‘Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian’ Poster

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‘Night at the Museum’ wasn’t exactly a succinct title to begin with. Â  Adding ‘Battle of the Smithsonian’ is just asking for trouble.

This new poster comes to you courtesy of Movie Poster.com.

A Slasher Film Written for Judd Apatow?

Devin Faraci over at CHUD.com managed to strike up a conversation with Bill Hader (Adventureland) while at Sundance and Hader spilled some beans about a project he and SNL writer Simon Rich have been working on. Apparently, the twosome has written a screenplay for a slasher flick, especially for Judd Apatow.

Here’s what Bill Hader had to say during their conversation:

What would an Apatow-produced slasher film from Rich and Hader be like? Says Bill: ‘It’s partially Straw Dogs meets Halloween meets Home Alone meets Monster Squad.’ It’s hard to argue against that.

‘I don’t know if it’s even going to get made,’ Hader told me. ‘Judd met with us and said “I want to do a horror movie with you. I want to see you in a slasher movie.”‘

The film will be a horror comedy, and while Hader danced around giving away too much, he did describe it to me like this: ‘It is definitely about guys nowadays, that idea that you watch fucked up shit on TV, how violence in our culture – this sounds really hoity toity – you watch fucked up reality shows, I love true crime shows. The idea of that thing coming to your house, and what do you do? I would shit my pants. That’s basically what the movie is about. What if that guy decided to come to your house? What would you and your dipshit friends do about it?’

[source: CHUD.com]

Dream Cast for animated ‘Meatballs’ movie…

‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’ will become a 3-D animated comedy due out in theaters  on January 15,  2010. The film will be directed by Chris Miller (Shrek 3)  and will be based on the best-selling children’s book of the same name, written by Judi Barrett.

This movie, as gloriously strange as it sounds, is set to star one heck of a cast. Bill Hader is set to star as the lead character, with a supporting cast that will include Anna Faris, James Caan and yes… friggin’ Bruce Campbell will lend his voice in the same movie as friggin’ Mr. T!!! Sweet!

Story: [Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers–until the weather takes a turn for the worse.] — Amazon.com

[Hader, the talented SNL star whose movie career has so far consisted of a series of pinch-hitting cameos in the likes of ‘Hot Rod’ and ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’, will take lead duty as Flint Lockwood, a young and idealistic inventor. Faris will play Sam Sparks, a perky weathergirl who deliberately obscures her intelligence.] — EmpireOnline.com