Faizon Love is suing Universal for fraud, breach of contract and violation of California's fair employment act and civil rights law.
They weren't sure about casting Vince Vaughn for his role in Old School.
The body-swap horror film is the new number one movie in America.
Vince Vaughn really ran with the whole trapped-in-a-teenage girl bit.
With Happy Death Day (and its even-more-bonkers sequel Happy Death Day 2 U), filmmaker Christopher Landon took a trope most closely associated with a beloved comedy (Groundhog Day), with a protagonist experiencing the same day over and over again and turned it into a brilliant horror romp. (It was wildly entertaining and offered valuable commentary on repetitiousness of soulless horror movies.) For his latest film, Landon has attempted a similar genre-blending reinvention, pairing a broad body swapping conceit (made famous in Disney’s Freaky Friday and appropriated by a stream of crude 1980s comedies) with the tropes …
I caught Jimmy O. Yang's standup special Good Deal on Amazon earlier this summer and even though I think I'm a tough judge when it comes to comedy, I thought it was pretty damn funny. But that's real life, and in the trailer for the new indie The Opening Act, the Silicon Valley alum plays a struggling comedian who's having a tough time connecting with audiences. Written and directed by comedian Steve Byrne, and produced by Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley, The Opening Act finds Yang playing Will, a guy with a great job, a beautiful …
The new body swap horror movie Freaky already has one really big fan.
It may be Thursday, but I wouldn't be surprised if you thought it was Friday after watching the trailer for Blumhouse's new horror comedy Freaky, which like Freaky Friday before it, is a body swapping movie. This time around, Kathryn Newton (The Society) plays a high school student who wakes up in the body of a middle-aged serial killer, played by Vince Vaughn, who promptly uses his new innocent teenage girl look to go on a murderous rampage. Our young protagonist has less than 24 hours to remedy the situation before the change becomes permanent. Alan Ruck (…