Vince's mom is telling her friends that he's an influential writer, Vince's dad is telling his friends that Vince should get a real job already, and Vince is telling me I have to remind everyone that he's got a critic's blurb on the cover of The FP.

Obviously, the big news in DVD land this week is the release of The FP.  Buy it now and you can be the proud owner of a FilmDrunk sticker! Or at least as sticker that has the FilmDrunk logo on it. Besides that ‘Beautifully Absurd!‘ (Vince Mancini, FilmDrunk) flick, there’s the latest Paul Rudd comedy, a high school party that got out of hand, Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Nic Cage, a bag of hammers, Father Tom Arnold, a sexy film about boney French people boning sexily, and an evil ventriloquist’s dummy. As if there were any other kind.

Vince’s Note: I haven’t talked about The FP much lately because I figured you were sick of it by now, but now’s your chance to see it! I’ve got TWO FREE DVDS to give away in honor of the release, and since I don’t feel like doing a contest, they’re going to the first two people to email me. [UPDATE: CLOSED]

The DVDs:
The FP
Wanderlust
Project X
Jeff Who Lives At Home
Seeking Justice
Big Miracle
Cat Run
A Bag Of Hammers
Keyhole
Exit Humanity
The Legend Of Hell’s Gate
The Jerk Theory
Four Lovers
Snow On Tha Bluff
P.O.E.: Poetry Of Eerie
Grave Danger

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This week on the Frotcast, local comic Matt Lieb shows up to help us discuss Big Money Rustlas, a Juggalo western, and probably the best movie ever made about cowboys who wear clown makeup and call each other “muthafacko.” We listen to how much you all hated last week’s show, run down a few news stories, including Amber Tamblyn’s fairly epic punking of Tyrese Gibson, and Matt tells us about having to read his comedy notebook aloud to Israeli security (great story).

Then we bring on Laremy Legel of Film.com to tell us about John Carter and 21 Jump Street, as well as discuss The Sitter and Project X with me, which leads to some clips from Todd Phillips’ 1998 documentary Frat House.

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Join me after the jump for more extensive notes from Adam, plus, “Frotcast: The Play,” by Emmet, one of the funnier emails we’ve received.

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"THIS TIME... THE GIRLS FACE THE OTHER WAY."

Michael Bacall is about to be the hottest name in Hollywood’s comedy writing circle, as the co-writer behind Project X and 21 Jump Street has already been locked in for the upcoming Tropic Thunder spinoff about Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman. Now, thanks to Project X earning $21 million at the box office this past weekend, Warner Bros. is exchanging a keg and keeping the tap by green-lighting a sequel to the “found footage” comedy about three nerds who throw a massive house party, with Bacall currently working on a treatment.

Man, he’s gonna make House Party 2 look like House Party 2!

Whether the treatment carries over to the script stage will depend on the producers, Todd Phillips and his Green Hat shingle and Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures. Bacall began work on the treatment several weeks before the movie opened. (Via the Hollywood Reporter)

I’d say that’s rather bold, but then so is thinking that a studio would ever be into a story about nerdy kids trying to become popular by throwing a wild party, all told from the perspective of someone’s video camera. Who would have thunk it?

So what about those nerdy kids? Are we gonna bring the Jr. Wolfpack back and catch up with their next round of dry-humpscapades?

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I’ll admit that this is way less fun than finding out an actress used to do porn, but as grandma used to say, porn is porn. The story is that Jonathan Daniel Brown, who plays the chubby friend in Project X, did an actual, honest-to-God porno (not that softcore garbage your sister does) a few years ago.

TMZ.com reports that Brown appeared about three years ago in a Bang Bros. production entitled “Nerd Hunting,” in which “he banged three smoking hot chicks.” A little research by AVN determined that the production in question was actually an episode of the Bang Bros. series F*ck Team 5, and that the “smoking hot chicks” were Jennifer Dark, Ashli Orion and Phoenix Marie.
The TMZ story said “sources close to Jonathan” told the celebrity gossip outlet that he did the Bang shoot “for some first time on-screen experience,” and quoted said sources as saying, “It was just kids being kids.” (Funny, that’s not how we remember kids being when we were ones.)

Wait, did you say Jennifer Dark, Ashli Orion, and Phoenix Marie? I did indeed, sir. Jennifer Dark, Ashli Orion, and Phoenix Marie, having nude hardcore XXX sex and intercourse, naked topless and with their tits out and everything. (*cashes check from Google, buys top hat*) Of course, the best part of AVN’s story is when they asked the girls for comment:

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The Lorax, which the Reverend Lou Dobbs teaches us is part of a plot by Obama’s friends in the liberal media to demonize the 1%, sneakily earned a lot of money for the 1% over the weekend, grossing an estimated $70.7 million dollars. It was good enough for the best opening of the year, the third-highest March opening (behind Alice in Wonderland and 300), and the sixth highest animated movie of all time. All with a sub-60% rottentomatoes score. The lesson? Don’t release all your animated films at the same time. As long as they’re not competing against each other, they’re pretty much a slam dunk. And I mean “slam dunk” in the sense that it’s easy, not in the sense that it’s something only six-foot-five black guys can do.

Elsewhere, Project X debuted in second with $20.78 million. Less than Chronicle ($22 million opening), but still a success for a movie that didn’t cost very much. It’s the third found-footage movie in a row to open higher than $20 million, so expect to see a lot of those. Which is bad, because the found footage thing kind of sucks, but at the same time it could be good, because those films don’t cost much to make. And studios tend to give filmmakers a lot more creative freedom when their film costs $10 million as opposed to $100. Just as long as they can channel that creativity into a story about a teenager holding a camera for some reason.

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