In a promotional effort with Funny or Die web site, John Cho and Kal Penn have a short video mocking and singing holiday classics. Cho and Penn will star in the upcoming comedy sequel “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.” The film also stars Neil Patrick Harris, Danny Trejo, Danneel Harris, Eddie Kaye Thomas and Paula Garces. Here is the official synopsis: Six years have elapsed since Guantanemo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold’s doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold’s father-in-law’s beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree, once again stumbling into trouble at every single turn. The film is directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson (“Naked But Funny,...
- 11/2/2011
- LRMonline.com
Sex. Drugs. And everything else. New Line Cinema released the red band trailer for the sequel “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.” The film stars John Cho (“Star Trek”), Kal Penn (“House M.D.”), Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”), Danny Trejo (“Machete”), Danneel Harris (“Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay”), Eddie Kaye Thomas (“American Pie”) and Paula Garces (“Warehouse 13”). Here is the official synopsis: Six years have elapsed since Guantanemo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold’s doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold’s father-in-law’s beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree, once again stumbling into trouble at every single turn. The film...
- 10/20/2011
- LRMonline.com
Ho, ho, ho. New Line Cinema released several character posters via Yahoo! Movies of the upcoming comedy sequel “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.” The film stars John Cho (“Star Trek”), Kal Penn (“House M.D.”), Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”), Danny Trejo (“Machete”), Danneel Harris (“Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay”), Eddie Kaye Thomas (“American Pie”) and Paula Garces (“Warehouse 13”). Here is the official synopsis: Six years have elapsed since Guantanemo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold’s doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold’s father-in-law’s beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree, once again stumbling into trouble at every single turn.
- 10/5/2011
- LRMonline.com
Christmas is coming prematurely for Harold and Kumar. Well, that’s what they’re saying. New Line Cinema released a few posters via Yahoo! Movies of the upcoming comedy sequel “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.” The film stars John Cho (“Star Trek”), Kal Penn (“House M.D.”), Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”), Danny Trejo (“Machete”), Danneel Harris (“Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay”), Eddie Kaye Thomas (“American Pie”) and Paula Garces (“Warehouse 13”). Here is the official synopsis: Six years have elapsed since Guantanemo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold’s doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold’s father-in-law’s beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree,...
- 9/9/2011
- LRMonline.com
Individuals who haven’t cut their television cords may recognize web starlet Taryn Southern from her stints on Rules of Engagement, Attack of the Show, The Golden Globes Post Show, The Grammys, and other TV programs and specials. Online video aficionados will be familiar with her work on the TheWB.com and Big Fantastic teen drama Sorority Forever, the version of High School Musical made for kids over the age of 18 Private High Musical, a number of sexually suggestive music videos on YouTube and Funny or Die, and a handful of as of yet unnamed projects that will come out of her recently made partnership with Break.com. Southern signed a six-month, first-look deal with the 13-year-old(!) humor website that will give her use of the company’s production, distribution, and promotion resources. Break will get an exclusive first look at all of Southern’s project in exchange. This is...
- 6/20/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Earlier this week, Taryn Southern released her latest video, Keep it in Your Pants a raucous and not-safe-for-work song about a poor girl driven to the brink of insanity by her simple desire that the men around her keep it down. The multi-hyphenated web celebrity is no stranger to raunchy comedy having found success earlier in the year costarring in a Funny or Die produced video about the secret joy of experimentation. In fact, Southern has carved out a niche for herself as the sweet-faced girl next door whose lyrics would turn the saltiest of sailors scarlet. She quickly rose to both Web and mainstream celebrity with her love song to a pants-suited Hilary Clinton during the run up to the 2008 Presidential election. Her video Hot4Hill was a success, which allowed Southern to erect a substantial Internet following. Since then she has stared in various online projects including Big Fantastic's drama,...
- 11/18/2010
- by Mathieas McNaughton
- Tubefilter.com
Hype can be a dangerous thing. Is it after all a fickle critter that once rattled can never really be sent back to its cage. So when Bernie Su and his team behind Compulsions began their late summer teases for their dark web thriller, they knew this day would come. The internet's day of reckoning. Today the 8-episode series debuts exclusively on Dailymotion, having signed a deal with the site granting it a month-long exclusive window on Compulsions. Already the popular video site had been featuring the trailer for the series front and center, and it now leads with the first episode surrounded by some custom front page skinning. Last night in Los Angeles, in a packed screening premiere at Cinespace a room full of some 200 or so lucky ones had a chance to collectively writhe and squirm through the first 4 episodes. "I know the expectations are high," wrote creator...
- 12/1/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Not since the Streamy Awards have we seen this many web series stars in one place. Ok not really, but with the fourth season of The Temp Life, the Spherion-backed comedy about life inside a dreadful NY temp agency kicking off today, the cast is loaded up with notable web series stars. The casting moves are signs this four-year old web show is growing up with the medium in which it plays. Call it Web TV's version of keiretsu. Creator Wilson Cleveland, Cjp Communications' Head of Digital Media, built the show back in 2006 for the firm's client Spherion. Incidentally, Cleveland also stars in the The Temp Life, as Nick “Trouble” Chiapetta, the once-ceo of Commodity Staffing, the shoddy agency. This new season picks up with some major changes once Chiapetta returns to office after a 33-week Awol. Notable guest (web) stars: Thom Woodley — co-creator and star of All's Faire, The 'Burg and Vuguru's The All-for-Nots.
