Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts

Friday, January 24, 2014

'Weekend at Bernie's' talent sue MGM & FOX for back compensation

It's obvious that in Hollywood, people will scam you out of money any way they can.

Who doesn't remember the 80's comedy 'Weekend at Bernie's'?  For those of you too young, the story goes like this.  Rich boss guy dies, a guy at his office and his bumbling friend find him dead.  They proceed to spend the summer on an island pretending the guy is not dead.  Meanwhile a hitman is trying to kill them.  Just a normal summer.
That's it in a nutshell.

Robert Klane (screenwriter) and Ted Kotcheff (director) have filed a lawsuit in L.A. superior court demanding back pay of residuals for the 1988 comedy 'Weekend at Bernie's".

The film has made over $30 million in gross and $16 million in actual revenue from the distribution.

Sounds to me like Klane and Kotcheff are owed some money.  Maybe MGM or FOX will have to pay up soon.



To refresh your memory.

   


Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Honey Badger getting a TV Series?


The youtube video is Hilarious to me, but a whole series?  I don't know about this...  read below.


Canadian production company Six Eleven Media is developing a Honey Badger comedy, which will be pitched to networks later this month.

Honey Badger don’t care, but the hope is that TV networks will.

On the heels of Randall and "the crazy, nastya-- Honey Badger" videos’ 31 million-plus YouTube views, the viral sensation is being developed as an animation/live action comedy hybrid, titled Honey Badger U.

The project, which soon will be pitched to both broadcast and cable networks, will follow an animated Randall, who is the chief professor of life sciences at a dysfunctional university. His course will feature his trademark color-commentary on documentary footage of topics related to science and the animal kingdom while forming an unusual bond with his student, fellow professors and the University mascot, “Honey,” a “nastya--” honey badger.

Charles Bishop and Kirk Schenck, the pair behind six-month-old Canadian production company Six Eleven Media, will serve as executive producers, along with comedian/writer Harland Williams. Christopher Gordon, the creator of Randall’s Honey Badger, Bricken Entertainment’s Bradford Bricken and Principal Entertainment’s Danny Sherman as well as Josh Kesselman are also attached as producers.

“Six Eleven was developing a university-based animated comedy following a professor who thinks he knows more than he really does, and his students, who know even less. When Randall’s Honey Badger videos took off last year garnering tens of millions of avid followers around the world, it seemed natural to merge the two concepts,” said Schenck in a statement.

The team plans to begin pitching the project to networks later this month. If sold, Honey Badger U will continue a growing trend of TV projects conceived in the digital world, where they can develop an initial fan base. Last last year, G4 announced it would develop Epic Meal Time, adapted from the cult YouTube cooking show created by Harley Morenstein.

The sales process coincides with the publication of the book, Honey Badger Don’t Care: Randall’s Guide to Crazy, Nastya-- Animals, and two new iPhone Apps. One app will house a honey badger role-playing game, narrated by Randall; the other will feature Randall’s now famous lines and other gems.

Watch a Honey Badger clip below.


via: The Hollywood Reporter

Friday, February 25, 2011

What Happened To The Bullies From The Neverending Story?

Thanks to CinemaBlend for posting this:



What if you were haunted by a flying Dog Faced creature?  You lived through the 80's but could you dare live with what you saw?  What would you be like today?

Comedy troupe Rue Brutalia asks that question and finds the answer.

Monday, October 4, 2010

POLL: Most Anticipated October 2010 Relese

Most Anticipated October 2010 Release
most anticipated October 2010 release
The Social Network (Oct. 1)
Let Me In (Oct. 1)
Case 39 (Oct. 1)
Secretariat (Oct. 8)
Stone (Oct. 8)
My Soul to Take (Oct. 8)
Life As We Know It (Oct. 8)
Buried (Oct. 8)
Nowhere Boy (Oct. 8)
Conviction (Oct. 15)
Red (Oct. 15)
Jackass 3D (Oct. 15)
Paranormal Activity 2 (Oct. 22)
Hereafter (Oct. 22)
Saw 3D (Oct. 29)






Thursday, September 30, 2010

Tony Curtis dies at 85

Best known for his role opposite Jack Lemon and Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot".  Curtis is also known for having a relationship with the original Scream Queen Janet Lee and having an equally famous daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for :"The Defiant Ones".  Curtis passed away at his home in Henderson, Nevada of cardiopulmonary arrest, said a spokeswoman for the Clark County coroner.

"My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages," his daughter actress Jamie Lee Curtis said in a statement. "He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in-laws who were devoted to him. He also leaves behind fans all over the world."

In 2000, the American Film Institute named "Some Like It Hot" the best comedy of the 20th century.






Saturday, September 18, 2010

Betty White Hot!


This is the best thing I've seen in a while!



If anyone is looking for Christmas or Birthday presents... I'll take one of each. thanks! :)

 image copyrighted by HoodieBuddy.com

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

could Zombieland 2 be a Prequel?

Looks like it's possible. 
 I absolutely loved Zombieland.  It was FUN.  That's all it needed to be.  The perfect blend of action, comedy & horror. 
 I'd love to see Woody Harrelson back in action as Tallahassee and I really think Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone were fantastically cast in the film.  Bringing them together for a Prequel or a Sequel would be a fantastic move.



Movies Online had a quote from Director Rubin Fleischer


"One of the fun things about 'Zombieland' is it jumps all over the place in terms of the storyline," Fleischer said. "It'll go to before zombies to after zombies and all around those worlds.
What's fun about the sequel is we have freedom and flexibility to show different periods. We might have scenes before the zombies, or we might have some months after, or potentially stuff further down the road. Through the voice-over and the way the movie is structured, we can really explore all different sides of it."




 I'm eager to see the follow up.  How about you?