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Exclusive: Prime Video has acquired international rights from XYZ Films to thriller and Cannes sales title Over Your Dead Body (formerly The Trip) starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, and Juliette Lewis.

Jorma Taccone directed from the adapted screenplay by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney based on Tommy Wirkola’s Norwegian cult thriller I Onde Dager. Segel and Weaving play a dysfunctional couple who head to a remote cabin to reconnect, while secretly harbouring plans to kill the other. The cast includes Paul Guilfoyle and Keith Jardine.

The film will receive a wide US theatrical release through Independent Film Company,...

Over Your Dead Body, was was previously titled The Trip, has just been acquired by IFC for a theatrical release. The 87North/XYZ-produced film comes from director Jorma Taccone (MacGruber and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) – and sports an amazing ensemble cast, including Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), Samara Weaving (Ready or Not), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Juliette Lewis (From Dusk Till Dawn), Paul Guilfoyle (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), and retired mixed martial artist Keith Jardine (Godless).

Over Your Dead Body is based on director Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian thriller, I Onde Dager, which starred Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie. The screenplay by Wirkola, John Niven, and Nick Ball has been reworked by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney. The original film had the following synopsis: Eager to end their marriage by murdering each other, a husband and wife head to a remote cabin — but soon find themselves facing an even bigger threat.

Independent Film Company announced today that they have acquired the U.S. rights to thriller Over Your Dead Body (formerly The Trip) directed by Saturday Night Live alumnus and Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone. The film, adapted by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney from the acclaimed Norwegian cult thriller, I Onde Dager, features an all-star lineup including Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine. Independent Film Company is set to release the film wide theatrically.

Over Your Dead Body follows a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.

“Jorma Taccone stands as one of the most creative and reliably brilliant voices in comedy and we are delighted to collaborate with him and our friends at 87North, XYZ, and Resolute Films on Over Your Dead Body,” said Head of IFC Entertainment Group Scott Shooman.

IFC has acquired U.S. rights to Over Your Dead Body (fka The Trip), a new thriller helmed by The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone and starring Jason Segel and Samara Weaving.

The film, adapted from the acclaimed Norwegian cult thriller I Onde Dager, will be released wide in theaters at a date not yet disclosed.

Over Your Dead Body follows a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other. Pic’s cast also includes Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine.

Written by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, the film is produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch; XYZ Films’ Guy Danella, Nick Spicer, abd Aram Tertzakian; and Resolute Films’ Lee Kim. Taccone, Tommy Wirkola, Nate Bolotin, Maxime Cottray,...

In 2021, Tommy Wirkola (Violent Night, Dead Snow) delivered a delightfully deranged and bloody comedic thriller in The Trip, and a new take on the film is now on the way.

It’s titled Over Your Dead Body, with Samara Weaving and Jason Segel starring!

Independent Film Company announced today that they have acquired the U.S. rights to Over Your Dead Body, directed by “Saturday Night Live” alumnus and Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone.

The film, adapted by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney from the acclaimed Norwegian cult thriller, I Onde Dager, features an all-star lineup including Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine.

Independent Film Company is set to release the film wide theatrically.

Over Your Dead Body follows a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.

“Jorma Taccone stands as...

IFC is headed on a couple’s retreat with Jason Segel and Samara Weaving. The indie outfit has taken the United States rights to Over Your Dead Body, a feature following a dysfunctional couple who head to a remote cabin to reconnect, but who secretly have a plan to kill the other.

IFC will give a wide release to the project, with international rights up for grabs at Cannes.

The film hails from Jorma Taccone, the Saturday Night Live alum and member of the Lonely Island comedy trio. He is also known as the filmmaker behind Pop Star: Never Stop Stopping and MacGruber.

Scribes Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney adapted the script from the Norwegian cult thriller Onde Dager. The cast also includes Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle and Keith Jardine.

Stunt-heavy shingle 87North, run by David Leitch and Kelly McCormick, will produce with XYZ and Resolute Films.

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A leaked promo for Kung Fury 2 just dropped online, and it’s as wild as it sounds. One of the most shocking moments? Arnold Schwarzenegger riding a dinosaur! Yes, you read that right.

Kung Fury 2, also known as Kung Fury: The Movie, is the long-awaited follow-up to the 2015 short film Kung Fury. The original film was a crazy, over-the-top tribute to 1980s sci-fi action movies and became a viral hit. Now, the feature-length sequel promises to be even more outrageous.

The film is written, directed by, and stars David Sandberg. It also features big names like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Fassbender, Alexandra Shipp, David Hasselhoff, and Jorma Taccone. While the movie has been delayed for years due to legal issues over visual effects, this leaked clip has fans buzzing.

The promo video leaked last week and was confirmed as real by Sandberg himself. In the clip, you can see:...

Sometimes the world hands you lemons, and sometimes it hands you Arnold Schwarzenegger riding a dinosaur while fighting Nazis. Now, you might be wondering where this ridiculous yet oddly entertaining notion sprouted from. Well, some films make you think. Some make you cry. And then there’s Kung Fury 2: a cinematic roundhouse kick to the brain that cares little for permission, logic, or linear storytelling.

It’s been a long decade of radio silence since this neon-soaked fever dream, helmed by David Sandberg, vanished into a labyrinth of lawsuits. But now, thanks to a leaked 10-minute footage, the chaos has been unleashed… and it’s even more unhinged than anyone expected.

Note that the footage was mysteriously uploaded by an anonymous YouTube user. Variety confirmed its legitimacy, and director-star David Sandberg admitted it contains unfinished VFX and spoilers. But who cares? Here are five things we have learned from this mind-melting preview.

Fans were able to get a look at Michael Fassbender in costume for Kung Fury 2, several years after he first signed on for the movie.

Per Variety, a sizzle reel from the unreleased Kung Fury 2 has been leaked online. The video has since been taken down due to a copyright claim. The 10-minute promo opened to a cluttered attic space before a VHS tape flies into frame, replete with lightning effects and an epic synth riff before cutting away to a fantastical, day-glow cityscape replete with anthropomorphic dinosaurs and all manner of over-the-top warriors, including David Sandberg in a reprisal of his role as Kung Fury. The promo also includes a sneak peek at Michael Fassbender as Kung Fury's new partner, Colt Magnum, as well as the return of Jorma Taccone as Adolf Hitler, aka the Kung Führer.

“This was an internal promo video that was never supposed...

“Kung Fury” was the fevered dream of Swedish filmmaker David Sandberg, who crowd-sourced a wild genre-bending short film take on the cop action film by throwing all sorts of insane elements, including Vikings, dinosaurs, time-travel, and a kung fu-trained satirical version of Adolph Hitler played by Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone. And over the weekend, high-resolution footage from the long-wrapped “Kung Fury 2” that features Michael Fassbender (“Black Bag”), Alexandra Shipp (“X-Men: Apocalypse”), David Hasselhoff, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the President of the United States made its way online in the form of a 10-minute sizzle reel.

Continue reading ‘Kung Fury 2’ Sizzle Reel: Michael Fassbender & Arnold Schwarzenegger Star In Leaked Footage From Absurdist Comedy at The Playlist.

"I eat lions every goddamn day. If you're not prepared to do the same, then you hang up that hat, walk out that door, and you never come back..." Hell yes - I want to watch this! Some of you will remember a badass short (at 30 mins!) film from 2015 called Kung Fury, made by Swedish filmmaker David Sandberg (no relation to Shazam! director David F. Sandberg). This was his own big project and it was a huge hit when it launched online - watch here. In 2018 he started development on a full-length feature version called Kung Fury: The Movie or Kung Fury 2. He was somehow able to wrangle up Michael Fassbender, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and David Hasselhoff for the cast, and shot the film in 2019. But after legal troubles and other setbacks, the pandemic kicked in and the film has been stuck in release limbo. Word is that it's finished...

Update: The leaked footage has been taken down via a copyright claim from Hammerstone Studios.Where were you the first time you learned about the short film Kung Fury? A man using martial arts to take on Adolf Hitler (Jorma Taccone)? We're invested. The very odd and exciting short film, directed by David Sandberg, was littered with 80s references, looked like a bad video game, and has become one of those things we all pass around like the VHS from The Ring. Now, the long-hidden footage of Kung Fury 2 has been leaked and it is as glorious as you'd think.

The sequel was shut down during post-production and the new 10-minute sizzle reel for the film was posted anonymously on YouTube. Variety confirmed with the filmmakers that it is legitimate footage from the film. The other time something like this has happened (and worked) was when footage of Deadpool...

Netflix subscribers can no longer stream one of the best Spider-Man films ever made, which was available on the platform up until April. However, this is good news for fans of the web-slinger who are subscribed to Disney+.

As of May 1, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now streaming on Disney+ after making the jump from Netflix. This means that almost every Spider-Man films is available to stream on Disney+, though there are two major titles still missing. This includes Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the predecessor to Across the Spider-Verse. The hit crossover film Spider-Man: No Way Home, which followed Tom Holland's Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, is also yet to be made available on Disney+.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was directed by the team of Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson. It was written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Dave Callaham. Shameik Moore...

XYZ Films has hired former 87North and Studio 8 executive Guy Danella as its President of Film.

The company has said Danella will be tasked with acquiring and producing a slate of high-end genre films geared for the theatrical market.

Danella was most recently an executive at David Leitch’s 87North Films, where he produced such films as Universal’s Violent Night, Love Hurts starring Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, and The Trip directed by Jorma Taccone and starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, and Juliette Lewis. The Trip is a remake of the Norwegian film I Onde Dager and is currently in post-production. XYZ films financed both I Onde Dager and the remake.

Before that, Danella was a partner at Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8, working on titles such as Apple’s Instigators, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, and Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic. He also served as the SVP of Production...

Guy Danella has been named president of film at XYZ Films, overseeing theatrical production and acquisition. Danella’s previous producing credits include Love Hurts starring Ke Huy Quan and Violent Night starring David Harbour, both released through Universal Pictures.

Danella’s first project with XYZ is The Trip, a remake of Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian thriller Onde Dager, originally financed by XYZ. The story follows a married couple retreating to a remote cabin under the pretense of saving their marriage. Both secretly plan to kill the other before unexpected visitors arrive. Jorma Taccone directs the adaptation, which features Juliette Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Jason Segel, and Samara Weaving. The film is in post-production.

Danella said he has long admired XYZ’s global genre productions. “XYZ has worked across genres with filmmakers worldwide and made some of my favorite films over the last decade plus,” he said. “I am excited to join...

XYZ Films has hired former 87North and Studio 8 executive Guy Danella to the new position of president of film to lead a slate of high-end theatrical genre films.

Danella will oversee acquiring and producing films. The roster includes Jorma Taccone’s The Trip starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, and Juliette Lewis, which is in post and is the English-language remake of Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian action comedy I Onde Dager. XYZ Films produces with David Leitch’s 87North and is financing, as it did on the original.

The collaboration was instrumental in XYZ Films bringing in Danella.

Guy Danella has been named the new president of film at XYZ Films, tasked with heading up theatrical production and acquisition at the genre specialist.

Danella’s production credits include the Ke Huy Quan actioner Love Hurts and Tommy Wirkola’s Violent Night, starring David Harbour, both Universal Pictures releases. He will kick off his XYZ slate with The Trip, an adaptation of Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian thriller Onde Dager, which XYZ financed.

The film follows a dysfunctional couple who head to a remote cabin, ostensibly to try and rescue their marriage. But both have secret plans to kill the other. Before they can do anything, unexpected visitors arrive, putting them both in greater danger. Jorma Taccone is directing the remake, which stars Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Juliette Lewis and Timothy Olyphant, . The film is currently in post-production.

“XYZ has continually broken ground across all genres with filmmakers across the globe...

There was once a time when any and all repeat Saturday Night Live characters stood a pretty good chance of landing their own movie, from Wayne and Garth, to the Ladies Man, to the controversial Pat. Even a sketch that was about mute cokeheads groping women in nightclubs to the sounds of Haddaway was somehow turned into a feature film.

But there hasn’t been an official SNL movie since 2010’s MacGruber — not just because the cult favorite was a box-office flop, but also because the movie industry has drastically changed since the ‘90s. And as MovieWeb once pointed out, in the 2000s, SNL’s breakout stars, such as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, successfully launched post-SNL careers on television, rather than on the big screen.

Will we ever get another SNL movie? At one point in the recent past, there was talk of making a movie focused on Bill Hader’s Stefon,...

Actors in comedies are frequently called upon to sacrifice themselves on the altar of dignity to bring a gag to life. In Will Forte's 2010 SNL-original comedy MacGruber, several of these ego-killer visual gags are on full display - such as Forte's celery distraction scene, an image forever emblazoned on most viewers' minds. But in a movie rife with silly bits and crude jokes, there was one joke that the late Val Kilmer, who played the dastardly villain Dieter Von Cunth, refused to do.

