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Popular talk show host Jimmy Kimmel came under fire recently for his monologue after Donald Trump’s victory on election night. While talking about how the win would negatively impact the citizens of the USA, the noted comedian choked back tears for a brief moment and continued criticizing the president-elect.

Kimmel’s live breakdown of sorts did not go down well with many viewers, who trolled him for his reaction and called it ‘cringe’. Actor Rob Schneider, who has been a vocal supporter of Trump, called out Kimmel and Oprah Winfrey in a tweet, calling them rich and unaware of how the economy would affect ‘regular Americans’.

Rob Schneider Calls Out Jimmy Kimmel For Crying About Donald Trump’s Victory Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue after election night | Credits: YouTube/JimmyKimmelLive!

Donald Trump’s presidential victory for the second time drew varied responses from the public. As expected, his critics were disappointed,...

Though not a setting often associated with the realm of comedy, there have been dozens of hilarious movies throughout the years that have taken place within the walls of a prison. Many likely spring to mind. And while Down by Law (1986) wasn't one of them, the film at hand in terms of sheer hilarity outshines those that may have. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, this is the funniest prison movie ever made regardless of popularity and critical acclaim.

And although Down by Law by no means made waves at the worldwide box office, it was well-received upon release by critics and audiences alike. Marking the third feature film of the aforementioned American auteur following Stranger Than Paradise (1980) and Permanent Vacation (1984), this was by far his funniest film to that point. One could argue it remains the most uproarious Jarmusch film even four decades later. And despite its many competitors,...

ViacomCBS International Studios (Vis) has boarded Rob Schneider’s “Love is Love,” a new Paramount Plus Original film which marks the multihyphenate’s Spanish-language directorial debut.

Schneider also stars in the movie, which Vis is producing in association with transatlantic film and TV production companies El Estudio and Infinity Hill. “Love is Love” will shoot in Mexico and is set to premiere on the streaming platform in 2022.

Set in the 1990s, the romantic comedy tells the story of Enrique, a Mexican telenovela star who is about to sign a contract with a major TV network when the president of the company, Julian (Schneider), reveals pictures of Enrique and his partner Marcelo. For the sake of good public relations, Julian encourages Enrique to have a fake relationship with Sofia.

“We are excited to begin work on this new film with such a talented actor and director as Rob Schneider,” said Guillermo Borensztein,...

Pilar Schneider, who appeared in several of her son Rob Schneider’s films, died Monday of natural causes at her Pacifica, Calif. home. She was 91. A longtime teacher in the Pacifica school district, Schneider acted in commercials and appeared in some of Rob Schneider’s films, including Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Animal, The Hot Chick and Big Stan. She was a member of the Screen Actors Guild. Rob Schneider wrote a tribute to his mother on Instagram, noting how she had a hard life in the Philppines before arriving in America.

“Pilar spoke often of joining her beloved husband of 39 years, my lovely father, Marvin Schneider,” he wrote. “That day has come for them to be together. I am proud to be able to say that I am the son of Pilar Monroe Schneider.”

Pilar Schneider is also the mother of producer John Schneider, artist Stanley Schneider, and realtor April Schneider Farley.

Pilar Schneider, the mother of comedian and actor Rob Schneider, died of natural causes Monday at her home in Pacifica, Calif. She was 91.

Rob Schneider wrote a tribute to his mother on Instagram and shared a family photo with details of her life.

“Pilar spoke often of joining her beloved husband of 39 years, my lovely father Marvin Schneider,” he wrote. “That day has come for them to be together. I am proud to be able to say that I am the son of Pilar Monroe Schneider.”

In addition to her son Rob, Schneider is also the mother of producer John Schneider, artist Stanley Schneider and realtor April Schneider Farley. Among her many grandchildren is also singer Elle King, known for her hit song “Ex’s and Oh’s.”

Schneider grew up in the Philippines and moved to the U.S. in the 1950s as an American citizen. She had a...

The 1997 film Spawn is an interesting entry for the genre. The film itself tried to invoke the tone of thrillers like Se7en with industrial style music throughout and defective framing and fonts during the credits. But the writing and directing were handled by Mark A.Z. Dippé— director of such classics like Big Stan starring Rob Schneider and Garfield Gets Real. The result is a mixed bag of a film that viewers either love or cringe while watching.

Related: 9 Things You Need to Know About Spawn Before Seeing the Reboot

This being said, beneath the mess of a script are moments that might elevate Spawn to a guilty-pleasure status. Much like Venom, this comic book movie entry might fail but it does so with style. Since the future of the Spawn reboot remains in question—plus a Mortal Kombat character appearance is on the horizon—we figured it's time to...

