Ben Stiller Video On Red Hour Move To Fox

COMMENTS (34)

• actually, that’s pretty damn funny.

  Comment by hatetosayit — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 3:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• …obviously stiller and co have lots of free time. they should just kiss murdoch’s ass every day

  Comment by greenknight — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 3:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• is this funny?

  Comment by Murray — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 3:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I can’t believe I just wasted the last 4 minutes and 14 seconds of my life!

  Comment by Jerry Z. — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 3:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Tom took it well because he’s a nice guy with a good sense of humor.

  Comment by Tom — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 3:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Pretty funny stuff. Hey Ben, please hire me.

  Comment by k4kafka — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 4:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I have a question.

  When does the constant satirizing of egomaniacal behavior become egomaniacal in itself?

  Jeez, talk about, Poolander. I’m surprised Rothman can his head up Stiller’s ass when Stiller’s so full of himself already.

  Comment by 13th Monkey — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 4:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow! Not one laugh out loud moment. Profoundly lame.
  If this is what Tom Rothman bought he should truly be concerned.

  Comment by Arthur Axelman — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 5:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• There’s nothing like a rip-off of Your Studio and You by Matt & Trey to make me feel nostalgic for the old days when this joke was original.

  Comment by Lytton Strachey — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 5:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Might just be me, but the video isn’t working. It says it is “unavailable.”

  Comment by Brett — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 5:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “Red Hour’s Power Hour” is Fox-tastic! (Redd Foxx is a bit of a stretch, though)

  Comment by foollander — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 6:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Ben…people beat on me in the 10th grade…ignored me, told me I was nothing and would never make anything of myself. I was ugly, small, talentless.

  AND…I surround myself with people who are similarly weak, but have a bond of insecurity…we can crumble at any time, but we have bank accounts. We’re smoke and mirrors…we can’t believe people are so DUMB and keep buying us year in, year out. But we keep jamming you! Movie after movie.

  We’re laffing our way to the bank suckas on your stupid dime!!!

  Comment by BenStilla Loser — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 7:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Pretty funny. Ballsy. Whatever.

  Comment by MarkZ — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 9:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Great video. Glad to have Ben and the whole Red Hour team.

  Comment by studio honcho — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 10:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I KNEW people would say negative things no matter what!

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 11:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• So many great things in this video. Happy that it “leaked”.

  Comment by bill billson — Friday July 31, 2009 @ 11:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hilarious, clever and bold. Great video, thanks.

  Comment by Thierry Attard — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 2:26am PDT  Reply to this post

• Come on people this was hilarious.

  And since the only genre Rothman doesn’t regularly stick his creatively challenged nose into is comedy they should do alright.

  Comment by Warner Borg — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 5:19am PDT  Reply to this post

• Its hard to feel sorry for the the financial woes of the entertainment industry when junk like this is produced for 800k and probably no more than 500 people will ever see it or for that matter actually get it.

  Comment by Jack — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 6:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• Smells a bit like the Ashton Kutcher holiday videos.

  Comment by Unionguy — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 7:12am PDT  Reply to this post

• Awesome! Hey, what night is The Ben Stiller Power Hour going to be on?

  Comment by MeanSheets — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 9:07am PDT  Reply to this post

• Very funny and totally NOT a ripoff of the Matt And Trey film….which is also good, but completely different in its content and concept.

  pJ

  Comment by pJ — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 9:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• This falls into a category that most of you are probably too young to remember: Overhype that presages failure.

  Decades ago, as part of a new studio deal, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer forced Paramount to take out full page ads in the trades, the New York Times and the Wall Street journal hailing them as visionaries.

  Paramount did the same kind of thing when DreamWorks came on. Fox did with John Hughes at one point (but only in the trades.) MGM did it a year or two ago with the UA/Tom Cruise Paula Wagner deal. The trades used to be filled with these “welcome to the studio” ads. I’m almost certain that Mel Brooks did one that was a satire. The point is that there have been hundreds of these kind of things over the years.

  The Stiller piece is nothing new – just an updated version of this – online, rather than in Variety.

  Within a year, Stiller have some creative conflict at Fox.

  A picture will deliver disappointing results.

  Within eighteen months, both of Stiller’s development executives featured in the video will be gone.

  Along the way, there may or may not be some well publicized blow-up between Fox and the Stiller, accompanied by lots of finger-pointing about who was to blame.

  And within three years, Stiller will either be a minor player at the studio, or gone.

  Comment by A Student of Hollywood — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 11:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• The video is funny but not quite as funny as the commenter named “Jack” missing the joke about the 800K cost of the thing.

  Comment by Joe Gillis — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 12:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Stiller and Fox have made a fortune together. Something About Mary, Dodgeball, and 2 Night at The Museums. Well over a billion in boxoffice alone. Stiller has had hs partner Cornfeld, for something like 12 years, and their Red Hour deal actually started at Fox. So, you failed as a student.

  Comment by heyfailing student of holllywood — Saturday August 1, 2009 @ 1:08pm PDT  Reply to this post