One of the highlights of the summer movie season is expected to be The World's End, the third comedy from Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, and Nick Frost after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Here's the brand new US trailer for the movie,which looks pretty good from here. You can watch the UK trailer, which has mostly different footage, below:
Yes, Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) and Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids, The IT Crowd) are playing rival salsa dancers in a new movie called Cuban Fury, and we have the photos to prove it. Collider obtained this picture and two more (embedded below after the jump) from the movie that look pretty ridiculous. Cuban Fury stars Frost as a former teen salsa prodigy who abandoned his dreams after a freak accident. He then returns to salsa dancing 20-odd years later to impress his boss (Rashida Jones), becoming rivals with his alpha male co-worker (O'Dowd). I don't want to speak to soon, but Cuban Fury looks [...]
Fans of the Three Flavours Cornetto / Blood and Ice Cream film trilogy did a spit-take when Nick Frost revealed last month that production on the long-awaited third entry could start as early as this year. The news is especially poignant considering its been a little over ten years since Frost's first project with Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright, the short-lived cult sitcom Spaced, went off the air in the UK. And although the trio went on to become international stars together with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and on their own in various other film projects, their work on Spaced, about two down-on-their-luck Londoners [...]
Paul, the upcoming comedy from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost that tells the story of two sci-fi obsessed dorks who end up finding an alien voiced by Seth Rogan, has its first full trailer, and it looks great. What a cast! In addition to Pegg and Frost, you'll see Kristen Wigg, Bill Hader, Jane Lynch, Jason Bateman, and Sigourney Weaver. Stupid Yahoo won't let me embed the trailer here at the moment, so head on over to check it out. Update: Embed above.
It's been six long years since Hot Fuzz, the last movie Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright made together, but that wait is almost over as their new movie The World's End is coming out August 23rd. Starring Pegg and Nick Frost as some friends on an apocalyptic pub crawl, it looks to have everything you expect from a Wright/Pegg venture, including that patented fence gag.
Wright and Pegg's Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (spelling flavors with a "u", classic), which so far has included Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, will reach its conclusion soon. Wright and Pegg will film The World's End this fall, with intention for a spring 2013 release. As before, Wright will direct with Pegg starring with Nick Frost. Here's the synopsis:
"20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his [...]
Good news comedy nerds (and just nerds): Paul is funny! Don’t be fooled by the marketing campaign and weak trailers; this is not simply a buddy comedy with wacky CGI’d aliens and weed jokes. It’s a Simon Pegg and Nick Frost movie through and through. Like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Pegg and Frost co-wrote a script that embraces, not mocks, the genre film.
Parody movies rarely work, and thanks to the sometimes alarming rate in which they’re churned out (Scary Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie, etc.), quality seems to suffer. But there are a few very noteworth exceptions. Christopher Guest has mastered the mockumentary, and [...]
In Paul, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite as a couple of nerdy sci-fi buddies on a road trip to UFO country that gets interrupted by an alien named Paul, voiced by Seth Rogen. It's directed by Greg Mottola, who last helmed Adventureland, and also stars Jane Lynch, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner and Jeffrey Tambor. The first trailer is above; it comes out on March 18th of next year. Here's the official synopsis:
Nick Frost, whom you probably know as Simon Pegg's partner in crime from Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Paul, has signed on to star in a new British comedy series created by longtime Curb Your Enthusiasm producer/director Robert B. Weide. UK TV channel Sky Atlantic has ordered a six-episode first season of the comedy, entitled Mr. Sloane. The show is a bittersweet rom-com set in the late '60s that stars Frost as the title character, Jeremy Sloane, a man going through a midlife crisis who has his fortunes changed when he meets a woman at a hardware store. Frost can next be seen on the big screen [...]
In more British funny things news… What do you think of when you hear Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids) and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead)? Rival salsa dancers! No? Well, get read to start thinking that because the unlikely pair has signed on to star in Cuban Fury, a new comedy from the producers behind Hot Fuzz. Frost plays a former dance legend whom was usurped by O'Dowd, of course. It will shoot after Frost shoots The World's End, the last in the Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright trilogy. The film was written by Jon Brown, who previously wrote on the British series Misfits. The movie is going to be so British. [...]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost teamed up with CollegeHumor for this video, in which our heroes attempt a shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars. Things do not go so well!
