Posts Tagged ‘Tracy Morgan’

Tracy Morgan Boards ID THEFT and Is Confirmed for FRESHMAN ROOMMATES

Posted: March 5th, 2010 at 11:01 am

Tracy Morgan has become a hot commodity in Hollywood and has now signed on to star in Warner Bros.’ ID Theft and is confirmed to co-star in Paramount’s Freshman Roommates.  According to Deadline, ID Theft has Morgan playing, “a cash-strapped father who sees a shortcut out of his struggles when the credit card of a suburban dad lands in his lap.”  This is supposed to be a comedy, but there is nothing funny about identity theft (unless Morgan’s character uses the card to make wacky purchases).

As for Freshman Roommates, Morgan will co-star with TJ Miller (She’s Out of My League), which Variety originally reported in December 2008.  Roommates follows a guy (Miller) who answers one of those Nigerian e-mail scams, only to have the spoiled son of a deposed African dictator (Morgan), showing up at his door and looking for his inheritance.

It’s nice that Morgan’s getting more successful, but I will not be happy until I see the movies of his character on 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan.  Everyday I pray for the announcement of Samurai I-Am-Urai and A Blaffair to Rememblack.

7 Movie Clips from Kevin Smith’s COP OUT Starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan

Posted: February 19th, 2010 at 3:38 pm

With director Kevin Smith’s Cop Out opening next weekend, Warner Bros. has provided us with seven clips from the film.  The film stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as two New York City police officers up against a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.  Needless to say, comedy ensues.  The thing to know about Cop Out is Kevin Smith didn’t write the film, he only directed.  And while I’m still unsure about the film, I’ll say the first clip made me laugh.  The clip has Tracy Morgan quoting lines from famous movies and acting crazy.  Hit the jump to watch the clips.  I’ve also provided the full synopsis:

32 High Resolution Images From Kevin Smith’s COP OUT Starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan

Posted: February 11th, 2010 at 7:04 pm

With director Kevin Smith’s Cop Out opening February 26, Warner Bros. has released a ton of new images from the film that stars Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak, Guillermo Diaz, Ana de la Reguera and Seann William Scott.  In total, we’ve been given 32 images and they’re all in high resolution.  Hit the jump to check them out along with the full synopsis:

Red Band Trailer for Kevin Smith’s COP OUT Starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan

Posted: February 4th, 2010 at 9:40 pm

MySpace has released a brand new red band trailer for Cop Out today. The Kevin Smith-directed film, starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Rashida Jones, and Seann William Scott, improves on the zaniness found in the previous trailer and throws in some some hilarious antics by Morgan with even Willis getting in on the action.  However, I’m not sure people will buy Bruce Willis being funny in an action movie (provided they’ve never seen a Bruce Willis action movie before).

Hit the jump to check out the trailer plus a brief synopsis.  You can also click here if you want to see the green band version.  Cop Out hits theaters on February 26th.

Kevin Smith Explains How he Managed to COP OUT on the Name of his Next Movie

Posted: December 24th, 2009 at 8:12 am

With the trailer for his buddy cop movie starring Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis just having hit the Internet, director Kevin Smith railed in his signature, profanity-heavy style to Entertainment Weekly’s Hollywood Insider blog on just why he agreed to Cop Out on the flick’s original title, A Couple of Dicks.

It was already fairly well known that the big three TV networks balked at the original title because they wouldn’t be able to air commercials before 9 p.m. (yes, really), but hearing him describe the situation can still bring a smile to the face of anyone who loves their language more than a little salty. Here’s a taste of what he told EW:

Smith: Look, losing A Couple of Dicks was almost akin to losing my own dick. It was a perfect buddy-cop movie comedy title. Everyone knew it. You couldn’t say that title to somebody without a f-ing smile crossing their face. But what I had gone through with Zack and Miri Make a Porno - “porno” had become very problematic, it became tough for us to advertise [the film], blah blah blah. Warner Bros. decided, “Hey man, we’ll call the networks and see if we’re going to get any problems [with A Couple of Dicks as a title], months before the movie’s ever going to come out.” The top 3 networks - CBS, ABC, NBC - said we can’t run one of your spots before 9 o’clock.So my feeling was like, it’s an R-rated movie, so who the f- are we talking to anyway before 9 o’clock? Warner Bros’s feeling was like, “Hey man, the sports audience, dickhead. We have to advertise to the sports audience on Saturday and Sunday and all those sporting events usually take place before 9 p.m. in the evening.” At which point, I was like, “Oh wow, you guys are way smarter than me.”

Hit the jump for a lot more from Mr. Smith, on what could have been an even worse title and what could quite possibly be the perfect tagline.

