








Morgan Creek is very lucky that things I found funny at seventeen are still gut-busting to me today. Because the third Ace Ventura movie is currently in development. Future out-of-work screenwriters Jeff Sank and brothers Jason and Justin Heimberg are penning this gem, which will follow the story of the legendary pet detective's son taking on his father's mantle. If this turns out half as awesome as Son of the Mask and Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, all other movies on the planet will explode.
Looking like something of a hybrid of Armageddon and Alien, a trailer of sorts for Danny Boyle's Sunshine is online, with an introduction by the director. The movie follows a team of astronauts sent to the sun in the hopes of reviving the dying star, restoring sunshine to earth. Because if we don't have sunshine, all we've got left are lollipops and rainbows to make us feel wonderful. And the long, luxurious eyelashes of Cillian Murphy.
I'm guessing this movie will be terrible, but I can't deny the intrinsic humor of two monkeys drinking coffee in this new shot from Evan Almighty, sequel to Bruce. Did they brew it, too? How do they take it? Monkeys drinking coffee = funny. Case closed.
With the voice talents of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell , here's the first shot from Fox's CG animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who. I don't remember the book well enough to say which character this is (it's been nearly a week since reading), but I can say that with his thin build, well-groomed faux-hawk, popped collar and unnecessarily worn tie, he definitely owns the entire Cher catalog.
Most notable is how surprisingly faithful the design, even the background architecture and genital size, has remained to its source. Indeed, it's as if the entire world of Dr. Seuss has been brought from the two-dimensional page into the three-dimensional world, where we can finally realize just how crazy-looking these freaks are. What is this thing anyways, some kind of dog man? ... I can't wait to see it.
Just in time for nerd season, Hollywood is unveiling its newest creations to bring in their most loyal (and most acne-ridden) crowd, and things are looking hot. This season, the sci-fi world of aliens and lightsabers have stepped aside to make room for swords and mythological creatures--always safe bets for this crowd--with two big entries into the field. Peter Jackson, creator* of Lord of the Rings, already announced his plans for a dragon-themed movie, and now the trailer for the hotly-anticipated Eragon has been released. Based on the book, which is based on dragon fact, the film brings viewers back to that lost time of warriors, sorcery, and fantastical dragons, when you had to be careful not to speak too loudly of these things in the cafeteria so those guys wouldn't throw your Magic deck in the trash again (I think it was the mid '90s). Yes, that magical time, just prior to the release of Dragonheart, when we still thought it might be cool to base an entire movie on a dragon (it wasn't) can be yours again at the click of a button.
I can't get enough of this show.
Hoping of giving the illusion that they're not a humorless corporate entity, Bill Gates and the boys at Microsoft UK commissioned Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to make a training video that features Gervais's The Office character David Brent. If you have forty minutes and liked the duo's comedy stylings, enjoy the wit and wonder.
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Hot news, fans of comic book heroes! Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro is in negotiations to act as producer in bringing the DC comic Deadman to the screen. If you don't know the character:
Deadman is the ghost of a circus acrobat named Boston Brand, who was murdered during a trapeze performance. His spirit was granted the power by a Hindu goddess to possess any living being in order to find his killer. In the ensuing search, Brand finds himself obliged to help others.I think the only way they're making this one work is if they get a big name or an actual dead man, both of which can be found in Keith Richards. How about it, buddy?
Lionsgate announced today it has acquired domestic distribution rights to Deliver Us From Evil, a documentary about a pedophile Catholic priest whose serial rapes were known to, and concealed by, the American Church for over 30 years.I hope this one does well. Not so much because I care about exposing corruption in the Catholic church, but because I'd like to see it remade as a comedy with Will Ferrell. I think he could bring a lot of laughter to serial raping pedophilia.