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Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: After going on a hike and getting “really stoned,” Off! guitarist Dimitri Coats approached his friend and bandmate Keith Morris with a tall order: He wanted to make a film that featured the band… with the singer’s erectile dysfunction as the inciting incident. “I was a little worried (Keith) wouldn’t go for it,” Coats told IndieWire.

Morris, the legendary dreadlocked former lead man for The Circle Jerks, detailed his struggle with diabetes in in his 2016 autobiography “My Damage.” And, as he previously disclosed to Coats, erectile dysfunction (now resolved) was an early warning sign. In the film Coats envisioned, Morris never followed his musical dreams and became a defeated elderly porno store clerk who is inspired by a bout of erectile dysfunction to visit a “boner doctor”.

This leads to a hallucinogenic “antidote” created by aliens with the help of albino bees,...

Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, and AFI are among the bands, artists, and fans who have donated more than $200,000 to a GoFundMe for Sick of It All singer Lou Koller after his recent cancer diagnosis.

As we reported last week, Koller was diagnosed with a tumor in his esophagus, forcing Sick of It All to cancel their European tour. A GoFundMe was subsequently launched, revealing that the tumor is cancerous (adenocarcinoma), and many of his peers in the punk-rock community have donated to help out with his medical bills and loss of income while off the road.

Of the 4,000-plus donations that have come in so far, the aforementioned bands Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, and AFI have made the largest donations at $5,000 each.

In addition, AFI frontman Davey Havok donated a separate $2,000 on his own (under his birth name David Marchand), and fellow scene vets Hot Water Music and Snapcase each contributed $1,000 to the fundraiser,...

Off!, the hardcore supergroup led by singer Keith Morris and guitarist Dimitri Coats (ex-Burning Brides), have announced a run of final shows to coincide with the release of their new feature film, Free LSD.

The three final shows will take place July 18th at Lincoln Hall in Chicago (with Shellac); July 20th at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City (with Fucked Up); and July 26th at The Belasco in Los Angeles (with Surfbort).

Each of those cities will also feature an advance screening of the movie along with a Q&a: July 17th at Music Box Theatre in Chicago; July 19th at Village East by Angelika in NYC; and August 2nd at Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles. Tickets for both the shows and film screenings can be purchased here.

The movie was written and directed by Coats, with a synopsis that is described as follows in a press release:...

Veteran UK gothic rockers The Sisters of Mercy have announced a headlining Fall 2024 North American tour, featuring support from Blaqk Audio (the duo comprised of AFI’s Davey Havok and Jade Puget).

The 26-date outing kicks off September 14th in Detroit, and runs through an October 26th show in Toronto. Along the way, the tour will make stops in New York City, Boston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, among other cities.

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A Live Nation pre-sale begins Wednesday (May 8th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Soundcheck, with a general onsale starting Friday (May 10th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

Last year, The Sisters of Mercy embarked on their first stateside tour in 14 years.

No Doubt ended their nine-year hiatus with a buzzy Coachella set on the main stage on Saturday night. Fronted by a punk-ified Gwen Stefani, the iconic ska group threw it back to the ’90s and ’00s as they ripped through hits like “Just a Girl,” “Don’t Speak,” and “Ex-Girlfriend.” They served as the final act on the main stage before Tyler, the Creator’s headline set later Saturday night.

Backed by a mighty brass ensemble, the Orange County heroes opened promptly at 9:25pm with their 2001 electro-rock hit “Hella Good.

Dreamcar, the supergroup featuring members of No Doubt and AFI, are returning with their new Dream EP, out this Friday, April 5th.

Marking the band’s first new music since their self-titled 2017 debut, the three-track project features two “recently finalized” songs and a cover of David Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream.” Pre-save the EP here, and see the artwork and tracklist below.

Alongside the announcement, Dreamcar — comprised of No Doubt’s Tom Dumont (guitar), Tony Kanal (bass), and Adrian Young (drums) along with AFI singer Davey Havok — have set an intimate warm-up show on May 10th in Los Angeles ahead of their appearance at Cruel World Festival.

Featuring support from Harsh Symmetry, the concert will take place at El Rey Theater, with general on-sale tickets available beginning Friday, April 5th via Axs.