Kobe Bryant isn’t the first famous person to be rejected for membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 2003, Rob Schneider applied to become a member of the Academy — the organization that gives out the Oscars each year — and was denied entry because the actors branch decided that the “Saturday Night Live” alum had not showed enough range in films like “The Animal” and “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.”

“There were some people who felt that basically he has played very similar characters over and over,” Bruce Davis, the Academy’s executive director, told the Wall Street Journal after the organization decided not to extend an invitation.

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Schneider, who had acted in more than 20 movies and starred in such hits as 1999’s “Deuce Bigelow,” had his supporters.

It's been a rough week for the entertainment industry, with several beloved icons passing away in just a few short days, such as Angus Scrimm, David Bowie, David Margulies and, just yesterday, Alan Rickman. Today, ABC News has confirmed the passing of another beloved entertainer, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams star Dan Haggerty, who passed away early this morning at the age of 74. The actor's manager confirmed his client's passing, after a long battle with cancer.

Dan Haggerty was born Gene Jajonski on November 19, 1941, in Pound, Wisconsin, raised by a family who ran a wildlife animal attraction. During his childhood, he helped raise wild animals such as a black bear that performed tricks, before moving to Southern California to pursue acting. While pursuing his acting career, he was also a bodybuilder on Muscle Beach in Venice, California, which lead to his first film role in 1964's Muscle Beach Party.

The box office looked healthy this weekend; I guess the year can start now. Both new releases exceeded expectations but it was Dreamworks’ latest, Home, that took the top spot. The animated movie ended up with $54 million, a very solid opening considering it wasn’t a sequel.

Get Hard, the R-rated comedy starring Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell, earned an estimated $34.6 million. The remake of Big Stan surprised a lot of people. Get Hard is now the second-best opening of Kevin Hart’s career, behind the $41.5 million of 2014’s Ride Along. It’s also one of the best openings of Will Ferrell’s career; his all-time high came in 2006, with the $47 million of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Still around from last weekend of course, The Divergent Series: Insurgent was down nearly 58%. The previous movie dropped 53%, so this franchise is pretty much staying stable.

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Get Hard

Notable: The first collaboration of Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart.

I didn’t think I would see the day when someone remade a Rob Schneider movie. That’s right, Rob Schneider directed and starred in something calling Big Stan in 2007 and it went something like this: A weak con man panics when he learns he’s going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.

So now we have Get Hard, which is a strange waste of talent and it feels like a bunch of decade old race jokes thrown together. The jokes won’t be...

Get Hard is really funny, but it definitely felt familiar. Time to revisit… Big Stan (2007) Director: Rob Schneider Stars: Rob Schneider is going to prison to be raped. Derp derp derp derpity derp Seeing as he's credited as star, producer and director, Rob Schneider has no one but Rob Schneider to blame for Big Stan. Using what little recognizability and goodwill mediocrewill he gets from being friends with Adam Sandler, Schneider has...

Director Matt Shakman’s (TV’s The Good Wife and Fargo) upcoming small-town thriller possesses all of the necessary qualities to gather advance attention. It’s got a quirky indie crime premise, a solid director at the helm, and a starry cast. Does this mean that Cut Bank will deliver the goods? With the film’s release date looming closer, a new trailer has landed (via Yahoo! Movies) that muddies the moral waters of its story…

Shakman makes his feature film debut with the flick, which centers on Dwayne McLaren (Liam Hemsworth); a young auto mechanic and former high school sports star keen to escape his hometown of Cut Bank, Montana. However, his luck takes a turn for the worse when he just so happens to film the apparent murder of a local mailman (Bruce Dern). His discovery kickstarts a series of events that domino into the community.

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An initial trailer for the new Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard arrived shortly before Christmas. Here comes the newer, ruder, red band version, featuring more swearing and a little more violence.Get Hard finds Ferrell in full-on bumbler mode as James King, a millionaire hedge fund manager living a seemingly perfect life – big house, flashy gadgets and a beautiful wife (Alison Brie). But then he’s nailed by the Feds for fraud and sentenced to ten years in San Quentin maximum-security prison. Offered 30 days to get his affairs in order, King turns to Darnell Lewis (Hart) to prepare him for the thug life behind bars.There’s just one small problem: Darnell is a hard-working small businessman who hasn’t ever been in trouble with the law and knows as much about surviving in prison as King. Well, maybe a tiny bit more… But sensing an opportunity, he takes on the job.

