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Robert Carradine claims he should have been nominated for his role as Lewis Skolnik, the leader of the Lambda Lambda Lambdas in 1984’s Revenge of the Nerds. The reason Carradine believes his acting was Oscar-worthy? Because a nerd “couldn’t have been farther from who I was.”

Carradine’s boast on the inaugural episode of his Revenge of the Party Nerds podcast is just the latest in his history of pronouncements that instead of being a nerd, he was the kind of guy who kicked nerds’ asses. “I’m not a fucking nerd! I hate nerds!” Carradine told Curtis “Booger” Armstrong in his 2017 memoir, Revenge of the Nerd. “I was Bobby Carradine. One of the Princes of Hollywood, as far as I was concerned.”

In GQ’s oral history of Revenge of the Nerds, director Jeff Kanew remembered Carradine telling him, "Look, I don’t know what I’m doing...

Adrienne Barbeau, who can currently be seen in the Max streaming series Duster, achieved genre icon status through her roles in things like Someone’s Watching Me!, The Fog, Escape from New York, Swamp Thing, Creepshow (the movie and the TV series), and more – and now, Variety reports that she’s in the cast of the new horror thriller Oddities, which recently wrapped production in Kentucky!

A feature expansion of writer/director Tyler Savage’s 2023 short film of the same name, Oddities is described as “a genre-bending thriller.” The story follows two self-destructive best friends who accidentally kill someone. After finding refuge in a roadside antique shop, an older woman (Barbeau) initially offers help, but things soon take a dark turn. Barbeau is joined in the cast by Lovie Simone (Forever) and Lilimar (Inside Out 2), who play the self-destructive best friends mentioned in the synopsis, as well as Xander Berkeley...

Trying to get by in school, student Deon (Jeff Smith) witnesses a strange incident when a friend suddenly bites the nurse’s neck and becomes a cannibal. After that, the zombie attacks happen quickly at school and on the streets, so Deon picks up his mother, Isma (Cut Mini Theo), in the Teratai Asri apartment. Deon and his mother are trapped inside the apartment while other residents have fled. Meanwhile, at the Five Military Base, Colonel Vito (Joshua Pandelaki) welcomes Richard (Willem Bevers), Deon’s father, a scientist, who discovered the origin of the outbreak originating from the evolution of an amoeba parasite named Naegleria-ross zeta, and that the Zeta serum he had created located in Teratai Asri apartment. Colonel Vito decides that their team will visit a zombie killer gang called Blue River to get the best combat strategy against the zombies. Deon also tries to fight the zombies...

Robin Williams is best known for his film comedies, such as Mrs. Doubtfire and Aladdin, but when asked about his own prized performances, Williams leaned toward more dramatic work. Forget Mork & Mindy – here are six roles that the comic named as his favorites, as reported by Far Out…

1 Dead Poets Society

According to the Williams biography, Robin, Dead Poets Society was originally slated to be directed by Jeff Kanew, the auteur behind Revenge of the Nerds. Williams didn’t see the story as a comedy and wouldn’t commit until Peter Weir signed on to direct. Williams identified with the story’s plot about a young man who dreams of becoming an actor but is opposed by a stern father who wants him to be more responsible. “It talks about something of the heart and of pursuing that which is a dream — and in some cases, to a tragic end,...

What is the perfect crime... and could you get away with it? That question lies at the core of Perfect Crime Story, a new comics anthology from Iron Circus Comics.

Edited by Kel McDonald, comprising 300+ pages, and spotlighting 25 lighthearted crime stories, Perfect Crime Story is now crowdfunding on BackerKit! Daily Dead previously revealed the creative teams for three of the anthology's stories, and to celebrate the launch of the new collection on BackerKit, we're now thrilled to exclusively unveil preview pages from those three stories:

The Crime Beat by Van Jensen & Neal Obermeyer – An underpaid journalist takes revenge on their boss. Psikotika Will Strike At Midnight by Illuminated – A detective tries their best to stop a grand theft they were warned was coming. Darling Doesn't Know by John Konrad – Two celebrities think murder is an easier solution to their problems than divorce.

You can check out the exclusive previews below,...

It’s always complicated looking at the early stuff. Especially when “the early stuff” hasn’t been publicly available for a few decades, and was very much a trial run for the later stuff, which used a lot of the same elements and ideas in a more coherent, consistent way.

