Get Ready for James McAvoy to Annoy The Crap Out of You

According to PerezHilton.com, Scottish actor James McAvoy has won the leading roll as a younger Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming prequel, The Hobbit, to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

From the article:

Said to take the lead role of hobbit Bilbo Baggins is Scottish actor James McAvoy.

The J.R.R. Tolkien novel is hoping to be the next blockbuster big hit and will be directed by Guillermo del Toro.

The film is scheduled to begin filming later this year in New Zealand. Read More »

Is Amanda Bynes Behind “Be Kind Rewind”?

Slashfilm recently featured a video that compared Michel Gondry’s new film Be Kind Rewind to The Amanda Show, which aired on Nickelodeon eight years ago. While the concepts are indeed similar, it’s commonplace for these kind of coincidences to happen in entertainment…right?

The Amanda Show clip:

Be Kind Rewind trailer:

Drunk History Vol. 2 - Featuring Jack Black

A Benjamin Franklin expert reveals his controversial theory about the discovery of electricity. Witness history told as it’s never been told before…Drunk.

(Via Funny Or Die)

Video Trifecta: Jack Black, Jimi Hendrix and Optical Illusions

Video Trifecta

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Judd Apatow Loves “Cox”

judd.jpgLeave it to Tinseltown’s finest writer/director/whatever Judd Apatow to parody the critically-beloved music biography genre.

Hot off the heels from the future-classic Knocked Up (and awaiting the release of his new flick, Superbad this Friday) Apatow is preparing to release Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story on December 14 this year.

The official trailer for Walk Hard debuted at Comic-Con before the screening of Superbad to a rapturous response, and Apatow seems confident that it could garner some Oscar buzz, hence the deadline-safe release date.

Chiggity-check Walk Hard’s plot, cast and out-of-control cameos after the jump.

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“Be Kind Rewind” Movie Trailer

A man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend’s video store. In order to satisfy the store’s most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop.