As we’ve previously learned about Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim play directors who are tasked with creating a billion dollar movie and of course they screw it up. So they choose to set up a new business in an abandoned mall and hilarity ensures as their delightful characters – played by Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, John C Reilly, Will Forte and others – stop by for zany adventures.

We also know that it pissed a ton of people off at Sundance recently.

At least one couple storming out of the theater actually hollered back at the screen. Heidecker and Wareheim could barely contain their glee at a post-screening Q&A. “What’d he say?” Heidecker demanded.

The incident happened during a scene where the two guys are riding around in a cart chasing hobos out of the derelict mall, screaming “Get the f— out!”

A man stomping out of the theater at that moment shouted back, “We f—ing ARE!” About two dozen people had already fled before that, and many more took off after. About two-thirds of the audience remained by the time the credits rolled. (Via Entertainment Weekly)

The rest of that article is totally worth the read, because their interaction with the pissed off audience is hilarious.

The directors will brave on with their creation, which hits theaters on March 2, but Billion Dollar Movie is actually already available for download and On Demand as well. In fact, they’re so hellbent on success, that Heidecker and Wareheim have spent the past few weeks tracking down a number of celebrities, and making them sign a pledge to not only see the movie in theaters, but also to bring at least one family member with them, while also swearing to not see The Lorax.

Thankfully, Tim and Eric recorded these celebrities making and signing their pledges and I have a bunch of them after the jump.

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Airborne is very likely the most 1990s movie ever made. I know that’s a mighty bold claim to make, especially considering I am aware of the existence of the film Surf Ninjas, and that the trailer for that movie starts (STARTS) with a record scratch. But while Surf Ninjas only combined the 90s plot devices of, well, surfing and ninja, Airborne is stuffed to the gills with all things 90s. We’ve got: surfing, rollerblading, street sports, no less than four separate montages (including one, I sh*t you not, to the song “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred), bullies, an intense rivalry decided by a race, and tons of wailing guitars. Really, all you need for a 90s time capsule is this movie, a picture of Kelly Kapowski, and a Spin Doctors CD. Oh, also, the picture at right? That’s how Seth Green’s character looks when we’re introduced to him. Yeah.

The scene I’ll be breaking down is the climactic race at the end of the movie. It’s not like I had much of a choice. The scene takes up almost 18 minutes of the film’s 91-minute run time. Because if there’s one thing they teach you in Intro to Film for Non-Majors (A-, nbd), it’s that devoting 20% of your movie to a scene that was never foreshadowed, is never really explained, and features next to no dialogue, well that’s just a solid bit of filmmaking.

Strap on your rollerblades. We’re off.

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Warner Brothers recently announced that it will reboot Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the big screen, and that could possibly be cool if they did it right and I’m not going to waste anyone’s time – they’re not going to do it right. WB will move ahead on a new Buffy without Joss Whedon, who wrote the original 1992 movie and directed the TV series. Presumably nobody from the original movie or TV show will be involved, which is unfortunate because David Arquette is really looking for attention right now.

Writing this new version is actress Whit Anderson, and you may be asking, “Hey Burnsy, how did you get so handsome and who the F is Whit Anderson?” And my answers are noneyabiz and she’s someone whose IMDb credits include two short films and the role of “Yes Patron” in Yes Man. But she loved Buffy as a kid, so it’s totally going to be, like, totally OMG fine.

So what say you, Mr. Whedon, on this resurrection and slap in the face? (Via E! Online)

“This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths—just because they can’t think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself.”

I’ve never had two thoughts of an opinion about Joss, but just that initial response alone makes me want to buy the guy a Purple Haze and pose for funny Facebook photos with him. More of Whedon’s delightfully humorous response, as well as a look back at the faces (then and now) of this vampire franchise that paved the way for Twihards and their diabetes, after the jump…

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(via FacesofOldDogs)

USA Today recently did a fluff piece on the modern classic Old Dogs, and you just know someone was quoted saying something really stupid because just look at this embarrassment.  I’d rather watch a snuff film about a relative.  Anyway, the winner of the dipsh-t sweepstakes is John Travolta, who says reading the script was “the hardest I ever laughed.”

Travolta says that one lure of the film was the centerpiece scene, where Travolta and Williams mix up their medications. Travolta’s face turns into a Joker-like smile, while Williams’ tongue grows to the size of a dill pickle.

“That scene, I’ve probably laughed harder than I ever have,” Travolta says. “I knew I wanted to do the movie when I read that part. I’d pay $10 to see that scene.”

Would you?  Would you pay $10 to see it when it was in The Game Plan with The Rock, or just the other 30 times it happened in a stupid movie? Don’t answer that, just choke.

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Former Human Giant director Jason Woliner recently created a site called Faces of Old Dogs (facesofolddogs.tumblr.com), consisting solely of screencaps from the upcoming Robin Williams/John Travolta film Old Dogs.  The site purports to be updated daily, and I assume it’s a sort of homage to those old Faces of Death videos.  While it’s usually not my place to plug other websites, after seeing this clip, I realized that Old Dogs is not a movie so much as it’s a conceptual performance art piece, like Borat or Joaquin Phoenix, which intends to derive its humor not from the actual movie (*RECORD SCRATCH*) but from our reactions to it.

(*hits Seth Green in the nuts*)

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