Kevin Hart's 2014 brought us the not inconsiderable roster of Ride Along, Grudge Match, About Last Night, Think Like A Man Too and Top Five. And while his 2015 isn't looking quite so crowded, it will at the very least unveil Ride Along 2, The Wedding Ringer and Get Hard. To prepare you, the latest trailer for the latter has just arrived online. Be warned: you will see Will Ferrell naked.Cursory inspection of Get Hard suggests similarities to the woeful Rob Schneider vehicle Big Stan (con undertakes a toughening-up programme prior to a stint in jail) and to that unfortunate recent series of films that use the trope of middle class white people getting black people to teach them to be criminals (Horrible Bosses, Tower Heist).Thankfully, however, Get Hard reveals, even in its trailer, that there's more going on here. The premise is Ferrell's own mistaken assumptions about Hart's character,...

A bit of the reality of our current government and law enforcement came into play in last night’s new episode of American Dad!, called “Big Stan on Campus.” Director Bullock (Patrick Stewart) gives his CIA team the bad news that their budget needs to be cut (but he won’t give up his ornate “hover-throne” that he is seen using to get around, naturally) and that he needs one of them to take what he calls a “vacation” (actually an unpaid furlough). Stan agrees before fully understanding what it is, and then must find a way to earn some money during … Continue reading →

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Ten years ago Elsa started practicing law on the backlot of Universal Studios, in a trailer on the lot. “I began in 2005 with a lot of schlock films in the early days of digital shooting,” she told me from her Beverly Hills office where she now employs five other women attorneys and has just hired the first man. In 2005 you could make digital movies (just after “Blair Witch”) and international sales agents paid good money for them. DVDs still existed and were a relevant income stream for independent producers. For a $200,000 budget you could reap a return of $2 million even without a large theatrical release. What came out of those days was “bootstrap entrepreneurship” from producers who could produce a film digitally on a shoestring budget.

Her firm also employs a packaging and sales person, Tiffany Boyle, to consult and advise with producer and financier clients on meeting and evaluating distributors, sales agents and financiers. This is not too different from the job of producer reps, but the packaging and sales consultant can work on an hourly or take a percentage of distribution which includes legal.

“It is an enhanced legal service, not at all in competition with Submarine, Preferred Content and other indie producer reps. In fact, sometimes we place our films with them, or we work in tandem with them and even introduce our clients to them as we value what producer reps and agents bring to the table in terms of procuring offers and creating a marketplace for an independent,” she adds.

Tiffany Boyle was previously director of sales at Crystal Sky, working under head of production Benedict Carver (“Underworld”, “Resident Evil”) and head of international sales Daniel Diamond (“The Believer”). She worked in the development and sales on the company’s films, including “Doomsday”, “Big Stan” And “Bratz”.

Ramo herself was born in L.A. but grew up in San Diego as a first generation U.S. citizen. She went to Uc Riverside and as soon as she graduated from University of San Diego School of Law, she returned to L.A.

She began in royalty litigation for music and asked her first employers if she could find her own clients and proceeded to network through the film organizations in L.A. for whom she would do free transactional work. She came from a family business and is very entrepreneurial by nature.

Her expertise has been featured in numerous outlets, including Variety’s 2014 Women Impact Report, The Wrap, Forbes, and Latino Weekly. Incidentally, she is not Latino but her partner, Erika Canchola, is Mexican-American. Erika was an intern for Elsa during law school, then was hired, became an associate, and now is a partner.

Ramo has also lectured on film financing for the California Lawyers for the Arts, Film Independent, Attorney Credits, LawReview Cle,myLawCLE, and the Institute for International Film Financing.

She has been a panel and guest speaker at USC, AFI, UCLA, South by Southwest V2V, Slamdance Film Festival, the San Diego Film Festival, Digital Hollywood, Boston University School of Law, and the University of San Diego Law School. In May 2010, she was awarded an Artistic License Award along with Maria Shriver by California Lawyers for the Arts for her outstanding pro-bono work providing artists and arts organizations with legal services.

Eight years ago she moved her office to Beverly Hills. Every year her business doubles in size. She handles about 50 features a year at various stages of financing, production and distribution. At every major market she has a handful of films.

She just spoke at Digital Hollywood on a panel about women entrepreneurship. She recognizes that men and woman are different and respect for one another professionally is what makes progress possible. She began ten years ago as a young woman in an older man pool, but now she is seen less as a female and more as an equal professional. She tells her interns who are women “never give an excuse of sexism, better than putting energy in negativity is putting it into negotiating and doing your job well irrespective of your sex.”

Elsa is straightforward and outgoing, she has a self-confidence that is warm and welcoming. You want to share with her.

She also notes that the talent to produce low budget films is the same skill set which, even without money to back it, can be used for the new networks and she finds that she is succeeding at pre-selling TV series lately. She is currently legal counsel for her first unscripted doc series to Netflix Chef’s Table and finds that non-conventional serial content is hot now.”

