In Get Him to the Greek, Jonah Hill needs Russell Brand to bang Nia Vardalos before midnight when she turns back into a werewolf. Okay, not really. It stars Russell Brand and Jonah Hill in what’s hopefully Laverne & Shirley to Forgetting Sarah Marshall‘s Happy Days (rather than, say, Joey to FSM‘s Friends *shudder*).  FSM director Nick Stoller returns to direct in his second feature, which is good, but he also has writing credits on Fun with Dick and Jane, which scares me, because that movie wasn’t just unfunny, it was like an electromagnetic pulse that knocked out humor in a five-block radius.  

The trailer’s sorta meh. Could go either way.  And I’m still not sold on Russell Brand.  He’s moderately funny, but it seems like he’s gone far not necessarily because he’s amazingly talented, but because he’s reasonably funny and has a schtick.  Like if he was as funny as he is without the eyeliner and the stupid hair and the tight pants and all that bullsh*t, would you really be able to pick him out of 10 other guys at a comedy club?  Doubtful.  I’m not saying he won’t ever win me over, it’s just that when, say, Ricky Gervais came over from England, no one had to tell me about his book and his life and his huge stand up career to keep me from automatically wanting to kick his ass.

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From SlashFilm:

Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) joined The Swell Season — Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová (you know, the musical artists from the indie musical Once) — on stage at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on November 18th, 2009. Segel joked that the movie Once beat out the Dracula Love song from Forgetting Sarah Marshall at the Academy Awards due to Hollywood “politics.”

I tried to watch Once once after everyone said it was good, but I couldn’t stomach all the emotional balladry.  But then I treat earnestness the way cockroaches treat sunlight, probably because I’m so well adjusted.  Anyway, I’m including an excerpt of the lyrics below.  The phone number in the chorus is real, and goes to a recording with Segel’s email address.  I called it myself to confirm.  I’ll let you guys know if we end up frotting.

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Before you get all excited, the person who made this picture played a little fast and loose with the censoring star.  Bottom line, some Forgetting Sarah Marshall DVDs got shipped in which Kristen Bell’s nipples came unblurred.

Normally, when a high profile actress like Kristen Bell agrees to preform a sex scene that requires nudity… producers agree to blur out any accidental slips of her sacred privates…  There was only one problem – the blur had mysteriously moved in certain stills… so instead of covering up Bell’s famous assets it shaded an unimportant part of her arm… Oops.
…in the added clip her bouncing breasts were not able to be seen.. due to the scene’s dark setting. However… we were able to brighten image stills taken from those few seconds… leaving the “Heroes” actress temporarily exposed. 

Awesome right?  Oh, except Kristen Bell was wearing pasties during the scene anyway.  So, to recap, a couple frames of Kristen Bell’s pastie-covered nipples came unblurred in a scene where it was too dark to see them, so these guys paused, saved the frames, and lightened them in Photoshop so that you could almost see something.  Not very sexy, but it’s like a nice, nostalgic travel back in time to the days when you could jerk off to scrambled softcore on satellite.  These days, if a dog’s not getting fisted I can’t even get a boner.

[Check out the uncensored versions here, though keep in mind even the uncensored versions have pasties over the nips]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall hits DVD shelves next week, and the studio has released a couple of Jonah Hill’s outtakes from the film.  I know there are some of you anti-semites out there who hate Jonah Hill, but I still enjoy him from time to time, especially the drawing dicks scene from Superbad.  Anyway, the clip’s pretty short, so stop acting like I’m keeping you from something more important.  I know your Power Point presentation isn’t going to watch itself, but lighten up.

[Check out the clip over at Empire]

One of the roughly 18 thousand movies Judd Apatow will be producing is Get Him to the Greek, starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill.  Chud now reports that the movie will actually be a spinoff starring Brand’s character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

This time, Brand’s rock star character has fallen off the wagon and Jonah Hill has to get him safe and in one piece to LA’s Greek Theater for a show.

Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller has written and will be directing this one, which Apatow seemed very excited about.

I enjoyed Sarah Marshall, but there’s no way I’m gonna be able to sit through an entire movie of this guy if he looks anything like this picture in it.  He looks like he wants me to be a Hare Krishna, and all I can think about is wanting to hit him in the face with a shovel. Though I suppose that’s how I feel about all Hare Krishnas.  Pretty much everyone, really.  I guess when it comes down to it, I just like to hit things with shovels.