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Yes, There Is Going to Be A Les Grossman Movie

Yesterday, MTV Films and Paramount Pictures announced they would be joining Tom Cruise in his quest for a high-"Gross"ing spinoff of the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder....  read more

Make Me Over: Ten Movies That Should Have Won The Best Makeup Award

Ah, the Best Makeup category. It’s had a steady place on the red carpet since Rick Baker’s An American Werewolf in London won an Oscar in 1981. And while it may not get much publicity, theatrical makeup has been essential to the suspension of disbelief inherent to film and theatre for thousands of years. Here, then, are some of the best foam, fur, rubber and paint jobs that should have won Academy Awards over the last 30 years....  read more

Ben Stiller, Tom Cruise Tease Les Grossman-Centered Tropic Thunder Spin-Off

Late in 2008, just after Tom Cruise received a surprise nod from the Golden Globes for his turn as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder, the mega-star told MTV that he and Ben Stiller were toying with the idea of creating a spin-off with the character....  read more

Oscar nominees announced: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Benjamin Button amongst highlights

Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took their anointed places and talk of a populist uprising was silenced with The Dark Knight largely snubbed as the Oscar nominations were announced this morning. ...  read more

Golden Globe nominations announced

After the awkward press conference that became of last year’s Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rolled out the expected nominees this morning for a show that is now guaranteed to draw all the names who shunned it last year....  read more

Rain of Madness sends up Tropic Thunder... kind of

The rabid satire that is Tropic Thunder hit all the stops: A big, bloody Vietnam epic-within-an-epic. Robert Downey Jr. as an Australian superstar in blackface, “the dude playin' the dude disguised as another dude.” Tom Cruise as a grotesque incarnation of the Hollywood executive. ...  read more

Tropic Thunder

Everyone wants to have their action-movie cake and blow it up, too...  read more