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Tropic Thunder takes Best Comedy at Critics’ Choice

Simon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:38:01 +0000

Ben Stiller accepts Best Comedy at the Broadcast Film Critics' Choice Awards

With the new year upon us, Hollywood is gearing up for the awards season. At last night’s 14th Annual Critics Choice Awards, triple-threat writer/director/actor Ben Stiller picked up the Best Comedy for his latest hit, Tropic Thunder.

In the first award [...]

Tom Cruise hopes to revisit Grossman

Simon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:20:32 +0000

Tom Cruise as Les Grossman in 'Tropic Thunder'

Now that he’s gotten a Golden Globe nom for his role of Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder, Tom Cruise tells E! Online that we may be seeing more of his beefy-armed alter-ego:

“I’ve talked about doing different videos with the character. I’ve started [...]

Salon takes on the “r-word”

Simon — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:38:36 +0000

In a Salon.com editorial, author Lynn Harris examines resurgence of the word “retard” as used in Tropic Thunder and concludes,

Ultimately, anti-”retard” activists are trying to do what I didn’t do while that fellow fixed our ceiling fan: Say something. Or at least to get people, perhaps especially people like me — who found [...]

Stiller on UK’s Jonathan Ross

Simon — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:00:08 +0000

Ben just appeared on one of the UK’s leading chat shows, Friday night with Jonathan Ross. He talked about the origins of Tropic Thunder, including his early attempt to audition for Platoon, as well as his appreciation of Tom Cruise.

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Tropic Thunder Premieres in UK

Simon — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:33:37 +0000

Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller and Jack Black at Tropic Thunder premiere

The Stiller-Black-Downey lovefest continued for its London premiere today, as thousands of fans lined up to greet the stars at Leicester Square. Apparently, no jeers from protesters were to be found, but plenty of cheers from moviegoers.

Check out the [...]

Tropic Thunders to Third Weekend Win

Simon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:36:55 +0000

Ben Stiller’s big-budget action-satire Tropic Thunder has taken the third weekend crown, fending off the weak assault by Vin Diesel’s Babylon AD. Thunder earned an estimated $14.3 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend, bringing it up to nearly $87m domestically.

Thunder gets its own mockumentary

Simon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:03:00 +0000

Tropic Thunder writer Justin Theroux, along with performer Steve Coogan, have put together a mockmentary on the making of Tropic Thunder called “Rain of Madness”. It’s a take on “Hearts of Darkness,” the behind-the-scener of the Francis Ford Coppola classic Apocalypse Now– which itself was an inspiration for Stiller’s film.

The 30 minute short [...]

The fully retarded clip

Simon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:31:41 +0000

Preview the clip from Tropical Thunder that Timothy O. Shriver, chairperson of the Special Olympics calls “hate speech”, courtesy of BuzzCuts.com:

Dear Ben, you suck!Love, your enemy

Simon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:38:45 +0000

The faux movie poster that sparked the protests of simpletons

Every fan site gets its fair share of oddball letters from clue-less folks who’ve decided that since we put a page up on the Interwebs, we must have a red phone to celebrity-dom.

Case in point: Ben Stiller’s latest comedic opus, Tropic Thunder [...]

Gallery: Tropic Thunder

Simon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:41:23 +0000

From DreamWorks comes this excellent collection of promo images from Ben Stiller’s new hit movie, Tropic Thunder. [Show slideshow] 123456►