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Michael McKean receives most ironic actor-injury possible
24 May 2012 11:50 AM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
When actors tell each other “break a leg” before a performance, they’re engaging in a bit of theater superstition that suggests wishing people good luck might actually bring about bad luck. Apparently someone wished actor Michael McKean good luck before a performance yesterday—he sustained a broken leg after being hit by a car while walking on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The 64-year-old McKean is best known as Lenny from Laverne & Shirley, David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap, a mainstay of Christopher Guest’s mockumentary factory, and an Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song for A Mighty »
TV News: Trek, Community, Blood, Family
24 May 2012 10:41 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Star Trek: The Next Generation
One question Trek fans have been asking lately has finally been answered. CBS Films has announced a $118 R.R.P. for the Season 1 Blu-ray box-set of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" which hits U.S. stores on July 24th.
Walmart is offering the set for $79 while Amazon has it listed at $90 - essentially the same starting price the 'Original Series' remastered Blu-ray sets were being sold at. This is despite the Tng ones requiring considerably more work to get them into shape. [Source: TrekMovie]
A leaked memo from Sony Pictures Television contains instructions on how the show's cast should respond if questioned about the surprise exit of showrunner Dan Harmon from the acclaimed sitcom.
The full memo also says "We're hoping that the news [of Harmon's exit] will lose some steam over the next day, especially if we're not perpetuating the topic in any way. We're tracking the coverage »
- Garth Franklin
Christopher Guest Setting Up an Improvised Comedy TV Series
24 May 2012 9:12 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Last month, while doing interviews for American Reunion, Eugene Levy was asked about the possibility of doing another mockumentary with Christopher Guest in the near future. His response seemed to indicate that a new movie from Guest was unlikely since fake documentaries were just everywhere now and they hadn't found an idea that they could all agree on. Contrary to that, however, this week we have word that Christopher Guest might actually be working on a new project after all. At least part of what Eugene Levy said still seems to be true: he won't be doing another movie. Instead, Christopher Guest is taking his brand of comedy to the small screen with the help of Bridesmaids and The I.T. Crowd star Chris O'Dowd. Read more details after the jump. According to Vulture, Christopher Guest is in the process of pitching a new comedy series around Hollywood called Family Tree. »
- Sean
Christopher Guest Headed For TV?
23 May 2012 1:31 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
It has been far too long since Christopher Guest gathered his improv comedy ensemble – including Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Michael McKean, Michael Hitchcock, John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban and the rest – together to shoot more than just an advert or that short film from this year’s Oscars. So the idea that he might be bringing his comic touch to television makes us go for it like we’re a dog and it’s made out of ham. Vulture reports that Guest and another regular collaborator, Jim Piddock, are at work on a new idea, but one that will head for the small screen. Currently titled Family Tree, it’s an improvised comedy that would find a man (played, if all comes together, by Empire favourite Chris O’Dowd) looking to find his real family.Right now, zero deals are in place and »
Christopher Guest Looking to Make New Improvised Comedy Series Family Tree Starring Chris O’Dowd
23 May 2012 10:20 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Before Chris O'Dowd really started making a splash on the movie scene with Bridesmaids and Pirate Radio, I was already a fan of the funnyman from his work in the British TV series The It Crowd (check it out on Netflix Instant). And with his rising star in Hollywood (he next appears in Judd Apatow's This is Forty), we're only going to see more of him on the big screen. But it also sounds like more TV is in store for O'Dowd and with a truly brilliant man of comedy. Apparently mockumentary and satire icon Christopher Guest (the behind films like Best in Show and A Mighty Wind) is working on a new improvised comedy series called Family Tree that would see O'Dowd as a man attempting to track down his real family. Hit the jump for more. Aside from the fact that this is about the best damn »
- Ethan Anderton
Chris O'Dowd To Star In TV Series 'Family Tree' From Christopher Guest, Planning To Write A Film For Judd Apatow
23 May 2012 10:13 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Chris O'Dowd is, quite frankly, a man to watch at the moment. The Irish actor first came to notice alongside Richard Ayoade on British TV show "The I.T. Crowd," which brought him to the attention of Hollywood. And while his early film roles went off a little half-cocked -- "Dinner For Schmucks," "Gulliver's Travels," "The Boat That Rocked" -- he's had an enormous amount of success in the last twelve months or so, led by being the romantic lead in monster comedy hit "Bridesmaids." Since then, he's been fully accepted into the Judd Apatow fold, with a role in the upcoming "This Is 40," and he'll crop up in a few weeks on "Girls." He's also appeared in "Friends With Kids," has written and will star in his own U.K. comedy series, "Moone Boy," will flex his dramatic muscles is John Michael McDonagh's "Calvary," and is co-starring »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Christopher Guest Shopping TV Comedy?
23 May 2012 9:13 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
It's been six years since we last had us some Christopher Guest, and that's way too long. Since "For Your Consideration," all the director has produced is the odd Census commercial (and really, who can wait a decade for the resolution of such a cliff-hanger?) or Academy Awards sketch when what we really want is some simple yet hilarious improvisational satire.
