We are only one day removed from April Fool’s Day and some of the movie news seems a little too on the nose.

Case in point, Peter and Bobby Farrelly made the announcement that the sequel toDUMB AND DUMBER will begin production this fall with both Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprising their original roles.

According to Peter Farrelly, We did not do DUMB AND DUMBERER, that was a studio thing. So we’ve always wanted to do a sequel and finally Jim called up. Jeff always wanted to do it. We always wanted to do it. Jim was busy, but he called and said, ‘We’ve got to do this thing again.’ He had just watched ‘Dumb and Dumber’ and he said, ‘This is the perfect sequel. Let’s do it.’

DUMB AND DUMBER is still one of the funniest movies in the last 20 years. I can pop in the DVD or catch it on cable at any point and it will suck thirty minutes of my life. I love it. I do not think the Farrelly’s have truly replicated it, mainly because of the chemistry between Carrey and Daniels.

Source: JoBlo.

Well this is… unexpected, though the resemblance is rather uncanny.

Ashton Kutcher has briefly dabbled in the dramatic during the course of his career (THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT and BOBBY being all that comes to mind, and that’s a stretch), but perhaps an indie film about ”Jobs’ meteoric rise from Northern California hippie to co-founder of Apple” is the perfect project with which to begin a career shift.  If he wants one, that is, since he seems to be doing plenty well enough for himself on CBS’ series “Two and A Half Men.”

To be directed by Joshua Michael Stern (SWING VOTE), JOBS will begin shooting in May so as to get out of the gate well before Sony’s own possibly-Aaron-Sorkin-scripted Steve Jobs biopic.

What do you think? Will the script play up the rambunctiousness of youth so as to give Kutcher an easy time, or will he finally have a dramatic challenge?

Source: JoBlo.

*Written by Rob Rimes.

George Lucas is the man that nearly every fucked up juvenile thirty-something fanboy loves to hate. Now I understand that people have the right to be critical of someone’s work when it is put out there for public consumption but to hate the man as vehemently as many people do, is just absurd. Many fans of ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ feel that somehow those franchises are theirs and that Mr. Lucas has gone out and ruined them. People truly feel that these massive franchises are their intellectual property and that they have some sort of ownership rights to them. Nothing is further than the truth. So when I read articles all over the Internet about how much of a greedy sick untalented hack George Lucas has become, it really pisses me off. Now don’t get your vaginas in a tizzy, I’m not here to defend the prequel trilogy or “Crystal Skull”, in fact, as a fan, I have serious issues with these films as well but unlike the consensus, I don’t allow my dislike of some minor things that are insignificant to my life as a whole push me over the edge to the point that I am out for this man’s blood. I certainly don’t harbor the opinion that somehow his later work has bastardized and ruined his earlier magic. Even with some of the questionable changes to the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, the films are pretty damn solid and to discount their greatness over Jar Jar Binks and wooden actors is asinine.

The original trilogy set the stage for what was to come in the future of movies. They were damn good films in every respect and they influenced nearly every person that has picked up a film camera since they came out. ‘Star Wars’ forever changed Hollywood, the art of film making and special effects. George Lucas, through his intuitive and crafty brilliance, upped the ante and forced film studios to catch up to his imagination and vision. The sad thing is that people often forget this when bashing a man that just wants to share his stories with the world. It’s quite obvious that George Lucas is a child at heart and he only wants to make us smile. However, there’s always an asshole in every group and unfortunately for Mr. Lucas, it seems as if the assholes outnumber the sane people in this instance.

I don’t really understand where this entitled attitude comes from with fans and I’m not just talking about ‘Star Wars’ fans, I’m talking about fans of any franchise really. These people who get so disenfranchised with something they once loved to the point that it makes them spit venom at the stories’ creators is childish and narrow-minded. If guys like Lucas didn’t create and deliver their masterpieces to you in the first place, you’d have nothing to base any of this on. To curse a man’s legacy and the man himself, who has given you decades of joy is pretty disgusting and just shows how sad and pathetic some of these pompous bitches are. Hell, I still remember people being in an uproar over the ‘Battlestar Galactica’ remake before they actually saw it. In the end, it was pretty close to being a science fiction masterpiece! Sometimes you have to spread your wings and fly and that’s what Lucas did. When series are rebooted, remade or continued on, it can go really well or really bad – that’s the risk involved but the person who owns the rights to the property has the freedom to do what they want with it.

