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Seth MacFarlane Will Find 'A Million Ways To Die In The West' For Directorial Effort, Will Appear On 'The Simpsons'
Having a $500 million dollar hit with "Ted," leading Fox's animation domination with "Family Guy," and set to host the Oscars in February, things are going pretty well for Seth MacFarlane. And he's not wasting any time in striking while the iron is hot, as he's lining...
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Plot Details For Judd Apatow's 20 Year Old 'The Simpsons' Spec Script That's Finally Getting Made
It seems Judd Apatow is revisting his past this fall. His upcoming "This Is 40" plucks two characters from 2007's "Knocked Up" and refreshes them with a new tale, and it looks like something he wrote two decades ago is getting a fresh coat of paint.
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3D 'The Simpsons' Short Film To Play Before 'Ice Age: Continental Drift'
There was a time in movie theaters when a short animated film would play before the feature presentation. Many of the legendary Tex Avery cartoons started out their life this way, until, like most things in the film industry, shorts fell out of fashion with fickle audiences. The only studio that kee...
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Watch: Bill Plympton's Couch Gag From This Week's 'Simpsons'
If the distinctive animation style of the couch gag that launched last night's episode of "The Simpsons" looked familiar (and very non-Springfield standard), that's because it's the work of indie animator Bill Plympton ("Idiots and Angels," "I Married a Strange Person!"). The extended sequence, whic...
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'The Simpsons' Springfield Location, Revealed?
And it's in... Oregon? Sort of. In an interview with Smithsonian Magazine, "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening offers the following tidbit:
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When 'The Simpsons' Went 'Inception'
'The Simpsons' explored Homer's subconscious via an 'Inception'-style dreamscape in its latest episode.
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MATT ZOLLER SEITZ: Why, After 500 Episodes, Slagging The Simpsons Is Unfair
At some point, a show stops being a show and becomes a utility: gas, electricity, water, "The Simpsons." That’s not my line; it’s cribbed from a quote about "60 Minutes" by its creator, the late Don Hewitt. But it seems appropriate to recycle a point about one long-running program in an article abou...
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