Here is the trailer for the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. I still have no idea what that title means.

I guess this was posted a few days ago in anticipation of Wall-E's release but I just came across it. It's Vulture's list of the best Pixar films to date, with an unconventional choice at number one.

1. Monsters, Inc.
2. Finding Nemo
3. Toy Story 2
4. Ratatouille
5. Toy Story
6. A Bug’s Life
7. The Incredibles
8. Cars

For my opinion (and thats what you are here for, right?) I would ahve Monster, Inc. at the bottom of my list. Its the only Pixar film I have not watched multiple times. It might be a better movie than Cars but for some reason I never have a desire to see it. I pressed and had to make a list, I guess mine would go this way:

1. Finding Nemo
2. Toy Story 2
3. The Incredibles
4. Toy Story
5. Ratatouille
6. A Bug's Life
7. Cars
8. Monsters, Inc.

Any of those top five could be pretty much rearranged and I would be fine with it, I love all of those films. As Vulture says "which is actually the best? And which is the worst? And what does "worst" mean when you're talking about Pixar?"

Jason Schwartzman will star in HBO's comedy pilot Bored to Death. In the show he'll play a thirtysomething writer in Brooklyn who, plagued with alcoholism, money woes, and a failed romance, decides to emulate the heroes of the Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler mysteries he loves and poses as a private eye. He takes on real cases, solving some and bungling others.

Amy Ryan, whose Holly Flax character replaced Toby Flenderson as the Dunder Mifflin Scranton-branch human resources officer, will return to The Office for at least five segments this fall.

Flax and dimwitted branch manager Michael Scott seemed to take a romantic interest in each other in the shows 4th-season finale, but that blossoming romance seemed mowed down by unexpected news from Scott’s ex-girlfriend Jan.

Ryan also earned an Oscar nomination last year for Gone Baby Gone.

Letterman loves Heath Ledger's Joker performance.

Tilda Swinton has Nicolas Cage and Pierce Brosnan in Roman Polanski's political thriller The Ghost, an adaptation of the Robert Harris book.

Swinton will play the wife of the former prime minister (Brosnan). Her marriage is crumbling, and she falls for the writer

Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage will star in director Roman Polanski's political thriller The Ghost.

The film, based on Robert Harris' novel of the same name, centers on a ghostwriter who is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister. He uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.

Brosnan would play the prime minister, Adam Lang, and Cage the ghostwriter.

Most of the story takes place in an oceanfront house during the middle of winter.

A bit of a rip off.

Zach Galifinakis (who was great in Into the Wild) has joined Michael Cera in the coming-of-age dark comedy, "Youth In Revolt." The film already stars Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, Jean Smart, and M. Emmet Walsh and new additions also include Erik Knudsen and Mary Kay Place. The film is being directed by Miguel Arteta, the filmmaker behind the very excellent The Good Girl.

Hilary Duff has joined the very 80's centric cast of the Polish brothers comedy Stay Cool., which stars Winona Ryder, Jon Cryer, Sean Astin, and Chevy Chase(thank God somebody is finally putting him in another movie). The story is about a successful author (Mark Polish) who faces his unrequited high school crush (Ryder) when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Duff plays a high school hottie who asks the author to the prom when he visits her school. Mark and Michael Polish wrote the script and are producing, and Michael is directing. The Brothers made very excellent 1999 film Twin Falls Idaho and the strange, fascinating 2003 film, Northfork.

Posted yesterday on CHUD's List of Dumb #25.



Taken with my phone about six months ago at North East Mall and sent to Max as a joke.

This is a clip from season 9 of Roseanne, its like they weren't even trying anymore. Part of me wants to go back and re-watch the final couple seasons of the show just to see how bad it got and then a bigger part of me really doesn't want to subject myself to that horror.

George Clooney's Smoke House production company has set up the half-hour dark comedy The Fall of Bob at Showtime. The show sounds interesting and will follow the lead character, Bob, who jumps from a building and then narrates his life as it flashes before him.

David Gordon Green hearts Steven Seagal.

Michel Gondry has a website. Well, sort of. It's just a holding page for now with promises of more to come.

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Finally got around to seeing this last night. Altogether fascinating if a bit slow in the middle parts, this creates the most even handed and in depth report on the crimes that Polanski were charged with. Enough with what I though, I'll pass this on to two people who know much more about the events shown in the film, as surprisingly one of them shows up as an interview subject.