No one owns ‘Star Wars’ but George Lucas. For anyone to claim that they have some sort of right over the man’s blood, sweat and tears is ridiculous. He owns the franchise, he owns the characters within it and he can tell any tale that he wants to tell. The fact of the matter is, people have a choice. They don’t have to watch the new material if it isn’t up to their standard and fails to meet their expectations. These little jitterbugs act as if there is some sort of magical gun to their head and that they are forced to soak up every bit of ‘Star Wars’ that is released. Well people, you don’t have to do a damn thing! You can opt out and never look back.

The problem is that so many people put so much of themselves into this fantasy world that they lose a sense of their own reality and when things don’t go the way that they want, the fantasy starts to remind these sad people living vicariously through the fiction that real life is moving along without them. Nostalgia is a motherfucker and it only seems to exist strongly in those who are unsatisfied with what’s really going on around them. To have intense hatred for George Lucas or any great storyteller because their work becomes less than what it once was is pathetic. To invest that much emotion into complete fantasy is retarded. Yes, I wrote “retarded”.. call the sensitivity police!

Kids today, and by kids I mean middle-aged nerds, just don’t seem to respect property rights. Of course, if someone thought that they could infringe upon or add their unlimited hysterical two cents to everything one of these hypocritical fanboys did, they’d have a serious fucking shit fit. Hell, they probably wouldn’t come out of their mom’s basement for several months while losing themselves in an endless one-person ‘Skyrim’ marathon where the only way they’ll even eat is if their mother slides a plate of cold cuts and cheese puffs under the door.

The reason I feel the need to write this rant is because I’ve come across several articles lately that have stated that the fans of these franchises have invested so much of themselves into them that they truly believe they now have some sort of stake or ownership in the property. Yes, the property that they have never contributed anything to creatively other than writing their own shitty unofficial and non-profit fan fictions and role-playing scenarios dictated amongst their equally entitled geek pals. You people have no claim to anything and to think you do makes you look like socialist pussies who are convinced that the whole world and everyone in it owes them something just because they are breathing. Fuck you people. If you don’t like something, move on. Hell, stop crying into your tauntaun sleeping bags and go create something yourself. If you think you know more about storytelling, science fiction and fantasy than George Lucas then go out and fucking prove it! If you don’t, then you’re nothing more than a whiney talentless hack yourself and I’d tell you to go get a girlfriend or boyfriend but the only people that would have you won’t leave their basements either. Create something for once in your life and stop trying to destroy someone who just wants to share their imagination with you. You people are the parasite sponges of the world that rape and pillage the ideas of those greater than you because you’re weak and can’t make something bigger than yourself that people will passionately care about. It’s time to grow up and stop acting like ungrateful cunts.

The truth is, George Lucas has contributed more to this world than any of you probably ever will. Besides, you’re the ones “torturing” yourselves with weekly doses of ‘Clone Wars’ not Mr. Lucas. Guess what idiots, YOU DON’T HAVE TO WATCH IT! Accept it and move on with your sad pathetic lives.

Two actresses became victims of nude-photo scandals over the weekend — or at least that’s what some hackers would like you to believe. “Mad Men” star Christina Hendricks and her “I Don’t Know How She Does It” co-star Olivia Munn reportedly had nude photos leaked.

Hendricks’ rep denies that any scandalous photos you see of the star on the Internet are real. “Christina’s phone was in fact hacked and photos were stolen,” Hendricks’ rep told E! News. “The proper authorities have been contacted in hopes of rectifying this situation.” The rep added, “The topless image is fake and not an image of Christina.”

Meanwhile, Munn laughed off photos that anyone might believe are of her au naturel. “If you ever hacked my phone, these are the photos you’d find,” she tweeted along with shots of a kitten and a baby.

TMZ reported that sources close to Munn confirm that while some of the shots floating around — namely ones in which she isn’t naked — are real and have previously been tweeted by the actress, the completely nude photos in which you can’t see the model’s face aren’t her. Someone is apparently trying to pass herself off as the TV personality.

Munn and Hendricks are hardly the first actresses to get caught up in leaked-photo controversies. Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis (along with her “Friends With Benefits” co-star Justin Timberlake), Ashley Greene and Blake Lively are just a handful of A-listers who have been tied to photo scandals in the last few years.

Source: MTV.

Photos HERE.