That’s why it took until 2024 for Thorn: The Complete Proto-Bone College Strips 1982-1986 to be published; Jeff Smith knew that as well as anyone, and Bone, even now, is his major work, the core of his resume, and probably still his largest source of income. Add that to any creator’s standard disinterest at looking back at juvenilia, and this is work that could easily have stayed moldering in a vault indefinitely, only to roll out in some posthumous Complete Works or similar exercise.

But, for whatever reason, Smith decided to look back, to clean up, and to publish...

Time will return to ABC for 2024.

The annual Time100 gala, the offshoot of Time magazine’s annual Time 100 list, will once again be broadcast on ABC this year, the Disney network’s fifth year televising the event. The Color Purple star Taraji P. Henson will be this year’s host, with Michael J. Fox set to receive the annual Time Impact Award.

The Time100: The World’s Most Influential People special will air on ABC Sunday May 12 at 10 p.m., and Time says that Dua Lipa and Fantasia Barrino will perform during the event. Patrick Mahomes, Maya Rudolph, Kelley Robinson, 21 Savage and other members of this year’s Time 100 list will also make special appearances. The annual Time 100 list was released this morning, with the annual gala set for April 25.

Time Studios is producing the ABC special in partnership with P&g. Scotch brand Glenfiddich is a supporting partner.

Released soon after the end of the Great Depression and on the precipice of America’s entry into World War II, William Dieterle’s All That Money Can Buy is a peculiar and fascinating blend of the populist agitprop of the 1930s and the patriotic hokum that defined much of the war years.

In transposing the legend of Faust and his pact with the devil to a rousing bit of American folklore, the screenplay by Dan Totheroh and Stephen Vincent Benét presents greed as anathema to the American way of life, and in one of the few brief eras where that notion was anything short of risible. As such, rugged individualism is spurned in favor of collectivism, specifically in the exalting of the values of an agricultural grange—a communal safety net for small farmers like All That Money Can Buy’s protagonist, Jabez Stone (James Craig).

After a string of bad luck,...

Timeslip was a '90s initiative to reimagine Marvel characters, including Silver Surfer and Galactus. In this reality, Silver Surfer assembles a weapon to kill Galactus, but then discovers he must replace his former master. The guilt destroys Silver Surfer, turning him into an inhuman force of destruction who splits planets in two with his new, blade-like board.

The Silver Surfer is one of Marvel's most tragic heroes - a heroic adventurer who sold his soul to protect his world, becoming the herald of the planet-devouring force of nature known as Galactus. However, it turns out that things could have gone far, far worse for Norrin Radd.

In the late '90s, Marvel asked a question - what would its most iconic heroes look like if the most popular artists of the day had co-created them with Stan Lee? The answer was Timeslip - an initiative where acclaimed artists reimagined major characters from first principles.

Blood in the Snow Film Festival (Bits), a unique and imaginative showcase of contemporary Canadian genre films, are pleased to announce the Blood in the Snow Film Festival is back for its 12th exciting edition fully in-person November 20th – 25th at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto presented by Super Channel.

Thrillers play a big part of the lineup this year with the festival feature opener Last County by Barret Mulholland and the World Premiere of Walking Supply from director Derek Barnes.

Other highlights include the highly acclaimed My Animal, from director Jacqueline Castel which recently won the Silver Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature at Fantasia and long time alumni Jesse Thomas Cook returns with The Hyperborean. Jesse’s last film to premiere at Bits in 2021, Cult Hero went on to be nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards.

Two short films that originally played at Bits before have been...

Revenge of the Nerds was released in 1984, a year of sea change in Hollywood, as the city of Los Angeles hosted a memorable Summer Olympics, and non-traditional films were again in fashion after the end of the New Hollywood era. Director Jeff Kanew directed several such comedies in the 80s, but none more celebrated than Revenge of the Nerds — which had a script inspired by an article about the 'nerds' taking over Silicon Valley. During development, Kanew saw Ted McGinley and his chiseled features on the cover of USC Magazine, and knew he'd be the perfect collegiate alpha male and head bully to oppose his heroic cadre of pencil-pushing geeks.

