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New The Disaster Artist Trailer – James Franco becomes the director of the ‘worst film ever’

November 5, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

While there have been many movies in the last century that have been held up as the world film ever made. However, the one that’s made the strongest run for that title in the last 20 years is probably Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 movie The Room. Met with bemused derision and anger on its initial release, it fast became a cult sensation with audiences invited to marvel at just how dreadful it was.

It’s a film that’s long fascinated James Franco, who’s now made a movie about The Room’s unique creation, The Disaster Artist. It tells the tale of Wiseau who was more a profound artist in his own mind than reality, who decided to write, direct and star in a semi-autobiographical film. However, what started as a difficult production got progressively worse, as Wiseau’s strange filming methods got increasingly extreme, his money ran out, and not least that Tommy’s acting style was unique to say the least.

The film is out in the US and UK in December. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen DIRECTORS: James Franco

The Disaster Artist Trailer – James Franco becomes the director of the ‘worst film ever’

September 12, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The film is out in the UK in December and should arrive in the UK not long afterwards. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen DIRECTORS: James Franco

The Disaster Artist Trailer – James Franco takes on the director of the worst movie ever

July 18, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Stop the presses – James Franco has made a non-gay movie! However, he’s still interested in outsiders, this time taking on the true story of Tommy Wiseau, the director of 2003’s The Room, with James both directing and starring. The film is held up by many as the worst movie ever made, but has since become a cult favourite due to people being unable to believe how awful it is.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘With The Disaster Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau – an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable – into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. Based on Greg Sestero’s best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy’s cult-classic disasterpiece The Room (“The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”), The Disaster Artist is a hilarious and welcome reminder that there is more than one way to become a legend— and no limit to what you can achieve when you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.’

The film got some good reviews coming out of its SXSW debut, with many particularly impressed by Franco’s performance. The Disaster Artist is out in US cinemas in December. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen DIRECTORS: James Franco

Billy Eichner & Seth Rogen Will Be Live-Action Lion King’s Timon & Pumbaa

April 26, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Jon Favreau is busy putting together the voice cast for his live-action take on The Lion King, and he’s just found the men he want to be Simba’s warthog and meerkat pals, Timon and Pumbaa. TheWrap reports that Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen will take on the roles.

They join Donald Glover as Simba, with James Earl Jones returning to play his father, Mufasa. It rumoured that the makers want Beyonce to play Simba’s mother Nala, but that’s yet to be confirmed.

In the 1994 animated movie, Timon and Pumbaa were voiced by Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella. Although Billy Of The Street’s Eichner and Bad Neighbours’ Rogen seem somewhat different to those two on the surface, they do have a similar energy and could be a lot of fun in the roles.

What’s not known yet is whether the movie will follow Beauty and the Beast’s reinvention of the animated movie as a full-on musical, or whether it will remove most (if not all) of the tunes, like Favreau’s Jungle Book.You have to hope that at the very least, we get to hear Eichner and Rogen’s take on Hakuna Matata.

It’s expected that the movie will shoot this year, although no release date is currently set.

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ACTORS: Billy Eichner, Seth Rogen DIRECTORS: Jon Favreau FILMS: The Lion King

Sausage Party (Blu-ray Review) – Seth Rogen leads some rude, crude, animated food

December 27, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Bill Hader, Edward Norton, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Seth Rogen
Director: Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: December 26th 2016 (UK)

Ever since it was first announced, Sausage Party sounded like a completely insane movie, and now it’s here, that judgement has been proven correct. It may also one of the most in-your-face Hollywood releases ever on gay/bisexual front – even if that LGB content does involve animated food.

Frank (Seth Rogen) is a sausage, who’s spent his life in his package in a supermarket, waiting to be picked by the ‘gods’ (aka humans), and taken to The Great Beyond. Every day all the food in the market sing about the joys of The Great Beyond, and how nothing bad could possibly happen to them there. The sausages are also excited because getting picked will finally get them out of their wrappers and sliding into the sexy buns they’ve long flirted with but barely been able to touch. [Read more…]

Seth Rogen Offers His Thoughts On Justin Bieber & Orlando Bloom’s Penises

August 8, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Over the past few days many thousands of people have been offering their thoughts on the man bits of Justin Bieber and Orlando Bloom, after nude pics of the actors were taken on holiday (they were on different holidays with their girlfriends, before you get too excited). However, most of those opinions were offered by straight women and gay men.

