Rob Riggle describes his struggles as the only new cast member on his season of SNL, and shares the advice that Will Ferrell gave him while he was there.
Louis C.K. describes his horrible experience on The Dana Carvey Show, how you learn more from failure than success, and why he does everything himself on his own TV show.
Meet Star Wars enthusiasts from the ultimate fan organization, known as the 501st Legion, as they prepare their costumes for May 4 — a.k.a. International Star Wars Day. "May the Fourth be with you."
"It was a far less frightening, but an equally self-reflexive version of that scene in Being John Malkovich where Malkovich goes inside his own head."
Dan Silver: When asked, that's the way I describe my (all too brief) time spent at LucasFilm and ILM. Over the years, I've been extremely fortunate to have found myself in situations where the ivories on my geek piano are tickled under the guise of "professional responsibilities," but never have I been to a place like LucasFilm and ILM. This is the only place on the planet that can position a wall sized mural of early and little seen conceptual sketch of Yoda right outside a room where post production work was being done on Pacific Rim. (FYI, I saw as close to nothing as one could see, I just happened to be admiring the Yoda artwork when someone walked out of a room, and before the door closed I caught a glimpse of a screen. I only knew what I was seeing was Pacific Rim because an image of Charlie Hunnam in his Jaeger get-up was frozen on screen.)
The visual-effects artists at Industrial Light and Magic describe how they created the Hulk in The Avengers.
On the Hollywood Prospectus podcast, Grantland's Rembert Browne, Chris Ryan, and Andy Greenwald discuss how they are initially underwhelmed by Justin Timberlake's new record, but agree that it may be the result of high expectations.
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The visual-effects wizards at Industrial Light and Magic detail how they created the most complicated sequence in The Avengers.
The visual-effects magicians of Industrial Light and Magic explain exactly how they created New York City for the climactic scene of The Avengers.
Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Cousin Sal faces off against B.S. Report stalwart Joe House in an eating competition at New Orleans’s Acme Oyster House. It’s gross. For real.
Molly, Tess, and Emily had a long gabfest over cosmos this weekend about branding and gender identity and decided to rename the podcast Girls in Hoodies. Now that we finally have a name that won't possibly annoy anyone on the Internet, we can focus on more important things, like this week's Academy Awards, and why exactly it's pretty much impossible not to love Jennifer Lawrence. We also chat about the now-infamous Onion tweet and the pifalls of the infectiousness of Hollywood snark. Finally, we rehash Girls’ road trip to Manitou, where we thankfully didn't run into any murderous demon babies, but where there was still plenty of irresponsible behavior on display.
The secrets behind the "optical printer" that was used on Star Wars, the morphing effect from Willow, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, and the T-1000 from Terminator 2.
I love movies. More specifically, I LOVE Star Wars.
So when I found out I was going to get the opportunity to create some content for the Grantland Channel, I knew the first thing I wanted to do is go up to San Francisco and visit Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic. Somehow, stupidly, they said yes.
The third season of Comedy Central's Workaholics opens with the show's three protagonists, Blake (Blake Anderson), Anders (Anders Holm), and Adam (Adam DeVine), acid-proofing their house in preparation for a hallucinogenic drug binge. And since then, things have only gotten weirder.
The trio behind Workaholics have taken the basic premise of three bros who live and party together in Rancho Cucamonga, California, while also working together at a soul-crushing telemarketing job, and taken it about further than anyone could have imagined. After two seasons of hunting expeditions, office sleepovers, Beer Olympics, aborted trips to the Jamaican sex resorts, and unstoppable amounts of swag, the third season has somehow gotten more perverse, more unique, and even more hysterical.
Tracy Morgan joins Cousin Sal and Bill Simmons to describe his alter ego, Chico Divine, and what he can remember from the time he was naked in Jimmy Kimmel’s green room. He also chats about the time he was kicked out of Prince’s house, his Saturday Night Live audition, and his favorite memory from 30 Rock. Plus! His new TV project and much, much more.
ESPN executive editor John A. Walsh talks to old friend and colleague Chris Connelly about Katherine Webb, Jodie Foster, and how social media has changed us all.
