Since returning from home with his guitar for Comic Relief back in March, David Brent hasn't given up on his music ambitions. Now Ricky Gervais's self-proclaimed "teacher, rebel, songwriter, rep" is following in the path of industry legend Dan Smith with a series of guitar tutorials. The first video will arrive next week, but in the meantime, here's a teaser with a sample of Brent's latest roadway-inspired cut, "Life on the Road."
Due to Lego's continued insistence on not teaching kids to use their growing assembly knowledge to construct a meth lab, we will almost certainly never see Breaking Bad join the Lego family of spin-off video games. But thanks to animator Brian Anderson, now you can see what such a hypothetical game would look like with this amazing video that Anderson calls a "parody" but is really just "this is exactly what that would be, no other answers acceptable."
The Stan Winston School has posted a new video in their project to prove that the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park were not real, no matter how cool that would have been. Their last video went behind the scenes on the film's raptors, revealing how the infamous kitchen attack will forever haunt a guy with back problems. This one goes inside the latex of the triceratops, revealing innards Laura Dern never imagined when she was digging through its shit pile. Have a look below, and keep checking back for their next video in the series, which promises to show how Winston's team constructed the realistic, sexy lady-Goldblum used to get Goldblum to pose like this.
Hope you're not yet tired of Star Trek Into Darkness things, because here are some more of those things, now in the form of some posters and a new sneak peek video for the sequel. Will Spock deal with Benedict Cumberbatch's threat by apparently putting on a solo Blue Man Group-style show? Answers await!
Amid increasing rumors that NBC will again try liberate Jay Leno from his TV prison at the foot of your parents' bed, the Tonight Show host and his likely usurper, Jimmy Fallon, last night teamed up to address the situation. Bridging their respective shows, the two last night did a West Side Story song parody to assure everyone that, regardless of the awkwardness of the situation, they're still friends. To which NBC replied, "God, I wish we still had Friends." Here's the video:
Following an exciting weekend in which G.I. Joe: Retaliation was overwhelmingly loathed but nonetheless hit a box office gross amount some executives had in mind, Paramount has begun work on another sequel.
The unnatural, divisive compositions of Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola meet the similarly-unnatural, divisive composition of polyamory in some new short films the directors have put together for Prada's Candy perfume. Watch the first episode and some clips of the brand's future installments below. If you're familiar with the work of Anderson and Coppola, you should know what to expect. Except that somehow neither of the dudes is Jason Schwartzman, and that is obviously wrong.
"Well, it looked dumb when it was just an overwhelming barrage of lurid CGI, but now that I see it's black-and-white and requires reading..."
UPDATE: That's gone now.
The Ant-Man test footage Edgar Wright shot last June and debuted back at Comic Con has finally made its way online, definitively revealing that the shrinking hero will not attack guys by forcing himself into urethras. Go figure, right? Have a look at the more boring thing he does instead below.
As promised, David Brent has been denied the happy ending of The Office Christmas Special to give us some more songs, laughs, and deep underlying pathos in a new Comic Relief special. Catching up with him a decade later, you get to see parts of Brent's Foregone Conclusion back-catalog only teased in the original series, with the manager-turned-cleaning-supplies-salesman giving full performances of "The Serpent Who Guards the Gates of Hell" and the reggae-inspired "Equality Street"--the latter of which gets a full black-and-white video to match its equally-blunt message of racial harmony. It's not clear how many more years must pass before we get a full-length cut of "Spaceman," but you can hear the rest below:
After a brief departure into the staid marketing tradition of an actual movie trailer, the Somebody Up There Likes Me team are back to their old promotion-by-way-of-smoking-weed ways with a new video where they all get high again. This time, non-cast member Adam Scott is added to the mix, along with some brief cameos from other internet-beloved stars whom I wouldn't spoil except that one of them is pussies. There is a song about weed and pussies, and you see some big, fluffy merkins on pussies, and then there's also a butt. So probably not safe for your dumb work.
We've already seen 1995-style Breaking Bad, but it turns out that's not the only AMC show that's been re-imagined and re-recorded on your family VCR. Here's Walking Dead's '90s intro, with all the smooth and sexy music you'd expect for hunting zombies during the Clinton administration. Watch below, and for the first time think, "Why doesn't The Walking Dead star Harry Hamlin?"
The only thing that could make this more accurate would be replacing Bryan Cranston with Gerald McRaney.
What if Tarantino told the story of Christ's resurrection, and did so mostly through explicit references to his prior films? Well, for one thing, the nail holes in Jesus's feet would probably get weirdly fetishized. The rest would probably be something like this:
Monsters University's titular institution continues to pretend it's a real place, with real coeds just waiting for your touch, with another recruitment video, featuring a message from the dean. Watch below in anticipation of the latest wild Billy Crystal college comedy.
After the breakout success of their quickly-spread "this movie is mediocre to bad and, amazingly, needs more Channing Tatum" campaign, Paramount has begun an all-new viral marketing game for their long-delayed G.I. Joe: Retaliation. As you can see from the above banner, this one is based on Cobra recruitment, with the studio putting out banners, posters, and the below recruitment video that, despite the film's special effects budget, is nowhere near as cool as that one where a Marine fights a lava monster.
On the official Cobra Special Foces site, they also promise some sort of special recruiting functions taking place across the country at events like a monster truck rally, a Kid Rock show, a WWE match, and several distance runs. Because if you've truly got what it takes to sit through G.I. Joe: Retaliation, you're going to need endurance, and really bad taste in entertainment.
Dust Films, who last month recreated the Man of Steel trailer from scratch, have now taken the same hand-crafted approach to Star Trek Into Darkness's trailer, with cardboard spaceships, rustic lens flares, daddy issues from their own home's too-absent patriarch, and so on. Here's the trailer, plus a side-by-side comparison, which helps in figuring out why the Benedict Cumberbatch fill-in is at one point locked out on the patio like a dog.
We've seen that Ashton Kutcher can play the part of Steve Jobs motionless, caught casually draping himself across a desk. Now, with this first clip from jOBS, here's a chance to see him in action, and imagine the beautiful feelings it must rouse in Jobs' friends and family to see the man alive again, as goofed by the Nikon pitchman and irreverent prankster Demi Moore married.
This had to happen. The only questions were when, how well done it would be, and whether there would be a suitably delightful minifigure to represent Amy Adams. The answers are right now, really well done, and yes, Lego must have made a poor-selling Doubt set or something, because that is definitely a crude plastic Amy Adams.
If you like Toy Story but hate its groundbreaking use of computer animation, here's just the thing for you: a remake of the Pixar classic that faithfully re-creates every shot with live-action actors, actual toys, and none of the shaded renderings of a mechanical brain. Then-teenagers Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta started the project back in the summer of 2010 but only recently made all Toy Story DVDs redundant by finishing their dedicated work and posting it online, at last showing us all what Woody and Buzz look like in real life. They're shorter than you'd think.
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