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Superbad Sequel or a Superbad/Pineapple Express Hybrid?
It looks like Michael Cera (or maybe someone pretending to be Michael Cera) has been thinking "aloud" (or via Twitter) about future Superbad projects. He first twittered that he wants to do a movie with Jonah Hill and Jason Bateman (ending with the words: "Good idea?!"), and then he followed up with this one:
Decided I'm gonna contact Jonah and Jason tomorrow. See what they think about doing a movie.
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the selections below you can also take home Battlestar Galactica: Season Four and Righteous Kill.
Box Office: Tropic Thunder Takes the Top Spot
Even though Tropic Thunder is technically No. 1 this weekend, The Dark Knight is still being called the biggest winner because it is "the second highest grossing pic of all time after Titanic domestically." Ben Stiller's comedy earned an estimated $26 million while the Batman sequel took in $16.7 million and has a total gross of $471.5 million.
Dark Knight Wins Box Office for the Fourth Week in a Row!
Interestingly, neither a BFF movie nor a stoner action-comedy could dethrone The Dark Knight in its fourth weekend. Having already surpassed the $400 million mark in domestic ticket sales, the superhero movie pulled in another $26 million over the weekend.
According to Variety, the movie has now taken the place of Shrek 2 to "become the third highest domestic grosser of all time with a cume of $441.5 million.
Buzz News Roundup, 8/8
- The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Martin Scorsese is in talks with HBO to direct a dramatic pilot titled Boardwalk Empire. Scorsese is already a producer for the upcoming show about Atlantic City gamblers in the 1920s.
- According to Variety, Pineapple Express had the best Wednesday opening ever for August. The comedy took in $12.1 million.
- Regis Philbin is following in the footsteps of Britney Spears and is set to appear on the second episode of the upcoming season of How I Met Your Mother, Entertainment Weekly says.
- The reunited Police closed its tour, the last live show ever for the band, last night in New York, reports Billboard.
- The AP reports that Philip Seymour Hoffman is slated to direct a play in London later this year.
Pineapple Express: More Than Just a Stoner Movie
How much you enjoy Pineapple Express may depend more on how charmed you are by the chemistry between James Franco and Seth Rogen and less on how funny you find pot jokes. Don't get me wrong, marijuana jokes abound in this comedy written by Rogen and his frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg, and they are funny. But I was surprised by how much more Pineapple Express falls into the category of buddy movies like Lethal Weapon, rather than the stoner category like Half Baked.
Song of the Day: Huey Lewis and the News, "Pineapple Express"
Horns blasting, hilarious lyrics and a beat that chugs along like, oh yeah, you guessed it, an express train. This is what the title track off the soundtrack to the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy Pineapple Express sounds like. Who had the honors (or, who honored the filmmakers, perhaps) of creating the fun, fast-paced "Pineapple Express"?
Upcoming Under-the-Influence Movies: Pineapple Express and Speed Racer
We just got a couple new full-length trailers for movies that, if watching them in a sober state, are pretty much . . .
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Pineapple Express Folks Reteam For Your Highness
Actor Danny McBride has been getting more and more recognition in recent years by starring in things like Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express, Superbad, and now the HBO series Eastbound and Down, which he also helped create. Now he's written a comedy script and gotten a studio (Universal), a director (Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green), and a star (James Franco) to play a lead role alongside him.
Titled Your Highness, the comedy "follows two spoiled and arrogant princes in a medieval fantasy setting.
Buzz In: What Are the Best Movie Trailers of All Time?
I don't often remember trailers for too long (and I'm guessing I'm not alone in that), so if they stick out in my mind they must have been truly memorable. I can still recall the trailer for Pineapple Express, which I thought was great, as were the trailers for The Dark Knight last year and, more recently, Where the Wild Things Are.
Now IFC has compiled a list of the 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time, and while viewing the list I had a few "Oh, yeah!"
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