On the nerd team, the casting of Lewis (Robert Carradine) and Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) proved central to the film's success, as Carradine became iconic with his signature laugh and horn-rimmed spectacles, and Edwards provided the film's soul as the 'straight man' of the duo.

Dave O’Connor has been appointed as the new President of Time Studios, Time CEO Jessica Sibley announced Monday morning, in a memo to staff.

O’Connor steps in for Ian Orefice, who served as President & COO of both news magazine Time and its Emmy-winning production division before exiting to launch the content studio EverWonder, alongside Jeff Zucker’s RedBird Imi. He will be based out of New York, reporting directly to Sibley. In his new role, he will look to further Time Studios’ mission of crafting premium storytelling for a global audience, providing the company with the vision and strategic direction necessary to propel it through a turbulent and fast-evolving point in entertainment’s history.

O’Connor joins after co-founding Majordomo Media, where he served as co-ceo and produced such hit series as Chef vs. Wild for Hulu, also building a podcast network and helping to launch an original Fast channel.

We want movies to move us. We want them to soothe us, and carry us through bad times; we want them to make us laugh, make us feel connected to others, and show us beauty and splendor we've never seen before. And, sometimes, we want movies to truly, deeply disturb us.

Never mind why; maybe we're numb and want to be rattled into feeling, maybe we're feeling too much and want to channel it all somewhere, or maybe we just want to believe the world is still capable of bowling us over despite of our defenses. Whatever the case, we all sometimes take to a movie specifically because of one particular moment in it that makes us feel horrible.

Conversely, we sometimes don't want movies to disturb us, and yet they do — when we're least expecting them to, or when we're making an earnest effort to meet them halfway, they...

DC Comics offers a variety of stories that can be easily finished during a leisurely afternoon read, featuring classic superheroes and villains. The recommended series include iconic titles like Batman: The Long Halloween, Superman: Red Son, and Watchmen, which are lauded for their gripping narratives and acclaimed storytelling. Fans can also enjoy lighter reads such as Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil and The Flintstones, which provide a fun and humorous take on beloved characters.

As one of the oldest comic book publishers in the game, DC Comics has hundreds of stories featuring some of the greatest heroes and villains in the superhero genre. But some stories are so big and epic, it would be impossible to finish them in one day. Thankfully, there are plenty of DC Comics publications one could easily finish during a leisurely afternoon read.

Whether it’s an out-of-continuity adventure or an epic run...

In April 2022, after news that Netflix had canceled a planned TV series adaptation of Jeff Smith’s comic series Bone, Smith took to the internet to publish a comic strip that encapsulated his feelings on the endeavor and prior attempts to make a Bone adaptation. In the comic, the duplicitous character Phoney Bone holds up a football, just like Lucy van Pelt, for the plucky Fone Bone to kick. Each time he holds up the pigskin, Phoney introduces himself as being from Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., or Netflix and promising to do right with a Bone adaptation. Fone Bone gets stoked each time…only for the football and the promise of a proper Bone adaptation to get pulled away.

Inside Job’s season 2 has just been canceled, and said cancelation makes Netflix’s animation curse even worse. The first part of season 1 was quick to garner a fanbase for its quirky humor and unique interpretations of conspiracy theories, in addition to how endearing Reagan Ridley was as a lead through her social anxieties and being the straight man of the cast. It even garnered over 21 million hours of views within its first week (via What’s on Netflix). The second part of season 1 kept all of that going to much fanfare, and because of that, there was much anticipation for how season 2 would keep things going.

Unfortunately, none of that will ever come to pass. Despite already being renewed for a second season, Netflix's Inside Job show was suddenly canceled before work on season 2 could be started. The cancelation is disappointing, but what makes it even worse is how...

Jeff Smith's epic graphic novel fantasy adventure, Bone, spans 9 books and starts as a tale of three brothers coming across a fairytale world and ends with those same, bone-shaped cousins saving it from complete destruction. It's been enjoyed by children, adults, and anyone in between. The Bone cousins are smart, funny, and prone to bouts of arrogance and stupidity, but it all makes for an excellent ride.

Netflix had even planned to create a series, but plans fell through in the spring of 2022, according to Av Club. It's not the first time a tv adaptation has been canceled but with such a wealth of story and characters, more studios are sure to take a crack at the series. The characters of Bone are a big part of its success; the friends and foes met along the way are all unique and well-crafted with light-hearted comic moments and dire personal tragedies that drive the story.

