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Most celebrities look like normal, albeit fabulously wealthy, human beings, but those famous faces that look a little too normal for too long start to raise some red flags.

Why aren't they aging? Are they truly the superhuman beings they pretend to be on the big screen? How do they maintain their appearance while living that Hollywood lifestyle?

This comic by Julia Lepetit of Dorkly should clear up any misconceptions you have about the ageless Keanu look, the slightly less ageless but still great lookin' for his age Patrick Stewart, and the "WTF am I lookin' at?!" Guy Fieri look.

See How To Explain Celebrity Appearances at Dorkly

General Mills's line of monster-themed cereals have never been particular intimidating. Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry seem like fun people to eat breakfast with. But I'm less confident of surviving a meal with these cereal mascots by Kate Willaert. Her Restricted Mills cereals include Shark Mates, Krumpuffs, and Machete Mateys--all terrifying villains from modern horror flicks. You can see more pictures of them here.

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Give Chaz Hutton a pen and a sticky note and he'll explain how to make adult decisions and why they're not working. He draw simple graphs, flow charts, and decision trees that illustrate frustrations with everyday life. Yes, I could make work easier if I just spent 3 minutes tying down computer cables beneath my desk. But that would mean not sitting down. And my body isn't built for that kind of punishment anymore.

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When demand is high, Uber uses surge pricing, which charges extra for a ride to your destination. But it’s easy to avoid this higher price, and now there’s research to prove it.

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Experts used over 13,000 feet of shock tube, 264 lbs of explosives, and years of planning to make these 489-foot chimneys perfectly collide during the demolition of Scotland’s Cockenzie Power Station. Source

Ron Clements, co-director of Aladdin, confirmed the fan theory that the merchant at the beginning of the film is actually Genie. “[we] had that at the end of the movie, where he would reveal himself to be the Genie… [through] editing, we lost the reveal at the end. So, that’s an urban legend that actually is true.” Source

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@matttaylordraws created this amazing piece for the upcoming #artawakens show at #gallery1988 November 14th and 15th. I’m honored to be one of the invited artists! I’ve never spent more time on any single poster and no show that I’ve been a part of has ever been as important. I can’t wait to show you what I ended up doing on November 14th! #starwars #starwarsart #episode7 #episodevii

In a little over a month, the publicity machine is going to be in full swing as we lead up to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You can bet that the entire cast and director J.J. Abrams will be making the rounds to morning news programs, late night talk shows, and pretty much everywhere else to help promote the movie that simply doesn’t need anymore promotion. But in the meantime, Abrams has gotten a round of questions from some movers and shakers in all sorts of entertainment, and they want answers.

Cloverfield star T.J. Miller, Girls creator Lena Dunham, Suicide Squad star Jared Leto, Netflix’s content acquisitions chief Ted Sarandos, even George Lucas himself and many more have tons of burning questions about The Force Awakens, Lost and just life in general. Abrams gives some pretty great answers for your entertainment.

Here’s J.J. Abrams answering a slew of questions from celebrities and more at Vanity Fair:

Miller makes a valid point about Cloverfield 2. After directing new Star Trek and Star Wars movies, I think the time is now for Abrams to get a sequel to the found footage monster movie together. It was buzzed about for a few years, but then when Abrams took over big franchises, everyone stopped asking about it.

Smart move by Vanity Fair to get Abrams and Lucas to chat, potentially tricking him into revealing some The Force Awakens details that we don’t know yet about Darth Vader’s potential grandchildren. But unfortunately, Abrams is a smooth operator, and not even the creator of Star Wars can pull anything out of him. I have a feeling that even if Abrams was interrogated by Darth Vader himself, he would not budge.

But the best part is how Abrams just silently moves on from the question about the Lost smoke monster, not to mention how he points out several times that any decisions made about the series after the pilot did not involve him. We should probably stop asking him about Lost now, folks.

The post J.J. Abrams Answers Burning Questions About ‘The Force Awakens,’ ‘Lost’ and ‘Cloverfield 2′ appeared first on /Film.

There’s plenty of people out there who will be dressed up in costumes tonight for Halloween, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a restaurant that dressed up for the holiday. However, residents of Chicago won’t have such a difficult time finding out.