Black and White Silent Picture “The Artist” Wins Best Picture at the 2012 Oscars.

Here’s the rest of the results.

BEST PICTURE
THE ARTIST
THE DESCENDANTS
THE HELP
THE TREE OF LIFE
HUGO
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
MONEYBALL
WAR HORSE
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, THE DESCENDANTS
Brad Pitt, MONEYBALL
Jean Dujardin, THE ARTIST 
Damien Bachir, A BETTER LIFE
Gary Oldman, TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY

BEST ACTRESS
Glenn Close, ALBERT NOBBS
Viola Davis, THE HELP
Rooney Mara, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Meryl Streep, THE IRON LADY 
Michelle Williams, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Nick Nolte, WARRIOR
Jonah Hill, MONEYBALL
Max von Sydow, EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
Christopher Plummer, BEGINNERS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Berenice Bejo, THE ARTIST
Melissa McCarthy, BRIDESMAIDS
Janet McTeer, ALBERT NOBBS
Octavia Spencer, THE HELP 
Jessica Chastain, THE HELP

BEST ANIMATED FILM
RANGO
CHICO AND RITA
A CAT IN PARIS
KUNG FU PANDA 2
PUSS IN BOOTS

BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius, THE ARTIST
Alexander Payne, THE DESCENDANTS
Martin Scorsese, HUGO
Woody Allen, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
Terrence Malick, THE TREE OF LIFE

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne and Jim Rash, THE DESCENDANTS 
Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, MONEYBALL
John Logan, HUGO
George Clooney and Grant Heslov, IDES OF MARCH
Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan, TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Woody Allen, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 
Michel Hazanavicius, THE ARTIST
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumulo, BRIDESMAIDS
JC Chandor, MARGIN CALL
Asghar Farhadi, A SEPARATION

BEST ART DIRECTION
THE ARTIST
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2
HUGO
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
WAR HORSE

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE ARTIST
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
HUGO 
THE TREE OF LIFE
WAR HORSE

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ANONYMOUS
THE ARTIST 
HUGO
JANE EYRE
W.E.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
HELL AND BACK AGAIN
IF A TREE FALLS
PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY
PINA
UNDEFEATED

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“The Barber of Brimingham”
“God is the Bigger Elvis”
“Saving Face” 
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”
“Incident in New Baghdad”

BEST EDITING
THE ARTIST
THE DESCENDANTS
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
HUGO
MONEYBALL

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BULLHEAD
FOOTNOTE
IN DARKNESS
A SEPARATION 
MONSIEUR LAZHAR

BEST MAKEUP
ALBERT NOBBS
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2
THE IRON LADY

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN
THE ARTIST 
HUGO
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
WAR HORSE

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Man or Muppet,” THE MUPPETS 
“Real in Rio,” RIO

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
“Dimanche/Sunday”
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” 
“La Luna”
“A Morning Stroll”
“Wild Life”

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
“Pentecost”
“Raju”
“The Shore” 
“Time Freak”
“Tuba Atlantic”

BEST SOUND EDITING
DRIVE
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
HUGO
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
WAR HORSE

BEST SOUND MIXING
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
HUGO 
MONEYBALL
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
WAR HORSE

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2
HUGO
REAL STEEL
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

It looks like the only dictator on the red carpet at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony will be the Academy itself.

After rumors circulated that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen — of “Borat” and “Bruno” fame — planned to attend the awards show dressed as his latest outrageous character, Admiral General Alladeen from the upcoming “The Dictator,” the Academy pulled Cohen’s invitation from the show.

The comedian was expected to attend since a film he acts in, the Martin Scorsese-directed “Hugo,” was nominated for 11 awards, including best picture. Cohen is also a voting member of the Academy.

“Unless they’re assured that nothing entertaining is going to happen on the red carpet, the Academy is not admitting Sacha Baron Cohen to the show,” a representative from Paramount Pictures, the company that produced “Hugo,” told Deadline.

The stuffy suits were none too pleased that the serious occasion could be marred by Cohen’s appearance as his Sadaam Hussein-meets-Gadhafi character.

Cohen is known for his extremely crude — and often nude — characters, who parody current events.

It’s a shame, since the consistently bland, three-hour ceremony could have used a little comic relief.

Source: The Daily Caller.

Sometimes people do things just to say they did. For David Cross, that means doing illegal drugs just feet from the President of the United States.

