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2005 to 2012 was very much a golden era for "Saturday Night Live", and a big part of that can be credited to Andy Samberg. He and his "Lonely Island" crew, made up of Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, brought the show into the digital age. They made digital shorts a cornerstone of modern "SNL," and they've cursed the new "Please Don't Destroy" trio to forever live in their shadow.

While Samberg was most famous for his digital material, he still showed up constantly in live sketches throughout his tenure. My personal favorite is his Larry the Goose, a "Weekend Update" recurring character who doesn't think the Miracle on the Hudson in 2009 was a miracle at all:

But despite Samberg being such an important cast member during his seven seasons on the show, in 2012 he officially called it quits. He departed at the end of season 37, a year after his fellow "Lonely...

Finding a good movie to watch on Amazon Prime Video can be difficult to say the least. While Amazon’s robust library of titles is available to every Amazon Prime subscriber, they don’t exactly make it easy to find what you’re looking for. That’s where we come in. Below, we’ve assembled a growing list of the best movies on Amazon Prime right now. Our carefully curated selection runs the gamut from crowd-pleasing blockbusters to Oscar-winning dramas to delightful rom-coms and beyond. There’s a little something for everyone, so stop the endless scrolling and simply choose one of these great movies to watch.

Check out our list of the best movies on Amazon Prime video below. The list will be updated weekly with new titles.

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Rip Digman is almost back, and this time, he's bringing a lot of new friends to Comedy Central. Over 15 guest stars are unearthed in the new Collider-exclusive trailer for Season 2 of Digman!, the animated adventure comedy co-created, produced by, and starring Andy Samberg, which imagines an alternate reality where archaeologists are big-shot celebrities beloved around the world. While Season 1 didn't lack for comedic firepower with Harvey Guillén, Jason Schwartzman, and Maya Rudolph among its ranks, the Brooklyn Nine-Nine star is returning to television with a motherload of stars from Marvel's Thunderbolts*, Star Wars, Only Murders in the Building, and much more. Their voices will be heard in a few short weeks when Digman and his companions continue their adventures starting July 9.

At the beginning of the trailer, the focus is on Samberg and his returning Digman! pals. While he'll once again be voicing the washed-up Rip with a Nicolas Cage-inspired accent,...

Netflix is reportedly looking to embark on a brand-new expedition to the Land of the Lost after closing a deal with Legendary Television, the studio behind Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and HBO epic Dune: Prophecy, to bring the beloved property back to the small screen. The project is said to be in the very early stages of development, with the plan being to reboot the cult-classic sci-fi series, which aired for three seasons on CBS from 1974 to 1976, following the adventures of the Marshall family in a strange, pre-historic world.

The original series was created by David Gerrold and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft, who co-developed the popular Saturday morning children's show with Allan Foshko. Marty died in 2023, but his brother Sid, together with Marty's daughter, Deanna Krofft, who is the VP of Development and Production at their company, will reportedly produce Netflix's new take on the Land of the Lost.

It appears that Marshall, Will and Holly will once again be embarking on a routine expedition that instead leads them to the la-annnnd of the lo-o-o-ossst!

Netflix in partnership with Legendary TV is in the “very early stages” of developing a reboot of the cheese-tastic 1970s cult classic Land of the Lost, Deadline and others are reporting.

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Netflix is ready to plunge into a classic science-fiction adventure with a reboot of Sid and Marty Krofft’s 1974 TV series Land of the Lost. According to Deadline, the streamer is joining forces with Sid and Marty Krofft’s production company and Marty’s daughter, Deanna Krofft Pope, VP of Development and Production at their studio, to bring the beloved property back to small screens. Deadline says the Land of the Lost reboot is in its “very early stages” of development, with the search for a writer alive and well.

1974’s Land of the Lost revolves around a father, Rick Marshall (Spencer Milligan), and his two children, Will Marshall (Wesley Eure) and Holly Marshall (Kathy Coleman), who accidentally travel through a portal to a bizarre land populated by dinosaurs, lizard people, and other dangerous creatures that would sooner have them for dinner than let them discover a way to get home.

Exclusive: Netflix is looking to remake another classic TV series. The streamer has closed a deal with Legendary Television for Land of the Lost, a reboot of Sid and Marty Krofft’s 1974 sci-fi adventure show, Deadline has learned.

Sid and Marty Krofft as well as Marty’s daughter Deanna Krofft Pope, who is COO at their company, will produce the project, which is in very early stages, sources said. Search is underway for a writer. Reps for Netflix and Legendary TV declined comment.

