Gem Wheeler Jan 12, 2017
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone are comedy trio The Lonely Island. Here are just some of their finest songs and sketches...
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping was – yep, it’s time to call it - the funniest film of 2016. For those who blinked a little too long and didn’t catch it on its brief appearance in UK cinemas, the DVD release is your chance to find out what you’ve missed: a hilarious parody of current pop music’s excesses that blends acerbic criticism of predatory gossip shows and social media mobs with a sweet story of three feuding rappers struggling to mend their friendship. The fact that this touching tale also features Seal fending off a pack of wolves, Justin Timberlake dressed as a fish, and a bagpiper playing a lament at a beloved pet turtle’s Viking-inspired funeral comes as no surprise...
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone are comedy trio The Lonely Island. Here are just some of their finest songs and sketches...
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping was – yep, it’s time to call it - the funniest film of 2016. For those who blinked a little too long and didn’t catch it on its brief appearance in UK cinemas, the DVD release is your chance to find out what you’ve missed: a hilarious parody of current pop music’s excesses that blends acerbic criticism of predatory gossip shows and social media mobs with a sweet story of three feuding rappers struggling to mend their friendship. The fact that this touching tale also features Seal fending off a pack of wolves, Justin Timberlake dressed as a fish, and a bagpiper playing a lament at a beloved pet turtle’s Viking-inspired funeral comes as no surprise...
- 1/11/2017
- Den of Geek
Each month, we turn our spotlight onto the unsung artists behind the biggest new movie releases. Last month we highlighted David Koepp, co-writer of Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit. This month it’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller, co-writers and co-directors of The Lego Movie.
The pages of Hollywood history are littered with stories of success borne of versatility, and the tale of Phil Lord and Chris Miller is no exception. This dynamic duo met as students at Dartmouth College and took an introductory course in animation. They both began to create animated shorts that were successful at a range of small festivals, such as The New England Film and Video Festival. This love of artistic storytelling led to jobs developing Saturday morning cartoons for Disney. Quickly outgrowing that brand, their move to developing primetime animation for Touchstone Television gave rise to their first high profile project, Clone High.
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The pages of Hollywood history are littered with stories of success borne of versatility, and the tale of Phil Lord and Chris Miller is no exception. This dynamic duo met as students at Dartmouth College and took an introductory course in animation. They both began to create animated shorts that were successful at a range of small festivals, such as The New England Film and Video Festival. This love of artistic storytelling led to jobs developing Saturday morning cartoons for Disney. Quickly outgrowing that brand, their move to developing primetime animation for Touchstone Television gave rise to their first high profile project, Clone High.
Developed in...
- 2/6/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
If Tegan and Sara joined forces with the Lonely Island, we'd have Tegan and Sara and Andy and Jorma and Akiva. Or just a theme song to The Lego Movie, called "Everything is Awesome!!!" (Yes, that's three exclamation points.) The Lonely Island boys prove that they can take their dicks out of the proverbial box and be family-friendly, rhyming about their perfect day: "Riding scooters in the park / Getting home for it's dark." Pretty Awesometown, if you ask us.
- 1/20/2014
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
I will admit, I have been a huge fan of Andy Samberg for a long time now. Even before SNL launched his star into the stratosphere, I was obsessed with a pilot for a show called Awesometown on Fox, that featured Samberg and his Lonely Island buddies doing sketches and musical bits. It was insane, [&hellip
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- 9/27/2013
- by Remy Carreiro
- TVovermind.com
After spending the last seven years focused solely on features, comedy writers-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are returning to television with a three-year pod deal at 20th Century Fox TV. Under the pact, made in a competitive situation, the duo, who have background in both live-action and animated comedy, will develop live action and animation series for network and cable under their Lord Miller banner. They will write and direct their own projects and also supervise other writers. With the deal, Lord and Miller are picking up where they left off in TV, reuniting with the studio where they were based just before leaving for features, working on 20th TV series How I Met Your Mother and Jake In Progress and pilots Awesometown, untitled Phil Hendrie, and Luis. “They’ve really grown up,” 20th TV chairman Gary Newman said. “We used to think of them as young guys with wildly inventive ideas.
- 5/1/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
We already know that Sam Worthington and James Cameron are heading back to Pandora for two more "Avatar" movies, but that won't necessarily be the last — or even the first — sci-fi collaboration between the two of these talents.
The Hollywood Reporter informs us that Cameron, Worthington, "Transformers" producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and writer Will Staples are teaming together to create "Myth," a project that has no further details beyond the fact that "it's big, it's sci-fi, and it's got lots of action." Cameron is not expected to direct, and at this point, it's even unclear that Worthington will star in the film — though one can certainly hope!
Though Worthington's casting in "Myth" remains unconfirmed, there's plenty of other new cast additions going on in Hollywood today. Check them all out past the jump!
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The Hollywood Reporter informs us that Cameron, Worthington, "Transformers" producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and writer Will Staples are teaming together to create "Myth," a project that has no further details beyond the fact that "it's big, it's sci-fi, and it's got lots of action." Cameron is not expected to direct, and at this point, it's even unclear that Worthington will star in the film — though one can certainly hope!
Though Worthington's casting in "Myth" remains unconfirmed, there's plenty of other new cast additions going on in Hollywood today. Check them all out past the jump!
Fox And Harris Go To 'War'
Two more actors are joining the fight against the zombies in "World War Z,...
- 6/15/2011
- by Josh Wigler
- MTV Movies Blog
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