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Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy is finally addressing the decision to fire directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller late into production on “Solo: A Star Wars Story”. “I think these guys [Lord and Miller] are hilarious, but they come from a background of animation and sketch comedy,” Kennedy told Entertainment Weekly. Related: Harrison Ford Was ‘Very Supportive’...

No matter how Solo: A Star Wars Story eventually turns out, there’ll always be the nagging question of what it could have been.

After all, with weeks to go before production was scheduled to conclude, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were abruptly fired and replaced with Ron Howard, who’s about as safe a choice of a director as you can get. Given that Lord and Miller have achieved success after success with a very distinctive comedic style, it was natural to wonder just what the hell was going through Disney and Lucasfilm’s heads. After all, they must have known what they were getting into when they hired them, right? Well, apparently not, as Kathleen Kennedy revealed in an interview earlier this week

What she didn’t reveal, though, and what we still don’t know, is just how much of Solo Howard actually helmed. In fact,...

No matter how Solo: A Star Wars Story eventually turns out, there’ll always be the nagging question of what it could have been.

After all, three weeks before shooting was scheduled to conclude, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired from the production and replaced with Ron Howard, about as safe a choice of a director as you can get. Given that Lord and Miller have achieved success after success with a very distinctive comedic style, it was natural to wonder just what the hell was going through Disney and Lucasfilm’s heads. After all, they must have known what they were getting into when they hired them, right?

Well, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has just given an interview to EW and it looks like they didn’t know anything about how Lord and Miller worked before bringing them on board:

“I think these guys are hilarious, but...

Solo: A Star Wars Story has had a bumpy rode to the big screen. The film was close to completion under directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Then, Lucasfilm fired the duo and brought in Ron Howard to both finish and reshoot a large portion of the film. A new piece details the process behind […]

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Now that the “Solo: A Star Wars Story” trailer has been released and the movie is officially heading towards its May release date, director Ron Howard and producer Kathleen Kennedy are willing to speak just a little bit about the notorious behind-the-scenes drama. Lucasfilm fired directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller last June, four months into the movie’s production, and Ron Howard was quickly brought in to finish the film.

At the time, Lucasfilm cited “creative differences” for why it had to let Lord and Miller go. Rumors began swirling that the two’s directing style clashed with Kennedy’s tastes, and apparently the studio was unhappy with Alden Ehrenreich in the lead role. With the movie compeleted and ready for release, Kennedy is open to clearing up the air about what really went down.

The producer confirms to Entertainment Weekly that Lord and Miller were going off script and encouraging improvisation.

It’s the story about “Solo: A Star Wars Story” that everyone has been waiting to hear: what really happened that led to the film’s original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller leaving the movie? Perhaps even more crucially, how much of the material they shot is left in the movie versus the footage that Ron Howard came in and film? Both questions have hazy answers, and for the latter, we’re not going to know where Lord and Miller’s work ends and Howard’s begins.

There has been a lot of concern from Star Wars fans regarding any other actor playing Han Solo other than the man who first did it, Harrison Ford. Now we have learned that Mr. Ford served as a technical advisor on Solo: A Star Wars Story. Reports suggest Ford met with and offered advice on Solo to Alden Ehrenreich. There was a tweet early last year showing a poorly taken photo of Ford and Ehrenreich having lunch.

Two Han Solos grabbing lunch.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is a film that really belongs to Han and Chewie.

It’s an origin story, of course, meaning Lucasfilm is about to shed light on the incredible journey that led Han Solo to the Millennium Falcon and his future co-pilot, Chewbacca, the walking carpet whose short temper is matched only by his big heart.

But there’s another blossoming friendship set to feature in Solo, and that’s the one between Alden Ehrenreich’s titular smuggler and Lando Calrissian, card shark extraordinaire. Indeed, the Han/Lando dynamic came up in conversation when Ehrenreich spoke to Entertainment Weekly, where he noted the following:

That’s very hard to answer without giving things away, but I will say that their relationship is many different things. As it is when you see them in the originals. I think they have very different styles.

A New Star Wars Story...

