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Iman Vellani’s MCU fandom isn’t just another press tour talking point; she’s the genuine article.

Vellani, who plays Pakistani-American teenager Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel on Disney+’s Ms. Marvel, not only has an Iron Man shrine in her childhood bedroom, but she also has a knowledge base that consists of deep cuts such as cross-promotional material between Marvel Studios and Xbox. Ms. Marvel’s creative team was so taken with Vellani’s enthusiasm for the Marvel Cinematic Universe that they took inspiration from her own collection of Iron Man merchandise.

“So back home, I have an Iron Man shrine, basically. And one of the things in it is a bust of Iron Man’s head, but it’s also a cologne. It smells foul, but it looks cool. So before I got cast, I gave Sana [Amanat], our producer, a tour of my room,...

It takes a certain set of balls to let Chumbawamba lyrics introduce your film (“Tubthumping,” of course), but Balls Out isn’t just Any movie. Andrew Disney’s underdog sports comedy is far from conventional, and while it begins like every other “road to athletic redemption” story, a constant mockery of the sports genre rulebook turns this pee-wee effort into a Jv superstar. It’s not exactly a Tom-Brady-caliber showstopper, but more a Ryan-Howard-like slugger that belts a home run whenever jokes connect. Just expect some mighty whiffs to accompany those gut-busting dingers. Honestly, though, who cares – chicks dig the long ball, and in that respect, Disney earns plenty of fans.

The story of Balls Out follows a rag-tag intramural football team, the Panthers, and their path to redemption after disbanding during their freshman year. Even though they were crowned league champions, a crippling injury puts Grant (Nick Kocher) in a wheelchair,...

"Well, then I guess we have no choice than to go on an adventure..." Now this is awesome! Comedian/actor DC Pierson wrote a book called The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To, which director Dan Eckman (of Derrick Comedy's Mystery Team) is trying to get turned into a movie, but it needs our support. So he made a quick 5-minute short film proof-of-concept to show how awesome this would be, and it's pretty cool. Tony Revolori of The Grand Budapest Hotel and Dope stars with Jack Quaid of The Hunger Games. They use a line about how this is like a 3D printer for anything from the comic book, which is a cool pitch, and it works well. I really do want to see more, though hopefully as a movie not a TV show. Thanks to SlashFilm for the tip. Fire this up right away and enjoy,...

Actor and comedian DC Pierson wrote a novel called The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To, and you can now see part of that book adapted as a short film. See, Pierson and director Dan Eckman (Community, Mystery Team) and producer Meggie McFadden want to turn the novel into a feature, and they’ve made this short […]

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A longtime employee of L.A.’s New Beverly Cinema says Quentin Tarantino’s new management has forced her out and is ruining the beloved repertory theater. Julia Marchese, one of a few staffers who stayed on through Tarantino’s takeover last month, was told she would be co-manager of the New Beverly when it re-opened this month after renovations. She says this week she was demoted and unceremoniously forced to quit by Tarantino’s longtime personal assistant Julie McLean, who is now acting as General Manager.

“I went through the last six weeks really thinking Quentin was going to make it better,” Marchese told me today. “The thing that’s most shocking to me is that he’s allowing it and I can’t even talk to him about it. To not even be allowed to state my case is unfair.” She says through the Tarantino-led renovations and October 1 re-opening,...

From starring on the cult NBC show Community to landing a big role in Will Ferrell's upcoming comedy Get Hard, Alison Brie clearly has a lot going on. Despite her busy schedule, she added a new project to her ever-growing résumé by partnering with Adam Scott and Smirnoff for their new campaign, The Party. We got a chance to catch up with Alison about working with another NBC fan favorite in Scott; their upcoming movie, Sleeping With Other People; and how she and the rest of the Community family deal with the ever-looming threat of cancellation. Considering that the show's team is once again waiting to hear if they will get renewed for a sixth season, it was an unfortunately apropos time to be talking about the show's future. Source: Getty / Jon Kopaloff Popsugar: You and Adam teamed up for this new campaign, The Party with Smirnoff. What was...

