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Paul Review

Comedies are funny things. Our response to humor can have as much to do with outside influences—our mood, the response of the crowd, the people we’re with, how drunk we are—as the source material....  read more

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Star Wars

Apparently, on the set of Paul in 2009, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost set out to create a shot-by-shot remake of the original Star Wars trilogy. Only one scene was completed....  read more

Conan O'Brien Movie to Debut at SXSW

South by Southwest 2011 will be the debut location for a Conan O’Brien’s documentary, Conan O’Brien: Can’t Stop, which is based on his 32-city tour that took place while the funnyman was under NBC’s legal stipulations that precluded him from appearing on television....  read more

'Hot Fuzz' Team Gives Us Something to Cheer About

After taking on zombies, aliens and evil exes, British production company Big Talk Pictures is ready for something completely different....  read more

Pirate Radio

Release Date: Nov. 13 Director/Writer: Richard Curtis Cinematographer: Danny Cohen Starring: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Kenneth Branagh Studio/Run Time: Focus Features, 135 mins. Raucous ’60s retrospective adrift in simplistic plot Nobody can accuse Richard Curtis’ sophomore directorial effort of being less than a fun time. The writer/director of Love, Actually immerses his work in a sea of floral-lensed escapism, filled with lusty skirt-chasing and fraternal merry-making—and in Pirate Radio, a loose timepiece about a radio ship that broadcasts primitive rock ’n’ roll in international waters to avoid government regulation, the good vibes keep rolling....  read more

Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader Join Greg Mottola's Paul

Talk about dream casts. Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader have joined Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Paul, the road-trip comedy about a pair of sci-fi geeks who discover an alien in Area 51. ...  read more

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reveal details for road-trip comedy

In Sept. 2007, we reported on the first news of the next Simon Pegg/Nick Frost collaboration, to be called Paul. At the time, all we knew about the film was that the Hot Fuzz stars' typical roles would be reversed: Frost would take the lead role and Pegg plays the incompetent sidekick. Or, as Pegg put it in an interview with MTV's movies blog, "It's different actually. I'm the bitch in this one."...  read more

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost rumored for Tintin adaptation

The Tintin movie is back from the dead...  read more