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- This Guy Nails 29 Celebrity Impressions in Under 4 Minutes (VIDEO)
- Emmy Nominations Wish List: Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress, Comedy
- Weekend Movies & TV: 'Tammy,' 'Deliver Us From Evil,' 'The Walking Dead,' & More (VIDEO)
- Jessica Alba Gets Her Crazy On in New 'Sin City 2' Clip (VIDEO)
- Date Movies For Parents: Fourth of July Edition
- 'Once Upon a Time' Finds Its Elsa of 'Frozen'
- You Don't Know 'Seinfeld': 25 Facts About the Legendary Sitcom
- Get Your Alien Powers Going With These Exclusive 'Max Steel' Photos
- Henry Cavill Is Still Super Handsome (But Way More Serious) in the First Official 'Batman v Superman' Photo
- TV #TBT: Disney's 1992 July 4th Special Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus and More '90s Stars
- 'Sex Tape' Unscripted: Ask Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel a Question
- 19 Horror Movie Mistakes That Are Scary-Bad (PHOTOS)
- If a 'Weekend at Bernie's' Remake Ever Happens, This Is Exactly How It Should Go Down
- Susan Sarandon & Jimmy Kimmel's 'Thelma & Louise' Selfie and Melissa McCarthy's Jetski Fail Lead Our Late Night Roundup (VIDEO)
| This Guy Nails 29 Celebrity Impressions in Under 4 Minutes (VIDEO) Posted:  Think nailing one celebrity impression is good? Try 29. Rob Cantor put his vocal skills to the test for this video, alternating between an incredible 29 celebrity impressions -- from Gwen Stefani to Peter Griffin -- and all while singing. All we'll say is, by the time the nearly four-minute video is through, our jaws were laying on the floor. Watch the amazing video below. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Emmy Nominations Wish List: Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress, Comedy Posted:  The 2014 Emmy nominations will be revealed July 10 and in the days leading up to that big announcement we'll be sharing our dream picks for nods in the big categories. You can find our picks for the reality categories here, Variety Series here, Lead Actor/Actress in a Miniseries or Movie here, Outstanding Movie and Outstanding Miniseries here, Outstanding Guest Actor and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama here, Outstanding Guest Actor and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy here, Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy here, and Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama here. Today's focus: Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy. We're on to the major categories, folks. It's time to explore the best performers behind the main characters in our favorite TV comedies. Here's we start to get into repeat offender territory -- lead actor and actress categories aren't always quite as varied as the supporting ones. Jim Parsons (last year's winner for "The Big Bang Theory") has won three times. Tony Shalhoub ("Monk") earned three awards for his performance and Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier") received four. Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the winner two years in a row for "Veep," but hey, that doesn't mean she was left of our list! So, who deserves a shot? Here are our dream 2014 Emmy nominees for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Photo courtesy Isabella Vosmikova/FOX This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Weekend Movies & TV: 'Tammy,' 'Deliver Us From Evil,' 'The Walking Dead,' & More (VIDEO) Posted: This weekend, Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon hit the road in the comedy "Tammy" (check out our hilarious Unscripted below!), an NYPD sergeant (Eric Bana) teams with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez) to battle sinister forces in "Deliver Us From Evil," and AMC airs every episode of "The Walking Dead," beginning this Friday at 9 a.m. for their "Dead, White, and Blue" marathon.  Also in theaters this weekend:
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| Jessica Alba Gets Her Crazy On in New 'Sin City 2' Clip (VIDEO) Posted:  Next month's "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" is a long overdue sequel to 2005's stylistically groundbreaking comic book adaption "Sin City" (the comic book creator, Frank Miller, ended up co-directing the film with Robert Rodriguez, as he does again here). The first film was bold and provocative, plunging you neck-deep into the seedy world of cops, criminals, dangerous women, and straight-up psychopaths, but in a way that was dizzy and fun, rendered in starkly black-and-white comic book compositions. It was film noir writ large. And "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" looks bigger, bloodier, and even more brutalizing, if this new clip is any indication. The brief clip (running a little over a half-a-minute) is