Kinobild Releasing just released the first poster for And They’re Off, starring the box office molten lava combo of Cheri Oteri and Sean Astin (GET THOSE NAMES ABOVE THE TITLE IMMEDIATELY!). And what better way to promote such a movie, I ask, than a poster in which Sean Astin leans casually on the hind quarters of a nine-foot tall thoroughbred while his feet hover mysteriously, majestically above the turf grass? Heck, I’m already sold. But then there’s that tagline.

“He was so far behind, he thought he was in first.”

I guess what you’re saying is, he’s kind of like the Rudy of horses.

[via ComingSoon]

Joe Montana, who is rightly worshiped as a God here in San Francisco (I recently built a shrine to him out of crack pipes and bum hair), was recently on Dan Patrick’s radio show, when the subject naturally turned to Sean Astin movies from the early 90s. It turns out Comeback Joe was a freshman on the Notre Dame squad in 1975, when the real-life Rudy Ruettinger, the basis for Rudy, scored a sack (sort of) against Georgia Tech.  You’ll never believe this, but he claims the reality was a little different than what happened in the movie.  Coach Dan Devine, for instance, never told Rudy not to dress for the game, nor did his teammates respond by turning in their jerseys.  Probably because it was the 70s and they were college football stars, and they were too busy slaying big, hairy Debbie Does Dallas poon all day.  That’s how I imagine it anyway.

DP: Were you there when Rudy was there?
JM: Yeah. It’s a movie, remember. Not all of that is true.
DP: What wasn’t true?
JM: Well, the crowd wasn’t chanting. No one threw in their jerseys. He did get in the game. He got carried off [at the end of] the game. [...] Back then they tried to play someone at the end of [the season] that all the seniors could get in the last home game. The schedule was kind of set that way.

So he got in. He did get a sack. And then the guys carried him off, just playing around. I won’t say it was a joke, but it was playing around. He worked his butt off to get where he was and to do the things he did. But not any harder than anyone else. [Yahoo]

So basically, seniors all got in the game back then, and they even set up the schedule so that they’d play a crappy team at the end and it wouldn’t matter.  Rudy was one of those seniors and when he got in, he sacked a guy, or at least held onto him until a bigger guy could bring him down (video of the play below).  And such is the foundation of a successful motivational speaking career when you’ve been portrayed on screen by Sean Astin, the greatest human being to have ever lived.

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Demoted stars David Cross as the guy who takes constant crap from his co-workers at the tire company, UNTIL ONE DAY, the boss dies, Cross inherits the job, and sets out to exact revenge.  HIJINKS, color yourself ENSUE.

Demoted comes from the director of American Pie 2 and Say it Ain’t So (about Chis Klein accidentally falling in love with his sister), and unfortunately, looks a lot more like those than it does any of David Cross’ non-Alvin & the Chipmunks-related work.  In fact, it appears to be one long collection of high-larious pranks and zany antics.  Oh my gosh you guys, Stifler jizzed in my tea again!  Damn, you, Stifler!  You’re just too wild and crazy!  (*air guitar*)

[via Collider]

Following statements by Corey Feldman that an animated sequel to Goonies was in the works, Sean Astin recently told MTV that Goonies 2 is “an absolute certainty”.

Feldman and Astin both say their favorite possible plot is that the movie involve the children of the Goonies from the original.  Personally, I think it’d be fun if Sean Astin and Josh Brolin’s kid kidnapped Corey Feldman’s to show him what it’s like to live in a real house with electricity and food and everything.

Astin: “Steven [Spielberg] and Dick [Donner] and all the powers that be … they really feel like the thing that made the movie strong was that it was about kids, so they really want to make the next movie about kids…the next generation of Goonies. And they’ve had a hard time tackling that.”

Well yeah, with these damned kids today, what the heck you gonna make the movie about, robot servants and tentacle porn?  Pogs?  Bottom line, ten bucks says this somehow involves Nick Cannon.