Above is the trailer to Intramural, debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month. The comedy teams people from all sorts of comedic backgrounds, including Saturday Night Live, Derrick Comedy and Upright Citizens Brigade. The end result is a comedy about a man who doesn't want to grow up, dedicated instead to reuniting his former intramural football team to settle old scores. Hilarity, some of the fourth-wall-breaking nature, ensues. You might recognize that lead actor, even if you can't exactly place him. Well do your research you lazy bum, that's Jake Lacy. Lacy mostly made his name on TV, popping up on The Office and the late Better With You, though he was unfortunately booted from the underrated, burnt-off-in-the-summer Goodwin Games. He recently graduated to love interest with the sweet upcoming comedy-drama Obvious Child, which A24 is releasing in the summer, a film that also features a who's who...

Over the course of cinematic history, sports movies have developed into their own genre, with films such as Hoosiers and Bull Durham standing out from the field. However, there have been few parodies of the genre, with most of the comedy in such films coming from the situation that the characters find themselves in. This is the area that a new comedy, titled Intramural, aims for. Directed by Andrew Disney, working from a screenplay by Bradley Jackson, the film stars Kate McKinnon, Jay Pharoah, Beck Bennett, D.C. Pierson, Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney, and Nikki Reed, and the first trailer has now been released. The trailer can be seen below.

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Here's your first look at the indie comedy Intramural, starring The Office's Jake Lacy as a college senior who decides he wants to get the gang back together for one last intramural football game before heading off into adulthood. (Try not to get too distracted by the fact that everyone in this movie looks like they're old enough to be finishing Ph.D. programs and not their undergraduate educations.) Even if the setup strains credulity, check out that cast! Kate McKinnon, Beck Bennet, Jay Pharaoh, DC Pierson, and Battlestar Galactica's Michael Hogan.

(Cbr) Spoiler Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the recently released film "Captain America: The Winter Soldier." Seen "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" yet? Still processing the outcome of the film -- which left S.H.I.E.L.D. in shambles after revealing the intelligence organization had long been infiltrated by Hydra, and Nick Fury off the grid and presumed dead? " Cbr News spoke with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to discuss why "The Winter Soldier" was the right place to introduce such steep change to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, plus get his take on the film's cameos and that "Stephen Strange" guy mentioned by Jasper Sitwell. Cbr News: Kevin, what was the motivator of making this movie the vehicle of such seismic change? Clearly, it'll have a huge impact on the movies going forward. Why was now the right time to shake things up in such a big way?...

What does it take to be part of the "Saturday Night Live" band? It turns out musical skill isn't high on the list of priorities. At least, that's the case in the eye of a new comedy short starring Aimee Mann, Andy Kindler and D.C. Pierson.

When Pierson's character shows up to audition as a bass player for the show, all the casting directors want is someone who can believably laugh at the guest host's monologue jokes. After all, they don't have renowned comedians on the show every single week. Sometimes there are athletes or other notable pop culture names whose jokes don't exactly hit.

The short, released online by Flavorwire, is written and directed by Daniel Ralston. Though it's a totally fake version of the actual auditions, chances are you'll notice the over-laughing most of the band does on the show next time you tune in.

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." – Woody Allen

Greetings from the apocalypse! Woody Allen may have been cracking wise with that quote, but when it comes to Wolverine, eternity is no laughing matter. Somehow this weekend has found a way to include both in your moviegoing diet, so let's feast, shall we?

Friday, July 26

Pow! In Theaters

Bias Admission: When Darren Aronofsky announced that he would be directing "The Wolverine," I went out and bought up the original Chris Claremont/Frank Miller source material, absorbing the Japan-set rōnin's tale in all its '80s glory. Then the "Black Swan" helmer dropped out, James Mangold took up the reins and I promptly sold that graphic novel. Why? It wasn't worth getting invested in anymore. Aronofsky is a visionary director, Mangold is a journeyman, and as soon as he signed on...

The To Do List

Directed by Maggie Carey

Written by Maggie Carey

USA, 2013

The amount of time it takes to exhaust the goodwill one has accrued towards an overqualified and bursting ensemble cast is roughly 70 minutes, if The To Do List is any indication. The film’s high concept and its performers, from Aubrey Plaza to Connie Britton to Alia Shawkat to Clark Gregg, are enough to engender some interest for a while, but eventually, The To Do List peters out, squandering away its likability on a strange, ballsy-for-being-irresponsible message and a muddled third act.

