It started innocently enough, with TNT NBA analyst Kenny Smith asking guest Tracy Morgan whether he preferred Tina Fey or Sarah Palin before tip-off of the Knicks/Heat game on Thursday night, but it ended with TNT having to issue the following statement: "It's unfortunate Mr. Morgan showed a lack of judgment on our air with his inappropriate comments." Uh-oh. How was Morgan able to turn a question about which bespectacled lady he found more sexually appealing into something inappropriate? Click ahead to find out.
more »
Based on the trailer, Jackass 3.5 looks like it delves into Dada expression a bit more elegantly than Jackass and Jackass 3-D, but does not quite reach the go-for-broke verve of Jackass 2. The aesthetics here indicate...nah, just kidding. As promised, Jackass 3.5, made up of leftover footage from Jackass 3-D, will premiere on your internet on April 1. If this excites you, then you should probably watch the first trailer.
more »
Here comes more middle-age malaise, this time with a talking dog and Christopher Plummer as a father who comes out of the closet after 44 years of marriage. Ewan McGregor is trying to sort it all out, and he's also just met a beautiful girl played by the lovely Mélanie Laurent from Inglorious Basterds. Cheer up, buddy! I have a feeling everything's going to be alright.
more »
If we could switch out real events for the hilariously animated translation produced by Taiwanese news service NMA, life would be so much more entertaining. Ricky Gervais would have been Tool Time'd by Tim Allen after the Golden Globes, Jeff Zucker would breathe fire, Charlie Sheen would have coked up hotel meltdowns -- oh, wait -- and the Jersey Shore cast would be greeted violently in Italy by riotous locals, a pickle cannon, and a gladiator showdown in which Snooki is forced to out-pace a tiger for survival. Taiwanese justice awaits you after the jump.
more »
Remember that two-year period when James McAvoy was a sexy up-and-coming actor capable of carrying great films like The Last King of Scotland and Atonement? Apparently the Scot took time off from such award-worthy projects to star in Penelope and Robert Redford's The Conspirator, a historical drama about the only female co-conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination (played by a haggard-looking Robin Wright). The trailer for the latter was released today, and judging from those two minutes, The Conspirator will play out like a lesser History Channel movie and put you to sleep like a box full of Benadryl. Although there is one exciting moment, courtesy of a very unlikely actor.
more »
Good news: Isaiah Mustafa is back with another Old Spice viral video! Bad news: The luster has completely worn off. Like, down to the nub. Alas. On the bright side, though, perhaps this latest bit of shirtless enunciation sheds some light on what to expect from Mustafa's co-starring role in Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family. Or, not. Click ahead to watch the man your man could smell like discuss his upcoming set of Old Spice advertisements. Super Bowl, anyone?
more »
Unfair as it may be, it's often hard to get excited about movies that take place entirely in one or two rooms while two characters have it out verbally. That said, if you're going to stick two actors in a room and film them, you could do a lot worse than Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. A source play by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, The Road) doesn't hurt either. For proof, just check out the totally riveting full length trailer for the Jones-directed HBO movie The Sunset Limited.
more »
The first teaser for Saw director James Wan's haunted kid movie Insidious is pretty creepy! At least it seems that way, until you realize that you have no idea what you've just seen. Every image here that's actually supposed to be scary is edited down to a millisecond and cut together faster than a human can blink. Sure, the nothing-scenes that dominate the preview are atmospheric and the last voice over is pretty creepy... but what about the money shots? These editors could splice together frames of kittens and butterflies in low light over scary music and probably still jolt the viewer. So, let's take a closer look with some screen shots of images from those one-second-long montages to figure out whether nightmares will be justified.
more »
More guests! Movieline's Sundance interview series continues with J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci, who trekked to Park City -- and then to the Levi's Dockers House on Main Street -- on behalf of their festival premiere The Music Never Stopped. Elvis Mitchell gets full details from the fellas after the jump.
more »
Here at Movieline HQ we have giddily greeted each WTF-clip from I Melt With You, like manna dropped from camp heaven. Emoting Rob Lowe! Face-ripping Jeremy Piven! Weeping Christian McKay! Sandy Thomas Jane! And now we circle back to the Pivster, who is coked out of his gourd and screaming irately about How Life Really Is in this clip. At least I think it's from the movie; it could just as easily be from surveillance footage from the Craft Service table.
more »
Thanks to near-lethal levels of abstraction, randomness, lack of context and all-around puzzlement, the five-part package that makes up I Melt With You's awesome viral campaign is the most collectible set of movie marketing since Burger King offloaded Empire Strikes Back drinking glasses. And now, finally, it's co-star Sasha Grey's turn to get your brain cramping. Topless, of course. Did I mention this is NSFW?
more »
It probably goes without saying that I've spent many sleepless nights pondering how well Tracy Morgan could hold his own against Al Pacino and Juliette Binoche in a dramatic role (Who hasn't?). And now, behold! The trailer for the Sundance closing night film The Son of No One not only hints at that answer, but throws Channing Tatum, Katie Holmes and Ray Liotta into the mix as well! And just look at that title! There's no comic relief in sight here; just struggles for redemption and revenge in the mean city streets. So how does the usually hilarious Morgan do when confronted with this dark material and these acting heavyweights?
more »
I'm kind of in awe of the marketing team behind Scream 4. Years after Scream 3 opened to little fanfare and vanished into the Wal-Mart dollar bin, here they are trying to position Scream 4 as one of the must-see franchise movies of the year. And they're doing a decent job! Let's hear it for hype and the fickle pop-cultural collective consciousness! In any case, now that we've got an official, HD version of the trailer that leaked last weekend (and quickly disappeared), let's journey down trailer-memory lane to chart how the rules of the series (and its marketing) changed, how it lost its audience and how well the latest trailer does at rectifying that failure. I'll be awarding each trailer a score between 1 (Lame!) to 5 (Hip!) on the Hip-O-Meter (patent pending).
more »
Well, Christian McKay isn't mumbling Eminem lyrics into an oscillating fan in this latest -- and final -- viral clip for I Melt With You. What he is doing, though, is having a bit of a post-shave breakdown into a hand towel. Dudes; you just never know what's going to start the waterworks. Click ahead to see the sadness.
more »
If this were a lazier outfit, we'd be going on and on about how this new College Humor video that loops Natalie Portman's less-than-charming laugh at the Golden Globes was her latest Norbit. But you expect better from us, dear readers, so let's just pass this along with minimal comment. Ahead, find the only 46 seconds you'll never need to hear of Natalie Portman laughing. She's not a future Oscar winner for nothing!
more »
