July 2008 02:20:23 PM. © Filmstalker

The Gears of War film is moving ahead and will now be co-financed and co-produced by Legendary Pictures. Legendary Pictures also co-financed and co-produced The Dark Knight and 300. Having endured a fair few late nights playing the game, this film is looking better all the time. Can they get two actors to make Cole and Baird appear as useless as they were though?...Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

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The Loneliness Of A Star Wars Fan [A Call To The
Bullpen]

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A Wookie from El Monte attending his first Comic Con in San Diego got separated from his group of friends after getting off the trolley. In a muffled voice, The Wookie said, "I stopped to tie my shoes for a second and, when I got up, I started talking to my friend Paul. He's dressed like Han Solo. But after I started talking to Han, I realized that wasn't Paul, but it was someone else altogether. Then I went to talk to my other friend, John, he's dressed like the Joker and, well, I think you can see where I'm going with this, right?" The Wookie thought about going into the convention center and attempt to find his friends, but he wouldn't know the first place to look. The El Monte native added, "I think I might just go back to the motel, but I don't know if a Wookie would give up so quickly."

[Photo Credit: WENN]

*A Call To The Bullpen is a work of fiction. Although the pictures we use are most certainly real, Defamer does not purport that any of the incidents or quotations you see in this piece actually happened. Lighten up, people ... it's a joke.

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Harold and Kumar 3 Announced

While Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay had it moments, ultimately Slashfilm was let down, graphing it as a 4.5/10 (and later a 3.5/10 for the inclusion of a 311 song in 2008). The profitable sequel hits DVD on Tuesday and today Harold and Kumar 3 has been announced from John Hurwitz and Hayden [...]

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Step Brothers Is For Fans of Ferrell, Reilly and
Raunch [Movie Review]

A lot of noise was made prior to the release of Will Ferrell?s Semi-Pro earlier this year. Well, the publicity made an awful lot of noise, but it seemed that audiences didn?t really hear that noise. Similarly, John C. Reilly had his own bout with box office failure (even in ...

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