So, while I was underwhelmed by The Green Hornet , the best part was definitely Jay Chou’s Kato. Or, if I go by IMDB, that would be John Cho’s Kato. Yes, 38 year-old Korean-American John Cho is basically the same as 31 year-old Taiwanese Jay Chou. It reminds me how much I liked Ken Jeong’s Sulu in Star Trek last year. IMDB fixed the problem, but the long memory of the internet has the proof after the jump. [ /Film ]
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Pee Wee Herman and Anderson Cooper turn up in a digital short about boozy debauchery. By Mawuse Ziegbe Cee Lo, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jason Sudeikis perform on “SNL” Jan. 15 Photo: NBC When Cee Lo promised that he and Gwyneth Paltrow would be cranking out some musical moments when they both turned up on “Saturday Night Live,” he wasn’t playing around. The Lady Killer singer hit the stage twice, but he also showed off his comedic chops by popping up alongside Gwyneth in three different sketches. The “Closet Freak” singer wasted no time getting on with the funny business, by first turning up in Paltrow’s opening monologue. After the “Country Strong” star pumped up her country-music knowledge, including hits by the “lady with the hair and the big boobs,” Jason Sudeikis appeared as white-haired legend Kenny Rogers for his classic duet with “the boob lady” — also known as Dolly Parton — “Islands in the Stream.” After Paltrow flubbed the lyrics, Cee Lo sauntered onstage to join the duo, who all belted the lines perfectly. Although they didn’t share the mic, Paltrow and Cee Lo also showed up in a sketch about a bar mitzvah with tons of A-list performers rocking Jewish-friendly versions of their hits. Cee Lo, of course, played himself, rocking a full-length fur and swapping out “Forget You” for “Hebrew.” Paltrow played up her country connection by appearing as Taylor Swift and putting a Jewish twist on “You Belong With Me” with lyrics about Mel Brooks and shopping at Loehmann’s. Paltrow also hooked Cee Lo up with an extra-special introduction to his first performance, appearing in a skit as a record executive grappling with how to market the Gnarls Barkley vocalist’s potty-mouth single. Although, in this office, “forget” is a bad word, and Paltrow’s co-workers gasp when she spews things like, “Are you forgetting kidding me?” When Cee Lo strolls in, he greets everyone with “What’s up, motherforgetters?” and adds that he’s “feeling good, my Nintendos.” After some back-and-forth about censoring Cee Lo’s hit, Paltrow gets on the phone with the FCC, which declares the former Goodie Mob MC can say “forget you” on television — which segues right into the star’s first song. Backed by band of foxy musicians in clingy magenta minidresses and go-go boots, Cee Lo rocked the retro jam in front of a huge set piece swirled with Technicolor hues. Silhouettes of back-up dancers also grooved behind the star as he belted “I love you!” with abandon, looking slick in a black sequined shirt and gold chain. While Paltrow gave Cee Lo a standard “SNL” introduction for his second song, the singer souped up the look of the stage with scenes of a glittery skyline and flashy New York City streets splashed onto the set piece. With his groovy-looking band in tow, the crooner ripped through “Bright Lights, Bigger City,” swapping out the gold chain for a silver one and finishing up the performance with a raspy, rock-star-esque “Ow!” Paltrow popped up in other sketches as a comely cop who prompts an awkward reaction from Jay Pharoah as Will Smith on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” a leggy Heidi Klum auditioning to be a replacement host for CNN’s “Parker Spitzer” and a Spanish-speaking SportsCenter anchor who peppers her rapid-fire commentary with spot-on English pronunciations. In addition to Paltrow, another musical screen star made a special “SNL appearance: kooky personality Pee Wee Herman, played by Paul Reubens . In the skit, Andy Samberg runs into Reubens’ bow-tie-rocking alter ego at a bar, and they both end up knocking back tons of shots and getting into all types of booze-powered debauchery. Pee Wee even busted out his signature jerky, pelvic thrust before trying not to vomit all over the patrons. The rowdiness doesn’t stop there, as Samberg and Herman drunkenly wander in to the street and Pee Wee ends up smashing a chair on both a cop and CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The duo stumble home to an intervention staged by the pair’s friends, including Pee Wee’s puppet pals Chairry, Pterri and Conky. After Samberg and Herman agree to get their act together, everyone, including a bandaged Cooper, celebrates their new commitment to behaving properly with — what else? — a round of shots. What did you think of “SNL” this week? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Cee Lo Green
