July 17, 2008
Happy Anniversary, Vince-Vaughn.com!
A forum member and loyal reader of Vince-Vaughn.com reminded me that this website just passed the four-year mark on July 11th! Can't believe I've kept this project going that long. I guess as long as Vince is working, I'll keep the site running. :D
June 30, 2008
Congratulations to the Winners of the DVD Giveaway!
Dustin Jacobs
Mary Gilligan
Myke Adams
Debra Harris
Deanna Elliott
Each of you will receive a copy of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland DVD.
Congrats!
June 18, 2008
Don't forget to sign up to win the Wild West Comedy Show DVD
Drawing extended to June 26!
Vince-Vaughn.com is celebrating the DVD release (June 3rd) of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland by giving away 5 copies of the DVD. Deadline to enter is June26. One entry per person.
HOW TO ENTER Send an email with your name, a valid email address and "Vince Vaughn DVD" in the subject to: contest@vince-vaughn.com
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From the Defamer Files - hehe
You're Placing Me Under Arrest Because There Hasn't Been An 'Old School 2' Yet?
From Defamer
While out enjoying coffee in Santa Monica, Bottle Rocket star Luke Wilson was accosted by the west side police department. The police officers ran the good cop/bad cop routine on Wilson about the status of a sequel to the 2003 comedy Old School. Wilson attempted to explain the development process to the officers and how they need to come up with a great script and way to figure out everybody's schedules. Even more difficult, he explained, was finding a budget number that would meet everyone's quote. The officers seemed stunned to hear about how much work would go into making another film. One officer said, "You mean, this script just doesn't say, 'Will walks in and says something funny, then like Vince Vaughn says something even more funny and you just make a funny face'?" Wilson shrugged his shoulders and said, "I wouldn't be surprised if some are written that way."
Photo Credit: Splash Pics
June 3, 2008
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show DVD in stores now!
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland is out now! And don't forget to enter our drawing to win one of 5 copies of the DVD. See below post.
May 2, 2008
May 1, 2008
Two nights in a row
And here he is tonight at the What Happens in Vegas premiere. The movie's screenwriter, Dana Fox, is writing the screenplay for 'Male Doula', one of Vince's projects in development at Universal.
April 30, 2008
Iron Man Premiere
Jon Favreau (director) and Vince at the Iron Man premiere tonight in Hollywood. Congratulations, Jon...you've come a long way, baby! You're money and you KNOW it!
April 20, 2008
T.V. Alert: April 20 - May 2, 2008 (finally)
Sunday, Apr 20
The Break-Up 
2:00 PM on HBO2e
Made
4:30 PM on TMCe
Monday, Apr 21
Made
4:00 AM on TMCe
Return to Paradise
9:45 PM on FLIXe
Thursday, Apr 24
The Break-Up
2:00 PM on HBO2e
Friday, Apr 25
Domestic Disturbance
4:10 AM on TBS
Made
11:15 AM on TMCe
Monday, Apr 28
Made
6:45 PM on TMCe
The Break-Up
11:00 PM on HBO2e
Tuesday, Apr 29
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
7:30 PM on FX
Wednesday, Apr 30
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
5:30 PM on FX
Thursday, May 1
The Prime Gig
11:00 AM on IFC
4:45 PM on IFC
Friday, May 2
Return to Paradise
10:00 AM on TMCe
11:40 PM on TMCe
April 3, 2008
April 1, 2008
Vaughn set to bring to life Davey and Goliath characters
CHICAGO -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Thowback Films with Vince Vaughn have entered into a new agreement this summer in an effort to bring "Davey and Goliath" to a new generation of children with a live-action version of this classic children's television show.
Davey and Goliath is a classic stop-motion animated television series starring Davey Hansen and his talking dog, Goliath. Aired on commercial television in the 1960s and 1970s, Davey and Goliath is a property of the ECLA. The church's mission with Davey and Goliath is to bring "moral and religious faith-based values to a new generation of children in lively and engaging ways." What better way to achieve this than to bring Vince Vaughn into the role of a slightly older, much taller Davey? It's not known who else will sign on to the project, but Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller have expressed interest in appearing in some capacity.
