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Cory Michael Smith, known for playing Edward Nygma/Riddler in the Gotham TV series, had never starred in a comedy movie until now. The actor, who also appeared in Olive Kitteridge and May December, will play comedy legend Chevy Chase in the new Saturday Night film, which chronicles the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Smith recently spoke with Vanity Fair about being cast in the role.

Yeah, this could have gone really wrong when I was first offered this job, Smith told the publication. During the process of auditioning, I didnt see it. I didnt have the confidence that I was the best person for this, but Im always down to take a swing for things that are cool, he said. He added that the part might actually be the end of my comedy career and the role felt like a real risk.

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In today’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo puts on his “investigative reporter of some repute” hat and talks about Miramax’s latest release, “Confess, Fletch,” with the director Greg Mottola and star Jon Hamm. In the film, Fletch (Hamm) finds himself as the prime suspect in a murder investigation, requiring him to revive his own investigative skills in order to track down the real murderer and his new girlfriend’s art collection.

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In a viral ad for their all-electric Chevy Silverado directed by the creator of The Sopranos himself David Chase, actress Jaime-Lynn Sigler, who played Meadow Soprano, helms a reimagining of the show’s iconic opening title sequence which showed her character’s father Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) driving from Manhattan to New Jersey to the tune of “Woke Up […]

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Some people move on. But not "Supernatural" fans.

It has been 15 years since Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) began saving people and hunting monsters in their '67 Chevy Impala. They killed vampires and werewolves, confronted Lucifer, and participated in an epic showdown against God himself. After what felt like an eternity, the long-running series finally came to an end in late 2020, offering a conclusion to Sam and Dean's story. I'm not entirely sure if I loved it or hated it, but I do know this: for a show that has been killing its main characters every year, the "Supernatural" finale sure knew...

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Tim McGraw will release two deluxe versions of his 2020 album Here on Earth, expanded with new songs and music videos. Here on Earth Ultimate Edition and Ultimate Video Edition will be available April 16th and both include the previously unreleased song “God Moves the Pen.”

The Ultimate Edition of Here on Earth features six new tracks, including the Tyler Hubbard collaboration “Undivided” and “God Moves the Pen.” McGraw’s film soundtrack songs “Keep Your Eyes on Me” with Faith Hill (from The Shack) and “Gravity” (from Free Solo) have also been added as a bonus.

Tim McGraw has announced plans for his new album Here on Earth, his first solo release in nearly five years. The project, which reunites him with previous label home Big Machine, is due out August 21st and includes the soaring title track, released on Friday.

“Here on Earth,” penned by Jessie Joe Dillon, Chase McGill, Jon Nite, is a big anthem about finding a purpose on earth and running with it. “It’s like we’ve opened our eyes/For the very first time/When we find out why/We’re here on earth,...

After launching films that follow up a cult classic, indulge in post-breakdown Charlie Sheen, and feature digital stars like Jc Caylen, Crackle has now picked up a flick led by Chevy Chase. It has joined forced with Boundless Pictures for Federal Offense, a comedy that will star Chase.

In Federal Offense, Chase will play a filterless grandpa who abets three twenty-somethings as they run from the long arm of the law. Connor Martin will serve as the film's scribe.

“From the very first moment we read the script, we knew Crackle was the right home for this project,” stated Crackle Svp of programming of development John Orlando. “Boundless Pictures and Connor Martin are the right team to create a hilarious and fresh comedy that our viewers have come to expect. Not to mention that Chevy is the icing on the cake!”

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From the moment that “Dog Years” begins, the question isn’t if Burt Reynolds is playing a thinly veiled version of himself, but rather why? The aging, hobbled, and financially insecure Hollywood icon stars as Vic Edwards, an aging, hobbled, and financially insecure Hollywood icon.

And lest there be any confusion about the central conceit of this sweet-natured but fatally half-realized meta-drama about growing old and giving up, writer-director Adam Rifkin (“Detroit Rock City”) introduces his fictional hero with footage from one of Reynolds’ vintage talk show appearances, dubbing over the real actor’s name with that of his latest character.

The message comes through loud and clear: Burt Reynolds is communing with his past and coming to grips with the images that continue to haunt him, but he’s also adding one more (or one last) character to his wrinkled body of work. Unfortunately, while either one of those...

