March 29, 2024

Review Category : TMZ Music News

‘Marshmallow Peeps’ The Movie Is Coming, But Who Will Star?

Fresh on the heels of the Lego movie, yet another colorful staple of your childhood looks to be headed for Hollywood! According to Deadline, a deal has officially been inked for the development of a feature film about everyone's favorite nutritionally suspect springtime candy, marshmallow peeps.

The pitch that sold the Just Born candy company on doing a big-screen peep show (sorry, we had to): a fun family drama, about an adventurous young Peep who gets separated from his sugared brethren on the eve of a championship Peep diorama contest.

Needless to say, this is quite the exciting break for a candy that's been waiting for its moment in the spotlight since 1953. But which A-list celebs from this marshmallow world will be chosen to headline the film? Let's profile some likely peeps.


James Van Der Peep
After his big break on 1990s teen TV drama "Dawson's Peep," followed by years of relative obscurity as a small-screen bit player, this peep is so very ready to make a big, splashy comeback.

Leighton Peepster
Similarly, years of playing an upperclass marshmallow elite on the small screen have primed this talented young peep for the transition to feature films.


Justin Pieper
Fresh from a series of legal battles with a member of the peeparazzi, this popstar problem child of the peep world is looking to make a career change that will give him a fresh start.

Meryl Peep
The de facto grande dame of sugared celebrities, Meryl Peep is a classy chick who would lend an air of gravitas to the Peeps movie.

Liam Peepson
A craggy-looking peep ...

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Kanye West Almost Had James Franco And Seth Rogen Perform ‘Bound 2’ Parody At His Wedding

Who says Kanye West can't take a joke? Maybe he wasn't into Jimmy Kimmel poking fun at him, but apparently 'Ye was a big fan of James Franco and Seth Rogen's .

The two actors had a ball when the Yeezus video dropped in November, recreating all of those awkward bike riding scenes while playing the roles of Kim and Kanye in a clip they called "Bound 3."

Apparently KimYe liked it so much, that they wanted to have Rogen and Franco perform the parody at their upcoming wedding. During a visit to The View on Tuesday, Franco explained that it took some time, but they did finally hear from Ye.

"We did get feedback," Franco explained, "Kim loved the video and we didn't hear back from Kanye so we kind of felt like he's not bashing us, but he probably hates it but he's not going to say anything."

"But then two weeks ago, we got a call from Kanye," he continued. "Seth and I were on the phone. We thought he was just going to let us have it. But he loved it. And I'm pretty sure I can say it now because I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen. He wanted us to perform it live the night before his wedding at Versailles."

It's a shame that KimYe didn't lock in this entertainment, but maybe Franco is right. Things could've gotten a little awkward. "I think it would have been awesome for about 10 seconds, but then there would be Seth with his shirt off in ...

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‘Game Of Thrones’ Season Four: What’s Coming Up Next?

All of the things are happening on Murder at the highest order in King's Landing, an impending assault on the great Wall of Westeros, dragon-fueled war in Essos — really, all of the things.

From the look of it, even more of the things are about to happen. HBO has released episode titles and descriptions for the fifth, sixth and seventh installments of the currently airing fourth season, giving us some interesting clues about where the show is headed.

Read on for the info, and our analysis.


Episode 5: "First of His Name"
What HBO Says: Cersei (Lena Headey) and Tywin (Charles Dance) plot the Crown's next move. Dany (Emilia Clarke) discusses future plans. Jon (Kit Harington) embarks on a new mission.

What We Say: Pretty vague! The title and the mention of Cersei and Tywin's plotting suggests that we'll see Joffrey's younger brother Tommen accept his place on the Iron Throne, perhaps in a grand ceremony. As for Jon's "new mission," perhaps this is the episode where the Night's Watch will return to Craster's Keep, as teased last week — or maybe he'll go on a sidebar of his own to go find Ygritte.


Episode 6: "The Laws of Gods and Men"
What HBO Says: Stannis (Stephen Dillane) and Davos (Liam Cunningham) set sail with a new strategy. Dany meets with supplicants. Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) faces down his father in the throne room.

What We Say: It's that final sentence in the description that catches our eye. Tyrion's day in court may finally arrive here, with Tywin set to throw the ...

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‘Walking Dead’ Star Takes A Bite Out Of ‘Chew’

Steven Yeun has thing for comic books about weird eating habits.

The actor stars on as Glenn Rhee, the former pizza delivery guy who has been with Rick and Carl Grimes since the earliest days of the zombie apocalypse. These days, he's stuck in a train car in Terminus, positioned to become the next meal for a group of cannibals — an ironic twist of fate, given the flesh-hungry, walker-infested world he already lives in.