In other No Doubt news, the quartet will reunite at Coachella later this month. However, a full-blown tour is highly unlikely,...

Coachella dropped its 2024 poster Tuesday night and there weren’t many big surprises when it came to the nightly headliners, which include Lana Del Rey; Tyler, the Creator; and Doja Cat. Things grew slightly more interesting a line down with the announcement that Blur were playing their first North American show since 2015, and news that Sublime would be appearing with Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob Nowell on lead vocals.

The big shock came at the bottom of the poster with the words “and…No Doubt.” The ska-punk quartet has been...

Goths, Eighties fans, and hungry wolves, this one is for you. On Monday, Cruel World Festival announced Duran Duran as the headliner for its 2024 edition, set to take place on May 11 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Interpol, Blondie, and Simple Minds are among the festival’s top performers.

Making appearances at the single-day festival are Soft Cell, Placebo, Adam Ant, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Tr/St, and the Faint. Ministry will also perform songs from Twitch, Gary Numan will play The Pleasure Principle, and Dreamcar — the supergroup...

Just two days before Sundance Film Festival will unveil its lineup, the other major January Utah festival has released theirs. Now in its 29th iteration, next year’s Slamdance Film Festival––which will also be providing programming both in-person and online, from January 20th through 29th––has unveiled its features slate. The lineup for the festival, which opens with Moby’s Punk Rock Vegan Movie, was culled from 7,600 total submissions, 1,522 of which were features. All films selected in the Narrative Features and Documentary Features competition categories are directorial debuts without U.S. distribution, with budgets of less than 1 million Usd.

“From the streets of Seattle to the psychedelic skies of a unicorn-run dystopia, our filmmakers are transporting audiences to new dimensions with stories that explore the nuance of disability, immigration and gender. This year’s lineup represents a generation of new directors who are breaking boundaries and redefining what filmmaking...

Slamdance has announced its feature lineup and “Free LSD” as the closing night film for the 29th Slamdance Film Festival

This year’s lineup was chosen from 7,600 submissions — 1, 522 of which were features — and represents projects from 13 different countries. The selections for the Narrative Features and Documentary Features competition categories are directorial debuts without U.S. distribution, with budgets of less than 1 million.

In addition to Slamdance’s opening night film Moby’s “Punk Rock Vegan Movie,” the festival will also showcase two additional Spotlight Feature screenings: “Downwind” and “Free LSD,” which follows one man’s inter-dimensional journey where, after using an experimental drug, he is provided a glimpse into a parallel universe. The film features appearances from Keith Morris and Jack Black.

“From the streets of Seattle to the psychedelic skies of a unicorn-run dystopia, our filmmakers are transporting audiences to new dimensions with stories that explore the nuance of disability,...

The Slamdance Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 29th edition — taking place both in-person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 20-26, and online on the Slamdance Channel from the 23rd to the 29th.

This year’s lineup of films from 13 countries was chosen from more than 7,600 submissions, more than 1,500 of which were features. As has been the case at each edition of Slamdance since its 1995 founding, all films selected in Narrative Features and Documentary Features competition are directorial debuts without U.S. distribution, with budgets of less than 1M Usd.

Slamdance revealed today that Dimitri Coats’ Free LSD will make its world premiere at the festival, serving as its Closing Night feature. The film featuring appearances from Keith Morris and Jack Black follows the inter-dimensional journey of a man who has used an experimental drug to cure a personal problem, thereby being provided a...

On Friday, September 16, hundreds of animal and environmental advocates dined, danced, and watched as actor Stephanie Corneliussen presented the Hope Award to James Cromwell (“Succession”).

Sarah Jeffery at the Mercy for Animals Gala

Cromwell is an acclaimed actor and activist whose decades of advocacy in the animal protection, vegan, and environmental movements have inspired people around the world. Mercy For Animals is a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting a just, sustainable food system.