A one time Fort Worth disk jockey turned comedy legend, George Carlin is dead.

This aired a few nights ago but I finally got around to watching it last night. Here in its entirety is AFI's 10 Top 10. Their favorite films from 10 genres. I'll post a few thoughts after each list.

Animation

10. Finding Nemo (2003)
9. Cinderella (1950)
8. Shrek (2001)
7. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
6. Toy Story (1995)
5. Fantasia (1940)
4. The Lion King (1994)
3. Bambi (1942)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

All of these are Disney movies except Shrek, which lampoons Disney movies.

Fantasy

10. Big (1988)
9. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
8. Groundhog Day (1993)
7. Harvey (1950)
6. Field of Dreams (1989)
5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
4. King Kong (1933)
3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
2. The Lord of the Rings (2001)
1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

A strange category. Groundhog Day, Big, and Field of Dreams all in the same genre as Lord of the Rings and The Wizard of Oz?

Sci-Fi

10. Back to the Future (1985)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
7. Alien (1979)
6. Blade Runner (1982)
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
3. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
2. Star Wars (1977)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

This list features the biggest omission. Where the Hell is Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Sports

10. Jerry Maguire (1996)
9. National Velvet (1944)
8. Breaking Away (1979)
7. Caddyshack (1980)
6. The Hustler (1961)
5. Bull Durham (1988)
4. Hoosiers (1986)
3. Pride of the Yankees (1942)
2. Rocky (1976)
1. Raging Bull (1980)

I thought Million Dollar Baby should have been included here. Shouldn't Jerry Maguire be in the Romantic Comedy section? Breaking Away needs to be higher on the list.

Westerns

10. Cat Ballou (1965)
9. Stagecoach (1939)
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
6. The Wild Bunch (1969)
5. Red River (1948)
4. Unforgiven (1992)
3. Shane (1953)
2. High Noon (1952)
1. The Searchers (1956)

Glad that McCabe & Mrs. Miller made the lest. Where is The Good The Bad and The Ugly? That kid in Shane is still annoying.

Gangster

10. Scarface (1983)
9. Little Caesar (1931)
8. The Public Enemy (1931)
7. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1932)
5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
4. White Heat (1949)
3. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
2. Goodfellas (1990)
1. The Godfather (1972)

Thank God some revisionist thinking didn't make Scarface appear higher on the list, that is one film I can't sit through.

Mysteries

10. The Usual Suspects (1995)
9. Dial M for Murder (1954)
8. Blue Velvet (1986)
7. North By Northwest (1959)
6. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
5. The Third Man (1949)
4. Laura (1941)
3. Rear Window (1954)
2. Chinatown (1974)
1. Vertigo (1958)

Yeah, I guess. When thinking of genres I hardly think of mysteries.

Romantic Comedies

10. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
9. Harold and Maude (1971)
8. Moonstruck (1987)
7. Adam's Rib (1949)
6. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
5. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
4. Roman Holiday (1953)
3. It Happened One Night (1934)
2. Annie Hall (1977)
1. City Lights (1931)

No real complaints, could have probably just been a list of all Woody Allen movies. Harold and Maude made it, so that is enough for me.

Courtroom Dramas

10. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
9. A Cry in the Dark (1988)
8. In Cold Blood (1967)
7. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
6. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
5. A Few Good Men (1992)
4. The Verdict (1982)
3. Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Courtroom dramas, really?

Epics

10. The Ten Commandments (1956)
9. Reds (1981)
8. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
7. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
6. Titanic (1997)
5. Spartacus (1960)
4. Gone With the Wind (1939)
3. Schindler's List (1993)
2. Ben-Hur (1959)
1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

It seems like they just tried to cram in all the rest of the movies in this final category. Why not have a separate list just for war films?

Not a damn thing happening today in terms of movie news but the more I look at this photo of Steven Spielberg the more he starts to look like my dad. Maybe I am just seeing things but its all in the eyes and nose area.



I realize it would have been nice to have a photo of my dad up to compare to but I was unable to find one that I thought did the comparison justice. So you will either have to use your memory of the Don Allen looks like or drive to Weatherford and buy a car.