In a recent appearance on The Lonley Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, MacGruber director Jorma Taccone recalled making the film and where the Top Gun star drew the line on what he was willing to do for comedy:

"There was one joke, though, that he refused to do. We did want to cut his penis off and shove it in his mouth. That was...

Writer-director Jorma Taccone discusses his bizarre first meeting with Hollywood icon and MacGruberstar Val Kilmer.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Taccone recently recalled driving out to Malibu to meet Kilmer at his home for a conversation about his role as the villainous Dieter Von Cunth in 2010's MacGruber feature film. "I go in the house, and he's on the balcony...throwing these little chips or something into the ocean, and he's going, 'Are you a king? Are you a king?' I was like, 'What? What?' And he comes back into the room. He's turned away from me. And he comes back into the room, and he starts tossing these little paper chips at me...and I'm like, 'What are these?"

"And I started looking at them, and it takes me, like, a couple minutes to figure out that he was invited to Mardi Gras that year to play King Bacchus,...

Brad Silberling's 2009 film "Land of the Lost" was a feature-length spoof of the 1974 NBC adventure series co-created by Sid & Marty Krofft. The Krofft shows of the '70s and '80s were all fantasy programs that typically centered on parallel universes, fun puppets, and wild monster costumes. 

Their "Land of the Lost," which ran for 43 episodes over its three seasons, was the Kroffts' headiest, least comedic series. It followed the adventures of Rick (Spencer Milligan) and his kids Will (Wesley Eure) and Holly (Kathy Coleman) as they accidentally crash through a dimensional portal while whitewater rafting. They arrived in a prehistoric world overrun by dinosaurs and a species of Sasquatch-like protohumans called Pakuni. There are also wicked, threatening humanoid reptiles in this universe called Sleestaks who live in a series of underground chambers. There are magical crystals in the caves, as well as mysterious obelisks that may have the...

"Top Gun" star Tom Cruise has a memorable big screen history with Val Kilmer. Not only did the two actors rise to fame in the 1980s, but they played rivals in the blockbuster air combat film that would eventually result in a sequel that gave them a heartfelt reunion. That sequel also served as a fond farewell for Kilmer, who had been suffering from throat cancer but still managed to make a wonderful appearance in "Top Gun: Maverick," where his previously cocky character Tom "Iceman" Kazansky was suffering from the same ailment as Kilmer in real life, eventually dying in the movie years before Kilmer would actually pass away in 2025.

However, Cruise and Kilmer almost had a much different "Top Gun" reunion on the small screen over two decades earlier, thanks to "Saturday Night Live."

In a recent episode of "The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast," which is a must-listen for fans of "SNL,...

Give the late Val Kilmer credit for good taste and common sense. While Kilmer was an extremely good sport while making the MacGruber movie, explained director Jorma Taccone on a recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, there was one extreme gag that he refused to do. “We did want to cut his penis off and shove it in his mouth,” Taccone confessed. “That was the one joke that he did not want to do.”

That was “especially a good decision on his part,” noted Meyers.

The Late Night host couldn’t believe Kilmer would do the role at all. “I think not only would 85 percent of actors not want to play a character named Peter von Cunth,” Meyers said, “I think probably 99 percent of agents don’t want to call their clients and say, ‘Hey, there’s a part I think you’re perfect for.”

Taccone was shocked as well.

Finding a good movie to watch on Amazon Prime Video can be difficult to say the least. While Amazon’s robust library of titles is available to every Amazon Prime subscriber, they don’t exactly make it easy to find what you’re looking for. That’s where we come in. Below, we’ve assembled a growing list of the best movies on Amazon Prime right now. Our carefully curated selection runs the gamut from crowd-pleasing blockbusters to Oscar-winning dramas to delightful rom-coms and beyond. There’s a little something for everyone, so stop the endless scrolling and simply choose one of these great movies to watch.

Check out our list of the best movies on Amazon Prime video below. The list will be updated weekly with new titles.

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Ready to get blown away? “Twisters,” which hit theaters last summer, is a legacy sequel to 1996’s Helen Hunt-and-Bill Paxton-led blockbuster.

Jack Black is set to host Saturday Night Live this weekend for the first time in nearly 20 years, and his fourth time overall. Tenacious D also served as the show’s musical guest in a 2006 episode, but presumably that won’t count toward a Five-Timers Club jacket.

