VIDEO: New Ad for Charlie Sheen's Roast Riffs on Dr. Strangelove

Nope, you can’t bring up Dr. Strangelove and feel like a sophisticated comedy aficionado anymore: Charlie Sheen’s Comedy Central roast references the 1963 film in its first advertisement, rendering it almost useless to humanity. That said, I can’t wait for the actual roast — talk about a “war room.” Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen Admittedly, that ad is pretty sensational. All it needed was a wacky tagline like, “When it comes to finding material for Charlie Sheen’s roast, it won’t be Slim Pickens.” Shazam. Could’ve done without the Ozzy, though. [via Deadline]

Amy Adams as Lois Lane on the 'Man of Steel' Set

We've seen Henry Cavill as Superman, we've seen Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent, and now we've got our first look at Amy Adams as Lois Lane in 'Man of Steel.' Still waiting to see Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe and Diane Lane turn up on set, but click on through to see a red-headed Adams taking on the role of Clark Ken's main squeeze. Head on over to the 'Man of Steel' Facebook page for more set pics of Amy and director Zack Snyder bringing Superman in life in Plano, TX. So what do you think of Adams as Lois Lane? Top three photos courtesy of Andy Schein, bottom two photos courtesy of Kimber Dolan. [via Facebook]

Comedy Central Sets Fall Schedule Featuring Charlie Sheen, Daniel Tosh and Jesse Glover

Comedy Central has revealed an autumn schedule that includes a assortment of comics, includingDaniel Tosh, Craig FergusonandWeird Al Yankovic. The growing season begins on Sept. 19th using the much-talked about Roast of Charlie Sheen, emceed by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. The next evening might find the series premiere of Tosh. and more recent entry Workaholics at 10 pm and 10:30 pm, correspondingly. About the 25th, puppeteer Shaun Dunham will require within the screen by having an brand new special titled Controlled Chaos. Many of these are poised to obtain an earlier evening lift from repeats of 30 Rock, that will start its run within the 7 pm and 7:30 pm week day time slots on Sept. 19. Beginning October 5, Comedy Central will usher back new instances of lengthy-running animated staple South Park, which is combined with the 2nd season premiere of Nick Swardson's Pretend Time. The following evening brings new stand-up series Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution. Completing the month are special offers from Strange Al (The Alpocalypse Tour, March. 1) and Ferguson(Performs This Have to be Stated?, March. 15) in addition to aSouth Park Documentary (March. 2). The second will give you audiences a behind-the-moments consider the making of the episode. The planet premiere of Pablo Francisco: Installed It Available will hit the little screen on November. fifth, with special offers from TJ Burns (No Real Reason), Community'sDonald Glover (Weirdo) and Carlos Mencia not yet been scheduled. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Subjects Comedy Central