Hosted by actor Hayley Marie Norman (“Kenan”), the gala was attended (virtually and in person) by many esteemed guests, including Diane Warren, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Sarah Jeffery, Davey Havok, Tara Strong, Harley Quinn Smith, Brett Dier, Josh Pence, Allison Scagliotti, Kathy Freston, Tia Blanco, Rich Roll, Aubrey K. Miller, Ivanna Sakhno, Vicky-t, Adam Ferello, Natalie Gal, Justina Adorno, Courtney Stodden, Jaason Simmons, Marianna Burelli, Roberto Aguire, Tanya O’Callaghan, James Wilks, Nikki SooHoo,...

Morrissey, Blondie, Bauhaus and Devo are among the artists that will perform at Pasadena, California’s rescheduled Cruel World Festival, now set for May 14th, 2022 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl.

The single-day fest will also feature Psychedelic Furs, Violent Femmes, Echo & the Bunnymen, English Beat, Public Image Ltd., Berlin, Missing Persons, Christian Death, the Damned, the Church, and more. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 11th at 12:00 Pm Pst; check out the festival’s site for more ticket information.

The lineup for the...

Nick Harley May 6, 2019

Keep your crossbows loaded, it's time to name the winners and losers from Game of Thrones' latest episode "The Last Starks."

The Game of Thrones is a deadly one, and like all good games, it has winners and losers. Welcome to Game of Thrones: Winners & Losers, where we take in the latest episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones and determine the top Mvp’s as well as those who were handed a healthy dose of defeat.

Below you’ll find the winners and losers for Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 4, “The Last Starks.” If you find your favorite character listed as a loser, just remember that the tides on Game of Thrones are always shifting; I swear it by the Old Gods and the New.

*Spoilers for the latest episode of Game of Thrones below*

Winners 1. Cersei Lannister

Forget the Night King; our final...

More and more Hollywood stars, top musicians, pro athletes, and influential YouTubers are joining the vegan ranks, so the competition for the Hottest Vegan Celebrities of 2018 contest was tougher than ever — but Jaden Smith and the Chloe x Halle sisters have come out on top.

In addition to being an entertainment industry jack-of-all-trades, actor and musician Jaden — who’s newly vegan — reveals that he’s also a whiz in the kitchen. Discussing his favorite meals in an interview with Food & Wine, he said, “I do cook at home because I can make meals for myself really easily, some brown rice, quinoa, beans, maybe some kale, maybe some herb aioli.” And when he’s visiting his famous family, he has plenty of options, too: “Usually, at my parents’ house, there are vegan pancakes,” he added.

Chloe and Halle Bailey went vegan after eating meat-free for a week with their mother, and they’ve never looked back.

Smashing Pumpkins will livestream their upcoming Seattle, Washington concert via Twitter on Friday, August 24th starting at 11:15 p.m. Et. The broadcast, part of the Live Nation Concert series, will document the band’s ongoing reunion tour featuring three-fourths of their classic line-up: singer-guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.

The stream is accessible via dedicated pages for fans in the U.S. and outside the country.

The band’s current North American reunion tour is their first in nearly two decades to feature Corgan, Iha and Chamberlin,...

Smashing Pumpkins celebrated their 30th anniversary Thursday with a guest-filled concert that featured Courtney Love joining the band onstage for four songs.

Love led Billy Corgan and company on a pair of Hole songs, “Celebrity Skin” and “Malibu” – both co-written by Corgan – and remained onstage to assist the Smashing Pumpkins on “Bullet With Butterfly Wings.” (“Only the chorus on this, right?” Love asked, admitting she didn’t know the rest of the song’s lyrics.) Love also took part in the set-ending rendition of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear...

Smashing Pumpkins are inviting a bevy of special guests to join them onstage during their show at Pnc Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey on August 2nd. The Pumpkins’ special 30th anniversary show will feature Courtney Love, Peter Hook, AFI frontman Davey Havok, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, the Killers’ Dave Keuning and Mark Stoermer as well as Mark McGrath.

The band’s special guests will appear throughout the show. Metric will open the set. The performance will also feature “a career-spanning setlist, never before seen production and more surprises,” according to a statement.