Anyone who has seen the Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America knows that the restaurant McDowell’s, which is totally not a ripoff of McDonald’s at all, plays a key part in the movie. And now the restaurant is real (kinda). The hot dog joint known as The Wiener’s Circle (famous for having employees verbally harass each other and the customers late at night) has been given a makeover for the weekend to look like and operate as a McDowell’s franchise.

Red Eye Chicago reports The Wiener’s Circle at 2622 N. Clark St. in Chicago, Illinois will operate as a McDowell’s restaurant all day today in honor of Halloween. Here’s some images of the awesome Coming to America McDowell’s recreation which includes accurate uniforms:

Welcome to the night shift #wienerscircle #mcdowells #halloween

A photo posted by The Wiener's Circle (@dogsnshakes) on Oct 30, 2015 at 8:04pm PDT

Don’t forget that McDonald’s is nothing like McDowell’s. While McDonald’s has the golden arches, McDowell’s has the golden arcs. McDonald’s has the Big Mac, but McDowell’s has the Big Mick. They both have two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions. But McDonald’s buns have sesame seeds. McDowell’s buns have no seeds.

In addition, when you go inside, they have money from the bank of Zamunda, the homeland of Prince Akeem Joffer (Eddie Murphy’s character from Coming to America), and a cutout of LeBron James (who is no longer sponsored by McDonald’s) with a McDowell’s logo on his jersey. There’s also this employee of the month honor on the wall:

Hey @arseniohall and @eddiemurphy, this pud has stolen your title. We've got 2 vests w your name on em. Come down!

A photo posted by The Wiener's Circle (@dogsnshakes) on Oct 31, 2015 at 11:04am PDT

This is a pretty great thing for a restaurant to do on Halloween, so if you happen to be in the Chicago area, go check it out and hope that Samuel L. Jackson doesn’t come in to rob the place.

By the way, if you go in, try asking for a Sexual Chocolate in place of a Wiener’s Circle chocolate shake. But beware, when you order a Wiener’s Circle chocolate shake, you’re not going to get what you expect. And if you don’t know what that’s code for at the restaurant, you can check out their Wikipedia page to find out.

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A supernatural Preacher, a gun-toting ex, and an Irish vampire are coming to AMC mid-2016.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Muppets has received a full season order of sixteen episodes.

The series, featuring the Muppets as producers of Miss Piggy’s late night talk show, has been successful in key demographics and is the highest rated new comedy among adults 18-49.

As noted in the report, ordering three additional episodes is short of what the television industry calls “the back nine” — nine additional episodes to fill out an initial thirteen episode order of a new series. THR’s sources suggested this is to accommodate other mid-season shows, but may also be indicative of a change in the network TV landscape. On cable and streaming outlets, shorter seasons are the norm. The networks still operate on the twenty-two episode season model, but the advantages of that production mode may no longer be as lucrative as they once were.

Of course, The Muppets, still hand-made and puppeted by live performers can only benefit from the opportunity to create three more episodes of the program.

The Muppets airs on Tuesdays on ABC.

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It's safe to say crocodiles and jaguars are two of the deadliest, and coolest looking, predators on the planet, and they should have a mutual respect for each other due to their respective body counts.

But this hungry jaguar has no time for niceties, and he would literally kill for a crocodile sandwich.

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The Russian tourist who captured this wild wildlife footage would have been much easier for the jaguar to catch and devour, but this superstar jaguar was clearly in it for the views on YouTube!

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Here’s an early Christmas present for those of you who like your holidays razor-sharp, pitch-black, and reeking of stale booze and cigarettes. Billy Bob Thornton is officially confirmed to return for Bad Santa 2, as announced by Miramax and Broad Green Pictures. More on the Billy Bob Thornton Bad Santa 2 return after the jump. 

Miramax and Broad Green Pictures revealed the Billy Bob Thornton Bad Santa 2 news via press release. So far there’s no word on who’ll direct, or who wrote the script. But with shooting slated to begin in January 2016 in Montreal, expect that to change soon. Geyer Kosinski, who’s worked with Thornton on FX’s Fargo, Jayne Mansfield’s Car, The Astronaut Farmer, and more, will produce.