centered around Jessica Alba's character Nancy, who appeared in the first film both in flashback (when she was terrorized by a character called The Yellow Bastard) and in present day (where she has a somewhat more exotic line of work). This appears in a section of the movie called "The Fat Loss," which is original to the film and never appeared in the comic books. It opens with a shot of Senator Roark (Powers Boothe, back for more), an evil politician, laughing from a newspaper clipping like something out of "Harry Potter." Alba looks in the mirror and growls, "Maybe I'll prove both of you wrong." Bruce Willis, playing the ghost of John Hartigan, the cop who saved Nancy on more than one occasion, looking on. She then starts to snip her hair, uttering lines so cartoonishly hardboiled that they could only come from Frank Miller's pockmarked imagination. She is then back in the bar, with a new, super goth haircut, her face covered in stylized cuts. It even freaks out hulking brute Marv (Mickey Rourke, back for more). So yes, revenge is afoot! "Sin City: A Dame to Kill" for, which also stars Josh Brolin, Jamie Chung, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dennis Haysbert, Eva Green (as the titular dame), Stacy Keach, Lady Gaga, Ray Liotta, Christopher Meloni, Juno Temple and Jeremy Piven, will be out on August 22. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Date Movies For Parents: Fourth of July Edition Posted: So get a sitter, head to a theater near you, and walk right past the "Transformers" queue for a satisfying cinematic experience. "Begin Again" (Rated R) Directed by: John Carney | Starring: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine | Runtime: 101 minutes Why It's Worth It: John Carney, who directed the charming musical love story "Once" is again mining the world of singer songwriters in his latest romantic feature. Knightley plays Gretta, a songwriter who moves with her personal and professional partner Dave (Levine, in his acting debut) to New York after he gets a major record deal. After Gretta predictably gets dumped by her cheating, rock-and-roll boyfriend, she ends up meeting Dan (Ruffalo), a just-fired record executive who thinks she's got that special something to make her a music star -- or at least a folksy indie album. Gretta and Dan have an easy rapport, and the director never makes their age difference seem creepy or his interest in her exploitative. Regardless of how you feel about Maroon 5, Levine does a killer job playing someone he must understand perfectly well, and Knightley turns up the charm to 11 (even without period dress!). Couples who loved "Once" will be happy to note that Glen Hansard contributed to the soundtrack. Music and love, what more could you ask for? Critical Praise: "'Begin Again' may not always swing, but it makes up for that in sincerity and a welcome willingness to ambush expectations. "-- Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post; "Your heart and feet won't be able to resist what might be called -- despite the assumed objections of author Nick Hornby -- a 'High Fidelity' for the iPod generation." -- Matt Pais, Red Eye "Edge of Tomorrow" (Rated PG-13) Directed by: Doug Liman | Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt | Runtime: 113 minutes Why It's Worth It: Think of the iconic Bill Murray comedy "Groundhog Day" and then reimagine it as a futuristic sci-fi war game. That's basically what Liman has done, with none other than Tom Cruise as the person whose life keeps resetting on the same day -- after he dies every. single. time. What makes "Edge of Tomorrow" so much fun is that Cruise, for once, isn't playing the kickass hero, Emily Blunt has that honor. Cruise's character is a cowardly military press officer who has absolutely zero battlefield experience. After angering a general, he's stripped of his rank and sent down to the front lines to fight the killer alien "Mimics." But after he teams up with Rita (Blunt), a scythe-wielding war hero nicknamed the "Angel of Verdun," he keeps finding her and learning how to become a better and better war machine. Their chemistry is intense, and Blunt has never looked more beautiful (despite being dirt smudged and cover in a sheen of sweat), so the romantic tension coupled with the action and funny dialogue should make for a perfect date night. Critical Praise: "The conceit may sound constricting, but Liman (like Harold Ramis before him) gets exceptional mileage out of it, presenting his ever-revolving tale with visual style, narrative velocity, and a wonderful dose of dark humor. "-- Christopher Orr, The Atlantic; "In 'Edge of Tomorrow,' Mr. Liman brings Mr. Cruise's smile out of semiretirement and also gives him the kind of physical challenges at which he so brilliantly excels." -- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times "Snowpiercer" (Rated R) Directed by: Bong Joon-ho | Starring: Chris Evans, Ed Harris, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton | Runtime: 126 minutes Why It's Worth It: Based on a French graphic novel this dystopian thriller is set in the year 2031 on a super long, long train called the Snowpiercer. The train houses the only living survivors of a global eco-catastrophe that has left Earth frozen and uninhabitable. Like on any train, passengers who live on the Snowpiercer (which goes around the world courtesy of a perpetual-motion engine) are divided by class -- the rich enjoy lives of luxury in the front half and the poor subsist on mush and resentment in the tail. Class warfare on a futuristic supertrain with an Eternal Engine? Sign us up -- especially if the head revolutionary is Curtis (Evans), whose had enough of the depravities endured by the steerage set. Some of violence is nearly unwatchable, but the action sequences are spectacular, and this is overall one of the most unique post-apocalyptic thrillers you'll see in a long while. And really, the main reason to see it is Tilda Swinton as a the duck-faced fascistic minister of the train, who believes in the classist idea of "know your place, keep your place." Critical Praise: "[Bong Joon-ho] combines a great cast, a gripping idea and a gorgeously grimy retro aesthetic to keep this eerie examination of the train wreck of humanity racing along. " -- Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times; "Don't miss it -- this is enormously fun visionary filmmaking, with a witty script and a great international cast." -- Lou Lumenick, New York Post This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Once Upon a Time' Finds Its Elsa of 'Frozen' Posted:  During the very last moments of the season finale for ABC's popular fairy tale drama "Once Upon a Time," a tantalizing new character was introduced, one that is undoubtedly very familiar to the show's loyal viewers -- Queen Elsa, from Disney's record-breaking "Frozen." She was seen from behind, as more of a silhouette than a fully formed character, and now Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the role has been filled by an actress, who if you're a fan of genre television, you just might recognize. The site is claiming that Georgina Haig, who played the role of Henrietta "Etta" Bishop on Fox's beloved cult sci-fi series "Fringe," will let it go as Elsa on "Once Upon a Time." (She can currently be seen on the CBS drama "Reckless." No clue what that is.) Haig joins Elizabeth Lail, who will play Elsa's sister Anna, and Schoot Michael Foster (from "Greek") as Kristoff, the mountain man whose gruff exterior masks an inner tenderness. It's unclear how Elsa, Anna and Kristoff will fit into the larger picture of "Once Upon a Time," a show that you'd think would be super appealing to someone like me but who is overwhelmed by the complicated mythology and overabundance of characters. (It involves fairy tale characters existing on both sides of a kind of fantastical divide, inhabiting the real world and a storybook realm. Trippy, I know.) This might be the perfect entry point for the series, though, especially given how many people absolutely loved "Frozen." "Once Upon a Time" returns, with its chilly new characters, this fall. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| You Don't Know 'Seinfeld': 25 Facts About the Legendary Sitcom Posted:  This July 5th marks the 25th anniversary of the "Seinfeld" series premiere. The sitcom is considered one of the best shows of all time and its contribution to comedy, pop culture, and the TV landscape as a whole since its inaugural episode is pretty much unparalleled over the past few decades. We all remember phrases like "yada, yada, yada," might recall Jerry was a Superman fan, and know that the show was filmed in LA and not New York City, where it took place. But there are some little-known tidbits even the biggest fans of the series might not be aware of. Here are 25 facts you should know about "Seinfeld": 1. "Seinfeld" wasn't part of NBC's 1989 fall lineup. The show got a summer premiere date -- July 5, 1989. 2. It was originally titled "The Seinfeld Chronicles," but got "the old switcheroo" because ABC was already planning a series called "The Marshall Chronicles." 3. Elaine (Julie Louis-Dreyfus) did not appear in the pilot. 4. Festivus, the holiday Frank Costanza observes instead of Christmas, is totally a real thing. Dan O'Keefe, a writer on the show, celebrated as a kid as early as 1966. 5. Naturally, Festivus became popular after the episode "The Strike" brought it to the world's attention in 1997. Go out and buy your festivus poles now, because you totally still can! 6. Seinfeld was the first show to command more than one million dollars per minute for advertising. 