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Watch a Supercut of Troy McClure Listing All His Movies

by | June 18th, 2013

Here's a supercut of every clip of The Simpsons' Troy McClure listing his movie titles, made by Christopher Coleman. Obviously, the best one is The Greatest Story Ever Hula-ed.

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Maya Rudolph Will Also Be in Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Inherent Vice'

by | June 4th, 2013

The cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's big screen adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel Inherent Vice continues to grow. Maya Rudolph, fresh off the cancelation of her NBC sitcom Up All Night, is playing a minor role in the film, as revealed by some set photos that leaked today. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as stoned private eye Doc Sportello, who's investigating an ex-girlfriend's disappearance. From the photos, The Playlist infers that Rudolph, who's married to Paul Thomas Anderson, is playing a nurse at Dr. Buddy Tubeside's vitamin shop, and a very pregnant one by the looks of those photographs. The prestigious film's large cast also includes Benicio Del Toro, [...]

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Director Richard Linklater Hopes to Shoot a "Spiritual Sequel" to 'Dazed and Confused' This Year

by | May 23rd, 2013

Dazed and Confused director Richard Linklater is working on a "spiritual sequel" to the classic 1993 ensemble comedy. Linklater has been developing the project for several years, but he revealed yesterday during a Reddit AMA that the movie may be going into production soon. When asked about the status of the film during the Q&A, Linklater replied, "Hoping to make it this fall, actually. A college comedy. I feel like mixing it up with a big ensemble." While the untitled movie, formerly called That's What I'm Talking About, won't follow any of the characters from Dazed and Confused, it will be similar to the movie in terms of [...]

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Alison Brie Joins T.J. Miller and Adam Pally in 'Search Party'

by | May 2nd, 2013

Community star Alison Brie has joined the cast of a promising new comedy called Search Party, The Wrap reports. The film follows two roommates, played by T.J. Miller (She's Out of My League) and Adam Pally (Happy Endings), going to dangerous lengths to get their buddy Nardo (Thomas Middleditch, The Campaign) back from Mexico after he's stranded there, naked. Brie will be playing a co-worker and love interest of either Miller or Pally's character. Rasing Hope's Shannon Woodward recently signed on to play Middleditch's character's girlfriend. This is shaping up to be a pretty impressive cast made up of funny young people who haven't had the chance to [...]

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Jason Sudeikis and Rose Byrne to Star in the Rom-Com 'Tumbledown'

by | April 22nd, 2013

SNL's Jason Sudeikis and Bridesmaids' Rose Byrne are starring in a romantic comedy together. THR reports that the two have signed on to play the lead characters in Tumbledown about a young widow (Byrne) who falls for a New York writer (Sudeikis) when he comes to her rural hometown to investigate the death of her folk singer husband. You know, light Meg Ryan rom-com stuff. The movie comes from writer Desi Van Til and director Sean Mewshaw, who are both making their feature debuts on the project. Olivia Munn, Joe Manganiello, Blythe Danner, Michael McKean and Beau Bridges also star. Sudeikis is set to start filming Horrible Bosses [...]

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Alison Brie and Colin Hanks to Star in an Inter-Dimensional Rom-Com

by | June 18th, 2013

Alison Brie and Colin Hanks are set to star in a new indie romantic comedy that, unlike most indie romantic comedies, involves some sort of inter-dimensional portal. Variety reports that production is underway on the film, entitled No Stranger than Love. Nick Wernham is making his directorial debut on the project, which was written by Steve Adams (Envy). In the movie, Brie plays a small town high school teacher who starts having an affair with the school's married football coach (Hanks) until he vanishes down an inter-dimensional hole that opens in her living room. Small towns are so weird.

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Ken Marino and Erica Oyama Hired to Write the College Comedy 'True Freshman'

by | May 31st, 2013

Husband and wife screenwriting team Ken Marino and Erica Oyama are writing a college comedy together. Deadline reports that they've been hired to write the studio comedy True Freshman, about "a team of underdogs attempt to restore athletics to their long past position of greatness at a snooty Ivy League school." The movie has been described as being in the same vein as Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds. Marino and Oyama have previously collaborated on episodes of Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital, on which Marino also stars, and on the Yahoo! web series Burning Love. They were hired last month to adapt Go the Fuck to [...]

