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Big Screen
Justin Timberlake Lands Role Of His Lifetime: Yogi’s Sidekick
4:30AM Richard Rushfield | Since he first stepped into the solo spotlight, Justin Timberlake has been Hollywood’s prince in waiting, just one perfect role away from claiming his crown as the biggest star in the world forever. Now he has found that part. More »
Big Screen
Is Date Rape Funny? Seth Rogen Explains It All For You
8:00AM Margaret | If you’re thinking about seeing the light-hearted Seth Rogen comedy Observe & Report, you may want to watch this R-rated trailer first…or maybe not. More »
Seth Rogen’s Anti-Blart Shines In NSFW ‘Observe and Report’ Trailer
6:00AM STV | The NSFW redband trailer for Seth Rogen’s Observe and Report resolves a few lingering issues around the rapidly developing mall-cop comedy subgenre. First up: “Comedy” might be stretching things. More »And Now, Further Installments In ‘They Were Dating?’
4:07AM Kyle Buchanan | Anna Faris to marry Bright from Everwood. [People] More »
Come Fly with Cloris!
4:53AM Kyle Buchanan | The indomitable Cloris Leachman’s quest to become a Sanjaya-level pox/boon to Dancing with Stars continued last night, and it looks like the 82-year-old has finally hit upon a winning formula. First, Leachman shuffles around, doing little but mugging. Then, just as people begin to tire of her simple soft-shoe, she pulls out the big guns: in this case, allowing partner Corky Ballas to grab one leg and one arm and spin her around in the air, treating all of America to an impressively unexpected upskirt shot. More »
‘House Bunny’ Pays Hugh Hefner in Product-Placement Mishap
5:20AM STV | Playboy’s presence in The House Bunny went a smidge beyond what most filmgoers would count as garden-variety product placement; the title and marketing materials alone conspicuously invoked Hugh Hefner’s registered trademark, and the story — a model ousted from the Playboy Mansion finds redemption with a clan of sorority outcasts — made the magazine integral to its heroine’s rich feminist empowerment. So what’s a studio’s going rate for that kind of feature-length exposure? Details are sketchy but surprising — especially with Playboy making the money — not the gang at Columbia Pictures. More »
America Feels the ‘Burn’
2:40AM STV | It’s a special day for moviegoers — the first time in three weeks those studio jokers didn’t leave the equivalent of a flaming bag of crap on our doorstep Friday morning. Thanks, Hollywood! Their reward? One of the best non-Labor Day September weekends in years, as illustrated by our regular browse through the Monday Morning Box Office:
‘House Bunny’ Writers Recall Weinstein Fart Directives and Other Hollywood Dues-Paying
8:30AM STV | We hope you got a kick out of Sunday’s profile of Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, the screenwriters behind last weekend’s highest-grossing new release The House Bunny, as well as previous hits 10 Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde and She’s the Man. Now the two are moving into producing, adaptations and will soon have an ABC series loosely based on their lives — another long stride in their champagne-soaked march toward world conquest. But what more should viewers at home expect from the personal stories of perhaps the most successful writing duo on Earth without a Y-chromosome between them? After the jump, The NY Times tips off a few more key secrets of Being Lutz and Smith: More »
‘Tropic Thunder’ Makes America’s Pee-Pee Maker T-t-tingle
2:40AM Seth | Having been nudged awake this morning by a shirtless man in a fedora and pink Chuck Taylors as you snoozed peacefully beneath a table outside Intelligentsia Cafe, another Sunset Junction appears to have come and gone—as has any memory of the last seven hours you spent there. We’ll give you a moment to gather your belongings before inundating you with the weekend’s box office receipts: More »
