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Randall Park Talks Playing Kim Jong-un and “Fresh Off The Boat”

March 2, 2015

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The international incident surrounding The Interview largely put James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg in headlines for a few weeks. However, not nearly enough was said of the man who played the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Randall Park.

He now plays one of the stars on ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat and you’ve probably seen him on various Channel 101 shows,

He chats with Paul F. Tompkins on the latest episode of Speakeasy about what he went through with The Interview as well as being in the race-barrier breaking Fresh Off The Boat.

Dr. Evil Interrupted SNL to Give His Thoughts on Sony Hack/The Interview

December 21, 2014

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To your delight and/or dismay, Austin Powers’ nemesis Dr. Evil appears to still be around.

Last night, he “interrupted” SNL’s broadcast/a Sam Smith Christmas to share his displeasure over how petty the hackers The Guardians of Peace, Kim Jong-Un, and North Korea look for temporarily killing the release of The Interview.

Watch Dr. Evil throw some shade on some lesser cartoonish villains here.

Seth Rogen Clears Up Any Controversy About “The Interview” on The Colbert Report

December 16, 2014

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The so-called Guardians of Peace that have hacked, leaked, and doxxed Sony Pictures seem to have the sole goal of destroying the movie The Interview wherein a fictionalized attempt to assassinate North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un is attempted.

As a result, security was beefed up at the recent premiere here in LA and Rogen personally thanked Sony’s Amy Pascal for having the balls to make the movie. No incidents of note happened and were reported at the premiere.

Last night, Seth Rogen sat down with Stephen Colbert to chat about the movie and what possibly North Korea and the Guardians of Peace could possibly be so absurdly mad at that they use their capabilities to denounce an “assassination farce comedy”.

Still, there are new threats by The Guardians of the Peace that reference 9/11 that claim, “We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places “The Interview” be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to. Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made. The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.”

As was this posted about this morning, you can see clearly that they missed out on the premiere, which took place last week.

In thinking what they could do as hackers to people going to watch the movie, maybe we all should just pay cash to see The Interview when it comes in theaters on Christmas?

“The Interview” Gets a New Trailer with More Kim Jong-Un

November 25, 2014

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Despite the declarations by North Korea against The Interview starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, there is a brand new trailer today that the North Korean government will not likely be happy with either since more of their current leader Kim Jong-Un is featured.

We couldn’t care less what North Korea thinks about it. as we get to see more of Randall Park, who we hope you’ve seen in Channel 101, Newsreaders, Veep, and so much more, plays the role Kim Jong-Un.

Give it a watch here.

Here’s a New Red Band Trailer for “The Interview”

September 20, 2014

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Over the last couple of a months, there has been tension from North Korea over Sony PIctures’ The Interview starring Seth Rogen and James Franco.

Yesterday, a red band trailer was posted that gives us all a better picture of what North Korea is getting so steamed over as well as the duo, reminiscent of when they teamed up in Pineapple Express, that Rogen and Franco are playing that are tasked with assassinating Kim Jong-Un.

So, maybe they don’t like all the rampant sexual innuendo?

Sony Changing Military Uniform Buttons and, Possibly, Face Melting in ‘The Interview’

August 13, 2014

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

(NOTE: Spoilers possibly ahead) The Interview starring James Franco and Seth Rogen has been a hot button movie for Sony ever since it was first announced. Being fiercely decried by North Korea for its plot that follows the assassination of Kim Jong-Un, Sony has already moved back the release date to Christmas from October.

Now, they will be altering uniform buttons that the depicted North Korean military wears as well as thinking about changing a scene where Kim Jong-Un’s face is melted off.

Some of the reasoning behind these changes have been cited as “clearance issues” rather than political pressure, but who gets clearance from a military and a leader of a country that keeps contact with the U.S. to a minimum? Have higher-ups in North Korea have not seen the multitudes of web videos satirizing North Korea in a similar way?

More importantly, would North Korea really try to start a war over a movie?

North Korea Isn’t Happy With Seth Rogen-James Franco Comedy ‘The Interview’

June 21, 2014

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North Korea Isn’t Happy With Seth Rogen-James Franco Comedy ‘The Interview’

The subject of the spy comedy farce, North Korea, is not amused by the fictionalized attempt by characters played by James Franco and Seth Rogen to attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-un in The Interview. That’s what Kim Myong-choi, executive director for the Centre of North Korea-U.S. Peace, which we had no idea was a thing that existed, thinks anyway.

Still, Kim Jong-un reportedly plans on seeing it anyway. Myong-choi also added the dig “that James Bond movies are better than Hollywood films.”

Perhaps, North Korea will make a movie in response in a sort of “filmic cold war” and this all becomes something that Armando Iannucci fictionalizes?

Watch James Franco and Seth Rogen as Spies in Teaser Trailer for The Interview

June 12, 2014

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Seth Rogen and James Franco team up yet again for an action packed comedy in The Interview coming out in October. This time, they’re not taking on drug cartels or the Apocalypse against all odds, but rather North Korea, also against all odds.

Rogen and Franco play spies who are attempting to take out North Korea’s Kim Jong Un which you can see here in the trailer.

This has us wondering if Franco and Rogen, as an action duo, will ever cross paths with the other popular action comedy duo right now, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.