“Amy Adams is a monster,” Justin Timberlake informed the black-tie crowd in the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom during her American Cinematheque Award Ceremony tribute. “More specifically, a karaoke monster.” When they shot Clint Eastwood’s 2012 “Trouble with the Curve” in Atlanta, Timberlake said the now-five-time Oscar nominee “pretty much bullied me” into a duet of “A Whole New World” from “Aladdin.”

After praising her talents, Timberlake conceded, “Quite frankly, I will sing with you anytime. But next time I’m choosing the goddamned song. I have a history with Disney” — referencing his pre-teen years on “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club” — “and there’s a little Ptsd… Is [Disney Chairman Bob] Iger here tonight? Okay, good.”

Read More: George Clooney Set For AFI Life Achievement Award, Amy Adams Prepares for American Cinematheque Tribute

The evening’s collection of Adams collaborators and admirers — including Tom Hanks, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Denis Villeneueve, Kristen Stewart,...

Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.

Lineup Announcements

– BAMcinématek has announced the full lineup for the ninth annual BAMcinemaFest (Jun 14 – 25, 2017), which features 24 New York premieres, one North American premiere, and two world premieres. Opening the festival on Wednesday, June 14 is the New York premiere of Aaron Katz’s “Gemini.” This year’s Closing Night selection is the New York premiere of Brooklyn filmmaker Alex Ross Perry’s fifth feature, “Golden Exits.”

Other highlights include “En el Séptimo Día,” “A Ghost Story,” “Landline,” and “Whose Streets.” Check out the full lineup here.

– The Greenwich International Film Festival is proud to announce the full film slate and programming for the 3rd annual festival running June 1 – 4, 2017 in Greenwich, Connecticut.

“Bending the Arc,” a documentary about the extraordinary team of doctors and activists whose work thirty years...

2016 claimed a long list of entertainers, but the grim reaper’s most unexpected one-two punch came between the final two holidays with the death of movie icons Carrie Fisher on December 12 and her mother Debbie Reynolds a mere 36 hours later. With the premiere of the documentary about the pair, “Bright Lights” on HBO this weekend, we at the Geeks site thought we should take a look at their considerable contributions to film.

Let’s start with Carrie, who was born in Hollywood, USA on October 21, 1956, the daughter of Debbie and singer/actor Eddie Fisher. She appeared on stage with her mother throughout the late 60’s and early 70’s, even getting her first small screen credit in the 1969 TV movie “Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children”. It wasn’t until 1975, when she would make her big screen debut opposite Warren Beatty (quite an arrival) in Hal Ashby’s hit Shampoo.

Damien Chazelle’s new film “La La Land” opens in New York and Los Angeles tomorrow, December 9, and thus, the stars of the film are making the rounds on late night television. Emma Stone hosted “Saturday Night Live” last week and last night, Ryan Gosling went on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to channel the romantic energy he utilized in “La La Land” to teach Kimmel how to waltz. Though he says he has forgotten most of the dances in the film, he remembers this one. Watch the segment below.

Read More: ‘La La Land’ Review: A Lively Supercut of Classic Musicals Starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone

Since its premiere, “La La Land” has wracked up critical acclaim from festivals and various critics groups. Emma Stone won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and the New York Critics Circle and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association awarded it Best Film.

After a week or so of weird videos and short teaser songs on streaming services, AFI are finally ready to unveil the madness behind it all: the release of a brand new album. Titled AFI (The Blood Album), their tenth full-length is going to arrive on January 20th, 2017, and to make the announcement sweeter, they’ve premiered not one, but two new songs.

Both tracks, “Snow Cats” and “White Offerings,” are available for listening on your app of choice, and both songs are balls-to-the-walls rockers that AFI are generally known for churning out. “Snow Cats” is at its best with its soaring chorus, while “White Offerings” takes no prisoners on its intense verses surrounded by poppier guitar riffs. Overall, the songs tend to stray more toward the sound that AFI implemented on their 2003 record, Sing the Sorrow.

When AFI (The Blood Album) drops, it’ll mark the first album from...

Gene Wilder, the comedian known to a generation as Willy Wonka and an icon thanks to his works with Mel Brooks on The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, has died from complications due to Alzheimer’s Disease, according to Variety. He was 83.

