Harvey Keitel To Manage 'The Office'?

Via Cinematical is the newest news for Dunder Mifflin/Saber is of Harvey Keitel stepping in to manager the branch of Scraton? Harvey? For serious? Huh. . . I like that, I can see the angle they want with him already. If you didn't know the moist unfortunate news already, Michael Scott is resigning from The Office.

And now, from the mouth of executive producer Paul Lieberstein, Harvey Keitel is on the list to be taken very seriously as a contedner to step in once Carell exists the show. This is no rumor, this is the real deal. He went on tell EW Online: "He's probably the only guy who can do it, and he's doing TV now." Sounds good to me. He went to explain the backstory should Keitel take the offer: "He's an old salesman who thought he could retire and the stock market went down, and he has to come out of retirement to work for a few years."

I like it, the old wooden war horse boss in the office, sorta like Idris Elba was kinda doing on season five but larger and better and funnier of course.

What do you tree-readin' suckas think? I'll be keeping you posted on this developing story.

Munki out. And watch this shit.

Galifianakis Books A New Gig/Interviews Steve Carell

The ever popular and growing faster than his beard, Zack Galifianakis has booked his next adventure called Reply All. The news broke to me via Movieweb. I'm so glad this guy is around, he's a comedian who has a distinctive style all his own, and it never really fails. Terrific.

Phil Johnston, who wrote the upcoming comedy Cedar Rapids, will write the film based on his pitch that was shopped around to the studios this week before landing at DreamWorks. Galifianakis will play a man who decides to "reply all" to a touchy email and must deal with the consequences of that action.

In other news, he's also released his next interview on Funny Or Die on his "show" Between Two Ferns. If you haven't seen any of this stuff, check it out, particularly the Charlize Theron interview where she flips the tables on him.

It's all make-believe mockery from Galifianakis directed to his guests, hating on them for a few minutes with calm-voiced quips... and then it's over. Lol, it's fucking awesome. It's Zack baby! 'Course it's awesome. 

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Steve Carell from Between Two Ferns

Awesome right? Hilarious no? Eh?! Eh?! Yes.I'll keep you tree-readin' suckas posted on Reply All.

Munki out.

A Preview: Dinner For Schmucks

Jay Roach, the man behind the Austin Powers and Meet The Parents series. Now he turns his attention to top reining comedy dudes, Paul Rudd and the great, the wonderful, the only... Steve Carrel.  

Dinner For Schmucks looks lively, looks promising, and looks fun as fuck. Let's hope it is everything it's promises.

Based originally off the (probably better) French film, The Dinner Game, which in turn was based off the play, Le Dîner de Cons, the film follows Rudd's character as he tries to grab his promotion by bringing the biggest schmuck to his boss's dinner. he finds that schmuck in Carrel and hilarity no doubt ensues. BTW, filming of the dinner scene took place at the same location as was used for Wayne Manor in the Batman television series.

Paul and Steve have worked together twice now, 40 year Old Virgin and Anchorman (which also just got denied a sequel... Damn).  Jay Roach is a more than capable director, but he's too slap-stick, physical for me somtimes. There were a few beats he had the right notes in with Parents and Fockers, so let's see what he brings to the table for this one. He just got off winning an Emmy for the HBO film Recount in '08 staring Kevin "The Spectacular" Spacey.

Okay. Here's the trailer displaying everything I don't like about Jay Roach films. But when you have Carrel and Rudd bouncing lines off each other... C'mon dude, how do you sit there with a Grumpy-Guss face?



Comin' @cha this Friday nigga! Go see it!

Munki out.

2 Horrible Pieces Of News In 1 Day? Bro... Seriously?

This is no way to wake up. Not even the coffee (and it's good, I made it) can redeem my soul now...

Megan Fox tied the proverbial knot June 24th in Hawaii at the Four Seasons with Brian Austin Green A.K.A "The Longest Running Streak of Luck In The History of Women". Off and on since '04 they made it official and now there's no turning back (Short of an annulment? Am I that lucky?)  She had this to say:

 " We are just even more committed to each other and we always have been. I am more in love with him now than I was in the beginning."

There's still hope. This is Hollywood after all. Nobody really means anything they say or do... Right? ....Right?
Fuck...

(Is he wearing eye-liner?! C'mon!)


Oh wait, I'm not finished reporting the gems of today. 

To top off the (oil) spill of a great news day, one of the greatest TV heroes ever--Michael Scott of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company/Sabre--has resigned and stepped down as head branch manager. The upcoming season, 2010-11 will be his final.

Steve Carell's contract is up with NBC and he has chosen not to renew it. Even though, I'm sure he could have garnered a very lucrative contract with NBC. (Enough to fix the oil spill?) He essentially is the show's flagship. So what now? I heard a while back they wanted to start rotating people out, and new ones in, and keep it going, like a soap. Not such a bad idea, as long as the right people get involved. He went on to say that his fellow cast members are his "Best friends in the world."

Munki, most unpleasantly and disappointingly, out.

Dinner For Schmucks Trailer

The Trailer for Paul Rudd's and Steve Carell's new film has dropped suckas. These two, back in the same scenes again? Yes please. Directed by Jay Roach, (Meet The Parents, the lesser Meet The Fockers, Austin Powers Trilogy) A remake of a great little french film called The Dinner Game; the synopsis is as follows:

"Dinner for Schmucks tells the story of Tim (Paul Rudd), a guy on the verge of having it all. The only thing standing between him and total career success is finding the perfect guest to bring to his boss' annual Dinner for Extraordinary People, an event where the winner of the evening brings the most eccentric character as his guest. Enter Barry (Steve Carell), a guy with a passion for dressing mice up in tiny outfits to recreate great works of art. From Jay Roach, director of "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers" comes an unforgettable feast about two unlikely friends and one very memorable dinner."

 

Dinner dines out July 23rd. See you there, son.

Munki Out.