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VOD Spotlight: Jonah Hill jumps back to “21 Jump Street”

June 26, 2012 StayTuned Staff

When Jonah Hill started re-envisioning 21 Jump Street as an action comedy film, one of the questions that confronted him was whether or not the younger generation — logically a good chunk of the project’s prospective audience — would even remember the series. “I’ll meet teenagers and I’ll ask them if they know the series — they don’t,” he says. “So I tell them it’s about young-looking cops who go undercover in a high school, and they say, ‘That sounds awesome.’ It’s such a great premise for an action comedy.” For Hill, the film was inspired by one of those […]

VOD Spotlight: “The Artist” is silent, but golden

June 26, 2012 StayTuned Staff

I’ve often wondered whether or not a contemporary filmmaker could attempt a silent film in a completely new way and make it an unqualified success. As such, I was intrigued when I first heard of director Michel Hazanavicius’ film The Artist, and its attempt to revisit the silent era. The last major film to do so was Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie in 1976, and that was a deliberate spoof. And even if The Artist isn’t done in the completely new way I’d hoped to see a silent film done, it’s still undeniably new and cinematically refreshing. The Academy obviously agreed, […]

Charlie Sheen selects favorite “Two and a Half Men” episodes for FX marathon

June 25, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

As his new FX series Anger Management gets set to debut this Thursday, June 28, Charlie Sheen will be taking a look back at his former series, Two and a Half Men, when FX presents a 12-hour marathon of Sheen’s 24 favorite episodes of Men on Thursday from 9am-9pm, leading into the series premiere of Anger Management. RELATED STORY: DOES CHARLIE SHEEN “WIN” AGAIN WITH “ANGER MANAGEMENT”? “I’ve said, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” Sheen says, about the process of selecting the Two and a Half Men episodes for this marathon. “Being tasked with the opportunity […]

Fracking spiders! Syfy unleashes “Arachnoquake”

June 21, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

If you remember the 1990 movie Arachnophobia, you might recall that it was (somewhat awkwardly) marketed as a “thrill-omedy,” trying to play up its effective combination of scares and laughs as it told the tale of a spider invasion of a small town. Syfy’s original movie Arachnoquake could be similarly billed as such, as it features thrills but less outright horror than most Saturday night movie titles the network has aired, and a lot more fun and humor, even down to the peppy, bouncy, and almost comic musical score that propels the action. The plot, of course, is ridiculous. A […]

Does Charlie Sheen win again with “Anger Management”?

June 21, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor

By Jay Bobbin Charlie Sheen hopes to be winning the series-television game once more. More than a year after his much-documented and much-discussed dismissal from CBS’ Two and a Half Men, the actor is headlining a comedy show again. FX launches Anger Management — inspired by the 2003 Adam Sandler/Jack Nicholson film — with Sheen as an ex-baseball player turned unconventional anger therapist. Much as his previous TV alter ego Charlie Harper incorporated a lot of Sheen’s own history and personality, so does his new character … another “Charlie.” He recently discussed the show and his colorful recent past, and […]

“Impractical Jokers” to return to truTV for Season 2

June 21, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Get ready for more hidden-camera hilarity as truTV has ordered a second season of Impractical Jokers. The series, featuring four lifelong friends who take dares to a ridiculous level, will return in December with 15 new episodes, according to a release. Stars Brian “Q” Quinn, James “Murr” Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano announced the pickup with a special video to their fans posted on their Facebook fan page. RELATED: truTV’s “Impractical Jokers” mixes “Candid Camera” with “Jackass”

Russell Brand fits FX with “Brand X”

June 21, 2012 StayTuned Staff

For anyone who’s ever watched the news and wondered, “What would Russell Brand think of all this?,” FX has got your answer. Brand X With Russell Brand will present the outrageous, unnervingly erudite Brit commenting on current events in front of a late-night audience. The six half-hour specials — Thursdays beginning June 28 at 11pm — will be taped just days in advance, allowing Brand’s perspective on topics ranging from politics to gossip as much immediacy as possible, and his interactions with the audience are being sold as an integral part of the entertainment value. Much will be made of […]

7 Questions With … Sutton Foster of ABC Family’s “Bunheads”

June 21, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Sutton Foster has all the confidence in the world when she’s belting out show tunes on Broadway — as she did to Tony-winning effect in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes — or teaching young girls to dance, as she does in the new ABC Family hit Bunheads, which airs Mondays at 9pm. But when it comes to meeting fellow actor Paul Rudd, the normally composed star confesses to becoming tongue-tied. She reveals that and more interesting tidbits about herself in this edition of “7 Questions.” What has been your strangest fan encounter? I actually had this whole video series that […]

Cedric the Entertainer becomes “The Soul Man” for TV Land

June 19, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Cedric the Entertainer has always been fond of his joke imagining what it would be like if R. Kelly became a preacher. So much so that it was the starting point for an idea that became his latest project. In The Soul Man, premiering 10pm June 20 on TV Land, the Original King of Comedy plays Rev. Boyce “The Voice” Ballentine, a former R&B star who made ladies swoon — and their underwear fly toward the stage — with such bump-and-grind hits as “Sex Wichoo.” He’s given up his lustful ways to take over as minister at his father’s St. […]

VOD Spotlight: A “green” set sends Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd back to nature in “Wanderlust”

June 19, 2012 Meredith Ennis

In Wanderlust, Paul Rudd (I Love You, Man) and Jennifer Aniston (Horrible Bosses) star as George and Linda, a stressed-out Manhattan couple who find themselves unable to continue living in the city when their employment circumstances change. On their way to Atlanta, where they are reluctantly moving in with George’s brother, they stumble into an alternative community known as Elysium. Production designer Aaron Osborne and his crew did their research for the film by staying at and interacting within an actual 30-year-old commune in the North Georgia Mountains. “We had a great experience at this place called Earthsong,” he tells. […]