Released in 2003, the first Bad Santa was a modest hit with critics and audiences, and seems to have gained even more fans over the years. It’s become a Christmas staple, at least among people who prefer rude, crude humor to the schmaltzier stuff that gets trotted out that time of year. That a sequel is coming isn’t all that surprising. What is a bit surprising its that it’s taken this long.

Not that it’s for lack of trying. Thornton was in talks to reprise his role as con man Willie Soke as of 2011, and in 2012 he told press it’d shoot that fall. In 2013, he said it’d shoot in 2014. And earlier this year, we heard it’d film this fall. None of those predictions have come to pass, obviously, but things do seem a bit firmer this time around.

Earlier reports pegged Doug Ellin (Entourage) as the writer and probable director of the sequel. Before him, Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) was going to do it. Johnny Rosenthal and John Phillips have also previously worked on the script. None of them are mentioned in the latest report. The original was directed by Terry Zwigoff from a script by Glen Ficarra and John Requa, but there’s no indication they will return.

Whoever joins Thornton in trying to recreate the magic of the original, 13 years later, will have their work cut out for them. What made the first Bad Santa work so well was the way the cast and crew handled the film’s sweet-and-sour tone. It’s exactly as filthy and inappropriate as you’d hope, but also heartwarming in its own way. As we’ve seen in R-rated comedy after R-rated comedy, that balance isn’t an easy one to strike.

I mean, how many other Christmas movies have Lorelai Gilmore gasping “Fuck me, Santa”? (Warning: NSFW.)

And how many movies then wind up somewhere as funny and tragic and weirdly sweet as this? (Probably also NSFW.)

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Beyoncé is very efficient. In under one minute, the superstar asserts her love for both “Flawless” BFF Nicki Minaj and the flawless music of Prince. Check it out below:

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According to Variety, New Line is in negotiations to acquire James Franco‘s The Disaster Artist. The film, based on actor Greg Sestero‘s The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, will tell the story of the midnight movie favorite, The Room. Besides directing, Franco will star as eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau. Dave Franco will also star in the film as Sestero, a struggling actor who meets Wiseau in San Francisco and ends up part of the oddly-spoken man’s dream of finding success in the movies.

In real life, The Room was made for $7 million — though it hardly looks like it — and failed when it first premiered in 2003. It earned a cult following after becoming a midnight screenings at a theater in Hollywood and Wiseau paying for a long term rental of a billboard near Hollywood Boulevard long after the film’s release. While undisputedly poor filmmaking, the film’s overall oddness won a legion of fans charmed by a genuine earnestness lost in delusions of cinematic grandeur.

Franco and friends Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg — producing the film along with Franco — are among those taken with Wiseau’s “genius.”

The film is not yet scheduled for release.

James Franco’s The Disaster Artist Reportedly Finds A Home At New Line

This past July, the Austin, Texas-based Old Murder House Theatre transported Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws to the stage. Their production, a beat-for-beat recreation of the original film with only a few deliberate changes, was a thing of chaotic beauty. On sets made of cardboard, held together with duct tape and a prayer, the cast and crew created a show that was one part parody, one part homage, and one part, uh, something else altogether.

Now, footage from this bizarre and brilliant show has arrived online, giving those who weren’t in attendance a chance to catch the highlights. A YouTube video can’t quite capture the experience of seeing this thing live, but it’s better than not seeing any of it at all.

You can watch the Jaws: Live! footage below, but only if you like good things.

Like Old Murder House’s past productions, the central joke of Jaws: Live! is that it’s a fairly exacting recreation of a beloved movie – it just so happens to be on a stage and performed with deliberately lo-fi props by actors who manage to keep a straight face no matter how absurd things get. This makes the divergences from the source material all the more surreal. Sometimes, those changes involve characters going off-script and falling into profanity-laden tirades. Other times, they involve musical numbers where the shark takes a break from tormenting the crew of the Orca to sing “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid, backed up by Flounder and Ben Gardner’s severed head.

Naturally, the video below is NSFW, unless your workplace is cool with a few F-bombs and a great Richard Dreyfuss impression pulling a sex toy from the belly of a dead Tiger Shark.