Black’s last hosting effort was pretty solid. Memorably, he kicked off the show by belting out his unused tie-in song for Peter Jackson’s King Kong, which eventually devolved into a series of musical confessions about how he can’t actually read and once peed in Jackson’s coffee pot during the production.

This particular episode also happened to feature one of the most significant moments in SNL’s history.

Sandwiched between a sketch about TV news anchors and a performance from musical guest Neil Young came the second-ever SNL Digital Short: “Lazy Sunday,” which found Chris Parnell and new cast member...

Movie legend Val Kilmer passed away yesterday at the age of 65, but his memory will live on in the hearts of the dozens of comedy fans who saw MacGruber in theaters.

The 2010 action/comedy MacGruber, based on the Saturday Night Live sketch by the same name, may have been a total flop at the box office, failing to even earn back its $10 million budget, but at least it earned the scorn of the critical community to match its commercial failure. As it turns out, neither moviegoers nor movie reviewers at the time had any interest in seeing a profane, illogical and hilariously dated feature-length adaptation of an overdone SNL sketch that parodied a TV show that had been off the air for nearly 20 years. However, MacGruber’s titular star Will Forte and his onscreen nemesis Kilmer didn’t give a cut-off dick about what anyone else thought of their glorious turd of a comedy masterpiece.

While many of Saturday Night Live’s Digital Shorts involved innocent boat trips and The Chronicles of Narnia, some were quite risqué, such as “Dick in a Box,” the recent “Sushi Glory Hole,” and the one in which Tom Hanks begged people not to mutilate his testicles through song.

But the filthiest Digital Short of all time may have been 2008’s “Jizz in My Pants,” the music video starring The Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone as two suave guys who can’t help but prematurely ejaculate — whether it’s because they’re making out with a hot stranger at a club, or simply finding out that Bruce Willis was a ghost at the end of The Sixth Sense.

If you’re surprised that this bodily fluid-filled sketch made it to the air, well, so are the guys who made it.

On the most recent episode of The...

Every now and then, a true cinematic classic flies so far under the radar that its destiny to become a cult favorite is clear right from the start. Such was the case with the 2016 mockumentary musical comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which stars Saturday Night Live alumnus and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg as Conner "Kid Conner" Friel, a pop star struggling to go solo after being part of the rap group phenomenon The Style Boyz.

Grossly missed by many upon release, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping has now landed on Prime Video, and we urge you to either discover or rediscover this modern comedy masterpiece. Directed by The Lonely Island members Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone and written by and starring fellow The Lonely Island member Andy Samberg, as well as Taccone, and Schaffer, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping was co-produced by Judd Apatow and Rodney Rothman.

1982’s Diner was the comedy that dared to ask: What if some dudes hung out in a greasy spoon restaurant and just talked about stuff?

The movie starred Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin and Paul Reiser, just to name a few. It followed a group of friends in the late ‘50s who routinely meet at the local diner to chat about the music, sex and the minutiae of their day-to-day lives.

While that concept may not sound all that novel today, at the time, it was so unusual for mainstream entertainment, that some found it tough to grasp. According to writer-director Barry Levinson, during the editing process, a studio executive tried to get him to cut an argument over a roast beef sandwich because it didn’t do anything to “advance the story.”

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Diner, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay,...

Will Forte has looked back at his Saturday Night Live spinoff MacGruber bombing at the box office. The 2010 comedy infamously debuted to harsh reviews and subsequently underperformed at financially as well.

MacGruber was based on Forte's recurring SNL sketches in which he played a MacGyver-like hero whose attempts to diffuse dangerous situations almost always failed miserably. Despite the movie being packed with SNL stars – including Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph – the project's failure was seen as a black mark on Forte's potential as a movie star.

Will Forte Reflects on MacGruber's failure

Forte candidly reflected on MacGruber's failure during a recent interview with Ted Danson on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast (via Entertainment Weekly). He admitted that the project bombing was particularly hurtful since it came out only a week after SNL's triumphant season finale.

"The movie came out and just s*** the bed, just did tremendously badly,...

Thankfully, Will Forte didn’t have to beg some fellow SNL alumni to help him get his career back on track after the failure of MacGruber. We all know what he gets like when he starts begging.

On paper, the 2010 feature film adaptation of a Lorne-Michaels-beloved SNL character had all of the makings of a blockbuster: MacGruber was a movie parody of a TV show that hadn’t been on the air in 18 years at the time of release, a YouTuber who had never shot anything much longer than “I’m on a Boat” wrote and directed the film and, most promisingly, MacGruber was an R-rated comedy that released on the exact same night as the fourth Shrek movie. MacGruber had everything going for it, but, on a $10 million budget, it somehow failed to even hit eight figures at the box office, and it landed near the top of the...