As you surely know, there’s quite a lot going on with the Spider-Man property right now. Of course, Peter Parker himself is swinging around the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his next appearance set to be in Avengers: Infinity War. Beyond that, though, we’ve also got some stuff coming down the pipeline from Sony. Namely, Venom and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

From what we understand though, there’s not set to be any kind of connection between the two. After all, the latter is animated while the former is live-action. Not to mention that Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who are working on Into the Spider-Verse, have already confirmed that it’ll be its own thing.

So, it was pretty surprising then to learn the other day that not only would Venom be showing up in the pic, but that Tom Hardy would be voicing him. Admittedly, it was an unsubstantiated rumor,...

Stepping into the shoes of Han Solo is no easy task, just ask Alden Ehrenreich. The 28-year-old actor best known for roles in Ya romance “Beautiful Creatures” and the Coen Brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!” is about to break into the blockbuster spotlight this May with the release of “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Ehrenreich plays a younger, more idealistic Han Solo in the prequel adventure, and he made sure to get Harrison Ford’s blessing before filming started.

Ford and Ehrenreich got lunch before production on “Solo” kicked off, and it’s during this essential meeting where Ford gave his advice for play “Solo.” Ehrenreich told Entertainment Weekly that Ford was a “real gentleman” during their sit-down chat.

“[Ford] said a great thing when I met him,” Ehrenreich said. “Tell them I told you everything you needed to know, and that you can’t tell anyone.”

Fortunately, Lucasfilm president and “Solo” producer...

Just as Donald Glover met with the great Billy Dee Williams before taking on the role of Lando, Han Solo-to-be Alden Ehrenreich sought the advice of Harrison Ford shortly before production began on Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Ford, who has played Lucasfilm’s prince of thieves on four separate occasions, isn’t one to dwell on the past, nor has he been very forthcoming about his Star Wars career. Still, when the call came, the original Han Solo did impart a kernel of wisdom to Ehrenreich: “Tell them I told you everything you needed to know, and that you can’t tell anyone.”

Proving there is honor among thieves, the Solo actor kept his promise while chatting to Entertainment Weekly, merely hinting that he’s “gotta stick to my orders from the man himself.”

Thankfully, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy was more willing to part with the juicy intel, and...

Hey Hollywood, can we please stop calling every blockbuster a “heist movie”? Disney has been particularly good at trotting out that genre card, with “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” and “Ant-Man” all described as such along the way. And guess what? “Solo: A Star Wars Story” is a heist movie too.

As per usual, EW is trotting out the first official new images from ‘Solo,’ and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy describes the picture as “a heist, gunslinger type movie.” It falls in line with what she said about in 2016 about the spinoff, when she teased it would have a “heist or Western type feel.” But there seems to be a bit of an identity crisis about ‘Solo,’ because the same EW piece also describes the spinoff as “a Western crossed with a film noir, freighted with offbeat humor and set in the criminal underbelly of a galaxy being torn apart.

Chicago – Before the days of 24/7 internet access to every form of entertainment that exists, there were eras of radical performance expression that changed the landscape of attitudes toward everything – think of The Beatles evolving music and also changing social culture. The roots of another evolution, especially in comedy, began with a modest humor magazine that brought together the right mix of anarchists and misfits. What they did would influence comedy for years afterward, and their story is told in “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of National Lampoon,” directed by Douglas Tirola.

“National Lampoon” Magazine was a national publication founded in 1970, that was spawned from the Harvard Lampoon, and brought together a team of 1960s-influenced comic radicals that changed the way humor was conveyed. No sacred cows existed on their pages, and the magazine also broke out into signature comedy records, stage performances and radio shows. This cottage industry featured...

Attention comedy geeks everywhere! To paraphrase a literary classic, this new documentary feature lets us all “look back in laughter” at one of the most influential humor magazines of the last fifty years. Actually its legacy reaches on past its newstand existence. Yes, it’s been absent from newsstands (there’s still a few of them left) for nearly twenty years. But, to paraphrase again, we’ve come “not to bury this magazine, but to praise it”. And to recall the chuckles and the mini-empire it spawned. Of course, this wasn’t the first humor publication. Puck paved the way decades before. Then Mad magazine shook up the staid 1950’s. But by 1970, that mag had somewhat settled into a (still entertaining) routine, poking fun at suburbia, and wasn’t connecting with the “counter-culture”. Younger “baby boomers” wanted their humor to have a sharper edge, to reflect the “hippie” spirit, and...