Plaza is Brandy Klark, a cartoonish overachiever who just graduated from her Boise, Idaho high school as its valedictorian, even though most of the kids in her class mock her for her uptight nature and her virginity. Before she heads off to Georgetown University, Brandy is encouraged by her best friends to change up her life sexually,...

Jesse Zwick will make his directorial debut on the ensemble drama "About Alex" at his father's Bedford Falls production company.

The story follows seven college friends who reunite for one long weekend after one of their own attempts suicide. Jason Ritter, Max Greenfield, Nate Parker, Maggie Grace, Max Minghella and Jane Levy star.

Meanwhile, "Searching for Sonny" helmer Andrew Disney is set to direct the Austin, Texas shot college comedy "Intramural".

The story follows a fifth-year senior who assembles a team of misfits for one last epic run in intramural football before moving on to marriage, graduation and the real world.

Jake Lacy, Nikki Reed, Kate McKinnon, Jay Pharoah, Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney, and D.C. Pierson star.

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"Twilight" star Nikki Reed and "Saturday Night Live" players Kate McKinnon and Jay Pharaoh are set to star in the indie comedy "Intramural." Cast also includes Jake Lacy ("The Office"), "Much Ado About Nothing" stars Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, Michael Hogan ("Battlestar Galactica"), Sam Edison ("Zero Charisma"), D.C. Pierson ("Mystery Team") and Good Neighbor sketch comedy members Nick Rutherford and Beck Bennett, the latter of whom is best known for starring in At&T's "It's Not Complicated" ad campaign. Story follows a fifth-year college senior who assembles a team of misfits for...

Ralph Smyth Entertainment and producers Russell Wayne Groves, Andrew Lee, David Ward, Red Sanders, and Tucker Moore have announced the start of production for Intramural , a comedy about a fifth-year college senior who assembles a team of misfits for one last epic run in intramural football before moving on to marriage, graduation and the real world. Andrew Disney ( Searching for Sonny ) will direct a script written by Bradley Jackson and a cast that includes Jake Lacy ("The Office"), Nikki Reed ('The Twilight Saga'), Kate McKinnon ("Saturday Night Live"), Jay Pharoah ("Saturday Night Live"), Nick Kocher ( Much Ado About Nothing ), Brian McElhaney ( Much Ado About Nothing ), D.C. Pierson ( Mystery Team ), Michael Hogan ("Battlestar...

Chuck Palahniuk is planning to follow-up his 1996 "Fight Club" book -- and it will arrive as at least one graphic novel, likely more. The original book, of course, was adapted into a movie in 1999, directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Palahniuk's original announcement fell somewhat under the radar during the craziness that was Comic-Con. He mentioned it during the "Ode to Nerds" panel with fellow writers D.C. Pierson, Patrick Rothfuss, Cory Doctorow, Austin Grossman and Robyn Schneider, according to ChickPalahniuk.net.

In the bonus episode, Dave, Devindra, and DC Pierson review The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Check out DC Pierson’s new book, Crap Kingdom. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: New Images of Nicholas Hoult in ‘Warm [...]...

Derrick Comedy vet DC Pierson knows how to cross-promote a book. His new Ya novel Crap Kingdom comes out March 7, and to get the word out, he’s been writing “custom rap songs” featuring the names of people who pre-order the book. He released a 30-minute standup set on YouTube to get the word out. He even conducted a massive, two-hour I Made You A Mixtape interview with The A.V. Club, scheduled to post next week. And he got Jean Grae, The Rosebuds, Free Energy, and other artists to write songs about his book, for a soundtrack he ...

Dave, Devindra, and DC Pierson discuss the awesomeness of The Americans, praise the polarizing Stoker, try to get you to watch Enlightened, and get confused about Channing Tatum’s involvement with our FilmAid fundraiser. Check out DC Pierson’s new book, Crap Kingdom. Be sure to check out DC’s newest stand-up set. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and [...]...

"Jingle bells. Batman smells. Robin laid an egg." Everyone knows that classic "children's parody rhyme" involving Batman's smelly ways. What if, instead of all the comics, Christopher Nolan's Batman series was based on that rhyme as the source? Our friends at Derrick Comedy—director Dan Eckman, producer Meggie McFadden and DC Pierson—put together this parody trailer for Funny or Die that obviously plays on the current popularity of The Dark Knight Rises, but mixed with the "Batman smells" rhyme. It's short, funny, and will hopefully bring a smile to your face with all the more serious Batman buzz at the moment. "Christopher Nolan picked some unusual source material for the final Dark Knight movie." Here's the video: Eight years after The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to the limits, forcing its former hero Batman to resurface after...