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Superhero film took a winding path to the big screen, and we’ve been there the whole way. By Eric Ditzian Seth Rogen in “Green Hornet” Photo: Sony Pictures When did the story of the Seth Rogen-starring, Michel Gondry-directed “Green Hornet” begin? Does it go all the way back to the superhero’s adventures on 1930s-era radio, or does it begin with the 1966 TV series that made Bruce Lee a star? Perhaps instead we should begin in the early ’90s with Hollywood’s attempt to revive the dormant franchise. There are enough twists and turns there to form the basis of an entire master class in major-studio development hell. The title role, in its various incarnations, was reportedly at one time or another offered to everyone from George Clooney to Greg Kinnear. Directors (including Gondry in the late ’90s) and screenwriters came and went. Studios traded rights to the property. Then, in stepped Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg with an outline for the movie in fall 2007. More than three bump-and-bruise-filled years later, “The Green Hornet” finally hit theaters Friday (January 14). How did it get there? What do you need to know before checking out the action/comedy about a rich kid named Britt Reid who turns himself into a superhero with the help of sidekick/genius Kato? All your questions will be answered with MTV News’ “Green Hornet” cheat sheet. The Green Hornet Meets Red-Faced Fans Initial fan reaction to the pairing of Rogen with the superhero material was not kind, and the vitriol seemed never to let up. “People just love bitching,” he laughed during a July ’08 interview with MTV News. “Hopefully, people will see it and say, ‘Oh, yeah, they can kind of do that, maybe we’ll give them an easier time.’ ” Seeking to attract some action-flick cred, Rogen recruited Stephen Chow (“Kung Fu Hustle”) both to direct and to star as Kato . Seeking as well to establish himself as a believable superhero, Rogen hit the gym and began to shed a lot of weight. Then, just like that, Chow was gone as director . And Rogen was screwed . But he and Sony Pictures regrouped, signed Gondry and pushed forward with the project. You’re Perfect, Now Change Nothing, it seemed, would come easy for “Green Hornet.” In summer ’09, the film’s release date was pushed back from June 25 to July 9, 2010. Then Chow skipped out on playing Kato . And then Nicolas Cage, who was set to play the film’s main villain, ditched the production too. The release was once again pushed back , this time to winter 2010. “Every possible obstacle came in our way at one point or another, to the point that it really just got ridiculous,” Rogen told us later. The crew again regrouped, signing Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz to play the villain , alongside Jay Chou as Kato and Cameron Diaz as Reid’s assistant . Production began in fall ’09. “I tried to be very precise,” Gondry told MTV News during the South by Southwest Film Festival last March. “I tried to redefine fights in my own style.” Seriously, Though, Change Again! By spring of last year, things were getting ridiculous. Sony had decided to convert the film to 3-D and yet again pushed back the release date : January 14, 2011, it would be. No matter! The first official image popped up online in June, followed by the trailer . The footage was funny, eye-popping stuff. Hey, maybe this thing wasn’t going to be so bad after all? The second trailer , which dropped in November, backed up that initial impression. And when audiences started to check out early screenings of the film, it turned out they actually liked the movie, that it neatly balanced comedy and action, that it wasn’t, as so many Web-based bloviators suggested, the worst movie in the history of the world. “It is nice that people actually have to base their assumptions on the movie now and not just what they think the movie is going to be like,” Rogen laughed. Check out everything we’ve got on “The Green Hornet.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos ‘Green Hornet’ Clips Related Photos ‘Green Hornet’ Hollywood Premiere
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Movie is ‘as much a comedy as it is an action movie,’ Cinema Blend’s Josh Tyler writes. By Eric Ditzian Seth Rogen and Jay Chou in “The Green Hornet” Photo: Sony Pictures Seth Rogen might be laughing that throaty, unmistakable laugh of his at the end of this coming holiday weekend. After a hellish development process, a troubling game of release-date musical chairs, and the seemingly collective declaration from the Internet that his movie would suuuuuuck, Rogen’s “Green Hornet” is set to win the upcoming box-office crown. Projections put the superhero action/comedy’s opening haul anywhere from the low $30 million range to the low $40 million range. Whether it hits that higher number — making it the first movie to cross the $40-million opening mark since “Tron: Legacy” in mid-December — might well be decided by word of mouth. Thus far, critics seem to be of two minds: those who just don’t dig how Rogen