The Writers Guild of America, West has chosen late screenwriter-director-actor-producer Harold Ramis to receive its Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, awarded to a Writers Guild member who has advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter. Erica Mann Ramis and family will accept the award on Ramis’ behalf at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 14. Harold Ramis passed away on February 24, 2014 at the age of 69. From today’s announcement:

“Harold Ramis changed the face of comedy. His death last year deprived us of his unique way of seeing the world, at once hilarious and wise. From his early work with National Lampoon and Sctv through Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Ghostbusters, Ramis’ voice was strong, clear, outrageous in all the best ways. His unrealized projects – an adaptation of Confederacy of Dunces, a biopic about Emma Goldman – leave us aching with...

A glob of stray semen is slathered on as impromptu hair gel. A high school flutist describes all the graphic details of her "one time at band camp." A slobbering frat boy climbs a ladder for a close look at disrobing co-eds — a glimpse so revelatory that he plummets backward without batting an eye. Raunch-comedy history is littered with off-color climaxes, and the genre hasn't blown its load quite yet.

Barely Legal: 30 Nearly Pornographic Films

From full-blown sex romps to softcore substitutes spruced up with gags, Hollywood's history of...

New Orleans, La. It's nearly noon on the set of "22 Jump Street" and the star of the scene is laying flattened on the turf at Tad Gormley Stadium just outside of New Orleans, immobile. Dozens of extras, clad in football uniforms, look away. A man in a Saints shirt hovers above the featured player, taking in the decapitation and the splattered insides with growing frustration. "Is there any way of making it so that it doesn't fall apart?" he laments. The man is a second [or possibly third] unit cinematographer and he's currently facing the difficult challenge of a thespian who clearly isn't ready for his close-up, in this case a roast beef sandwich that refuses to catch the light in the right way. Maybe it's the glare off the lettuce or maybe it's the lifeless meat, but effort is being put into capturing the fumbled sandwich just right. There's a stunt sandwich off to the side,...

Harold Ramis has passed away at the age of 69.

Tributes have poured in for the veteran writer-director and actor, whose credits spanned from early '80s classics Caddyshack and Stripes to recent comedies including Knocked Up and Year One.

Digital Spy takes a look back at six great comedies in which Ramis played a key role.

Animal House (1978)

Ramis's first feature writing credit turned out to be on one of the most influential (and profitable) comedies of all time. Working from a series of stories published in National Lampoon magazine and using many of their own fraternity experiences as inspiration, Ramis, Douglas Kenney and original author Chris Miller dreamt up the ribald story of two freshmen who, having been rejected from the major college fraternity, defect to anti-establishment alternative Delta House.

Caddyshack (1980)

Ramis's directorial debut was a game-changer, launching Bill Murray into the big time on the big screen (all...

With his sly, Cheshire cat grin and twinkling, half-mast eyes hidden behind owlish glasses, Harold Ramis always gave the impression of a guy who was guarding the punchline to the world’s funniest joke. And it’s quite possible he was. After all, if anyone had the merry-prankster genius to conceive it, polish it into a jeweler-precise gem, and deliver it with crack comic timing, it was Ramis, who passed away early Monday morning at age 69 from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves the swelling of blood vessels.

Although Ramis became a familiar face on both...

If you like screen comedy—the raucous and raunchy kind, with lots of four-letter words and flipped birds to authority—then you owe Harold Ramis a huge debt. The Chicago native, who died Monday in his Chicago home at age 69 from complications due to autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, met many of his future collaborators (John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner) at Second City’s legendary improvisational theater; he later wrote and acted alongside them in New York when National Lampoon launched its radio hour program. The Canadian TV show Sctv offered...

