After receiving some good vibes up in Sundance, the trailer for Our Idiot Brother finally lets the rest of us sea-level schomoes see what the big to-do is. Paul Rudd stars as a sweet but dim dude who shuttles between his sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer) as he tries to get his life together after selling weed to a uniformed cop. With his preference for the sticky icky and comfort-maximizing Jamz shorts, he might remind you of another affable stoner who bounces around his intellectual superiors. Check it out below!
Over the weekend, Your Highness , to put it bluntly, tanked. With a budget somewhere in the range of $50 million and a recent Oscar winner and Oscar nominee headlining the cast (to say nothing of Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green behind the camera), the Universal comedy couldn’t do better than a sixth-place finish. Couple that with terrible reviews, and you’ve got yourself a nice little disaster. But what will be the fallout to the major players involved? Let’s take a look.
‘Justin Theroux’s character, Leezar, lays an egg and a little dragon fetus comes out of it,’ David Gordon Green says of one sequence. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Ryan J. Downey David Gordon Green and Danny McBride on the set of “Your Highness” Photo: Frank Connor Given the unpredictable and improvisational nature of filming comedies — particularly those that involve jokesters Danny McBride, James Franco and director David Gordon Green (“Pineapple Express,” “Eastbound and Down”), it seems fair to assume that a fair amount of material filmed for “Your Highness” was left on the cutting-room floor. When MTV News caught up with the director recently, we asked him what omitted scenes might appear as part of the special features section on DVD/Blu-Ray. “There’s a lot of deleted scenes; all of them because we knew the movie needed to adhere to certain rules,” Gordon Green explained. “There was a really funny sequence that’s a musical sequence in the middle of the movie, of James on the quest, singing a song to Bella Donna who is Zooey Deschanel, up in the tower,” he explained. “[She] is singing back to her love to come and rescue her, and it’s really funny but it was one of the things when we test-screened the movie, we identified that as a point that broke the rules of the movie and it almost seemed like a ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch,” he continued. “It was really, really funny on its own, but within the rules of the movie, it all of the sudden feels false. So there are things like that that I definitely want to put on the DVD because they’re really enjoyable and I’m really proud of the work that we did to make it happen,” he said, adding that a few things felt a little too over-the-top, even for them. “We had another scene where Justin Theroux’s character, Leezar , lays an egg and a little dragon fetus comes out of it,” he recalled. “Literally, a massive nasty explosion of green goo comes out of his butt, followed by a disgusting egg and a little half-formed fetus, so things like that just felt [like] it was a little excessive in going for something that was heightened and gimmicky,” he said. “[But] that stuff is really fun to watch.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Your Highness.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: James Franco And ‘Your Highness’
You’ll recall that we’re excited for Winnie the Pooh . The cuddly bear with very little brains is always a good candidate for reanimation, and this new version seems to strike a sentimental note. In this new clip, let’s watch as the ineffably moronic Piglet tries to save his friends from a pit using flowers. Oh, and Zooey Deschanel amplifies the cuteness with a piano jam.
Cougars are cute, and ingenues are great, but there’s nothing like the coquettishness-meets-experience sex appeal of a woman in her thirties. Let’s salute the dirty decade with a list of the top 10 nude celebs who turn 31 in 2011, like Christina Ricci , Eliza Dushku , and Michelle Williams . Sorry, Jessica Simpson . Get naked, and maybe you’ll be on the list! 10 Kristen Bell … She’ll ring your ding dong. 9 Zooey Deschanel … Zooey will make you gooey. 8 Lauren Lee Smith … Firecrotch fox. 7 Aleksa Palladino … Boardwalk Skin-pire. 6 Christina Aguilera … Dirrty. 5 Jordana Brewster … A heady brew. 4 Eliza Dushku … Show us some bush-ku! 3 Bijou Phillips … Papa John’s baby girl. 2 Christina Ricci … The Addams Mamily. 1 Michelle Williams …. Skincendiary.
I know we’re all quick to judge these days, but come on: Who hasn’t gravely misspelled an A-list movie star and eventual Oscar nominee’s name in the process of tweeting about his rumored third nipple?
While you’re struggling to maintain your New Year’s resolutions next month, Paul Rudd will be premiering his new comedy My Idiot Brother at the Sundance Film Festival. From director Jesse Peretz ( Important Things With Demetri Martin ), the new comedy features Rudd’s deadbeat title character as he is passed back and forth between friends and relatives — played by Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Banks, Rashida Jones, Steve Coogan and Adam Scott — all while rocking a look that can only be described as “The Dude in Summertime.” Ahead the first images await your brilliant captions.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice Zooey Deschanel is suing popular shoemaker Steve Madden for a whopping $2,000,000 — claiming the company stiffed her completely over an endorsement deal she made with them in August 2010. According to a lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles Superior… Read more
As much as MTV has bludgeoned us with the scripted travails of homogenized cliques ( The Hills , Jersey Shore ), the network’s also done its share of more honest docuseries, like True Life and Made . With If You Really Knew Me , MTV unites members of various crowds in a large high school and gets them to relate. While maudlin moments spring up often, there’s plenty of real candor to offset the storyboarded feel we’ve come to associate with reality TV.