7. Frank Sinatra died on the same day of the show's finale, which was May 14th, 1999. 8. The character Newman was originally supposed to be a suicidal African-American man. 9. Megan Mullally and Rosie O'Donnell read for the part of Elaine. 10. Steve Buscemi, Nathan Lane and Danny DeVito were all considered for George. 11. Co-creator Larry David instituted a "no hugging, no learning" policy for the show, meaning no characters could gain moral lessons from their actions. 12. In "The Frogger" (an episode where George tries to get an old Frogger machine from a pizza place), the arcade game displays the initials of top scorers. Frogger machines keep high scores, but they do not display initials. 13. Jerry Seinfeld was offered a 10th season, but turned it down because he wanted to follow in the footsteps of The Beatles -- the band broke up after 9 years. 14. Seinfeld admitted on a Reddit AMA that his two favorite episodes were "The Rye" and "The Pothole." He said of "The Rye": "We got to shoot that at Paramount Studios in LA which was the first time that we thought, 'Wow, this is almost like a real TV show.' We hadn't felt like a real TV show, the early years of the TV show were not successful." 15. Jerry says "Hello, Newman" 15 times throughout the series. His mom (Liz Sheridan) says it once. 16. In the final moments of the season finale, Jerry mentions the placement of George's shirt buttons -- a nod to the conversation the pair had in the series premiere. This prompts George to ask, "haven't we had this conversation before?" 17. The exterior shot for Jerry's apartment was actually filmed in Los Angeles. 18. Jason Alexander (George) doesn't wear glasses. 19. Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander never won Emmy acting awards, despite being nominated numerous times. 20. In the show's first episode, Kramer is referred to as Kessler. 21. George mentions he has a brother, although we never meet him. 22. The TV Land network shut off during the "Seinfeld" series finale to honor the series. They instead aired a still of a closed door with hand-written notes that read, "We're TV Fans so... we're watching the last episode of Seinfeld. Will return at 10pm et, 7pm pt." 23. A spinoff for Kramer's lawyer Jackie Chiles (Phil Morris) was in development, but it never got off the ground! 24. Co-creator Larry David was the voice behind Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. 25. Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner" is about the real life "Tom's Restaurant" -- an Upper West Side establishment that served as the exterior for Monk's Cafe, the diner the characters frequented. Photo courtesy SCOTT FLYNN/AFP/Getty Images This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Get Your Alien Powers Going With These Exclusive 'Max Steel' Photos Posted:  In Hollywood, increasingly the evolution of a certain property will go as follows: starts off as a toy, transitions to a television series (usually animated or featuring a large number of visual effects) and then ends up as a movie. This is certainly the trajectory that "Max Steel" has followed, and we've got the exclusive photos to show you how it wound up in cinematic form.The movie, which is based on both a toy line and television series, follows 16-year-old Max (Disney Channel star Ben Winchell), who is going through a particularly uncomfortable bout of puberty: it seems he has hidden powers that when combined with an extraterrestrial friend, Steel, (hence the title), produce "the universe's most powerful energy." The two join forces to become super hero Max Steel, who has a very cool looking robo-suit. Sounds pretty nifty, huh? "Max Steel" costars Andy Garcia and Maria Bello and will be released by Open Road Films in 2015. And if you can't wait that long, the gang will be at Comic-Con later this month (and at the Mattel booth), so be sure to pester them endlessly. The exclusive photos below seem to dramatize Max's transition well, from an average teen (one who can smash through a concrete pillar), flirting with a pretty young girl (Ana Villafane), to being a super-powered space badass, complete with a really, really, ridiculously cool suit (look at that steam!) "Max Steel" will hit theaters in 2015. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted:  Well, rest assured ladies and gentlemen: Henry Cavill is still ridiculously handsome, and still looks really good in his Superman costume. This morning Warner Bros released the first official shot of the actor in his Kryptonian garb, from the upcoming sequel 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.' This comes a few days after that weird sort-of look at him as Clark Kent. Based on the grimness of the rest of the image, though, it looks like tough times could be ahead for the Man of Tomorrow. In the photo Superman is standing on top of a rain-slicked rooftop, possibly in Gotham, because as the title of the movie suggests, he will be battling the Dark Knight (played by Ben Affleck) and certainly some of that battle must take place outside of Metropolis. The weather causes his big cape to ripple elegantly behind him, with Cavill's steely gaze aimed directly at the camera (careful - he does have laser-vision!) People far nerdier than myself (yes, these people do exist) could probably illuminate the differences in the costume from last year's "Man of Steel," but we couldn't detect anything noticeable, although maybe those armbands and the ribbing on the sides? It also seems like the colors have been brightened slightly, to give them a more robust look. The Zack Snyder-directed superhero romp, which also costars Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons and Holly Hunter, is released on May 6th, 2016.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| TV #TBT: Disney's 1992 July 4th Special Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus and More '90s Stars Posted:  Happy birthday, America! In honor of Independence Day, we're taking it back to an epic moment in our nation's TV history. In 1992, the late, great John Ritter hosted "Celebrate the Spirit," an all-star July 4th special that might be one of the most early '90s thing we've ever laid our eyes on. This clip is a true relic of the decade and features a bundle of the day's most talked-about stars. For starters, there's Billy Ray "Achy Breaky Heart" Cyrus. Then we have a Kriss Kross (you know -- they made you "Jump! Jump!") And oh, look! There's "My Girl" star Anna Chlumsky. (Now known as Amy on "Veep.") There's also Celine Dion, Martina McBride, and tumblers doing a routine to "2 Legit 2 Quit" by MC Hammer. It's like a mini pop culture time capsule, you guys! Go ahead and celebrate the US by watching a clip from this glorious display of fine entertainment and patriotism: This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Sex Tape' Unscripted: Ask Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel a Question Posted:  We love comedy vets Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, so it was music to our ears when we heard the stars were re-teaming for the raunchy, R-rated "Sex Tape." The movie finds Diaz and Segel a decade into their marriage, two kids deep, and looking to spark their once intense romantic connection. As you could have guessed, they decide to make a sex tape, which accidentally goes public and leads the parents on a wild goose chase. Now, both stars are sitting down for an episode of Unscripted, and we're taking questions from you. You'll have until the end of the day Monday, July 7, to submit your questions. Leave them in the comments below, on Moviefone's Facebook page, or via Twitter using the hashtag #SexTapeUnscripted. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or come on back to Moviefone.com closer to "Sex Tape"'s July 18th release date to see if your question made the cut. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 19 Horror Movie Mistakes That Are Scary-Bad (PHOTOS) Posted:  Part of the appeal of horror movies is that scares are the top priority. But sometimes that means quality comes second. Horror movies are sometimes filled with cheesy sub-plots, low production value, and, at times, some seriously questionable acting, but as long as the movie delivers that thrill or shock you came to see, all is easily forgiven. Right? We've assembled a few on-screen errors -- from movies such as "The Shining" and "Scream" -- to see if that holds true. As usual, all photos are courtesy of moviemistakes.com. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| If a 'Weekend at Bernie's' Remake Ever Happens, This Is Exactly How It Should Go Down Posted:  There has been a flurry of super-important, nostalgia-drenched movie anniversaries recently, including, but not limited to Tim Burton's "Batman" (25 years), "Gremlins" (30 years), "Ghostbusters" (30 years) and "The Karate Kid" (30 years). But one movie that seems to have been overlooked completely is "Weekend at Bernie's" (find out where to watch) which came out 25 years ago this week. The story of a couple of yuppies who try to pretend that their dead boss hasn't died at all, it was a surprise hit, pulling in double its production budget at the box office and spawning a goofy, guilty pleasure sequel. (It did get a Blu-ray release earlier this summer, so you can now watch all of the icky '80s tomfoolery in HD.)Even though "Weekend at Bernie's" was far from a phenomenon (as evidenced by the deafening silence around its anniversary), you can bet one thing: it will be remade. Look no further than the "Red Dawn" remake or the currently-in-pre-production "WarGames" movie to acknowledge that only a cursory amount of goodwill is required to get the remake machine gears in motion. And, it's in this spirit of remakery that we offer our humble suggestions on what should be changed, updated, reconfigured, and who should be recruited for such serious heavy lifting. The Plot The original film concerned a couple of low-level white-collar drones: the more straight-laced Richard (Jonathan Silverman) and the infinitely more slippery Larry (Andrew McCarthy). They work for a large insurance company and are paid basically nothing. After discovering insurance fraud, they make their boss, Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser) aware of the problem. Of course, it's Bernie who was committing the insurance fraud and, after inviting the two young men to his Hamptons beach house, promptly conspires with his mob connections to have them killed. The gangsters, naturally, double-cross Bernie and kill him -- right before Richard and Larry show up to his lavish Hamptons estate. Instead of reporting the murder, the two decide to pretend that Bernie is still alive. Shenanigans ensue. For this new "Weekend at Bernie's," the obvious big change would be to turn Bernie into a Bernie Madoff-type character (they have the same name for crying out loud!). If you wanted to, Bernie could be killed off by a mob-connected client who had been swindled out of his money, and the two characters could have twin goals: to make it seem like Bernie is alive and to restore the company to its former glory. The two younger characters could stay the same, with roughly the same story in place. (Although you'd have to swap Bernie's accidental confession into an answer machine for something more 21st Century.) The parties at Casa de Bernie would have to be bigger and more out of control, rivaling the bacchanalia captured in things like "Project X" and "Neighbors," and there would have to be technological updates, as well. One thing Bernie's corpse never did in the original film was talk; turn the Larry character into something of an electronics wiz, and use a cell phone speaker and some audio bits taken from the internet, and (voila!) Bernie can sort of speak to his partygoers, the mob floozy who shows up at the house demanding answers, and the goon who shows up to kill Bernie (again). Just imagine the possibilities. While the original film was photographed in a straightforward way that made everything seem somehow more off-kilter (by journeyman director Ted Kotcheff), this new "Weekend at Bernie's" would be more stylized, in a hyperactive, nearly frenzied aesthetic that would call to mind "'Wolf of Wall Street' on the beach." (We'd even go as far as to suggest a director of photography: "Spring Breakers" cinematographer Benoit Debie.) We'd also push the gallows humor of the original film. It should never be bleak, but it could be much, much darker; that we'd love to see. The Cast  Here's the big question: who would star in a revamp of "Weekend at Bernie's"?When it comes to the Larry character, originally essayed by Andrew McCarthy, we can't help but think of Bradley Cooper. He's got that natural smugness and beady-eyed intelligence, and we know from "The Hangover" movies and, well, pretty much everything he's done since, that he's really, really funny. (Whether or not he'd actually do this movie is something else entirely. But hey, this is just a fantasy, right?) In the part of Richard, who is resistant almost the entire time, we would go with Kevin Hart. Now while you might be WTF-ing that choice, think about it for a minute: firstly, this is 2014. And we could stand to have a much more culturally diverse cast. Secondly, Hart is great at both being a straight man and freaking out. And we honestly think that the chemistry between Hart and Cooper would be pretty great. Now, for some of the more thankless roles: for Bernie, we like Alan Arkin. Not only would this be a great, pick-up-the-paycheck role for an older, A-list actor, but Arkin has basically been either comatose or outright dead in the last few movies he's appeared in. Most of his performance in Disney's sorely underrated "Million Dollar Arm" consists of Arkin taking lengthy naps. So his performance as Bernie could just be a natural extension of that. For the bumbling gangster (and possible client) who murders Bernie by injecting poison into his butt cheek and later returning to finish the job (once work leaks that Bernie is very much alive -- see, this aspect could be enhanced by social media, with Larry and Richard updating his Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. to show that he's still alive), we like Frank Grillo. He always lends a certain amount of gravitas to his performances, and he could inject the right amount of menace into a largely airy tale. For the two largely