'Final Destination 5': Q&A With Director Steven Quale and Producer Craig Perry

Warner Bros. For individuals that they like elaborate, tension-building dying moments (and who doesn't?), Final Destination 5 has a few of the franchise's best, redeeming the brand new Line series following a flat 4th movie. That's partially because of director Steven Quale, a longtime James Cameron cinematographer who makes his feature directorial debut here. However it's also because of the horror series' producer, Craig Perry, whose been holding Death's scythe since 2000. Warmth Vision swept up with Perry and Quale in the movie's premiere after-party at Hollywood nightclub Moving Stone on Wednesday evening. Warmth Vision: That which was the method of the brand new movie? Craig Perry: Following the 4th one, despite its success, we recognized it had not been really everything the fans had wanted, and somewhat it had not been really exactly what we'd wanted so that it is. Therefore we understood that people needed to bring new bloodstream and produce in fresh people who would request questions. So Erick Heiser was triggered board like a author, because we understood he really was fast and that he would be a huge fan from the franchise and that he knows the genre. And what we should did using the New Line gang was that people viewed all movies and that we could evaluate what sequences and elements labored and what did not work. Warmth Vision: And also you introduce a brand new wrinkle towards the dying pressure within this movie. Perry: We understood from the beginning we'd need to enhance the ante narratively and never have a similar old very same, therefore we added the concept that you can trade a existence for any existence. There is a debate about when you should introduce that, if you introduce this too early everyone is playing around attempting to kill one another, so there needs to be some a sluggish burn therefore it culminates in large action. It was among Eric's things: He wanted to achieve the figures be armed and break the rules against Dying, provide them with something they might do this would save their lives. It's vital and extremely vital that you the narrative from the movie. The 2nd factor which was important only agreed to be that ending-and clearly I'd rather not reveal it-but you will find there's great twist which i think the fans are likely to add too much for. I believe even individuals who aren't as acquainted with the franchise is going to be satisfied. Warmth Vision: Steven, you probably did visual effects on Avatar and also you directed some James Cameron documentaries. How did you choose to get this to your debut? Quale: After I finished Avatar, doing the visual results of the 2nd unit, I stated, "Let us search for a three dimensional project, because that plays to my talents." There have been a few projects so when the script for Final Destination 5 arrived on the scene, it snapped up my attention. I used to be a large fan from the original movie in 2000 however i thought the ultimate Destination movies had lost their rudder and were type of going adrift. And That I thought it might be an excellent chance to return to the roots and also the fundamentals of the items type of managed to get fun. Warmth Vision: That one feels pretty gory. Is the fact that something you desired to ratchet up? Quale: Well, on the watch's screen time, it's most likely less gory than these, however it was more impactful because we built the suspense and taunted the crowd after which hit them very hard using the gore. It feels more terrible than should you have had it in a normal steady condition. To ensure that may be the difference. Really, getting a smaller amount of the moments using the gore after which when you are getting it, after, say, the squirming close-up you have within the gymnastics scene, really causes the perception that it's terrible and shocking. Warmth Vision: You up for any sixth one? Perry: That's entirely as much as audiences to determine. You realize, we'd a lot fun making that one, it had been artistically reenergizing, that people feel, as we obtain the chance, when the audience responds, we'd love another chance to master the film. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package

Association of Black Women Historians Objects to The Help in Open Letter

Looks like not everyone gave The Help a pleased-as-punch A+ CinemaScore rating; in an open letter released this week, The Association of Black Women Historians decried the film and Kathryn Stockett’s source novel of the same name, citing what they describe as “widespread stereotyping” in the film’s depiction of the black experience in the Jim Crow South. “Despite efforts to market the book and the film as a progressive story of triumph over racial injustice, The Help distorts, ignores, and trivializes the experiences of black domestic workers,” reads the statement. Among their complaints, the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) name the exaggerated “black” dialogue, the narrow depiction of African-American men, the lack of recognition of sexual harassment in the workplace, and the reduction of the region’s most terrible racists to a bunch of society women instead of, for example, members of the Ku Klux Klan. [Read Stephanie Zacharek’s review here.] With The Help now in theaters, audiences have had a chance to weigh the criticisms long lobbied at both the book and film. The ABWH’s complaints aren’t without merit, but consider the film’s focus: It’s a film about women — rich, poor, white, black, older, younger, working women and housewives and women who want careers — whose lives intersect in 1960s Mississippi. Should/could the world of The Help have been enriched by the inclusion of more male characters, or by a KKK-related subplot? (For the record, there are male figures on the periphery who remain, refreshingly IMO, out of the spotlight and also represent a spectrum, from vile to admirable to realistically indifferent.) And whether or not you have a problem with, say, the dialects in the film as written by Stockett, even star Viola Davis acknowledged that it gave her pause before the strength of her character as written won her over. Is that a fair trade-off in justifying that at least a movie about this subject matter was even made? Granted, I’ve been outraged myself in similar cases; “Memoirs” and “Geisha” are like killing words to me. I’d argue that The Help isn’t quite as offensive or misguided as that film, but it’s unquestionably questionable on at least a few levels. Read the full ABWH statement here and weigh in below. An Open Statement to Fans of ‘The Help’ [Association of Black Women Historians via EW]