Bloody Disgusting has the first word on Witchcraft Motion Picture Company and Good Wizard’s Creep Box, writer/director Patrick Biesemans’ cerebral sci-fi thriller that was recently shot on location in Manhattan.

The film follows a unique engineer at a technology firm specializing in communicating with “whispers” of the recently deceased. Through his exploration of this unsettling piece of newly-developed technology, his research deepens and he finds himself on a dark path as he becomes increasingly unglued from reality.

Bloody also has the above first still to share from the film starring Geoffrey Cantor (Netflix’s Daredevil), Sean Mahon (BBC’s EastEnders), Ian Lithgow (3rd Rock from the Sun), Katie Kuang (HBO’S Westworld), Annie Young (The Conjuring 2), and Annemarie Lawless (The Mountain).

An expansion of Biesemans’ short film of the same name that played North Bend Film Festival, FilmQuest, H.P Lovecraft Ff, Under Worlds, and San Francisco Short Film Festival.

Netflix’s The State of Alabama vs Brittany Smith, a taut true-crime documentary from The Keepers director Ryan White, follows the distressing story of an Alabama mother who was charged with murdering a man she said raped her.

Smith’s case became the focus of an attention-grabbing New Yorker investigation, in part because Smith invoked a “stand your ground” defence. In over 30 US states, including Alabama, state law makes it legal to use lethal force to defend oneself against threats or even perceived threats. In this case, Smith was cornered in her own home by her assailant – an old acquaintance called Todd Smith – who told Smith he’d kill her if she called the police.

But her stand your ground defence failed. In fact, as journalist Elizabeth Flock, who serves as executive producer on the Netflix series, found, women are much less likely than men to successfully invoke “stand your...

If at first you don’t succeed, well, Jeopardy! will give you another shot!

The venerable game show revealed on Tuesday the 18 contestants returning for the first-ever Second Chance tournament, which will air over two weeks beginning Oct. 17.

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The contest finds players who didn’t become Jeopardy! champions in their initial appearances returning for what Sony Pictures Television is dubbing “an unprecedented opportunity to change history.” Each of the two...

This year's Emmy season has come and gone, and amongst the historic wins for Sheryl Lee Ralph, Quinta Brunson, and Lee Jung-jae, Netflix also took home the statue for Best Animated Program for the very first time. The streaming giant has been nominated in the past for "Big Mouth" and "BoJack Horseman," but it was "Arcane" that finally brought home the gold, and made Netflix the first streamer to ever take home the award.

This year's category was absolutely stacked, with "Arcane" besting the already Emmy award-winning series "The Simpsons," "Bob's Burgers," and "Rick and Morty," as well as the Chadwick Boseman-voiced episode of "What If...?" for Disney+. "Arcane" co-creator Christian Linke accepted the award during the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, delivering a speech honoring the video game world that inspired the series:

"Thank you for this. It's a big deal for us as we come from video games.

Sam Fender, Little Simz, and Harry Styles are among the artists shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize.

The shortlist was unveiled in July, comprising 12 albums – from rap and jazz to indie and Cornish folk-rock – that will compete for the coveted award at a ceremony held this September.

This year’s entries are among the most eclectic in recent years. Little Simz is shortlisted for the second time with her critically adored Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, following on from her nod in 2019 for Grey Area.

Rock singer Sam Fender receives his debut nomination for his second LP, Seventeen Going Under, as does pop star Harry Styles, who has been shortlisted for his third studio album, Harry’s House. His record is arguably the most “pure pop” album to be shortlisted since Ed Sheeran’s controversial nomination in 2017.

First-time nominees make up most of this year’s nominees, following last year’s shortlist which included 10 debuts.

This celebrated dysfunctional family story won four Oscars, the most deserved easily being Alvin Sargent’s superb adapted screenplay. The viewer buzz initially centered on the surprise of Mary Tyler Moore’s unexpected casting against type, but even more alarming was author Judith Guest’s scary message that ‘perfect’ families are an illusion. We found the drama absorbing and bought the performances 100 — Sutherland, Hirsch, Hutton, McGovern. It’s clearly Robert Redford’s best job of direction.