One of the complaints people have with Christopher Nolan's Batman saga is it's just too serious. And if you're one of those people, you're going to love the below videos. If you're not one of those people, well, you'll probably like them too. Funny is funny. First up is a clip from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, which is simply a truncated trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, only with Pee-Wee Herman doing all the voices. And all the geek credit for that we-wish-it-were-real poster to your right goes to Gamma Squad. But Pee-Wee isn't the only funny man taking the dour out of Tdkr. DC Pierson, Dan Eckman and Meffie McFadden - three of the core principals behind the really great and underseen Mystery Team - have created a Funny or Die trailer for a movie...

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The great divide between Troy & Abed continues as they build competing forts out of pillows and blankets, Jeff is annoyed that someone died hating him whilst Britta continues to rage against the machine, then has sex with it.

Following on from a previous episode, ‘Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts’, Dean Pelton opens up a new branch of ‘Subway’ in the cafeteria. This is much to the annoyance of Shirley and Pierce who originally pitched the idea for ‘Shirley’s Sandwiches’. Pierce is intent on sabotage and finds a Greendale bylaw stating that 51% of the shop must be owned by a Greendale student. Enter Greendale’s newest student; Subway (guest star Travis Schuldt Keith from ‘Scrubs’), part of a new programme called ‘corpo-humanisation’ to give the company a friendly face. He spends the episode sweeping a conflicted Britta off of her feet whilst promising Shirley and...

South By Southwest (SXSW) has officially announced the lineup for SXSW Comedy, which will take place from March 10 - 17 in Austin, Texas. The festival's comedy programming has grown considerably since last year, with showcases, live podcast tapings and interactive shows stretching continuously throughout SXSW for the first time. The festival has announced 62 comedians scheduled to appear, nearly doubling last year's roster of performers.

Although SXSW is known for its music, film, and more recently, interactive portions of the festival, the comedy programming looks designed to delight both devoted comedy fans as well as casual observers. In fact, five of the comedians who landed on HuffPost Comedy's favorite comedy albums of 2011 list will be performing at the festival.

Part of the fun of SXSW Comedy is not knowing which performers will show up at which shows, although a full list of confirmed comedians has been released (and can be found in...

We've already showed you the cover of Entertainment Weekly with Daniel Radcliff as the Entertainer of the Year. But some other categories are of interest – like favorite TV actor. Chris Colfer took the prize, with Neil Patrick Harris coming in behind him. H/t Biblio.

I'll be honest, this op-ed in The Advocate from adult film star Conner Habib is brilliant. As he reflects on the Fox ambush of teacher Kevin Hogan, he asks a fair question: Why is it Ok to watch porn, but not be in porn? "For these opposers — “investigative journalists,” demonizers, and so-called “upholders of moral value” — there’s a separation between sex and pornography. Sex is meant, at best, to be natural but unmentioned. For surely, the parents of the students at Mystic Valley have had sex, as have the reporters and CEOs and affiliates of Fox News. Who knows what sort of sex they...

On this week's episode of The Golden Briefcase, Tim & Jeremy are joined by comedian/actor/writer DC Pierson (@DCPierson) of Derrick Comedy to go over their Picks of the Week, the newest DVD & Blu-Ray releases, chat about new trailers for Denzel Washington's Safe House and the remake of 21 Jump Street, and much more. The main topic of the night was a discussion on dumb comedies and their place in cinema, in honor of Jack and Jill hitting theaters this weekend. The guys talk about if they serve any purpose other than financial gain and if they've ever enjoyed any of these stupid comedies. (See our new iTunes image!) The Golden Briefcase is also broadcast Live on Wednesday nights starting ~7:30Pm Pst. You can listen in via our Ustream page or by visiting our own live page right here on Fs. The podcast is just as fun to listen...

 

In this week's episode, Ben and Tyler are joined by DC Pierson (from Mystery Team and Derrick Comedy) to discuss Martin Scorsese's 1980 film, Raging Bull.

