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Bart and Guber Yakking for Knbc

30 November 2009 10:59 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Josef Adalian

The Peter Bart/Peter Guber media empire is expanding again.

NBC La flagship Knbc today announced the launch of "Show Business with Bart & Guber," a weekly interview-focused series about Hollywood. The show will air Saturday nights at 5 p.m., starting this week.

"This show will offer a fresh perspective on the inner workings of the industry and there's no better team to give us those insights than these industry icons," said Craig Robinson, president and general manager of Knbc.

"Show Business" will be a companion series to "In the ... »

- Adalian

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Eva Mendes, Craig Robinson and Mary J. Blige on Lopez Tonight

23 November 2009 9:26 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Eva Mendes, Craig Robinson and Mary J. Blige are on "Lopez Tonight" Monday, Nov. 23 on TBS. Actress Eva Mendes shares her childhood career goals, her families Thanksgiving traditions and she shows George how she recently used a leaf blower on "Lopez Tonight." Eva demonstrates why a leaf blower was involved in her most recent viral music video Har Mar Superstars. Eva: "This video was shot for no money, so when you don't have money...as a lot of us know...you've got to get creative, right? To get this cool special affect we basically used a leaf blower." Eva on wanting to be a nun: George: "So when you were 12, I saw this, you wanted to be a nun?" »

- April MacIntyre

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Exclusive Interview with New Family Guy Star Candace Marie

11 November 2009 7:32 AM, PST | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »

Have you stopped laughing yet from last week's Family Guy?

The episode poked fun at Miley Cyrus, featuring the singer as a Disney-programmed robot that went crazy and blew up the town. These things sometimes happen in Quahog.

Cyrus, of course, didn't voice the character herself. That honor fell to Candace Marie, a rising singer that has landed a recurring role on the hilarious sitcom.

What part will she play? And how does she feel about voicing Miley? We asked Marie these questions in an exclusive interview with the gorgeous star...

TV Fanatic: How did the role on Family Guy come about?

Marie: The producer I was working with for my album (Becoming a Real Girl), John Paterno, told me about the audition opportunity. I went in for it and got a call from the casting director, Linda LeMontane, a month later.

TV Fanatic: Any fear of upsetting Miley Cyrus fans? »

- matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)

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Afm 2009 Promo Posters Part 1 + Steve Watches Afm’s Hot Tub Time Machine Red Band Trailer and Catches a 2nd MacHete Poster Featuring Lindsay Lohan as a Naughty Nun

10 November 2009 10:53 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Earlier today, I was at the American Film Market in Santa Monica. If you’re not familiar with Afm, it’s the place where film buyers from around the world come once a year to buy movies and also pre-buy films in development. Simply put, this is where a lot of money changes hands in the film industry and it’s where many decisions about what you and I get to see are made. In an effort to try and raise a film’s profile or attract film buyers, many of the studios print up promo art for movies in development or nearing completion. Almost none of the artwork will ever see the light of day outside of Afm, but if you’re a film junkie like me, then getting to see all this stuff is Christmas. After the jump you can take a look at the first grouping of »

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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Fox November Highlights: ‘The Wanda Sykes Show’ Premiere; New Episodes of ‘House,’ ‘Fringe,’ More

15 October 2009 8:52 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Fox recently sent over the details on their post-baseball coverage including the series premiere of “The Wanda Sykes Show,” the special “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show,” a week-long “The Simpsons”-themed on-air scavenger hunt November 9th through the 15th, and synopsis information for the hit shows they have planned for the sweeps period including “House,” “Glee,” “Bones,” “Fringe,” and “Lie to Me”.