Ordinary People

Blu-ray

Paramount Presents

1980 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 124 min. / Street Date March 29, 2022 / Available from Amazon and listed at Paramount / 25.99

Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth McGovern, Dinah Manoff, Adam Baldwin, Frederic Lehne, James B. Sikking.

Cinematography: John Bailey

Art Directors: Phillip Bennett, J. Michael Riva

Film Editor: Jeff Kanew

Original Music: Marvin Hamlisch

Written by Alvin Sargent from the novel by Judith Guest

Produced by Ronald L. Schwary...

Ava Ostern Fries, a producer who used her own experience as a Girl Scout troop leader to create the hit 1989 Shelley Long comedy Troop Beverly Hills, died Oct. 2, her family has announced. She was 87.

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Her passing comes less than six months after the death of her husband of 33 years, longtime TV and film producer Charles “Chuck” Fries.

Born in Dexter, Mo, Ava Fries earned a degree in Theatre Arts and English at the University of Tulsa before moving with her young family to Los Angeles, where she taught English and theater at schools while beginning her career in show business, first as a television actress and off camera.

After serving as a development executive with Danny Thomas Productions, she formed her own production company, Avanti Enterprises, which in 1987 produced the documentary series Born Famous, about the children of the rich and famous.

The Criterion Channel has unveiled their March 2021 lineup, which includes no shortage of remarkable programming. Highlights from the slate include eight gems from Preston Sturges, Elaine May’s brilliant A New Leaf, a series featuring Black Westerns, Ann Hui’s Boat People, the new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi.

They will also add films from their Essential Fellini boxset, series on Dirk Bogarde and Nelly Kaplan, and Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and Death in Venice, and more. In terms of recent releases, there’s also Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century and Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In.

Check out the lineup below, along with the teaser for the Black Westerns series. For weekly streaming updates across all services, bookmark this page.

The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917

Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963

Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916

Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979

Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972

Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen,...

According to Variety, Seth MacFarlane is poised to reboot the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds with the identical twins Keith and Kenny Lucas starring in the film. Rather than a remake of the dated and offensive original, the plan is to refashion the basic plot of the film and contextualize the meaning of nerd culture in the 21st century.

Related: The 10 Worst Movie Nerds Of All Time, Ranked

While Jeff Kanew directed the original film, a director has yet to be attached to the upcoming reboot. Until more news is divulged, here's a trivial look back at the mega-popular and extremely raunchy comedy classic.

The Revenge of the Nerds reboot is finally moving forward, courtesy of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane is developing a new take on the classic comedy at 20th Century Studios with identical twin comedians Keith and Kenny Lucas set to star. The Lucas brothers are also co-writing the script with Alex Rubens, and MacFarlane will produce under his Fuzzy Door Productions banner alongside Erica Higgins.

Per the report, the Seth MacFarlane reboot will not be a straight remake of the original 1984 movie, which has faced criticism in recent years its depictions of rape. The new Revenge of the Nerds is instead described as a "contemporary reimagining" that will "pontificate about today's nerd culture and what even constitutes a geek in the 21st century."

On the big screen, the Lucas brothers might be best recognized from their roles as Keith and Kenny Yang in the 2014 sequel 22 Jump Street). Kenny...

Seth MacFarlane will produce a reboot of the 1984 nerds vs. jocks comedy “Revenge of the Nerds” that will star and be written by comedians Kenny and Keith Lucas aka The Lucas Brothers, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

The project is currently in development at 20th Century Studios, with MacFarlane producing with Erica Huggins for his company Fuzzy Door Productions. The Lucas Brothers will co-write the script with Alex Reubens, who has written for both “Key & Peele” and “Rick & Morty.”

The new “Revenge of the Nerds” will be a reboot rather than a direct remake of the original, which has not aged well due to its depictions of rape that have been criticized in recent years. The new film will be set in the present-day and will re-imagine what we consider nerdy in 2020.

The original film from 1984 and directed by Jeff Kanew only grossed $40.8 million worldwide,...

Seth MacFarlane is reviving the age old rivalry between jocks and nerds. The comedic actor is developing a reboot of the seminal ’80s comedy “Revenge of the Nerds” at 20th Century Studios.