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- Vulture
Christopher Guest Shopping TV Comedy?
23 May 2012 9:13 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
It's been six years since we last had us some Christopher Guest, and that's way too long. Since "For Your Consideration," all the director has produced is the odd Census commercial (and really, who can wait a decade for the resolution of such a cliff-hanger?) or Academy Awards sketch when what we really want is some simple yet hilarious improvisational satire. »
- Vulture
Michael McKean of Spinal Tap Hit by Car in New York, Seriously Injured
23 May 2012 8:43 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
He was listed in critical condition when this story broke last night but he’s been upgraded to stable according to his rep. The accident happened in Manhattan yesterday around 3pm when when Michael McKean was on his way to the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre for his scheduled performance in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. The 65-year old comic actor was hit by a car while crossing the street and suffered a broken leg in addition to other injuries including cuts and bruises. His wife, actress Annette O’Toole flew in from L.A. to be at his side. McKean began his career playing Lenny on the Laverne and Shirley TV show in the ’70s and is best know to movie audiences form his costarring roles in This Is Spinal Tap where he played band frontman David St. Hubbins, and the Christopher Guest comedies Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, »
- Tom Stockman
Christopher Guest is Working on a TV Comedy Called 'Family Tree'
23 May 2012 8:29 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Christopher Guest hasn't directed a film since 2006's awards-season satire "For Your Consideration," but according to Vulture, he's got a new project in the works -- and it's for TV. The site's reporting that Guest is collaborating with Jim Piddock, who played Simon Whitset in "For Your Consideration," Leonard Crabbe in "A Mighty Wind" and Trevor Beckwith in "Best in Show," on a potential new series called "Family Tree" that will, like Guest's other work, be an improvised comedy: It follows the efforts of one man — in this case, Bridesmaids star Chris O’Dowd — as he attempts to track down his real family. Our spies tell us that Piddock and Guest want to do their half-hour show both largely improvised and commercial-free, à la Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, and so NBCUniversal International Television is shopping the project to various pay...
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- Alison Willmore
Christopher Guest is Working on a TV Comedy Called 'Family Tree'
23 May 2012 8:29 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Christopher Guest hasn't directed a film since 2006's awards-season satire "For Your Consideration," but according to Vulture, he's got a new project in the works -- and it's for TV. The site's reporting that Guest is collaborating with Jim Piddock, who played Simon Whitset in "For Your Consideration," Leonard Crabbe in "A Mighty Wind" and Trevor Beckwith in "Best in Show," on a potential new series called "Family Tree" that will, like Guest's other work, be an improvised comedy: It follows the efforts of one man — in this case, Bridesmaids star Chris O’Dowd — as he attempts to track down his real family. Our spies tell us that Piddock and Guest want to do their half-hour show both largely improvised and commercial-free, à la Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, and so NBCUniversal International Television is shopping the project to various pay »
- Alison Willmore
Michael McKean Hit By A Car, In Stable Condition
23 May 2012 7:37 AM, PDT | Celebsology | See recent Celebsology news »
Well this is some sad news. Actor Michael McKean, who you know from This Is Spinal Tap (and a lot of other Christopher Guest films), The Brady Bunch movie, and a whole lot of other projects, was hit by a car yesterday in the Upper West Side. The actor was rushed to the hospital where he was admitted in critical condition. Luckily he has been moved to stable condition overnight.
This year has been really depressing as far as celebrity injuries and deaths, has it not? What's wrong with you, 2012? Why you gotta be like this?
McKean was on his way to a performance in The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. Friends say that this was the first performance that he had missed in his entire career. The actor has suffered a severe broken leg and heavy trauma as evident through the pictures below.
Warning, this pictures are a little graphic. »
- Emily Cheever
Michael McKean Hit By A Car, In Stable Condition
23 May 2012 7:37 AM, PDT | Filmology | See recent Filmology news »
Well this is some sad news. Actor Michael McKean, who you know from This Is Spinal Tap (and a lot of other Christopher Guest films), The Brady Bunch movie, and a whole lot of other projects, was hit by a car yesterday in the Upper West Side. The actor was rushed to the hospital where he was admitted in critical condition. Luckily he has been moved to stable condition overnight.
This year has been really depressing as far as celebrity injuries and deaths, has it not? What's wrong with you, 2012? Why you gotta be like this?
McKean was on his way to a performance in The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. Friends say that this was the first performance that he had missed in his entire career. The actor has suffered a severe broken leg and heavy trauma as evident through the pictures below.
Warning, this pictures are a little graphic. »
- Emily Cheever
Exclusive: Christopher Guest Looks to Do a TV Show
23 May 2012 7:15 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
“The satirist who writes nothing but satire,” Anthony Trollope said, “should write but little — or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.” Whatever, Trollope. It's been six years since we last had us some Christopher Guest, and that's way too long. Since For Your Consideration, all the director has produced is the odd Census commercial (and really, who can wait a decade for the resolution of such a cliff-hanger?) or Academy Awards sketch when what we really want is some simple yet hilarious improvisational satire.Thankfully, Guest and his fellow Brit moviemaking cohort Jim Piddock (who co-stars in both Best in Show and A Mighty Wind) are hard at work on a new effort. Surprisingly, it’s aimed for television, rather than the big screen. We’re told it’s an improvised genealogy comedy called Family Tree, »
- Claude Brodesser-Akner,Kyle Buchanan
'Dark Knight Returns' Casts RoboCop As Batman
23 May 2012 6:39 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Batman and RoboCop aren't the strangest bed fellows imaginable — Darren Aronofsky was attached to reboot both properties at different points in time, for example, and the two have crossed over in numerous instances of fan fiction, some more family-friendly than others.
