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The X Factor: more than 19m watch Joe McElderry win
14 December 2009 7:27 AM, PST
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ITV1 talent show The X Factor attracts biggest ever audience as Joe McElderry beats Olly Murs
Mark Lawson: Joe wins, but Cowell's the master
In pictures: The X Factor final
Read Anna Pickard's X Factor liveblog
More than 19 million people watched Joe McElderry win The X Factor, the ITV1 talent show's biggest ever audience, last night, Sunday 13 December.
The X Factor, in which McElderry triumphed over runner-up Olly Murs, averaged 15.5 million viewers between 7.30pm and 9.30pm, a 53% share of the audience, according to unofficial overnight figures.
Last night's final peaked at 19.1 million viewers in the five minutes from 9.15pm, when McElderry was announced as the winner, according to ITV. Its 15-minute peak was 17.1 million, 57% of the audience, between 8.30pm and 8.45pm.
This was the highest average and peak audience of any of the show's six series so far. Last year's final, which was won by Alexandra Burke, had a
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- John Plunkett
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The people who ruined the decade
11 December 2009 5:01 PM, PST
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Part 5: From Sir Tim Berners-Lee to Phil Mitchell
Sir Tim Berners-lee Invented the internet. Omg!
Nice one, Sir T. You came up with a useful, unifying means of global communication that changed the way we went about everything, from news to wanking. Then celebrity bloggers appeared to combine the two: Drunken Stepfather, The Superficial, Dlisted and the grotesque grande dame of them all, Perez "Zzzz!" Hilton, made stars out of socialites, turned the upskirt shot into a goldmine and made being a no-limits prick about everyone acceptable by calling it "snark". You enjoy that knighthood.
See Also Mr Paparazzi, Zoe Griffin
Seltzer & Friedberg That joke really isn't funny any more
Scary Movie was faintly amusing, but after seeing the same joke rehashed as Scary Movies 2 to 4, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet The Spartans and Disaster Movie, is anyone out there still laughing? Yes: writers Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg,
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Parody goes international with Spanish Movie
7 December 2009 12:41 AM, PST
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People have been emailing about this one all weekend, and until now it's stayed off the radar - likely because it only opened in Spain. While the U.S. has been saturated with films like Scary Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, and the classic Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth, now the Spanish market has their own parody in the form of Javier Ruiz Caldera's Spanish Movie.
The film just opened on the 4th and features parodies of films such as The Orphanage, Pans Labyrinth, [Rec] and more.
Check out a trailer below the jump, and be sure to hit the official site for loads of clips and music videos - but beware, they're not subtitled.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Spanish Movie Trailer: A(nother) Herald of the End Times
6 December 2009 1:59 PM, PST
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Never, ever make the mistake of thinking that the Us has a lock on shitty, terrible 'parody' comedy films. There's an argument to be made that we're not even close to the worst offender when it comes to making quick-buck films like Date Movie and Epic Movie.
As proof, here's the trailer for Spanish Movie, a film produced in Spain that pokes fun at a broad swath of globally-recognizable Spanish-language films. The references are diverse, ranging from The Orphanage and Pan's Labyrinth to The Sea Inside and No Country For Old Men. (Not exactly a Spanish film, but Javier Bardem is close enough, I guess.) Some of the films used as material are a bit out of date, but the comedy on display in the trailer is hardly fresh.
Javier Ruiz Caldera directs the film, which is expected to become one of the year's biggest box-office successes in Spain. It
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- Russ Fischer
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[DVD Review] Vampire Party
1 December 2009 5:00 PM, PST
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I hate to sound like an old fogy, but boy, they sure don’t make ‘em like they used to. And by ‘em, I mean spoof movies in the Zucker mold (specifically Airplane and The Naked Gun) that were amusing enough at the time, but in retrospect have come to seem like small miracles in comparison with the films that they have inspired. Vampire Party is just one of those films, and it does absolutely nothing to better the image of the parody film as lazy, uninspired, and more irritating than funny. But unlike Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, and Superhero Movie, this is from France.
Sam (Patrick Mille), Alice (Frederique Bel), and Prune (Julie Fournier) are young people who (as is clearly established in the opening narration, perhaps the only very French touch in the whole movie) love to party.
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'Glee' Castmate's Dream Guest Star? Reba McEntire!
11 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST
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"Glee" star Chris Colfer tells "Extra" he's enjoyed covering Top 40 artists like Beyoncé as a member of the high school choir on the hit Fox show, but you shouldn't expect to hear any Garth Brooks or Carrie Underwood tunes performed on the show.
"I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists," says Colfer, who plays Kurt.