We are excited that Davey and Goliath's first major motion picture agreement is with such a phenomenal actor as Vince Vaughn," said Jack Smithers, Internal Functionality Engineer at their headquarters.
"ECLA and Throwback Films will be wonderful partners, and with their commitment to quality, family-friendly content, they share my vision and will play a significant role in the current re-launch plans for the ECLA's Davey and Goliath property," said Vaughn. Earlier this year the ECLA and Animation Content entered into an agreement to garner more visibility for Davey and Goliath and help secure its return to television.
"We are delighted with this development in conjunction with several other initiatives that are currently under way for the re-release of the classic animated episodes, and the release of the new modern-day Davey and Goliath holiday special, 'Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas.' These important developments, along with other licensing and merchandising efforts, will help ensure that children and families today have the opportunity to be exposed to these lovable characters and timeless value-based messages," Vaughn said. Vince's only resistance to signing on to the project was that Davey always wore red plaid shirts, while Vince's preference is blue.
March 28, 2008
March 26, 2008
'Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show' Saddles up to DVD on June 3rd
Take home all the laughs with Vince Vaughn this June. Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show will be released on DVD on June 3. The disc will be priced at an SRP of $19.95. This comedy extravaganza stars Vince Vaughn, Justin Long, Jon Favreau and a host of other comedians.
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show features stand-up comedy by national comedians hailing from the world famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, and improvisation and sketch comedy featuring Vaughn and special guest stars. Hand picked by Vaughn to perform in the show are comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco.
Special Features
- Commentaries by Vince Vaughn and the filmmakers
- Behind-the-scenes featurettes
- Extra comedy skits
- And more
March 19, 2008
Vaughn fires UTA, manager Gold
Move attributed to 'Fred Claus' flopping
By Michael Fleming
Variety
Less than one day after parting company with UTA and manager Eric Gold, Vince Vaughn has signed with CAA. He'll be repped by the percentery's topper Richard Lovett.
The change was attributable to the thesp's dissatisfaction with his most recent release, "Fred Claus." The pic landed Vaughn his first $20 million paycheck, but the holiday flop displeased the star.
Vaughn signed with CAA after meeting with other agencies all day. Other spokes pulled loose from the UTA comedy wheel -- including Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell, plus directors like David Dobkin and Tom Shadyac -- have all landed at that percentery.
UTA repped Vaughn since his early days, and Gold became his manager right after Vaughn starred in the John Travolta pic "Domestic Disturbance." Vaughn became a comedy star off films like "Old School," "Dodgeball," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "Wedding Crashers."
UTA and Gold set him into a Universal producing deal after Vaughn generated his own comic concepts in pics like "The Break-Up."
He gets a shot at holiday redemption later this year when he stars opposite Reese Witherspoon in the New Line/Warner Bros. comedy "Four Christmases." In addition, WB has identified a "Wedding Crashers" sequel as one of its prime goals for a reconstituted New Line Cinema.
Though Vaughn will no longer pay management commission to Gold, they are still producing partners on "Toy Men," a Sony-based comedy that Vaughn will star in, with a Steve Pink script rewritten by Allan Loeb, and they are producing with Neal Edelstein on "No Place Like Home," a comedy at New Line. Vaughn is also a participant in a production fund being put together by Gold, who continues to manage Ellen DeGeneres and co-manages Carrey with ex-partner Jimmy Miller.
March 17, 2008
March 10, 2008
March 6, 2008
Wild West Comedy Show Music
Just noticed that the iTunes store has the Wild West Comedy Show Playlist available. (It's been up since January 29th, but I've been busy...) From the iTunes Store, click "Celebrity Playlists" and then "Vince Vaughn's Playlist." I just bought all of the songs and am listening now. Cool.
If you don't have iTunes, download it here.
March 2, 2008
March 1, 2008
Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch talk about Vince's role in 'Into the Wild'
Into The Wild will hit the shelves on March 4, but you can get a sneak peek right now. Movieweb has an exclusive special feature from this DVD, featuring star Emile Hirsch and director Sean Penn talk about Vince Vaughn and the character he portrays, Wayne Westerbeg. Click below to watch this new video.