Comic actor, writer, and director Harold Ramis passed away early this morning from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare blood vessel disease. Ramis was born in 1944, the son of Chicago grocery store owners. After attending Washington University in St. Louis (his time in a fraternity there partly inspired Animal House) and working briefly in a mental institution, Ramis moved back to Chicago and began taking classes at Second City. It was there that he met frequent collaborators Bill Murray and John Belushi. Ramis’s first break came in 1974, when Belushi brought him to work on The National Lampoon Radio Hour. Working there, Ramis met Doug Kenney and Chris Miller, his co-writers on National Lampoon’s Animal House, the film that put Ramis on track to becoming one of the biggest comic forces of a generation. Ramis's filmography includes classics Meatballs, Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, and Groundhog Day. His last picture was 2009’s Year One.

Chicago – A good comedy film lives and breathes through the right casting of character roles. In the new film “21 Jump Street,” Ice Cube is the angry police captain who guides his undercover recruits Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as they infiltrate high school. Rob Riggle pitches in as a wacky high school coach.

Both supporting players were in Chicago a couple weeks ago, promoting their new film, and HollywoodChicago.com got to sit in on a press roundtable. “21 Jump Street” is loosely based on the 1987 TV show, and besides the buddy picture antics of Hill and Tatum, there are also the familiar comic stylings of Chris Parnell and Ellie Kemper (“Bridesmaids”).

Ice Cube, Captain Dickson in “21 Jump Street”

Ice Cube is the stage name for O’Shea Jackson, and he began as his career in hip-hop, but expanded in show business to include acting (“Boyz ‘n the Hood”), screenwriting (“Friday...

It's toga-party time on Broadway. A classic of the gross-out comedy genre, the 1978 John Landis feature, National Lampoon's Animal House, will join the long list of movie hits being retooled as theatrical musicals. Universal Pictures Stage Productions announced development of the project on Monday. The show will have an original score by Canadian alt-rockers Barenaked Ladies and a book by playwright Michael Mitnick, based on the screenplay by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller. Casey Nicholaw, a Tony Award winner for The Book of Mormon, has signed on as director and choreographer. Universal has had

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Here’s a glimpse inside the Oscar Nominees Luncheon for the 84th Academy Awards which took place in Beverly Hills, California, Monday, February 6, 2012. The 84th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. On the menu was chopped vegetable salad, roasted Asian barbecued duck, soy-mirin seared Atlantic Salmon and a trio of sorbets in a chocolate cup.

Anne Thompson reported, “Oscarcast co-producer Brian Grazer promised a classy show. Filming of the Billy Crystal intro skit is under way (along with interviews with many of the nominees) — “everyone is in the film,” he said. The Kodak Theatre stage will be dressed like an old-time movie palace to sell the theme of going out to the movies. “Seeing films in that environment is a magnifier of how you feel emotionally,” he said. “You’ll feel like...

Check out this new one-sheet poster for the Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed remake of the classic 80?s TV teen cop show 21 Jump Street which stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle and Ice Cube – shades of the artwork for the original series right there folks!

21 Jump Street is set for release on March 16th 2012. Check out the rest of our coverage, including a whopping Sixteen exclusive images, right here.

In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing...

Don't unpack that bag from Sundance too fast. SXSW in Austin, Texas is just around the corner and it has two things over Park City: spring heat and BBQ. With the film festival just over a month away, organizers have dropped their features lineup, and there will be some nice surprises for those making the trek. Already earning a fair amount of buzz, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum's "21 Jump Street" has been given the centerpiece slot. Sony has been screening the film to select folks over the past few weeks (guess our invitation got lost in the mail), but the consensus is that the film from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller delivers the goods. At least that's what the word is on the Twittersphere. Undoubtedly, it will be nice boost for the film that will open the day before SXSW ends on March 16th. However, most intriguing for...

Check out the new Australian poster for the Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed remake of the classic 80′s TV teen cop show 21 Jump Street which stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle and Ice Cube – shades of the artwork for the original series right there folks!

21 Jump Street is set for release on March 16th 2012. Check out the rest of our coverage, including a whopping Sixteen exclusive images, right here.

In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing...

Sneak Peek a new Australian poster supporting the upcoming action comedy "21 Jump Street".