Wilder's nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman revealed the actor died following a private three-year battle with Alzheimer's. "The choice to keep this private was his choice, in talking with us and making a decision as a family," Walker-Pearlman wrote. "We understand for all the emotional and physical challenges this...

Saturday Night Live alum Jenny Slate is splitting from her husband of nearly four years, Dean Fleischer-Camp, People has learned.

The pair, who co-created the children's book, Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I've Ever Been, were married in September 2012. Together, they won Best Animated Short at AFI Fest 2010 for their Marcel viral YouTube videos.

"When the video went viral, there were so many different things we could do with it," Slate, 34, previously told People about the success of the stop motion animated videos. "But what we wanted to do first was make the books. And to make beautiful things...

Saturday Night Live alum Jenny Slate is splitting from her husband of nearly four years, Dean Fleischer-Camp, People has learned. The pair, who co-created the children's book, Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I've Ever Been, were married in September 2012. Together, they won Best Animated Short at AFI Fest 2010 for their Marcel viral YouTube videos. "When the video went viral, there were so many different things we could do with it," Slate, 34, previously told People about the success of the stop motion animated videos. "But what we wanted to do first was make the books. And to make beautiful things...

In the midst of March Madness and with the Kentucky Derby around the corner, the first pitch of baseball season is almost here.

A quote from Field Of Dreams best describes America’s national pastime, “The one constant throughout the years has been baseball.”

To mark the start of the 2016 season, here’s our list of the Best Baseball movies.

The Bad News Bears

Considered by some to be the best baseball movie ever, the film celebrates its 40th anniversary this month (April 7, 1976). In an article from the NY Daily News, one line reads, “It is a movie that someone like the late Philip Seymour Hoffman called his favorite, and one which resonates on many levels today, with all different generations.”

Who are we to argue with greatness?

After skewering all-American subjects such as politics (The Candidate) and beauty pageants (Smile), director Michael Ritchie naturally set his sights on the...

Gwen Stefani releases her new LP This Is What the Truth Feels Like, her first solo album in a decade, on March 18th. But first, the No Doubt singer stopped by The Late Late Show With James Corden to deliver a vibrant version of the album's second single "Make Me Like You."

While the Corden visit lacked the visual fireworks of Stefani's performance/Target commercial at the 2016 Grammys, the stripped-down presentation of the song, complete with some absorbing camerawork, allowed fans to focus in on the catchy, airy track, a...

Soon after Gwen Stefani announced her new solo LP This Is What the Truth Feels Like, her bandmates in No Doubt revealed they had teamed with AFI singer Davey Havok for a new, still-unnamed supergroup of their own. A day after Stefani's Grammy performance/Target-sponsored music video, the singer stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live, where she admitted that she had no prior knowledge about the No Doubt side project. "I actually first heard about it on the Internet," Stefani said.

"They're doing a side project ... they wanna be in a punk band,...

Earlier this week, Gwen Stefani released her new solo album's track list and then dropped a new song, "Make Me Like You," Thursday night. Clearly the superstar mother of three is doing very well these days. But as she moves on and relaunches her solo career...so go her former band mates. According to Billboard.com, the other members of No Doubt—Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont, and Adrian Young—have recruited Davey Havok, frontman of hard-rock band AFI, to take Stefani's place as lead vocalist while she is busy with her other projects. Fun fact about the new frontman: Havok is a vegan, and won peta2's annual World's Sexiest Vegetarian contest in 2007. Though...

They’ve watched as their friend and bandmate Gwen Stefani has attained some serious solo success and now the other members of No Doubt are ready to try something new.

According to Billboard, Adrian Young, Tom Dumont and Tony Kanal have teamed up with AFI’s lead singer Davey Havok for a new project and they’ve already recorded an album.

At this point, the new supergroup is trying to decide on a name and fielding offers from record labels. Stay linked to the GossipCenter for all the latest updates.