Land of the Lost centers on a father, Rick, and his two children who accidentally go through a portal and find themselves trapped in a world inhabited by dinosaurs, including a Tyrannosaurus rex they nickname Grumpy; primate-like people named Pakuni, one of whom, Cha-Ka, they befriend; and reptilian humanoids called Sleestak.

Land of the Lost originated as a children’s series which aired on NBC Saturday mornings...

Even when they are released in theaters, some movies still end up falling through the cracks of the public consciousness. It is only inevitable that some would, therefore, experience the same fate on streaming. Netflix, in particular, has a library full of underseen, underrated movies, most of which are not as actively promoted to users by the streamer or its algorithm as others.

A lot of those films deserve to be on subscribers’ radars, even if they have so far flown under them, so here are seven great hidden gem movies streaming on Netflix in June.

“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” (Paramount Pictures) “Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” (2023)

“Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” is, like directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley’s 2018 comedy “Game Night,” a refreshingly clever, funny and likable film. An ingenious mash-up of a heist thriller, fantasy adventure and “Monty Python”-esque comedy,...

Stars: Bill Allen, Bart Conner, Talia Shire, Jack Weston, Lori Loughlin, Ray Walston | Written by Sam Bernard, Geoffrey Edwards | Directed by Hal Needham

There are many films that revolve around biking. Some of the most entertaining film would have to Breaking Away (1979), BMX Bandits (1983), American Flyers (1985) and Turbo Kid (2015). But there is another film that focuses on a BMX bike, a race and a kid with big dreams. That film is 1986’s Rad.

The film Rad is coming up on its epic 40th anniversary. So, for this amazing anniversary, there needs to be a just as amazing release. Enter Mill Creek Entertainment, that have released a wonderful looking Blu-ray perfect for cult film fanatics.

Cru Jones (Bill Allen) is the best BMX biker in Cochrane. He’s got the talent to become the best BMX daredevil in the world. Bart Taylor (Bart Conner) is the best BMX biker in the world,...

Hulu has picked up an untitled college comedy starring Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo and The Goldbergs alum Sean Giambrone.

Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher (known as the comedy duo BriTANicK) wrote and directed the feature that follows a group of college students, who order a pizza to their dorm but due to a bad drug trip, the simple journey down two flights of stairs to retrieve the pizza turns into, according to the logline, “a mind-bendingly transformative quest.”

The film is produced by Jeremy Garelick and Will Phelps of American High, which was behind fellow Hulu features Plan B, Big Time Adolescence and The Binge. All Things Comedy’s Billy Rosenberg also produced, along with Jason Zaro, Max A. Butler and Molle DeBartolo. Matarazzo executive produced.

Saturday Night Live alums McElhaney and Kocher, repped by UTA and Brillstein, most recently wrote the upcoming film Over Your Dead Body directed...

Exclusive: Here’s a pairing you might not have seen coming.

In a highly competitive situation, involving offers from both studios and streamers, Netflix has landed the pitch for a two-hander action comedy to star A Minecraft Movie‘s Jason Momoa and SNL alum Andy Samberg.

We hear the currently untitled film is set in Momoa’s native Hawaii, though further details as to the plot are under wraps. Samberg’s Party Over Here and Momoa’s On The Roam will produce. The script will be written by a pair of highly decorated SNL alums: 11x Emmy nominee Rob Klein and eight-time nominee John Solomon. No word yet on who will direct.

Momoa is riding high on the success of A Minecraft Movie, the Warner Bros/Legendary film which secured the biggest opening ever for a video game adaptation, breathing life into the global box office with a worldwide gross exceeding $948 million.

Seth Meyers is a person who doesn’t seem to have trouble filling his time. He’s been the host of Late Night With Seth Meyers since early 2014. He co-hosts the podcasts Family Trips With The Meyers Brothers with, as you might guess, his brother Josh, and The Lonely Island With Seth Meyers Podcast with, as you might also guess, The Lonely Island. He’s also partially responsible for the care of his three children and an Italian greyhound named Frisbee. Yet a segment of the population can’t stop fantasy-casting him into the role of Saturday Night Live’s next showrunner.

The question of who would succeed creator Lorne Michaels in running SNL has long been a topic of idle speculation. But this year’s celebration of the show’s 50th season has cranked it up several notches, since Michaels himself told Gayle King, back in 2021, that if he...