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Watch Will Forte Get Dramatic in a Clip from Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska'

by | May 14th, 2013

Saturday Night Live alum Will Forte is set to take a rare dramatic turn in Nebraska, a new movie directed by Oscar-winner Alexander Payne that's set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival in France this week. Here's the first clip from the movie, which also features Bruce Dern and Stacy Keach. Nebraska is in black-and-white and the clip features French subtitles, so don't say I didn't warn those of you who hate black-and-white/other languages.

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Behind the Scenes of 'The Exquisite Corpse Project'

by | May 2nd, 2013

Here's an exclusive look behind the scenes of The Exquisite Corpse Project, the new movie from sketch group Olde English and the first release by Splitsider Presents. An entirely self-funded film, they had to create a polished finished project on a shoestring budget, which led to some necessary creative choice made during production. Check out the above video to see how it went, and then watch the full movie for only $5!

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Will Ferrell and Jack Black to Star in 'Tag Brothers'

by | April 19th, 2013

Will Ferrell and Jack Black may star in their first movie together. Beyond Black's cameo in Anchorman, the two comedians have never appeared in a movie together, but all that may change soon. The Wrap reports that Ferrell and Black are attached to star in a comedy called Tag Brothers, based on a recent Wall Street Journal article about a group of 10 guys in their 40s who have been playing a game of tag together one month a year since they were in prep school 24 years ago. The movie version will have four male leads, with the other parts not yet cast. Mark Steilen, who's worked as [...]

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Bob Odenkirk Will Write and Star in the Movie 'Girlfriend's Day'

by | June 4th, 2013

It looks like Bob Odenkirk is getting his first leading role in a movie. It was announced today that Michael Paul Stephenson (Best Worst Movie) has signed on to direct Girlfriend's Day, a movie that Odenkirk will star in and co-write with Mr. Show writing staff alum Eric Hoffman. Stephenson, who is making his narrative feature debut on the project, hopes to start shooting this fall. Girlfriend's Day follows a greeting card writer named Ray (Odenkirk) who gets wrapped in a web of murder and deceit while competing with other writers to come up with the perfect card for a new holiday called "Girlfriend's Day."

The project was [...]

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Director Joe Swanberg Secretly Shot a Movie with Lena Dunham and Anna Kendrick Last Year

by | May 31st, 2013

Writer/director Joe Swanberg, who made Hannah Takes the Stairs and the upcoming summer release Drinking Buddies, made a movie last year that the public didn't know about until this week. Swanberg revealed to Indiewire that in December, he filmed an independent movie tentatively called Happy Christmas that stars Anna Kendrick, Lena Dunham, Melanie Lynskey, and Mark Webber. Details about the movie are few and far between but it is set in Chicago, "focuses on a family and is set during the holidays." The director hopes to take Happy Christmas to festivals in 2014, meaning that non-festival folk will probably be able to see it later next year.

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Splitsider's Summer Comedy Preview: Movies

by | May 9th, 2013

Iron Man 3 raked in a ton of cash this weekend and officially kicked off the 2013 summer movie season, which is set to contain an unusually high amount of comedies. From blockbuster sequels like The Hangover III and Grown Ups 2 to indie fare like Michael Cera's psychedelic drug movie Crystal Fairy and Joss Whedon's Shakespeare adaptation, this year's summer movie season has a wide variety of comedies to offer. Your best bets this time around look like Bridesmaids director Paul Feig's Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy buddy cop movie The Heat and two dueling apocalypse comedies, This Is the End from Seth Rogen and Company and The World's End [...]

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T.J. Miller, Adam Pally, and Thomas Middleditch Are Starring in a Movie Together

by | April 30th, 2013

Comedic actors T.J. Miller (Yogi Bear), Adam Pally (Happy Endings), and Thomas Middleditch (The Campaign) are playing the lead roles in Search Party, a big studio comedy that's set to start filming this week. The movie will mark the directorial debut of Scot Armstrong, who served as a screenwriter on Old School, Road Trip, and The Hangover Part II. Search Party follows two roommates (Miller, Pally) who go on a dangerous journey to rescue their friend Nardo (Middleditch) after he finds himself stranded and naked in Mexico. Miller will play lewd, fast-talking slob, while Pally will play his uptight sidekick. The movie was set up at Columbia two [...]

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