Unlike most comedy sequels, the Austin Powers franchise only became more successful at the box office with each additional outing (sorry, Neighbors 2), with Austin Powers in Goldmember generating $300 million worldwide. It’s been 14 years since Mike Myers last donned the mop-top and spouted a bunch of delightfully cheesy innuendoes, and though we may not be any closer to a fourth Austin Powers outing, director Jay Roach says it could still very much happen.
File this under "you learn something new every day"! (Unless of course, you already knew this, in which case, carry on with your noneducational day...)
Schwing! With the SNL 40th Anniversary Special bringing back all their heavy hitters, you had to know that Wayne and Garth were going to come back for one more Wayne's World. We had to wait until the end of the special, but it was worth it to see their “SNL Top 10” that broke the fourth wall and was actually sweet.
So this is why we don't see Johnny Depp on stage very often (ever?) at awards shows. Last night at the Hollywood Film Awards, Depp introduced the documentary ‘Supermensch,’ about legendary talent manager Shep Gordon, and immediately made it pretty clear that he was not sober-minded. “That's the weirdest microphone I've ever seen in my life,” he slurs—except, you know, it's just a regular microphone.
We all know Mike Myers is the voice of everyone's favorite ogre, Shrek, but do you know where Mike Myers got his big break in the world of comedy? The same day he graduated high school, he was hired at The Second City, the leading brand of improv-based sketch comedy.
The 84th Annual Academy Awards will be handed out tonight in Hollywood. There will be plenty of buzz around the celebrities, fashion on the red carpet, and of course the Oscar winners!