Beloved TV star Brett Butler has joined the cast of Charlie Sheen's new comedy Anger Management. The Grace Under Fire star will play a bartender at Sheen's baseball player-turned-counselor's favor...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Brett Butler Signs Up For Charlie Sheen's 'Anger Management'
Let the Bullets Fly
Zhang and his gang execute a routine train robbery, but find the train doesn't contain any silver, just a petty con artist, Tang, on his way to Goose Town, where he's bought himself a position as governor- which he plans to use to bilk as much as he can from the citizens as he can before moving on to the next town. Desperate to survive, Tang convinces Zhang that if he will spare him, Zhang can assume the position of Governor instead... and with Tang as his counselor, he can make more money in a month than a he could in a year's worth of train robberies. Zhang, intrigued and looking for a break from the road, accepts. (Well Go)
Rated: Not Rated
Release Date: Mar 02, 2012
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San Diego Comic-Con Releases 4 Page PDF To Explain 2012 Badge Sales
The year was 2011 and, if you remember correctly, San Diego Comic-Con had some serious issues with their badge sales. Because a large portion of badges sold out at the event the year before, demand for 2011 badges was at an all time high. This resulted in several server crashes and reschedules of sales.
For 2012, a few things have changed. First thing, every person interested in attending must sign up for a Member ID. And though a date has yet to be annoucned for the dreaded badge sales, the convention has just uploaded a four plus page PDF file called "Comic-Con 2012 Helpful Hints and Tips for Online Badge Registration" to help attendees secure a badge for the 2012 event taking place July 12-15 at the San Diego Convention Center. Being a geek shouldn't be so difficult.
We've got the link and more after the jump.
While it's kind of funny that Comic-Con would go this route, it is also insanely helpful to walk people through the new process which seems kind of complicated and time consuming. Here's just a taste. The full PDF is available here.
When Comic-Con badge sales begin, thousands of people will be trying to access our
registration system at the same time. Because of limited space at the San Diego Convention Center, we are required to limit attendance and do not have enough badges for everyone who would like to attend the show. Unfortunately, the high demand and limited availability can make buying a badge challenging and timeconsuming.
Although we are working hard on our registration system to make buying your badge a better experience, we want you to know what to expect during badge sales and have provided you with some tips below. Comic-Con will release the badge sales date and time via e-mail to everyone who has registered for a Member ID. Please check your e?mail frequently. There will be no announcement on Facebook, Twitter, or the official Comic-Con website until badge sales actually begin. This is one of the many the benefits of signing up for a Member ID, you get first notice of badge sales before the general public! Please be aware that our e-mail notifications are released in batches, and you may not receive yours until a few hours after we begin sending them out. We are aware of this delay and have scheduled badge sales accordingly.
When badge sales begin, you will access the registration website according to the directions sent in your e-mail notification. Once you are redirected to the EPIC registration website, you will enter a waiting room where you will be able to see your place in line at the top of the screen. Do not refresh your screen or open a new browser! Refreshing your screen or opening multiple browsers while in the waiting room will send you to the back of the line.
When you reach the front of the line, you will automatically be sent to an online registration session to purchase your badge(s). You will need to enter your Member ID and last name for validation. You may purchase one 4-day badge or a combination of single-day badges per each unique Member ID. After you complete your first purchase, you will be prompted to either purchase a badge for another person or exit the process. You may register up to 6 people total during your online registration session, but you must have the unique Member ID and last name for each individual.
Read the rest, which includes detailed instructions, on their site.
Are you going to be attending this year?
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Room for Debate: At the Oscars, Comedies Get No Respect
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Did 'Bachelor' Ben Flajnik Get Courtney Robertson Pregnant?
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Carpetbagger: NBC News and ABC's Awards Show
The Los Angeles Times' close look at the demographics of the Academy has inspired NBC News to weigh in on voters for the Oscar, which happen to be broadcast by rival ABC.
Michael Fassbender Confirmed For Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor,' Starting in May
Michael Fassbender is going back to work with Ridley Scott. The possibility we reported a few days ago, that Fassbender might star in Scott's film version of Cormac McCarthy's script The Counselor, has come to pass. So just before the opening of Prometheus, which Scott directed and in which Fassbender appears, the duo will be at work again on a story that is being compared to No Country For Old Men.
Deadline says that Fassbender will be a lawyer who thinks he can dabble in the drug trade without being consumed by it. McCarthy wrote the script last year and sold it unexpectedly just a few weeks ago. That led to it becoming a hot property. What else would you expect for a script from McCarthy that brings to mind No Country For Old Men, which won four Oscars (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director and Best Picture) in 2008.
Speaking of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, the next step is casting the bad guy in The Counselor. Deadline mentions several possible actors: Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper (newly free after the shutdown of Paradise Lost) and even Brad Pitt. Renner might actually be open, if he can be scheduled around promo duties for The Avengers and The Bourne Legacy. We'll likely hear about casting for that role very soon. The Counselor could start shooting as soon as May 1.
And, one last time, here's what producer Steve Schwartz said about the script when the sale was announced:
Since McCarthy himself wrote the script, we get his own muscular prose directly, with its sexual obsessions. It's a masculine world into which, unusually, two women intrude to play leading roles. McCarthy's wit and humor in the dialogue make the nightmare even scarier. This may be one of McCarthy's most disturbing and powerful works.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
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Watch the Full Pilot Episode of 'Lone Star' Creator Kyle Killen's Split-Reality Drama 'Awake', Starring Jason Isaacs
If you liked what you saw when NBC posted the first seven minutes of the first episode of Awake earlier this week, you can now watch the other thirty-six. The network has released the entire pilot online for free, weeks in advance of its March premiere date.