has transferred his slacker-dude comedic stylings to a whiz-bam-pow action flick, and those who, well, totally dig how much fun that transference turns out to be. Which camp do you fall into? Check out what the critics are saying about “The Green Hornet” and decide for yourself. The Story “Rogen plays Britt Reid, a spoiled and irresponsible twenty-something who inherits an independent Los Angeles newspaper after his father James (Tom Wilkinson) dies under mysterious circumstances. Unprepared for the responsibilities of the job, he commiserates with one of his father’s mechanics, the preternaturally gifted Kato (Jay Chou); but when they’re interrupted by real criminals while trying to deface a statue erected in his father’s honor, the duo decides to launch new careers for themselves as superheroes. Branding his alter ego ‘The Green Hornet,’ Reid uses the newspaper to establish himself as a criminal, hoping to protect his real identity from the authorities; but when an actual crime boss named Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz) believes that the Hornet is horning in on his territory, Reid and Kato find themselves under attack from both crooks and the authorities.” — Todd Gilchrist, Cinematical The Direction “Michel Gondry has crafted an irreverently funny, ultramodern take on the 1930s radio serial, with a vibe so casual you half-expect star Seth Rogen to amble offscreen and put his feet up on the seat next to you. … Gondry is surprisingly well-suited for a big-budget popcorn adventure. While his projects occasionally threaten to float away on a cloud of whimsy, the outlandish requirements of this genre — like explosive action scenes — somehow keep him grounded. At the same time, his sense of humor and acute visual skill turn a cheerfully unfocused superhero flick into an unexpectedly fun ride.” — Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News The 3-D “[A] note on the 3-D. It’s good. Bullet casings rain down on our eyebrows. Kato’s kicks fly past our heads. At times, it seems like every possible object in the frame is rendered in 3-D. Which raises the question: Does the paperweight on Rogen’s desk need to be popping out of the frame? It’s an unnecessary contrivance in a movie that’s already made all the right moves.” — Tom Horgen, Minneapolis Star Tribune The Dissenters “The film’s insurmountable problem is that Rogen and Goldberg are committed to the comic notion that Britt is an idiot. This becomes a box that the character and the movie can’t escape. At no point does Britt’s strategy of doing good while pretending to be evil ever reveal itself to be coherent. On the contrary, Rogen’s Green Hornet doesn’t do anybody any good, not even by accident — he just wreaks havoc. Britt is a joke, a parody of a fatuous rich heir. That provides the occasional laugh, as when Britt comes on to his secretary (the long-suffering Cameron Diaz), who loathes him. But when the violence comes, who cares if this fatuous, ineffectual, trouble-making idiot survives?” — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle The Final Word “More important than the story being told here, though, is how much fun the film seems to be having in telling it. … The movie’s packed with fun gadgets and crazy visual effects, some of which are so outside the box that in another film they might seem strange. Here though, most of them work brilliantly because Gondry’s movie never takes itself too seriously. When reality gets in the way of having fun with the moment, ‘The Green Hornet’ is more than happy to ignore it. Gondry’s vision is a perfect fit with the comedic tone of the script, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Their film is as much a comedy as it is an action movie — actually it’s better than that, it’s one of the all too rare modern movies which manages to be both.” — Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend Check out everything we’ve got on “The Green Hornet.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos ‘Green Hornet’ Clips
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Movie is ‘as much a comedy as it is an action movie,’ Cinema Blend’s Josh Tyler writes. By Eric Ditzian Seth Rogen and Jay Chou in “The Green Hornet” Photo: Sony Pictures Seth Rogen might be laughing that throaty, unmistakable laugh of his at the end of this coming holiday weekend. After a hellish development process, a troubling game of release-date musical chairs, and the seemingly collective declaration from the Internet that his movie would suuuuuuck, Rogen’s “Green Hornet” is set to win the upcoming box-office crown. Projections put the superhero action/comedy’s opening haul anywhere from the low $30 million range to the low $40 million range. Whether it hits that higher number — making it the first movie to cross the $40-million opening mark since “Tron: Legacy” in mid-December — might well be decided by word of mouth. Thus far, critics seem to be of two minds: those who just don’t