Keith and Kenny Lucas, identical twin brothers best known for their scene-stealing roles in “22 Jump Street,” are set to write and star in the film. They are co-writing the script with Alex Rubens. MacFarlane will produce the reboot through his production company Fuzzy Door, along with Erica Huggins, who brought the project to the Lucas brothers and is spearheading development.

The upcoming version won’t be a remake of the 1984 comedy, which hasn’t aged all that well and has been criticized in recent years for depictions of rape. Instead, the contemporary reimagining will pontificate about today’s nerd culture and what even constitutes a geek in the 21st century.

Jeff Kanew directed the original “Revenge of the Nerds,...

Sony’s TriStar Pictures is making a sequel to the 1989 comedy “Troop Beverly Hills” that starred Shelley Long, and the studio has set Oran Zegman to make her feature directorial debut on the project.

Aeysha Carr, who is the showrunner on “Woke” and is currently writing Paramount’s “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” remake starring Will Smith and Kevin Hart, wrote the script, and it’s now undergoing a remake by Tamara Chestna (“Moxie”), who will also have a producing role. It’s unclear if any of the original cast will return.

“Troop Beverly Hills” is the story of a pampered Beverly Hills housewife who tried to prove to her daughter that she could rough it as a Wilderness Girls leader and care for a group of girls. The film provided early roles for Carla Gugino and musician Jenny Lewis, among others, and has become a cult classic thanks to its feminist themes and warm heart.

Tri-Star has set a sequel to the 1989 Shelley Long feature Troop Beverly Hills with AFI Conservatory grad Oran Zegman making her feature directorial debut.

Oscar nominated Laurence Mark will produce the film off a screenplay by Aeysha Carr with a rewrite by Tamara Chestna, who will also have a producerial role.

The original movie was based on the life events of Ava Fries. Long played a pampered Beverly Hills housewife trying to prove to her daughter that she can rough it as a Wilderness Girls leader. Fries produced the original movie and wrote the story which had a screenplay by Pamela Norris and Margaret Oberman and was directed by Jeff Kanew, produced by Weintraub Entertainment. Fries is returning with Charles W. Fries to executive produce. Nicole Brown and Shary Shirazi will oversee for the studio.

Zegman is an Israeli filmmaker based in Los Angeles.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Jeff Kanew-directed film Revenge of the Nerds, which follows lovable nerds Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowell as they navigate their freshman year at Adams College with help from an unlikely group of outcasts.

The movie was a fan favorite and scored three sequels: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation and Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love. The film’s stars Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong went on to executive produce and host the reality game show King of the Nerds, where a ...

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Jeff Kanew-directed film Revenge of the Nerds, which follows lovable nerds Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowell as they navigate their freshman year at Adams College with help from an unlikely group of outcasts.

The movie was a fan favorite and scored three sequels: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation and Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love. The film’s stars Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong went on to executive produce and host the reality game show King of the Nerds, where a ...

After three decades in Hollywood, Carla Gugino has been in nearly everything—the Spy Kids movies, a Bon Jovi video, a BBC adaptation of The Buccaneers and the disaster flick San Andreas, to start. But strangers still stop her on the street to talk about her early turn as poor little rich girl Chica Barnfell in the 1989 cult classic Troop Beverly Hills.

“Troop Beverly Hills was very key for me. It was the first job that allowed me to make enough money that I was going to be able to support myself and continue acting,” Gugino, 46, tells People. Up until landing Troop Beverly Hills,...

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Robin Williams was set to star in a follow-up to his breakthrough hit, Good Morning Vietnam. And it was fully written, too...

The 1987 comedy-drama Good Morning, Vietnam was a very unconventional hit movie. A war film, and a hugely comedic one, it remains most remembered, not unfairly, for being the breakout movie role for Robin Williams, seizing his moment and his day with incredible impact.

Williams, by this stage of his career, was already hugely popular on television, courtesy of Mork & Mindy. But the genesis of the movie that would ignite his film career actually lay back to even before then, in 1979. That’s when the real-life Adrian Cronauer, on whose story the film is based, pitched a sitcom based around his experiences as DJ in the Vietnam War. It got the interest of agent Larry Brezner, who bought an option on the story. But television networks...

Better than ever, now in its seventh year, the spectacular program with its filmmaking guests and a committed community of dedicated and intellectually alive filmgoers invigorates the mind and activist tendencies already in play.