Created by Kyle Killen (of the critically adored but amazingly short-lived Lone Star), the drama stars Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter series) as a police detective who survives a devastating car accident to find that his life has been split into two realities. In one, his wife (Laura Allen, Terriers) survived the crash while his son (Dylan Minnette, Lost) perished; in the other, the reverse is true. Wilmer Valderrama, Steve Harris, Cherry Jones, B.D. Wong, and Michaela McManus also star. Watch the full-length episode after the jump.
[via Coming Soon]
NBC's not the first network to try this marketing move — to name a couple of examples, Fox did a similar thing this past fall with New Girl, to great success, and Showtime's posted the season premieres of several of its shows for free — and I have to say, I'm loving this trend. Viewers get to sample a promising new series in their own time, while the network gets an opportunity to build some early buzz. Everyone wins!
Awake will kick off Thursday, March 1 at 10:00 PM on NBC.
Synopsis:
Lots of people find themselves leading some kind of double life… but none quite like this.
After Detective Michael Britten wakes up from a car accident with his wife and teenage son, he learns the devastating news that his wife died in the crash. Trying to put the pieces of his life back together, he wakes up a few days later to realize that his wife is very much alive and his son died in the accident! Did he lose his wife or his son? Or neither of them??
What if your life split in two in the face of a situation like this, and you could actually have everything you wanted, just not all at the same time? Michael goes back to work solving crimes while trying to put things back on a "normal" track, but alternating between realities provides some challenges – one moment he and his wife are grappling with having another child to replace their loss, and the next moment he's finding himself attracted to his son's tennis coach to fill the void from the loss of his wife. At the same time, he is solving crimes in each world which sometimes overlap in fascinating and inexplicable ways. Is he dreaming or going mad? Michael begins seeing two different therapists to help him sort things out, but then again why would he want either "reality" to go away when the totality of both means having his family complete?
From groundbreaking writer Kyle Killen (Lone Star) and starring Jason Isaacs (Brotherhood, Harry Potter) comes a drama about the power of the mind, where the inception of life is a mystery and reality might just be overrated.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Sequel Bits: Peter Berg Talks 'Hancock 2′ Ideas, Plus: 'Cabin Fever: Patient Zero', 'Pineapple Express', 'The Trip' Series 2
Whatever your genre of choice — action, comedy, or horror — we've got sequel news for you today. After the jump:
- Peter Berg teases one of "40 different storylines" he's considering for Hancock 2
- Seth Rogen doesn't know if Pineapple Express 2 will happen, but hey, it still might
- Steve Coogan offers up a bit of info on the upcoming second season (and possible sequel?) to The Trip
- Comic book artist and Altitude helmer Kaare Andrews is tapped for a Cabin Fever prequel
Three and a half years after the release of Peter Berg's Hancock, rumors have recently begun circling anew about a possible follow-up to the superhero flick. Berg has been insisting lately that he and the others involved are still very much interested in bringing the character back, though the project's still in the very early stages thanks to everyone's hectic schedules. "We're busy and it's hard to get everybody in the same room," Berg told MTV. In the meantime, though, he and star Will Smith are already bouncing around some ideas for potential plotlines.
"We've come up with like 40 different storylines," Berg said. "We all change our minds all the time so we're like hyperactive little kids." Such as? "Like, 'Oh man, it would be cool if the Internet started a competition on how to kill Hancock?' That was one idea we had," he revealed. I'm kind of hoping that the fact that he's teased that idea is an indication that he won't use it — the first Hancock left me totally unintersted in the idea of exploring that world again, and the premise Berg suggested doesn't change that at all. Then again, I can't really think of anything that would.
Speaking of another movie that sparked sequel rumors after it hit in the summer of '08: Although a sequel to David Gordon Green's Pineapple Express hasn't moved forward much at all in the past few years, fans are still holding out hope, and screenwriter/star Seth Rogen is still fielding questions. Unfortunately, it still doesn't sound as though circumstances have changed at all at this point.
Asked by Collider whether there'd be a Pineapple Express 2, Rogen responded, "I don't know. The Apocalypse essentially has the same cast as Pineapple Express, so maybe we'll write it while we're filming." It's not a no, but it's not really a yes, either.
The two films do indeed share some similarities. Like Pineapple Express, The Apocalypse was co-written by Rogen and partner Evan Goldberg, and stars Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson. While I'd still love to see Dale and Saul head off on another misadventure, it sounds like next year's The Apocalypse is the closest thing to a sequel we can look forward to right now.
Last fall, the Indomina Group picked up the rights to Eli Roth's Cabin Fever series with the intention of shooting two new installments, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero and Cabin Fever: Outbreak. It's now taken a step forward on the former, tapping Kaare Andrews to direct the prequel. Andrews is reportedly in final talks to board the project, which would be his second feature directorial effort. A former comic book artist, he broke into feature filmmkaing in 2010 with Altitude.
The script, by Jake Wade Wall (When Strangers Call), explores the origins of the flesh eating disease. When a cruise ship runs into a research island in the Caribbean, the virus is unleashed and the passengers must find a way to survive. Cabin Fever: Patient Zero will lead into the second of the two planned films, Cabin Fever: Outbreak, which will see a doctor and his family discovering the virus on a trip to the Caribbean. Shooting on both films will take place in the Dominican Republic. [THR Heat Vision]
As of right now, Steve Coogan isn't quite the beloved star in the U.S. that he is in his native U.K. But he's been building up a U.S. fanbase with roles in Tropic Thunder, The Other Guys, and Our Idiot Brother, and last year, his six-part Brit TV series The Trip was adapted into a 107-minute film for release in the U.S.
Over the summer, it was announced that he and co-star Rob Brydon would be reuniting for another
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