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Do you know how you can tell it’s been a slow time for How I Met Your Mother news? Normally I wouldn’t post about the HD release of an early 90s cult indie film that happens to star Neil Patrick Harris.

The film, called “Animal Room“, stars Neil Patrick Harris and Matthew Lillard. It will be released by Vanguard Cinema on HD DVD this April 22. Some more info, via highdefdigest:

Starring Neil Patrick Harris and Matthew Lillard, the dark crime thriller ‘Animal Room’ saw only a limited theatrical release back in 1995 but has since amassed a small cult following on video. First released on standard-def DVD back in 2001, Vanguard has set an April 22 street date for the HD DVD.

I’ve never heard of this movie before today. It doesn’t sound very good to me though. Has anyone seen it? I found a montage of clips on youtube (see below) to job the memory.

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Hopefully the strike will end so we can start talking about new episodes of the show again.

Broken Lizard, the comedy troupe behind such fine cinema as Super Troopers and Beerfest, has a new movie in production called “Broken Lizard’s The Slammin’ Salmon”. I smell Oscar…

Alongside Michael Clark Duncan, the movie will star Morgan Fairchild. Lance Henriksen, Vivica A. Fox, and Cobie Smulders. That’s right, our favorite Canadian will be on the big screen.

The movie is set in a Miami restaurant owned by Cleon “Slammin’” Salmon (Michael Clarke Duncan), a brutal former heavyweight boxing champion who institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night. The winner stands to gain $10,000, while the loser will endure a beating at the hands of the champ.

What do we think? I’ve never seen any of these movies so I can’t really speak to their themes or style. I’ll probably check it out just to support Smulders though.

via Moviehole.net, who could really have found a better picture of Cobie.

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There are a lot of videos about the writers strike deliberations. This is the first one I’ve seen with Josh Radnor however. He’s got his breakup beard and does not appreciate puppets.

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Jason Segel, the second-youngest member of the cast, turns 28 today. He has a lot to celebrate. 2008 will see Forgetting Sarah Marshall debut, a movie that Segel wrote as well as stars in. He’ll also appear alongside Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man.

In Jason’s honor, here is a short bio:

Date of Birth

January 18, 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name

Jason Jordan Segel

Height

6′ 4″ (1.93 m)

Trivia

• He was on a high school basketball team who won state in California
• He plays piano. (Damn right he does.)
• He loves Disneyland.
• Was chosen for the role of Marshall Eriksen in “How I Met Your Mother” (2005) because of his work on the short lived television show “Freaks and Geeks” (1999) of which creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas were huge fans.
• Likes classic rock and reggae music.
• Has a sister, Alison, born March 9, 1986.