Other people have been taking a look though, and it turns out that includes Seth Rogen, who gave his thoughts on Watch What Happens Live. Host Andy Cohen asked him, “Who would you say, as a straight guy, had the nicer penis of the two?… Who’s is nicer, would you say?”

While some straight guys would have pretended they hadn’t seen then, Rogen jumped right in, sounding like a bit of a celebrity penis connoisseur, saying, “I’ve seen Justin’s before, so maybe I was just like, ‘I’ve been there, done that a little bit. And it’s wonderful, but Orlando’s I was really happy with. Good for him! He’s in great shape overall. So, I thought, honestly, Orlando’s probably a bigger guy and proportionally, his penis, it looked to scale, which makes me think overall, it’s probably bigger.”

Does that mean Seth Rogen is a straight size queen? Who knows?! Take a look at Seth talking Bieber/Bloom willies below. [Read more…]

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New Sausage Party Red Band Trailer – Seth Rogen becomes animated food in an R-rated comedy

July 23, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Early, work-in-progress screening of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s R-rated CGI animated movie, Sausage Party, got pretty good buzz, with many suggesting it’s a smart and funny movie, which takes a sideways look at belief and religion. Now, to tie in with it Comic-Con panel, a new Red Band trailer has dropped.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store. The film features the vocal talents of a who’s who of today’s comedy stars – Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, and Salma Hayek.’

It’ll be in UK cinemas on September 2nd. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek FILMS: Sausage Party

New Sausage Party Trailer – It’s dangerous being animated food for Seth Rogen & co.

May 21, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Sausage Party has been described as Toy Story for grown-up – a CGI animated comedy about food that comes to life when no one is looking. However while toys have to worry about their owner leaving them behind as they grow up, food has to worry about being eaten.

It’ll be cinemas in August. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

Seth Rogen Talks About His ‘Bordering Blatantly Homophobic’ Early Movies

May 5, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

There have plenty of people who’ve noted that while Seth Rogen’s movies have been popular, a lot of them are also filled with jokes where gay people are the butt of the humour. The actor and his colleagues have sometimes tried to defend it, saying the real joke is against the type of person who talks like that. However, now he’s admitted that some of the humour in his earlier movies probably was homophobic.

Talking to The Guardian, Rogen and his Bad Neighbours 2 co-star Chloë Grace Moretz were asked to re-evaluating previous films through a feminist lens. It appears Rogen has already had a rethink about some of what he’s done in the past, saying “It’s funny looking at some movies we’ve made in the last 10 years under the lens of new eras and new social consciousnesses… There’s for sure some stuff in our earlier movies and even in our more recent movies where even like a year later you’re like, ‘Eh, maybe that wasn’t the greatest idea or some jokes just don’t age as well as others.’”

“There are probably some jokes in Superbad that are bordering blatantly homophobic at times. I mean, they’re all in the voice of high school kids who do speak like that, but I think we’d also be silly not to acknowledge that we were also, to some degree, glamorizing that type of language in a lot of ways.”

Rogen also gives his thoughts on the Sororities and Fraternities that features in Bad Neighbours and its sequel, saying “I think the Greek system seems a little sexist,” Rogen said of the film’s main topic. “The sheer fact that the women and the men don’t have equal rights and opportunities, I think by definition makes it sexist, so that’s something we talked a lot about while we were making this movie.” [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Seth Rogen, Chloe Moretz

Steve Jobs (DVD Review)

March 20, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Katherine Waterston
Director: Danny Boyle
Running Time: 122 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: March 21st 2016 (UK)

I’m starting to think that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has decided he’s a complete prick, and so has set out to write things that suggest that being the best and being an ass go hand-in-hand. The likes of The Social Network, Steve Jobs and, to some extent, The Newsroom and Studio 60 On Sunset Strip have all forwarded this agenda. Rumours suggest Sorkin can be incredibly demanding and difficult to work with (stories of how tough it was in the writer’s room of The West Wing and how little he listened to other peoples’ ideas are legendary), and it’s oddly interesting how so many of his projects seem to be about his own issues with this.

What he never quite addresses though is something he puts in the mouth of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Steven Jobs, who tells the demanding and difficult Steve that being talented and being a decent person are not mutually exclusive. However, in the world of Aaron Sorkin, it often feels like they are. [Read more…]