See our "Glee" cast photo gallery
"My parents dressed me up with a
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'Glee' Shines at the World Series
1 November 2009 2:36 PM, PST
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The cast of "Glee" opened Game 3 of the World Series last night singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes on "Glee," sang a beautiful rendition of the song with other cast members.
The game ended with the NY Yankees beating the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5.
See photos of the cast of "Glee"
The cast was offered the opportunity to sing at the World Series after an invitation to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade was rescinded by NBC.
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Reitman Joins Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab
22 October 2009 1:39 PM, PDT
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The Canadian Film Centre (Cfc) has confirmed several filmmaking teams and mentors/guests for the 'Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab', a creative/business catalyst for new comedy projects destined for theatrical release, pairing experienced Canadian feature film producers, their writer/or director teams and their scripts, to further develop/package English-language theatrical feature comedies for 2010.
Chaired by actor/writer Eugene "Bobby Bittman" Levy, the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab, a Cfc Film program presented in collaboration with "Just For Laughs", is noted as Canada.s first advanced professional program designed to develop/package theatrical feature-length comedies.
Chosen projects and teams include:
Victory Man Productions. "Servitude" from writer/producer Michael Sparaga, director Warren P. Sonoda, Resonance Films. romantic comedy "That Burning Feeling" from writer Nicolas Citton, producer/director Jason James, "Ramington's: Men Of Steel" from writer Sacha Pavlovic, producer Mark Montefiore and the comedy western "Saddlebags" by writer Christine Lippa and
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Six Clips From Horror Parody Stan Helsing
21 October 2009 9:19 PM, PDT
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This Halloween, in case you're not up for the actual scares of a new Saw movie or Trick 'r Treat on DVD, you have Stan Helsing, a movie advertised as "from a producer of Scary Movie" and taking the basic concept of the Epic Movie/Date Movie franchise and applying it to horror villains. No, I'm not really sure how it's actually different from the Scary Movie movies.
But maybe you can figure it out by watching the six clips from below, showing off some of the goofier scenes of the movie, and not necessarily the bloodier ones. The previews make it seem like the plot revolves around the arrival of a bunch of different famous horror villains (Jason, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, all the rest) but most of the clips focus around your average bar hijinks. I'm betting on the usual mixed bag of horror parodies, but with the movie
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Matthew Morrison: 'Glee' is 'Theatre Boot Camp'
21 October 2009 10:57 AM, PDT
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Broadway vet Matthew Morrison shines as "Glee" club head Will Schuester -- but admits to "Extra" that the musical show is more work than he bargained for!
"I've done some other TV work where you spend a lot of time in your trailer -- that's not the case on this show," Morrison reveals to "Extra" during a photo shoot for Orange Coast magazine. "It's like theatre boot camp -- we're shooting an episode while we're in dance rehearsals,
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'Glee' Star: I'm Not Getting Used to Fame
20 October 2009 2:04 PM, PDT
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Dianna Agron is the center of attention as Quinn Fabray on the hit series "Glee," the actress tells "Extra" that in real life, the new attention she's receiving "blows her away."
"I'm not getting used to it," Dianna admitted at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood Tribute. "I mean, we hoped... but this is beyond our wildest dreams. It still blows me away."
The sing-song show has been a huge success for Fox in both ratings and brand marketing.
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'Glee' Cast to Croon at World Series!
19 October 2009 4:31 PM, PDT
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Forget the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- the cast of "Glee" is ready to play ball! Fox has confirmed to the L.A. Times that the sing-song cast of the hit series "Glee" will sing the National Anthem during Game 3 of the World Series, scheduled for October 31. The game will be in Los Angeles or Philadelphia, depending on which team ends up in the series against the Yankees or Angels.
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Review: Black Dynamite
16 October 2009 7:18 PM, PDT
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By Scott Weinberg (reprinted from January 2009 -- Sundance Film Festival)
The spoof (aka broad parody) sub-genre is a schizophrenic beast. At its best, the spoof can treat you to something as sublime as Airplane!, as mindlessly amusing as the Scary Movie series, or as stunningly worthless as Epic Movie. But the spoof remains the comedy sub-genre for filmmakers who are also movie geeks. Basically, you need to have seen a lot of Airport movies to write Airplane!, and you need to have some solid experience with blaxploitation movies to produce something like Hollywood Shuffle, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, or this newest arrival: The slightly overlong but consistently giggle-worthy Black Dynamite, which aims to do to Shaft and Superfly what The Naked Gun did to police procedurals.