- 11/16/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Fall Web TV Week is finally here! It kicks off tonight with the October edition of the Tubefilter Hollywood Web Television Meetup in Los Angeles at 7:00 Pm. The night gets under way with a special sold-out "Going Live!" panel all about live streaming web series streamed Live at 7:20 on Stickam and right here on Tubefilter. Going Live! Panel: Hailey Bright, Co-Host, Coin-Op TV Live Drew Baldwin, Producer, The Streamy Awards (and Tubefilter co-founder) Brian Gramo, Founder, theStream.tv Tyler Crowley, Exec. Producer, Mahalo Daily, This Week in Startups, Kevin Pollack's Chat Show Bismarck Lepe, Founder, Ooyala Moderator: Marc Hustvedt, Editor-in-Chief, Tubefilter News Spotted on the Meetup RSVP list... Private High Musical's Taryn Southern..The Guild's Felicia Day, Jeff Lewis, Sandeep Parikh, Sean Becker and Kim Evey...The Bannen Way creators Mark Gantt and Jesse Warren....Blip.tv founders Mike Hudack and Dina Kaplan...lonelygirl15's Jessica Rose and Yousef Abu-Taleb.
- 10/19/2009
- by Tubefilter News
- Tubefilter.com
It's not exactly coincidence that today's launch of Sony's zombie comedy web seriesWoke Up Dead comes on the heels of the company's box-office-winning $25 million opening weekend for Zombieland. In fact it was pretty much by design. With its debut on Crackle today, the Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) led comedy is the latest example of how the studios are starting the work their digital properties into the synergistic business mix, capitalizing on buzz from one property to drive interest in another. The series is touted as the tentpole of Crackle's fall lineup, one that is slimmed down from previous seasons to feature just a handful of premium, more polished online series from Sony Pictures Television. It's the latest from online creative shop Electric Farm Entertainment, the guys behind web series like NBC's Gemini Division and more recently MTV's Valemont. Heder stars as a six-year USC grad turned office drone, Drex Greene,...
- 10/6/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Every once in awhile a web series comes along that you really root for people to discover. For me, Acting School Academy is one of these gems, and the web viewing public is already starting to take note. In under a week, the first episode has already garnered over 200,000 views. Acting School Academy is the brainchild of writers Kris Sharma and Michael Mayorga, and executed deftly by Bengal Mangle Productions which consists of producer Mo Darwiche and director Ian Smith. The group has already done quite the job of pushing a ton of accompanying content out with the first episode. In addition to new episodes debuting every Tuesday, all the students attending the "acting school" post confessional vlog style videos every weekday allowing fans to connect more personally with the characters. Before the launch of the show the guys even put out another series, Charlie the Abusive Teddy Bear, in...
- 9/21/2009
- by Lindsay Stidham
- Tubefilter.com
We got an early teaser (above) of new thriller web series Compulsions, which is still in post-production. This one piqued our interest early, with a few notable web series names in the mix. Stars Craig Frank (The Crew, Private High Musical) and Annemarie Pazmino (Sorority Forever) are recognizable to web fans. And as of now, the only other announced cast member is Janna Bossier. A few other recognizable faces make an appearance but are being kept under wraps. The basic setup is that even completely normal people have hidden and often dark desires, or compulsions, that are kept inside and never acted upon. Of course it would be a lot more interesting to find out what would happen if they did act upon them. And that's where this series picks up. Three leads, three different compulsions. One of them is sadism. Writer-creator Bernie Su said they are "trying to push...
- 8/20/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Summer hiatus. To some people these two words mean kicking back, slowing down and catching up on long lost sleep. To others, it means it's time to get busy. For Brett Register, creator-star of sci-fi web series The Crew, we're going to say it's the latter. With one episode left to come in The Crew's 15-episode season, Register teased out the first episode (above) of Lost & Found today, hinting at what is expected to be a busy summer. Featuring fellow Crew star Craig Frank (Private High Musical) along with web series vet Katy Stoll (Prom Queen, Couples, Private High Musical) and Register himself, Lost & Found is the first of a handful of short web series coming out from the newly formed creative team, Absolute Disaster. The five-person ensemble, a mix of actors and technical talent includes Register, Stoll, Frank and actor Haley Mancini (Prom Queen, Weeds, Mad Men) with The...
- 6/8/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
MTV has ordered up a half hour pilot of raunchy comedy web series Private High Musical which debuted last fall, marking the latest of the network's web to TV pickups. Creator and star Taryn Southern will produce the new pilot, which is still in pre-production. As part of the deal, MTV acquires the rights to the series, though Southern will remain a producer and actor in the show. Southern originally cast a talented group of actors she'd worked with before, including Lauren Mayhew and fellow Sorority Forever star Angie Cole, even her new producing partner and web star Jessica Rose made a cameo. Some of the original cast are expected to return, though no word yet on whether Mr. Belding himself, Dennis Haskins, who played Mr. Johnson in the series, will be making his the trip back to primetime.