forgettable female roles, we like Cobie Smulders for the role of Gwen, the office love interest who winds up at Bernie's party, mostly due to her fiery intelligence, good looks, and ability to land a joke, while Margot Robbie from "Wolf of Wall Street" would make a tremendous Tawny, Bernie's mobbed up mistress. Robbie has got the temper, she can handle the accent, and she is drop-dead gorgeous (pun very much intended). Behind the Camera  While David Wain was briefly floated for the director of Disney's "Ant-Man," we still think he has the chops to handle a big studio movie. (His tiny indie comedy "They Came Together" is now in theaters and On Demand.) Wain, with things like "Role Models" and "Wet Hot American Summer," knows how to push a seemingly trite concept, like, say, a remake of an '80s comedy that barely anybody remembers today, and push it to the breaking point, layering in elements of absurdity and surrealism, two things that a "Weekend at Bernie's" remake would desperately require. And with the hire of Wain, he could also co-script, with any number of his "State"/"Wet Hot American Summer" collaborators (including Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and Ken Marino). Another bonus to this decision: Wain directed Bradley Cooper in "Wet Hot American Summer," so maybe he really could be secured for the Andrew McCarthy role. It's all coming together...How would you cast "Weekend at Bernie's reboot? Photo of David Wain by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images, other images via Getty Images, Warner Bros, Fox, and Screen Gems. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted:  Didn't stay up for Wednesday night's late night talk shows? Moviefone's got you covered. Here's some of what you might have missed: Proving that recreating a famous selfie is too much fun to pass up, host Jimmy Kimmel got in on the act with Susan Sarandon by dressing up as Geena Davis and posing with Sarandon against a green screen to re-do the iconic "Thelma & Louise" self-portrait. "We invented [the selfie], definitely, at that moment," Sarandon said of the 1991 flick. While Kimmel and his crew did an excellent job getting the little details -- including Davis's mole -- just right, the host admitted that in his scraggly wig, "I look more like the guy from White Snake" than Davis. Sarandon, stopping by "Kimmel" to promote her role as Melissa McCarthy's grandmother in "Tammy," also told the host that she's about to become a real-life grandmother for the first time in August, and her nickname will be "Honey," a word that her daughter had made into a necklace for Sarandon to wear. But that's led to some confusion. "Someone today asked me if it said 'horny,'" the actress explained, though she added that she wouldn't mind still being horny when she's a grandmother. The pair also chatted about Sarandon's role in the classic baseball flick "Bull Durham," which the actress said she landed only because she was willing to audition for the part, and the director's top choices all refused. Kimmel admitted that he wanted to be a professional baseball player after seeing the film because of how much sex the characters had, though he joked that since he's married now, he's "really cut down" on late night activities. "Well, talk to Robin Thicke," Sarandon quipped in a perfectly-timed zing aimed at the allegedly adulterous singer. (Who was also a guest on "Kimmel" that night.) Meanwhile, over on "Chelsea Lately," Sarandon's "Tammy" co-star Melissa McCarthy recounted to host Chelsea Handler a huge fail she committed while filming some test shots on a jetski. McCarthy said she wanted to shoot in full hair and makeup in case the crew was able to get some useable footage from the tests, thus cutting down on filming time, but admitted that she didn't really know what she was doing -- and ended up wiping out pretty hard, flipping the jetski in the process. The actress said that she ruined a $9,000 wig, a pricetag that made the "Lately" audience gasp. "I know! A wig!" McCarthy said. "I love that nobody made a noise when I was like, 'I fell at 45 miles an hour.'" Back on "Kimmel," actor Ramon Rodriguez, who stars in newly-minted hit "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," chatted with the host about his tendency for pranks, first with his recent promise to his mother that he can levitate -- and using that ruse to get her to be quiet on a cross-country road trip -- and his childhood love of throwing urine-filled water balloons at passing strangers in his neighborhood in New York City's Lower East Side. That latter activity led to some "karmic retribution," Rodriguez admitted, though he assured Kimmel that he's "paid [his] dues" for it. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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