NBA ALL STARS TEAM: May 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Andy Samberg's Movie Update - "A$$ Backwards"

So, what do we know about A$$ Backwards?

According to Wikipedia, the film was written by Casey Wilson and her Upright Citizens Brigade colleague, June Diane Raphael, co-writers of Bride Wars (the Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, and Candice Bergen comedy).

Casey and June nabbed supporting roles in the film.

So that hit has given them a few new projects, including this project, which they put together as their first starring roles. And if that's true, and they are still set to star in this film, then they will be joined by a stellar supporting cast, including...

Anne Hathaway (obviously they met on Bride Wars)

Anna Faris (June and Casey are reworking scripts for her)

Kate Hudson (obviously they met on Bride Wars)

Andy Samberg (our hero)

David Cross (Arrested Development)

Amy Sedaris (from Strangers with Candy)

Stephen Colbert (Strangers with Candy, Daily Show, SNL, and Colbert Report)

Abby Elliott (Yay!!! Abby's first film!)

Meanwhile, Casey and June are also lining up "The Bachelorette Party," starring Jennifer Garner and Anna Farris. It's being described as "The Hangover" for the ladies. So that one's more likely to be the hit they need to keep going, and it's likely to make them a hot commodity... writers who put together successful female comedies (which is pretty rare, because I'm not including rom-coms/romantic comedies that also rely on the male leads).

Thanks to Anony for pointing out some of this info.

Enjoy!

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Actually Jason Sudeikis might break out before Bill Hader

So I reported earlier that Bill Hader's film career was ahead of Jason Sudeikis (due to Bill's quick work on building up a ton of supporting movie roles), but it looks like Jason made some quick progress lately.

He just wrapped a starring role alongside Owen Wilson in HALL PASS (casting the Farrelly Brothers adamantly fought for) and now he's signed on to star in the star-studded comedy HORRIBLE BOSSES.

Sudeikis will star with Jason Bateman and Charlie Day as three co-workers who cook up a STRANGERS ON A TRAIN type situation where they'll each kill each others bosses who are ruining their lives. Set to play the titular bosses are Jennifer Aniston (pleased to see she's playing something of a villain) and Colin Farrell. Jamie Foxx has also been cast as a con man who gives the guys (terrible) advice on how to get away with the crime.

Filming on BOSSES is scheduled to begin production under director Seth Gordon (FOUR CHRISTMASES) next month and Warner Bros. has already set a big July 2011 release date for the film.

Read more about Jason here...

http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=32327

Enjoy!

how the idols are doing

season 9 of American Idol has just ended with the shy paint salesman lee dewyze winning it over the cool chick single mom crystal bowersox. both are probably signing contracts by now, making the most out of the huge wave of popularity the contest has just given them.

Lee Dewyze

Winner, Season 9

of course we'd expect that they'd soon be enjoying fame and fortune in the forms of sold-out concerts, best-selling records, commercial endorsements and other events where their mere appearance will command some large amount of money.

however, according to Forbes, these winners of recent AI seasons are looking at reduced earning potential compared to what the earlier winnners enjoyed. that, according to Forbes, is because of the market already being inundated by AI products in all it's 9 seasons run.

Forbes also released a list of last year's AI top 10 money makers and it's quite interesting. two of the top 5 earners did not even reach the finals of their respective season (Chris and Kellie). on the contrary, three grand winners did not even make the list (Fantasia, Taylor and Ruben).

here's the list of AI graduates' earnings last year according to Forbes, in reverse order:

no. 10

Kris Allen

Winner, Season 8

$ 1.7 million

his album reached no. 11 in billboard, he plays in vegas and has a national tour
*

no. 9

Clay Aiken

2nd place, Season 2

$ 2 million

sold 4 million albums, acted in broadway's production of 'spamalot'
*

no. 8

David Archuleta

2nd place, Season 7

$ 2.2 million

his self-titled album reached no. 2 in the billboard charts, has done about 100 concerts and live shows
*
*

no. 7

David Cook

Winner, Season 7

$ 2.8 million
his self-titled album has turned platinum, earns some huge amount from his endorsement of sckechers shoes
*
*

no. 6

Jennifer Hudson

7th place, Season 3
$ 3.5 million

aside from her oscar best supporting actress, her self-titled album already sold 750,000 copies
*

no. 5

Jordin Sparks

Winner, Season 6
$ 3.7 million

the youngest winner of AI, her album debuted at no. 7 in the billboard charts
*

no. 4

Kellie Pickler
6th place, Season 5
$ 7.6 million
this perky little tigress has already sold more than 1 million albums and is very busy with 100 concerts on her schedule
*
*
no. 3

Chris Daughtry
4th place, Season 5
$ 10.2 million
this hairless rocker is still rocking hot with more than 5 million albums sold and a grammy nomination to his name
*
*
no. 2

Kelly Clarkson
Winner, Season 1
$ 11.7 million
her 4 albums already sold more than 10 million copies and she's now working on her 5th
*
*
and the biggest money maker of 'em all....

Carrie Underwood
Winner, Season 4
$ 13 million
she's sold more than 9 million albums, won 4 grammys, 5 american music awards and 14 billboard music awards

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Andy Samberg at the Kristen Wiig Gotham magazine cover party

The party was on May 17th, 2010.

Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig celebrated her Gotham Magazine cover in New York last night with cast mates Seth Myers and Andy Samberg. She gushed at the party:

“I’m having one of those days today where I’m like, ‘How did I get here? What’s happening. “It’s surreal.”

This very talented comic is not just relying on just her SNL fame. She’s optioning ‘Clown Girl‘ and will star in the film’s adaptation:

“I fell in love with that book before I was even a third of the way through. She (Monica Drake) is just such an interesting writer and I’ve fallen in love the material. I just hope I can do it justice.”

Enjoy!

Empire Update: We Share Because We Care

Now up on YouTube

Animated music video (folk song) for preschoolers. If you've got preschoolers, show it to them and let us know what they think!

Join Share Kong and the Share-If as they perform for Brooke, Max, and that one girl on the left.

CREDITS:
Animated by Andrei from GagaManMusic: http://youtube.com/gagamanmusic
Written, Directed, & Voice of Share-If by Ed 'word'' Price
Guitar, Music Composition, & Voice of Share Kong by Rogs (Nick Rogstad)

This is our first collab with the animator GagaManMusic. We think he did a great job!

To see Rogs lead a live-action music video (he wrote the song), then watch our "Pretty Good Friends"

Thanks for watching! Leave a comment to let us know what you think!

- TAE