With Brad Pitt's name below on the best poster so far this year, I will now present his moving body in what is the best trailer of the year (so far), David Fincher's next, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

And a new trailer.

Best poster of the year (so far) and best Saul Bass rip off go to the Coen Brother's next film.

Kevin Spacey has signed on to play the title role in Shrink, a star-studded independent drama that recently started production in Los Angeles. The two-time Academy Award winner will portray a depressed, pot-smoking Hollywood therapist with a range of clients played by Robin Williams, Gore Vidal, Saffron Burrows, Griffin Dunne, and Robert Loggia, among others. Jonas Pate, a veteran TV writer and director (Surface, Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica), will direct.

Sam Raimi will develop a movie adaptation of the forthcoming historical novel The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Columbia recently acquired rights to the book, due to be published in September, with Raimi attached to direct and produce. The sweeping story is set in Boston in 1919, during a time of post-World War I turmoil.

Spike Lee with cowrite and direct Time Traveler, an adaptation of a memoir by Ronald Mallett, a professor at the University of Connecticut who was one of the first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. Mallett's book, Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, recounts his journey from poverty to wide academic acclaim — and his lifetime obsession with inventing a time machine. (Mallett was 10 years old when is father died, and his goal has been to go back in time to save him.)

CHUD caught up with Danny McBride recently and learned about a new project that he and David Gordon Green have been working on, as well as their next project together, Your Highness.

Last week I ran into the beloved Danny McBride, star of Foot Fist Way (what, you haven't seen it yet? What's wrong with you? Get out there now!), and I took the opportunity to ask him about some of his upcoming films, including one that has not yet been announced (yeah, I'm cool like that), Mr. Machine, which Danny co-wrote with the amazing David Gordon Green (his director in the upcoming classic Pineapple Express).

"We're turning that [script] in to Universal next week," he told me. "It's our take on those old Amblin films - it follows around these science fair geeks that construct this robot that get a life of its own. It's like... I don't know, a Short Circuit zombie movie."

Danny didn't say if there was a role for him in the movie - maybe Mr. Machine himself? - but he did say that David's involvement may extend past the script stage. "[It's] something we wrote before all of this happened, and we went back and dug it out and reinvented it. David originally had no interest in directing it, but now after where we've gotten this puppy, he has more interest in it."

Meanwhile, the two have another film in development, Your Highness. Danny told me that unlike the film he's working on now, Land of the Lost, Your Highness would try to keep the budget down. "We're trying to make it not too big so we can keep it as lame as we want to make it and make it rated R and everything," he said.

So what exactly is Your Highness going to be? "We want to do our take on a movie like Krull or Dragonslayer," Danny explained. "I battle with a hula hoop. The Hoop of Doom is his weapon of choice, a big metal hula hoop."

But it's not a spoof movie by any means. "We're not making fun of the genre, we're making a movie that looks like that and feels like that, and uses those old special effects. David, I think, is great about hitting tones like that. It's what's so amazing about Pineapple Express - it feels like an 80s action movie without making fun of 80s action movies. He embraces the tone on another level. I think it would be funny for him to make his Clash of the Titans. It would probably be the dumbest movie ever made."

Special effects and makeup guru Stan Winston passed away on Sunday, June 15th in Los Angeles, Clifornia. Winston was best known for his work for the Terminator, Jurassic Park and Predator series, and Edward Scissorhands. The 4-time Oscar winner most recently worked on Iron Man and was special effects supervisor on the upcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

One more The Dark Knight trailer.

Kung Fu Panda

Saw this last night at the Brazos Drive In. Nowhere near the quality of the Pixar films but it had a couple of amusing moments. Oddly, for an animated film not a lot happens and the supporting characters are relegated to the sides lines for the majority of the running time. I can't even remember the monkey talking.

The best part of the film was the other feature, Indiana Jones. A film I loved the first time, it actually grew in my mind with a second viewing. Past all the hype and expectations I was able to simply enjoy it is, a 1950's style adventure film. None of the plot twists or story elements seemed out of place and it really seemed to fit into the canon of all the other Indy films. It may now be my second favorite of the bunch, after Raiders of the Lost Ark.

A little more news is beginning to trickle out about The Office spin off. Will it even be a spin off? Here is an excerpt from the Variety article announcing Aziz Ansari has joined the cast.

Despite early speculation that at least one "Office" character will segue to the new show, that's unlikely at this point.

