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Our Commenters of the Week Win a Last-Minute Conversion to 3-D!

This is an especially bright day for our flat, Cinemascope commenters. Today, five of Movieline’s diligent readers win “an after-the-fact conversion to 3-D,” just like your old buddies The Last Airbender and The Green Hornet . It’ll be like they’re living in their own Viewmaster, assembled by Indian effects gurus working around the clock. You’re alive ! So: Who wins this hinky jump into volume?

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Our Commenters of the Week Win a Last-Minute Conversion to 3-D!

James Cameron, Goat Milker

Entourage and Hung Set Dates

Mark June 27 on your calendars. HBO has announced that as the date it will premiere the seventh season of Entourage and the second season of Hung . Both will follow True Blood , which is returning June 13. [ THR ]

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Entourage and Hung Set Dates

Paramount Gets Sacha Baron Cohen’s Goat

What does it take to land Sacha Baron Cohen’s next movie, which will find the comedian playing both a goat herder and a deposed foreign dictator? For Paramount, it involved a $20 million against 20% first-dollar gross for Cohen…oh, and the bold move of sending actual goats (clad in Paramount t-shirts) to WME and Cohen in a bid to prove the studio’s affection. It worked, and the deal was sealed. The goats will be reused in a throat-slitting blood sacrifice at WME next week. [ Deadline ]

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5 Haiku Inspired by the Brand-New Eclipse Trailer

When you’re a 30-something straight dude who’s already said pretty much everything he can say about The Twilight Saga: Eclipse , and a new trailer avails itself to the world on Friday afternoon, there’s really only one rational way to approach it: Through the contemplative medium of poetry, seventeen syllables at a time.

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Eddie Murphy, Bruce Willis and Others Invite You to Honor Jerry Bruckheimer, American Master

AFI first announced its plans to honor legendary producer/pyrotechnician Jerry Bruckheimer about a week ago, scheduling a series of some of his most explodey blockbusters around the premiere of his new Prince of Persia . Whatever, right? Well, no : Looking at how the series has shaped up, a trip to the Chinese or El Capitan Theaters is hardly the worst way to plan your evening of May 17.

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Eddie Murphy, Bruce Willis and Others Invite You to Honor Jerry Bruckheimer, American Master

Tina Fey ‘Innovents’ New Ways To Give NBC the Middle Finger on 30 Rock

You’ve really got to hand it to Tina Fey. While you would think that jokes about NBC are in the “What’s the deal with airplane food?” stage of comedy at this point, she continues to find new and exciting ways to wet willy her bosses — like reducing the Leno/Conan war to a shift debate between two janitors.

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A New Low For Leno

Even though Jay Leno has been spicing up The Tonight Show with innovative diva tests and undercover investigations , his numbers continue to sink. Just last week, The Tonight Show earned its lowest ratings among its cherished 18-49 demo with an average of a 1.0 rating/5 share. For anyone keeping score at home, Conan O’B rien averaged a 1.1 rating while hosting the 11:35 P.M. show. [ The Wrap ]

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A New Low For Leno

What’s On: 30 Rock Restages ConanGate with Janitors

Earlier this month while promoting Date Night overseas, Tina Fey spilled the beans on an upcoming 30 Rock episode that would boldly parody the very late night disaster that shock 30 Rock ‘s network just months before. Tonight, Fey & Co. deliver with that eagerly-awaited episode “Khonani” as well as a bonus installment at 8:30 PM. An hour of new 30 Rock should counteract everything unfunny happening on tonight’s Marriage Ref , right?

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What’s On: 30 Rock Restages ConanGate with Janitors