dig how Rogen has transferred his slacker-dude comedic stylings to a whiz-bam-pow action flick, and those who, well, totally dig how much fun that transference turns out to be. Which camp do you fall into? Check out what the critics are saying about “The Green Hornet” and decide for yourself. The Story “Rogen plays Britt Reid, a spoiled and irresponsible twenty-something who inherits an independent Los Angeles newspaper after his father James (Tom Wilkinson) dies under mysterious circumstances. Unprepared for the responsibilities of the job, he commiserates with one of his father’s mechanics, the preternaturally gifted Kato (Jay Chou); but when they’re interrupted by real criminals while trying to deface a statue erected in his father’s honor, the duo decides to launch new careers for themselves as superheroes. Branding his alter ego ‘The Green Hornet,’ Reid uses the newspaper to establish himself as a criminal, hoping to protect his real identity from the authorities; but when an actual crime boss named Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz) believes that the Hornet is horning in on his territory, Reid and Kato find themselves under attack from both crooks and the authorities.” — Todd Gilchrist, Cinematical The Direction “Michel Gondry has crafted an irreverently funny, ultramodern take on the 1930s radio serial, with a vibe so casual you half-expect star Seth Rogen to amble offscreen and put his feet up on the seat next to you. … Gondry is surprisingly well-suited for a big-budget popcorn adventure. While his projects occasionally threaten to float away on a cloud of whimsy, the outlandish requirements of this genre — like explosive action scenes — somehow keep him grounded. At the same time, his sense of humor and acute visual skill turn a cheerfully unfocused superhero flick into an unexpectedly fun ride.” — Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News The 3-D “[A] note on the 3-D. It’s good. Bullet casings rain down on our eyebrows. Kato’s kicks fly past our heads. At times, it seems like every possible object in the frame is rendered in 3-D. Which raises the question: Does the paperweight on Rogen’s desk need to be popping out of the frame? It’s an unnecessary contrivance in a movie that’s already made all the right moves.” — Tom Horgen, Minneapolis Star Tribune The Dissenters “The film’s insurmountable problem is that Rogen and Goldberg are committed to the comic notion that Britt is an idiot. This becomes a box that the character and the movie can’t escape. At no point does Britt’s strategy of doing good while pretending to be evil ever reveal itself to be coherent. On the contrary, Rogen’s Green Hornet doesn’t do anybody any good, not even by accident — he just wreaks havoc. Britt is a joke, a parody of a fatuous rich heir. That provides the occasional laugh, as when Britt comes on to his secretary (the long-suffering Cameron Diaz), who loathes him. But when the violence comes, who cares if this fatuous, ineffectual, trouble-making idiot survives?” — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle The Final Word “More important than the story being told here, though, is how much fun the film seems to be having in telling it. … The movie’s packed with fun gadgets and crazy visual effects, some of which are so outside the box that in another film they might seem strange. Here though, most of them work brilliantly because Gondry’s movie never takes itself too seriously. When reality gets in the way of having fun with the moment, ‘The Green Hornet’ is more than happy to ignore it. Gondry’s vision is a perfect fit with the comedic tone of the script, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Their film is as much a comedy as it is an action movie — actually it’s better than that, it’s one of the all too rare modern movies which manages to be both.” — Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend Check out everything we’ve got on “The Green Hornet.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos ‘Green Hornet’ Clips
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The Internet is abuzz with rumors that two extremely skin-friendly babes have been cast in the sequel that may be called The Dark Knight Rises —juggalicious Eva Green as villainess Talia al Ghul and booberiffic blond Naomi Watts as reporter Vicki Vale. Now that rumored title seems doubly appropriate. But there’s also word on the streets that those roles might be played by equally eye-popping talent like Keira Knightley , Anne Hathaway and Jessica Biel . Or even Charlotte Riley , Kate Mara or Gemma Arterton . So far, the rebooted Batman franchise hs included Mr. Skin favorites Katie Holmes and Maggie Gyllenhaal , both in the role of Rachel Dawes. And based on the contenders for this movie, they’re not trying to mess too much from the magic formula. So don’t be surprised to hear a little ping from the armor codpiece under Batman’s utility piece when the Dark Knight really rises.
