Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:00PM - By Damon Houx
The very idea of a 21 Jump Street movie is absurd. Why would you remake the very 1980′s show about cops with youngish looks infiltrating high schools? It’s fitting that directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum turned the premise into a comedy–but what’s unexpected is how funny and charming it is. For those who’ve felt that Tatum has been given more roles than his talent should allow may be forced to do an about-face after this. Tatum – like the movie – is winning and hilarious.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:58AM - By Damon Houx
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller came from animation, but – like Frank Tashlin before them – when it comes to comedy, funny is funny. And these guys know funny. 21 Jump Street is their first big live action film – after the success of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – and it suggests they’re going to be able to what they want after it hits. It’s massively entertaining, and the duo make for a charming interview. Check it out…
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:26PM - By Damon Houx
21 Jump Street hits theaters March 16, and we can tell you that it’s hilarious. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller knocked it out of the park, and Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum make an excellent comic duo. In fact, this is the movie that finally shows that Tatum should be a movie star. We’ll have interviews with the writer, directors and co-star Rob Riggle next week, but until then, check out the five minute NSFW trailer.
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Monday, November 7, 2011 1:19PM - By Damon Houx
I’ll say this for Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in the 21 Jump Street trailer – it doesn’t feel like they’re trying to play on one’s nostalgia for the 1980′s TV show. Director Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made this their own thing why embracing the absurdity of having men in their late twenties playing teens. Check out the green-band trailer…
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:46PM - By Krystal Clark
A couple weeks ago David O. Russell decided not to direct the highly anticipated adaptation, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which left the job open for some of Hollywood’s most eager filmmakers. According to a report from The Wrap, some heavy hitters have made the directing shortlist including Oscar winner Jonathan Demme and Let Me In helmer Matt Reeves. Check out the rest of the candidates below…
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:39AM - By Krystal Clark
Get ready for another toy-based movie that sounds insane but somehow still got green lit by a major studio. According to THR, the directors behind the hit animated film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs have been tapped to helm Warner Bros LEGO adaptation. Whether you like it or not, those annoying building blocks are headed to a movie theater near you!
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Monday, December 21, 2009 11:28AM - By Krystal Clark
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything regarding the feature film adaptation of 21 Jump Street, but recently some big news broke. According to multiple sources, the studio has a couple of directors in mind and they’re the same guys behind last summer’s animated hit, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 8:56PM - By Mali Elfman
As we predicted, Chris Miller and Phil Lord‘s new animated comedy with Bill Hader and Anna Faris, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs fell to number one this weekend faster than a pancake could rain from a cloud. Finally! More people went to theaters to see (or rather listen to) Hader in a smart new comedy than to see Megan Fox mostly naked! It’s about time! And it’s also nice to see Hader, one of the best working comedians today, leading the way to box office victory, even if he was animated! Still counts!
Matt Damon and Steven Soderbergh came in a distant second leading off the rest of the new-comers in that looked like a slowish week in theaters. Check out the box office numbers for this weekends movie releases…
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:00PM - By Diana Cammarota
Grab the kids and head to the theater this Friday, September 18th, for a spectacular 3D feeding frenzy compliments of writers/directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord. Columbia Pictures’ and Sony Pictures Animation have joined forces with Miller and Lord (for their directorial debut) to bring us their take on the perennial favorite children’s book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
The original book is actually a story about a story. In it, two children listen with rapt attention as their grandfather spins the yarn of the legendary sardine town Chewandswallow where three times a day, food of every kind fell from the sky. The children delight in the idea, “Wouldn’t it be marvelous?” and recoil at the pitfalls, “What if we didn’t like what fell?” But no one asks how it came to be that food could fall from the sky – and whatever happened to the land of Chewandswallow? That is, until now…
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