The Lonely Island very much wanted everybody to look at them when they were on a boat. But at the Grammys? Forget it! When The Lonely Island earned a surprise Grammy nomination for 2009’s “I’m on a Boat”, they had one goal in mind: to lose.

On a recent episode of their namesake podcast with Seth Meyers, the Lonely Island trio of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone sat down to chat about “I’m on a Boat” competing for the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Grammy, in which they were competing against the likes of Jay-Z, Beyoncé and T.I. As Schaffer put it, “I don’t know if anyone’s ever gone to the Grammys hoping to lose more. We were like, if we win, we can’t get on stage. We were only confident enough to go cause we were that sure that we were going to lose…...

Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer know that the Lonely Island’s rap Grammy nod for “I’m on a Boat” with T-Pain might have been a fluke.

On Monday, the trio reflected on their nomination during an episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, sharing that they apologized to T-Pain for not connecting after the song’s nomination, and admitted that the nod may have happened because they’re white boys.

“I don’t know if anyone’s ever gone to the Grammys hoping to lose more,...

The gang on The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast doesn’t mind mixing it up with listeners, especially when it comes to the mysteries of sitcom theme songs. Akiva Schaffer read one such musing last week from a loyal fan of the podcast: “Hi guys, big Frasier fan here. Part of the Crane Train. What part is sadder — the tossed salad or the scrambled eggs? Something to think about.”

The question made Andy Samberg philosophical: “I always imagine the scrambled eggs were left in the pan. It’s like the amount that didn’t get eaten.”

“Right,” agreed Jorma Taccone. “You’re too depressed to eat it.”

“They’re lonely and cold,” Samberg continued. “Whereas the tossed salads… I mean, they’re tossed. They’re exciting. They’re living their best.”

It’s always raining in Seattle, noted Taccone, who imagined rain out the window as the salad and eggs do their thing.

Over the years, Netflix has cultivated a reputation for providing a new lease of life to movies and shows that met with an unfortunate fate initially. While some actors get the second once, for Andy Samberg, the scope of a Netflix revival came twice.

After the streaming giant stood beside Samberg’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine since 2014, Netflix is now reviving the 46-year-old actor’s 2016 box-office disaster, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

When the Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping was released in 2016, it made only $9.7 million after being made on a budget of $20 million. However, over time, the film has gained moderately positive reviews and is now eyeing a second life on Netflix.

Andy Samberg’s Popstar is coming to Netflix nine years after its release

Almost nine years after its initial theatrical release, Andy Samberg’s music comedy has come on Netflix, and the streaming service took to its social media to announce the news.

Exclusive: Prime Video has acquired international rights from XYZ Films to thriller and Cannes sales title Over Your Dead Body (formerly The Trip) starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, and Juliette Lewis.

Jorma Taccone directed from the adapted screenplay by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney based on Tommy Wirkola’s Norwegian cult thriller I Onde Dager. Segel and Weaving play a dysfunctional couple who head to a remote cabin to reconnect, while secretly harbouring plans to kill the other. The cast includes Paul Guilfoyle and Keith Jardine.

The film will receive a wide US theatrical release through Independent Film Company,...

Over Your Dead Body, was was previously titled The Trip, has just been acquired by IFC for a theatrical release. The 87North/XYZ-produced film comes from director Jorma Taccone (MacGruber and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) – and sports an amazing ensemble cast, including Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), Samara Weaving (Ready or Not), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Juliette Lewis (From Dusk Till Dawn), Paul Guilfoyle (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), and retired mixed martial artist Keith Jardine (Godless).

Over Your Dead Body is based on director Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian thriller, I Onde Dager, which starred Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie. The screenplay by Wirkola, John Niven, and Nick Ball has been reworked by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney. The original film had the following synopsis: Eager to end their marriage by murdering each other, a husband and wife head to a remote cabin — but soon find themselves facing an even bigger threat.

Independent Film Company announced today that they have acquired the U.S. rights to thriller Over Your Dead Body (formerly The Trip) directed by Saturday Night Live alumnus and Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone. The film, adapted by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney from the acclaimed Norwegian cult thriller, I Onde Dager, features an all-star lineup including Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine. Independent Film Company is set to release the film wide theatrically.

Over Your Dead Body follows a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.

“Jorma Taccone stands as one of the most creative and reliably brilliant voices in comedy and we are delighted to collaborate with him and our friends at 87North, XYZ, and Resolute Films on Over Your Dead Body,” said Head of IFC Entertainment Group Scott Shooman.

