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Seth Rogen To Pen Movie About Legendary Hollywood Hustler

L-R Scotty Bowers, Seth Rogen (images via Amazon, Instagram)
Searchlight Pictures will produce a feature film based on the documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Seth Rogen (An American Pickle) and Evan Goldberg have been tapped to pen the script and Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) will direct the film. From Deadline:

The film focuses on Scotty Bowers, a World War II Marine combat veteran who fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima and became a legendary bisexual male hustler and date-arranger for gay Hollywood movie stars from the 1940s until the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

The docu is based on Bowers’ book Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, a dishy tell-all that was so titled because Bowers arranged these liaisons from a gas station he ran in the shadow of the Hollywood studios.

Despite the prurient nature of his business, Bowers was beloved because he created a safe environment for gay members of the showbiz community to hook up in secret in what otherwise would have been a much more dangerous and possibly deadly pursuit.

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News Round-Up: May 28, 2019

Jersey Shore’s Vinny Guadagnino with the Chippendales

Some news items you might have missed:

• I caught Vinny Guadagnino’s final performance at Chippendales in Las Vegas this weekend. Let me tell you, the ‘Keto Guido’ killed it – the crowd was insane. That Keto Diet definitely suits him, because he’s ripped AF.

• Three LGBTQ advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for its recent repeal of transgender healthcare rights.

• From his debut EP Loveless, out artist Jake Frost drops his music video for “Undercover,” which offers a brooding exploration of the push/pull of hidden desires and unrequited love.

Shoutout to Frost’s video co-star, Marquise Hitchcock, who created the evocative choreography.

• During a recent chat on David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Ellen DeGeneres shared she was sexually abused by her step-father.

• Seth Rogen told GQ Magazine he really regrets the homophobic jokes in his early movies saying, “I’ve had people come up to me and be like: ‘That made me feel like shit when I was in the movie theatre and everyone was laughing about that.’”

• The producers of musical based on the hit film Magic Mike have cancelled a November Boston tryout engagement after composer Tom Kitt, lyricist Brian Yorkey and book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa left the show over “creative differences.”

• Jack Thompson beat out 67 other contenders to be named this year’s International Mr. Leather becoming the first trans person of color and the second trans person ever in the competition’s 41-year history to win the title.

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Bud Light Spot Features Amy Schumer, Seth Rogen & Gender Diversity

Bud Light puts an election year spin on it’s latest ad spot starring Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen while bringing a big dose of gender diversity.

From Rogen, “We are going to bring America together… to party for everyone, men, women, people of all genders!”

Schumer adds, “But, you know, gender identity it’s really a spectrum and we don’t need these labels. Beer should have labels, not people! We don’t care, we will sell you beer. We’ll sell you a beer any day of the week.”

Bud Light VP Alex Lambrecht, whose company is no stranger to LGBT issues, issued this statement:

“From the start of our campaign at the Super Bowl, The Bud Light Party has rallied around bringing people together. In our newest spot, Seth and Amy remind Americans that labels belong on beer, not people—a message Bud Light proudly supports.”

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Bud Light Celebrates Gay Weddings

The latest installment of the Bud Light Party campaign takes Seth Rogen and Amu Schumer to the world of weddings.

“Gay weddings, they are just like any wedding,” Seth Rogen says in the spot, which shows a wedding between two males.

Cringe-worthy speeches, girls who are super-ready to settle down, and cake!

The spot is set to air in set to air in California and New York, plus get digital play online.

According to Advertising Age, Ellen DeGeneres’ tweet of the video was part of a paid integration to her 60+ million followers.

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Trailer: “Sausage Party”

Via Deadline:

In essence, Sausage Party uses the Pixar formula as its starting point and finishes somewhere around Lars Von Trier’s The Idiots. The premise is simple: What if food could feel? No, that’s not quite it. It’s more like What if food could feel, and swear, and be racist and have sex? It stars Seth Rogen as Frank, a hot dog, and Kristen Wiig as Bun, his girlfriend. The pair live in their respective packages along with every other item in a fictional grocery store (“Shopwell”) where all items of food belong to a religion that worships the human shoppers as gods who they pray will select them and take them into “the great beyond,” the food version of heaven.

Obviously, the truth is that when they’re “chosen,” the food is taken from the comfort and ease of their grocery store to their doom. What happens when Frank, Bun and several of their new and old friends discover that horrifying truth forms the meat of the story.

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Trailer: “Neighbors 2” Starring Seth Rogen & Zac Efron

Zac Efron and Seth Rogen return for the second installment of the 2014 hit movie “Neighbors.”

Now that Mac (Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Byrne) have a second baby on the way, they are ready to make the final move into adulthood: the suburbs. But just as they thought they’d reclaimed the neighborhood and were safe to sell, they learn that the new occupants next door are a sorority even more out of control than Teddy (Efron) and his brothers ever dreamed of being.

In theaters May 20th.

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Box Office: THE INTERVIEW Has $18 Million Opening

With over 2 million online downloads and/or rentals ($15 million) and nearly $3 million in limited theatrical release, the Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy THE INTERVIEW ended it’s non-traditional first weekend with very nice numbers.

Although the number of theaters showing the flick was closer to 300 instead of the planned 3,000, Sony Pictures has to be happy at the box office numbers today considering the initial estimates for the first week of the film was around $20 million.

In addition to limited theatrical release, the film is available on demand online via YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Xbox, and iTunes.

 iTunes was added to the list of online outlets after the numbers through Saturday were tallied. Netflix is reportedly working to secure THE INTERVIEW but no word yet on those negotiations.

(source)

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Eminem “Comes Out” In THE INTERVIEW

In the newly released Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy film The Interview, rapper Eminem “comes out” during an appearance in the film’s talk show Skylark.

In the scene, when asked what his lyrics mean, Eminem tells James Franco’s talk show host character he is ‘gay’ and ‘a homosexual’.

‘When I say things about gay people, or people think my lyrics are homophobic – it’s because I’m gay.’

When Franco’s character – in freakout mode – asks Eminem to clarify, the rapper says, ‘I’m more shocked that people haven’t figured it out yet. I mean, it’s kind of like I’ve been playing gay peek-a-boo.’

In the TV studio control room, pandemonium ensues as Seth Rogen, as producer of the show, starts pulling up gay-related lyrics from Eminem’s catalog even as he’s throwing Em’s publicist out of the control room.

In real life, Em has had a love/hate relationship with the LGBT community as he’s frequently written homophobic lyrics. But the rapper has always contended he’s not an enemy of the community and the lyrics represent his performance art and not his heart.

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Seth Rogen/James Franco Flick Debuts On YouTube

And the James Franco/Seth Rogen flick – now of North Korean terrorist threat cancellation fame – makes it to YouTube!

(All the cool kids are doing it…)

Sony Pictures has released the film on YouTube for the low, low price of $5.99!

Here’s the synopsis: In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show ‘Skylark Tonight.’ When they discover that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the most unlikely candidates, to ‘take out’ Kim Jong-un.

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THE INTERVIEW Will Be Released Online Today At 10AM

Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced plans for streaming it’s film, “The Interview,” on Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and its own website www.seetheinterview.com for $5.99 starting today at 10AM Pacific.

In addition, the studio announced a coalition about 250 independently owned movie theaters (known as Arthouse Convergence) plan to screen the film beginning Christmas Day.

“It has always been Sony’s intention to have a national platform on which to release this film,” said Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Entertainment.

“With that in mind, we reached out to Google, Microsoft and other partners last Wednesday, Dec. 17th, when it became clear our initial release plans were not possible.

“We are pleased we can now join with our partners to offer the film nation-wide today.”

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