 

 

 

 

Introduction

DC answers questions about his book possibly being made into a film - 1:18

Character Name Game Intro - 5:16

Media Consumed

Tyler

"2 Broke Girls" - 5:40

Grizzly Rage - 11:00

Jason Goes to Hell - 14:18

DC

Swimming to Cambodia - 15:02

Monster in the Box - 17:45

Gray's Anatomy - 19:03

Ben

Pretty Woman - 22:50

Review

Raging Bull - 28:30

Wrap-Up

Next Time: Videodrome - 1:15:15

Listener E-mail/Voicemail/Twitter - 1:15:55

Character Name Game - 1:28:30

Where You Can Find Us - 1:30:33...

Hello Los Angeles! We’re doing another live, in front of an audience recording of Nerdy Secrets on Tuesday, 9/27 at 8Pm and we’d love for you to be there. As always, it’s be at The Nerdist Theatre at Meltdown Comics in beautiful Hollywood (7522 W. Sunset Blvd, between Sierra Bonita and Gardener Aves.) This month’s theme is Teen Titans since we’ll be hosting DC Comics’ writer Scott Lobdell and Greg Cipes, who performs a couple of voices in the Teen Titans series on Cartoon Network (he’s also Roseanne Barr’s yoga instructor, as seen in her Lifetime reality series, Roseanne’s Nuts). We’ll also be welcoming the lovely and talented Katie Leclerc from ABC Family’s Separated at Birth, who is also a huge comic book nerd so she’ll fit right in. DC Pierson returns to co-host alongside BuzzFocus.com’s own Mo Fathelbab...

BuzzFocus.com Presents Nerdy Secrets With Mo Fathelbab Episode 2 is up!!!! The latest show was recorded live, in front of a studio audience at The Nerdist Theatre at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood, California on Tuesday, Aug. 30th. We dubbed it The Ramadan Spectacu-allah! because Danielle Kramer, Dan Curry, “Nerdy Kid” Gil, and I cooked up an honest-to-goodness end of Ramadan feast for everyone. The always funny DC Pierson (“Mystery Team”) returned, this time as the special guest co-host. The show kicked off with a brilliant stand-up comedy set by Dan Curry. Then 9-year-old “Nerdy Kid” Gil T. Dominguez-letelier gave us a recap of his favorite summer films in a segment he called “The Summer of Mutants”. He schooled DC and I on how to make a great comic book movie (“more action, less talking”). Then DC and I have an incredibly funny exchange with the panel which consisted of: Azita Ghanizada...

[1] Derrick Comedy may not be a household name quite yet, but it's likely you've stumbled across some of their work before. (At the very least, you're probably aware of its most famous member, Donald Glover.) The comedy group met as students at Nyu, and quickly gained a following for their Internet videos, including "Bro Rape" [2] and "Blowjob Girl," [3] featuring a pre-Office Ellie Kemper. Derrick Comedy then made a leap to the big screen in 2009 with Mystery Team, an underrated indie comedy about three naive high school detectives who get in over their heads. Now the film's director, Dan Eckman, has lined up a couple of new projects that'll reunite him with some of his Derrick Comedy teammates. Read more after the jump. On a recent visit to the Community set, Collider [4] learned that Eckman had signed on to direct an episode of the series, which of course stars his Derrick Comedy colleague Glover.

Mystery Team director Dan Eckman has lined up a couple new directing projects coming up, that I wanted to point out to you. I don't know if you saw the comedy Mystery Team or not, but the movie is a great comedy that I suggest you watch if you haven't seen yet. Eckamn most recently directed the MTV film Worst. Prom. Ever. This is a talented guy who is surrounded by talented people, and there's no doubt that he's a rising director in Hollywood.

It was recently revealed on Collider that Eckman will be directing the 13th episode of Community, which is one of my favorite TV shows right now. It was also revealed that he would be directing an adaptation of the book The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To written by DC Pierson who played one of the lead characters in Mystery Team. The story...

A long time ago, we spoke with renaissance man D.C. Pierson about his novel “The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To.” It’s a thrilling tale about a gawky young high school lad who loves to draw and the friendship he strikes up with an even gawkier high school lad who never sleeps at all ever. Of course, freakish occurrences like that don’t go unnoticed, and soon they are running from dark forces that plan all sorts of terrible things for them. It’s endearing, thrilling, and strange. It’s the kind of novel that seems written by a sophomore in high school if that sophomore could actually write as well as he thinks he can. Fortunately, and finally, it’s being turned into a movie, and they’re keeping it all in the family. Mystery Team director Dan Eckman will be taking the reins on this one alongside producer of all things...

