Tuesday, June 30

• International Trailer for Inglourious Basterds

  There's lots of new footage in the just-released international trailer for Inglourious Basterds. While earlier trailers have tended to be a bit Brad Pitt-centric, this one focuses more on rest of the cast.

  Playing a German psychopath recruited into the professional league of the "Nazi-killing business," Til Schweiger is impressively minimalist, communicating his reactions by only the smallest of gestures. We also get to see more of Mike Myers as a very proper British general, introducing the Basterds and setting up the climactic attack on the cinema. And the trailer wraps up with a laugh, rather than a bang, as SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) fails to impress the Basterds with his command of American idioms.

  
  

  Posted 06/30/2009 by Bill

  Related: Brad Pitt | Mike Myers | Til Schweiger | Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds

Tuesday, October 14

• Tarantino's Basterds Begins Production in Germany

  Quentin Tarantino's war epic Inglourious Basterds (yep, that's the correct spelling) recently started production in Germany. The pic features a gigantic cast that now officially includes Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet, and Cloris Leachman.

  According to the release from Weinstein, Basterds starts out in a German-occupied France. Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family by Nazis. She manages to escape to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner of a cinema.

  Meanwhile, Lt. Aldo Raines (Pitt) organizes a series of retribution attacks by Jewish soldiers known as "The Basterds." They join German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich.

  A specific release on Inglourious Basterds has not been set, but Weinstein confirms that it will release in 2009.

  
  

  Posted 10/14/2008 by reelz

  Related: Brad Pitt | Mike Myers | Quentin Tarantino | Diane Kruger | Inglourious Basterds

Friday, August 15

• Love Guru Joins Bastards
  

  Variety reports that Mike Myers has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards as British General Ed Fenech.

  Myers has to hope the role will lend a bit of credibility to his live action acting after this summer's Love Guru debacle.

  Myers joins fellow castmates Brad Pitt and Eli Roth. Simon Pegg, Nastassja Kinski, David Krumholtz and B.J. Novak are also in talks with Tarantino.

  Shooting begins October 13th in Germany.

  Source: Variety
  

   

  
  
  
  

  Posted 08/15/2008 by reelz

  Related: Mike Myers | Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds

Friday, August 1

• International Man of Mystery's Career Not Over Yet

  So it turns out that Verne Troyer isn't the only one dying to see Austin Powers IV. Even though Mike Myers' latest flick, The Love Guru, got less love than Deepak Chopra at a Baptist revival meeting, New Line Cinema still believes Myers can draw a crowd -- at least if pulls his funny teeth out of a drawer and resurrects everyone's favorite horny British spy. Deadline Hollywood reports that with absolutely no demand whatsoever for a Love Guru 2, even from Verne Troyer, Myers has started work on a new Austin Powers adventure. This one will focus on Dr. Evil and his son.

  
  

  Posted 08/01/2008 by reelz

  Related: Mike Myers | Verne Troyer

Wednesday, May 14

• The Love Guru Banned in India?

  Yahoo! News is reporting that Mike Myers' return to comedy, The Love Guru, might not play in India.The movie, about an American who was left at an Indian ashram as a baby and then puts his schooling there to use as an unorthodox self-help guru, has raised hackles in the hindu community.

  Universal Society of Hinduism president Rajan Zed accuses it of 'lampooning Hinduism' (which it obviously is) and is calling for India's Central Board of Film Certification and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to ban the movie throughout India. For their part, the Central Board of Film Certification denies ever receiving an official request.

  The real question is: Are these groups calling for the movie to be banned because it is poking fun at Hinduism or because it just isn't funny?

  
  
  

  The Love Guru trailer

  Mike Myers & Jessica Alba Star - Releasing June 20, 2008

  Posted 05/14/2008 by reelz

  Related: Mike Myers | The Love Guru

Sunday, May 4

• Love Guru pix

  It's been a while since we've seen Mike Myers at the cineplex, let a lone in a new character, but that's all about to change. This summer he'll be treating us to a whole new comedy, The Love Guru, and we've got some preview pix to prove it.

  Check out our Love Guru photo gallery and see for yourself.

  
  

  Posted 05/04/2008 by reelz

  Related: Mike Myers | The Love Guru

Friday, February 29

• Love Guru trailer debuts, bombs

  If you're anything like me, you actually let your Tivo run through the commercials during last night's The Daily Show when you saw the trailer for Mike Myers' long-awaited return to the cinema, The Love Guru, come up.

  Then you watched it and realized that if these were the best moments of the movie they could muster up for the trailer, it isn't going to be very funny at all--even if you do see Justin Timberlake playing a goofy French Canadian in bikini underpants.

  To see The Love Guru trailer for yourself, head over to Slashfilm.com.

  
  

  Posted 02/29/2008 by reelz

  Related: Mike Myers | The Love Guru

Thursday, August 9

• Bring on the funny: More Mike Myers and Pink Panther, plus the Sandler/Playboy movie gets a Hanks

  Mike Myers has created a new character for the silver screen, and this one doesn't wear velour leisure suits. The Love Guru will star Myers as a man who was left at an Indian ashram as a baby and then raised by gurus and must use his enlightenment to help a troubled couple, says Variety.

  Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four,Sin City), Romany Malco (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Blades of Glory) and Verne Troyer (Austin Powers' Mini Me) will costar.