“What is your real goal?” I asked, and she answered that she appreciates the opportunities given to her and appreciates the growth of herself and of her clients. She is also interested in “how much the indie business is changing and has always changed. Three or four years ago it was DVD, and now it is all changed to digital streams of revenue and the great thing is it will all change again.”

Content evolves in a circle. She started with offering free services and was happy to be hired. Now she gives low rates to new filmmakers; she can evaluate their talent better, she recognizes passion and talent. Sometimes it works out for her and the new talent, and sometimes it fails.

“I am always looking for emerging talent, looking at the cutting edge.” The business is constantly evolving and my biggest goal is never to ‘settle’, never to stop.”

Check out her website at www.ramolaw.com. It offers a great list of filmmaker resources as well as bios of her growing staff.

Breaking Bad's Dean Norris will lend his voice to an upcoming American Dad episode.

The actor will be portraying Stan's new boss in the November instalment 'Big Stan on Campus'.

Producer Matt Weitzman told Entertainment Weekly: "When Stan is forced to take a leave of absence from the CIA, he gets a job as security at Hayley's community college, and the head of security is played by Dean Norris."

Norris's episode will premiere on November 10 on TBS in the Us.

He is also returning for the upcoming season of the CBS science fiction series Under the Dome.

American Dad featured a high-profile guest appearance from Kim Kardashian West in September.

Recent guest stars have also included The Walking Dead's Steven Yeun, Mariah Carey and Zooey Deschanel.

American Dad has enlisted the vocal services of Dean Norris. The Breaking Bad alum and Under the Dome star will guest-star in an episode on the animated comedy as Stan's new boss with a commanding presence, EW has learned exclusively. "When Stan is forced to take a leave of absence from the CIA, he gets a job as security at Hayley's community college," teases executive producer Matt Weitzman, "and the head of security is played by Dean Norris." Titled "Big Stan on Campus," the episode featuring Norris is slated to air Nov. 10 on TBS, which has become the new home...

A24, in conjunction with director Matt Shakman, the film’s producers and in partnership with Directv, announced today that they have acquired all Us rights to Matt Shakman’s directorial debut Cut Bank. The film had a successful Us premiere at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival and will next make its International debut at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Written by Robert Patino, Cut Bank is an exciting modern-day thriller with a cast that includes Liam Hemsworth, John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thorton, Bruce Dern, Teresa Palmer, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Oliver Platt.

Dwayne McLaren (Liam Hemsworth) a high school star athlete recently turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of his tiny Montana town and whisking his pageant-hopeful girlfriend, Cassandra (Teresa Palmer), away to the big city. But his plan sets in motion a deadly series of events and thrusts him into a police investigation headed by Sheriff Vogel (John Malkovich...

Animal Kingdom helmer David Michod has signed on to both write and direct the upcoming big screen adaptation of the late Michael Hastings' bestseller "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan." The Hollywood Reporter has the news, bringing word that Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment will produce (alongside New Regency and RatPac) with Pitt himself planning to star. The book, published in 2012, is officially described as follows: General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative, forward-thinking commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living large. He was better known to some as Big Stan, M4, Stan, and his loyal staff liked to call him a "rock star." During a spring 2010 trip across Europe...

Screenwriter Etan Cohen (not to be confused with Ethan Cohen, one half of The Cohen Brothers) has a good track record in comedy writing, with Idiocracy and Tropic Thunder under his belt, and now he's trying his hand at directing with Get Hard, with Will Ferrell in the lead role. Cohen already has a solid relationship with the actor, also directing him in the upcoming Daddy's Home. In Get Hard, Ferrell will play a rich bank manager who is wrongly convicted and sentenced to time in maximum security prison. In order to fully prepare for his time in prison, he hires his car washer (Kevin Hart, next seen in Grudge Match) to toughen him up. And if this feels familiar, this is the exact plot of Rob Schneider's Big Stan, but it's actually a very good concept with plenty of potential. The project i s currently in development, with...

After finding success as a writer with the likes of King Of The Hill, Tropic Thunder and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Etan Cohen is looking to direct a film. His latest project is Get Hard, which boasts Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, and Cohen's planning to direct.Despite that snigger-trigger title, it’s not some Walk Hard-style spoof of Boogie Nights. The plot finds Ferrell playing a nerdy investment bank manager who is screwed over by a rich client and framed for massive fraud. When he can’t wriggle out of the unfair charges, he hires the streetwise guy normally found washing his car (Hart) to train him up to be tough before his stint in prison.Though it sounds like one of those notions that has been done many times before (Rob Schneider’s 2007 film Big Stan has a similar riff), Warner Bros. will be hoping that Ian Roberts...