ABC Apologizes for Nicki Minaj Puppy nip Wear Hello America

Nicki Minaj Nicki Minaj's penchant for outlandish fashion did her all the while showing up on Hello America. While carrying out on GMA's Summer time Concert Series on Friday, the singer's low-cut top briefly revealed her nipple. "Although we'd a five-second delay in position for that Nicki Minaj concert on GMA, the live New England feed from the concert sadly incorporated certain fleeting images from the artist which were removed of later feeds from the broadcast in other timezones," an ABC representative stated. Browse the relaxation of present day news ABC added these were sorry for that incident. Leader from the Parents Television Council Tim Winter initially accused the ABC morning show of not applying a five-second delay. "For that umpteenth amount of time in recent memory a morning news show has incorporated inappropriate content for kids and families," he told TMZ.com. "Rather than requesting forgiveness, they have to stop apologizing and implement 5 second delay that a lot of People in america happen to be with.Inch

David Cronenberg to Direct Jonathan Lethem's 'As She Rose Over the Table'

If there's any director who are able to undertake a tale in regards to a love triangular including a black hole, it's may be David Cronenberg, who's always had an affinity for out-there sci-fi situations with highbrow appeal. Media Privileges Capital just acquired the Jonathan Lethem novel 'As She Rose Over the Table' for Cronenberg to direct. The novel is all about an academic whose physicist girlfriend accidentally produces a black hole in her own lab. She then provides it with a title and stays her time by using it, driving her jealous professor love right into a cosmic confrontation. Certainly not your average boy-meets-girl story. Cronenberg's almost not a stranger to adapting difficult books for that screen: His adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Dead Zone' remains among his best and many accessible films and William S. Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch' among his most mind-bending and bizarre. He's already wrapped filming on 'Cosmopolis,' in line with the Don DeLillo advanced novel, starring Taylor Lautner and Keira Knightley. His newest collaborations with star Viggo Mortensen, such as the approaching 'A Harmful Method' about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, happen to be relatively mainstream in comparison to his early films, such as the disturbingly visceral horror films 'The Brood,' 'Scanners' and 'Videodrome' and skin-moving thrillers like 'Dead Ringtones.' For Lethem's most well-known novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' in regards to a detective with Tourette's, it had been optioned soon after its 1999 release by Edward Norton to star in and direct. It presently has a tentative 2013 release date. [via Deadline]

'Friday Night Lights' Movie Based On TV Show Is Being Written, Says Peter Berg

"Friday Night Lights" fans, stop your weeping the show ain't over yet. Well, the show is over, but the story is looking likely to continue. "Battleship" director Peter Berg, who helmed the "Friday Night Lights" movie some years ago and helped shepherd the critically adored and recently concluded small-screen version, announced during the current TCA press tour that he's working on bringing the televised "FNL" back to movie theaters. "We're writing a script," he said of the project, according to TV Line. Weve been meeting with [fellow 'FNL' EP] Jason Katims for the last couple of weeks. We have a real good script idea. We want to do it. Were very serious about doing it. We intend to do it. And don't worry, the new "Friday Night Lights" movie wouldn't ignore the groundwork established by the TV series. Far from it, in fact; Berg said that this "FNL" adaptation would focus squarely on Coach Taylor and his wife Tami, played on the show by Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, with some other new and old faces brought into the mix as well. "[The] goal would be to focus the film around Kyle and Connie and bring [in] some new characters and then bring in some of our familiar faces," he said. "We have, I think, a really fresh, very original take on it. Were very serious about wanting to do it If all goes well, we would shoot it next year at some point. Do you want to see a new big-screen take on "Friday Night Lights" based on the freshly finished television series? Tell us what you think in the comments section and on Twitter!

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