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New York City – Taking a well-deserved one more turn around the block, the legendary Burt Reynolds was at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival representing his new film “Dog Years,” directed by Adam Rifkin, and co-starring Chevy Chase and Ariel Winter. The director and three stars were joined on the Red Carpet by festival co-founder Robert De Niro.

“Dog Years” is semi-autobiographical for Reynolds, as he portrays an 80 year old actor who was once one of the biggest stars in movie history. Attending a Nashville film festival retrospective, he is assigned a reticent escort/driver (Winter), and they end up taking a road trip to Knoxville for one last hurrah. The film uses archival footage of Reynold’s actual film career.

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Chevy Chase is joining the hallowed Hollywood ranks of older thespians inhabiting the role of an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed grandfather. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor will star in Federal Offense, playing a cantankerous geezer who is sprung from his nursing home by his grandson. Furthermore, the yet-uncast grandson is one of three friends on the run from drug dealers, bounty hunters, and police. Federal Offense was penned by Connor Martin, who presumably has done the hard work of contriving a reality where three fugitives making a detour to break a septuagenarian out of captivity makes any type of sense.

Boundless Pictures producer Brandon Burrows was enthusiastic about the casting, saying, “Chevy is an American icon with an expansive body of work that has made us laugh and cry for almost 40 years. He is a legend in comedy, and audiences will see a side of Chevy they’ve never ...

Chevy Chase is attached to star in Federal Offense, a raunchy comedy spec just picked up by Boundless Pictures. Newcomer Connor Martin wrote the script, which is described as having a screwball storyline that centers on three best friends who lose a drug kingpin's stash before finding themselves on the lam from gangsters, bounty hunters and the law after breaking their foul-mouthed grandfather out of his nursing home. Chase will play the grandfather. Courtney Lauren Penn and Brandon Burrows, founder and co-founder, respectively, of their New York- and Santa Monica-based Boundless shingle, will produce. “Chevy is

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Chevy Chase has checked into rehab again ... a rep for the comedian tells TMZ. Chevy is an in-patient at Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center in Minnesota ... the same place Robin Williams was treated in 2014.  The rep tells us Chevy is getting help for an alcohol-related problem which she calls a "tune-up."  She tells us Chevy "wants to be the best that he can be." He went to Betty Ford in the '80s. The 72-year-old is...

It’s probably somewhat difficult to spend four years working on 84 episodes of a TV show with someone without acquiring a certain respect, or at least fondness, for that person—even if that person is the notoriously difficult-to-work-with comedian Chevy Chase. So when Joel McHale was invited to play a younger version of Chase in A Futile And Stupid Gesture—David Wain’s upcoming biopic on National Lampoon co-founder Douglas Kenney—the 44-year-old actor felt like he owed it to his old Community co-star to get his blessing.

“I called Chevy to let him know,” McHale revealed to /Film in a recent interview. “I was like, ‘Hey, do you mind if I play…?’ And then we talked a lot about Doug Kenny on the phone call. The movie’s not a joke. ... I’m not playing Chevy as a caricature. I am playing him as the white-hot superstar that ...

Twenty-five years ago, Macaulay Culkin taught the world that a home invasion can result in physical comedy magic and family fun for all. Yes, Home Alone first opened in theaters on Nov. 16, 1990. Of course, Home Alone taught us other lessons too. For example, you can accidentally abandon your child without getting in trouble with Child Protective Services. We learned that a scary old man next door just might be a lonely guy who's handy with a snow shovel. And perhaps most important of all, Home Alone proved you can make a successful movie starring one child actor onscreen alone for...

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Chris Columbus chats about how he landed the job of directing Home Alone - and Chevy Chase is loosely involved...

Christmas approaches, and thus one of the five - count 'em! - Home Alone films must be discussed. It is the law.

In this case, it's the original, which was steered by director Chris Columbus to become a huge breakout hit in 1990. It made Macaulay Culkin a star, and Columbus would duly sign up for a sequel.

And yet he very nearly didn't direct the film.

John Hughes wrote and produced Home Alone, and at around the same time, he was putting National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation together. He hired Columbus to work on that, and all was going well. Until Columbus met Chevy Chase.

As he told Chicago magazine, "John Hughes sent me the script for Christmas Vacation. I love Christmas, so to do a Christmas comedy had been a dream.