In addition to his decades of TV work on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Charlie Day has had a pretty solid movie career. He got to help fight giant monsters in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, plotted the murder of Jennifer Aniston in Horrible Bosses and voiced Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

He also did something in Louis C.K.’s creepy movie that we’re not totally sure about because it was never released and all existing copies were buried in New Mexico next to all the E.T. Atari games, we assume.

Day also came close to starring in a promising buddy comedy, produced by Adam Sandler’s company Happy Madison, along with Andy Samberg. Until one fateful table read, that is.

On the most recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Samberg and his co-hosts fielded a voicemail question from Steve Agee, who...

Alright, just hear me out. Will Ferrell hit it big with SNL and has made some true classics such as Elf, Stranger Than Fiction, and Anchorman. While that phase of his career was all great and polished, the style of his sometimes crass and all-time dumb humor hit its pinnacle in the mid and late 2000s and 2010s with films like Step Brothers and Talladega Nights.

Taking characters who were fringe personality types was a masterstroke from Ferrell. He did the same, but on a much larger and disastrous scale, with the adventure comedy Land of the Lost. It was a box office bomb and received only negative reviews from critics but I feel it is still hilarious when you look at it through the right lens.

I still love Will Ferrell’s Land of the Lost despite what the critics say A still from Land of the Lost | Credits:...

It was a massively star-studded affair at the SNL50: The Anniversary Special on Sunday evening (February 16) held at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Saturday Night Live celebrated it’s 50th anniversary with hundreds of stars who have appeared on the show over the years.

From music stars like Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter and Cher, to actors like Ayo Edebiri, Emma Stone and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Keep reading to find out more…

The late-night sketch show’s special featured many returning sketches, with past and present SNL cast members reprising their characters, and even several celebrities who have hosted reprising their characters!

We have gathered every celebrity, cast member and more’s looks from the red carpet and you can see over 200 below…

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Kicking off with a tribute to the Blues Brothers from the evening’s host Jimmy Fallon, last night’s “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert” pulled out all the stops in celebrating the show’s rich musical history, as well as the influence music has had on its comedy. And though Fallon made sure to start the affair at Radio City Music Hall by pointing out that everyone in the room had some form of connection to “Saturday Night Live” and were not there as casual spectators, watching at home, its clear the production worked hard to place fans of the staple variety series right at the the center of the action as well.

The first singer of the evening was Miley Cyrus. After a rendition of Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” accompanied by The Roots (they served as the house band for the evening) and Brittany Howard, Cyrus gave...

Peacock livestreamed SNL50: The Homecoming Concert on Friday, February 14, as Saturday Night Live cast members joined big-name recording artists in a 50th-anniversary celebration of the sketch comedy show and its musical legacy. And though attendees came to New York City’s Radio City Music Hall dressed to impress, the concert was anything but a buttoned-up affair. Just take a look at the Lonely Island medley and more funny moments from the special below. Lady Gaga and Andy Samberg join forces for “D*** in a Box” Lady Gaga stopped Andy Samberg from warbling his way through A Star Is Born’s “Shallow” during the concert and suggested that they sing something more his style — namely, The Lonely Island’s “D*** in a Box.” And that set off a whole Lonely Island medley that featured appearances by Chris Parnell, Jorma Taccone, Bad Bunny, and T-Pain. Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer perform...

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Live from New York, it’s… Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary weekend extravaganza, which kicked off Friday with SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, live from Radio City Music Hall.

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Suddenly, it’s 2006 again.

Lady Gaga took the stage at SNL50: The Homecoming Concert on Friday night to perform “Shallow” from Bradley Cooper’s 2018 film A Star Is Born. She was joined by SNL alum Andy Samberg, who was comically filling in for Cooper.

Gaga quickly interrupted Samberg and suggested they perform something more in his “vocal range.” Samberg mentioned: “There is one song, but Justin [Timberlake’s] not here to do his parts!” Gaga responded: “Andy, don’t be a bitch. I’ll do it with you.”