Old Murder House Theatre is the brainchild of director/actor Sam Eidson (best known for starring in the excellent Zero Charisma), but it works because his cast and crew are all on the same page when it comes to simulating total anarchy. Their shows are often at their best when things go totally wrong – watching everyone think on their feet as things go so completely and totally wrong is a joy. It’s impressive enough to watch Byron Brown (Martin Brody), John Merriman (Matt Hooper), Kirk Johnson (Quint) and Nathan Sakulich (Ellen Brody) nail pitch-perfect impersonations of their characters, but it’s doubly so when the cardboard boat they’re all standing in decides to start slowly crumbling in the middle of the climax. Johnson is especially impressive, capturing everything that makes Robert Shaw‘s original performance so impressive while giving Quint the absurd mental and physical elasticity of a Looney Tunes character.

Jaws: Live! is the latest in a long line of Old Murder House productions. You may remember Jurassic Park Live! from a few years ago, which actually toured around the country:

And then there was the hugely ambitious Aliens On Ice!, where actors who didn’t know how to ice skate faced off against Xenomorphs played by trained skaters:

Their RoboCop is also a thing of absurd joy, made especially memorable by the mid-show ballad where Officer Murphy sings about his transformation into a killer cyborg in an original song set to Basil Poledouris’ iconic theme music:

And yes, they also did Back to the Future:

What’s special about these shows is that every moment is filled with love. The Old Murder House crew genuinely loves the movies they are recreating and it shows. Tiny details jump from the screen to the stage. Tics you’ve always noticed in the original films but never thought about are present in the performances. At a quick glance, these shows may look like they’re making fun of these movies, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. These shows celebrate the original films. Like any truly great party, these celebrations always descend into madness, but that’s kind of the point. The hilarious, homemade, kind of brilliant point.

You can check out a gallery of images from Jaws: Live! below:

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Talk about heavy equipment! This is the SLJ900/32, a Chinese bridge-building machine. It weighs 580 metric tons and is 91.8 meters long. It carries and installs concrete bridge girders in places where a crane can’t go. This time-lapse video makes it look simple. It can’t be simple.

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But at least it’s doable. Watch the guys working with this machine. They hop around hundreds of feet above a chasm, installing tons of concrete, with no safety harnesses. There are two other videos that give a closer look at some of the steps, if you are interested. -via Daily of the Day

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.

You've probably already figured out the first half of the above question before even taking a look at this article. I imagine you have already guessed that the popular drink was originally made from roots.

And guess what? You're right! But why "beer"?

Charles Hires (1851-1937) was a Philadelphia druggist. At the age of 12, he worked as a drugstore boy. At the age of 16, he moved to Philadelphia and found work in a pharmacy. With $400.00 he had saved, Hires started his own drugstore.

While honeymooning in New Jersey in 1875, he tasted an herbal tea containing juniper, wintergreen, and sarsaparilla. Root and berry drinks had been around for a long time, but this tea was different.

Upon returning from his honeymoon to his pharmacy's soda fountain, he worked on creating a similar-tasting carbonated drink. He came up with a mixture of sassafras roots, barks, herbs, and flowers. He was soon marketing an selling it and it became the first commercial brand of root beer.

Hires originally sold his new beverage in boxes. He only sold it to housewives and proprietors of drugstores. Those who purchased the product had to mix in their own water, sugar, and yeast.

But Hires originally sold it as “Hires Root Tea.” Hires, a Quaker, tried to sell his "root tea" to the heavy-drinking Pennsylvania coal miners. The rugged miners, however, weren't interested in any drink called "tea.” So, to make his beverage more appealing to them, he changed the name to “Hires Root Beer."

Hires began bottling and promoting his root beer and by 1892 more than two million bottles had been sold. Ironically, Hires fell afoul of the Temperance Movement in 1895.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union called for a boycott of Hires Root Beer, which they thought contained beer. The boycott lasted until 1898, when a laboratory analysis persuaded the misguided do-gooders that Hires Root Beer contained no alcohol.

One of Hires’ chief competitors was Roy Allen. Allen opened the world's first root beer stand in Lodi, California, in 1919.

Allen also contributed to the evolution and popularity of the drink by serving it in cold, frosty mugs. In 1922, he partnered with Frank Wright. Combining the initials of their surnames, they dubbed their brand of root beer “A&W.”