The comedian, known for his role as wacky Tobias Fünke on “Arrested Development,” admitted to Playboy that he snorted the white stuff in Obama’s presence at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2009.

“It was a tiny granule of coke that I put on my wrist and said, ‘Watch this. I need a witness.’ And then I ducked under the table and did it,” he told the gentleman’s magazine.

“It wasn’t like I got high. The jolt was similar to licking an empty espresso cup. It wasn’t about that. It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did cocaine in the same room as the president. I’m not proud of it, nor am I ashamed of it.”

Source: The Daily Caller.

New Facebook group asks Prime Minister to postpone any plans to a strike of Iran’s nuclear facilities until after the Queen of Pop’s planned May 29 visit.

Recent verbal exchanges and remarks concerning alleged Israeli plans to attack Iran’s nuclear program later this year has Israelis scared, and not for the obvious reasons.

In a newly launchedFacebook page, Israeli fans of U.S. pop megastar Madonna are pleading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off any such plans to strike Iran until the Queen of Pop’s planned show in Tel Aviv on May 29.

The group, simply and directly enough was named, “Bibi don’t start a war with Iran until after Madonna’s show on May 29.”

While the, currently relatively unpopulated, Facebook page could seem like a case of dealing with trivialities in the face of all-out war with Iran,” Israeli Madonna fans’ fears are not unsubstantiated, with a distinguished list of artists bailing out on Israeli shows in the last minute over political crises and wars.

In 2006, electro band Depeche Mode famously cancelled its planned show in Tel Aviv during what later became known as the Second Lebanon War, over the production’s apparent inability to convince its technical support team to make the trip.

The U.K. band later made it up to its Israeli fans by opening its 2009 world tour in Tel Aviv.

An earlier, and just as famous cancellation, was the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bailing out of a planned 2001 show during the turbulent events of the Second Intifada.

According to the their Israeli Shuki Weiss, the cancellation came in light of the two suicide bombings over the last week, in Kiryat Motzkin and Jerusalem, and in the wake of warnings by the American foreign ministry to U.S. citizens not to visit the area.

The U.S. band is scheduled to conduct its first show in Israel since 2001 this summer.

A more recent high-profile case was the sudden cancellation of a planned show by U.S. alternative veterans The Pixies, announced in the aftermath of the IDF’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish nationals.

Source: Haaretz.

Roseanne Barr said Thursday she’s running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination — and it’s no joke.

The actress-comedian said in a statement that she’s a longtime supporter of the party and looks forward to working with people who shareher values. She said the two major parties aren’t serving the American people.

“The Democrats and Republicans have proven that they are servants — bought and paid for by the 1% — who are not doing what’s in the best interest of the American people,” Barr said.

Occupy Wall Street protesters popularized the “We are the 99 percent” slogan in their fight against economic disparity and perceived corporate greed.

Barr has submitted paperwork to the Green Party for her candidacy. The party’s presidential nominee will be selected at a convention in Baltimore in July.

Barr said she has been fighting for working-class families and women for decades.

“I will barnstorm American living rooms,” she said in a candidate questionnaire submitted to the Green Party. “Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.”

Barr’s hit TV sitcom “Roseanne” aired from 1988 to 1997 and earned her an Emmy and a Golden Globe. She played a wise-cracking mom in the comedy about a blue-collar family. Barr has a 46-acre macadamia nut farm in Hawaii.

Source: CBS DC.

*Written by Rob Rimes.

Tomorrow is officially my last day as a Republican. The Florida primary is upon us and in an effort to get Ron Paul elected, I have allowed the Republican Party to count me as one of their members in my home state. Now don’t get me wrong, I gave it my all and tried to make the GOP a party I could be proud to be a member of but in the end, I came to the realization that my attempts at taming one half of the two-headed leviathan was futile. I’m not going to rehash all my points on trying to change the party, as I already covered that in “The Self-Destruction of the Republican Party“. I just figured I’d give a few parting words to a political party that I had hoped would one day see the light once more but will probably just continue to dissolve into a shell of what it used to be.

