Nov 19 2009 Yet Another Movie Poster You Won't Believe Is Real (But It Is!)
Like Old Dogs, Crazy on the Outside is one of those rare, terminal illness-style films that shows up seemingly out of nowhere and is so shocking, so heinous, that I just can't believe--refuse to believe--no matter what the charts/posters say, can really be happening. How were there no symptoms, no articles in Variety? This is for real? Crazy on the Outside is incurable at this point in the marketing cycle? And Tim Allen DIRECTED it, too? I didn't even know such a thing could happen. It's going to take a while to come to terms with all this.
Also, how is J.K. Simmons on the poster but not Kelsey Grammer? Has Law & Order's Skoda somehow become a more popular psychiatrist than Frasier Crane? Oh, how the mighty have fallen, and been forced to star in half a season of Hank.
Crazy on the Outside Poster [ComingSoon]
Aug 20 2009 'Extract' Still Being Marketed as a Straight-to-Video National Lampoon's Movie
A new Extract one-sheet has been released and, just as with the previous poster, for some reason the poster-makers have decided to visually assert that the seemingly funny Mike Judge comedy is, in actuality, a straight-to-video National Lampoon's movie. It's like they intentionally left Ben Affleck's photo off the poster so that we wouldn't think the cast was too impressive for a film whose biggest draw is apparently that Mila Kunis looks generally attractive.
IMPA notes that this is Extract's final poster, so I guess we'll never get the obvious next step: Jason Bateman grinning at us between the legs of a bikini-clad woman, just above the tagline, "She'll suck it ALL out."
Apr 9 2009 'Extract' is the 'Office Space' for Flower Extract Plant Owners
Office Space's Mike Judge has a new comedy coming out, and unlikely his largely-overlooked last film, Idiocracy, this one's getting a theatrical release! The Juno duo of Jason Bateman and J.K. Simmons have re-teamed, and they're now joined by a scraggly-haired Ben Affleck, SNL's Kristen Wiig, and Mila Kunis as "babe Jason Bateman's sexually frustrated protagonist really wants to sleep with." With a team like that, how could it not be pretty good? Have a teaser trailer:
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Jan 19 2009 J.K. Simmons Reprising Role of Other Guy with "J" Initial First Name
There's been a lot of talk about if Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, or Kirsten Dunst are returning for Spider-Man 4. Let's not even sweat them, everyone. Raimi fell apart a bit by the third film, Maguire had a mixed reception, and come on, Kirsten Dunst? The real guy we should be worrying about is J.K. Simmons, people. His perfectly exaggerated portrayal of "Daily Bugle" publisher J. Jonah Jamseon is accept-no-immitations spot-on. They can put Justin Long in webbed spandex and I'll say "fair enough," but if they try gluing a toothbrush mustache to Tommy Lee Jones, I call bullshit.
Let's start worrying about getting that guy back. Except just said he is coming back and shooting is starting next year, so don't worry, Pumpkin:
The fourth film in the blockbuster “Spider-Man” franchise will begin shooting in 2010, actor J.K. Simmons told MTV News at Sundance, revealing that he’ll continue in the role of Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson. “I saw Sam [Raimi] at his Christmas party.”
Simmons added that he doesn't want or expect a larger part in the next sequel, alluding to becoming a week-long wolf of some nature:
“We’ve definitely brainstormed ideas for Triple-J, but I have no desire to make Triple-J more of the focus of those movies,” he said. “The amount that I did in 1, 2 and 3, is just exactly right. Like be the wolf. Come in, blow in, do a week, blow out, be the comic relief, and hit the road. And let Tobey and everybody else do the heavy lifting.”
Also: don't make Justin Long Spider-Man. I was lying about saying "fair enough" to that.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Spider-Man 4’ To Begin Shooting In 2010, Says Bugle Chief [MTV]
Dec 17 2008 Nice Try, 'I Love You, Man' Trailer
Be careful watching this trailer: it's deceptive. You see Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Thomas Lennon, and J.K. Simmons reprising his Juno role of "Dad", and you naturally start to believe this should at least be reasonably funny. But once you look back and think about it again, it's just another broad, high concept comedy that's only tolerable because it's somehow not starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as the budding friendship. I feel like I'm a dog and this movie is a pill wrapped in cheese the producers are trying to coax down my throat. Luckily I caught that hint of medicine just before I was going to swallow, so they'll be finding this buried in a couch cushion in a few months.
May 30 2008 The Coens' 'Burn After Reading' Trailer Must be Watched
Who would have thought you could combine the talents of George Clooney and Brad Pitt yet not focus on how suave and charming they are? The Coen Brothers, that's who. And they've added John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and J.K. Simmons into the dark spy-comedy Burn After Reading. After watching the trailer, knowing that I have to wait until September to see the full product, I'm going to hate toiling through summer more than the elderly. Note: the trailer is R-rated for language and the feeling of intense pleasure it gives you that is normally reserved for adults. Watch it below the cut or by clicking around iTunes.
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