Edward Barq got into the root beer game in 1898. Barq's company also sold several other beverages, but their root beer became their bread and butter. Barq's Root Beer was different than other brands, in that it was made from sarsaparilla and did contain caffeine (most brands of root beer do not). Also, Barq's Root Beer did not have the frothy, foamy head customary on most other brands.

Root beer soon became immensely popular all over the globe.

Interestingly, although the drink does contain no alcohol, it became especially popular during Prohibition. (Charles Hires was a devout prohibitionist.) We all know how much guys like to fantasize and perhaps they just like to imagine they're drinking "beer,” when they consciously know they're not.

When Kroll Show was still on Comedy Central, one of the best recurring segments was a little prank show called Too Much Tuna, featuring Gil Faizon (Nick Kroll) and George St. Geegland (John Mulaney) — the stars of Oh, Hello, another recurring segment on the sketch comedy series. And now these two charismatic Upper West Side artists are bringing their talents Off Broadway.

Mulaney and Kroll have just announced a new Oh, Hello stage show in the form of a new play written by Faizon and St. Geegland called We’re Us, You’re You, Let’s Talk. This sounds like it could be one of the greatest events of our time.

For those who may not be familiar with Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, here you go:

Here’s them pulling another Too Much Tuna prank as well:

The show will be playing from December 1st – December 20th at the Cherry Lane Theatre, which is supposedly near the Christopher Street PATH station. I wouldn’t know, because I’ve only been to New York City once. However, I’m strongly considering driving 10 hours to go see this show. That’s how much I love these characters.

If you’re curious as to what you can expect, here’s a fine description of the show from the official website:

Fresh off the success of their hit prank show “Too Much Tuna,” these two Alan Alda-obsessed Upper West Side bachelors are returning to their roots in New York theatre. Having wowed audiences with past theatrical works like “True Upper West” and the “Annie Get Your Gun” inspired “Bernie Goetz You Gun: A Non Musical Drama,” Faizon and St. Geegland are back for a total victory lap and to premiere their new play “We’re Us, You’re You, Let’s Talk.” Tickets are a lot of money. Join us, won’t you? And say Oh Hello… all over again.

George and Gil have parted ways with a number of numbskull directors but are open to a real doormat if anyone wants to get walked all over. “We’re very important artists and this show’s relevance to the American theater can’t be overstated,” said Faizon and St. Geegland. “We are, however, interested in getting a cool sponsor like Dr. Brown’s Celray Soda”.

Gil Faizon and Geoge St Geegland have written a real play and they want to share it with the world. This is not a joke. December 1-20 in NYC at the Cherry Lane Theater. Info at ohhelloshow.com w/ link in bio. Use promo code: ohgil for discount on tix. Be careful, you show up you may get Tuna'd.

A photo posted by Nick Kroll (@nickkroll) on Oct 22, 2015 at 9:44am PDT

GIL FAIZON (star) is a Tony Award viewing actor and a SAG AFTRA must leave. Faizon currently works as a stand in model for mashed potatoes and other creamed foods. So like when they’re photographing mashed potatoes Gil lies there so they can get the lighting right. His Bar Mitzvah theme was the color brown.

GEORGE ST. GEEGLAND (star) was born in Newark, NJ to verbally abusive parents sometime in the early mid 1940s. In 1971 he published his first novel Rifkin’s Dilemma, a real 70’s novel about masturbation and such. It has aged terribly. St Geegland taught creative writing for 12 years at SUNY Yonkers – Go Zebras! – until he was fired for stuff that is in sealed documents. Along with Gil Faizon he is the co-author and co-star of several plays as well as the hit television show “Too Much Tuna” as seen on Comedy Central’s “Kroll Show.” Spalding Gray personally disliked him and he has chapped hands.

NICK KROLL and JOHN MULANEY are American writers and comedians with many credits. They are thrilled to be working with theater legends Gil Faizon and George St Geegland. This is their first Off Broadway production.

I love that this project is treating Faizon and St. Geegland as real people. That means we can expect Mulaney and Kroll to be in character the entire time, not unlike in this hour-long chat with 92YPlus:

This show is bound to be absolutely hilarious, and I would love to see what kind of play Faizon and St. Geegland have cooked up. Although by the sound of it, this could very well be a strongly improvised project that involves crowd participation and some Q&A with Faizon and St. Geegland. Plus, there’s this warning from Kroll:

And just a warning. If you come to https://t.co/83PlGA044i in NYC you may get Tuna'd.

