Monday, September 14

• How to Train Your Dragon Teaser Trailer

  DreamWorks Animation (Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens) is teasing its next project — and second digital 3-D movie — with a quick-glimpse trailer. How to Train Your Dragon tells the story of an unlikely hero, Hiccup, heir of a Viking chiefdom.

  To pass an initiation into manhood, Hiccup embarks on a quest to hunt down and bring into submission the fiercest dragon. Voice-over actors in the movie include Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, Kristen Wiig, and America Ferrera. How to Train Your Dragon is due in theaters on March 26, 2010.

  
  

  Posted 09/14/2009 by Jim

  Related: Jonah Hill | Jay Baruchel | America Ferrera | Gerard Butler | Craig Ferguson | Kristen Wiig | Christopher Mintz-Plasse | How to Train Your Dragon

Monday, August 17

• Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell Added to Cast of Oobermind

  

  DreamWorks Animation has recruited some top-flight talent to voice characters in its latest animated adventure, Oobermind, formerly titled Master Mind. It's been announced that Will Ferrell will voice the part of Oobermind, the titular supervillain role that was going to be Robert Downey Jr.'s first foray into animation and also rumored to have been offered to Ben Stiller. Other additions to the cast include Brad Pitt as Metro Man, a champion of good and Oobermind's arch-enemy, and Jonah Hill as Titan, a new superhero created by Oobermind to replace Metro Man. The trio of actors join Tina Fey, signed on to play a Lois Lane-esque character who reports on the city's superheroes.

  Produced by Lara Breay and Denise Nolan Cascino, Oobermind is being directed by Tom McGrath and is scheduled for a fall 2010 release.

  
  

  Posted 08/17/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Brad Pitt | Jonah Hill | Will Ferrell | Tina Fey

Thursday, August 6

• Robert Rodriguez's Machete Cast Revealed

  

  Variety reports that production on Robert Rodriguez's Machete began this week and they also confirmed one of the strangest looking casts including Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, with Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey playing supporting roles and Danny Trejo as the titlular hero.

  The DeNiro casting was announced last month, and the Lohan casting wasn't official, so this is the first time that anything has been confirmed. Jonah Hill was rumored to be cast but was not mentioned in Variety, while all the other names cast are new.

  Cheech Marin is the only actor other than Trejo that appeared in the trailer Rodriguez shot for Grindhouse, while Fahey appeared in Planet Terror. On the poster, only Fahey and Trejo are mentioned, and co-director Ethan Maniquis is left off.

  
  
  Next Showing: Machete is scheduled to open sometime in 2010

  Posted 08/06/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Cheech Marin | Danny Trejo | Jonah Hill | Lindsay Lohan | Michelle Rodriguez | Robert Rodriguez | Don Johnson | Jeff Fahey | Jessica Alba | Steven Seagal | Robert DeNiro | Machete | Planet Terror

Friday, July 17

• Robert Rodriguez's Machete Adds Robert DeNiro to Cast

  Machete started out as a "fake" trailer Robert Rodriguez shot for the double-feature Grindhouse — one that looked arguably better than the Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino movies put together. Production on a feature-length Machete starts July 29, and co-directors Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis have put together a star-filled cast. Danny Trejo will return as Machete, alongside Michele Rodriguez, Jonah Hill, and surprisingly Robert DeNiro. Make up artist-actor Tom Savini will also appear in the movie.

  According to a Bloody-Disgusting source, DeNiro will be playing Senator McLaughlin, a corrupt civil servant who double-crosses Machete. DeNiro's casting seems a little unusual, as does Hill's, so this may simply be rumor. But it would help stabilize Trejo's claim that Machete is intended to be a trilogy.

  
  
  

  Grindhouse - Trailer

  The double feature is back!

  Posted 07/17/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Danny Trejo | Jonah Hill | Quentin Tarantino | Tom Savini | Michelle Rodriguez | Robert Rodriguez | Robert DeNiro | Machete

Wednesday, December 10

• Nine-year-old Sells Movies Rights to Self-Help Book to Fox

  Alex Greven, the nine-year-old author of a best-selling 46-page self-help book entitled "How to Talk to Girls," has sold the movie rights to his book to Fox for a sum reported as the "low-to-mid six figures." Next up for Greven, we're guessing: a self-help book on how to write best-sellers with movie potential. Meanwhile: a movie about a nine-year-old who strikes it rich penning pick-up advice? Forget what we said about Jonah Hill being too old to play teenagers; this could be the role of a lifetime for him.