We have your first look at Liam Hemsworth in the upcoming thriller Cut Bank, which wrapped shooting this week.

Dwayne McLaren (Liam Hemsworth ) a high school star athlete recently turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Mt, the coldest town in America, and whisking his pageant-hopeful girlfriend, Cassandra (Teresa Palmer), away to the big city. But his plan to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events and thrusts him into a police investigation headed by Sheriff Vogel (John Malkovich), the protector of Cut Bank and the closest thing Dwayne has to a father figure. Panic sweeps across the community in mere hours, but things are not what they seem. Cassandra's father Big Stan Steeley (Billy Bob Thornton) is the only one who seems to realize this. However, the damage is already done and the events that unfold change Dwayne's life, and the life of the town,...

The first image from the thriller Cut Bank has been released online. The pic stars Liam Hemsworth as a former high school athlete working as an auto mechanic who dreams of whisking away his pageant-hopeful girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) to the big city. However, when Hemsworth starts making moves to get out of Cut Bank, Montana, his actions set in motion events that have deadly consequences for the community. This image gives us a look at Hemsworth and Palmer’s characters in the gorgeous Montana location, but the film’s secrets still remain under lock and key. Hit the jump to check out the high-resolution image. Directed by Matt Shakman, the film also stars John Malkovich and Billy Bob Thornton. Click on the image for high-resolution. Here’s the official synopsis for Cut Bank: Dwayne McLaren (Liam Hemsworth, Hunger Games), a high school star athlete recently turned auto mechanic, dreams...

Here’s your first look at the new thriller Cut Bank, featuring of Liam Hemsworth and Teresa Palmer.

The film wraps shooting this week and is slated for a 2014 release.

Dwayne McLaren (Liam Hemsworth, Hunger Games), a high school star athlete recently turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Mt – the coldest town in America – and whisking his pageant-hopeful girlfriend, Cassandra (Teresa Palmer), away to the big city. But his plan to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events and thrusts him into a police investigation headed by Sheriff Vogel (John Malkovich), the protector of Cut Bank and the closest thing Dwayne has to a father figure.

Panic sweeps across the community in mere hours, but things are not what they seem. Cassandra’s father Big Stan Steeley (Billy Bob Thornton) is the only one who seems to realize this. However, the damage...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Antichrist" (2009)

Directed by Lars von Trier

Released by Criterion Collection

From its incendiary debut at Cannes to becoming a cult hit defined by the meme "Chaos Reigns," Lars von Trier's psychosexual horror film about a married couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) that repairs to a cabin in the woods to grieve over the death of their young son is receiving the Criterion Collection treatment. Video interviews with von Trier, Gainsbourg, and Dafoe, making-of vignettes and a documentary about the Cannes premiere accompany the feature. (Aaron Hillis' interview with von Trier is here.)

"The Battle of River Plate" (1956)

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Released by Hen's Tooth Video

Despite being Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's most financially successful film, it has been a rare commodity in America on home video, where people have had to buy the British...

Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…

8.00pm White Collar (Bravo)

Brand new Us crime drama in which a cop and a conman team up for a cat and mouse chase of the world’s most notorious criminals. The series finale sees alliances, double-crosses and hidden agendas revealed as everyone tries to grab the music box. Season One, episode 14.

9.00pm Surviving Evil (Horror Channel)

Exotic nail-biting terror starring Billy Zane. A documentary crew lands on a remote island to make a wilderness survival film – but they are unprepared for the terrifying fate that awaits them.

9.45pm Galaxy Quest (Sky Movies Family)

The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show – now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions – are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast’s heroic on-screen...

Chris Pine is now back on market. The "Star Trek" actor has ended his romance with "Big Stan" actress Olivia Munn on Saturday night, January 16, Just Jared reported. The day before, the two were seen keeping their distance while attending the NY Times Style Magazine's Golden Globes cocktail party at the Chateau Marmont penthouse in West Hollywood.

"Olivia broke things off with Chris because they just didn't see eye to eye anymore," a source told the site about the reason for their split. "Even though he was sweet and charming at the beginning, his personality became too much to handle in the end."

Chris Pine and Olivia Munn were first reported dating five months ago, but they refused to open up about their special relationship. In early January, however, they were allegedly spotted spending night together at Los Angeles bar The Woods. At that time, an onlooker said, "They looked...

When you hear a title like that, it’s pretty easy to immediately think it’s just a really bad joke, or possibly part of our Fan Film Friday series. Sadly, this new trailer is neither. From Silver Nitrate Films, the brains behind such films as S. Darko and Rob Schneider’s Big Stan comes The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It.