IFC has acquired U.S. rights to Over Your Dead Body (fka The Trip), a new thriller helmed by The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone and starring Jason Segel and Samara Weaving.

The film, adapted from the acclaimed Norwegian cult thriller I Onde Dager, will be released wide in theaters at a date not yet disclosed.

Over Your Dead Body follows a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other. Pic’s cast also includes Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine.

Written by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, the film is produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch; XYZ Films’ Guy Danella, Nick Spicer, abd Aram Tertzakian; and Resolute Films’ Lee Kim. Taccone, Tommy Wirkola, Nate Bolotin, Maxime Cottray,...

In 2021, Tommy Wirkola (Violent Night, Dead Snow) delivered a delightfully deranged and bloody comedic thriller in The Trip, and a new take on the film is now on the way.

It’s titled Over Your Dead Body, with Samara Weaving and Jason Segel starring!

Independent Film Company announced today that they have acquired the U.S. rights to Over Your Dead Body, directed by “Saturday Night Live” alumnus and Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone.

The film, adapted by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney from the acclaimed Norwegian cult thriller, I Onde Dager, features an all-star lineup including Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine.

Independent Film Company is set to release the film wide theatrically.

Over Your Dead Body follows a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.

“Jorma Taccone stands as...

IFC is headed on a couple’s retreat with Jason Segel and Samara Weaving. The indie outfit has taken the United States rights to Over Your Dead Body, a feature following a dysfunctional couple who head to a remote cabin to reconnect, but who secretly have a plan to kill the other.

IFC will give a wide release to the project, with international rights up for grabs at Cannes.

The film hails from Jorma Taccone, the Saturday Night Live alum and member of the Lonely Island comedy trio. He is also known as the filmmaker behind Pop Star: Never Stop Stopping and MacGruber.

Scribes Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney adapted the script from the Norwegian cult thriller Onde Dager. The cast also includes Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle and Keith Jardine.

Stunt-heavy shingle 87North, run by David Leitch and Kelly McCormick, will produce with XYZ and Resolute Films.

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A leaked promo for Kung Fury 2 just dropped online, and it’s as wild as it sounds. One of the most shocking moments? Arnold Schwarzenegger riding a dinosaur! Yes, you read that right.

Kung Fury 2, also known as Kung Fury: The Movie, is the long-awaited follow-up to the 2015 short film Kung Fury. The original film was a crazy, over-the-top tribute to 1980s sci-fi action movies and became a viral hit. Now, the feature-length sequel promises to be even more outrageous.

The film is written, directed by, and stars David Sandberg. It also features big names like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Fassbender, Alexandra Shipp, David Hasselhoff, and Jorma Taccone. While the movie has been delayed for years due to legal issues over visual effects, this leaked clip has fans buzzing.

The promo video leaked last week and was confirmed as real by Sandberg himself. In the clip, you can see:...

Sometimes the world hands you lemons, and sometimes it hands you Arnold Schwarzenegger riding a dinosaur while fighting Nazis. Now, you might be wondering where this ridiculous yet oddly entertaining notion sprouted from. Well, some films make you think. Some make you cry. And then there’s Kung Fury 2: a cinematic roundhouse kick to the brain that cares little for permission, logic, or linear storytelling.

It’s been a long decade of radio silence since this neon-soaked fever dream, helmed by David Sandberg, vanished into a labyrinth of lawsuits. But now, thanks to a leaked 10-minute footage, the chaos has been unleashed… and it’s even more unhinged than anyone expected.

Note that the footage was mysteriously uploaded by an anonymous YouTube user. Variety confirmed its legitimacy, and director-star David Sandberg admitted it contains unfinished VFX and spoilers. But who cares? Here are five things we have learned from this mind-melting preview.

Fans were able to get a look at Michael Fassbender in costume for Kung Fury 2, several years after he first signed on for the movie.

Per Variety, a sizzle reel from the unreleased Kung Fury 2 has been leaked online. The video has since been taken down due to a copyright claim. The 10-minute promo opened to a cluttered attic space before a VHS tape flies into frame, replete with lightning effects and an epic synth riff before cutting away to a fantastical, day-glow cityscape replete with anthropomorphic dinosaurs and all manner of over-the-top warriors, including David Sandberg in a reprisal of his role as Kung Fury. The promo also includes a sneak peek at Michael Fassbender as Kung Fury's new partner, Colt Magnum, as well as the return of Jorma Taccone as Adolf Hitler, aka the Kung Führer.

