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Will Forte's bumbling Saturday Night Live spy MacGruber is headed for the big screen in a movie to be directed by Jorma Taccone, the actor who played Chaka in the recent Land of the Lost movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter; Kristen Wiig will reprise her Vicki character for the feature, and Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe are in talks to join the cast.
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James Marsters' Moonshot, about the Apollo 11 mission, will have its U.S. premiere on July 20 on the History Channel.
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The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan has posted a ton of spoilers and other facts about "Epitaph One," the "lost episode" of Fox and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, which will debut at Comic-Con in San Diego and on DVD and Blu-ray later this month.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen surpassed the $300 million mark at the domestic box office on Monday, according to The Hollywood Reporter; the sequel's overseas box office also topped $300 million, meaning that the Michael Bay movie's worldwide tally is more than $600 million.
By Nightmoon at 2:13 AM ON 07/08/09
MacGruber... on the big screen. Apparently the last creative brain cells have left Hollywood and forgot to turn out the lights.
By DJ Jarak at 3:33 AM ON 07/08/09
You have got to be f'k-n kidding me.
By Bennish3000 at 4:37 AM ON 07/08/09
MacGruber is funny and works on SNL because it's only about a minute long. If they try to strech it out to be 90 minutes I'm thinking epic fail time.
By McGuyver's gonna be pissed at 5:52 AM ON 07/08/09
The MacGruber sketches are always funny. I especially love the "Making lifesaving inventions from household materials" part even though it never happens. Wonder if Richard Dean Anderson will cameo as McGuyver, MacGruber's father (he did on SNL).
By trueman832 at 8:44 AM ON 07/08/09
I'll see this in a double-feature with the Viewmaster movie... maybe with "Asteroids: The Movie" if it makes it past the censors with its X rating...
By iInfall at 9:35 AM ON 07/08/09
Can anyone tell me why Marsters is making History Channel movies? He's a fine actor. I've always wondered why Buffy didn't lead to bigger things for him.
By mjkbk at 11:26 AM ON 07/08/09
iInfall, Marsters has limited his own availability by not going for roles that will take him away for extended periods from California, where his son lives.
By iInfall at 12:37 PM ON 07/08/09
mjkbk -- Thanks. That makes sense. Then I say the roles need to go to him!
By Tempus1 at 12:45 PM ON 07/08/09
At least this is not another tired remake. It gets .25 points for originality, such as it is.
By cylonphoenix at 1:15 PM ON 07/08/09
PLEASE tell me that RDA will be in this!!!
By melsner at 2:49 PM ON 07/08/09
Ironically, MacGruber is a sly way to make a jokey MacGuyver movie without actually calling it MacGuyver. That would have pissed off all the fans who were fond of 'Guyver, like it did with Starsky and Hutch or Dukes of Hazzard.
But yeah, Richard Dean Anderson has been in on the joke before, so a cameo would be awesome.
Also, I think that while he's directing it, Chaka should totally be wearing the man monkey suit. It can only improve things.
By Chayne_Lightning at 12:37 AM ON 07/09/09
MacGruber?!? its a one joke sketch, and they usually pad it out 20 seconds too long!
By hayden's boytoy at 11:07 AM ON 07/09/09
Somebody smack Lorne Michaels and tell him not to make mcgruber. the first time i saw it i laughed a little. now i fast foward thru the mcgruber sketches. when they put multiple mcgruber's into the same show i get annoyed.
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