  
  

  Posted 12/10/2008 by reelz

  Related: Jonah Hill | How to Talk to Girls

• Jonah Hill to Play Marisa Tomei's Jealous Teenage Son?

  Variety reports that Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, and John Reilly may form one of the stranger triangles in recent Hollywood filmdom. Reilly will play a divorced man who falls for single mom Tomei, and Hill will play Tomei's jealous teenage son, who also happens to be a 40-year-old studio executive. Okay, we made up that last part, but if the writers can fit it into the script somehow, it will make the whole thing more believable. Even if he shaves the beard and puts in some contacts, 25-year-old Hill is looking just a little bit too super-old to keep playing teenagers, isn't he?

  
  

  Posted 12/10/2008 by reelz

  Related: Jonah Hill | Marisa Tomei | John C. Reilly

Friday, August 8

• Don't Worry Jonah, the Future Looks Bright

  In 2018, or maybe 2028, will Jonah Hill finally make People's Most Beautiful People list? Probably not, but the LA Times does offer convincing visual proof that most of Hollywood's current crop of leading men have aged pretty gracefully.
  
  

  
  

  Posted 08/08/2008 by reelz

  Related: Jonah Hill

Wednesday, May 14

• Jonah Hill in Talks for 21 Jump Street Movie

  Straight out of the "Huh?" file comes EW.com's report that Superbad star Jonah Hill is in talks to write and possibly star in a big screen adaptation of 21 Jump Street, the undercover narc TV drama that launched the career of Johnny Depp and helped put Fox's network on the map in the late '80s.

  The involvement of funnyman Hill strongly suggests that producers are going for the ironic/self-aware vibe that's become all the rage with big screen send-ups of popular '70s and '80s TV shows. If that's indeed the case, Hill's first order of business should be a required viewing of the ill-conceived Ben Stiller/Owen Wilson Starsky & Hutch flick, followed immediately by 2005's disastrous Dukes of Hazzard, so that he may learn what pitfalls to avoid.

  Source: EW.com

  
  

  Posted 05/14/2008 by reelz

  Related: Jonah Hill

Tuesday, July 10

• Judd Apatow names newest muse

  Super-director/producer Judd Apatow has declared his newest muse: Jonah Hill, the rotund sidekick with bit parts in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up.

  Apatow, who is known for his allegiance to his actors, produced the upcoming comedy Superbad, in which Hill costars with Michael Cera (Arrested Development). Hill wrote two upcoming comedies--Middle Child and Pure Imagination, which Apatow will produce. Hill stars in the latter as a guy who conjures an imaginary girlfriend.

  For more details, visit MTV.com.

  
  
  Next Showing: Superbad hits theaters August 17, 2007.

  Posted 07/10/2007 by reelz

  Related: Jonah Hill | Judd Apatow | Superbad | Middle Child | Pure Imagination

Friday, July 6

• Jonah Hill addresses Watchmen rumors

  Such is the excitement over the upcoming Watchmen movie that even the most minute details of the highly-anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore's acclaimed graphic novel are being furiously scrutinized by fanboys everywhere.

  Take the case of Jonah Hill. The star of Superbad recently became the subject of widespread internet speculation that he'd been cast in the role of Seymour, the assistant to newspaper editor Hector Godrey. (For those unfamiliar with the source material, the role ranks somewhere between "man on bus" and "girlfriend #2" in terms of importance. But hey -- this is Watchmen we're talking about.)

  Thankfully, the intrepid folks at MTV Movies went to the source to find out the truth and put an end to the hearsay. In an interview to promote Superbad, Hill himself quashed the rumor, claiming that he'd never even been approached for the role. Case closed, right? We'll see. Let's not forget that Shia LaBeouf repeatedly said the same thing regarding Indy 4, and now he's in New Haven riding motorcycles with Harrison Ford. Allegedly.

  
  
  

  Zack Snyder talks Watchmen

  The director of 300 discusses his next project

  Posted 07/06/2007 by reelz

  Related: Jonah Hill | Watchmen | Superbad