If Chevy Chase wasn't such a jerk to director Chris Columbus, the 1990 Christmas movie Home Alone might not have become the beloved holiday classic we fondly look back on now. The film is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and Chicago Magazine put together an oral history that revealed a fascinating what-if scenario for its director.

Writer/producer John Hughes asked Columbus, fresh off the abysmal box office performance of a previous movie, if he wanted to direct National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, which Hughes wrote. Columbus recounts the story:

In 1989, I directed Heartbreak Hotel, and it was a disaster. It opened on a Friday, and by Wednesday it was only playing at two o’clock in the afternoon. Around that time, John Hughes sent me the script for Christmas Vacation. I love Christmas, so to do a Christmas comedy had been a dream. I went out to dinner with Chevy Chase [the movie’s star]. To be completely honest,...

James Hughes, son of the legendary writer and director John Hughes, put together an oral history of Home Alone for Chicago magazine. In it, he reveals how the film ultimately found its director, Chris Columbus. After directing the 1988 flop Heartbreak Hotel, Columbus was worried about finding a new directing gig. Which is part of why he was so excited when Hughes thought of him for the sequel to the wildly popular Vacation — Christmas Vacation. Also, "To do a Christmas comedy had been a dream," Columbus tells Chicago. So he met with the film's star, Chevy Chase ..."Chevy treated me like dirt," Columbus explains. Needing a job, he began working on the film, shooting establishing shots (some of which can still be seen in the movie). But then he had another meeting with Chase that went even worse. According to Columbus, he then called Hughes and said, "There’s no way I can do this movie.

Chicago – Before the days of 24/7 internet access to every form of entertainment that exists, there were eras of radical performance expression that changed the landscape of attitudes toward everything – think of The Beatles evolving music and also changing social culture. The roots of another evolution, especially in comedy, began with a modest humor magazine that brought together the right mix of anarchists and misfits. What they did would influence comedy for years afterward, and their story is told in “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of National Lampoon,” directed by Douglas Tirola.

“National Lampoon” Magazine was a national publication founded in 1970, that was spawned from the Harvard Lampoon, and brought together a team of 1960s-influenced comic radicals that changed the way humor was conveyed. No sacred cows existed on their pages, and the magazine also broke out into signature comedy records, stage performances and radio shows. This cottage industry featured...

The not-so-eagerly-awaited return of National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise makes us realise how much we didn’t miss it

A hugely moderate, massively average and colossally middling road-trip comedy spinning off from the not especially well-loved National Lampoon Vacation films of the 80s, which starred Chevy Chase as the guy trying to haul his wife and kids off on various holidays. Ed Helms plays Rusty, Chevy’s now middle-aged son, married to that stalwart comedy trouper Christina Applegate, and he’s planning to replicate his dad’s epic car journey to a distant theme park with his two feisty boys. (Chase himself briefly lumbers onto the screen for a look-away-now cameo as the original character, now an unfunnily shortsighted granddad.)

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Oh, can ya’ hear it? That infectious, steady beat emanating from your local multiplex’s state of the art speakers? Is that Lindsay Buckingham imploring you to join him and cruise down the “Holiday Road”? Why of course it is! It’s time again to load up and head out on another Vacation! Oh, but hold up, this isn’t just another excursion, we’re about to switch lanes and take a different route, via the “sequel/reboot highway”. First, lets; a take a glance at our rearview mirror. In the late seventies, the National Lampoon magazine (the counter-culture’s humor monthly of choice) ran a terrific prose article called “Vacation 58″ written by freelancer John Hughes (yes, the future “Brat Pack” patron saint). Jump to 1978 when the mag exploded into movie houses with the smash National Lampoon’S Animal House. The studios desperately wanted more hit flicks from Nl. Unfortunately...

Who is The Flash‘s new hero? What will make Teen Wolf fans hit rewind? Where is iZombie‘s sis? Will a Major romance create problems? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows.

I’m dying for some Arrow or Flash scoop! –Matthew

Arrow is seeking an Iris West type… No, just kidding. (Too soon?) The Flash, however – in addition to Wendy – is casting the season-long role of a classically handsome, square-jawed hero in his 30s to early 40s, a slightly cynical man “with an edge.” The casting call lists the character as “John Clark,...