Midgets vs Mascots Wins the Bronze at Tribeca
“Midgets vs Mascots,” a shockumentary shot in a style similar to “Borat” in which five little people and five mascots battle for $1 million apiece in outrageous competitions, finished third in voting in the Heineken Audience Award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
As described on the Tribeca Film Festival website, the film’s “hilarity and raunch… struck a chord with TFF audiences” and “is certain to shock and amuse.”
Announced tonight, the Heineken Audience Award is determined by audience ballot votes throughout the Festival, which included 85 features and 47 short films from 36 countries.
Directed by Ron Carlson and starring Gary Coleman as himself, the film has generated considerable buzz. Over the last month, clips from the movie have logged more than 325,000 online views and tickets to its initial four screenings at Tribeca sold out in two hours, prompting the Festival to add a fifth showing for Sunday, May 3.
A cross between Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” and Johnny Knoxville’s “Jackass,” “Midgets vs Mascots” is geared toward 18-34-year-old males. In a test screening last November, the film’s scores came back 20 percent higher than the average studio comedy. In head to head testing, “Midgets vs Mascots” also beat seven of 10 relevant comedies, including Jackass, Reno 911, Napoleon Dynamite, Bad Santa, Pineapple Express, Clerks, and Harold & Kumar.
Four “Pineapple Express” TV spots
Four hilarious “Pineapple Express” TV spots have appeared online.
In the new movie, lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city’s most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. Continue Reading…
New “Pineapple Express” Movie Poster
Today, we got our hands on new official poster for the upcoming David Gordon Green’s comedy “The Pineapple Express.” It features James Franco and Seth Rogen – two posters combined into one, adding the tagline: “Put this in your pipe and smoke it.”
In the new movie, lazy stoner Dale Denton (Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city`s most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both.
The Columbia Pictures‘ tidbit will be available in theaters on August 6.