“This was an internal promo video that was never supposed...

“Kung Fury” was the fevered dream of Swedish filmmaker David Sandberg, who crowd-sourced a wild genre-bending short film take on the cop action film by throwing all sorts of insane elements, including Vikings, dinosaurs, time-travel, and a kung fu-trained satirical version of Adolph Hitler played by Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone. And over the weekend, high-resolution footage from the long-wrapped “Kung Fury 2” that features Michael Fassbender (“Black Bag”), Alexandra Shipp (“X-Men: Apocalypse”), David Hasselhoff, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the President of the United States made its way online in the form of a 10-minute sizzle reel.

Continue reading ‘Kung Fury 2’ Sizzle Reel: Michael Fassbender & Arnold Schwarzenegger Star In Leaked Footage From Absurdist Comedy at The Playlist.

"I eat lions every goddamn day. If you're not prepared to do the same, then you hang up that hat, walk out that door, and you never come back..." Hell yes - I want to watch this! Some of you will remember a badass short (at 30 mins!) film from 2015 called Kung Fury, made by Swedish filmmaker David Sandberg (no relation to Shazam! director David F. Sandberg). This was his own big project and it was a huge hit when it launched online - watch here. In 2018 he started development on a full-length feature version called Kung Fury: The Movie or Kung Fury 2. He was somehow able to wrangle up Michael Fassbender, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and David Hasselhoff for the cast, and shot the film in 2019. But after legal troubles and other setbacks, the pandemic kicked in and the film has been stuck in release limbo. Word is that it's finished...

Update: The leaked footage has been taken down via a copyright claim from Hammerstone Studios.Where were you the first time you learned about the short film Kung Fury? A man using martial arts to take on Adolf Hitler (Jorma Taccone)? We're invested. The very odd and exciting short film, directed by David Sandberg, was littered with 80s references, looked like a bad video game, and has become one of those things we all pass around like the VHS from The Ring. Now, the long-hidden footage of Kung Fury 2 has been leaked and it is as glorious as you'd think.

The sequel was shut down during post-production and the new 10-minute sizzle reel for the film was posted anonymously on YouTube. Variety confirmed with the filmmakers that it is legitimate footage from the film. The other time something like this has happened (and worked) was when footage of Deadpool...

Netflix subscribers can no longer stream one of the best Spider-Man films ever made, which was available on the platform up until April. However, this is good news for fans of the web-slinger who are subscribed to Disney+.

As of May 1, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now streaming on Disney+ after making the jump from Netflix. This means that almost every Spider-Man films is available to stream on Disney+, though there are two major titles still missing. This includes Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the predecessor to Across the Spider-Verse. The hit crossover film Spider-Man: No Way Home, which followed Tom Holland's Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, is also yet to be made available on Disney+.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was directed by the team of Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson. It was written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Dave Callaham. Shameik Moore...

XYZ Films has hired former 87North and Studio 8 executive Guy Danella as its President of Film.

The company has said Danella will be tasked with acquiring and producing a slate of high-end genre films geared for the theatrical market.

Danella was most recently an executive at David Leitch’s 87North Films, where he produced such films as Universal’s Violent Night, Love Hurts starring Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, and The Trip directed by Jorma Taccone and starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, and Juliette Lewis. The Trip is a remake of the Norwegian film I Onde Dager and is currently in post-production. XYZ films financed both I Onde Dager and the remake.

Before that, Danella was a partner at Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8, working on titles such as Apple’s Instigators, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, and Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic. He also served as the SVP of Production...

Guy Danella has been named president of film at XYZ Films, overseeing theatrical production and acquisition. Danella’s previous producing credits include Love Hurts starring Ke Huy Quan and Violent Night starring David Harbour, both released through Universal Pictures.

Danella’s first project with XYZ is The Trip, a remake of Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian thriller Onde Dager, originally financed by XYZ. The story follows a married couple retreating to a remote cabin under the pretense of saving their marriage. Both secretly plan to kill the other before unexpected visitors arrive. Jorma Taccone directs the adaptation, which features Juliette Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Jason Segel, and Samara Weaving. The film is in post-production.

Danella said he has long admired XYZ’s global genre productions. “XYZ has worked across genres with filmmakers worldwide and made some of my favorite films over the last decade plus,” he said. “I am excited to join...

