Comedy

Jason Statham joins Melissa McCarthy in Susan Cooper

Posted 13 years ago

Melissa McCarthy has quickly made a name for herself as the go-to comedienne for odd-couple comedies, but her latest project sees her teamed up with a most unusual co-star: Jason Statham. Variety has confirmed that Statham has signed on for...

ABC to air sneak peek of The Avengers: Age of Ultron with Marvel special

Posted 13 years ago

ABC will be debuting an "early glimpse" of Joss Whedon's THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON next month in Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe, a one-hour special that goes behind the scenes of the comic-media empire. The special is said to...

The Test of Time: Ghostbusters (1984)

Posted 13 years ago

We all have movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? So…the point of this here column...

Comedy duo Key and Peele join FX’s Fargo TV series

Posted 13 years ago

“What about Fargo though?!” The brilliant sketch comedy team of Key and Peele, perhaps best known for their love of all things Liam Neesons and Bruce Willie, are sticking together for a different and decidedly darker comedy series, FX’s “Fargo”....

First trailer for FX’s Fargo TV series starring Billy Bob Thornton

Posted 13 years ago

I was a little leery of FX's FARGO television series based on the classic Joel and Ethan Coen film when it was first announced. But with the Coen Brothers executive producing and a very solid cast (including Martin Freeman, Bob...

Ghostbusters III script to be reworked after the passing of Harold Ramis

Posted 13 years ago

After the passing of Harold Ramis yesterday, you had to know that there were going to be questions about GHOSTBUSTERS 3. I saw a few people asking what the status of the project would be, and honestly, at that point...

Did Drew Pearce confirm Joss Whedon as the director for The Avengers 3?

Posted 13 years ago

Many assume Joss Whedon will be back to direct THE AVENGERS 3, but there's no guarantee he will return for another film with the superhero team. There's a very good chance Whedon will helm THE AVENGERS 3, however as far...

A new writer boards the sequel to We’re the Millers

Posted 13 years ago

While we’re already on the topic of sequels, let’s talk a follow-up of the comedic variety. I’ll be honest here; I’m sort of surprised that I actually watched all of WE’RE THE MILLERS. But once I stopped acting like a...

Amanda Seyfriend will be the new female lead in Seth MacFarlane’s Ted sequel

Posted 13 years ago

It looks like Amanda Seyfried is moving in with Mark Wahlberg‘s John Bennett in the sequel to Seth MacFarlane‘s huggable-yet-foulmouthed talking teddy bear sequel, TED 2. Seyfriend will be joining the sequel as the female lead, which would suggest she’s...

Actor, writer, and director Harold Ramis is dead at 69

Posted 13 years ago

Sad news today, as writer, actor, and director Harold Ramis has died at the age of 69, due to complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels. Ramis had been quietly battling the...

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