Now, the two are intersecting in the biggest way to date: Peter Weller, the original Alex Murphy, is adding Bruce Wayne to his list of iconic characters.
Weller, next set to appear in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" sequel, has been cast in the lead role of "The Dark Knight Returns," the two-part animated adaptation of the landmark graphic novel written and illustrated by "Sin City" creator Frank Miller. The Hollywood Reporter has the news, adding that "Part 1" of the film will hit shelves in the fall, while "Part 2" is set to arrive in early 2013.
Also cast in "Dark Knight Returns" are "Modern Family" actress Ariel Winter as Robin, »
- Josh Wigler
Spinal Tap Funnyman Michael McKean Hit by Car
22 May 2012 7:15 PM, PDT | E! Online - UK | See recent E! Online - UK news »
Michael McKean, star of This Is Spinal Tap and Christopher Guest troupe regular, was struck by a car Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan, his publicist, Harriet Sternberg, confirmed to E! News. He remains hospitalized, but what is the 64-year-old actor-writer's prognosis? Per the New York Daily News, McKean's condition has been upgraded from critical to stable, but, in addition to cuts and bruises, his rep confirms he did suffer a broken leg. She said that McKean was struck shortly before 3 p.m. on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and that his wife, Smallville star Annette O'Toole, was flying in from Los Angeles to be with him. He also has two children from a previous marriage. "It's »
Spinal Tap Funnyman Michael McKean Hit by Car
22 May 2012 7:15 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Michael McKean, star of This Is Spinal Tap and Christopher Guest troupe regular, was struck by a car Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan, his publicist, Harriet Sternberg, confirmed to E! News. He remains hospitalized, but what is the 64-year-old actor-writer's prognosis? Per the New York Daily News, McKean's condition has been upgraded from critical to stable, but, in addition to cuts and bruises, his rep confirms he did suffer a broken leg. She said that McKean was struck shortly before 3 p.m. on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and that his wife, Smallville star Annette O'Toole, was flying in from Los Angeles to be with him. He also has two children from a previous marriage. "It's »
'Spinal Tap' Actor Hit By Car
22 May 2012 4:35 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Actor Michael McKean was struck by a car on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Tuesday.
According to DNAinfo, McKean was "one of three people rushed to St. Luke's Hospital."
Edward Hernendez, 26, who works at a nearby dry cleaner, said he ran outside after he heard the accident and saw McKean being strapped into a stretcher — although he did not know at the time that the man hit was a famous actor.
“The guy was on the floor, and bleeding,” Hernendez said.
A spokeswoman confirmed to The Wrap that McKean broke his leg in the accident, but said that he was otherwise "fine."
The actor, most famous for his roles in Christopher Guest comedies, including "Spinal Tap," is currently performing on Broadway. He also recently appeared on the ABC sitcom "Happy Endings." »
- Peter Finocchiaro
Richard Linklater and "Bernie"
27 April 2012 11:04 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
This week's theatrical release of Bernie, after a long and winding run through the festival circuit, beginning at the Los Angeles Film Festival last summer, has prompted more than a few appreciations of Richard Linklater's career overall, regardless of how each individual critic ultimately comes down on his new film. Noel Murray and Scott Tobias have written up a primer at the Av Club and, at Slate, Seth Stevenson's attached a sidebar of rankings to his assessment of the oeuvre.
And then there's Kent Jones, writing for Film Comment: "My belief that Richard Linklater remains America's most underestimated filmmaker has been reinforced by the reception thus far to his new film Bernie, treated as either a failed Jack Black comedy or a movie that has not made up its mind about whether it wants to be fiction or documentary, funny or serious. Which leads me to the inescapable conclusion »
Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'
27 April 2012 8:46 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The actor on juggling popular teen comedy and mild-mannered mockumentary – and why he's not a fan of the American version of The Office
Eugene Levy does not look quite comfortable, standing on the sofa. Those Groucho brows are frowning, surprised eyes wide. He knows the photos will work better if he's three feet up, and he's much too polite to gripe. But he's wary. That cushion is just a touch plush. Plus, he's had a run of bad luck lately. Yesterday's fish and chips was followed by emergency dental work. Last winter's ceremony to pick up his Order of Canada medal was interrupted by a kidney stone: "I would rather pass a 15-pound baby."
He climbs down gingerly, folds his legs, looks more zen. In fact, Levy has long pulled off one of the most brilliant balancing acts in cinema. Few are so adept at straddling the super-mainstream and the deeply niche. »
- Catherine Shoard
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