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Sundance 2011: Beastie Boys ‘Fight for Your Right Revisited’ Review

Christie Ko — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:31:36 +0000

Adam Yauch’s Fight for Your Right Revisited, featuring Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, and John C. Riley delivers big time. Just imagine every actor you can think of packed into a hilarious 30 minute music video. This is Hollywood the way I like to see it, poking fun at itself and reminding everyone that the very best actors are not only able to make you laugh, but they’re able to laugh at themselves.

The Players:

Director: Adam Yauch
Written By: Adam Yauch
Cast: Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C. Riley, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Rashida Jones, Will Arnett, Rainn Wilson, Ted Danson, Roman Coppola, Steve Buscemi, Amy Poehler, Alicia Silverstone, Milo Ventimiglia, Jody Hill, Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevigny, Kirsten Dunst, David Cross, Orlando Bloom, Jack Black, Adam Horowitz, Mike D, Adam Yauch, Martin Starr, etc.

Review:

This short takes place the morning after the party featured in the Beastie Boys original music video, Fight for Your Right in 1986 (watch it here). The film comes complete with cameos from a cast I couldn’t believe, including Susan Sarandon, Jason Schwartzman, Rainn Wilson, and Stanley Tucci, to name just a few. It’s almost as if Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood, and Will Ferrell just walked through the studio lot and grabbed any actors they happened to come across, and they came across a few, including Steve Buscemi and Kirsten Dunst. The film has the feel and tone of a long SNL music video skit that you never want to end, even after a metaphorical pissing contest turns into a literal pissing contest and Chloë Sevigny stabs someone.

This film accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do, and that is show amazing actors really playing with an idea and having fun with each other. The Beastie Boys have come a long way since 1986, and I think this parody is their way of saying they know how absurd and ridiculous they were back then and are inviting everyone to join them in laughing at it. Even if you aren’t a huge Beastie Boys fan, this is still going to make you laugh.

Overall:

When this thing hits the interwebs, it’ll go viral and you’ll be able to watch it over and over again. Believe me, you will want to.

Rating: 6/10

Interview: Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, David Cross, Tom McGrath for Megamind

Mali Elfman — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:00:31 +0000

This week Megamind hits theaters with a new twist on the old superhero tale! The film is led by some of funniest and most well known voices in the business; Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, David Cross and Brad Pitt. As you could have guessed Brad Pitt wasn’t able to attend the press conference because… well he’s Brad Pitt and him going outside let alone sitting in front of press might have caused the Four Seasons to crumble. But luckily for us the comedic trio,Will, Tina and David were in attendance along with the director of the film Tom McGrath.

As one could have guessed, this was a mixture of a press conference and a stand-up routine. Check out the madness below…

Will, you’re really leading this film. Was that exciting?

Will Ferrell: Well, let’s see. I don’t really consider myself front and center of this fine cast (looks behind him and sees a poster with his character front and center). Well… hmmm…I guess I am. I really haven’t done a lot of this stuff before. I love this premise, I felt it was so original. To get to be in a film with this cast is the most exciting part.

Will, it sounded like you’re working with a British-y accent, how did you decide on that?

Will Ferrell: You know, it’s so disappointing; it’s not your fault. I’m actually doing a Lithuanian accent. It just shows how bad of a mimic I am. But, no…it’s just the accent of someone who thinks they’re important. I’ve been working with Tom and we landed on that and thought it would be appropriate for this guy. When it comes down to it he’s just completely insecure.

Tom McGrath: Will took the idea that this guy wasn’t formally educated. He took that handle and I kind of ran with it. The comedy from this was always trying to be into its own world, coming from character. A couple things we did shine a light on was this character called “space dad”, who went from a kind of Tedd Kennedy to Marlon Brando. [Will] saw the design for this character and thought “I’d like to try a Marlon Brando, a lispy Marlon Brando,” and we were laughing so hard in the recording booth that we [screened it for] the crew and they were laughing so hard they didn’t even catch any of the dialogue, so we knew that was going to work for the movie.