XYZ Films has hired former 87North and Studio 8 executive Guy Danella to the new position of president of film to lead a slate of high-end theatrical genre films.

Danella will oversee acquiring and producing films. The roster includes Jorma Taccone’s The Trip starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, and Juliette Lewis, which is in post and is the English-language remake of Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian action comedy I Onde Dager. XYZ Films produces with David Leitch’s 87North and is financing, as it did on the original.

The collaboration was instrumental in XYZ Films bringing in Danella.

Guy Danella has been named the new president of film at XYZ Films, tasked with heading up theatrical production and acquisition at the genre specialist.

Danella’s production credits include the Ke Huy Quan actioner Love Hurts and Tommy Wirkola’s Violent Night, starring David Harbour, both Universal Pictures releases. He will kick off his XYZ slate with The Trip, an adaptation of Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian thriller Onde Dager, which XYZ financed.

The film follows a dysfunctional couple who head to a remote cabin, ostensibly to try and rescue their marriage. But both have secret plans to kill the other. Before they can do anything, unexpected visitors arrive, putting them both in greater danger. Jorma Taccone is directing the remake, which stars Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Juliette Lewis and Timothy Olyphant, . The film is currently in post-production.

“XYZ has continually broken ground across all genres with filmmakers across the globe...

There was once a time when any and all repeat Saturday Night Live characters stood a pretty good chance of landing their own movie, from Wayne and Garth, to the Ladies Man, to the controversial Pat. Even a sketch that was about mute cokeheads groping women in nightclubs to the sounds of Haddaway was somehow turned into a feature film.

But there hasn’t been an official SNL movie since 2010’s MacGruber — not just because the cult favorite was a box-office flop, but also because the movie industry has drastically changed since the ‘90s. And as MovieWeb once pointed out, in the 2000s, SNL’s breakout stars, such as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, successfully launched post-SNL careers on television, rather than on the big screen.

Will we ever get another SNL movie? At one point in the recent past, there was talk of making a movie focused on Bill Hader’s Stefon,...

Actors in comedies are frequently called upon to sacrifice themselves on the altar of dignity to bring a gag to life. In Will Forte's 2010 SNL-original comedy MacGruber, several of these ego-killer visual gags are on full display - such as Forte's celery distraction scene, an image forever emblazoned on most viewers' minds. But in a movie rife with silly bits and crude jokes, there was one joke that the late Val Kilmer, who played the dastardly villain Dieter Von Cunth, refused to do.

In a recent appearance on The Lonley Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, MacGruber director Jorma Taccone recalled making the film and where the Top Gun star drew the line on what he was willing to do for comedy:

"There was one joke, though, that he refused to do. We did want to cut his penis off and shove it in his mouth. That was...

Writer-director Jorma Taccone discusses his bizarre first meeting with Hollywood icon and MacGruberstar Val Kilmer.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Taccone recently recalled driving out to Malibu to meet Kilmer at his home for a conversation about his role as the villainous Dieter Von Cunth in 2010's MacGruber feature film. "I go in the house, and he's on the balcony...throwing these little chips or something into the ocean, and he's going, 'Are you a king? Are you a king?' I was like, 'What? What?' And he comes back into the room. He's turned away from me. And he comes back into the room, and he starts tossing these little paper chips at me...and I'm like, 'What are these?"

"And I started looking at them, and it takes me, like, a couple minutes to figure out that he was invited to Mardi Gras that year to play King Bacchus,...

Brad Silberling's 2009 film "Land of the Lost" was a feature-length spoof of the 1974 NBC adventure series co-created by Sid & Marty Krofft. The Krofft shows of the '70s and '80s were all fantasy programs that typically centered on parallel universes, fun puppets, and wild monster costumes. 

Their "Land of the Lost," which ran for 43 episodes over its three seasons, was the Kroffts' headiest, least comedic series. It followed the adventures of Rick (Spencer Milligan) and his kids Will (Wesley Eure) and Holly (Kathy Coleman) as they accidentally crash through a dimensional portal while whitewater rafting. They arrived in a prehistoric world overrun by dinosaurs and a species of Sasquatch-like protohumans called Pakuni. There are also wicked, threatening humanoid reptiles in this universe called Sleestaks who live in a series of underground chambers. There are magical crystals in the caves, as well as mysterious obelisks that may have the...