If you haven't yet seen Derrick Comedy's hilarious flick Mystery Team, you're missing out on a sorely underrated comedy featuring comedians DC Pierson, Dominic Dierkes and Donald Glover from NBC's "Community." Now the film's director Dan Eckman is working with at least one member of the comedy group again as Collider has learned that the filmmaker will adapt Pierson's coming-of-age novel The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To. Eckman co-write the script with Pierson and Meggie McFadden (who also wrote, produced and starred in Mystery Team) and they're shopping it to studios now. Unlike Mystery Team, the film is actually a charming coming-of-age tale that also has flares of sci-fi and fantasy. Here's the official synopsis of the book: A wildly original and hilarious debut novel about the typical high school experience: the homework, the awkwardness, and the mutant creatures from another galaxy. When Darren ...

You may not recognize the name Dan Eckman, but if you aren.t at least somewhat familiar with his comedy troupe, Derrick, you are missing out on some of the funniest videos on the web. Eckman rarely appears in these videos but stays behind the camera and lets his stars, one of which is Community star and Twitter king Don Glover, handle the acting. If you haven.t seen Bro Rape, Keyboard Kid, or Blowjob Girl, I suggest you head over to YouTube right away and get searching. Eckman also directed Derrick.s first foray into the feature realm, Mystery Team, and according to Collider he.s setting up his next feature right now with the adaptation of Derrick alum DC Pierson.s novel The Boy Who Couldn.t Sleep And Never Had To. The story follows the high school trials and tribulations of Darren Bennett, a friendless outsider whose...

Collider reports that Dan Eckman, who is best known for 2010′s excellent Mystery Team, will be c0-writing and directing an adaptation of DC Pierson‘s novel The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To. Eckman has been a longtime collaborator of Pierson’s, as they both started together in the New York-based sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy. Here’s the plot of the novel:

When Darren Bennett meets Eric Lederer, there’s an instant connection. They share a love of drawing, the bottom rung on the cruel high school social ladder and a pathological fear of girls. Then Eric reveals a secret: He doesn’t sleep. Ever. When word leaks out about Eric’s condition, he and Darren find themselves on the run. Is it the government trying to tap into Eric’s mind, or something far darker? It could be that not sleeping is only part...

Live from The Nerdist Theatre at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood! It’s Nerdy Secrets With Mo Fathelbab, presented by BuzzFocus.com! The first Nerdy Secrets With Mo Fathelbab ever was only suppose to have 1 panel but instead we give you 2! Panel #1 features Ben Schwartz (“Parks & Recreation”), Rich Sommer (“Mad Men”), Arlene Tur (“Torchwood: Miracle Day”). We discuss very important things, like their respective works, Jon Hamm, “Transformers 2″, and treehouses. Panel #2 features nerdy porn stars Misti Dawn (“Revenge of the Nerds: A XXX Parody”) & April O’Neil (Star Trek: The Next Generation – A XXX Parody”), and comedian DC Pierson (Derrick Comedy). Of course we discuss the adult film industry but we also talk about our favorite sci-fi shows, video games, celebrity crushes, and Mormon court (it’s an actual thing). So, click on this and enjoy! ———- We’re also proud to announce the next Live Recording of Nerdy Secrets With Mo.

To Do List or The Hand Job? Which one do you like better? I have no idea, but this ‘hand job’ thing sounds interesting.

So, of course it’s going to be a sex comedy, and of course it will have some great cast!

The project is both written and will be directed by Maggie Carey, and according to the latest reports, Clark Gregg and Rachel Bilson will join the cast that already includes Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Alia Shawkat, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons, Donald Glover, Connie Britton, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Scott Porter, D.C. Pierson and Dominic Dierkes. That’s not bad at all!

To Do List follows a type-a, studious girl who graduates high school and hasn’t done anything with a guy.

The summer before college she decides that she has to find out how to do everything in order to be properly prepared, so she makes...