Tina, you often playing a reporter…

Tina Fey: I am one of America’s fake reporters, so I am going to have a fake show on CNN. It was fun to step into this very archetypal Lois Lane type of character. I really like her in this story, she’s a modern version of that in that she’s active and intelligent, and looks like Sharon Osbourne.

Do you like the look of your character? And how was the experience recording rather than being in front of the camera?

Tina Fey: I really like how she looks, I like her short hair and I like that she’s brunette, and that she’s an ample cam, I’m not gonna lie to you. I like how she’s drawn. I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. If you’re filling something or improvising and wasting film or the camera man’s time… with this, when you’re recording stuff first, you can try different stuff and it doesn’t matter how you LOOK while you’re doing it…I found it very fun.

Tina, if you had to pick, which one would you go for, Megamind or Metroman?

Tina: I would go for Megamind because he’s very smart, and I really do find the purple under tones of his blue skin very attractive, I really do. I think he has beautiful, beautiful skin. And he’s smaller than me. I like that. I could beat him up.

Do any of you have a life-long nemesis that has pushed you?

Tina Fey: I don’t have a nemesis but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire.

Will Ferrell: My nemesis prior to this working experience oddly enough was David Cross, but through this process we were able to hash that out.

David Cross: I’m not there.

Will Ferrell: Well I am. Whenever you’re ready.

Will, did you children have any impact on your signing on for this role?

Will Ferrell: This was just a decision based on wanting to try to do another animated movie and getting a chance to work with Tom and Dreamworks – my children were not consulted. Nor are they ever consulted about anything. It’s a very strict household!

Tina Fey: They speak when spoken to!

Will Ferrell: Yes! But they’ve seen some of the advertisements and trailers and I think they’re intrigued by the fact that I do the voice of this guy with the blue head.

Tina, do you think the Sarah Palin ghost continue to chase you?

Tina Fey: There’s a ghost!?! I think it was one of the luckiest things that’s ever happened to me. I’m going to MILK that. I’ll be doing that, God willing, til I’m 70 years old in a used car lot.

Tina and Will, what do you think Palin and Bush would have to say is they came across Megamind?

Tina Fey: He needs to be destroyed!

Will Ferrell: Right.

Tina Fey: He’s a danger to freedom!

Will Ferrell: I think he would think he looks funny. “That guy looks funny!” He’d probably say something like that.

You’re all quite famous, any chance of you retreating into obscurity eventually?

Tina Fey: I think I oughta be escorted back by security pretty soon, I don’t think it’ll be a retreat, it’ll be a police escort.

Will Ferrell: I don’t really think about those things.

David Cross: I think that’s a question for Brad.

Will Ferrell: That would be a great question for Brad.

Davis Cross: Who ironically isn’t here, which I think speaks volumes…

Will Ferrell: Amen

You’re all comedians, aside from Brad, so I imagine there was a lot of improvisation?

Tina Fey: Tom really encourages to improvise, Will and I were lucky that we go to do sessions together. Tom was very welcoming with it.

Tom McGrath: That’s why we have the cast we do, to be partners and collaborators. 30% of what you hear in the scene is improvised in ways where not only are they great actors and great writers as well, so we come in with our lines – the script was very well thought out but on a scene by scene basis we get 3 outs for every line that was much funnier than what was written.

This is a very original story with many side-plots, what would you define as your central theme and the message of the film?

Tom McGrath: Here, it’s about good and evil and what makes us who we are and whether we choose a path of good or evil – or do we believe it’s destiny. I think the main thing to take away is no matter how much you strip your own life of wrong decisions you make, it’s never too late to do the right thing and change your ways. You can’t teach old dogs new tricks.

