Neil Patrick Harris Books Two More Feature Film Roles

Fresh off of hosting the Tonys last night, Neil Patrick Harris has lined-up roles in two new feature film projects. One of them is the starring role in the indie film The Best and the Brightest and the other is a supporting role in CBS Films' horror drama Beastly. Harris was last seen on the big screen in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay last year and also appeared in Joss Whedon's "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." NPH will shoot both while on his summer hiatus from "How I Met Your Mother" with The Best and the Brightest coming first. He'll also probably show up in the next Harold & Kumar sequel. The Best and the Brightest is a comedy about a couple from Delaware who move to New York's Upper East Side and enter the world of the city's private kindergartens. Harris will play the carefree husband, who is not ...

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas and Happy Feet 2 Announced

Back in July of last year, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg announced that they were developing a third Harold and Kumar film. It makes sense that New Line (aka Warner Bros) wanted a sequel after the release of the sequel, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, which grossed over $43 million worldwide. Not bad [...]

White Castle Team Behind Fighting Grandmas

Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, the writing team behind Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its sequel, have sold their original comedy screenplay, Grandma vs. Grandma, to Paramount Pictures. The script follows two 60-ish grandmothers who aggressively compete against each other for the affections of their grandchildren while the parents are out of town. Doug Wick (RV) and Lucy Fisher are producing through their Red Wagon shingle and the flick is intended to play more as a family comedy in the PG-13 range rather than the R rated Harold & Kumar series. Hurwitz and Schlossberg also have their screenplay Til Beth Do Us Part, which they are attached to direct, in development at Warner Bros. They're also working on the script for Harold & Kumar 3 for Mandate and New Line. The two made their directorial debut with Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, but its unclear if theyll direct Grandma.

Harold and Kumar 3 to Come After Grandma vs Grandma

Jon Hurwitz's and Hayden Schlossberg's Hollywood careers have entirely revolved around the "Harold and Kumar" franchise. The duo penned the first film (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) and then went on to make their directorial debuts with the sequel (Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay).

Ed Helms Reenacts the Civil War

Ed Helms is set to star in an untitled Civil War feature that Warner Bros. is developing with Helms Office co-star Steve Carell. Carell will produce the flick through his Warner-based Carousel banner. Helms pitched the comedy with scripting partner Jake Fleisher. According to the trades, Helms would play a civil war re-enacter, someone who is obsessive about historical precision stitch count in a coat, buttons from the period, proper speech, etc. He and three other guys (two fellow re-enacters and an African-American professor of history who is protesting the event) are accidentally transported back in time and awaken in the actual civil war. Once there, they have find there way home without altering history or permanently breaking America in half. A former Correspondent for Comedy Centrals The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Helms big screen credits include Evan Almighty, Semi-Pro, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and Meet Dave. He recently wrapped The Hangover, the latest comedy from director Todd Phillips (Old School) which is slated to open June 12, 2009.

MADEA GOES TO JAIL After Ernest

It usually takes a comedic franchise a few outings to warm to up a going to jail installment. Sure, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay got the irrepressible stoners to Americas most infamous detention center on their second journey to the multiplexes, but for the most part, especially when the films are buoyed by [...]

Will Ferrell To Play George W. Bush in One-Man Broadway Show

Over the past eight years, we’ve seen that there are essentially two types of George W. Bush impressions: Those that are skillfully layered (e.g. Josh Brolin’s in W.) and those that venture deep into caricature (e.g. James Adomian in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Side note: Check out the range in Adomian’s filmography). Of the two, I’d say that Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush probably verges more towards the latter than the former, although I’d be lying if I said his Bush had never wrung a few hearty laughs out of me.

Apparently, Ferrell thinks his Bush impression has potential as well. Ferrell will soon star in “You’re Welcome America,” a 75-minute one-man show which will feature Ferrell playing George W. Bush reminiscing about and defending his administration. Ferrell described his motivation for wanting to bring back one of his best-known impressions for one last run:

There are people who

BATTLE FOR HADITHA DVD Review

At the cinema, 2008 was the year when it was hip to depart from the moral outrage any conscientious individual might feel about our countries on going illegal and immoral war 6,000 miles away. Light satire, be it of the buddy (Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay) or five minutes in the future, things [...]

A Look Back at the Films of 2008

If youve got four minutes handy I highly recommend you check out the video below, 2008: The Cinescape. Its an excellent montage of all the great films of 2008 and it comes from Matt Shapiro, who you may remember last year put together similar videos 2007: A Year for Drama and 2007: A Year for Action. A list of the films in the order of their appearance can be found below. The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Wall-E, Quantum of Solace, Iron Man, Defiance, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Australia, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Wall-E, The Curious Case of Benjamin, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Wall-E, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Seven Pounds, Revolutionary Road, Pineapple Express, Speed Racer, Burn After Reading, Ghost Town, Revolutionary Road Quantum of Solace, Rachel Getting Married, Australia, Role Models, Choke, The Tale of Despereaux, Cloverfield, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, The Visitor, Milk, Be Kind Rewind, Synecdoche, New York, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Wall-E, W., Get Smart, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Doubt, The Reader, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Valkyrie, Frost/Nixon, Yes Man, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Wrestler Revolutionary Road, Snow Angels, In Bruges, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy, Rachel Getting Married, Get Smart, Hamlet 2, Hancock, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Cloverfield, Wall-E, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, Wall-E, Seven Pounds, Wendy and Lucy, The Wrestler, Australia, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Dark Knight, Wall-E, Cloverfield, Australia, Miracle at St. Anna, Waltz with Bashir, Valkyrie Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Rachel Getting Married, Pineapple Express, The Dark Knight, Defiance, Che, Valkyrie, Australia, Defiance, Quantum of Solace, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, Revolutionary Road, The Dark Knight, Defiance, Australia, Iron Man, Cloverfield, The Strangers, Defiance, Wall-E, Slumdog Millionaire, Revolutionary Road, Synecdoche, New York, Defiance, Iron Man, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Waltz with Bashir, The Dark Knight, Australia The Wrestler, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cloverfield, The Dark Knight, Pineapple Express, Defiance, Rachel Getting Married, Milk, Quantum of Solace, Defiance, Kung Fu Panda, Pineapple Express, Seven Pounds, The Wrestler, Iron Man, Eagle Eye, Frost/Nixon, Revolutionary Road, The Reader, Milk, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Gran Torino, Che, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button