February 26, 2008
T.V. Alert: February 26-March 2, 2008
Tuesday, February 26
The Prime Gig
5:05PM on IFC
Making of 'Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show'
10:15PM on HBO2e
Wednesday, February 27
The Break-Up
8:00PM on CINEMAX
I Love Your Work
8:00PM on TMCe
Friday, February 29
Wedding Crashers
9:00PM on TBS
Saturday, March 1
Made
1:30PM on SHO2e
Old School
8:00PM on ABC
Wedding Crashers
8:00PM on TBS
Sunday, March 2
Return to Paradise
2:05PM on TMCe
The Break-Up
2:30PM on HBOe
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
7:00PM on FX
Wedding Crashers
8:00PM on TBS
Starsky & Hutch
9:00PM on TELMUN
Wedding Crashers
10:30PM on TBS
February 10, 2008
Who's the Big Winner Tonight?
Congratulations to our Big Winners in the Vince-Vaughn.com WWCS drawing!
Jennifer Roberson - Poster
John Schulke - Poster
Lori Wright - Poster
Jen Childs - Hat
Amanda Perron - Hat
Kim Mincks - Hat
Shelby (sunnynflorida...) - Hat
JayCeezy - Hat
I will be emailing the winners for shipping addresses.
Thanks to all who entered!
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February 7, 2008
Rolling Stone Reviews Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show
PETER TRAVERS
Rolling Stone
It's a mouthful of a title for a rowdy, ramshackle funfest that flies by on its spirited humor and surprising heart. Back in 2005, Vince Vaughn mounted a comedy tour through what left-and-right coasters condescendingly call the flyover states. His friend Ahmed Ahmed, a standup comic of Egyptian descent, had introduced him to the acts of three friends at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles. They are John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Manisalco. Vaughn had the idea that he and his fab four would hop on a bus, do thirty backbreaking shows in thirty cities — no days off — and bring a little cheer to the folks (some victims of hurricanes in Louisiana and Texas) before Vaughn had to go back to work in the Hollywood laugh factory. OK, the laughs are hit and miss. But this movie, directed by Ari Sandel, gets funnier as it goes along. And there's a reason: we get to know each of the comics better and see how they draw their routines from their lives, sometimes under tragic circumstances. Megatalent Vaughn is also the ultimate good sport, daring a duet with Dwight Yoakum, taking major shit from his Swingers costar Jon Favreau, and enduring Justin Long, whose Vaughn impression is spot-on to the point of slander. The documentary was edited from 600 hours of footage and there's barely a slick minute in it. The laughs feel loose-limbed, off-the-cuff and defiantly un-Hollywood. What are you waiting for?
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February 4, 2008
February 3, 2008
Prizes, anyone?
Vince-Vaughn.com is celebrating the release of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland by giving away some fabulous prizes. Sign up now in the comments of this post. You must provide a valid email address to be eligible.
Prizes include 3 posters signed by the entire WWCS cast and WWCS baseball caps (unsigned). The drawing will be held next Sunday, February 10, 5PM Pacific Time.
One entry per person, please.
Good luck!
February 2, 2008
'Wild West' showoffs
Vince Vaughn gathers some stand-up pals and hits the great open road intent on roping in a lot of laughs.
By Michael Ordoña, Special to The Times
Photo by Wally Skalij
The Los Angeles Times
HAVE you heard the one about the movie star who suddenly decided to put together a cross-country comedy tour? The stand-up comics would be seasoned but not nationally known, playing 2,000-seat venues when they were used to 30-seat houses. They'd go to Southern and Midwestern cities off the beaten (laugh) track. From conception to launch would be only six weeks. And they'd play 30 cities in 30 nights.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time," says a smiling Vince Vaughn in a poolside room at the Casa del Mar hotel in Santa Monica. He admits the tour, captured for the big screen in the upcoming road documentary "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland," due to open Friday, was both impulsive and a labor of love. "I wasn't thinking past the fact that this is going to be different and exciting and fun," Vaughn offers. "The hard technical work fell on other people; they were the ones making the calls and doing stuff. But it was really a story of all of us pulling together and doing our parts."
