Writing by Dave on Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 at 10:35 am

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That’s right, the third fetus Spears is a girl and is due on June 29th, according to Life and Style.

This story has grown beyond our ability to mock it, so we’ll just sum it all up for you: Britney Spears’ 17-year-old sister got knocked up at 16 by her boyfriend Casey right as Britney was going through her roughest rough-patch. It’s ripples have included: Jamie-Lynn’s TV show seeing awesome ratings for it’s final season and Lynne Spears (the best mother in the world, obviously) pulling her planned book on how to be a good mother amidst one child being committed and the other getting knocked up at 16.

Seriously, there are so many jokes, but they’ve all been made. Just look at the whole thing, it’s absurd.

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Writing by Dave on Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 at 10:28 am

We’re only 10 days out of upfronts, when the network heads will unveil their new lineups for the fall in an attempt to get advertising bucks.

But, there’s little to be known about this year’s successful pilots, as some of them aren’t even finished yet.

The WGA strike pushed production on everything back, so the big question marks that are currently on our fall TV schedules are not even really filled.

Cleveland, the Family Guy spin-off we reported on earlier, is expected to get a 13 episode season off the strength of a 2 minute preview that will be shown at Fox’s upfronts.

We told you earlier to expect Sit Down, Shut Up to be the other Fox animated show to get a debut season, though no one has seen it yet.

Other shows looking good under Fox: Joss Whedon’s “Doll House,” J.J. Abrams’ “Fringe” and the Bruce Helford/Bernie Mac comedy “Starting Under.”

We’re just guessing about those (as is everyone else by the way) because of the pedigree shown by the showrunners.

As of now, the pilot closest to a lock is Cleveland, simply because they gave Seth MacFarlane two shows already, and America – for some reason – seems to love both of them.

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Writing by Dave on Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 at 10:00 am

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We have already been warned by Michael Bay that everything we know is a lie. Call us crazy, but we think that maybe some of the world’s film geeks might have better information that Michael Bay is unaware of.

That and it’s Wednesday, the slow news day.

So, let’s look at what we think we know about Transformers 2:

- Teresa Palmer was supposed to play Talia al Ghul, the villainess in the “tabled” Justice League film. Now that it doesn’t look like she’s going to have any scheduling problems in the near future, buzz is that she has now snatched a role in Transformers 2.

- Our sources claim that principal photography will begin on June 2nd (we heard in Philly, but that’s about to be contradicted) eyeing a June 26th, 2009 release.

- A tipster called “Space Duck” sent this into Superhero Hype! : You may already know this but Transformers 2 will be filming at the Air Force boneyard in Arizona.

- Jonah Hill of Superbad and – recently – Forgetting Sarah Marshall is apparently up for the role of Shia’s roommate in Transformers 2. The casting sheet that we were told was a joke (by Bay, so whatever), describes the role thusly: [CHUCK] 19-25 yrs., Sam’s roommate at Princeton. He runs a conspiracy theory website. Funny in an irreverent, edgy way, he is shocked to see his conspiracy theories come to life. (2nd Lead)

Some of this might be bull or it all might be true. But, it’s better to know, says us.

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Writing by Dave on Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 at 9:28 am

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Check out the new trailer for Swing Vote, the newest attempt by Kevin Costner to grab the national zeitgeist and turn it in a new direction regardless of its interest in any given subject matter.

You might remember: this man is the reason we care about baseball, global warming and the importance of post after the apocalypse.

If our Presidential choices were Dennis Hopper and Kelsey Grammer, we might take our time being courted too.

The thing about this preview is it set out thematically what the film needs to do: we need to care about this loser, then watch him rise to speak for the people as the politicians around him start to realize: “fuck, we’re just politicians now, not reformers, not legislators, just politicians.”

This sounds familiar to any Democrat, I would think.

The bad and ugly: no one in this cast is necessarily batting 1.000 with successful films recently, so though this is the time to bring up these issues in a tastefully done film, this film might miss the mark.

And then we’ll just forget about it, interesting plot or not.

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Writing by Dave on Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 at 9:22 am

A new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is going to be included with Iron Man’s 8PM release tomorrow, but it happened to leak online in a pretty good way - as in, you could hear, see and understand things.

But, of course, Paramount would rather you not see the trailer online, and would rather we not sneakily link to it like we did with the Dark Knight trailer download yesterday.

But wouldn’t it be great if it hadn’t been pulled from somewhere yet?

Check out this fan-made trailer and click around the related videos. That’s all we’re saying.

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Writing by Dave on Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 at 8:00 am

Ok, our good friend David Jr has compiled his footage form the crazy Dark Knight Viral that took place on Monday in New York.

Some observations from Dave’s neck of the woods during the scavenger hunt:

1) It was unsupervised until we got to the theater, so it was literally hundreds of people, some in Joker make-up dashing through mid-town to honking cabs and dumbfounded city officials.

2) I saw a kid puking because he ran so much. I caught up with him later in line for the trailer and he told me that he had eaten pate (goose liver or something, right?) on a school trip before playing. What kind of school serves pate?

3) At one point, I was weaving through parked traffic, heading north on 8th avenue and ahead of me was a father pulling his 11 year-old son in between a truck and a taxi. Son: “I don’t think this is safe.”

4) The viral campaign was made for idiots. False info was spread pretty fast in the scramble. The worst one I heard about was a goon who, when asked what was going on by a passerby said: “I’m a bomb specialist. Run,” then took off towards the next clue. For shame.

At the end of the trailer, after abandoning our phones, there was a raffle for a roll of 35mm film. It was described as “maybe what you just saw, maybe not” and was given to a player who obviously didn’t have a 35mm projector back in Queens.

Luckily, someone has threaded the film, and given us our first look at the “Jokerized” trailer: The Dork Knight.

Pretty cool.

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Writing by Dave on Tuesday, 29 April, 2008 at 3:49 pm

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Jim Carrey is getting all gay-ed up to act in I Love You Phillip Morris, and this is what we know about it: Based on a book by Houston Chronicle crime reporter Steve McVicker, the fact-based film casts Carrey as Steven Russell, a married father whose exploits landed him in the Texas criminal justice system. He fell madly in love with his cellmate, who eventually was set free, which led Russell to escape from Texas prisons four times.

Jim seems to be jumping right into the role in Florida right now, if these set pics are any indication.

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