- 3/11/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
MTV is looking forward to add comedy to its pile, and one of its target is "High School Musical". The music network is gearing up on a project called "Private High Musical" which is inspired by the popular Disney production and based on an online series that produced raunchy versions of high school shows.
"I've always been an avid musical fan," creator Taryn Southern said, "and when Disney's 'High School Musical' became this big phenomenon, I thought it was funny that nobody ever did a musical that told how high school really was."
Other four pilots and an animated series that will span half an hour each, are on the pipeline. The animated series is called "DJ and the Fro", telling the story of two office workers who swap viral videos in the middle of their busy job. "Long Distance Relationship" meanwhile, is based on a Web series...
"I've always been an avid musical fan," creator Taryn Southern said, "and when Disney's 'High School Musical' became this big phenomenon, I thought it was funny that nobody ever did a musical that told how high school really was."
Other four pilots and an animated series that will span half an hour each, are on the pipeline. The animated series is called "DJ and the Fro", telling the story of two office workers who swap viral videos in the middle of their busy job. "Long Distance Relationship" meanwhile, is based on a Web series...
- 3/11/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
MTV's next target: scripted comedy. The cable network is developing an unprecedented number of scripted half-hour projects, including greenlighting a new series and ordering five pilots.
"We're going to apply the same tenets of creativity and genre-busting to scripted comedy that 'Laguna Beach' used to make over the documentary," MTV head of programming Tony Disanto said. "It makes sense as a progression for us when a lot of our shows like 'Run's House' and 'The Hills' look scripted to start going forward with actual scripted shows."
The projects include a 20-episode series order for a new animated series titled "DJ and the Fro," about two office drones who swap viral videos while surrounded by workplace mayhem.
The network's quintet of pilots -- not all of which have closed deals -- are a mix of live-action and animated projects, with three set in high school and two based on existing Web series.
"We're going to apply the same tenets of creativity and genre-busting to scripted comedy that 'Laguna Beach' used to make over the documentary," MTV head of programming Tony Disanto said. "It makes sense as a progression for us when a lot of our shows like 'Run's House' and 'The Hills' look scripted to start going forward with actual scripted shows."
The projects include a 20-episode series order for a new animated series titled "DJ and the Fro," about two office drones who swap viral videos while surrounded by workplace mayhem.
The network's quintet of pilots -- not all of which have closed deals -- are a mix of live-action and animated projects, with three set in high school and two based on existing Web series.
- 3/10/2009
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Let's get the big news out first. Two of the hottest stars on the web are teaming up: Jessica Rose and Taryn Southern have formed a web production company, Webutantes, and are developing a number of original web series slated to come out in the next year. We had a chance to catch up with the young web stars to talk about their new venture, their ever-evolving careers and their plans to shake up Hollywood's outdated perceptions of women. It's El Coyote on a Thursday, and the place is frantic. For an internet star, Taryn Southern isn't easy to find. I work my way through the labyrinth of assorted rooms, each teeming with overrun tables, making a lap or two before I realize there's there's a hidden back room to the restaurant. Taryn welcomes me in, where her group overflows the long narrow table in the corner. It's a party for her latest web series,...
- 11/18/2008
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Well, well, well. Looks like the Web TV industry knows how to have a good time. We decided to go "social" this month with the Hollywood Web Television Meetup and boy, people came out in droves. I should have brought more name tags. Tubefilter bought the first round of pitchers and the rest was history. Thank you all for making it out. We had appearances from web veteran Hayden Black, webutante extraordinaire Taryn Southern of Private High Musical, Jenn Cron and Melissa Hunter from Let's Get Laid, the ladies of Whatever Hollywood, the Luke 11:17 gang, Devin Boddie of Midnight Rida representing with the rest of ManiaTV, Brandon Martinez and Drew Welborn of Abrams Artists who compared notes with Mitch Kapler of Paradigm Agency, Brock Laborde and Rory Windhorst from Studio 8 Entertainment...
- 11/13/2008
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
The final episode (above - warning: contains spoilers if you’re not caught up!) of Sorority Forever came out today at TheWB.com and MySpaceTV, closing this chapter of the 40-episode college sorority thriller. The Big Fantastic/McG-produced series, chock full of web stars — Jessica Rose (lonelygirl15), Taryn Southern (Private High Musical) and Mikaela Hoover (Sam Has 7 Friends) — had the web media hype-machine in full force this summer, us included, before its Labor Day debut. The first major scripted series out of Warner Bros.’ new digital portal TheWB.com, Sorority Forever has lived up to its end of the bargain in terms of viewership. Distribution partner MySpaceTV, who had a exclusive 48-hour window for new episodes, certainly delivered. They accounted for over 4 Million views for the series so far. TheWB.com hasn’t yet released viewership numbers for those shown on its own site, but it’s expected...
- 11/1/2008
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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