First Trailer for Kevin Smith’s COP OUT

Posted: December 23rd, 2009 at 8:22 pm

For some time we have been following the buddy cop comedy that was once refreshingly called A Couple of Dicks, then boringly A Couple of Cops, and finally settled on the somewhere-in-between Cop Out. The film represents Kevin Smith’s first directorial effort which he did not also script, and stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as a police team whose “adventures include locating a stolen baseball card, rescuing a woman, and dealing with gangsters and their laundered money”. Today, Warner Brothers released the first trailer for the film.

So far, I have been looking forward to this film, partly because I would like to see how Smith does with a film free of his distinct writing style, and partly because I like the comedic potential of the partnership between Morgan and Willis. This trailer did nothing for me, though. It relies heavily on Tracy Morgan lines, and in this sense I should be the target audience, as I love his exaggerated delivery on 30 Rock and elsewhere. It did perk up a bit when co-star Seann William Scott popped in, and he and Morgan seemed to work off each other better than Willis and Morgan, but still most of the jokes fell flat for me. I hope that you like it better than I did, and you can form your own opinion after the jump. Cop Out hits theatres on February 26, 2010.

Screen Gems 2010 Preview: Synopses and Images from DEAR JOHN, DEATH AT A FUNERAL, TAKERS, PRIEST, THE ROOMATE and More

Posted: December 22nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Screen Gems has released synopses and some first look images from their 2010 films and it’s all after the jump.  Some of the new/first look images are from The Roomate (starring Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly), Death at a Funeral (starring Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, Zoë Saldaña), and Takers (starring Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, and Hayden Christensen).

Also, while they didn’t release any images, they did provide the first synopsis for Burlesque which stars Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Gigandet, Julianne Hough, Peter Gallagher, Alan Cumming, Kristen Bell and Stanley Tucci.

Check out everything after the jump.  It’s posted by release date.

G-FORCE Blu-ray Review

Posted: December 16th, 2009 at 5:35 am

Whatever can be said of Jerry Bruckheimer, and at this point the white hot hate for his style of Bruckheimer/Simpson movies has to have subsided some (he’s no longer making Top Gun-Style borderline propaganda now that Michael Bay’s moved on), there is no doubt of one thing: dude has an eye for talent. Look at G-Force, and the cast: Tracy Morgan, Zach Galifianakis, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Nicholas Cage, Will Arnett, Penelope Cruz, and Bill Nighy. That’s a cast you’d want in most anything. My review of G-Force after the jump.

First Images from Warner Bros. 2010 Movies - THE TOWN, HUBBLE 3D, GOING THE DISTANCE, More

Posted: December 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 pm

Warner Bros. has released their 2010 schedule and included a bunch of first look images from some of their biggest films.  While in years past they would include a synopsis for each film to go along with the images, for now they’ve only provided a release date and the category it’s in.  Saying that, if you’d like to see the first images from Ben Affleck’s The Town, the new Kevin Smith movie starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, Hubble 3D, The Lottery Ticket, Flipped, Going the Distance, and a lot more, hit the jump and take a look.

30 ROCK Season 3 DVD Review

Posted: October 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 am

After having finished watching the entirety of season 3of 30 Rock, two things came to me. One is that 30 Rock - especially among its niche following - is the most quotable show around these days. From Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) doing her Muppet walk or saying “what the what?”to “I want to go there” to Baldwin paying homage to Malice, without having seen this season of 30 Rock at all, much of it was familiar by remembering tweets and things people said. My Review after the jump.

Sean William Scott and Adam Brody Join Willis and Morgan in Kevin Smith’s A COUPLE Of DICKS

Posted: May 27th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

Casting decisions are often the lynch pin of whether a movie will ultimately succeed or fail.  Warner Brothers and director Kevin Smith were off to an incredible start on that score when they landed Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan to play the titular buddy-cops of their film “A Couple of Dicks”.  See?  The movie’s about cops not penises! Although, knowing Smith, shit could still go either way…

Today two more names have been added to Kevin’s “Dicks” - which sounds way dirtier than I meant it to.  First up, Sean William Scott will play a thief called ‘The Shit Bandit’ - that name based on the calling cards he leaves at his crime scenes.  And that, my friends, sounds exactly as dirty as I meant it to.  Also on board for the Dick-side of the law is “The OC’s” Adam Brody.  He’ll play an “abrasive detective” who is not happy about working with Willis and Morgan.  Now, seriously.  Have you seen Adam Brody?  The man couldn’t be abrasive if he was covered in sand paper.  Maybe Smith is going for those ironic kind of abrasions?  Just like his ironic use of the cop slang “Dicks” in his title?  We shall see.

“A Couple of Dicks” begins shooting next Monday in NYC.

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