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Does Judd Apatow Really Have This Man to Thank For ‘Superbad’?
4:10AM STV | You’re nobody in this town until you’ve been ripped off, and even then you’re just a little more bitter nobody until an actual, attributable success comes along. According to a profile today in indieWIRE, director Alex Holdridge can finally lay claim to both stages in his accelerating career arc: His funny, lyrical LA romance In Search of a Midnight Kiss opens theatrically tomorrow in New York (Aug. 22 in Los Angeles), several years after a less-auspicious development left him burned at the Sony gates. More »
‘Superbad’ To Receive Extremely Lame Parody Treatment From The Dudes Who Make Those Extremely Lame Movie Parodies
6:55AM Defamer Hollywood | These are special times, people. You can take Airplane and Top Secret and shove ‘em up your arse, because the golden age of the spoof film is happening right now. Superhero Movie is capturing the hearts and minds of the people at multiplexes nationwide. Before that, Meet the Spartans and Epic Movie set the world alight with laughter for months upon months. And now, the brain trust behind those two masterpieces, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, have decided to leave the ancient world behind and parody something much more formidable: Superbad. More »
McLovin Fights Back: ‘I’m completely different than the Vote for Pedro guy’
7:04AM Mark Graham | Earlier this month, we voiced our concern that Christopher Mintz-Plasse (aka McLovin) was in danger of becoming the next “Vote For Pedro” guy. Well, we just learned that a reporter from E! cornered McLovin at the Semi-Pro premiere the other night and asked him to respond to the item we filed. These were the first words out of his mouth: I mean, [Efren "Vote For Pedro" Ramirez] did a movie with Jack Black after [appearing in Napoleon Dynamite], right? So, that’s good.” Actually, McLovin, that wasn’t Efren Ramirez who appeared alongside Jables in Nacho Libre. That was Héctor Jiménez. Despite his apparent difficulties in discerning actors with Latino heritages, things do seem to be on the rise with the reigning King Of The Geeks. More »
Is McLovin In Danger Of Becoming The Next Pedro?
6:40AM Mark Graham | When Napoleon Dynamite exploded into the pop culture universe back in the summer of 2004, more people than we care to remember walked around sporting “Vote For Pedro” t-shirts. In the wake of that film’s inexplicable success, Jon Heder went back to work (albeit mostly unmemorably) while Efren Ramirez, better known as Pedro, seemed content just to ride the wave of popularity that the film provided him. During the next year, there was nary a public function that Ramirez DIDN’T show up to, nor was there a photo opp that went by without him sporting a goofy grin and his “Vote For Pedro” shirt (including the Academy Awards!). Why do we bring this up? Because we fear the very same thing is about to happen to McLovin. More »
6:40AM Defamer Hollywood | In a mind-warping instance of teen-sex-comedy art imitating life, actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played Superbad’s McLovin, aka the Crown Prince of Fake-Hawaiian-I.D.-Brandishing Illicit Alcohol-Procuring Activities, was spotted by the staff at New York’s Diner restaurant: “[One of the friends] had ordered a Stella and wine for himself and [McLovin] was drinking it. I was like, ‘I think that guy’s 17 years old — you’re going to be written up.’ He came in again the next night, and I said, ‘I think that guy’s McLovin — you should card him,’ and the same thing happened: His buddy asked for the drink for him.” [Grub Street] More »
Penis-Doodle Lovers Still Showing Up For ‘Superbad’
5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Ah, yes. It’s beginning to feel – and smell – a lot like late August. Before slipping on those fancy trick sunglasses upon which you’ve glued magazine cutouts of two open eyes and checking out for the morning, have some box office numbers, freshly scooped out of the commissary salad bar: 1. Superbad – $US18 million With a mildly disappointing&trade second week take, the country’s schoolgirl crush on Superbad may be showing signs of waning – possibly because it had exhausted its core audience of phallic doodle enthusiasts in its opening weekend. Still, enough moviegoers were taken with Superbad’s coloursafe-beer-swilling charms to secure its first place status. America, it turns out, was more than willing to accept the movie’s drunken offer to take us upstairs and put its mouth on our collective penis. More »
There Is No Stopping Seth Rogen Now
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Another Monday morning, another coronation of a new box office king. Raise a hand to salute your new multiplex master as you review the weekend numbers: 1. Superbad – $US31.2 million With Knocked Up debuting to about $US30 million back in June and Superbad edging past that number even in this mid-August box office wasteland, there can be no disputing that Seth Rogen is the Biggest Comedy Star in the World. (And we recognise this title without irony; this isn’t Shia LeBeouf we’re talking about.) Having so easily dominated the R-rated comedy space in this breakout summer season, we think we’re beginning to understand The Green Hornet thing: once you’ve done for [mild spoiler alert?] menstrual blood and penis cartoons what collaborator Judd Apatow did for crowning babies, it’s not too early to look for new worlds to conquer. More »
Revisiting Jonah Hill’s Pee-Stained Rap Sheet
3:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Poised on the precipice of his own breakout moment, Jonah Hill (née Jonah Hill Feldstein) may seem at first to merely be the latest manifestation of Hollywood’s current love affair with doughy and nonthreatening Semitic writer/actor/comedians. Leave it to the stack-delving snoops at The Smoking Gun, then, to uncover Hill’s chequered past, as it turns out the Superbad star was arrested last year for relieving himself just a urine’s-stream away from the Jimmy Kimmel Live studios: Hill, who plays a hapless high school student in “Superbad,” was named in a March 2006 Los Angeles Superior Court complaint… More »Short Ends: Paris Hilton: The ‘Superbad’ Perspective
5:29AM Defamer Hollywood | Seth Rogen is a vacuum of not caring about Paris Hilton. ABC News hands the world a hit list that could prevent the rise of the next ubiquitous celebutard menace. One is in jail, one’s in rehab, but one is still at large, picking up all the nipple-flashing slack. God always takes the best TV scientists too young. We’re still divided over whether Colton and Aboud’s “Jane” or “Amanda” is the hotter Melrose recreation, but leaning toward the Bisset-inspired one. More »