Important dates to mark in the Fox November 2009 Sweeps period include November 7th, when “The Wanda Sykes Show” debuts. The next night, on November 8th, which is an entire night devoted to the comedy of Seth MacFarlane, including the original variety show special “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show,” and all-new episodes of “Family Guy,” “American Dad,” and “The Cleveland Show”. The rest of that week pays “homarge” to twenty years of “The Simpsons” with tributes and clues »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Andy Buckley and Ben Schwartz join The Other Guys

13 October 2009 1:45 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Andy Buckley of "The Office" and Ben Schwartz of "Mystery Team" have joined Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Damon Wayans Jr., Dwayne Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Coogan and Craig Robinson in Adam McKay's comedy "The Other Guys." McKay ("Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby") helms as well as writing alongside Chris Henchy Ferrell and Wahlberg stars as two second-teir cops who envy the super cop duo played by Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson. »

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Infographic of the Day: How to Name a Baseball Team

29 September 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Craig Robinson hits a home run with this colorful Venn diagram cataloging the origin of baseball team names. Though I'm still unsure why athletes in Chicago wear white socks and those in Boston wear red, or what an "Athletic," a "National," or a "Royal" looks like, it's fascinating to see the connections between otherwise unrelated mascots (Astros, Brewers, Mariners, Rangers, Royals?).

Check out the graph in high resolution here, and a multitude of other charts celebrating America's pastime here.

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- Kelsey Keith

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First Look: The Other Guys

27 September 2009 2:49 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Unofficial photos have evidently leaked from the Big Apple set of Adam McKay's The Other Guys. As First Showing notes, these might as well be premature studio-approved stills from the action comedy, which just began filming and is due late summer 2010. Missing from the pics are new recruits Sam Jackson and Dwayne "Tooth Fairy" Johnson as the badass cops to Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's desk-assigned officers. I expected the latter duo to look goofier and less kempt---no vintage Panama City t-shirts?---but the style is in line with what McKay has called a less surreal tone when compared to his classics, Anchorman and Step Brothers... Shown above are Rob Riggle and Damon Wayans Jr. as yet another police duo in the film. There has been speculation that Wayans Jr. has replaced Craig Robinson (The Office) in the role of Riggle's partner. This photo points in favor of the rumor. »

- Hunter Stephenson

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Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Coogan and The Rock Join 'The Other Guys'

23 September 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

From "Anchorman" to "Land of the Lost," Will Ferrell has braved many a genre before, typically operating somewhere within the general realm of comedy. His next movie, "The Other Guys," is no different -- alongside co-star Mark Wahlberg and frequent collaborating director Adam McKay, Ferrell is set to explore the cinematic world of crime.

Luckily, Wahlberg and Ferrell aren't alone. Variety reports that the actors will be joined in the film by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson and Steve Coogan, all of whom have their own diversity of genre performances.

"The Other Guys" focuses on a New York City police precinct where Jackson and Johnson play an elite cop duo -- two officers who regularly bust the bad guys, drive fast cars and get the girls -- while Ferrell and Wahlberg's considerably less accomplished cops watch from the sidelines. As you might have gathered from the title, the »

- Josh Wigler

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Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, and Steve Coogan Join Adam McKay’s The Other Guys.

23 September 2009 9:19 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

The ensemble cast for The Other Guys, the latest collaboration between funnymen pals Will Ferrell and writer/director Adam McKay, is of a higher-profile than on their previous flicks, sans Anchorman. Today brings news that Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne "Tooth Fairy" Johnson will play stud "super cops" to the unfulfilled desk pigs played by Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Rob Riggle, and Craig Robinson. In addition, Brit comedy and Alan Patridge mastermind, Steve Coogan, will play the villain, automatically kicking the craziness up a notch. Last week we reported that Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, and a Wayans have mounted up for unspecified roles. The obvious wildcard here is a desk cop played by Wahlberg, who usually plays walking talking testosterone, and appeared recently in new ship-shape pics for The Fighter as boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward. Re: Raw eggs for breakfast, then the gym. Judging by recent, paparazzo pics from the set of The Other Guys, »

- Hunter Stephenson

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The Sci-Fi Paradoxes in the Red Band Trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine Will Blow Your Mind Man

