If there's one thing that self-respecting football fans have in common, it's their unadulterated adulation of high school students singing Michael Jackson and Katy Perry. At least, that's what Fox hopes considering that an episode of Glee will air immediately following the Super Bowl this Sunday. Programming the Super Bowl lead-out is a tricky proposition: Obviously whatever is placed in that time slot is going to do gangbuster ratings, but considering that the current combination of NBC, CBS and Fox only have the Super Bowl once every three years, it may not be wise to waste this ratings bonanza on something like, say, the pilot for a Randy Quaid show called Davis Rules... which happened. So, what can Glee except from its monster of a lead-in? Let's look at nine fun facts about network programming that immediately follows the Super Bowl.
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· OK, not exactly. During the Feb. 7 episode of How I Met Your Mother, Katy Perry and her talents will hit MacLaren's Pub and reveal how she auditioned for Lost. Well, her HIMYM character at least. Click ahead to watch -- and take notice of the fact that the clip is totally laugh-track free; for How I Met Your Mother fans, this is actually jarring -- then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Considering Community is a sitcom that made a 9/11 reference within the first 10 minutes of its pilot episode, the fact that the show will use blackface to garner laughs this week isn't that surprising. But! Will the sight of Ken Jeong in blackface push things a bit too far? Ahead, find a brief history of blackface stunts from recent memory.
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It went virtually buzzless last fall in Toronto, then found itself locked on Miramax's shelf when Disney shuttered and offloaded the minimajor. But word comes today that the nifty relationship drama Last Night will land on screens this spring thanks to Tribeca Film, which has acquired theatrical and VOD rights from Miramax. The film features strong performances by a core ensemble including Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes, Guillaume Canet. (And Sam Worthington is in it, too.) Release date forthcoming... drop back by for related news as events warrant. [Tribeca Film]
Between the political upheaval in Egypt and a national weather map that looks like a storyboard from Roland Emmerich's 2012, this week is shaping up to be a pretty craptacular one. Just ask Anderson Cooper. So! In an effort to brighten things up, how about you read the funniest Stanley Kubrick joke that Full Metal Jacket star Matthew Modine ever told to the director's face. Take it away, Matt.
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Man on Wire director James Marsh had harsh words recently for a certain self-obsessed hack filmmaker who shall not be named. The cretinous slob known for such films as $27,000 Black-and-White Gonzo Exercise, Quasi-Deep Religious Half-Comedy, Ben Affleck's Second-Worst Pile of Crap After Gigli and Stunning Flop About Porn earned the Oscar-winner's scorn at the Sundance Film Festival, where both men premiered new work -- but where only one of them embarrassed himself with an execrable dog-and-pony show, a distribution-auction hoax, and a subsequent stream of self-aggrandizing gibberish on Twitter.
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Also in this humpday edition of The Broadsheet: Warner Bros. is still trying to make Fletch happen... Zach Galifianakis might meet Schwentke... Hugh Jackman is pumped (and pumping) for The Wolverine... and more ahead.
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I'm sure things happen in this trailer for the macho-as-hell medieval epic Ironclad, but literally all I can focus on each time is how furious Paul Giamatti looks in every shot. Sure, Giamatti has gone off before in movies, but never while donning this messy beard and Prince Valiant haircut and never with quite so much verve. Rather than watch the trailer a fourth time to try and figure out what the film's actually about, I'm just going to take screen captures of the three best faces Giamatti makes and post them after the jump. You're welcome.
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Take that, Hollywood Reporter! After an early trade article labeled it "Sundance's first bomb," Dito Montiel's police drama Son of No One, which stars Katie Holmes, Al Pacino and Tracy Morgan, has sold to Anchor Bay for somewhere around $2 million. Now we'll all get to see more than three seconds of Tracy Morgan's dramatic acting chops. [Deadline]
The trailer for Monogamy more or less runs through a checklist of things I like to see in marriage-disintegration movies. Voyeurism? Check. Obsession? Yep. Melodrama? You bet! Actors I like? Check and...check! The trailer begins with Chris Messina and Rashida Jones taking wedding photos and talking about their solid relationship. But really, in a movie called Monogamy, how do you think that's going to end?
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· If you're not tired of Legomania yet, please witness Donald Faison's Lego-aided performance as a black Stormtrooper in this slightly cheaper version of Star Wars. [Buzzfeed]
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Kevin Smith made waves in Park City by buying his own controversial horror pic, Red State, and announcing his impending retirement from directing, but buzz continued to build around his next (and allegedly final) film, Hit Somebody. The 1970s-set hockey pic, named after a Warren Zevon song, will reunite Red State cast members Michael Parks, Nicholas Braun, Michael Angarano, and Kyle Gallner, the recent Verge interviewee who also starred in the Sundance entry Little Birds. Movieline caught up with Gallner to ask: How did Smith recruit him for a second go-round?
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· The only thing better than watching an inspirational speech given by a coach at the end of a sports movie? A montage of inspirational speeches! All of your favorites can be found in this Screen Junkies mash-up, including Rudy, Rocky Balboa and The Mighty Ducks. Because sports ain't sports without a little Emilio Estevez. Click ahead to watch, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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