They then sang a slower version, with Gaga playing the piano, of “Dick in a Box,” a fan-favorite SNL sketch and The Lonely Island song that aired during a holiday episode of the comedy sketch series in 2006. The performance earned laughs from Colin Jost, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Jessica Parker and more in the audience. The original sketch starred the comedy duo, Justin Timberlake and Samberg.

Lady Gaga delivered a performance that was fitting for Saturday Night Live’s “Homecoming Concert,” a special musical event in celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary.

While some audience members at Radio City Music Hall in New York might have expected the star to sing one of her recently released singles, she kicked things off with none other than Andy Samberg himself in a wig and cowboy hat. The former cast member attempted to sub-in for Bradley Cooper for a cover of “Shallow,” the hit track from Gaga and...

The Emmy-winning hit song “D–k in a Box” received a modern-day upgrade at SNL50: The Homecoming Concert by none other than Lady Gaga.

Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake originally performed this “Digital Short” on Saturday Night Live on Dec. 16, 2006, and it quickly went viral. Samberg was present at Friday’s 50-year bash at Radio City Music Hall, but his partner in crime was absent. “Andy, don’t be a bitch, I’ll do it with you,” Gaga told him in front of a packed house of former cast members, hosts, and musical guests. Watch the video:

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Samberg and Gaga started out their set with a version of “Shallow” from A Star Is Born (2018), but the former’s voice wasn’t quite up to snuff.

In one of the night’s standout moments, the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary concert paid tribute to the legacy of The Lonely Island with an epic medley celebrating some of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer’s greatest contributions to SNL, kicking off first with Lady Gaga’s rendition of “Dick in a Box.”

Well, first Samberg attempted a cover of “Shallow” from A Star Is Born (complete with Jackson Maine wig) before Gaga shut him down. Then, since Justin Timberlake wasn’t around, she offered to sing “Dick in a Box” in his place.

After a bit, though, Chris Parnell entered the scene to duet with Samberg on “Lazy Sunday,” which then led to Bad Bunny performing “I Just Had Sex,” Eddie Vedder subbing in for Michael Bolton on “Captain Jack Sparrow,” and T-Pain reprising his feature on “I’m On a Boat.”

The whole thing culminated...

Years later, Lady Gaga is poking fun at those pesky rumors with an era-appropriate pop culture banger.

The 14-time Grammy winner joined Andy Samberg onstage Friday at Radio City Music Hall for SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, where they began performing her A Star Is Born track “Shallow” before deciding to do a selection more in Samberg’s “vocal range.”

“There is one song, but Justin [Timberlake’s] not here to do his parts,” he said, to which Gaga replied, “Andy, don’t be a b*tch. I’ll do it with you.”

The pair then launched into a performance of The Lonely Island’s “Dick in a Box” from the 2006 SNL Christmas episode.

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Samberg was also joined by Bad Bunny, Chris Parnell and fellow Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone for a medley that included ‘Motherlover...

Saturday Night Live is celebrating its five decades with SNL50: The Anniversary Special, a three-hour event airing Sunday that brings together former cast members, beloved guest hosts, and current stars. As NBC’s sketch-comedy series takes a stroll down memory lane all the way back to its debut year of 1975, Gold Derby is fine-tuning our approach and reliving all of its most talked-about, influential, and downright hilarious moments that aired between 2001 and today.

Here are the 25 best SNL sketches of the past 25 years.

1. Debbie Downer: Disney World

May 1, 2004 | Season 29

Guest host Lindsay Lohan had no idea what she was getting herself into when she agreed to sit opposite Rachel Dratch in a simple sketch about a family eating breakfast at Disney World. But whenever Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz appeared together in the same scene, giggles were almost guaranteed to occur. Before long, everyone was cracking up uncontrollably at Dratch...

We’re celebrating 50 years of “Saturday Night Live“! All this week, we’re digging into the late-night comedy institution with new stories, including lists, essays, interviews, and more.

Back in the early aughts, when The Lonely Island exploded on “Saturday Night Live” and a germinating viral internet, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer would churn out silly ear worms weekly. It was a mix of songs they wrote in the pressure cooker of “SNL” and others they had been working on over breaks and sporadic studio sessions — which is what happened in 2024 with new releases “Sushi Glory Hole” and “Here I Go.”

“Lorne had asked me to come back for the Doug Emhoff stuff, for the election coverage,” Samberg told IndieWire over the phone. “We happened to have some songs ready to go, and there’s no place we’d rather put a video than ‘SNL.’ It’s where we started,...

