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The Fallout From the South Park Death Threat

Over the past two weeks, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been riding out the 200th episode celebration from hell. What started out as a milestone for the Comedy Central series led to death threats from a radical Islamic website. On top of that, their most recent episode , which included a lengthy response to the hype via a brave speech about fear, was completely bleeped out in a defensive effort by Comedy Central . In effect, Parker and Stone found themselves the subject of the very censorship they ridiculed earlier this season. So now what happens?

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Conan O’Brien to Give Some-Holds-Barred Interview to 60 Minutes

On May 1, one of the terms of Conan O’B rien’s NBC exit deal — that he would agree not to sit for any interviews in print or on broadcast in the wake of his firing — will expire. How eager is O’B rien to then spill his side of the story? He’s got an interview lined up the very next day at 60 Minutes . Still, there’s a catch. Two, in fact.__

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Conan O’Brien to Give Some-Holds-Barred Interview to 60 Minutes

Dragon to Receive More Training in 2013

After a slow start, How to Train Your Dragon has hung in there, grossing $180 million so far while returning to the top of the box office this past weekend. “[ Dragon ] has become DreamWorks Animation’s next franchise,” CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg announced today while discussing the company’s first quarter financials. “We plan to release the sequel theatrically in 2013.” It will be in 3D, though you didn’t need us to figure that one out, did you? [ Coming Soon ]

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What are the Most Ridiculous Parts of the New Jonah Hex Poster?

While the trailer for Jonah Hex has yet to appear , Warner Brothers did its best today to remind audiences that this movie not only exists, but will get released as planned on June 18. And what better way to do that than with a great poster, right? Or, in this case, a completely ridiculous mess that looks borderline fake. After the jump, the full poster and its five oddest design choices. Imagine what treats the movie holds. The mind reels.

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Burtonmania!

When you’re hot, you’re hot, and Tim Burton is pretty damned hot. With his $875 million-grossing Alice in Wonderland not too far in the background, the Museum of Modern Art announced today that its just-closed Burton exhibition was MoMA’s third-biggest ever, with 810,500 visitors in five months — a figure trailing only retrospectives of Picasso and Matisse. And you can’t even attribute it to 3-D ticket inflation! Amazing. [ NYT ]

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The Fugitive Kind on DVD: Bring Me the Head of Marlon Brando

The Fugitive Kind (1960) The Criterion Collection Ah, the jawline among jawlines, the mandible of the gods! Take a good look at Marlon Brando in this star-packed, Tennessee Williams banquet of psychodrama, in 1960, at the height of his hunkiness, and tell me that the shape of his head, particularly his jaw line, wasn’t substantially responsible for his magnetic allure. Sure, Brando was a genius, if there are too few movies in his filmography to really bear that judgment out, but he was also a nova of iconic sex appeal, and I’m guessing, not being a woman, that his uniquely robust, rock-solid-yet-gently-curved jawbone was the main attraction, more than the mumbling or shrouded eyes or even the muscly shoulders. Certainly more than the acting. Brando’s jaw is one of those things you respond to without necessarily seeing it, like Charlize Theron’s collarbone — look next time.

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Welcome Michael Atkinson, Movieline’s New DVD Columnist!

When the backlog of DVD’ s congesting your office is so troublesome that A&E sends a Hoarders camera crew to film an episode, then you know you’ve got a problem. That’s why we went to a professional for some discriminating intervention. So! Please welcome the esteemed Michael Atkinson, who, starting today, joins Movieline as our resident DVD columnist and all-around video guru.

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Welcome Michael Atkinson, Movieline’s New DVD Columnist!

The Gossip Girl Pun Index: Daddy’s Home

If you’re one of those people who has been disappointed with where the third season of Gossip Girl has gone, consider the laboriously titled “Dr. Estrangeloved” a course correction. Free from the domestic bliss embodied by Blair and Chuck, this was an episode that got back to basics: back-stabbing, overly contrived plotting and cancer. Yes, that’s right: Lily van der Woodsen, who was previously thought to be having an affair with her ex-husband, just needed him to help with her cancer treatments. And who plays the ex-husband? None other than William Baldwin, now one step closer to his future career as an Alec Baldwin impersonator. As always, there were puns, too. To the list!

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The Gossip Girl Pun Index: Daddy’s Home

Hello There, Boy Genius

We’d like to take a moment to welcome Movieline’s newest sibling in the growing MMC brood: Boy Genius Report . This morning MMC’ s fearless leader, Jay Penske (also known as a boy genius to many), announced this terrific partnership between Movieline’s parent company and Jonathan Geller’s BGR. com. For those who don’t know BGR. com, it was launched by Geller in October 2006 and has quickly become one of the top three sites in the mobile category. And it all started, as so many tales of young men who go on to rule the world do, in his parents’ basement. Lesson here: Think twice before mocking that cellar-dweller brother of yours. He very well may be the only one with the money to bail you out later on.

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