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'Glee' Shines at the World Series

1 November 2009 2:36 PM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

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was offered the opportunity to sing at the World Series after an invitation to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade was rescinded by NBC.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 | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

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 | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

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 | Extra | See recent Extra news »

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 | Extra | See recent Extra news »

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 | Extra | See recent Extra news »

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 | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

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 »

- Cinematical staff

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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 ‘Katt Williams: Pimpadelic’ DVDs With Comic Sensation Katt Williams

16 October 2009 4:42 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

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.

Image credit: Jam Entertainment

Here is the synopsis for “Katt Williams: Pimpadelic”:

As one of the country’s hottest comedians, Katt Williams »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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'Glee' Creator Responds to Turkey Day Snub

13 October 2009 11:15 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

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 | Extra | See recent Extra news »

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 | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »

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 »

- Leigh

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Everything You Wanted to Know about 'Glee'!

8 October 2009 3:21 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

"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 | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »

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 »

- thetwilightexaminer

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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 | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »

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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Black Dynamite's New Trailer & Blaxsploitation Voiceovers

10 September 2009 6:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

This week has already brought us the end of an era as we heard that our beloved B.A. Baracus is no longer solely played by the bling-wearing, mohawk-sporting icon Mr. T. But luckily we've got another tough guy on the way who should sooth the sting with his satirical blaxploitation ways -- Michael Jai White's Black Dynamite -- "the smoothest, baddest mother to ever hit the big screen."

We haven't heard anything from the butt-kicker since we shared an exclusive clip of the man's fighting action, but now as the film gears up for its October 16 release (bumped from September 4), a new trailer has been posted over at Yahoo. No surprise -- it's all sorts of bad/awesome. There's kung-fu action, heroic steps to stop drug dealers, and some Arsenio Hall if you look close enough. Watching this trailer, I'm already hoping for B.D. to rip into »

- Monika Bartyzel

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20th Century Fox Gives Redbox The Smackdown

8 August 2009 11:18 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Earlier this summer, 20th Century Fox had a very unfortunate leak of their blockbuster tentpole film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I was very apathetic at the time it happened and couldn’t care less that Fox thought they were losing money on the movie. All I cared about was that I got the watch the movie early, green screens and stunt wires be damned!

That’s when I found Screen Rant and thanks to its chief, Vic Holtreman, realized the error of my ways and repented, never to watch a downloaded pirated movie again (Thanks Vic!). I then found a new way to watch movies and it included a trip outside my local Walgreen’s to rent a $1 movie from Redbox. If you haven’t had a chance to rent from Redbox yet, give it a try. Those big, bright, red movie vending machines are becoming more prevalent than Starbucks and »

- Paul Young

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What Ever Became of the Epic Movie Theme Song?

6 July 2009 1:55 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

In a bold move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently decided to place more rigid qualifications for its Best Original Song category. Academy voters will now rank songs and only those that average an 8.25 out of a scale of 6-to-10 will make the cut. If no songs average that score, then the Academy will skip the category for the year. Blame Three 6 Mafia. For the past few years (give or take "Once," which rightfully won two years back), the Oscars have missed the boat on best song nominations and often award ho-hum picks. Case in point: they left off Eddie Vedder for his stellar and inspiring work on "Into the Wild" in 2007, and last year omitted Bruce Springsteen's poignant title track for "The Wrestler." But, the issue over music and motion pictures goes far... »

- Jon Chattman

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Back Catalogue #2 Troma

17 June 2009 8:40 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Troma sounds a lot like trauma and without knowing how they came up with the name I can't but help think it's on purpose. After all they've spent more than thirty years making sure there was something to offend somebody in virtually every movie they've made. Maybe that's why Troma is still around thirty years later. They bring a smile to the face of anyone who likes seeing sacred cows splattered even if at the end you feel a little messy yourself.

Lloyd Kaufman has made a living out of being able to brand that particular sentiment even when Troma's movies have been truly awful. In fact at times the studio has been so well known because of it’s boob baring antics that it itself has threatened to become a bigger product than any of it's films. This despite there having been some real classics, movies that I would »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Dave Canfield)

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Q&A - Comedian Kevin McDonald Gives Drama a Try in Year of the Carnivore

3 June 2009 7:45 AM, PDT | amctv.com - Exclusive Interviews | See recent amctv.com - Exclusive Interviews news »

A founding member of sketch comedy group Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald has gone on to forge an impressive movie career on his own. He chats with AMC News about what went wrong with Kids in the Hall's Brain Candy, what went right with Epic Movie, and his appearance in the recent Cannes selection, Year of the Carnivore. Q: There's certainly been a lot written and said about »

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Review: Dance Flick

23 May 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Keenen Ivory Wayans' nephew Damien makes his feature directorial debut with Dance Flick, the latest from a comedy factory even bigger and more confusing than Judd Apatow's. Let's see if I can get this straight. Keenen and his brother Damon Wayans started to break into showbiz in the early 1980s (apparently with some help from Eddie Murphy). Then Keenen wrote and directed the very funny blaxploitation spoof I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), which featured roles for many of his siblings, plus one for a young Chris Rock. Then he created the terrific TV show "In Living Color" (1990), which, among its other accomplishments, boosted Jim Carrey's career. There were some other attempts at movies, most embarrassingly White Chicks (2004) and Little Man (2006), but their real bread and butter seemed to come from Sucka-like spoofs and parodies, starting with Scary Movie (2000).

I like that movie, and even its first two sequels have some memorable moments, »

- Jeffrey M. Anderson

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