'Iron Man 2': Terrence Howard's out, Don Cheadle's in Oct 15, 2008
like an austin powers type thing. m Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM EST. (Entertainment Weekly)
What $700 Billion Could Buy Oct 4, 2008
For instance, Dr. Evil could be stopped seven times from destroying the planet in "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," since $100 billion is the amount the villain demanded not to do the evil deed. What else. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Buzz Briefs: Hilary Swank, R. Kelly Sep 19, 2008
Imagine siting beside Steve Martin for a screening of "The Jerk," sharing a theater with Mike Myers for a showing of "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" or squirming in your seat alongside Jodie Foster during "The Silence of the Lambs.". These stars - along with Dustin Hoffman, Cameron Diaz, Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Jim Carrey, Shirley MacLaine, Rita Moreno and Keanu Reeves -- will share some of their most famous films with their fans next month at "Target Presents AFI Night... (CBS News)
Well, I'd thought I'd like to be beside the seaside … Jun 27, 2008
Austin Powers actor Verne Troyer is the star of a new illicit celebrity sex tape. Madonna and Guy Ritchie enjoyed a three-day break in Italy - but slept in separate rooms. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
MPs baulk at rules on sexualisation Jun 27, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Singled out a raunchy Bratz doll, from the Bratz website. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Coming soon: meet the wife, she's a robot Jun 20, 2008
Austin Powers and the Fembots ... Austin Powers and the Fembots. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Mike Myers, Anna Faris, Will Ferrell, Christian Bale Want Your Vote At The Summer Box Office Jun 5, 2008
Unlike groundswell franchises like "The Matrix" and "Austin Powers," chances are good that you don't know anyone who has been obsessively demanding a sequel for or Still, this summer will bring us follow-up installments to all three, giving each fence-riding franchise another shot to hook viewers. Producers for all of them have indicated that they'd like to make at least one more movie. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Return Uwe Bolls Postal to sender May 22, 2008
Also making a cameo as himself is Verne Troyer, Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies, who gets locked in his own suitcase with a bunch of sex toys and is later raped by 1,000 monkeys. Mercifully, it ends in a hail of gunfire, with everyone shooting indiscriminately at everybody else, followed by a bomb explosion. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Clint, Angelina and the movie with no name May 21, 2008
" When this post goes up, I should be suspended somewhere above the Atlantic, dozing fitfully and hoping to arrive on the Riviera just before the press screening of which opens the 61st on Wednesday evening. So the customary scene-setting that opens this kind of article will have to wait: Let's assume that the palm trees, beachfront hotels bedecked with sponsor logos, cigar-smoking bald men with implausibly leggy companions and all the other accouterments of that deluxe-run-to-seed resort town... (Salon)
The robots are coming ... May 10, 2008
Our dream of space travel seems already locked into a 60s timewarp, and the ambitions of the millionaires who are queuing up to pay for suborbital flight experiences, holidays in the international space station and other far-flung adventures recall, aesthetically speaking, nothing so much as Dr Evil's hubristic retreat into space at the end of the first Austin Powers film. Bizony's book undeniably comes at a thrilling moment - space may no longer be the final frontier, but a new territory for... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Summer film formula: Youth must be served May 3, 2008
The jokes have been done before (in Myers' 'Austin Powers' movies). I'm over Mike Myers. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Steve Carell Talks About The Rock Kicking His Butt; Says 'Smart' Is The Bomb Feb 13, 2008
Long before Austin Powers met Vanessa Kensington, the top agent for CONTROL spoofed the super-spy genre alongside a smart, sexy leading lady. Now, the casting of Hathaway in Barbara Feldon's old Agent 99 role is similarly inspiring reverence rather than mimicry. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Carrots, Sticks and Robot Picks Sep 17, 2007
These choices can only be considered absurd in a fiction-filled universe that includes R2D2 (the Times s #11), the Fembots (#22) from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Gort (#13) from The Day the Earth Stood Still, also starring Sam Jaffe s hair as Albert Einstein s hair. Speaking of lists, researchers publishing in the August issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior delineated the results of their survey of more than 2,000 people and announced their exhaustive compilation of the... (Scientific American)
Television movies for the week of Sept. 2 Sep 2, 2007
Austin Powers in Goldmember ... Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
What are the worst films of all time? Aug 1, 2007
The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog. Welcome to Sydney Morning Herald Online. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Volunteers clean up Mississippi River Jul 30, 2007
"Yea! Good job,' Willitz said as he high-fived Van Pelt.There was trash elsewhere, of course, but none that offered them the challenge provided by the cushion of unknown origin. There were light bulbs, old glass medicine bottles, combs, huge chunks of Styrofoam, a hip bone belonging to an unknown animal, a dead turtle and even a Mini-Me doll from the "Austin Powers" movies.But the veteran volunteers agreed that things were worse last year, and when Pregracke started the cleanup eight years ago,... (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Hollywood sequel crazy Jul 21, 2007
Dergarabedian recalls feeling a shift when 1999's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" made more money in its first weekend than the original made in its entire theatrical run. Now, sequels don't ride the coattails of the original so much as they gain momentum, swelling into larger and larger behemoths with each progressive installment. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Hollywood studios go sequel crazy Jul 20, 2007
"They were seen as an exploitive way to capitalize on a brand name recognition of a popular movie by making the same movie and putting a '2' behind it."Dergarabedian recalls feeling a shift when 1999's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" made more money in its first weekend than the original made in its entire theatrical run. Now, sequels don't ride the coattails of the original so much as they gain momentum, swelling into larger and larger behemoths with each progressive installment. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
May the force be with you May 25, 2007
"Robot Chicken" creators Seth Green (the "Austin Powers" movies) and Matthew Senreich are coming to Celebration. 9 Play with a Darth Tater, a "Star Wars" version of Mr. Potato Head, available at toysrus. (Sun Publications Chicago)
ONE-MAN BAND Apr 30, 2007
" Ray invented Lunchbox-A-Leles, musical instruments that look like toys but are actual children's lunch boxes crafted into ukuleles. Yes, they play, and sure, they'll hold that peanut-butter sandwich for between-set snacking. "I'm a troubadour, a gypsy and a nutcase, frankly," he says. Talking to Ray about his obsession, you meet a large cast of characters -- Jimmy Stewart, Austin Powers, Kermit the Frog, Bugs Bunny, Bill Clinton among them -- as Ray breaks into some of the many voices he... (San Francisco Chronicle)
A mogul's moment of whimsy Mar 20, 2007
And though New Line has overseen the successes of numerous film series -- including the Nightmare on Elm Street, Rush Hour and Austin Powers movies -- Shaye has not stepped into the director's chair since 1990, when he directed the largely forgotten teen romantic comedy Book of Love. Related to this article. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Not Your Average Kiddie Flick: 'Last Mimzy' Invokes Buddhism, Genetic Code Feb 27, 2007
"I am still co-chairman of New Line," the studio behind such recent high-profile flicks as the "Lord of the Rings" and "Austin Powers" trilogies, Shaye said, "making 14 movies a year and spending about $600 million in the process. So whatever I do filmmaker-wise, I'm not gonna change the destiny of New Line. I want to keep doing that.". It's a philosophy that has served Shaye well since co-founding New Line in 1967. (VHI.com -- Music News)