— nick kroll (@nickkroll) October 22, 2015

There’s nothing I would love more than to be tuna’d by Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland. If you want tickets, which really are pretty pricey, you can get them right here, but they’re selling very quickly, so you better act fast.

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Daniel Craig is the best actor to play James Bond since Sean Connery, but the two of them have more in common beyond providing audiences with a stellar 007. Connery famously hated playing the world’s most popular movie spy, famously saying “I have always hated that damned James Bond. I’d like to kill him.” Over the past few weeks, it has become obvious that Craig has similar feelings for the character.

Much like how being under a constant spotlight drove Connery to leave the series after You Only Live Twice (a reporter once followed him into the bathroom), the amount of media attention being lavished on Craig during the press rounds for Spectre appear to have completely and thoroughly broken him. “You want James Bond?” he theoretically snarls, his breath smelling of vodka martini, “Let me tell you about this James Bond you love so much!”

Read just how much Daniel Craig hates Bond after the jump.

The folks at Sony‘s marketing department already had an all-hands-on-deck situation when Craig started talking about how he’d rather slit his wrists than play James Bond again. Now, they have to deal with this brutally honest interview over at The Red Bulletin (yes, Red Bull’s online magazine), where Craig tells everyone what he really thinks about the most iconic action hero of the past century. The discussion gets off to an auspicious start with this genuinely hilarious exchange:

What could we learn from James Bond that would help us in our day-to-day lives? 

[Thinks for a short while.]

Nothing.

Holy shit, Daniel Craig.

And it gets even better! Or worse, if you’re a member of Sony’s marketing team. When asked about Bond’s skills with the ladies, Craig took this softball question, dropped it on the ground, and proceeded to stomp it into the dirt:

But let’s not forget that he’s actually a misogynist. A lot of women are drawn to him chiefly because he embodies a certain kind of danger and never sticks around for too long.

Did… did the actor playing James Bond did just call the character a misogynist? In public? That label has been attached to the character for decades, but it’s the kind of thing the Bond producers have always managed to skillfully dodge. Enter Daniel Craig, who’s apparently tired enough of beating around the bush that he’s decided to burn down the bush with a Q-Branch flamethrower.

Craig gets one more jaw-dropper of the moment in this interview. Pressed about the kinder and gentler Bond of the past few years, Craig says that any progress is due to improved female characters sharing the screen with 007, not the other way around. But come for that line and stay for the one about Spectre co-star Monica Bellucci:

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While we wait to see what Disney does with its never-gonna-get-recast icon Indiana Jones, Napoleon Dynamite duo Jared and Jerusha Hess have mounted their own search for the Holy Grail. Don Verdean stars Sam Rockwell as a Biblical archaeologist who gets caught in the rivalry between two congregations led by Danny McBride and Will Forte. Needless to say, this is a much sillier quest than the one Indy went on in The Last Crusade.

Also starring are Jemaine Clement as his Holy Land associate Boaz, Amy Ryan as his assistant Carol, and Leslie Bibb as McBride’s wife. Watch the Don Verdean trailer after the jump.

Fandango unveiled the new Don Verdean trailer.

Don Verdean promises a sharp religious and cultural satire, as played out by a collection of memorably quirky characters. However, reactions to the actual film were mixed at the Sundance Film Festival. A representative review from THR describes it as “a comedy with an identity crisis that’s more quirky than actually comical.” Which isn’t what you’d call scathing, but on the flip side, it’s not like the positive reviews were all that glowing, either. One generally nice writeup from First Showing, concluded with a wan “It’s not the kind of film I’ll be raving about the rest of the year, but it’s not terrible.”

Don Verdean opens December 11.

Don Verdean is a man of faith who has devoted his life to biblical archaeology, scouring the globe in search of artifacts that back up the teachings of Jesus Christ. Now, traveling from town to town, he and his devoted assistant, Carol, spread the gospel by peddling books and DVDs out of his shabby RV, while his Holy Land contacts, Boaz and Shem, do the digging from afar. When evangelical preacher Tony Lazarus offers to bankroll Don’s modest roadside operation, the escalating pressure to find increasingly significant relics leads Don and his team down a less-than-righteous path. With more than just the word of God on the line, Don finds himself in the midst of a spiteful feud between two opposing congregations, leaving him to question what is truly important in life.

