Comedy

Funny People to headline 13th Annual Just For Laughs Film Fest

The Just For Laughs Film Festival returns this year, happening from July 10-27, 2009. Films screening at the fest this year include: Humpday, OSS 117: Rio ne Repond Plus, Agathe Clery, Paper Heart, The Slammin’ Salmon, World’s Greatest Dad, Funny People and Les Doigts Croches. Independent films this year include That’s For Me!, More than ….

Megan Fox gets nasty in R-Rated Jennifer’s Body trailer

Director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Aeon Flux) and writer/producer Diablo Cody (Juno) present Jennifer’s Body, which revolves around a newly possessed cheerleader who turns into a killing machine, specializing in taking out her male classmates. ShockTillYouDrop has nabbed an exclusive red band trailer, that acts as a prelude to an upcoming set visit story they’ll be ….

The Pink Panther 2 Blu-ray review

MGM Home Entertainment released the family-friendly comedy The Pink Panther 2 on Blu-ray disc yesterday, June 23rd. This sequel to the popular 2006 hit, revolves around a master thief known as the Tornado, who heists four of the world’s most valuable and legendary artifacts – the Magna Carta, the Shroud of Turin, the Royal Emperor’s ….

House of Flying Daggers director to remake the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple?

Back in February, Shockya reported that Spider-Man director Sam Raimi was attached to produce a remake of the martial arts film House of Flying Daggers. Now comes a report from Empire, that Zhang Yimou – director of that seminal kung fu epic as well as Jet Li’s Hero, and choreographer of the amazing display at ….

Jon Favreau, Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Adam Sandler and more to headline action comedy Zookeeper

Adam Sandler, Cher, Jon Favreau, Sylvester Stallone and Judd Apatow will handle voiceover duties for the animals in MGM’s live-action comedy The Zookeeper, which stars Kevin James and Rosario Dawson, according to Variety. Sandler, whose production shingle Happy Madison will produce the film, will voice a capuchin monkey. Cher is set to voice a giraffe, ….

Indie comedy Humpday screening on the roof of New Design High this Friday

This Friday, June 26th, Rooftop FIlms will present the comedy Humpday – directed by Lynn Shelton (My Effortless Brilliance) – on the roof of New Design High School on the Lower East Side, with musical guests The Antlers. The address of the screening venue is 350 Grand Street at Essex Street, New York City. The ….

Check out this naughty trailer for the Bobcat Goldthwait-directed World’s Greatest Dad

A red band trailer for the Bobcat Goldthwait-directed comedy World’s Greatest Dad, has been posted exclusively to Hulu. The film will be on VOD, XBOX Live and Amazon starting July 24th, and THEN in theatres on August 21st, 2009. A thoughtful but outrageous comedy from Bobcat Goldthwait, World’s Greatest Dad is a story about a ….

Nobel Son DVD review

Nobel Son is an eccentric crime drama written by husband and wife team, Jody Savin and Randall Miller. The film tells the zig-zagging tale of Barkley Michaelson – son of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Eli Michaelson – whose life is in a deep life rut. He’s struggling to finish his PhD thesis on cannibalism and trying ….

Win one of five copies of the award-winning indie comedy Ibid

On June 9th, Indiepix Films will release the SWSX Official Selection IBID, on DVD. IBID was produced by award-winning producer Heather Rae, who recently took home the Producer’s Award at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for Ibid and Frozen River. To celebrate the DVD release of IBID, FilmFetish is getting five copies of the DVD, ….

Ice Age creator announces date for newest animated feature, to be set in Rio de Janeiro

Twentieth Century Fox Animation president Vanessa Morrison recently announced that Rio, the latest animated feature film from Blue Sky Studios, will be released by Fox on April 8, 2011. Rio is a story of a nerdy macaw who leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio de Janeiro. He ….