NBC's "Saturday Night Live" is the most awarded series in Primetime Emmy history, and this year the long-running variety series celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special that has added to the show's record haul. Our exclusive Gold Derby odds had it heavily favored to win Best Variety Special with leading odds of 3/10. This isn't the first victory in this category for "SNL"; it actually won this award for its 25th anniversary in 2000. -Break- Related: Watch our editor Emmy slugfests predicting all four guest acting races Ranked second with 12/1 odds was "Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen," which had two nominations this year including this award and Best Variety Special Writing for star Mel Brooks. Just last year this award went to the AFI Life Achievement Award special honoring Brooks. The annual "Kennedy Center Honors" were uncharacteristically far behind in our predictions with 20/1 odds....'...

Steve Martin's AFI Tribute was a star-studded event filled with laughter and appreciation for the comedic genius behind "The Jerk," "The Three Amigos" and "Roxanne," among others. Read More: AFI Tribute to Steve Martin Veers—Hilariously—Toward a Roast Jack Black Warms the Crowd with "The Thermos Song" As the crowd stands and waits to hear what they think will be the national anthem, Jack Black greets them with a hilarious, heart-felt rendition of "The Thermos Song" from the 1979 film "The Jerk." Conan O'Brien Reflects on "SNL" and First Meeting Steve Martin He shares his first experience with Martin on the set of "Saturday Night Live," and how their friendship progressed years later. Martin Short Jokes About Steve, Roast Style Short showed his admiration for Martin by poking some fun. Martin Short Talks Disneyland In this clip, he laughs over Steve Martin's early beginnings...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Defiance, Game of Thrones, Finding Carter and Mistresses!

1 | Are Defiance’s Omec giving any Star Trek fans out there an Andorians vibe? Also, did not one producer question the optics of killing off in one fell swoop the show’s minority family in the same episode you bring on two black actors as ruthless, purple-skinned villains?

2 | Is it too big of a coincidence that Orphan Black‘s Castor and Leda original is Mrs.

It's strange to think that Steve Martin started out his career at Disneyland. He worked there for eight years, he revealed during his AFI Life Achievement Award show video interview, doing magic tricks, and then moved on to do more magic and banjo playing as well as theater skits at Knott's Berry Farm before writing stints at the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and multiple appearances on the Johnny Carson Show and Saturday Night Live. The ceremony, held earlier this month, airs Saturday, June 13 at 10pm on TBS. "Steve was the first rock star comedian," stated his frequent Oscar co-presenter Tina Fey (see more of her remarks below), reminding us that he initially took a pay cut, back in 1978, to leave his status at the top of the Billboard arena chart. He was selling out huge stadiums, and Martin admitted that every time he did Saturday Night Live (from King Tut...

What's a good award show toast without some gentle ribbing?

Conan O'Brien joined a pantheon of comic A-listers to celebrate – and roast – Steve Martin, who received his AFI Lifetime Achievement Award on June 4.

During the ceremony, which airs on Saturday, O'Brien joked about the first time he met Martin while working on Saturday Night Live.

"I remember his first words to me," the talk show host reminisced, " 'I said decaf!' "

"Then he shoved me out of the way and said, 'Madam, move aside,'" he continued, joking, "I knew then that we'd be friends – in 18 years."

Related: Conan O'Brien...

Steve Martin's manly looks are no joke! Here's a 42-year-old version of the SNL staple and "Three Amigos" god at a Los Angeles movie premiere back in 1987 (left) and 28 years later ... the "Pink Panther" actor and banjo enthusiast -- who was given the AFI Life Achievement Award -- in Los Angeles earlier this week (right). Wild and crazy! The question is... Read more...

Steve Martin was honored on Thursday with the AFI Life Achievement Award, and while many of his famous pals came out to celebrate, there was one special guest that quickly stole the show: Martin Short. Steve and Martin, who costarred as George Banks and Franck Eggelhoffer in Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride Part II, got up to their old tricks on June 4 while walking the red carpet. Steve and Martin posed for hilarious photos, cracked each other up, and linked arms while making their way inside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Diane Keaton, who played Steve's wife in the hit films, was also on hand to honor her longtime friend. But the night wasn't all about the funny duo. In addition to their cute reunion, the ceremony turned into one big Hollywood date night. Steve and his wife, Anne Stringfield, shared some adorable moments inside the theater,...