"Top Gun" star Tom Cruise has a memorable big screen history with Val Kilmer. Not only did the two actors rise to fame in the 1980s, but they played rivals in the blockbuster air combat film that would eventually result in a sequel that gave them a heartfelt reunion. That sequel also served as a fond farewell for Kilmer, who had been suffering from throat cancer but still managed to make a wonderful appearance in "Top Gun: Maverick," where his previously cocky character Tom "Iceman" Kazansky was suffering from the same ailment as Kilmer in real life, eventually dying in the movie years before Kilmer would actually pass away in 2025.

However, Cruise and Kilmer almost had a much different "Top Gun" reunion on the small screen over two decades earlier, thanks to "Saturday Night Live."

In a recent episode of "The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast," which is a must-listen for fans of "SNL,...

Give the late Val Kilmer credit for good taste and common sense. While Kilmer was an extremely good sport while making the MacGruber movie, explained director Jorma Taccone on a recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, there was one extreme gag that he refused to do. “We did want to cut his penis off and shove it in his mouth,” Taccone confessed. “That was the one joke that he did not want to do.”

That was “especially a good decision on his part,” noted Meyers.

The Late Night host couldn’t believe Kilmer would do the role at all. “I think not only would 85 percent of actors not want to play a character named Peter von Cunth,” Meyers said, “I think probably 99 percent of agents don’t want to call their clients and say, ‘Hey, there’s a part I think you’re perfect for.”

Taccone was shocked as well.

Jack Black is set to host Saturday Night Live this weekend for the first time in nearly 20 years, and his fourth time overall. Tenacious D also served as the show’s musical guest in a 2006 episode, but presumably that won’t count toward a Five-Timers Club jacket.

Black’s last hosting effort was pretty solid. Memorably, he kicked off the show by belting out his unused tie-in song for Peter Jackson’s King Kong, which eventually devolved into a series of musical confessions about how he can’t actually read and once peed in Jackson’s coffee pot during the production.

This particular episode also happened to feature one of the most significant moments in SNL’s history.

Sandwiched between a sketch about TV news anchors and a performance from musical guest Neil Young came the second-ever SNL Digital Short: “Lazy Sunday,” which found Chris Parnell and new cast member...

Movie legend Val Kilmer passed away yesterday at the age of 65, but his memory will live on in the hearts of the dozens of comedy fans who saw MacGruber in theaters.

The 2010 action/comedy MacGruber, based on the Saturday Night Live sketch by the same name, may have been a total flop at the box office, failing to even earn back its $10 million budget, but at least it earned the scorn of the critical community to match its commercial failure. As it turns out, neither moviegoers nor movie reviewers at the time had any interest in seeing a profane, illogical and hilariously dated feature-length adaptation of an overdone SNL sketch that parodied a TV show that had been off the air for nearly 20 years. However, MacGruber’s titular star Will Forte and his onscreen nemesis Kilmer didn’t give a cut-off dick about what anyone else thought of their glorious turd of a comedy masterpiece.

While many of Saturday Night Live’s Digital Shorts involved innocent boat trips and The Chronicles of Narnia, some were quite risqué, such as “Dick in a Box,” the recent “Sushi Glory Hole,” and the one in which Tom Hanks begged people not to mutilate his testicles through song.

But the filthiest Digital Short of all time may have been 2008’s “Jizz in My Pants,” the music video starring The Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone as two suave guys who can’t help but prematurely ejaculate — whether it’s because they’re making out with a hot stranger at a club, or simply finding out that Bruce Willis was a ghost at the end of The Sixth Sense.

If you’re surprised that this bodily fluid-filled sketch made it to the air, well, so are the guys who made it.

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Every now and then, a true cinematic classic flies so far under the radar that its destiny to become a cult favorite is clear right from the start. Such was the case with the 2016 mockumentary musical comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which stars Saturday Night Live alumnus and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg as Conner "Kid Conner" Friel, a pop star struggling to go solo after being part of the rap group phenomenon The Style Boyz.

Grossly missed by many upon release, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping has now landed on Prime Video, and we urge you to either discover or rediscover this modern comedy masterpiece. Directed by The Lonely Island members Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone and written by and starring fellow The Lonely Island member Andy Samberg, as well as Taccone, and Schaffer, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping was co-produced by Judd Apatow and Rodney Rothman.

1982’s Diner was the comedy that dared to ask: What if some dudes hung out in a greasy spoon restaurant and just talked about stuff?

