Two more have joined the cast of Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer‘s comedy 30 Minutes or Less. THR reports that Michael Pena (Observe and Report, Crash) and Nick Swardson (Reno 911!, Blades of Glory) will join Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari. Read the full story

About a month ago we reported that Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ansari will be joining Danny McBride in Ruben Fleischer‘s 30 Minutes or Less. Now Variety reports that they will team again for a new comedy, picked up by Mandate Pictures. Read the full story

Here is one comedy to get very excited for. Zombieland‘s Ruben Fleischer will be directing 30 Minutes or Less with Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down, Pineapple Express) to star. Now THR reports that Parks & Recreation star Aziz Ansari will be joining the cast. We also got a few new details on the Black List script, written by Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan. The story “revolves around a junior high history teacher (Ansari) and a pizza-delivery man who are forced to rob a bank when one of them is strapped to a bomb vest.” Read the full story

Although director Ruben Fleischer was confident in shooting a 3D Zombieland 2 next, it looks like he may have time for another film. Deadline reports he is “serious” about shooting the comedy 30 Minutes or Less this summer, with Danny McBride to star. The report also highlights he has been “mentioned” for directing Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4. Read the full story

Funny man Danny McBride is in talks to star in Eastbound and Down scribe Shawn Harwell’s The Chadster, a wedding comedy “about a best man who has his position threatened when an eccentric, long-lost childhood friend shows up at the wedding and causes trouble” [Pajiba]

Sounds like You, Me and Dupree meets Wedding Crashers meets The Best Man. All solid comedies at least. The Hangover director Todd Phillips, once set to direct the feature, will still produce under his company, Green Hat Films. The film’s set up over at Warner Brothers.

McBride has put in good work so far, which is enough to forgive to blandness of the premise upon first read. Hopefully his redneck charm can pull it off.

Do you like McBride? Are you excited for The Chadster?

Variety reports that longtime partners Danny McBride and Jody Hill will be doing yet another project together. Just in case you weren’t aware, Hill directed McBride in The Foot Fist Way, Observe and Report and their seminal HBO show, Eastbound and Down. Read the full story

Land of The Lost surely won’t be on the list of summer highlights, rather falling into the small barrel (so far) of disappointments this season. Despite many problems, the film winds up mildly succeeding due to a few notable performances and the colorful retro look that Brad Silberling brought to the film.

Failed scientist Rick Marshall has become the laughing stock of his profession after studying the ideas of time warps and spending hefty funs on it. Rick soon gets a visit from Holly Cantrell a fellow scientist who believes in Marshall’s theories and has come to help him get back on top. Rick and Holly decide to explore further into time warps and they soon find themselves caught in a miraculous world. With the help of a dim witted survivalist named Will Stanton and a frisky critter named Chaka, they must battle through the dangers they find including a mischievous T. Rex and viciously slow reptiles called as Sleestaks.

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By Jordan Raup

Jody Hill’s directorial debut, The Foot-Fist Way, features Danny McBride as a struggling karate instructor trying to work out some serious issues in his life. Hill’s most recent feature, Observe and Report, takes that basic concept, replacing McBride with Rogen and karate with mall copping and manages to take it to a whole other level. That level includes rape, murder, vomit, serious drug addiction, and extended full frontal nudity (not the good kind). For the majority of film-goers this will not be funny and actually be rightfully offensive. The minority, equally surprised this film was ever made by a major studio, will experience a unique moment in cinema.

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We normally don’t report too much TV news here, but this news is too great to go unnoticed. According to Sepinwall’s blog the Jody Hill created, Danny McBride starring Eastbound & Down has been picked up for another season, with production starting later this year for a 2010 airdate.

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Although some rumors have been circulating it is now official that Danny McBride and James Franco will be together again with director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Snow Angels) for the comedy Your Highness. The comedy follows two spoiled and arrogant princes in a medieval fantasy setting. When an evil wizard casts a spell on their father and kidnaps the older prince’s fiance, they’re forced to go on a quest to save their family and the kingdom. It will be scripted by Danny McBride and Ben Best, who played Chuck ‘The Truck’ Wallace in Jody Hill’s hilarious Foot-Fist Way.

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