The premise is basically Scary Movie aimed towards anything that has had Judd Apatow’s name on it in the past five years. There are spoofs for things like The 40 Year Old Virgin to Superbad. They are all included. It’s a shame that the parody machine has gotten so out of control that studios are now giving the green light to projects that actually satire…satires. Shouldn’t that open up a black hole somewhere?

The film has got...

Aside from some potentially disturbing images, news has been pretty quiet about casting for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2. But recently, G4’s Olivia Munn, host of Attack of the Show, tweeted on Twitter that she’s working on two new film projects, one being the Tina Fey/Steve Carell project Date Night, and one that she couldn’t “legally” discuss.

It turns out that the film in question is Iron Man 2 and the general assumption is that she will have more of a cameo, showing up in a scene or two. Munn did, however, say on Twitter that she will “definitely” have a bigger part than her one-minute scene in Rob Schneider’s direct-to-dvd film Big Stan.

Aside from Stan, Munn can soon be seen in Broken Lizard’s Slammin’ Salmon, and of course every day on G4’s Attack of the Show, where they just announced...

Back in April, Attack of the Show co-host Olivia Munn revealed on Twitter that she has been cast in two upcoming movies: One is the upcoming Steve Carell/Tina Fey comedy Date Night, and the other is some project that she was working out for but wasn't "legally" allowed to publicly discuss yet. It turns out that she has a role in Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2. No word on how large of a role she might play. I assume that she'll probably be in one or two scenes, possibly as a television announcer. Munn said on Twitter that her role is "definitely" bigger than her one minute appearance in Rob Schneider's Big Stan. Update: Munn later commented on our story on her twitter account: slashfilm took a guess at my role in iron man 2 and i am not playing a reporter. but that's all i can say.

I'm currently overseas right now, but I prepared this earlier so y'all can be kept abreast of all the goings-on in my corner of the globe.

Cinema Releases for the Week 09/04/09

17 Again - A friend of mine says this is horrific in ways even he couldn't have imagined. Sounds promising!!!

The Boat That Rocked - I didn't too much care for Richard Curtis' last movie Love Actually (I'm in the minority there, I know) but this one looks entertaining. Although I'm not sure why Phillip Seymour Hoffman is there (he has two movies this week along with Mary and Max).

Dragonball: Evolution - I'm not sure why this movie wasn't made seven years ago, quite frankly. Ya know, when it was actually popular.

Elegy - Isobel Coixet's films typically get love it/hate it reactions and Elegy is not different. After hating her last movie, the Sarah Polley-starring My Life Without Me,...

Rob Schneider insists the rogue real estate agent he plays in new movie Big Stan isn't based on his own dad, who used to sell property for a living.

In the movie, which Schneider also directed, the funnyman's character is sentenced to prison time after cheating clients out of money.

But he insists there's no comparison to his own father - who was an honest broker.

Schneider tells Starpulse.com, "My dad was a really honest guy. He was the first guy to rent to African Americans in San Francisco in '54, before the civil rights movement and he's a good guy. He would never allow people to buy the homes if they couldn't afford to pay. He would never give loans via a second mortgage company. His clients never lost money; though, I don't think he would have been able to protect them in this kind of (climate). Anybody who lost money, he would absorb it. He was that good a guy."...

Actor Rob Schneider was left with a string of painful injuries after clashing with Kung Fu legend David Carradine in his latest movie.

Carradine plays a martial arts expert hired to toughen up Schneider's character in Big Stan, the film funnyman's directorial debut.

Schneider insisted on shooting his own stunts - and ended up with broken bones and agonising muscle tears.

He tells Starpulse.com, "I did my own stunts the whole movie. I tore my rotator cuff, I broke my ankle and David Carradine broke my finger."

A strict fitness and diet regime to help him get in shape - combined with a scorching California heatwave during the shoot - also left Schneider with food poisoning.

He adds, "I would get to (the set) and it was 120 degrees it was like a vacation. What happened was the refrigerators on the trucks couldn't keep the food cold enough so it poisoned me. I had five eggs a day, that's what Bruce Lee ate... then I get f**king sick."...

I remember Rob Schneider telling us about his directorial debut at the junket for The Benchwarmers. He described Big Stan, almost word for word the scene where the corporate criminal finds out he's going to be raped in prison. That is in the movie and rape continues to play a big role.

On DVD: Big Stan

I couldn't believe he actually got it made so I had to watch the movie. As a directorial debut, it certainly looks like a real movie. Nothing special, but the shots are composed and it's edited. It doesn't look any worse than a standard SNL-alum high concept comedy.