The Sony feature updates the Vancouver-lensed police procedural crime drama TV series that aired on Fox, 1987 to 1991.

Created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell, the original series, starring actor Johnny Depp, was produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

The new film, written by actor Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, scheduled for a March 2012 release :

"...'Schmidt' (Jonah Hill) and 'Jenko' (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret 'Jump Street' unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school.

"As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they...

Tad Williams' Otherland coming via Warner Bros. and Dan Lin Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired feature rights to the science fiction book series, which John Scott III will adapt, reports Variety. There have been four books published by Daw-Penguin USA between 1996-2001 from "City of Golden Shadow," "River of Blue Fire," "Mountain of Black Glass" and "Sea of Silver Light." The story used in the adaptation takes place 100 years in the future, and tells of a bunch of unexpected heroes who fight to escape and assassin and make their way through digital worlds, and stop a conspiracy that could end humanity. Lin produced Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, as well as the upcoming Ruben Fleischer pic Gangster Squad, starring Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin and Sean Penn and Chris Miller and Phil Lord's Lego flick called Lego...

Check out this new international trailer for the Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed remake of the classic 80?s TV teen cop show 21 Jump Street which stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle and Ice Cube, with a reported cameo by original series star Johnny Depp. 21 Jump Street is set for release on March 16th 2012. Check out the rest of our coverage here.

In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years...

We’ve just been sent four new exclusive images from the Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed remake of the classic 80?s TV teen cop show 21 Jump Street which stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle and Ice Cube, with a reported cameo by original series star Johnny Depp.

In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier – and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety...

The fact that three very hot movie trailers debuted today and others are expected later this week is just a sign of how great 2012 will be. So its time to laugh a little. Columbia Pictures has just revealed the second trailer for 21 Jump Street. The new trailer looks and feels like the first trailer we saw earlier, with very little new footage. Which means, I remain hesitant about the movie itself and wonder why such a trailer was released. Oddly enough the jokes work the second time around.

Watch the the second trailer for Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 21 Jump Street via Digital Spy.

As aforementioned, a lot of the same jokes from the first 21 Jump Street trailer appear in this one, but they hit their target. In the film Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill play as bumbling cops who are assigned undercover duty and investigate a drug ring at a local high school.

Here’s the first poster and new UK trailer for the Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed remake of the classic 80′s TV teen cop show 21 Jump Street which stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle and Ice Cube, with a reported cameo by original series star Johnny Depp.

In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier – and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety...

"Mom, we don't have time for chores right now!" Time for something on the lighter side to follow-up all the other trailers today! Columbia has debuted another official trailer on Digital Spy for their upcoming comedy 21 Jump Street, based on the 80's TV show, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as two cops who go undercover at a high school. We already saw one hilarious red band trailer for this, and this new trailer features a lot of the same footage from that, just edited down and cleaned. It only changes in the second half, when Ice Cube goes over the rules for the 21 Jump Street undercover team. Have fun with this trailer! Watch the second official trailer for Phil Lord & Chris Miller's 21 Jump Street, via Digital Spy: An undercover police unit consisting of young looking officers (Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum) infiltrate high schools to control youth crime. ...

[1] Though it's being touted as a remake of the '80s TV series starring Johnny Depp, anyone with even a passing familiarity with the source material will recognize that Phil Lord and Chris Miller's upcoming action-comedy 21 Jump Street has little in common with its predecessor. No, the real draw of the action-comedy so far looks to be in the surprisingly lively chemistry between leads Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum -- and accordingly, two new bits of marketing from Columbia highlight just that. After the jump, check out a new trailer in which the pair team up to break all the rules spelled out by their supervising officer (Ice Cube) and a poster that shows off the two guys making the cutest prom couple ever. The new trailer recycles most of the same jokes we've already seen in the two previously [2] released [3] trailers, but it's got just enough new material to be worth checking out.