Instead, the show could potentially be a "planted spinoff," in which characters are first introduced on "The Office" before moving on to the new series (think "Mork & Mindy," which morphed from one episode of "Happy Days"). It's just as possible that the show won't be a spinoff at all (which could impact who's involved with the show), but a wholly separate series in the same comedic vein as "The Office."

In recent weeks Daniels and Schur have been busy mapping out the show, which is set to bow this winter in the plum Thursday night 9:30 p.m. timeslot behind "The Office."

The two have narrowed the show's premise down to a handful of ideas but haven't yet zoomed in on a specific concept.

"We're focusing on making the best show we can make as a companion to 'The Office,'" Schur said. "We're trying to come up with the best concept and hire the funniest writers. In the next couple of weeks, we'll be making the final move to one specific idea."

The new show has already started putting together a writing team, including "Everybody Loves Raymond" alum Tucker Cawley, "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" vet Dan Goor and "South Park" scribe Alan Yang.

This guy (who I actually think is funny) is going to be a part of the new Office spin off.


I like him even more for this quote on his website about joining the show.

I’m very happy to announce that I’m going to be on the new “Office” spinoff on NBC!! I haven’t been this excited since Lisa lost on “Top Chef.”

The whole project may be based around this girl, who as you will remember was a big part of season 3 of The Office.

Yahoo has the trailer for Spike Lee's next, Miracle at St. Anna. The film has a flash back/forward structure that I was unaware of. I thought it was a straight up war film but it seems to be a man looking back on his time spent in the shit, recollecting his memories to a reporter, cop, or something.

George Clooney is starring in The Tourist, an adaptation of the Olen Steinhauer novel. Writer Anthony Peckham (Human Factor) is penning the script for the project, a contemporary international thriller about a spy tangled in a conspiracy, accused of a murder he didn't commit.

Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, and Eric Bana are starring in Judd Apatow's next directing vehicle, which is now titled Funny People. Apatow has revealed a little more about the plot, saying that the movie takes place in the world of stand-up comedy and focuses on a comic who has a near-death experience. The cast also includes Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Leslie Mann.

A little rumor about what Paul Thomas Anderson could be doing for his post There Will Be Blood (which is an American classic) from the fansite Cigarettes and Redvines. No idea why they refuse to use capital letters.

we’ve gotten a bunch of various projects and things sent to us that paul is, or is not, “seconds away from shooting” etc etc. the latest one is a film called “power play” apparently set to star jack nicholson about a gambling entrepreneur from a native american casino who decides to take on las vegas.

the film is through paramount pictures and robert evans based on the peter bart novel. no official word obviously from The Family, but i’ll see what comes from asking.

UPDATE: The Playlist has some more info about this project.

File under rumor mill, but it's one that everyone has jumped on and now we feel like we can't ignore just in case (or feel like following the herd, etc.).

According to the very excellent PTA fansite, Cigarettes and Red Vines, the follow-up to Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," is a film set in Las Vegas and based off the Peter Bart novella, "Power Play," that will be shot for Paramount.

Bart of course is the current editor-in-chief of Variety and the project is apparently set to star Jack Nicholson as a gambling entrepreneur from a Native American casino who decides to take on Las Vegas. Paramount acquired the novel for producer Robert Evans to develop back in 1998:

"I’ve got P.T. Anderson very excited about adapting and directing it. Before he directed 'Boogie Nights,' he covered the gambling terrain very convincingly with 'Hard Eight.' I’m also giving it to Jack Nicholson, who is perfect for the main role,” Evans told Variety in 1998. “It’s an extraordinary story. The largest gambling entrepreneurs are not Trump or Wynn or Kerkorian — they’re the Indians. They operate the most profitable casinos in the world and most are not even full-blooded Indians — they can be one-eighth and still control the tribe, the land and the casino. If they made the worst deal in selling Manhattan for $24, they’re making up for it with a weapon more lethal than bows and arrows.”

Have I posted this before? I think I have but if not, here it is again. This is the trailer for the Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, the short film that is now being made into a feature (I posted about that a few days ago).



UPDATE:I'm a little confused but apparently this trailer may be the entire short.

Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel will star in the action-comedy Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse.

The movie is based on a comedy short from Superbad screenwriters Rogen and Evan Goldberg and on a story by Goldberg and Jason Stone. Rogen and Goldberg will write and produce the feature.