True conservatism isn’t dead and it probably won’t ever die, however the word “conservatism” like the word “liberalism” – before it, has been bastardized so badly that the world now views it as something completely different than what it once was. Gone are the days of real fiscal responsibility and truly free markets. Conservatism today is represented by people that are similar in mind to every candidate that has run on the Republican side of the 2012 presidential race that isn’t named Paul or Johnson. The reality of the situation is that the libertarian guys who these conservatives deem “crazy” are the only true conservatives near the top of this shit heap. Truthfully, “libertarian” is a good name to call Ron Paul, Gary Johnson and myself, as the conservative label is damn near embarrassing to wear these days. Maybe we should just stop using these labels altogether as they all eventually take on a life of their own and get away from what they were intended to stand for.

I’ve supported the Libertarian Party more than any other party the last few years and in that, I’ve met and been associated with some great like-minded individuals who have helped keep me sane through this ongoing political shit show. I like the party and what it stands for and they closely mirror my political ideology. However, I’m unsure if I am going to officially register as a Libertarian Party member or just stay completely independent. The truth is, even though I agree with the LP, I just can’t swallow the whole political system anymore. There are really just two parties and even though others exist, the system has been designed to keep the big two in power while keeping the others underwater with a big boot on their head.

I’d like to think that through hard work, education and awareness the Libertarian Party would be able to get enough people involved in their cause to make a serious impact and thus, change the two-party system. I just don’t think that they can. I don’t want to be a naysayer but the system itself is fucked and the nation’s biggest third party can’t do anything to stop that. I wish that they could, I really do, but reality is a hard bitter pill to swallow and no matter how I look at it, I just don’t see it happening. This doesn’t mean that I won’t keep working with the Libertarian Party, in an effort to fight the bastards who hold them down, but I can’t wholeheartedly put all of my eggs in that basket in hopes that bright Americans will finally see the light and shift towards a real liberty and a truly pro-Constitution mindset. By that I mean, not some half-assed bullshit like the Tea Party, who preached these things and then allowed themselves to be co-opted by the establishment.

I think it’s time for a real change that doesn’t consist of looking for some weak third-party solution that will just never be able to compete. I think that we should strive to have a system of no parties whatsoever. I mean, political parties are the real problem, so why turn to another party? I say fuck all that! The only political party any of us should support is No Party!

I’d prefer there to be no Democrats, no Republicans and really no one else to replace them. I want to live in a country where we aren’t just given two choices: left or right. If I am only given a choice between Chinese and Mexican for dinner, I should be able to say, “Fuck that I want Italian!” Hell, maybe my girlfriend wants Greek and I have one friend that wants Thai and another that wants Indian. Why should all of us be limited by just two boring ass choices again and again. Aren’t we tired of swallowing Republican and Democratic bullshit every night of the week?! We need more choices, real choices!

In a perfect world, I’d like there to be no political parties whatsoever. I want candidates who run as individuals and on a level playing field. Hell, we can even get all reality show about it and put twenty different candidates in a house where they have to go through tests and prove themselves in an effort to gain your vote. However, instead of voting for who we want to be president every week, we’d all vote one person off until we narrowed it down to four candidates. This way, the final four should be candidates that the majority of the population are okay with, as the majority didn’t vote any of them off. We would then take those four candidates and put them in intense head-to-head round robin debates. Every candidate gets to debate every other candidate one-on-one. After those are done, we’d have a big debate with all four. When that’s all said and done, we vote. The magic of that is, we can still write-in any of the other candidates who were eliminated. As crazy as this sounds, it’s got to be more efficient and better than this crap ass system we have now. Maybe the reality show element would get more people to tune in and thus, people would become more educated on the issues and what our leaders had to say.

While I believe that the office of president needs to be treated with respect and I’m not a fan of Hollywood politics it’s the Republicans, the Democrats and the mainstream media that feed us this Hollywood crap every chance that they get. They try to build rockstars out of these people and the debates aren’t any better than some shit reality dating show. Hell, Fox News spends more time fluffing Donald Trump’s cock than they give airtime to Ron Paul: a serious candidate. It’s all unfortunate and it’s all bullshit. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I invested as much time as I have in tracking this whole process. Over the last year, watching and writing about every debate and critiquing every candidate, every step of the way, has educated me on this two-party political charade in a way that I couldn’t previously imagine.

I’m done toeing any party’s line! I’m just one man but I am going to vote for who best represents what I believe, regardless of affiliation. You should do the same. Hell, we should all rise up and combat this broken system because no one will fix it if we don’t show the world how damaged it is. My solution might not be the best but it’s something. There are smarter men than I who can ponder this problem and try to solve it. However, until we do, expect us to continue down the path of madness.

Vote No Party!