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‘The Late Bloomer’ received its due attention when the comedy-drama celebrated its Los Angeles premiere this past Monday night at the iPic Theaters in Westwood. Following the screening, there was a private after party held at the Tuck Room Tavern located inside iPic Theaters. The premiere honored the upcoming distribution of the Kevin Pollak-directed romantic film. The movie will be released on Friday by Momentum Pictures in select theaters and On Demand and Digital H Among those celebrities in attendance at the film’s premiere included several of its stars, including Brittany Snow, J.K. Simmons, Maria Bello, Johnny Simmons, Illeana Douglas, Blake Cooper, Joey Greer and Vanessa Ragland. Other celebrities who [ Read More ]

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J.K. Simmons, Johnny Simmons (no relation), Brittany Snow and Jane Lynch are set to star in Kevin Pollak's comedy "The Late Bloomer" for Eclectic Pictures and Ineffable Pictures. Filming has begun in Los Angeles ahead of a shift to Bulgaria.

Based on Ken Baker's 2001 memoir "Man Made," the story follows the E! news correspondent's experience of going through puberty for the first time at age thirty after having a pituitary tumor removed.

The benign tumor rested against his pituitary gland and delayed his puberty and normal development. Though the tumor's removal restored him to hormonally normal masculinity, it resulted in him having to experience all the effects of puberty over an extremely condensed three-week period.

Johnny Simmons portrays the lead who works as a sex therapist in an office headed by Lynch's character. Snow portrays the girl next door, while J.K. Simmons and Bello play his suffocating parents.

Los Angeles-based Eclectic Pictures and Ineffable Pictures have begun production on Kevin Pollak’s feature directorial debut.

Johnny Simmons, Maria Bello, Brittany Snow, Jane Lynch and Jk Simmons star in the biopic about journalist Ken Baker, who suffered from a tumor that prevented him from going through puberty until he was 27.

The cast includes Kumail Nanjiani, Beck Bennett, Paul Wesley, Ken Marino, Ileana Douglas, Charlotte McKinney, Vanessa Ragland, Blake Cooper and Lenora Crichlow.

Production on The Late Bloomer will also shoot in Bulgaria.

Joe Nussbaum, Paul A Kaplan and Mark Torgove, and Kyle Cooper and Austyn Jeffs adapted the screenplay based on Baker’s memoir, Man Made: A Memoir Of My Body.

Heidi Jo Markel of Eclectic Pictures produced with Raphael Kryszek and Jesse Israel of Ineffable Pictures.

Shooting is underway in New York on Cold Iron Pictures and The Film Arcade’s Don’t Think Twice starring Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, [link...

Back in 2012, Elijah Wood was all set to star in indie comedy drama The Late Bloomer for director Randall Einhorn. But, as they are so often wont to do, the film didn’t quite come together. Comedian Kevin Pollack has pulled off the trick, securing J.K. Simmons, Johnny Simmons, Brittany Snow and Jane Lynch to head the cast.They’re part of an ensemble that also includes Maria Bello, Kumail Nanjiani, Beck Bennett, Paul Wesley, Ken Marino, Ileana Douglas, Charlotte McKinney, Vanessa Ragland, Blake Cooper and Leonora Crichlow, in the story adapted from Ken Baker’s 2001 book Man Made: A Memoir Of My Body. It follows what happened when the E! News correspondent had a tumour removed from against his pituitary gland. The condition had been keeping him from properly going through puberty and its removal meant he experienced a sudden onset of changes at the age of 30 in the space of about three weeks.

It would seem that “Saturday Night Live” is having a lukewarm beginning to its new season. Even with the amount of fat-trimming that happened over the summer and the additions of Michael Che and Pete Davidson before the new season began, the show doesn’t seem to be doing as much as had been hyped. The lukewarm beginning seems to going further south with members of The Groundlings saying the show lifted one of their skits. According to Entertainment Weekly, Groundlings comedians Kimberly Condict and Vanessa Ragland have stated on Twitter that “SNL” stole their Tina Turner bit. In their bit, Condict and Ragland–in Turner wigs and short red dresses–perform their [ Read More ]

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On this weekend's Saturday Night Live, the show did a sketch about three Tina Turner impersonators who sing on a Nebraska riverboat and break from singing "Proud Mary" to talk about how much they hate singing on a Nebraska riverboat. (Likely because of music rights, the sketch was not put online.) It seemed like a fine enough sketch, inoffensive to anyone but riverboat captains, maybe. That was until accusations of theft started coming from members of the famous improv and sketch-theater troupe the Groundlings, the school at which SNL cast members like Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, and Phil Hartman got their start.It began with performer Kimberly Condict posting a video on Facebook performing a sketch at the theater with Vanessa Ragland, in which they both play Tina Turner impersonators who talk between moments of singing "Proud Mary." Then Groundlings teacher Ian Gary took it further by posting a more...

River boats are apparently a hot spot for Tina Turner impersonators. After Saturday Night Live aired a sketch in which Cecily Strong, Sasheer Zamata, and host Sarah Silverman donned Turner-style wigs and flashy red dresses, two comedians from improv company the Groundlings took to Twitter to point out that the SNL sketch was strikingly similar to one of their own. In SNL version's, the three women perform on a river cruise and interrupt their rendition of "Proud Mary" to tell stories about their struggles. In the Groundlings version, two women—comedians Kimberly Condict and Vanessa Ragland—interrupt their rendition of...

If you're a fan of pop culture, you should be listening to the Pop My Culture Podcast hosted by Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland. If you're a fan of animation (especially animation voice-work), you should at least be listening to their latest episode. In the first part of their Best of 2011 edition, voice talent Rob Paulsen--Raphael of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yakko and Pinky of Animaniacs, and Arthur of The Tick (also G.I. Joe, Transformers, Johnny Quest, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Darkwing Duck, The Mask, Spider-Man, Samurai Jack and so much more)--discusses his love of the IFC show Portlandia, AMC's Walking Dead, and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. James Urbaniak (Dr. Venture of The Venture Brothers) discusses Ashton Kutcher's Twitter account and proclaims Rebecca Black a "fascinating individual." Meredith Salenger (who provided several voices for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and who appeared in...

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Toy Story 3 Footage Preview

So, I was able to see the first 70 minutes of Toy Story 3 this week.

Watching the movie begin, hearing the reactions of the college students who literally grew up with this franchise, I was worried something wasn’t going to be right. That there was going to be something there on the screen I could no longer identify with a decade after Toy Story 2 debuted in the theaters. I was shocked that it’s been fifteen years since the first installment came out, the number 95 pasted on the runaway train in the opening sequence feeling like a tender callback to that time.

I was worried, fraught with nervousness that somehow I made the wrong choice...

Txt M3 B1TCH dropped its first music video (above) today called "Partially Smart" which stars the cast (Sean Barrett, Daniel Stone, Vanessa Ragland) of the web series which is still releasing episodes from its first season. Directed by John Irwin, the video is part of the Meanest Man Contest and the Ep is available online at Rcrd Lbl. [Smalldreams.tv, Txt M3 B1TCH] North Carolina-based web series Port City P.D. has landed a satellite TV distribution deal in the Us on Tuff TV which airs in cities like Dallas, Little Rock, Whicita and Key West. The four year-old web series from Shaun O'Rourke, which did about 4 million views online, already had a distro deal on Europe's America Unleashed satellite network, but this now puts it in about 70 million Us homes. [StarNewsOnline] Online video viewing was up across the board in 2009, according to new numbers out from Nielsen today. Us viewers totaled 137.4 million in December 2009, averaging...