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23 September 2008 10:48 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

The folks over at IESB.net had a brief chat with Michael Peña Tuesday at a press thing for “The Lucky Ones,” and apparently, the actor told them Seth Rogen offered him a role in “The Green Hornet.”

However, Peña did not say anything about which role he may end up playing. Stephen Chow is set to direct and star in the film along with Rogen, who is also writing the screenplay with Evan Goldberg.

Peña recently starred in “Lions for Lambs.” He will next be seen in “The Lucky Ones,” which opens in theaters this weekend. He will also appear alongside Rogen in Jody Hill’s comedy “Observe and Report.”

Franck Tabouring

17 September 2008 2:25 PM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

Review by Matt Patches First, a note to the studios: Putting “The best thing of its kind since Napoleon Dynamite” across the top of a DVD is the equivalent of meeting a person with “Norbit Fan” tattooed across his forehead.  You’re asking me not to be their friend, and hey, that’s just not cool. The case for The Foot Fist Way, an indie comedy from rising star Danny McBride and director Jody Hill, is branded with such a label, and unjustly so.  Yes, both films may be micro-budget comedies about small-town America, but what works in Foot Fist’s favor is that the movie is funny.  Who would have thought?  Danny McBride, who may be the product Will Ferrell and

29 May 2008 9:42 AM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

As a rule, we tend to decline invitations to junkets or junket-like events here at The A.V. Club, because the lure of trips and snack tables is so likely to cloud our judgment about a film. But when the chance to speak with Will Ferrell and his producing/writing partner Adam McKay came up, we couldn’t resist the urge to send someone—new L.A. city editor Chris Martins—into on-camera battle. The occasion: the release of The Foot Fist Way, a scrappy indie comedy written by newcomers Danny McBride and Ben Best (who also star) and Jody Hill (who also directs). Ferrell and McKay liked the movie—about a low-rent tae kwon do instructor—so much that it became the first release for their new company, Gary Sanchez Productions. In the first two videos, Ferrell and McKay talk about happening upon the film, and in the third,

Josh Modell

3 articles from 2008