  Variety is also reporting that the sequel to Steve Martin's 2006 The Pink Panther is under way. Pink Panther 2 will feature Martin again reprising his role as Clouseau. Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code, Ronin) and Emily Mortimer (Match Point, Lovely & Amazing) will also return.

  The script, which will be directed by Harald Zwart (Agent Cody Banks), has also attracted John Cleese (A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python), Andy Garcia (When a Man Loves a Woman, Ocean's Thirteen) and Alfred Molina (Spider Man 2, Magnolia) to the cast. Pink Panther 2 will come out on February 13, 2009.

  Finally, The Hollywood Reporter has more casting news on the still Untitled Adam Sandler/Anna Faris comedy about the outcast Playboy bunny who becomes house-mother to a lame sorority. Monet Mazur (40 Days and 40 Nights), Beverly D'Angelo (National Lampoon's Vacation), and Colin Hanks (Orange County) are all joining the cast.

  
  

  Posted 08/09/2007 by reelz

  Related: Alfred Molina | Andy Garcia | Emily Mortimer | Jean Reno | John Cleese | Mike Myers | Steve Martin | Verne Troyer | Colin Hanks | Jessica Alba | Monet Mazur | Beverly D'Angelo | Harald Zwart | Romany Malco | The Love Guru | The Pink Panther 2 | The House Bunny

Monday, June 4

• And the Golden Popcorn goes to...

  The 2007 MTV Movie Awards went off without a hitch last night, as the music network celebrated the edgier side of Hollywood by doling out its irreverent Golden Popcorn honors to the movie industry.

  Emcee Sarah Silverman wasn't as dirty as she can sometimes be, but she did make some nice cracks about heiress-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-law Paris Hilton--who was in the audience at the time. Uncomfortable!

  The big winners of the night were Johnny Depp with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - it won Best Movie and he won Best Performance - and Sacha Baron Cohen, who won Best Comedic Performance for Borat and Best Kiss (along with Will Ferrell) for Talladega Nights. The two men celebrated their win by rolling around on stage and making out.

  Other winners include: Jack Nicholson for Best Villain in The Departed, Jaden Smith for Breakthrough Performance with The Pursuit of Happyness, Gerard Butler for Best Fight in 300, Transformers for Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet, Josh Greenbaum for mtvU Best Filmmaker on Campus with Featured Film: Border Patrol, United 300 for Best Movie Spoof, and Mike Myers for the MTV Generation Award.

  
  

  Posted 06/04/2007 by reelz

  Related: Jack Nicholson | Johnny Depp | Mike Myers | Sacha Baron Cohen | Sarah Silverman | Will Ferrell | Jaden Smith | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | The Departed | The Pursuit of Happyness | 300 | Transformers

Wednesday, May 23

• Mike Myers down with remake fever

  Funnyman Mike Myers will star in a remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye comedy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Variety is reporting.

  Jay Kogen (The Simpsons, Frasier) and Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.are writing and producing the script specifically for Myers.

  Jim Carrey and Owen Wilson have both been attached to star and Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Mark Waters to direct in previous incarnations of the script.

  In case you've been living under a rock, Myers can currently be seen in Shrek the Third, which took box offices by storm last weekend.

  
  

  Posted 05/23/2007 by reelz

  Related: Mike Myers | Samuel Goldwyn Jr. | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2008) | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Friday, May 18

• How BIG will the Ogre's B.O. Be?
  

  That's Box Office, by the way (you weirdo).
  
  Speculation on the potential Box Office for Shrek the Third has been all over the place, from as low as $90 million (yes, that's actually low these days for a blockbuster) to as high as $120 (dangerously close to Spidey 3 numbers).
  
  As reviews surfaced this week, the big green smelly guy has taken a critical pummeling. Rotten Tomatoes scores Shrek the Third a lowly 45% splat (compared to and 88% certified fresh for Shrek 2) and his Metacritic score is a failing 57 out of 100. Our own Thomas Leupp scored Shrek the Third a 6 out of 10.
  
  So what do you think the Ogre will take in at megaplexes this weekend? Are you planning to see it? Chime in on the comments section of the Shrek the Third detail page where you'll also find photos, trailers and Thomas Leupp's 60-second video review.
  
  
  
  Next Showing: Shrek the Third is now playing Nationwide and Far, Far Away.
  

  Shrek the Third

  Princesses Rule!
  

  Shrek the Third

  Another Whirlwind Adventure

  Posted 05/18/2007 by reelz

  Related: Cameron Diaz | Eddie Murphy | Mike Myers | Shrek the Third

Tuesday, April 3

• Get ready for Shrek

  Does Mike Myers even make live action flicks anymore? Not that he needs to -- he's got more than enough Shrek money coming in to ditch them entirely. Actually, that might not be a bad idea. Remember Cat in the Hat? It still gives me nightmares.

  Myers reprises his trademark role as the voice of the big green ogre this summer in Shrek the Third. Will the third installment the franchise, the crown jewel of Dreamworks Animation, live up to the hype? Check out our preview of the highly-anticipated animated flick, which arrives in theaters on May 18th.

  
  
  

  Shrek the Third trailer

  The wait is OGRE!

  Posted 04/03/2007 by reelz

  Related: Mike Myers | Shrek the Third