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Donald Trump skewered in
Funny or Die film
Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump NEW YORK (AP) — Donald ring Jack McBrayer, Patton editor of The Onion, while
gives thumbs up to supporters during a primary night rally, Tues- Trump’s first place finish Oswalt, Stephen Merchant, Jeremy Konner, a cre-
day, Feb. 9, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. among the GOP candi- Alfred Molina, Henry Win- ator of the television series
dates in the New Hamp- kler and Andy Richter. “Drunk History,” directed
Associated Press shire primaries was greeted The 50-minute film takes its the spoof. It was produced
by a mock online docu- name from Trump’s 1987 — and kept a secret — by
mentary of the brash busi- best-selling advice book Adam McKay, a co-found-
nessman starring a furiously and pretends to be a TV er of Funny or Die, which
wigged Johnny Depp. special that Trump petu- also counts Will Ferrell and
“Funny or Die Presents lantly tossed away when it Judd Apatow as princi-
Donald Trump’s The Art of got pre-empted by a foot- pal partners. “Successful
the Deal: The Movie” was ball game. The film, grainy people are always on the
released Tuesday on the and faded, portrays Trump phone — even if there’s no
Funny or Die site with Ron as a megalomaniac and one on the other end,” the
Howard narrating, music by a buffoon. It was written fake Trump lectures a boy
Kenny Loggins and co-star- by Joe Randazzo, a former in one scene.q
Jack Huston: The ‘Ben-Hur’
remake was an epic undertaking
In this Dec. 3, 2015 file photo, actor Jack Huston arrives at the from an actor watching his
GQ Men of the Year Party in Los Angeles. work, he liked what he saw.
“I think the lovely thing is
Associated Press I was seeing it as the big
picture. ...I was so taken by
ALICIA RANCILIO the stakes are even higher. everything and all the work
Associated Press He stars in the role made that everyone had done,”
NEW YORK (AP) — Jack famous by Charlton Heston said Huston in a recent in-
Huston is surrounded by the in a remake of “Ben-Hur.” terview.
undead in his new movie Huston recently watched In the 1959 version, the film-
“Pride and Prejudice and an early cut of the film and makers used thousands of
Zombies,” but this summer despite the expected jitters animals and roughly 10,000
extras. In this remake, they
have technology on their
side. But Huston says they
used special effects judi-
ciously.
“All of us were very inter-
ested in trying to do as little
CGI as possible in the mo-
ments where you didn’t
need it,” he said.
The film’s famed chariot
scene involved shooting
six days a week for two
months.
“The chariot scenes, all
the slave ship stuff, that’s
all us. That’s all me there.
...We were very conscious
of that and we tried to
make it as real as possible,
as immersive as possible. ...
We really wanted to give
everyone the real experi-
ence because that’s what
‘Ben-Hur’ is. When you as-
sociate ‘Ben-Hur’ you see
the chariot as well as this
incredible character and
this arc. Everyone’s gonna
be waiting, ‘OK, when’s
the chariot scene?’ We
knew we had to outdo ev-
erything on that.”
“Ben-Hur” is scheduled for
an Aug. 12 opening.q
