Article: Patton Oswalt’s “Star Wars: Episode VII” dream becomes a short film
Thank you YouTube user iZacLess.
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Article: Patton Oswalt’s “Star Wars”/Marvel film idea gets a poster
Entertainment Weekly created a poster based on the comedian’s improvised “Parks and Recreation” rant.
Article: Hey Disney, take note of Patton Oswalt’s idea for a “Star Wars”/Marvel crossover
This man knows how to talk “Star Wars.”
Article: 10 comedians in dramatic roles
We take a look at comedians with some serious dramatic chops.
Article: Portlandia is heading to The Simpsons on Sunday
Portlandia is invading The Simpsons. Yep, Springfield is colliding with Portland in an episode titled “The Day the Earth Stood Cool,” which airs this Sunday, December 9 at 8pm on FOX. In the episode, Portlandia’s stars and creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein guest star as hip parents who move in next door to The…
Article: Roseanne Barr, Patton Oswalt, Rose Byrne and more come to Portlandia for season three
Guess what? Everyone’s favorite sketch comedy show Portlandia is almost back! Yep, in the words of Spyke: The hiatus is OVER, or it will be on Friday, January 4, 2013 at 10pm ET/PT, when we head back to Portlandia for the third season of the Emmy-nominated comedy series created by and starring Fred Armisen and…
Article: IFC presents the 2012 Comedy Bang! Bang! Nativity Pageant on Dec. 4th
Hear ye! Hear ye! Attention residents of the greater Los Angeles area! If you like to laugh and to give to good causes, please clear your calendar for December 4th when IFC presents the “2012 Comedy Bang! Bang! Nativity Pageant” benefitting the LA Regional Food Bank. The World Dodgeball Society and aspecialthing records are teaming…
Article: Patton Oswalt and Johnny Knoxville win laughs in “Nature Calls” red band trailer
The comedy comes out on VOD on October 4 and in theaters on November 9.
Article: This weekend: It’s Riot LA’s Alternative Comedy Festival
Don’t know about you, but here at IFC, we like to laugh. Which is why we’re sponsoring the LA Riot Comedy Festival, happening this weekend September 21-23 in Los Angeles. There are over 30 shows and over 100 performers, meaning lots and lots of chances to laugh. Plus: Free Beer! The festival features a lot…
Article: Welcome to The Automat: Comedy Bang! Bang!
Have you been missing Comedy Bang! Bang!? Have you enrolled yourself in a twelve-step program to cope with your Scott Aukerman withdrawals? Have the lack of visits from Seth Rogen, David Cross, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, Adam Scott or Tenacious D filled you a sense of doom, gloom, and the overwhelming feeling that it’s all…
Article: Andy Samberg, Patton Oswalt and Bob Odenkirk give Scott some advice
As you many know, Scott Aukerman is relatively new to the talk show hosting celebrity thing and running a television show like Comedy Bang! Bang! is hard. Luckily Scott has a lot of good friends who are pros at being famous and are willing to share their hard-earned lessons about celebrity and how to run…
Article: Help raise funds for the Eddie Pepitone documentary “The Bitter Buddha”
Marc Maron, Paul Scheer, and more will be at LA’s The Echoplex on June 26th to help raise funds for the film
Article: Jason Reitman staging a “Breakfast Club” reading in L.A.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is inaugurating a clever new series called “Film Independent at LACMA” curated by Elvis Mitchell, in which a bunch of actors reenact a famous screenplay on the stage, with a really interesting first performance: John Hughes‘ classic script for “The Breakfast Club” spearheaded by director Jason Reitman. He’s…
Article: “Young Adult” trailer reteams the writer and director of “Juno”
It would be almost impossible for writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman to duplicate the success they had together with their first collaboration, 2007′s “Juno.” You might have heard of it; that was the $7.5 million indie that grossed over $230 million worldwide and earned four Oscar nominations, plus one win, for Cody’s Best…
Article: The origins of a viral sensation in this exclusive clip from “Shut Up Little Man!”
How do viral sensations start? That’s one of the intriguing questions posed by the new documentary “Shut Up Little Man!” The film is about the origins and moral implications of ten hours of audio recordings of two old drunks, Peter and Ray, who liked to stay up all night yelling at each other. Their neighbors,…
Article: Five Funny Documentaries About Stand-Up Comedians
With a new documentary about the life of Bill Hicks opening in New York City this weekend, it seemed like a good time to dig deeper into the world of documentaries about stand-up comedians. And, pending an thorough examination, this is what we found: there aren’t a lot of good ones. Obviously there are plenty…
Article: The State of the Superhero Movie
The talent getting involved — like Michel Gondry, Darren Aronofsky and others — may be better than ever, but the superhero movie and other comic book adaptations seem to be in a moment of flux, as the studio system runs out of or reboots prominent franchises and struggles with how to adapt more niche series.…
Article: A Stolen Moment with Jon Hamm
Having won a Golden Globe for his iconic role on TV’s “Mad Men” as the conflicted ad executive Don Draper, St. Louis-born actor Jon Hamm might seem like he’s most at ease in a sharply pressed suit and with a stiff drink in his hand, but that’s acting, isn’t it? In the new indie murder…
Article: The Long Tale of “The Snake”
If the end of the year is a time to reflect on mistakes made and relationships lost (and of course, the good stuff, too), there may not be a better way to start the new year than with a screening of “The Snake,” a wicked little low-budget comedy about a scoundrel whose transgressions in the…
Article: Failure to Connect
As the stars walked the red carpet for the Toronto premiere of “Jennifer’s Body,” there were fans screaming “Megan!” and “Adam!” and one, just off to the side, holding up a picture of screenwriter Diablo Cody affixed to a piece of cardboard and illuminated like a medieval manuscript. Even during this conclave of international cineastes,…
Article: Patton Oswalt: A “Fan” for All Seasons
One of the most irreverent, quick-witted and prolific stand-up comedians working today, Patton Oswalt is instantly recognizable from his TV appearances (“The King of Queens,” “The United States of Tara”), voiceover work (“Ratatouille”) and cameo roles in movies (“Observe and Report,” “Starsky and Hutch”). So the most surprising fact about Oswalt’s first film leading role…
Article: Comic-Con: Musings from the Back of the Twiline
Everyone likes to pick out trends each Comic-Con, but at this year’s four-day geek bacchanal, where the film panels once again have equal (if not greater) priority to comic books, there seems to be a genuine one developing as the faceless franchises that usually reign over the convention have given way to the some of…
Article: Night Fever: The World of Obsessive Fan Movies
A crowd eagerly watches as a man dressed in a white suit performs an elaborate disco routine to the sounds of the Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancing.” Sound familiar? It should; it’s the signature sequence from 1977′s “Saturday Night Fever.” But now the scene belongs to another film as well, “Tony Manero,” named after…
Article: SXSW 2009: “Observe and Report.”
Jody Hill’s “Observe and Report” is like a Will Ferrell movie that’s been run over by a car again and again until it’s warped and unrecognizable. It’s still has the rough shape of a feel-good story about a lovable loser, a mall security guard who longs to be a real policeman and who’s in love…
Article: Giant History with Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt, at the Sundance Film Festival with the dark comedy “Big Fan,” demonstrates his knowledge of exotic sports trivia by offering up the stories behind NFL greats like Ray “Wooden Socks” Flaherty and Arnie “Hamhocks” Herber. The flash 8 plugin was not detected. var so = new SWFObject(“http://media.ifc.com/swf/ifc_generic_blog.swf”, “gianthistory”, “500″, “375″, “8″, “#ffffff”); so.addParam(“wmode”,…