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The Internet is abuzz with rumors that two extremely skin-friendly babes have been cast in the sequel that may be called The Dark Knight Rises —juggalicious Eva Green as villainess Talia al Ghul and booberiffic blond Naomi Watts as reporter Vicki Vale. Now that rumored title seems doubly appropriate. But there’s also word on the streets that those roles might be played by equally eye-popping talent like Keira Knightley , Anne Hathaway and Jessica Biel . Or even Charlotte Riley , Kate Mara or Gemma Arterton . So far, the rebooted Batman franchise hs included Mr. Skin favorites Katie Holmes and Maggie Gyllenhaal , both in the role of Rachel Dawes. And based on the contenders for this movie, they’re not trying to mess too much from the magic formula. So don’t be surprised to hear a little ping from the armor codpiece under Batman’s utility piece when the Dark Knight really rises.
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As the wonderful Michel Gondry told Movieline this week , his decision to direct The Green Hornet — a film he had played footsie with since 1997 — was not some desperate money grab, but rather the fruition of a lifelong dream: “I came into Hollywood trying to do this movie.” Was Gondry nervous then when Sony finally offered him the opportunity? The director — who is also quite the proficient sketch artist — was kind enough to draw his feelings on the matter for Metro reporter Ned Ehrbar . Click ahead to see the results.
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‘People are saying how bad it is without having seen anything,’ he tells MTV News. By Eric Ditzian Seth Rogen Photo: MTV News Seth Rogen knew there was nowhere to hide. When he and writing partner Evan Goldberg took on the task of reinventing “Green Hornet” in a post-“Dark Knight” world, there was bound to be mud slung in their direction. Perhaps, though, he didn’t think there’d be so much of it. As Rogen himself put it earlier this year, the production faced “every possible obstacle … to the point that it really just got ridiculous,” including major recastings and the departure of director Stephen Chow (“Kung Fu Hustle”) during pre-production. Then, once filming was complete, Sony decided to convert the film into 3-D, then pushed the release from audience-friendly dates in summer and December to the perceived cinematic wasteland of January. As every snag became public, websites and fans seemed to turn against the project. “Green Hornet,” the Internet decided, was nothing but squandered potential, a train wreck, something to avoid at all costs. And then a funny thing happened: People started to see the film, and they liked it. A lot. All the while, Rogen and Goldberg sat back and watched the scrum. They had a feeling things would turn around. “It’s something that Evan would constantly have to remind me of throughout the process, in that this is kind of exactly what we thought would happen,” Rogen told MTV News recently. “From the second we thought of doing a movie like this, I remember talking about it like, ‘Everyone’s going to think it’s going to be insane and terrible and we’ll just have to keep our heads down and make it, and then it’ll come out and then people will slowly see that we weren’t nuts and that it was actually a good idea.’ ” That’s not to say all the Web-based hate didn’t get to him. There were times, it seems, that Rogen had to restrain himself from chucking his laptop out the window, or at least from staying offline for a while. “As you get wrapped up in it, as there’s two years of time where people are saying how bad it is, without having seen anything, it does get frustrating and, ultimately, just disappointing, more than anything. You look at these outlets that, as a comic book nerd, I kind of respected at times and thought were interesting voices just say things that are insane and completely uninformed and uneducated and based on no reality whatsoever, and it’s kind of like, ‘Oh, that’s disappointing. I thought these guys were cool.’ But they’re not. They’re just like everybody else.” Now, however, with the film hitting theaters Friday and praise coming from all corners for its entertaining balance between high-octane action and the sort of laughs familiar from Rogen’s earlier comedies, the guy is feeling good. Not that he’s one to brag. “It is nice that people actually have to base their assumptions on the movie now and not just what they think the movie is going to be like,” he laughed. Check out everything we’ve got on “The Green Hornet.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos ‘Green Hornet’ Clips
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Michel Gondry, best known for directing cerebral, handmade films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep , might at first seem peculiar as the director associated with the big-budget superhero movie The Green Hornet . Yet Gondry has been attached to The Green Hornet on and off since 1997, creating a long road for Gondry to complete what was supposed to be his first Hollywood film; stars including George Clooney, Jason Scott Lee, Greg Kinnear, Mark Wahlberg, Jet Li, Jake Gyllenhaal and Nicholas Cage were all at some point associated with The Green Hornet . Finally, it comes down to this weekend and Seth Rogen.
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