Let.s face it, a 21 Jump Street movie has never exactly sounded like a good idea. It.s been over 20 years since the show last aired. Johnny Depp is now one of the biggest movie stars in the world, and Richard Grieco is.well, I.m sure he.s around somewhere. Much of the age group a new 21 Jump Street movie would try to target has probably never seen a single episode. But if we have to have one, the approach taken by directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller is probably best. Namely: don.t take it at all seriously. That tongue-in-cheek tone is still on full display in the latest trailer for the flick. Jonah Hill dresses like Eminem and fails to slide over the hood of a car. Channing Tatum gets hit on by a high school teacher and suggests that perps have the right to be attorneys.

Sony Animation artists Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn have been set to direct "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2" reports Variety.

The project is still very much in development but the story will continue the adventures of inventor Flint Lockwood. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are penning the script while Kirk Bodyfelt will produce.

Pearn served as head of story while Cameron was a story artist on the first film, Cameron also directed the direct-to-dvd release "Open Season 3". Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who helmed the original 2009 film, are serving as executive producers.

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum talk to MTV News on New Orleans set.

By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in "21 Jump Street"

Photo: Columbia Pictures

You probably know Jonah Hill from his work in comedies like "Superbad" and "Knocked Up," and Channing Tatum is more at home in action flicks like "G.I. Joe" or "The Eagle." So, it might surprise you that together, they make the perfect police officer.

That's how it works out in "21 Jump Street," anyway. The hit crime show from the '80s is headed for a big-screen reboot next spring with Hill and Tatum starring as two cops recruited to go undercover in a high school.

MTV News' Josh Horowitz traveled to the New Orleans set to catch up with the stars about their relationship to the show and their characters' dynamic.

"We complete one another with our flaws and strengths,...

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum talk to MTV News on New Orleans set.

By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in "21 Jump Street"

Photo: Columbia Pictures

You probably know Jonah Hill from his work in comedies like "Superbad" and "Knocked Up," and Channing Tatum is more at home in action flicks like "G.I. Joe" or "The Eagle." So, it might surprise you that together, they make the perfect police officer.

That's how it works out in "21 Jump Street," anyway. The hit crime show from the '80s is headed for a big-screen reboot next spring with Hill and Tatum starring as two cops recruited to go undercover in a high school.

MTV News' Josh Horowitz traveled to the New Orleans set to catch up with the stars about their relationship to the show and their characters' dynamic.

"We complete one another with our flaws and strengths,...

A 3D animated Lego feature film will be produced by Sydney.s Animal Logic. Warner Bros contracted.the Oscar-winning animation studio to make the family comedy, which is set to.create about 200.jobs during its peak. The film, based on the popular children.s Lego building blocks, will be written and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who co-wrote and co-directed.animated hit Cloudy with.a Chance of Meatballs. Chris McKay will also undertake directing duties. It will be produced by Dan Lin and Roy Lee, and the Lego Company's Jill Wilfert will executive produce. Animal Logic's chief executive Zareh Nalbandian said it would technically exceed anything that had been done with Lego before. "I.m really confident that the...

Less than a week after the announcement that MGM would be adapting Where’s Waldo?, Variety informs us of Warner Bros. greenlighting a Lego movie for a 2014 release. Yes, Lego — those toys you played with at a young age, only before learning that there were far more entertaining options available. Indicative of its eventual adaptation, no?

This story (initially) felt like a new development to me, but it turns out this has been in some stage for a little while, as Cloudy with a Chance of Metaballs directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were hired by the studio to helm the project less than 15 months ago. The Variety story isn’t entirely clear, but it appears that the two are still involved; Robot Chicken‘s Chris McKay is also coming on as (co) co-director. Nothing against him, but the participation of the 21 Jump Street helmers is, far as I’m concerned,...

Everyone loves Legos. Film studios are on a binge of making theatrical films based on toys. It was only a matter of time before the two came together. The building blocks are embedded in popular culture. They have that nostalgia factor going for them along with the ease of access for newcomers. Variety reports that Warner Bros. is prepared to launch a 'Lego' film of their own with Animal Logic doing up the animation. On the solely animated front, they're known for the likes of 'Happy Feet' and 'Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.' Most of the details on the film are being kept under wraps. You don't want a wild concept like this getting leaked. It sounds kind of like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' or 'Space Jam' in that it will be a blend of live-action and animation. Maybe not, though. It...