And for the most part, the experiment works like a charm. What I found most appealing about Black Dynamite is that, while it
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 ‘Katt Williams: Pimpadelic’ DVDs With Comic Sensation Katt Williams
16 October 2009 4:42 PM, PDT
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Chicago – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, we have 10 DVDs up for grabs to the new “Katt Williams: Pimpadelic” DVD with comic sensation Katt Williams! Katt Williams has been featured in “Lonely Street,” “First Sunday,” “The Perfect Holiday,” “Norbit,” “Epic Movie,” “Behind the Smile,” “Rebound” and “Friday After Next”.
To win your free “Katt Williams: Pimpadelic” DVD courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is tell us why you love comedy in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! The “Katt Williams: Pimpadelic” DVD was released on Oct. 13, 2009. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The DVD cover for “Katt Williams: Pimpadelic” featuring comic sensation Katt Williams.
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Here is the synopsis for “Katt Williams: Pimpadelic”:
As one of the country’s hottest comedians, Katt Williams
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'Glee' Creator Responds to Turkey Day Snub
13 October 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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Ryan Murphy, the creator of "Glee," says he "understands" NBC's decision to pull the musical cast from their broadcast of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
"I completely understand NBC's position, and look forward to seeing a Jay Leno float," Murphy cracked to EW about the "Glee" diss. Yesterday, it was reported that NBC requested that parade organizers rescind an invitation to the actors from the Fox show to appear at the holiday event, for fear that
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'Glee' to the Stage in 2010?!
12 October 2009 4:02 PM, PDT
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Calling all Gleeks! "Glee" became an instant fan favorite after premiering on Fox this year -- and rumor has it, a music tour is in the works!
According to Entertainment Weekly, "Glee" is in talks to transfer from TV to a live stage for a music tour. Fox broadcasting President Kevin Reilly dishes, "We've had a tremendous amount of enthusiasm from our music partners. Certainly if these kids become stars in their own right, who knows?
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Jarrett Lee Conaway's - Turbo (Short Film)
8 October 2009 6:44 PM, PDT
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In the spirit of Tron Legacy and Gamer comes Jarrett Lee Conaway's Turbo. A short film that combines the the feel good charm of the classic The Karate Kid with near future science fiction. It tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a misspent youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting videogame called “Super Turbo Arena”. When Pharaoh King (Jocko Sims, Crash the Series), the Michael Jordan of cyber-sports, announces a tournament to determine who will join his pro-team, Hugo sets his eyes on the prize. But, Hugo isn't the only gamer who wants fame and glory. If Hugo wants to win he's going to have to beat Shamus (David Lehre, Epic Movie), the all time Turbo champ at the local Pandemonium arcade, and Ruse Kapri, a feisty prep girl that knows how to win. Realizing he can't win on his skill alone, Hugo
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Everything You Wanted to Know about 'Glee'!
8 October 2009 3:21 PM, PDT
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"Extra" has gathered little-known facts about "Glee" -- the cast, the characters, and every little tidbit you've ever wanted to know about the hit musical series!
Everything About 'Glee'Popular Pilot
The pilot of "Glee" premiered after the finale of "American Idol" in 2009, and averaged 9.619 million viewers. The pilot generated a lot of buzz before returning four months later.
Down Time
The show picked up four months after the pilot aired, on September
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'Twilight' star Justin Chon in 'Turbo' (video)
7 October 2009 9:19 PM, PDT
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Justin Chon, who portrays Eric Yorkie in The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse tweeted a link to this video of a short film he is in entitled Turbo.
The film is "is a high adrenaline short film in the tradition of The Karate Kid and Tron."
It tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a misspent youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting videogame called “Super Turbo Arena”. When Pharaoh King (Jocko Sims, Crash the Series), the Michael Jordan of cyber-sports, announces a tournament to determine who will join his pro-team, Hugo sets his eyes on the prize. But, Hugo isn't the only gamer who wants fame and glory. If Hugo wants to win he's going to have to beat Shamus (David Lehre, Epic Movie), the all time Turbo champ at the local Pandemonium arcade, and Ruse Kapri, a feisty prep
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How Bad Can It Get? Rt's Worst of the Worst List Will Tell You!
24 September 2009 11:45 AM, PDT
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Over the last decade, we've collected reviews for thousands of movies. Most films, even profoundly mediocre ones, can expect to receive at least cursory support from the pundits. However, once in a while, a film will take such a critical drubbing that further attention is warranted. That's where our Worst of the Worst list comes in. We've compiled a veritable cornucopia of dull, foolhardy, and outright terrible films, from legendary duds (Battlefield Earth) to chuckle-deficient comedies (Epic Movie), from hapless sequels (Basic Instinct 2) to scare-free would-be fright fests (Alone in the Dark). We've pored over the reviews to bring
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