The To Do List, formerly known as “The Hand Job,” has gotten some new cast members added to its already impressive list of stars, including Aubrey Plaza who plays a young woman who wants to head into college with a wealth of sexual experience under her belt, and so spends her post-senior summer trying to check off items on a sexual to-do list. The latest actors to sign on for the shenanigans are Clark Gregg and Rachel Bilson, though no word yet on who they are playing in the film.

Connie Britton will play the main character’s “liberal, free-spirited mother,” Mae Whitman and Alia Shawkat are two of her best friends; and Scott Porter will play a guy in a band that Plaza has a crush on. Dominic Dierkes and D.C. Pierson (along with their Derrick Comedy co-member Don Glover) will play lifeguards; Bill Hader will be their stoned boss at the pool.

The tides are about to get stranger for Johnny Depp.

The Wrap reports that Depp is "close to a deal" for a fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean," surprising... well, nobody. The latest movie in the franchise, "On Stranger Tides," just passed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, and Jerry Bruckheimer is rumored to be meeting intensively with writers to polish up the screenplay.

We can hardly imagine what shenanigans Captain Jack Sparrow will get into this time, but we're sure the masterminds at Disney have something clever up their sleeves.

In the news after the jump, some major comedians check in to "Hotel Transylvania," a "Zombieland" star thinks the sequel won't ever happen and a brilliant moviemaker signs Christopher Walken on as Zeus.

"Hotel Transylvania" Gets Some New Guests

Sony Pictures is amassing quite a cast for their new animated 3D family comedy, "Hotel Transylvania," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Clark Gregg and Rachel Bilson are set to star in The To Do List (previously called The Hand Job). The Playlist reports that they have joined the cast that includes, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Alia Shawkat, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons, Donald Glover, Connie Britton, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Scott Porter, D.C. Pierson and Dominic Dierkes.

The script was written and will be directed by comic Maggie Carey. It tells the story of "a studious, type A overachiever who has recently graduated from high school but remains sexually inexperienced. Before hitting college, she decides she’s going to check off every possible sex act and embarks on an adventure like no other with goals on her list including hand-job, titty-fuck, blow-job, fingering…you get the idea. Naturally, her friends are naturally shocked by her sudden and somewhat agressive quest."

Plaza plays the lead with Britton as her liberal, free-spirited mother; Porter...

While these days he’s generally found trying to round up superheroes in the likes of Iron Man and Thor as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson, Clark Gregg is looking to switch things up a little bit, signing on to be part of what can only be described as a sprawling cast for Maggie Carey’s directorial debut The To Do List. Formerly known by its spicier title of The Hand Job, Carey’s script follows a young woman (Parks and Recreation/Scott Pilgrim’s Aubrey Plaza) on her way to college after graduating high school. But the studious, driven girl realises that she’s seemingly lacking in sexual experience and shocks her friends by deciding to try everything once.Carey (who also happens to be Mrs Bill Hader) has rounded up a truly solid bunch of talented types for the film, with Hader, Gregg, Rachel Bilson, Andy Samberg, Alia Shawkat, Mae Whitman,...

Nobody in their right mind thought that the upcoming Aubrey Plaza comedy The Hand Job would be able to keep its title if it wanted to get wide distribution, so it’s not a surprise that it’s going by a new, less explicit name, The To Do List. ThePlaylist has learned of two additions to the newly-titled movie’s cast, and they’re none other than Clark Gregg and Rachel Bilson. Exact details of their roles haven’t been given out, but they suspect that the former will be playing Plaza‘s father, while the latter is appearing as her sister. Those were apparently the two major roles that still needed to be cast, so that prediction makes sense to me.

The movie follows a young, recent high school graduate who has no prior sexual experience, which leads to her deciding to make a list of sex activities that...

The coming of age sex comedy The To Do List, formerly called The Hand Job, has been on our radar since it began to assemble a massive cast of young comedic talent. Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Scott Pilgrim) plays a young woman who wants to head into college with a wealth of sexual experience under her belt, and so spends her post-senior summer trying to check off items on a sexual to-do list. The latest actors to sign on for the shenanigans are Clark Gregg (Marvel Studios' bedrock player) and Rachel Bilson (The O.C., New York, I Love You). The To Do List is written and will be directed by Maggie Carey. She's married to Bill Hader, and here's what he had to say about the film a couple months back: It’s about her playing an type-a, studious girl who graduates high school and hasn’t done anything with a guy.