It's an "edgy" Rob Schneider film since the rape and other language makes it R. So that's a tad different, even from Deuce Bigelow which was innocent, if vulgar, sex jokes. This is not innocent.

It's a big day for Bond fans, as Quantum of Solace hits stores today, along with another volume of Blu-ray releases and a special edition of the oft-maligned Never Say Never Again. Other than that, it's pretty slim pickings I'm afraid. There is Disney's Bolt (which actually came out on the weekend), the animated companion piece Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter, and Season 3 of Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. Star Wars fans may also be interested in another installment of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, and the 10th Anniversary Edition of the documentary A Galaxy Far, Far Away. Are you picking anything up this week? Quantum of Solace [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) Bolt [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6]) Big Stan [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8]) Master of the Game [9] New York City Serenade [10] Outrighteous [11] Fling [12] Columbus Day [13] Ready or Not [14] Follow That Bird: 25th Anniversary Edition...

DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Well, it's a James Bond week as we have several new releases from 007. We also have a pair of Francois Truffaut films coming to Blu-ray from Criterion and Paramount has released two new films from its Centennial Collection. On top of that I think this is the first time ever that all of the announced new released dates have "buy now" links with them should you feel the need to preorder some of the latest titles announced including a new Criterion release of Bergman's The Seventh Seal as well as Paramount prestige releases including Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road and Defiance. I should also note that Bolt will be releasing on DVD today after the Blu-ray saw an early release on Sunday. I detailed this film in my recap last week and should you be interested in what I had...

nbspITS hard to believe but Robert Pattinson isnt the only dreamboat in Twilight.What makes this fastrising 24yearold actor even more of a dream is that he was born in Singapore and lived in Jakarta as a child.So close yet so far especially since hes based in Los Angeles now but calls Midland Texas home.In Twilight Rathbone plays Jasper Hale Alice Cullens twitchy vampire soulmate who has the ability to control the emotions of people around him and is a latecomer to the Cullen familys vegetarian lifestyle.For his role the colourblind 1.7mtall heartthrob had to bleach his naturally curly brown hair blond and wear coloured contacts.Rathbone has been acting professionally for a few years appearing in TV shows like Beautiful People The Oc and Close To Home.Most recently he played a hippie jailbird in the Rob Schneider comedy Big Stan and has the Donnie Darko...

DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed The Dark Knight Is there any question what everyone is going to buy this week? I would say the only question will be how many units are going to be sold and at what time will Warner Bros. release a press statement saying The Dark Knight is the best selling Blu-ray and DVD of 2008? Speaking of the Blu-ray, if you haven't done so already you can read my review here, or I can just tell you the picture is phenomenal and the features are not. You are buying this one for the movie though, so enjoy. Lost - The Complete Fourth Season Ugh, I just added my Blu-ray review for the fourth season of "Lost" and it is beginning to look more and more like this will either be a TV series to love in its entirety or to absolutely loathe...

Baz Luhrmann's Australia has debuted at number one at the Aussie box office. The big-budget epic knocks Quantum Of Solace into second, while Rob Schneider's latest comedy vehicle Big Stan enters at three. John Erick Dowdle's horror Quarantine goes straight in at four, while teen road movie Sex Drive charts at five. The top ten in full: 1. (-) Australia - $$4,168,402

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More and more Jackson Rathbone I am not complaining. I like hearing about the other cast members besides Kristen and Rob. Movieblog Twilights Jackson Rathbone strikes up a new tunenbspWhile most of the stars of Twilight are likely to be inundated with offers Jackson Rathbone had already figured out what hell be doing for the next few months pursuing his musical career. Jackson who plays Jasper and his jazzrock band 100 Monkeys are set to release their first Ep and album and will have a regular gig at the L.A. bar called the 24K Lounge. Not that hell be neglecting acting. The 23yearold plays a hippie in the Rob Schneider comedy Big Stan now screening here hes completed the Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko as a nerd who falls in love with Darkos younger sister and hes been in London shooting the Clive Barker horror film Dread. Born in Singapore...

MPAA ratings: Nov. 19, 2008 The following feature-length motion pictures have been reviewed and rated by the Classification and Rating Administration pursuant to the Motion Picture Classification and Rating program. Each of the designated ratings is defined as follows under the Motion Picture Classification and Rating program.

G -- General Audiences. All ages admitted.

PG -- Parental Guidance Suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

PG -13 -- Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

R -- Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

Nc-17 -- No One 17 And Under Admitted

Film Distributor Reason Rating 17 Again

New Line Cinema

Rated for language, some sexual material and teen partying.

PG-13 The Adventures of Renny the Fox

Peace Arch Home Entertainment Inc.

