Unless you're a comedy nerd on the level of Jon Hamm, the chances are good that you don't remember much about The Dana Carvey Show. For the uninitiated, the short-lived 1996 sketch comedy series helped launch the careers of Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K., 30 Rock showrunner Robert Carlock, and Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- who was apparently up to his future tricks in writing an unaired sketch about Weird Al Yankovic and his twin brother.
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I knew something seemed unusual when I looked at Entertainment Weekly's new cover featuring Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, and Viola Davis, three of the stars of the new film The Help. Is it the lighting? Emma Stone's curiously nondescript expression? Nope, it's that we haven't seen a black actor or actress featured on the cover in quite some time. Can you guess the last black thespian to land the cover of EW?
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During yesterday's discussion of the new Funny Girl, Lea Michele, and Barbra Streisand, we took a look back at Babs' hilarious 1972 comedy What's Up, Doc? and wondered who is 2011's equivalent of Madeline Kahn. How foolish we were. The answer is not Jayma Mays or Ari Graynor, but rib-tickling Change-Up star Leslie Mann. It's a relief to finally get this right. Join Movieline ahead to compare Mann and Kahn's filmographies, characters, and penchant for cray-cray.
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Today, after four months of investigation, Summit Entertainment released a press release identifying the young woman who allegedly stole photos and video of Bill Condon's unfinished Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn back in March and leaked the images and screen grabs on the Internet. The investigation spanned four continents and the studio has filed civil action in two countries and criminal action in one. But enough with the boring legal details! After the jump, Movieline conducts its own high tech Facebook research on the woman who allegedly released those Bella/Edward sex pics.
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There is no denying Beyonce's talent, stardom, or status as an enduring stronghold in show business, but would you call her "a new talent [that] represents a generation"? Because in a new interview about her role in Clint Eastwood's A Star is Born remake, she kinda claims to be just that.
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Today in news that doesn't relate to Comic-Con: Deadline reports that Steve Carell, Jack Black and Nicolas Cage are in various stages of negotiations to star in Frank Or Francis for director and writer Charlie Kaufman. Details on the film are slim, but when it was first announced back in March, Frank Or Francis reportedly dealt with a filmmaker and the blogger "who takes delight in berating his cinematic talent." (It sorta sounds like that movie Pitchfork that Jonah Hill was rumored for; bloggers, they're not just for blogs anymore!) Assuming Carell, Black and Cage sign on for Frank Or Francis -- and assuming at least two of them are in talks for the lead roles -- this news raises a fairly legitimate question: who among them is believable as a blogger?
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In the lead-up to Comic-Con, a handful of new images from the should-be-splatter-rific (but is actually rated PG-13) Shark Night 3-D have debuted online courtesy of Hollywood.com, and they feature one unifying trait. Not sharks, silly! Young adults screaming at off-screen terror. Which of these seven pictures are actually from the David R. Ellis-directed film? See if you can guess ahead.
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As you saw in the underwhelming teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, it wasn't Christian Bale, Tom Hardy or Anne Hathaway who got a majority of the 90-second screen time -- it was Gary Oldman. (And the disembodied voice of Liam Neeson.) Oldman's wheezing and battered-looking Commissioner Gordon told an off-screen Batman about "evil" and all the other mumbo-jumbo that old wheezing men in hospital beds go on about, and basically stole the show. The renowned character actor is also front-and-center on the U.K. poster for Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, with a headshot usually reserved for A-listers like Will Smith or Russell Crowe. Which raises the question: Is Gary Oldman having a moment?
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Judging from the advanced ticket sales and pent-up anticipation, the chances are good that you braved the crowds of costumed Harry Potter fans to see The Deathly Hallows Part 2 at midnight. The tragic, violent and nostalgic finale hits many of the notes Potter fans have been waiting to see onscreen with aplomb ("I open at the close"!), but there are still some pretty hefty changes -- especially involving Alan Rickman's Severus Snape. Why did screenwriter Steve Kloves decide to move the location of Snape's biggest Hallows moment?
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As the song says, this is the end. With the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 on Friday at 12 a.m., the most lucrative film franchise falls to a close. All that's left now is the armchair quarterbacking, specifically: where do the film's young stars go from here? Good question! Ahead, Movieline runs down the future career prospects of Potter's young cast, and offers up one movie star whose career they would be wise to follow.
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You haven't seen the movies. You haven't even done the requisite research on Margaret Thatcher to judge Meryl Streep's role in The Iron Lady. You don't even really understand why Glenn Close is dressed in drag for Albert Nobbs yet. But you do know that Meryl Streep and Glenn Close are very likely to garner nominations for Best Actress at the next Oscars, exhuming a battle that began in 1987 when Cher beat both of them for a statue. Without any knowledge of the films' quality, who are you rooting for?
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You heard it here first (or second, if you heard it in your own head and wished it away already): Daniel Radcliffe might be transforming into a Robert Pattinson doppelganger. In his new photo shoot for the UK version of GQ, Radcliffe cops the Pattinsonian pompadour and points his jaw all the Pattinsonian ways. Are the similarities eerie? You tell us if he's starting to resemble the the dearly departed Cedric Diggory.
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In 2007, a dapper young star named Shia LaBeouf appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair next to an interesting caption: "Can Hollywood Turn 21-Year-Old Shia LaBeouf Into the Next Tom Hanks?" Provocative. Of course, LaBeouf's career shifted from that of a Hanks-ian, potential Oscar nominee to the domain of a de rigueur action star. The youngster may not have followed Vanity Fair's wish list since starring in the first Transformers film, but maybe he scored a more interesting feat -- becoming our generation's Michael J. Fox.
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Warner Bros. has a March 30, 2012, release date and 3-D conversion ready to go for its sequel to Clash of the Titans, the Jonathan Liebesman-directed picture that has heretofore been known simply as Clash of the Titans 2. But signs found online this morning suggest that that latter detail may soon change.
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Further proof that Hollywood is not necessarily beholden to movie stars for guaranteed gargantuan grosses at the box office? For three Transformers: Dark of the Moon co-stars, the Michael Bay-directed film will be their second this summer to crack the $200 million plateau in worldwide earnings. Can you guess which three? Hint: not Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley or Optimus Prime.
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