The project revolves around two guys dealing with the apocalypse.

Just because I am currently reading this book.

Leonardo DiCaprio is starring in the biopic Atari, about Nolan Bushnell, one of the founding fathers of the videogame industry. Bushnell founded Atari in 1972 with Ted Dabney. Among the company's inventions were the original Atari 2600 console and Pong. The project was written by Craig Sherman and Brian Hecker. No word on who is directing.

Harrison Ford is starring in the drama Crowley, which tells the true story of John and Aileen Crowley. Two of the couple's children had a rare genetic disorder, but John Crowley found a researcher (Ford) with a potential cure. Robert Nelson Jacobs (The Water Horse, Chocolat) wrote the screenplay, which was inspired by a Wall Street Journal article and subsequent book, The Cure, by Geeta Anand. Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas) is in negotiations to direct.

Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon are starring in Cameron Crowe's next as-yet untitled romantic comedy adventure. Crowe will direct from his own screenplay. Good to see that Ben Stiller is once again going to try and make good movies and not starring in any script that comes his way. I say that, yet Crowe's last film, Elizabethtown, was a bit of a disaster. When one of the high points in your film is Paula Deen you know something is going wrong.

Lars and the Real Girl star Ryan Gosling and director Craig Gillespie will reteam on The Dallas Buyers Club.

Chase Palmer is doing a rewrite.

Dallas Buyers Club is the true story of Ron Woodroof, a tough Texas electrician who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and given six months to live. Frustrated with the lack of available medical options and unwilling to accept a death sentence, Woodroof found a lifeline using alternative drugs and created a lucrative smuggling business that made those drugs available to AIDS patients. Woodroof died in 1992.

Showtime has picked up 12 episodes of United States of Tara, a comedy series written by Diablo Cody and produced by Steven Spielberg. The show stars Toni Collette as a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder and John Corbett, who plays her husband.

Jesse Bradford (The West Wing, Flags of Our Fathers) will play one of George W. Bush's frat buddies in Oliver Stone's Bush biopic W.. The actor will portray Thatcher, the president of Bush's fraternity.

Here is my question, does Brolin play Bush in all of these flashback scenes too? Isn't it going to look a bit weird with the much older Brolin surrounded by guys who actually look like they are in college?

The Foot Fist Way

The Foot Fist Way suffers the problem a lot of comedies do in that the film can't sustain the energy of the first act all the way through its running time. Not that there aren't funny moments and scenes scattered throughout the whole thing, it just doesn't have the ratatat momentum of its opening.

The film would sink if any other actor was playing the lead other than Danny McBride. He carries the film and is basically hilarious doing even the littlest of things, a small eyebrow raise, playing with restaurant waiting buzzer, peeing on a wedding ring. There is no way anyone else could pull all of this off without coming across like a total prick and hateful. Its really worth seeing this just to see him starring in a feature length story.

The biggest drawback this has is how bad the whole thing looks. Bad lighting and very uninspired hand held cinematography give the whole thing a murky, grainy feel. The college level production design doesn't really help either. These qualities don't really deter from the hilarity of the film but it is noticeable.

NOTE: This was an advance screening put together by a few different sources and it is by far the strangest and most diverse crowd I have seen a movie with. From early 20 hipster dorks to the three senior citizen women I sat next to the whole gamut of human population was represented here.

NOTE 2: You know how annoying it is when someone pulls out a cell phone in the middle of a movie to send a text message and you get the little white flickering light in the middle of a dark theater? Well, imagine someone sitting in the seat in front of you doing that for the entire running time of the movie. And then imagine that instead of just using one cell phone he was using two. Thats what happened last night.

Former Sopranos producer and director Terence Winter is writing the HBO project Boardwalk Empire, which is being executive produced by Martin Scorsese and produced by Entourage duo Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson. The drama series, which hasn't yet been ordered to pilot, is based on Nelson Johnson's book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City, about Atlantic City's growth from sleepy seaside town to entertainment and gambling mecca. Winter is also working on Scorsese's adaptation of The Wolf of Wall Street and his rock 'n' roll epic The Long Play.