Live from the Dolby, It’s Thursday Night! Considering that Steve Martin delivered the “SNL 40” opening monologue in February, it is no surprise that Martin’s AFI Life Achievement Award had significant crossover with that cross-generational comedy homecoming earlier this year. Of the things TheWrap saw and heard at the event at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday, start with Lorne Michaels seated at Martin’s side at the head table. The “Saturday Night Live” creator was wedged between Diane Keaton (“Father of the Bride”) and one of the honoree’s closest pals, Martin “Marty” Short. Next to the man of the evening was,...

Is this heaven? Nope, it’s Opening Week.

Recently Mlb rounded up a group of players to recite, word for word, James Earl Jones’ famous “people will come, Ray” speech from Field Of Dreams.

Wamg declares America’s national pastime, Baseball, to be the official sport of movie fans everywhere. As Brad Pitt said in Moneyball, “How can you not be romantic about Baseball?”

It all started Sunday night with the Cardinals at the Cubs with St. Louis winning 3 to 0.

To celebrate the first pitch of Opening Week, here’s our list of the best Baseball movies.

The Rookie

One of the best baseball biopics to come along over the years, The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid, tells the true story of Jim Morris, a man who finally gets a shot at his lifelong dream-pitching in the big leagues. A high school science teacher/baseball coach, Morris’ players make a bet with him:if they win district,...

Excuse us if we go out on a limb here, but something tells us the collective brain trust at The Academy is glad this awards season has mercifully come to an end. After an incredibly diverse 86th Academy Awards ceremony, where "12 Years a Slave" took Best Picture, a Mexican filmmaker won Best Director, Lupita Nyong'o earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and John Ridley won Best Adapted Screenplay, the Oscars appeared to take a step back in 2015. It wasn't just that "Selma" was snubbed in a number of major categories. The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag became a historical footnote that will haunt the Academy for years (and, trust, it will be back again if the public wills it). But it had more to do with all white nominees in the acting categories than just "Selma" itself. This also brought to light that it was yet another year without a female nominee in the Best Director category,...

The Writers Guild of America, West has chosen late screenwriter-director-actor-producer Harold Ramis to receive its Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, awarded to a Writers Guild member who has advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter. Erica Mann Ramis and family will accept the award on Ramis’ behalf at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 14. Harold Ramis passed away on February 24, 2014 at the age of 69. From today’s announcement:

“Harold Ramis changed the face of comedy. His death last year deprived us of his unique way of seeing the world, at once hilarious and wise. From his early work with National Lampoon and Sctv through Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Ghostbusters, Ramis’ voice was strong, clear, outrageous in all the best ways. His unrealized projects – an adaptation of Confederacy of Dunces, a biopic about Emma Goldman – leave us aching with...

Margaret and Anne Marie here, reporting from AFI Fest ("presented by [corporation]!").

Last night the AFI and the La Times kicked off a series of panel discussions with its "Young Hollywood Roundtable," whose panelists ranged widely in age and perspective but are all of whom making their mark on the movie business. Jenny Slate, writer/star of critical hit Obvious Child and former SNL castmember, was joined by Jena Malone (Inherent Vice, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay), Logan Lerman (Fury, The Perks of Being a Wallflower), and Joey King (Wish I Was Here, FX's Fargo).

Here are 8 lessons we learned from the Young Hollywood Roundtable:

Anne Marie:

1. Queen Latifah's royal legacy is enduring and eternal. When asked who her inspiration was, Joey King informed the audience that Queen Latifah is underrated. What followed was a 5 minute Latifah love-fest where Jenny Slate promised a detailed list of reasons why Queen Latifah...

Black Mask Studios is adapting Godkiller into an animated trilogy.

The publisher is financing the big screen adaptation of the series, by Matt Pizzolo, Anna Muckcracker Wieszczyk and Ben Templesmith, reports Deadline.

The comic follows the journey of an orphaned adolescent and escaped slave across a blasted wasteland.

Black Mask will finance and produce the project, which expands the experimental 2010 film Godkiller: Walk Among Us, which starred Lance Henriksen, AFI's Davey Havok, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley and Lydia Lunch.

To follow Walk Among Us, Pizzolo will write and direct Godkiller: Tomorrow's Ashes in 2016 and Godkiller: The Trouble You Took From Her Eyes in 2017.