For years, Vaughn had been putting together one-off stand-up nights as benefits in cities where he was shooting movies. But packing four comics, production staff and a film crew into three buses and winding from Hollywood through Texas and Tennessee to Illinois was no laughing matter. So he surrounded himself with close associates, including his sister, Victoria, and best friend, Peter Billingsley, as producers, and longtime friend Ahmed Ahmed, who was instrumental in assembling the cast.
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Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: Behind The Scenes
Go behind the scenes with "The Making of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show.
Check out the video on IFC.com
On the Road With Vince Vaughn, Not Just for Laughs
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Photo by Stephanie Diani for The New York Times
The New York Times
WHEN you buy a ticket for a Vince Vaughn movie, you know pretty much what you’re going to get. The story of a sarcastic if affable guy, with a self-satisfied grin and immaculate sideburns, who wins over the guys and gals with his smart-aleck comebacks and learns a few life lessons along the way, possibly after finding true love or being barraged with dodgeballs. The kind of guy he inhabits so completely, in movies like “Wedding Crashers,” “Swingers” and “The Break-Up,” that he couldn’t possibly be anything but a nonchalant cynic in real life.
So it came as a surprise on a recent Sunday morning to find Mr. Vaughn, 37, sitting in the lounge of a Hollywood theater, choking back tears. The catalyst for his Hillary Clinton moment? He was recounting a trip he took in 2005, when he packed a tour bus full of young comedians on an ad hoc cross-country journey that would lead, among other places, to a trailer park for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Alabama and benefit concerts for Hurricane Rita victims in Texas.
“It was very hard for me,” Mr. Vaughn said, struggling to maintain his composure as he recalled the trip, “because it’s one of those situations where there’s no answer of how to solve it, but these lives are destroyed.”
“I’m not a politician,” he added. “I don’t have the answer to anything, but I do like to make people laugh. Can’t we all be on the same side with the stuff, versus having comedy that’s so acidic and meanspirited and dividing? That’s just not my nature.”
While it is only natural to be skeptical of any celebrity who supports a cause, Mr. Vaughn’s latest film, opening Friday, a documentary about his 2005 expedition titled “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights — Hollywood to the Heartland,” engenders a different kind of disbelief. It suggests that behind the acerbic satires and skirt-chasing farces, the show’s M.C. might have an earnest side too.
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January 31, 2008
Vince Vaughn & Cast Interview, Wild West Comedy Show
Posted By: Sheila Roberts
Movies Online
MoviesOnline sat down with Vince Vaughn and stand-up comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco at the Los Angeles press day to promote their new movie, “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland.”
In the spirit of the old west variety shows, Vince Vaughn (star of “The Break-Up,” “Wedding Crashers,” “Swingers,” “Fred Claus”) took the stage at the Music Box Theater in Hollywood on September 12, 2005 and began an unprecedented comedy tour featuring stand-up comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco. Vaughn played host to the ensemble of comedians and performed improvisational sketches with surprise celebrity guests that included Jon Favreau, Justin Long, and Keir O’Donnell.
“Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland” chronicles Vaughn and the comedians’ journey as they travel more than 6,000 miles and perform 30 shows in 30 consecutive nights in cities across the U.S. The documentary gives audiences a rare opportunity to experience Vaughn and his team as they bring their unique styles and perspectives to regional audiences throughout Western, Southern and Midwestern states.
With rousing onstage performances and behind-the-scenes interviews, the engaging grass roots documentary breaks down the true essence of each comedian’s life-altering experiences, and the personal and professional challenges that will unite four comics, one movie star and legions of fans from Hollywood to the Heartland.
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January 30, 2008
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show Media Schedule
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland opens in about a week! Here's a schedule of TV appearances Vince and the guys will be making as they promote this new film. (I've seen it and it's fantastic!)
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WWCS Premiere Photos
Here's a group shot of the guys at Monday night's premiere of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland, held at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, CA.
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