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We all know what a Wes Anderson movie is. The co-writer/director behind Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Royal Tenenbaums has a distinct voice and style. Anderson is sometimes criticized for never leaving his wheelhouse, but, according to the director, he might venture far outside of his comfort zone with a horror movie.

Learn more after the jump.

After the success of The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson is at the top of his game. He’s at a point in his career where he can take great risks. In a conversation at the Rome Film Festival with author Donna Tartt, Anderson revealed he may take his most promising risk yet by making a horror film (via Filmmaker Magazine):

I have thought of doing a horror movie, and I have thought of doing a Christmas movie. Horror is an area where if a filmmaker really wants to use all the tricks, the techniques to affect your emotions…. With the kind of movies I do, you’re supposed to say is this part supposed to be funny, or is this part supposed to be sad? Well, you say, I don’t know. I’m not sure. This is the way we wanted it. When you make a horror or a thriller, you say you’re supposed to be scared here. You’re supposed to be relieved here. Here we’re explaining something so you know the next part so you’ll be more scared then. I like the idea of the requirements and the obligations of working in a genre like that. I’ve done some scenes like that, but I’d like to do a scary movie.

Making a horror movie requires a real awareness of timing and audience’s expectations. Tonally, Anderson could mash together different tones, as he’s done in the past, but seeing a straight-up horror movie from the director sounds more appealing. His sensibilities would certainly suit a Christmas movie, though, which, as he said, he’s also interested in making.

The good thing with a Christmas movie — if you make a great Christmas song or movie or book, as Dickens showed us, you can make a huge fortune, because they come back every year. As long as you have a piece of the action, then it’s a perennial.

Anderson is currently working on a stop-motion film about dogs, featuring the voices of Edward Norton, Bryan Cranston, Bob Balaban, and Jeff Goldblum. He doesn’t have anything lined up after that project, so maybe we’ll actually see a horror or christmas movie from him in the next few years.

Whatever kind of horror movie Anderson makes, it probably won’t resemble The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders.

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HBO has cancelled The Brink, the dark geopolitical satire starring Tim Robbins and Jack Black, after one season. Which isn’t too shocking at first glance, given that the series never garnered much buzz and earned only modest ratings. What makes it weird is that the news comes after HBO already renewed The Brink for Season 2, way back in July. More about The Brink cancellation after the jump.

The premium cable network announced The Brink cancellation in a statement:

After evaluating our schedule and our programming needs, we unfortunately decided we cannot give The Brink the attention it deserves for a second season. We are proud of the first season and wish everyone involved in this show the very best.

The Brink followed three very different men who get caught up in a geopolitical crisis: U.S. Secretary of State Walter Larson (Robbins), lowly Foreign Service officer Alex Talbot (Black), and Navy fighter pilot Zeke Tilson (Pablo Schreiber, currently best known as Orange Is the New Black‘s Pornstache). Together, they engage in a desperate struggle to stop World War III.

HBO renewed The Brink for a second season in July, about halfway through its first season. While its ratings were decent, not great, its reviews were mixed. In contrast, Girls and Veep aren’t exactly setting Nielsen boxes on fire, but they’re critical darlings that inspire think pieces and gifs, attract devoted followers, and win statues.

Still, you’d think HBO would have noticed by the time it renewed The Brink that the show wasn’t getting a ton of attention. And they still decided it was worth renewing anyway. So it’s unclear what’s changed in the past four months.

Ballers, which premiered with The Brink earlier this year, is still expected to bounce back for Season 2. And it probably still will, because its numbers were better than The Brink‘s. Still, we’d imagine every HBO cast and crew member just got really nervous all of a sudden. As TV critic Alan Sepinwall points out, this is madness. Madness, I tell you!

So, to be clear: the broadcast nets don't cancel shows anymore, and HBO cancels shows it already renewed. #DogsAndCats #MassHysteria

— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) October 27, 2015

 

 

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