March 9, 2021
After paltry box office returns for her 2019 “Charlie’s Angels” reboot, Elizabeth Banks (“The Hunger Games”) is hoping audiences find her newest directorial project more bearable.
According to multiple reports, the Pittsfield native will make her return to the director’s chair for Universal with “Cocaine Bear,” a thriller based on a true story about a Kentucky black bear that consumed more than 70 pounds of cocaine dropped in the woods by drug trafficker Andrew Thornton. (Banks later confirmed the reports on her Instagram story, appending the hashtag #CocaineBear.)
While there’s never been a movie that has focused on the titular bear before, Thornton’s tale has been immortalized in multiple books and served as the inspiration of a story arc in the FX series “Justified.” A former narcotics officer turned drug kingpin, Thornton died in 1985 when his parachute failed to deploy after he jumping out of his Cessna on a drug run from Colombia. Accord
21 Jump Street Director Reveals Origin of Film s Hilarious Taco Bell Line
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The classic sitcom and feature film 21 Jump Street had a premise that many might consider ludicrous, featuring adult cops posing as high school students in order to investigate crimes. Though it sounds like a purely fictional idea, it has some basis in truth. Phil Lord, co-director of the two movies starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, revealed that one of the funniest lines of dialogue from the first movie was lifted directly from research they had done into actual undercover cops in high schools. The line in question comes from Dave Frango, whose reaction to learning that his friends are copes was We partied together, man. You bought us Taco Bell.