The movie starred Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin and Paul Reiser, just to name a few. It followed a group of friends in the late ‘50s who routinely meet at the local diner to chat about the music, sex and the minutiae of their day-to-day lives.

While that concept may not sound all that novel today, at the time, it was so unusual for mainstream entertainment, that some found it tough to grasp. According to writer-director Barry Levinson, during the editing process, a studio executive tried to get him to cut an argument over a roast beef sandwich because it didn’t do anything to “advance the story.”

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Will Forte has looked back at his Saturday Night Live spinoff MacGruber bombing at the box office. The 2010 comedy infamously debuted to harsh reviews and subsequently underperformed at financially as well.

MacGruber was based on Forte's recurring SNL sketches in which he played a MacGyver-like hero whose attempts to diffuse dangerous situations almost always failed miserably. Despite the movie being packed with SNL stars – including Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph – the project's failure was seen as a black mark on Forte's potential as a movie star.

Will Forte Reflects on MacGruber's failure

Forte candidly reflected on MacGruber's failure during a recent interview with Ted Danson on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast (via Entertainment Weekly). He admitted that the project bombing was particularly hurtful since it came out only a week after SNL's triumphant season finale.

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Thankfully, Will Forte didn’t have to beg some fellow SNL alumni to help him get his career back on track after the failure of MacGruber. We all know what he gets like when he starts begging.

On paper, the 2010 feature film adaptation of a Lorne-Michaels-beloved SNL character had all of the makings of a blockbuster: MacGruber was a movie parody of a TV show that hadn’t been on the air in 18 years at the time of release, a YouTuber who had never shot anything much longer than “I’m on a Boat” wrote and directed the film and, most promisingly, MacGruber was an R-rated comedy that released on the exact same night as the fourth Shrek movie. MacGruber had everything going for it, but, on a $10 million budget, it somehow failed to even hit eight figures at the box office, and it landed near the top of the...

In addition to his decades of TV work on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Charlie Day has had a pretty solid movie career. He got to help fight giant monsters in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, plotted the murder of Jennifer Aniston in Horrible Bosses and voiced Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

He also did something in Louis C.K.’s creepy movie that we’re not totally sure about because it was never released and all existing copies were buried in New Mexico next to all the E.T. Atari games, we assume.

Day also came close to starring in a promising buddy comedy, produced by Adam Sandler’s company Happy Madison, along with Andy Samberg. Until one fateful table read, that is.

On the most recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Samberg and his co-hosts fielded a voicemail question from Steve Agee, who...

Alright, just hear me out. Will Ferrell hit it big with SNL and has made some true classics such as Elf, Stranger Than Fiction, and Anchorman. While that phase of his career was all great and polished, the style of his sometimes crass and all-time dumb humor hit its pinnacle in the mid and late 2000s and 2010s with films like Step Brothers and Talladega Nights.

Taking characters who were fringe personality types was a masterstroke from Ferrell. He did the same, but on a much larger and disastrous scale, with the adventure comedy Land of the Lost. It was a box office bomb and received only negative reviews from critics but I feel it is still hilarious when you look at it through the right lens.

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It was a massively star-studded affair at the SNL50: The Anniversary Special on Sunday evening (February 16) held at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Saturday Night Live celebrated it’s 50th anniversary with hundreds of stars who have appeared on the show over the years.

From music stars like Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter and Cher, to actors like Ayo Edebiri, Emma Stone and Anya Taylor-Joy.

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The late-night sketch show’s special featured many returning sketches, with past and present SNL cast members reprising their characters, and even several celebrities who have hosted reprising their characters!

We have gathered every celebrity, cast member and more’s looks from the red carpet and you can see over 200 below…

Abby Elliott

Adam & Jackie Sandler

Adria Arjona & Jason Momoa

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Alex & Hilaria Baldwin

Alex Moffat & Caroline Kingsley Moffat

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Kicking off with a tribute to the Blues Brothers from the evening’s host Jimmy Fallon, last night’s “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert” pulled out all the stops in celebrating the show’s rich musical history, as well as the influence music has had on its comedy. And though Fallon made sure to start the affair at Radio City Music Hall by pointing out that everyone in the room had some form of connection to “Saturday Night Live” and were not there as casual spectators, watching at home, its clear the production worked hard to place fans of the staple variety series right at the the center of the action as well.

The first singer of the evening was Miley Cyrus. After a rendition of Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” accompanied by The Roots (they served as the house band for the evening) and Brittany Howard, Cyrus gave...