21 Jump Street was a weekly television drama starring Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise that ran on the Fox network. So fans of the original program might have been surprised by the number of F-bombs dropped by Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in the red-band trailer that recently hit the Web. That clip makes Phil Lord and Chris Miller.s Jump Street look like Superbad with guns(which might end up being the case). But a safer, green-band trailer (via ETOnline) sells the picture to the mainstream, which is where Columbia Pictures is going to have to reach as the movie.s release date gets closer: Oddly enough, it.s essentially the same trailer, just with the nastiest words scrubbed out. It establishes Hill and Tatum as rookie officers banished to Jump Street where, because of their young appearance, they.re tasked with infiltrating a local high school. The funniest bit...

I never really watched 21 Jump Street, essentially a rehash of The Mod Squad, during its initial run back in the '80s. So when it was announced the powers that be were making a 21 Jump Street movie, I didn't think much about it. I mean, of course they were.

The Hollywood filmmaking monster, insatiable in its appetite for remake properties with even a modicum of brand recognition, was bound to work its way around to the show that launched mega-star Johnny Depp, right? Well, now that the trailer for the 21 Jump Street movie has hit the Internet, I'm forced to think about it — for better or worse.

Before seeing the following preview, all I knew about this new flick was that Channing Tatum was set to star, in what I assumed would be the Johnny Depp role. I obviously didn't know that the directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, are best known for comedy.

Sneak Peek a new official 'red band' trailer supporting Sony's upcoming action comedy feature "21 Jump Street", updating the police procedural crime drama TV series that aired on Fox, April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991.

Created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell, the original series, starring actor Johnny Depp, was filmed in Vancouver, BC, produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

The new film, written by actor Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, scheduled for a March 2012 release :

"...'Schmidt' (Jonah Hill) and 'Jenko' (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret 'Jump Street' unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring.

Here’s the red band trailer, via BoxOfficeBuz, for the Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed remake of the classic 80s TV teen cop show 21 Jump Street which stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle and Ice Cube, with a reported cameo by original series star Johnny Depp.

21 Jump Street, which actually looks awesome judging by this trailer, is set for release on March 16th 2012.

In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a...

21 Jump Street was a TV series before my time, and I never came across it when the Pirates of the Caribbean Series came around. So how do you reintroduce the aged series to a new audience? Make it contemporary of course and have it star Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. Columbia Pictures has just released the first trailer for 21 Jump Street, the adaptation of the 1980’s series that literally catapulted Johnny Depp’s career to where it is today.

In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they...

Our first true taste of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 21 Jump Street big-screen reboot, based on the highly successful 1980s tv series of the same name, has finally arrived in the form of a new red-band trailer. The show followed a group of young-looking undercover police officers who were tasked to investigate crimes committed in high schools, colleges, and other teenage venues and is widely recognized as the series that helped launch the career of Johnny Depp.

I can’t say I’m too excited to see how the reboot will honor the source material.

Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, 21 Jump Street stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Ice Cube, Ellie Kemper, Dave Franco and Rob Riggle, and will arrive in theaters on March 16 2012.

The red-band trailer for 21 Jump Street has arrived online. Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed the film that features Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Ice Cube and others. It also has a cameo by Johnny Depp.

Synopsis.

In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier – and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind.

"Get ready for a lifetime of being badass motherf**ckers." Columbia Pictures has debuted the first red band trailer for the upcoming comedy 21 Jump Street, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as two cops who go undercover at a high school. Yes, this is the movie based on that 80's TV series, and Johnny Depp has some sort of cameo, but it's not in this. The trailer runs an excruciating 3 minutes long, giving us a good look at the characters and updated story on these cops crackin' down on drugs at school, but it does have some hilarious moments. The cast includes Ice Cube, Ellie Kemper and Johnny Simmons. Enjoy! Watch the first red band trailer for Phil Lord & Chris Miller's 21 Jump Street, originally via Facebook: An undercover police unit consisting of young looking officers (Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum) infiltrate high schools to control youth crime. Updated version of...