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Hot Tub Time Machine Trailer

Eric M. Armstrong — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:37:02 +0000

Hot Tub Time Machine follows a group of best friends who’ve become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can’t find the party; Nick’s (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won’t leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, heads’ pounding, in the year 1986. This is their chance to kick some past and change their futures – one will find a new love life, one will learn to stand up for himself with the ladies, one will find his mojo, and one will make sure he still exists!

Director: Steve Pink
Writer: Josh Heald
Studio: MGM
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson
Release: February 26, 2010

Chevy Chase Jumps Into a ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’

Eric M. Armstrong — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:12:24 +0000

Legendary funnyman, Chevy Chase, will be making his return to the big screen in a hot tub.

Chase will star in UA’s time-travel comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine,” along with John Cusack and Rob Corddry, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film follows a group of unsatisfied guys who travel back to their younger days in 1987 via their Jacuzzi. Steve Pink will direct the Josh Heald script.

Chase will play a mysterious fix-it man who dispenses tidbits of wisdom and may or may not be the man behind the metaphysical road trip. Shooting is underway in Vancouver and the film is scheduled for a February release.

Chase also recently starred in an episode of NBC’s “Chuck,” as well as the Polish brothers’ Tribeca film “Stay Cool.” The aging “Saturday Night Live” alum has also landed a starring role on NBC’s new series “Community,” where he plays a community college student with more divorces than classes.

He also is in talks to reprise his role as bumbling private investigator Fletch Fletcher in “Fletch.”

Martin Short in Favor of “Three Amigos!” Sequel

Eric M. Armstrong — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:22:00 +0000

“Are gringos falling from the sky?” Not exactly, but it sure seems like movies sequels are, and 1980s comedy classic “Three Amigos!” might meet a similar fate if star Martin Short has anything to say about it.

While promoting a recent stand-up show the 58-year old Short told Australia’s Jono & Dano radio show that John Landis’s “Three Amigos” was the funnest movie he’s ever worked and that he wouldn’t be opposed to doing a sequel.

Kind of a predecessor to “Tropic Thunder,” the original film starred Short along with legends Steve Martin and Chevy Chase as three vain, dimwitted, but hilarious unemployed actors hired to protect a Mexican village from bandits, though unaware that their situation was very real and their lives in serious danger.

Short also said he really believes the original film left room for a quality sequel as opposed to Hollywood’s trend of hasty, shoddy projects for the sake of box office opportunism.