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Making bad movies good again…

…three alumni from “Mystery Science Theater 3000” – Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy (“Tom Servo”), and Bill Corbett (“Crow T. Robot”) – have rejoined forces as The Film Crew. They’ve been entrusted with a very important mission, and one that’s decidedly familiar to them: “providing commentary tracks for every movie that doesn’t have one.” As with “MST3k,” the movies in question will be pretty darned terrible, and they’ll be begin to be released through the fine folks at Shout! Factory in April 2007…but, at the moment, they’re still trying to decide which film will be first.

Head over to their site to vote for one of the following (and to see a video introduction from Murphy):

Giant of Marathon (1959, starring Steve Reeves)
Hollywood After Dark (1968, starring Rue McClanahan of “The Golden Girls”)
Killers from Space (1954, starring Peter Graves)
The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)

Gosh, they all sound so darned bad…but hearing that Rue McClahanan plays a stripper in “Hollywood AFter Dark” just might turn the tide in its favor.

Must See NBC Thursdays are back.

And I mean they are REALLY back, baby. Remember the good old days, when you’d tune into NBC at 8 PM and you wouldn’t feel the urge to turn it off ’til the 11 PM news? Okay, so you might’ve taken an extended bathroom break during “The Single Guy,” but you know what I’m saying. Well, “E.R.” might not be everyone’s cup of tea anymore, but, by God, NBC has finally put together a 2-hour block of comedy from 8 – 10 PM that’s going to be a fucking BEHEMOTH!

8:00 PM: “My Name Is Earl”
8:30 PM: “The Office”
9:00 PM: “Scrubs” (starting Nov. 30)
9:30 PM: “30 Rock” (starting Nov. 16)

Seriously, that’s the dream line-up for me…and for anyone who enjoys laughing for two solid hours. It’s about time NBC put “Scrubs” back on Thursday nights, and thank God they’re saving “30 Rock” from the ratings no-man’s-land it was experiencing against “Lost,” because it’s a really funny show. “Scrubs” is showing up a bit earlier than anticipated, possibly because “Twenty Good Years,” the Lithgow-Tambor lovefest, has been yanked and put on hiatus for the time being.

Man, I’m psyched. This is gonna be awesome.

Rush Limbaugh, Humanitarian of the Year

Rush Limbaugh has publicly accused Michael J. Fox of faking his Parkinson’s disease symptoms.

Fox currently appears in a campaign ad for Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, who supports stem cell research in order to help find cures for debilitating illnesses such as the one from which the former “Spin City” star suffers. In the ads, Fox is visibly shaking as a result of his disease–which led conservative pundit Limbaugh to announce that Fox had staged the tremors in order to garner sympathy for his cause.

Following his announcement, Limbaugh presumably received a flood of calls from his three ex-wives and multiple ex-girlfriends, every one of them confessing that they’d been faking it the whole time, too.

Where’s Wesley?

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For those of you following the tale of the tax-evading vampire slayer, this just in:

Wesley Snipes is in Namibia filming a movie. He is not scheduled to return to the United States until at least the third week in December.

According to the film’s producer, Joanne Reay:

“We are shooting and we are continuing to shoot. We are aware of the issue around the tax charges but we are not discussing it.”

[Reay also adds: ]“As far as we understand, Wesley is not going to be arrested in Namibia.”

Huh. You’d think Wesley might want a little more concrete reassurance than that whole “as far as we understand” hedge…but apparently not.

Stay tuned to see whether the former onscreen fugitive meets up with some real-life U.S. marshals on foreign soil, as “Snipes Hunt 2006” continues.

Box Office Roundup: Jackman, Bale make movie audiences disappear.

Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:

1) The Prestige: $14.8 million (first week)
We’d take this moment to rejoice the first place finish of Christopher Nolan’s awesome magic flick, but we just know it’s going to get slaughtered by “Saw III” next week.
2) The Departed: $13.7 million ($77.1 million, third week)
Fast fact: The first Martin Scorsese movie to break $100 million was…”The Aviator.” Who knew?
3) Flags of Our Fathers: $10.2 million (first week)
Between this and the underwhelming performance by “Jarhead,” it appears that we are suffering from patriotism fatigue. And the studio is suffering from being $80 million in the hole.
4) Open Season: $8 million ($69.6 million, fourth week)
“Well, it stars Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher…” “Stop. We’re not seeing it.”
5) Flicka: $7.7 million (first week)
Tied with “The Grudge 2.” One of the studios is lying.

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