Clark Gregg ("Iron Man," "Thor") and Rachel Bilson (“Jumper," "Chuck”) have joined the ensemble cast of Maggie Carey's "The To Do List" reports The Playlist.

The story follows a studious, A-type who has recently graduated from high school but remains sexually inexperienced. Before hitting college, she decides she’s going to check off every possible sex act and embarks on an adventure like no other.

Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Alia Shawkat, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons, Donald Glover, Connie Britton, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Scott Porter, D.C. Pierson and Dominic Dierkes have already scored roles in the film.

Already boasting a massive cast, the upcoming high concept comedy "The To Do List" (previously known as "The Hand Job") has now added two more its ranks. The Playlist has confirmed that Clark Gregg--best known as Agent Coulson from the Marvel movie franchise--and Rachel Bilson (Summer Roberts from "The O.C.") have come aboard the film. Starring “Parks and Recreation” star Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Alia Shawkat, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons, Donald Glover, Connie Britton, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Scott Porter, D.C. Pierson and Dominic Dierkes, the film follows a studious, type A overachiever who has recently graduated from high school…...

Writer/director Maggie Carey added to the already impressive ensemble cast for her comedy The To Do List, starring Aubrey Plaza as a high school overachiever who pledges to tackle every possible sex act before heading off to college. According to The Playlist blog at indieWire, Carey previously signed SNL comic (and husband) Bill Hader, fellow SNL cast member Andy Samberg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Connie Britton, Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes and Scott Porter to the film. Rachel Bilson, last seen opposite Kate Bosworth and Jason Biggs at the L.A. Film Festival hit Life Happens, recently joined the ensemble in a still-unknown role.

Writer/director Maggie Carey added to the already impressive ensemble cast for her comedy The To Do List, starring Aubrey Plaza as a high school overachiever who pledges to tackle every possible sex act before heading off to college. According to The Playlist blog at indieWire, Carey previously signed SNL comic (and husband) Bill Hader, fellow SNL cast member Andy Samberg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Connie Britton, Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes and Scott Porter to the film. Rachel Bilson, last seen opposite Kate Bosworth and Jason Biggs at the L.A. Film Festival hit Life Happens, recently joined the ensemble in a still-unknown role.

Writer/director Maggie Carey added to the already impressive ensemble cast for her comedy The To Do List, starring Aubrey Plaza as a high school overachiever who pledges to tackle every possible sex act before heading off to college. According to The Playlist blog at indieWire, Carey previously signed SNL comic (and husband) Bill Hader, fellow SNL cast member Andy Samberg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Connie Britton, Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes and Scott Porter to the film. Rachel Bilson, last seen opposite Kate Bosworth and Jason Biggs at the L.A. Film Festival hit Life Happens, recently joined the ensemble in a still-unknown role.

 

If you've ever wrapped a towel around your neck and pretended to fly, humming or whistling John Williams' iconic theme song, you've known the joy - even if it's just momentarily - of being Superman. If recapturing that feeling is something you desire, I can think of no better way to accomplish that than through the monumentous Blu-ray collection of The Superman Motion Picture Anthology.

This astounding collection accumulates everything a Superman fan could possibly want: Superman The Movie, Superman The Movie: Extended Edition, Superman II, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, and Superman Returns. But not only does it include the films themselves (all complete with commentary tracks except Returns, itself loaded with a nearly three hour making-of documentary), this eight disk set contains over twenty hours of bonus features - enough to turn even the passing fan into a downright Superman historian.

Ever wanted to know what your favorite creative types go geek-tastic over but were too timid to ask? Something like: “How do you play ‘Magic: The Gathering’?” and “Who’d win in a fight: Malcolm Reynolds or William Adama?” Sure you did! So, BuzzFocus.com and The Nerdist Theatre at Meltdown Comics have come together to take that burden off your shoulders and present Los Angeles’ new monthly talk show -– Nerdy Secrets. It will be hosted by BuzzFocus.com writer, and some say marginally funny guy, Mo Fathelbab. The first show will be on Thursday, June 30th At 7Pm, and it will feature a killer lineup of guests that will blow your mind with their awesomeness:

-From the Starz summer series Torchwood: Miracle Day, Arlene Tur, who is bringing an Exclusive Clip from the show!

-From the Emmy-award winning AMC series Mad Men: Rich Sommer!

-From the brilliant...