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Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones Prepare to Breathe In Sundance Film Fest Again

Home is swell, but ff Orange County-raised filmmakers Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones really want to feel the love, they go to Utah--Park City to be more precise and the Sundance Film Festival to be preciser.It was announced Monday that Breathe In, the latest independent film directed by Doremus wi ... More >>

Jewtopia World Premiere Opens Newport Beach Film Festival

​After actress Rita Wilson saw Nia Vardalos' one-woman play My Big Fat Greek Wedding in Los Angeles, she was so convinced it could be a movie that she and husband Tom Hanks produced what became one of the most profitable films of all-time. When Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson approached Wilson about t ... More >>

Like Crazy Enjoys Crazy Good Arthouse Opening

​Taking $120,000 in weekend box office generally won't raise a Hollywood bean counter's eyebrow. It's certainly was not enough lucre for Santa Ana-bred filmmaker Drake Doremus' Like Crazy to crack the top 10 in overall estimated box office for the weekend past. But playing on only four screens in ... More >>

'The Real Housewives' Go On Tour

​On the list of things you need less of, The Real Housewives probably hovers somewhere in the top five. Bravo disagrees: The corporation plans to renew The Real Housewives of Orange County for a seventh season. 

C'mon, No Doubt. We Can't Even Have a New Album Teaser? (Plus, a Collab with Major Lazer!)

​Ahh, No Doubt's new album. While we have a bunch of song titles from various Twitter posts  and Rolling Stone/Entertainment Weekly articles, we haven't heard anything from the new album. We did hear that daggering proponents Major Lazer (made up of Diplo/Switch) were collaborating with the g ... More >>

Jeffrey Tambor: Yes, 'Arrested Development' Movie is Happening

Jeffrey Tambor as George Bluth Sr.​It seems every few months we've got another Arrested Development star assuring us that a film is indeed happening.Well, now it's Jeffrey Tambor's turn. As the Huffington Post reports, Tambor--who's currently promoting his new "romantic comedy serial killer film"- ... More >>

Gwen Stefani Breaks Up With Herself

[Mental Notes] Also, Brandon Seger on keeping lyrics simple, and Riley Breckenridge on a big, bad burrito.

Gwen Stefani Quits Solo Career to Focus on No Doubt (!)

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​This announcement doesn't even seem plausible, and yet it makes perfect sense: Gwen Stefani just said that she's done with her solo career and is focusing on No Doubt from now on. As she told  Entertainment Weekly, her going solo was "a moment in time..It went on a li ... More >>

Watch Jack Johnson Get Really High in His Video 'From the Clouds'

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyJack Johnson at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine last October​​Jack Johnson's latest, "From The Clouds," is out, and features him flying through the air in slow motion. It has the airy, loose feeling that a song referring to the sky SHOULD have, but avoid ... More >>

Wanted: Photographic Proof of Trent Reznor's Baby

​Mid-last year, all of the Internet was atwitter when it was announced that Trent Reznor and his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, were having a baby. Watching Reznor win an Oscar for the soundtrack of The Social Network and catching a glimpse of Mrs. Reznor at the awards show reminded us that 1) News outl ... More >>

Arrested Development Movie May Be Released This Year

​So we've been following this for a while, but here's some real news straight from Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz himself: It looks like it will happen. And it may happen this year. 

Sundancing With Ben York Jones and Like Crazy

The huge film festival success through the eyes of its co-writer, an OC boy

[UPDATED] Like Crazy, Latest Film From OC-Bred Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones, Is First Sundance Sale

​UPDATE, JAN. 23, 2:51 P.M.: The reaction to Like Crazy getting picked up from Ben York Jones:"I'm completely overwhelmed. I don't think anyone here with the film has gotten more than an hour or two of sleep in the past 36 hours. Those negotiating were up all night doing so, and the rest of us w ... More >>

3hree Things: Riley vs. The McRib

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.The McRib is back and coincidentally, so is explosive diarrhea. I used to have a gullet of steel ... More >>

Arrested Development Movie Now Looks Likely, Cast Members Say on Respective Red Carpets

​A movie version of Fox's cult classic Arrested Development--the best TV series about Orange County ever made (and I'll cut any girl who claims otherwise!)--has been on and off again more often than an electric blender with a short in it.However, there has been encouraging news lately from an unli ... More >>

It's Baaaaaack. Again. Why Do People Love The McRib?

​Just do it. I know you want to. Shout it from the rooftops, tell it on the mountain. (Modern translation: Update your Facebook status.)The McRib is back.Starting tomorrow, the elusive sandwich returns to McDonald's locations nationwideand will stay until Dec. 5. (If you need your fix now, now, NO ... More >>

Oliver Stone's South of the Border Out on DVD

​South of the Border, Oliver Stone's documentary about the leftist revolution in several South American countries, wasn't exactly embraced by critics when it hit theaters in June. Entertainment Weekly summed it up as "rose-colored agitprop."

Sesame Street vs. Yo Gabba Gabba! The Musical Battle for Your Kids' Coolness

Sesame Street​Sesame Street wants your kids to be cool. And not by learning the alphabet, easy addition or "good government bullshit" (sorry, it's the 20th anniversary of the release of GoodFellas).No, they're doing it through pop music.This week, The Street (I hear that's what the cool toddlers a ... More >>

Fifteen Celebrities to Check Out at Comic-Con

​One of the unofficial highlights of San Diego Comic-Con is people watching. You've got your socially awkward fans who could use adult-sized Garanimals so they can dress themselves. You've got your cosplayers, your furries, your LARPers, your booth babes and your homebrew costume designers. A ... More >>

Twitter Says Lilith Was Lame

[Mental Notes] Plus, grubbin' with Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, making the band with Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants

Some Like It Hot

Orange County Performing Arts Center

10 Must-See Panels at Comic-Con

​San Diego Comic-Con is a week away, but it's not too early to start strategizing about what you should see when you're there. Especially if you've seen the size of the event's program schedule.But there's no reason to battle eye strain. We've put together a list of the 10 comic-related events to ... More >>

So What If You Missed Lilith? Twitter Tells All

Megan Strouse​Watch our slideshow here!Due to family obligations, day jobs and matters of taste, OC Weekly couldn't cover the Lilith fair stop at Irvine (which their Web site called the LA stop, duh) last Saturday. As Entertainment Weekly said, "by the time Lilith rolled into Irvine, Calif.'s Veri ... More >>

Jesse James Opens Up and Bleeds About Cheating on Sandy, Their Black Son and Nazis

ABC NewsNightline's Vicki Mabrey sits down with Jesse James, America's most hated grease monkey. ​Portions of tonight's Nightline interview with Sunset Beach's (for now) Jesse James first trickled out via official ABC press release, then it was leaked online, then a chunk of it rolled on this morn ... More >>

Drake Doremus' Douchebag Wins U.S. Distribution, to be in Theaters This September

​The Weekly in January followed Douchebag, the indie dramedy about estranged brothers on an unlikely pre-wedding road trip, to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where the buzz was deafening for former Santa Ana resident Drake Doremus' touching and amusing picture.Despite no budget, no big- ... More >>

Who Else Did Ryan Jenkins Need to Kill to Rank Higher on List of TV Bombs and Blunders?

Buena Park Police Dept.The late Ryan Jenkins​At No. 30 on the list of "TV's 50 Biggest Bombs and Blunders" in the Jan. 29 issue of Entertainment Weekly is "Casting Ryan Jenkins on Megan Wants a Millionaire (VH1, 2009)":The hiring of the 32-year-old contestant--who hanged himself soon after police ... More >>

Today in Music News: 2010 Lilith Fair Lineup, Radiohead, "Hope for Haiti Now," Kanye West, Lady Gaga

"Loretta Lynn, Heart, Norah Jones, Cat Power, Gossip and More Added to the 2010 Lilith Tour Line-Up."Radiohead to perform a "Haiti benefit show this Sunday, January 24, at the Music Box at the Fonda in Los Angeles."Watch everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Beyonce to Madonna to Taylor Swift on tonig ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'The Heart of the Sea,' 'Blazing Saddles,' More

Crystal Antlers Score EW Mention

Long Beach's Crystal Antlers, who this year already netted an 8.5 on Pitchfork for their self-released EP (which was subsequently sntached up by Touch and Go) and just last night played the Bowery Ballroom in NYC as part of the CMJ Music Marathon, saw their good buzz streak continue with a mention i ... More >>

In the Judd Apatow-Produced 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' Jason Segel Uses His Balls to Great Effect

[DVDish] Chafing Dishes: Reviews of No Reservations, I Could Never Be Your Woman, more

You're a Sick Man, Charlie Brown

Sex and violence go comic in the work of Ivan Brunetti

Read Ya Later, Aggregator

SATURDAY AT THE NEWPORT BEACH FILM FEST

2:30 p.m.: Arrive at Fashion Island, having gotten the proper directions this time, and only had to make one drastic, corrective U-turn. Find the courtesy lounge. Marvel at the array of free brownies and donuts. Despair that there is no free booze...and considering the lounge closes at 6, there prob ... More >>

Radical Chick

You cant tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

Arresting Arrested Development non-developments

Mitch Hurwitz, the pride of Estancia High who created the fab but now sadly departed Arrested Development, which had been the best show set in Orange County until that reality knock-off Coto de Desperate Housewives came out, tells Entertainment Weekly that wrestling and an animated Saturday morning ... More >>

All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry

Lucky theres a Family Guy

Porn Dead

We reanimate the Registers limp profile of Vivid Entertainment head Steve Hirsch

Christ Not Almighty

Gibson rehumanizes Jesus in The Passion of the Christ

Up From the Underground

Aceyalones intellectual hip-hop

The Good, the Bad, and the God-awful

Thoughts on Gigli and late-summer truffle hunting

Diary of a Mad County

My Elvis Weighs a Ton

Public Enemy: still angry after all these years

Letters

Whoah, Hype!

Scary Movies

Joe Berlingers worked-over Blair Witch 2, Mark Singers lovely Dark Days

He Made Us Walk

Big Jay McNeely's back in town