Hey, remember that Ren & Stimpy documentary I was telling you about a couple of months ago? Well, the folks putting together Happy Happy Joy Joy – The Ren & Stimpy Story done gone and cancelled their original Kickstarter campaign, despite raising more than $100,000. “Our end goal was overly ambitious,” executive producer Ron Cicero […]
Continue ReadingVic and Gene are two guys who sell suits for a living. They may be #notallmen, but they are most definitely Men, and this short film for Super Deluxe explores a day and long night in the lives of these two schmucks. Most definitely Not Safe For Work. Directed by Bill Benz, and starring, created […]
Continue ReadingA mockumentary Melissa McCarthy starred in way back in 2007 is finally heading to theaters a decade later. Titled Cook Off!, the film was directed by Cathryn Michon and Guy Shalem, originally premiered at the Comedy Arts Festival in 2007, and stars McCarthy alongside an ensemble cast of improvisers like Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash, Louie […]
Continue ReadingGilbert Gottfried is a comedian that pretty much everyone seems to know in some way. As Whoopi Goldberg states in… MORE
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Melissa McCarthy’s upcoming movie The Happytime Murders is rounding out its cast. Deadline reports that Elizabeth Banks has joined the cast of the film, which has been in development at The Jim Henson Company since 2012 with Brian Hanson attached to direct. Melissa McCarthy signed on to star and produce alongside Ben Falcone earlier this […]
Continue ReadingThanks to some recent comments by Tig Notaro, the long-running rumors of Louis C.K.’s sexual misconduct have resurfaced in the news again, and in a new interview with The New York Times, C.K. was asked about the rumors, and like his Vulture interview last year, he offered up a dismissive answer: “I’m not going to answer […]
Continue ReadingJames Franco’s passion project The Disaster Artist is shaping to be a great movie based the true story of one… MORE
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A roast of George Wendt at The Second City over the weekend brought with it some unexpected news about an upcoming movie on the late improv icon Del Close. Various sources reported that the financing for Del needs to be reconfigured, and executive producer and Second City owner Andrew Alexander told the Chicago Sun-Times that […]
Continue ReadingJames Franco’s movie The Disaster Artist heads to theaters later this year, and today the new, longer trailer for the film was released. Based on Greg Sestero’s book of the same name, the movie stars Franco as Tommy Wiseau and chronicles the making of 2003’s The Room, “the best worst movie of all time.” Dave Franco […]
Continue ReadingA behind-the-scenes documentary about Jim Carrey’s experience channeling Andy Kaufman for the 1999 biopic Man on the Moon is heading to Netflix. Titled Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – The Story of Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton, the documentary recently premiered at the Venice […]
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