31 August 2009 8:43 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, and Clark Duke play buds who get into a hot tub only to be transported back to 1986. The red band trailer showed up a while ago, but I just now stumbled across it. The idea behind the movie sounded dumb when I first heard it, so I didn’t really bother to cover it. The trailer is actually of funny, in a stupid, dumb kind of way. “I write Stargate fanfic, this is my bread and butter, man!” Classic. Plus, it’s got Crispin Glover. You can’t have a goofy time travel movie without Crispin Glover. Here’s the plot, such as it is: After a night of drinking Red Bull and vodkas, a group of guys travel back in time to when they were younger cads. Starring John Cusack, Lizzy Caplan, Crispin Glover, Kate Walsh, Chevy Chase, Sebastian Stan, Craig Robinson, Lyndsy Fonseca, »

- Nix

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Craig Robinson In Shrek Forever After

17 August 2009 6:26 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Critics and for that matter most online movie bloggers may have checked out shortly before the start of the third film, but if you.re part of the rank and file odds are that you still care about Shrek. We movie bloggers on the other hand, tend to care about Craig Robinson because he.s been in great things which you.ve never seen because you were too busy watching horrible movies about farting ogres. Things like Zack and Miri Make A Porno. Things like The Office. I know, you.ve never heard of them. But our two separate groups may soon have something to agree on, since it looks like Robinson is joining the cast of the fourth Shrek movie, titled Shrek Forever After. This exciting and incredibly newsworthy tidbit was picked up by the guys at JoBlo from a site called Bdk Reviews, where Mr. Robinson told them »

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Robinson meets Shrek

16 August 2009 6:56 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

I can't say I know much about the goings on of the Shrek franchise. The first one was funny, the second had Banderas doing Puss, but then I just tuned out. Or grew up, if that's possible... Dreamworks must've felt my lack of interest when casting the next one (which one is it now? 4th? 5th?) entitled Shrek Forever After. The newest member of the ongoing fairy tale sendoff is none other than the really funny Craig Robinson, whom I thank Kevin Smith and Zack & Miri for putting on my... »

- Tony Lang

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Craig Robinson Could Be The Other Guy To Will Ferrell And Mark Wahlberg In 'The Other Guys'

14 August 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

You probably remember Craig Robinson as the scene-stealing big guy from “The Office,” “Pineapple Express,” “Knocked Up” and so many other great comedies. You may soon know him as a star of the upcoming Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy “The Other Guys.” And if you do, well…you’re welcome.

“I’m here in New York right now, we’re casting [‘The Other Guys’] and in pre-production,” Adam McKay, the man behind “Anchorman,” “Talladega Nights” and this week’s “The Goods” said when we spoke Wednesday evening. “It’s looking pretty cool; I’m excited about it.” Check out this sneak peek at "The Goods" and then hit the jump for more.

“Basically the idea is that you have your star cops of New York City, picture like a Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson-type pair,” McKay explained. “They’re the guys who get all the car chases, all the girls. But »

- Larry Carroll

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The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.

14 August 2009 4:18 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.

Directed by: Neal Brennan

Cast: Jeremy Piven, Ed Helms, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner, Kathryn Hahn, Alan Thicke

Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: August 14, 2009

Plot: A notorious fast-talking traveling salesman (Piven) must help an auto lot sell their cars before they are bought out by their competitor.

Who’s It For? As much as the film is profane, its tired humor would fit better in a PG-13 arena for those who consider jokes about men hitting on other men to still be funny. But considering how bad this movie is, The Goods probably won’t be enjoyed by any patron over the age of 17 unless they enter with bottom-dollar expectations.

Expectations: Even after seeing the film’s not so funny preview constantly at the movies this summer, there were still hopes this would be a breezy mid-August comedy with odd, »

- Nick Allen

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Movie Review - 'The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.'

