Paramount is having a little fun with the annual season of For Your Consideration ads leading up to the big movie award nominations, mounting a new "campaign" for the Tropic Thunder character Kirk…   Read Story »

Hey, look, some nice person has bootlegged the fake trailer for Satan's Alley, one of the movies Tropic Thunder character Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.) won one of his Oscar-bait Oscars for, which…   Read Story »

Sure, Robert Downey Jr. in black-face is controversial, but let's not forget Steve Martin in Mexican-face. Before there was Tropic Thunder, there was The Three Amigos: a comparison.   Read Story »

When I went to see Iron Man (back in the spring of 1847), the theater erupted into enthusiastic applause during the scene in which Tony Stark is flying in his private jet with a Ghostface video…   Read Story »

This is from May, but everyone's sending it around this week as RDJ crests another summer '08 hypewave, this time for Tropic Thunder, of course. Here he is running maniacally through a Blockbuster…   Read Story »

After disability advocate groups raised issues with Tropic Thunder's repeated use of the word "retard" and other offensive terms to describe a role played by Ben Stiller's character in the movie,…   Read Story »

After last week's double hit of actually-pretty-good pretend websites for Simple Jack and Tugg Speedman, Tropic Thunder continues to roll out (Get it? "Roll" out?) more viral marketing stuff with a…   Read Story »

The latest in Tropic Thunder's marketing effort to re-create the internet as it would be if the fake movie-within-the-movie actually existed are three new fake websites: Simple Jack and Scorcher, the…   Read Story »

There probably are still many people out there in America and the world who, if you mentioned Tropic Thunder, the new movie coming out August 22, would say "What's Tropic Thunder?" But everyone else…   Read Story »

There's a new montage of film clips promoting the movie Tropic Thunder out today: a "trailer" for a movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie called Rain Of Madness, the documentary about the making of…   Read Story »