Brian DePalma, who I think is somewhat overrated but always interesting, will direct The Boston Stranglers. The movie, an adaptation of Susan Kelly's nonfiction book The Boston Stranglers: The Public Conviction of Albert DeSalvo and the True Story of Eleven Shocking Murders, is about the early-'60s Boston killings and their controversial resolution — many question whether Albert DeSalvo, a publicity hound who confessed to the murders and was later stabbed to death while incarcerated on unrelated charges, was the actual killer.

I thought this had already been announced and I had posted something about it before but here it is becoming official so I will post it again. Matt Damon will star alongside Morgan Freeman in The Human Factor, the Clint Eastwood-directed movie about the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Damon will play rugby star and South African team captain Francois Pienaar, who along with former South African president Nelson Mandela (Freeman) created an event that gave the country's whites and blacks a common cause to rally around as the country healed from years of apartheid. The film is an adaptation of the John Carlin book The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World. Immediately after the fall of apartheid, when Mandela was finally released from prison and became president, the majority of South Africa's blacks viewed their rugby team as a symbol of exclusion. But with his country set to host the World Cup, Mandela decided to get behind the team, and when the tournament finally started, black citizens were rooting alongside their white countrymen as their team won in overtime against New Zealand to capture the Cup.

A mix made by The Wackness director Jonathan Levine featuring hip hop songs not found in the movie but from the same time period and area as the film is set (1994 New York).

If you missed or skipped (as I did) the MTV Movie Awards you can catch up here in a two minute version, which Hollywood Newsroom says captures all of the quality content. This clip is so horribly edited together though, it makes the shorter version even more painful to sit through.

Ed Helms, who plays Andy on The Office, has landed a role in the comedy Manure, alongside Billy Bob Thornton, and a supporting role in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian. For Manure, which is being directed by Mark and Michael Polish (Northfork), Helms will portray a womanizing manure peddler. The story is about a trio of manure salesmen in 1960s America. Tea Leoni and Kyle MacLachlan are also on board. For Museum 2, Helms plays a co-worker of Ben Stiller's character.

The photo below has nothing to with movies but it's so crazy I wanted to post it. Click here to read the whole story and see why drunk driving and bicycle races don't mix.

Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider-Man 3) is in negotiations to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in the new Terminator movies. Gainsbourg was originally set to play Kate Connor, the wife of John Connor, played by Christian Bale. But the actress exited the project due to scheduling conflicts and good taste.

Judd Apatow has told MTV Movies what his third directorial effort will focus on and that it will be a more dramatic and less broad then his other work.

He's one of the brightest bulbs in the comedy firmament, but if you miss a punch line in the newest Judd Apatow film, the still-untitled "Adam Sandler Project," don't worry, co-star Seth Rogen told MTV News: There will be a lot more to come. No, we seriously mean a lot.

"[The plot will center on] stand-up comedians," Rogen revealed at Friday's screening of "Pineapple Express," where he was on hand to close out MTV's first-ever Sneak Peek Week.

Apatow, Sandler, Rogen and Leslie Mann in a comedy club? It's a setup Rogen called "hilarious by default." So what's not to like?

"I've got to write an act again. It's been a long time. I haven't done stand-up in, like, 10 years. Even more," Sandler said. "That's why I want to kill Judd Apatow right now. I was so much happier doing nothing!"

For the 41-year-old star of "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," who will be named MTV's fourth-ever Generation Award winner Sunday night at the MTV Movie Awards, accepting the role of a stand-up comedian means having to do something he hasn't done in, well, a generation.

And if you're lucky enough to be at the right comedy club this summer, you can join in the misery, Sandler teased.

"You will see me bomb for 15 minutes and walk off [the stage] and punch Judd," Sandler joked of his plans to return to the hot lights of L.A. comedy clubs.

But while the two main characters are both comics, the overarching tone of the movie won't be entirely comical, Sandler cautioned, calling the film "pretty heartbreaking" in parts.

"It's very, very funny. [Me and] my friends who have read the script, all of us were baffled how funny it is," Sandler said. "But there's a lot of stuff going on in the movie."

Indeed, his film about comics might be the most "adult" thing he's ever written, Apatow told MTV News back in March.

"It's a comedy, but it has more drama in it. A hilarious drama is what I'm going for," Apatow said. "Every movie, I'm trying to find a way to go deeper, to tell stories about subjects that are important and make them less and less broad while making them equally as funny. [This film is] another step in that progression.