Rated for some mild peril.

PG Alien Raiders

Warner Home Video

Rated for bloody violence, disturbing images and language.

R

American High School

American High School Llc.

17 Again Rated PG-13 For language, some sexual material and teen partying. Release Date: February 20, 2009 Australia Rated PG-13 For some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief strong language. Release Date: November 26, 2008 Bedtime Stories Rated PG For some mild rude humor and mild language. Release Date: December 25, 2008 Big Stan Rated R For crude and sexual content, and language. Release Date: Tba 2009 Gran Torino Rated R For language throughout, and some violence. Release Date: December 17, 2008 Hippie Hippie Shake Rated R For sexual content including strong dialogue, graphic nudity, drug use throughout, and language. Release Date:tba 2009 Marley and Me Rated PG For thematic material, some suggestive content and language. Release Date: December 25, 2008 New in Town Rated PG-13 For brief strong language. Release Date: January 30, 2009 Old Dogs Rated PG For some mild rude humor. Release Date: November 25, 2009 The Soloist Rated PG-13 For thematic elements, some drug use and language. Release Date: April 24, 2009 The Tale...

InStyle.com has a six degrees of Twilight. Pretty darn cool if you ask menbspKristen Stewart to Elizabeth ReaserKristen Stewart was in The Messenger with John Corbett who played the beloved Aidan in Sex and the City with Sarah Jessica Parker who was in The Family Stone with Elizabeth Reaser.nbspnbspElizabeth Reaser to Robert PattinsonElizabeth Reaser was on Greys Anatomy with Patrick Dempsey who was in Sweet Home Alabama with Reese Witherspoon who was in Vanity Fair which Robert Pattinson had a bit part in. Robert Pattinson to Jackson RathboneRobert Pattinson was in Harry Potter with Ralph Fiennes who was in Oscar and Lucinda with Cate Blanchett who was in Pushing Tin with Angelina Jolie who was in Mr. Mrs. Smith with Adam Brody who was on The O.C. where Jackson Rathbone appeared a few times. nbspnbspJackson Rathbone to Ashley GreeneJackson Rathbone was in Big Stan with Jennifer Morrison who...

Things were going pretty well for a while for Rob Schneider. While he was never the star of a breakout hit, he had a string of movies that were at least doing okay including The Hot Chick, Deuce Bigalow, Benchwarmers and The Animal. But lately it seems as if things aren't go so well for the former you can do it! guy. His own films are going direct-to-dvd (Big Stan) and now he's co-starring in indie sex comedies with the likes of Jenna Dewan, seen to the right doing her best to contain her...

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo star Rob Schneider is the first actor to publicly announce he will never work with Mel Gibson due to the anti-Semitic remarks he made when he was arrested last Friday. Schneider took out an ad in Hollywood trade paper Variety slamming the star for his behavior in "An Open Letter to the Hollywood Community." The ad appeared yesterday and said, "I, Rob Schneider, a 1/2 Jew, pledge from this day forth to never work with Mel Gibson-actor-director-producer-and anti-Semite." Schneider then went on to say even if he were offered the lead role in Passion Of The Christ 2 or a "juicy voice-over role in his new flick Apocalypto and spoke ancient Mayan" he would still turn them down. He also repeatedly praised Hollywood talent manager Bernie Brillstein for publicly saying he would refuse to work with Gibson because "I just don't like bigots." The actor continued by saying he had recently directed a film called Big Stan in which there was a part for a Nazi gang leader "which apparently Mel would be perfect for." Schneider said he would still not cast Gibson in that role and ended the letter by saying, "Of course that would only be after I talked with my financial backers. Some of whom share Mr. Gibson's hankering for a good bottle of tequila. Because, after all...I don't get to call all the shots."...

Funnyman Rob Schneider has been released from hospital in California after collapsing on the set of his new movie Big Stan. The comic had just recovered from a bout of the flu when soaring temperatures on the set in Stockton, California, left him struggling to keep up with filming. Schneider, who is directing and starring in the movie comedy, fainted last Wednesday morning after reportedly suffering from heat exhaustion and food poisoning.

Comedian Rob Schneider is recovering from heatstroke and food poisoning after reportedly fainting on the set of his new movie. The Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo star, 42, was shooting his latest comedy, Big Stan, in a derelict Stockton, California prison on Wednesday morning when he passed out and was taken to hospital. The actor, who has just recovered from a bout of flu, was shooting a scene at the Northern California Women's Facility in temperatures as high as 110 degrees Fahrenheit. His publicist Shara Koplowitz says, "The combination of bad food and the heat just hit him. He's back on the set directing today (Thursday)."...