Take for instance, University of Arizona Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world, speaking with Regents’ Professor Toni Massaro about social justice and the environment. Here he is, in person, being honored as every word he speaks is treated as a jewel. Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Chomsky has written more than 100 books, his most recent being Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power. An ardent free speech advocate, Chomsky has published and lectured widely on U.S. foreign policy, Mideast politics, terrorism, democratic society and war. Chomsky, who joined the UA faculty this fall, is a laureate professor in the Department of...

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The first day of production on Dead Poets Society was such a disaster, its sets were burned down...

One of the late Robin Williams' most beloved films is Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society. In the movie, Williams played John Keating, the unorthodox teacher at a 1959 boys prep school. Even just writing those words makes me want to stand on a table and proclaim "oh captain my captain."

As with many loved movies though, there's a story or two lying behind the success of Dead Poets Society (a movie that Dustin Hoffman was once upon a time going to star in and direct). In particular, after one day of shooting, it looked like the film wasn't going to happen at all. As screenwriter Tom Schulman told From Script To Screen at the University Of California, Revenge Of The Nerds director Jeff Kanew was set to direct at one stage,...

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The first day of production on Dead Poets Society was such a disaster, its sets were burned down...

One of the late Robin Williams' most beloved films is Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society. In the movie, Williams played John Keating, the unorthodox teacher at a 1959 boys prep school. Even just writing those words makes me want to stand on a table and proclaim "oh captain my captain".

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As with many loved movies though, there's a story or two lying behind the success of Dead Poets Society (a movie that Dustin Hoffman was once upon a time going to star in and direct). In particular, after one day of shooting, it looked like the film wasn't going to happen at all.

Kirk Douglas celebrated his 100th birthday with a party attended by some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

His son, Michael Douglas, and daughter-in-law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, were in attendance, as well as other members from the Douglas clan, including Michael and Catherine’s two children, Dylan Michael and Carys Zeta.

About 135 guests arrived to a private room in the Beverly Hills Hotel at about 2:30 p.m. on Friday before later gathering at tables named after some of his favorite films. Kirk’s family table was named, “Lonely Are the Brave.”

“It’s Kirk’s favorite film of his,” a source tells People.

Did you think we’d ever live in a time when you could watch a guilty pleasure like “Weekend at Bernie’s” in pristine HD? Every few weeks here at Hc, we bring to light classicc films coming to Blu-ray for the first time like “Sorcerer” or “Breaking the Waves” or “Bachelor Party.” Wait. What? Yes, we’re here to inform you, dear readers, that you can now buy “Bachelor Party,” “Revenge of the Nerds,” and “Weekend at Bernie’s” for low, low prices in HD. Use them to show off your new TV.

To be fair, not all ’80s flicks are created equal. “Nerds” is easily the best of these three films, a movie that has become such a pop culture touchstone that people forget that it’s actually a pretty damn good movie. It’s structured beautifully (and inspired So many films to this day that tried to...

Thirty years have passed since Lewis, Gilbert, Poindexter, Lamar, Wormser, Takashi, and Booger banded together as Lambda Lambda Lambda and emerged victorious over their Panhellenic douche-donis tormentors from Alpha Beta.

Somewhere amid the panty raids, electric-violin pyrotechnics, drunk tricycle riding, and moon-bounce hanky-panky, Revenge of the Nerds became a rallying point for anyone who’d ever felt “laughed at and made to feel inferior,” for anyone who’d ever felt “stepped on, left out, picked on, put down.” It seems fitting that Nerds didn’t sweep any awards shows or top the annual box office (it settled in a respectable 16th place). Nonetheless,...

Cigars… vapes… cookies…

I really wouldn’t mind a sequel to the 1989 Shelley Long vehicle Troop Beverly Hills. The most cherished movie of my childhood is no cinematic masterpiece, so this would hardly be sacrilege. I figure if this is really gonna be the film most often running through my head like a skunk on a misdirected trail (oh, the shame!), the story may as well continue. So sack up, hobos, and pour some wine into that stew: It’s cookie time. Again.

We can’t go full-on original cast here — there’s a fresh crop of Disney/ABC Family...

