Welcome to another week of the Entertainment Roundup where I share my favorite entertainment news of the week and give my own spin on it. Let’s start off with some Headlines! Sorry, I mean let’s start off with some Jay Leno!
Leno’s Back, Baby!
Hey, have you heard about this? Jay Leno returned to the Tonight Show on Friday night, so all of you who bet that he would be back in 9 months, collect your prizes. Leno’s return was a relatively tame affair in comparison to his blood-soaked conquest of Conan O’Brien.
Leno regaled the audience with a stand-up routine that sounded suspiciously like a monologue, thankfully there were no Bill Clinton jokes. However, he was mainly there to promote his upcoming CSNBC show, Jay Leno’s Car Garage. Because Leno may be retired from the Tonight Show but he’s not retired from TV.
Or the late night timeslot. Leno was also announced this week as the final guest on Craig Ferguson’s run on The Late Late Show. This makes sense, after all when you think of Craig Ferguson’s style of comedy, Jay Leno instantly springs to mind. Ferguson’s final episode, with Leno as guest, is set to air on December 19th.
Animal Crackers becoming more than a treat
Hollywood, never one to kick a recognizable brand name out of bed, has decided to follow-up the grand successes of Battleship and Ouija with a film based on Animal Crackers.
The, surprisingly dark sounding, film is about a magical box of crackers that turns people into whatever animal they eat. Normally, this would be a film concept to just shake your head and forget about, until you see trailers for it a year from now, but it also happens to have a pretty solid cast who I will list below along with the animal that I assume they will be turned into.
Ian McKellan as Giraffe
Patrick Warburton as Tiger
Sylvester Stallone as Gorilla
Danny DeVito as Monkey
Gilbert Gottfried as Seal
Raven-Symoné as Kangaroo
Harvey Fierstein as Bear
Hitler Returns to Germany
In an odd but funny promotional stunt the production behind the upcoming German film, Look Who’s Back, has trotted around a Hitler look-alike to show up at various places in Germany and film the reaction of the citizens. Apparently even having him show up at a skinhead rally to mock the participants as “wimps.”
The film itself is based off a satirical novel that imagines what would happen if Hitler re-emerged in modern day so this isn’t a completely bat-shit idea to promote the film.
Meanwhile, the real Hitler has yet to comment.
Toy Story 4 is Official
In what seems like the inevitable finally coming to pass, Disney announced that Toy Story 4 is officially happening. John Lasserter, who direct the first two films in the series, is set to return and Rashida Jones and Will McCormick are set to write. Unfortunately, Rob Lowe will not be there to call Jones, Ann Perkins, everytime he sees her in the office.
The overall plot is still unknown but we can assume it will make you shed way too many tears for a children’s movie.
That’s it for this week’s Roundup, we’ll be back next week with another installment.