Monday, March 5, 2007

Slow News Day: Ken From KAOS, South Park: Smaller, Streaming, and Uncut, Plympton Draws High, Rajskub Lets the Sunshine In, Surely Not Theatrical

ITEM: The Get Smart movie continues to rack up major casting brownie points as they sign Borat's chubby co-star Ken Davitian as an agent of KAOS, Maxwell Smart's evil foil.

ITEM: The 11th season of South Park starts March 7, and as a new bonus, the uncut versions of the episodes will be available from iTunes six days after the television broadcast, begging the question of what could possibly not make the air on a show that has already been allowed to say "shit" 162 times, and to show Jesus shitting all over the place, and a lot of other...shit.

ITEM: There's a trailer up for Bill Plympton's latest animated feature, Hair High, a high school zombie comedy with a crazy awesome voice cast that includes Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Silverman, David and Keith Carradine, Beverly D'Angelo, Ed Begley Jr., Michael Showalter, Justin Long, and fellow 'tooners Matt Groening and Don Hertzfeldt.

ITEM: Mary Lynn Rajskub has joined Alan Arkin and Steve Zahn in the dark comedy Sunshine Cleaning, which will probably use the phrase "indie sleeper" in its marketing.

ITEM: Paramount is thinking of doing some rush-job DTV sequels to The Naked Gun and Airplane! Zucker, Zucker, and Abraham aren't officially on board, but it's a fairly safe bet since they've announced their interest in the past, and it's an even safer bet that Leslie Nielsen would return, since he's been toiling in Videoland for years already.

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