14 August 2009 2:42 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.

Starring Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, Ed Helms, and James Brolin

Directed by Neal Brennan

Rated R

Star vehicles, by definition, depend on the appeal of their stars. So, before you pay to see The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard., you should ask yourself how much you like Jeremy Piven. The Entourage Emmy winner is a used car salesman savant named Don Ready. He's as abrasive like Piven's Ari Gold, only in worse clothes. But if this is all Piven's got, haven't we seen it already?

Unfortunately, even though there's a good cast of likely and unlikely comic heroes mingling the used car lot, Piven gets most of the funny. And that's where this one bottlenecks.

It's not that Piven isn't funny or can't be funny, but in The Goods, it's one note over and over again. That note isn't all that funny to begin with, »

- Colin Boyd

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Exclusive Video: Jeremy Piven Gives Us The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

13 August 2009 1:09 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Somewhere along the way, it seems the studios forgot that summertime is not only a time for big crazy robots and unrelenting action, but outrageous comedy as well. One might suggest the incredible success of The Hangover could be due to a severe lack of comedic films at the box office this summer, but there is a very worthy contender to The Hangover's summer comedic throne in The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - a film that makes The Hangover look like Sesame Street.

Jeremy Piven leads this all-star cast and we were able to speak exclusively with Piven along with David Koechner, Rob Riggle, Ken Jeong (a.k.a. Dr. Ken), Craig Robinson, Ed Helms and Alan Thicke about the most outrageous comedy of the year. Click below for our exclusive video interviews with this comedic dream team.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard stars Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, »

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The Motion/Captured Interview: Jeremy Piven, Craig Robinson, and Ken Jeong

13 August 2009 2:30 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

Press days are just weird.  It's just a weird rhythm to get into.  You show up at a hotel.  You go upstairs, eat some food, relax for a minute, then go down the hall, get on camera three or four or five times in a row for five minutes with each person.  Sometimes it's two people.  And the whole time you're talking, someone's counting down.  And you're hoping that somehow, something's going to happen.  Something real.  A moment that is worth you getting up after three and a half hours of sleep, driving an hour and a half in the morning,... »

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Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on 'House,' 'Bones,' '24,' 'Big Bang Theory,' 'True Blood,' 'Smallville,' and more!

12 August 2009 7:51 PM, PDT | EW - Ausiello Files | See recent EW.com - The Ausiello Files news »

Got a scoop request about your favorite show? An anonymous tip you're dying to share? Just want to say hi? You can send any/all of the above to ausielloscoop@ew.com Question: Ask Ausiello's back! Let's mark the occasion with some awesome House spoiler! —Mandi Ausiello: A member of the team gets fired in the first three episodes! Question: Is it true that House moves in with Wilson after he returns from the asylum? —Joel Ausiello: It's true. That's one of two major life changes the ornery doc makes early in the season. What's the other one, you ask? Cooking lessons! Question: You better deliver a blockbuster Ask Ausiello this week to make up for the column's two-week hiatus. No pressure though! —Jay Ausiello: Sounds like someone's still bitter about not getting into last month's Ausholefest. Question: Do you have any other hints about what main character is going »

- Michael Ausiello

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My Super Funny One-on-One Interviews with the cast of "The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard." From Alan Thicke to Jeremy Piven, See What the Stars Reveal!

12 August 2009 2:49 PM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

First of, have I told you how much I love this film? It's Super-funny! But, the greatest comedies have underlying tones of despair, and the characters in "The Goods" certainly have lots of those, hence, the funnies :happy

Make it the super funnies!

From the folks who gave us "Talladega Nights" and "Stepbrothers," "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard" is one of the best comedies of the summer, perhaps the year!

Directed by Neil Brennan from the script by Andy Stock and Rick Stempson, this film ain't a clunker! Paramount has great timing with the whole Cash for Clunkers program.

You'll find a new, perhaps, respect for used car salesman! "The Goods" opens this Friday, Aug. 14th, so don't miss it!

So I attended the press junket for "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard" and sat down with the cast. Here they are (click on pictures to see video): »

- Manny

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