Wake and bake! Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are reuniting for a concert film. "The Cheech and Chong Concert Movie will lense in March during a San Antonio stop on the 'Light Up America' tour, which kicked off Sept. 26. Tour, their first together in at least 25 years, will continue well into 2009," Variety reports.
Chevy Chase, Burt Reynolds, Vinnie Jones, Michael Madsen and "Stuttering" John Melendez…I should just stop there, shouldn’t I? But wait – it gets better. The abovementioned luminaries will star in Not Another Not Another Movie. "Chase plays a studio head who quits his floundering company, leaving his ex-con sibling (Madsen) in charge. Soon their equally inept gangster friend (Jones) takes over and assigns a production assistant (David Leo Schultz) to direct a spoof of spoof movies. Reynolds plays an actor playing the director of the chaotic film within the film," The Hollywood Reporter explains.
Those of us who found Counting Crows to be the most humorless band of the ‘90s are surprised to learn that Crows lead singer Adam Duritz is teaming with comedy troupe Broken Lizard (Super Troopers, Beerfest) for Freeloaders. "Story revolves around five guys and a girl who live in the lap of luxury in a rock star's mansion. But their sweet situation is threatened when the rock star decides to sell the home," per Variety.
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