Kathleen Turner Kathleen Turner, perhaps best remembered for seducing William Hurt in Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat and for romping about with Michael Douglas in Robert Zemeckis‘ Romancing the Stone, will be present on May 7 at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Bell Lightbox to discuss her career in films and on stage. Turner will be making her Toronto stage debut in Matthew Lombardo’s High at the Royal Alexandra Theatre from May 8–13. Turner, 58 next June, has appeared in nearly 30 features. In addition to the aforementioned two titles, her credits include Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion, as a Belle de Jour-like sex worker; John Huston’s Oscar-nominated Prizzi’s Honor, as Jack Nicholson’s partner in crime; the Lewis Teague-directed Romancing the Stone sequel The Jewel of the Nile; Francis Ford Coppola’s Peggy Sue Got Married, which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination; and Danny DeVito...

Title: National Lampoon’s The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Directed by: Jeff Kanew Starring: Will Sasso, Ian Ziering, Kristanna Loken, Sophie Monk, Tony Cox, Ludacris and Rip Torn Running time: 91/minutes, Unrated, Available on DVD Will Sasso is Awesomest Maximus, a stocky General who is more concerned with eating, drinking and trying to bang his wife Hottessa (Kristanna Loken) who despises him, than leading an army. When Hotessa’s younger brother Orlando convinces King Erotic’s wife Princess Ellen (Sophie Monk) to travel with him be her Gay-bff, they unwittingly start a war. King Erotic (Khary Payton) enlists the great warrior Testiclees (Ian Ziering) and the little Minoritees (Tony Cox) to attempt to [ Read More ]...

Actress Kristanna Loken talks about her role Hottessa in The Legend of Awesomest Maximus, due out on Blu-ray and DVD March 20

Actress Kristanna Loken broke onto the scene playing the deadly/sexy T-x terminator in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, after many years of smaller guest-starring roles on TV. The actress has put together a diverse body of work since then, with bigger TV roles, recurring on The L Word and starring as Painkiller Jane, and film roles such as BloodRayne and Swat: Firefight.

The actress is now delving into the comedy world with the spoof National Lampoon's the Legend of Awesomest Maximus, which debuts on Blu-ray and DVD March 20. I recently had the chance to speak with Kristanna Loken over the phone, and here's what she had to say about playing a character named Hottessa in this spoof.

It looks like it's been awhile since you've done a comedy.

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Black Lightning" (2009)

Directed by Dmitriy Kiselev and Aleksandr Voytinskiy

Released by Universal Studios

"Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov produced this Russian action flick about a man and his flying car, using the same effects team that worked on all of his previous films including "Night Watch." A Russian trailer is here since where we're going, we don't need to understand words.

"7th Hunt" (2010)

Directed by Jon Cohen

Released by Vanguard Cinema

A motley group of young adults are abducted and forced to fend for their survival at an abandoned military training center in the middle of nowhere in Jon Cohen's thriller.

"Alien Vs. Ninja" (2010)

Directed by Seiji Chiba

Released by Funimation

A selection of last year's New York Asian Film Festival, Seiji Chiba's crazy genre mashup may just be "the best and wittiest movie ever to air at 2am on the SyFy Channel" in the future,...

Up and coming composer Scott Glasgow, whose recent score for Lo is receiving critical acclaim and whose other credits include Chasing Ghosts, Hack!, The Gene Generation, Bone Dry and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, is currently composing the score for veteran director Jeff Kanew’s new film, The Legend of Awesomest Maximus, for National Lampoon. This is Glasgow’s first project with Kanew, who is the director of such comedy classics as Revenge ...

National Lampoon is moving forward with its next in-house production, "National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus," a spoof of sword-and-sandal flicks such as "Gladiator," "300" and "Troy."

"Mad TV's" Will Sasso will lead a cast that includes Kristanna Loken ("Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines"), Ian Ziering ("Beverly Hills, 90210"), Sophie Monk ("Date Movie"), Tony Cox ("Bad Santa") and Rip Torn ("Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story"). The script was written by Jason Burinescu, and "Revenge of the Nerds" helmer Jeff Kanew will direct.

Dan Farah and Burinescu are also producing. Sasso and Dale Rosenbloom are executive producers; Lampoon executive Justin Kanew is overseeing production.

"We're excited to embark on another National Lampoon original production, especially with a cast of this caliber," stated National Lampoon Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Laikin. "'National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus' is a hilarious spoof of some of the classic films of our generation, and...