Megamind hits theaters November 5th! Check out the latest trailer below…

Michelle Yeoh, Jean Claude Van Damme Join Kung Fu Panda 2

Krystal Clark — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:15:55 +0000

The cast for DreamWorks’ sequel Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom continues to grow as three new actors have joined film. This past weekend we learned that Gary Oldman signed on to play Lord Shen (a peacock), and today it’s been announced that Michelle Yeoh, Victor Garber, and Jean Claude-Van Damme will join him!

According to a recent press release sent out by DreamWorks, they noted the returning cast as well as the latest additions. The film will star Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross and James Hong and is slated for release on May 27, 2011 (Memorial Day weekend).

Yeoh will bring to life the mystical character of The Soothsayer (a goat), while Van Damme and Garber round out the cast as Master Croc and Master Thundering Rhino. We have to admit, it’s great to see Van Damme get legitimate work that’s not in a straight to DVD capacity. We’ll take this over Universal Solider 8 any day!

The big question is, will Van Damme be able to pull off voice acting when he struggles so much with the old school stuff? He was pretty good in JCVD but now we’ll see him a different format. The cast for this film definitely sounds like one to watch for next year.

What do you think of the cast for Kung Fu Panda 2?

Source: Coming Soon

David Cross Says Arrested Development Movie NOT Happening

Krystal Clark — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:26:12 +0000

Arrested Development fans are like a pack of rabid dogs who won’t go down without a fight. When Fox canceled the show we raced to our local retailers to pick up all three seasons on DVD and when word spread that a movie was in development we were all over it. For the past four years we’ve been hoping, and praying, and wishing that our favorite dysfunctional family would grace us with their presence one more time. For a while it seemed like a real possibility until we were dealt a death blow by one of the show’s stars David Cross.

On Arrested Development, Cross’s character Tobias was married into the Bluth clan and mostly known for his questionable sexuality and his identity as a “never-nude.” The actor and comedian has been keeping busy since the series’ cancellation with plenty of stand up and movie appearances, he even co-starred in Year One with fellow Development alum Michael Cera.

He along with every other cast member, continue to get asked when and if the movie will happen and according to him it probably won’t.

“(I)t’s not going to happen. Way too much time it’s been (since the show ended),” he told me. “I mean, there’s so many people involved. Everyone’s doing their own thing, you know. And everybody’s aged. It’s just not going to happen. I’m sure I speak for everybody when I say we’d love for it to happen, we’d love to work on it, but just I don’t think… not going to happen.”

What?! This isn’t something like the “Veronica Mars” movie where the series premise somewhat hinges of the character’s youth. Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat still have some baby fat left, they can play teens. Even with them aside, why do they have to be in the same time frame and age bracket? Arrested Development’s audience is fairly intelligent, we understand that people change.

It may be a hard pill to swallow but I will never, ever give up on this show becoming a movie until Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Jeffrey Tambor themselves tell me to. Until then I’ll be in my corner shaking from side to side in denial.

What do you think about Cross’ views on the Arrested Development movie? Could it still happen?

Source: TV Squad

Battle for Terra Trailer and Speculation

Mali Elfman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:00:38 +0000

So what’s the deal with this film? They’ve had trouble getting it into theaters for the past 2-3 years which makes me a little apprehensive. It’s either a great movie that has had trouble finding a market or it’s a bad movie that someone has finally decided to take on, knowing that they’ll make back their expenditures in DVD sales. So let’s look at what this film has going for it.

The film has been screened at the Toronto Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, and many other festivals over the past two years, and has won three awards along the way including one for Best Feature and another for Beat Animated Feature. It was originally titled Terra but has now been named Battle for Terra. Perhaps that will help it sell? And if nothing else it has a really impressive cast with voices by Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, Luke Wilson, David Cross, Justin Long, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid, Chris Evans and more.

Sounds pretty good until you hear that the writer also wrote The Nutty Professor. Scary.

Check out the trailer and decide for yourself…

So what do you think? Is it on it’s way to being the next Delgo or the next WALL-E?

Thanks again to TrailAddict for the HD trailer!

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