Exclusive: CBS is developing a workplace comedy series from writer Lauren Houseman and CBS Studios.

Lauren Houseman

Sheltered is a single-cam series that tells the story of the misfit volunteers at an overworked and underfunded pet rescue who often feel as complicated, lonely, and ‘unlovable’ as the difficult dogs and cats in their care.

Executive producing alongside Houseman are The Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer as well as Ali Bell of the company’s banner Party Over Here.

CBS doesn’t have a signature single-camera workplace comedy at the moment, something ABC has with Abbott Elementary, NBC with newcomer St. Denis Medical and Fox with Animal Control.

Houseman has previously collaborated with Greg Daniels, as a producer across both seasons of his Netflix series Space Force, and as a producer and writer on Daniels’ Prime Video series Upload.

Her writing credits also...

Timothy Olyphant is set to star alongside Anya Taylor-Joy in Lucky, the new limited drama based on the New York Times bestselling novel and Reese’s Book Club pick by Marissa Stapley.

Lucky follows a young woman (Taylor-Joy) who left behind the life of crime she was raised in years ago and now embraces her darker criminal side one final time in a desperate attempt to escape her past.

Olyphant will play Lucky’s father, John.

Lucky is produced by Hello Sunshine and Tropper Ink, and is created by Jonathan Tropper under his overall deal with Apple TV+. Tropper serves as co-showrunner alongside Cassie Pappas. The series is executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine, a part of Candle Media. Anya Taylor-Joy executive produces through her production banner Ladykiller.

Jonathan Van Tulleken will direct several episodes, including the pilot,...

NBC continues to celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” with the new documentary, “Ladies & Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music.” Following the recent four-episode docuseries “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night,” amid the 50th season, which airs Sundays, and ahead of the star-studded, three-hour primetime event “SNL50: The Anniversary Special,” the feature-length music doc promises a deep dive into the musical performances that have become as much of a cultural hallmark as the comedy show’s sketches.

The doc is directed by Grammy and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Emmy Award winner Oz Rodriguez, and features a roster of more than 50 interviews with musicians and “SNL” staffers, including Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish & Finneas, Dave Grohl, Debbie Harry & Chris Stein, Mick Jagger, Dua Lipa, Lorne Michaels, Fred Armisen, Conan O’Brien, Bill Hader, Eddie Murphy, Maya Rudolph, Bowen Yang and many, many more.

Here is when and where...

NBC is celebrating 50 years of Saturday Night Live by honoring all of the musical guests in a new three-hour special.

Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music is airing on NBC on Monday night (January 27) and will feature untold stories behind the culture-defining, groundbreaking and news-making musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

The special will showcase interviews with musical artists, cast, writers, producers and more who have been part of SNL’s legacy.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Questlove, who leads the band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, directed the special with Emmy Award winner Oz Rodriguez.

“Everyone knows the most famous SNL appearances, whether it’s Elvis Costello, Prince or the Beastie Boys, but they’re the tip of a huge iceberg,” Questlove said. “The process of going back through the incredible archival footage was like being in a time machine, DeLorean or other. I’m so happy...

The day before Sonic the Hedgehog 3 opened in theaters, Paramount Pictures announced that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 would debut in 2027. At the time, no specific release date was given, but following the third entry's impressive box office run and now being available on digital, the studio is planting a flag for a release date. Despite Sonic the Hedgehog 3 having done very well over the Christmas and New Year holidays, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is racing into the spring season.

Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures has set Sonic the Hedgehog 4 for a Mar. 19, 2027 release date. This puts it one week before Easter weekend, which was a similar release schedule that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 did, by opening one week before Easter in 2022. While 2027 feels like a long wait for fans, it is shorter than the two-and-a-half-year gap between Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Currently,...

I should probably stop being surprised that the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has become so successful, especially after the third film has pushed the series over the billion-dollar mark. Paramount is keen to keep the little blue speedster and his pals around a little longer, as they’ve officially slated Sonic the Hedgehog 4 for a March 19, 2027 release.

The post-credit scene of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 did give fans a hint as to where the franchise will go next, but the fourth installment is still in the early stages with no director or star attachments at the moment. Jeff Fowler helmed the first three movies, so it stands to reason that he’ll be back for Sonic 4, but you never know.

Jim Carrey, who plays Dr. Ivo Robotnik in the franchise, has even expressed a willingness to return for Sonic the Hedgehog 4 if they have a good reason to do it.