But "Walking Dead" isn't the end-all be-all when it comes to Yeun and food-driven comics fare. He's now set to provide the voice for the lead character on "Chew," the upcoming animated adaptation of the comic book from John Layman and Rob Guillory.


"Chew" centers on Tony Chu, a detective and operative for the Food and Drug Administration. He works in a world where chickens have been outlawed thanks to a deadly bird flu. Not that he'd be chomping on chicken to begin with; Chu is a "cibopath," which means that he gleans psychic impressions from anything and everything he eats, except beets.

In other words, if Tony eats an apple, he can tell you exactly where that apple has come from and what it's been through. If he eats a steak, he can see what kind of life the cow lived before winding up as a medium-rare delicacy.

And if he takes a bite out of a corpse? Murder mystery solved.


In addition to Yeun, "The Guild" star Felicia Day has been hired to play Tony's love interest, Amelia Mintz, a food critic ...

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The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards Are Going Back To Cali

The VMAs are going back to Cali. After a trip to Brooklyn last year
, the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards
 are packing up and headed West again. The August 24 show will take place at the renovated, historic "Fabulous" Forum in Inglewood, California, making it the first major awards show ever at the venue.

The announcement came via a video that had the building's iconic architecture sprayed out on the hood of a car featuring the iconic Moonman as a hood ornament.

"With its incomparable legacy as a world class music venue, the Forum is one of Southern California's most iconic entertainment landmarks," said MTV President Stephen Friedman. "The Forum has hosted some of the most legendary musical artists and performances ever seen and we can't wait to add the 2014 Video Music Awards to this list and create the type of memorable moments that music fans will talk about for years to come."

After a major facelift, the Forum reopened in January, brining state-of-the-art amenities to a building that has recently hosted shows by Justin Timberlake, Imagine Dragons and Kings of Leon. After opening in 1967, the Forum was the home court for the Los Angeles Lakers for more than 30 years, while also hosting legendary gigs by everyone from the Rolling Stones to Madonna, Led Zeppelin, the Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Nirvana and Guns 'N Roses.

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‘Avengers,’ ‘Captain America’ Fuel Marvel’s New ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’

The Clairvoyant has been revealed, a traitor waits in the shadows, and Coulson and his team are officially Agents of N.O.T.H.I.N.G., now that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been dismantled, thanks to the infiltration of HYDRA. Now, even more of the events from and are beginning to fuel the Marvel Cinematic Universe's small-screen sibling.

On last night's titled "The Only Light in the Darkness," the series continued the breakneck momentum after the extremely eventful and comparatively less-exciting "Providence." More than many other episodes, "Only Light in the Darkness" took its cues from what fans have come to know and love about the Marvel movies.

Here are some highlights:


1. Agent Triplett is the grandson of a Howling Commando. During an interrogation session, Triplett's connection to one of Captain America's original allies came to light. We don't know which member of the Howling Commandos is Triplett's grandfather — some are saying Gabe Jones, but there's really no way of knowing until we get more information. Regardless, it's just another reason to root for Triplett, who is quickly becoming one of the best new characters on the show.


2. Alexander Pierce gets named-checked. Robert Redford's antagonist from "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is dead, but not forgotten. We learn that John Garrett and Pierce were in cahoots, and that Melinda May met the man once upon a time.


3. Patton Oswalt plays S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Eric Koenig. (Well, played, I suppose, seeing as he died at Agent Ward's hands.) But Skye had another nickname for Koenig: "Steve ...

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Have Katy Perry’s Tweets Been Kinda Sassy Lately?

Is it just me, or has Katy Perry been hilarious on Twitter lately?

The girl has always had a funny bone (evidenced clearly in the teaser she just put out for her "

So much SASS! So much passive-aggression! I totally get it. Those flower crowns are so 2011. Someone needed to say it.

Ever since then, Katy's been saying everything I've been thinking, but have been too afraid to say out loud. Like that tweet about the breakfast burritos? Who wouldn't want them to pour from the sky?

However, I'm not really onboard with the puppy-breath perfume.

Here, she ruminates on Easter:

Kinda gross, but also strangely picturesque.

Again with the attitude. At least she debunked the mystery of the thin mints.

This last tweet shows that she was funny way before Coachella. #sarcasm

Oh and can we talk about this tweet from Monday? It's so feisty it hurts. Now if only we knew who she was subtweeting...

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