He is one of the founders of Black Mask alongside Steve Niles and Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz.

Godkiller launched as a self-published, underground title in 2008 and was subsequently picked up by Black Mask.

Exclusive: Godkiller, the post-apocalyptic comic series from Black Mask Studios, is hurtling toward the screen as a new trilogy of animated features that will be self-financed and produced by the upstart publisher and transmedia co. The saga of a teenage orphan and an escaped slavegirl journeying through a post-apocalyptic wasteland first debuted in 2008 as a self-published underground comic that cultivated a devoted cult following. The comic is now heading into its second printing after debuting last week via Black Mask Studios.

The Godkiller films are being directed and scripted by Matt Pizzolo, who co-created the comic with Anna Muckcracker Wieszczyk and Ben Templesmith. Back in 2010 Pizzolo’s Halo-8 shingle put out an experimental illustrated feature titled Godkiller: Walk Among Us that debuted digitally and on home vid featuring the voices of Lance Henriksen, AFI’s Davey Havok, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, and Lydia Lunch.

Pizzolo (Occupy Comics, Threat), Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion,...

Steve Martin will receive the AFI Life Achievement Award.

The American Film Institute has announced that it will give its most prestigious prize to the iconic comedy actor in June 2015.

A gala will be held in Martin's honour in Los Angeles, at which he will be formally announced as the 43rd recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award.

The prize was first given away in 1973 to filmmaker John Ford, best known for directing the Westerns The Searchers and Stagecoach.

Jane Fonda, Mel Brooks, Shirley MacLaine and Morgan Freeman are the four most recent recipients of the AFI Life Achievement Award.

Martin has received many other accolades throughout his career, such as an honorary Academy Award and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour.

His memorable films include The Jerk, Three Amigos, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Father of the Bride.

The actor has also been lauded for...

Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute’s Board of Trustees, announced today the Board’s decision to honor Steve Martin with the 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Martin at a gala tribute in Los Angeles, CA on June 4, 2015.

The 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute special will return for its third year on TNT when it airs in June 2015, followed by encore presentations on sister network Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

“Steve Martin is an American original,” said Stringer. “From a wild and crazy stand-up comic to one who stands tall among the great figures in this American art form, he is a multi-layered creative force bound by neither convention nor caution. His work is defined by him alone, for he is the author – and a national treasure whose work has stuck with us...

Steve Martin has been named recipient of the highly prestigious AFI Life Achievement Award to be presented June 4th and aired on TNT and later on sister network TCM. After generally reserving this coveted prize to actors and directors who made their mark in dramatic films this is second time in the past three years that the American Film Institute has decided to lighten things up by giving their award to a person who made their mark in comedy. And it has paid off. Mel Brooks got the honor in 2013 and it resulted not only in a hilarious and memorable evening, it got higher ratings and brought the AFI special its first Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special in August. But Martin is the first recipient who actually started and made their reputation as a stand up comic. And his films beginning with The Jerk and continuing with such modern comedy...

Remember before Keanu Reeves was a badass in The Matrix he was that doofus in a ’80s comedy about time travel that probably isn’t as good as you remember it? You know, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure! It was totally excellent and featured life lessons to live by like “Be Excellent to Each Other” and “Party On Dudes” as eloquently delivered by Abraham Lincoln in a high school auditorium. Yeah, it was totally excellent and probably ruined your ability to pronounce “Socrates” correctly.

The film was so popular that it also got a sequel and children’s cartoon, and now 23 years in the making, people are still talking about Bill & Ted 3, even though George Carlin is dead and you’re not quite sure what happened to Alex Winter.

Now Winter has revealed additional plot details for the third film to Yahoo, saying the characters will be all-grown up and...

Davey Havok -- noted animal rights activist and lead singer of the band AFI -- should be Steve-o's first call if he gets arrested for his SeaWorld protest ... cause Davey's willing to help bail him out.As TMZ previously reported, Steve-o's defacing of a highway sign in protest of SeaWorld could land him in trouble.The California Highway Patrol wants him to face charges over it. When our photog asked Havok about the case --...