Posts Tagged ‘Seth Rogen’

Many is the instance in which a Hollywood film is delayed, for any number of reasons. (Take a look at this month’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which was originally slated to open in June of 2012. It was delayed to be converted to 3D, of course.) However, fans of director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost can now rejoice: Their apocalyptic comedy The World’s End will now be opening two months earlier.

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A (not so) long time ago, in a galaxy (not so) far, far away…

REEL RUMBLES

Episode XXXIX

PAUL vs. FANBOYS

It is a period of intergalactically-themed humor. A group of friends, striking at George Lucas‘s fortified base, have launched an attempt to steal a copy of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace before its 1999 release date.

Meanwhile, two British nerds, fresh from attending their first ComicCon, attempt to help a drug-addled alien with the voice of Seth Rogen escape our planet.

They are loving and raucous odes to science fiction fandom, locked in deadly combat. Two films will enter, one will leave. Even now, the first bell rings, and the epic battle of Paul vs. Fanboys is under way…  Read the rest of this entry »

I hate to be the one to say this, but here it goes.

Movies don’t just happen; they’re made. Real people actually write lines of dialog; no matter how natural something might sound to you when spoken by your favorite actor there’s little chance that it was ad-libbed.  No one gets to just run through traffic in a wedding dress; the city schedules a day and time to close the road to the public to allow for filming. For that matter, there’s an awful lot of thought that goes into just what kind of T-shirt Seth Rogen will wear in a given scene. The dude doesn’t just show up as is and say, “Let’s do this!”

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It’s hard to believe that this year marks the sixteen year anniversary of the original Scream’s release and that it has been eleven years since the final film in the trilogy, Scream 3 was released. Well now the film series that single-handedly revitalized the teen horror film genre and became one of the greatest film parodies of all time, returns with Scream 4. The three main protagonists of the film will be returning with David Arquette and Courteney Cox playing the couple Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers, respectively and Neve Campbell reprising her role as Sidney Prescott. But with the beginning of a supposed new trilogy, the Ghostface Killer is gonna need some new blood to attack. So to introduce yourself to this new cast of potential victims, here are some under-ranked films from the cast of Scream 4.

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The Under-Ranked: Paul

18, Mar 2011

This weekend, one of Britain’s greatest comedy duos come together once again for Paul, about two comic book loving nerds who happen upon an alien that they befriend. Paul brings Simon Pegg and Nick Frost back together again after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, to both costar and write. Paul features a cavalcade of some of today’s best comedic actors. But before you see Paul this weekend, you might want to check out some of their under-ranked films.

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