RT @CarterJenkins Sushi with @HoffmanRobert I think he stopped tweeting. He's a Twitter quitter.
about 5 hours ago
Ugh, I think there should be a 2 tweets-per-day rule. I never get on cuz I get a headache!
If I had a genie I'd wish death on everyone who sends vague or whiny tweets. "Great weather", or "I'm sad" - go fuck urselves people : )
[the following is a tweet from @RachelABrewer who I think is/was a fan?]
@HoffmanRobert geez! That was harsh? Ever occur to ya that people may jus get bored? Or that they don't give a fuck what u think??
[Rob's response back to @RachelABrewer]
@RachelABrewer if people didn't give a fuck what I or anyone else thought, they (you) wouldn't put down their bagel to write "nice bagel"@HoffmanRobert well they(I) obviously do give a fuck what you say that's why I follow you! But I always thought you'd be nicer lol :)
Hah - well now that I've lost half my fanbase - I'll end by announcing the the reason there's been no new PUNCHROBERT videos...
All new videos are being saved so I can premiere them on the PUNCHROBERT show on MTV. That's right. Early 2010 I'm comin for you world! haha
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Rob's MTV Show
From Rob's Myspace page:
Ladies and gentlemen... I'm proud to announce, I finally got my own show on MTV!!! The world ain't ready! Urban Ninja 3 - music videos - stunts - it's effin ON!
Mood: PROUD!
Posted at 5:59 AM Aug 15
[and I'm really sorry for not updating in over a month - real life and deadlines had to be met!]
Ladies and gentlemen... I'm proud to announce, I finally got my own show on MTV!!! The world ain't ready! Urban Ninja 3 - music videos - stunts - it's effin ON!
Mood: PROUD!
Posted at 5:59 AM Aug 15
[and I'm really sorry for not updating in over a month - real life and deadlines had to be met!]
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Popwrap Interview with Rob Hoffman
Interview with Popwrap:
Robert Hoffman: 'You Can't Punch Doris Roberts In The Heart!'
I've already outed myself (over and over) as an unabashed fan of any movie that revolves around the world of dance. So I was a little bit ahead of the curve in discovering Robert Hoffman.
All right, so I missed him in "From Justin to Kelly" (as most sensible movie goers did) but Robert caught my eye in 2004's "You Got Served" (a movie that netted him an American Choreography Award) and since then every role has been a little bigger, culminating with "Step Up 2" last year.
Now Robert is taking his dance skills from the street to the stars as the first human to fall under the hypnotic spell of some little green men in "Aliens in the Attic." The role gives Robert a chance to apply his physicality in a way like never before (think Jim Carrey) and proves that he's got a lot more to offer Hollywood than back flips.
A fact Robert hopes to drive home with his unscripted MTV show. While I couldn't convince him to teach me "Step Up 2's" climactic rain dance, I did get Robert to reveal what fans can expect his MTV series to look like, why fighting an "Everybody Loves Raymond" veteran is so terrifying and what his dream role would be. Yes!
PopWrap: This movie is so different than anything you've done before, why a family film about aliens?
Robert Hoffman: I was thinking about doing something darker or more dramatic, but it was a conscious decision to do this movie because it doesn't have a little physical comedy, the whole thing is a fantastic exploitation of my physical abilities.
PW: How did the toll that took on your body compare to "Step Up 2"?
Robert: This one brought a lot more surface injuries. A lot of cuts, falling on my face and wounds like that. With dance movies, it's bruised bones and tearing things. But "Step Up 2" had a lot of dancing, and with the added rain element, it was torture. But I'd say it tied with this one, which is interesting because there is no dancing here.
PW: Just you getting beat up by Doris Roberts.
Robert: She beat the hell out of me, nonstop! They just put us in a room and let the cameras roll. That wasn't fake, Doris can actually fly.
PW: How nervous were you about fighting a 78-year-old?
Robert: I mean, that isn't the kind of scene where you can be like, "oh well, I missed and cranked her in the jaw." No, you can not punch Doris Roberts in the heart, so we were super careful.
PW: With all the stunt work and wire fighting, I'd imagine that was a very labor intense sequence.
Robert: It was hard. I had done some action sequences before but this was a long fight. and I didn't realize how many little shots they have to get, so it's a lot of takes. You don't do the fall on your back twice, you do it 15 times. It's very meticulous. But I love the homages to sci-fi movies and old school video games in it.
PW: Is it true that you named your Urban Ninja after a video game character?
Robert: Absolutely, Ryu Hayabusa from "Ninja Gaiden"! I was so moved as a kid when I'd play that game on NES. So he's Kinetsu Hayabusa.
PW: When I was a kid, I used to make lots of ridiculous movies with my friends. I take it you were the same way?
Robert: Totally, I just never grew up. I've retained my 12-year-old badassness. I remember when we got our first video camera putting together funny videos for our friends. We liked it so much that this hobby became an obsession and now maybe a profession.
PW: Is there one video you hope never sees the light of day?
Robert: The most embarrassing one is a tape of this play I was in called "Twelve Dancing Princesses," and I was the prince. It's on a VHS in my closet, so no one will ever find it ... unless they taped the play too.
PW: You briefly mentioned turning your obsession with funny videos into a profession, and it's been announced that you're getting an MTV show called "Punch Robert." Will it be like your YouTube videos?
Robert: Yeah, that's the foundation for the show. You'll see some of the videos that I've already made and a bunch that I've been holding back because we wanted to have content for the show. Then we'll shoot the ones that are amazing, but we never had the manpower to make before.
PW: It's a bit of a homecoming for you, having gotten your start on MTV's "Wild n' Out"
Robert: I think "Wild n' Out" was me opening the door and now I'm in the living room with my pants off. The show will be a bit of everything: messing with people in public, pranking people, stunts with my friends, sketches with the characters I've created and more.
PW: The Miley Cyrus-AC/DC dance battles really opened people's eyes to the kind of dancing you were capable of, will that continue on the show too?
Robert: One hundred percent! All my dancing has some sort of creative element to it. Rarely are any of my routines not spawned by an idea first. And I've always been astounded by what underground kids were doing -- so I'm really excited that the public's aware of that now. It's huge, with shows like "So You Think You Can Dance." Hollywood isn't always the first, but once something surfaces, they're on it.
PW: Does working on the MTV show mean this movie is the last we'll see of you on the big screen for a bit?
Robert: Yeah, but just for a little while. And with any luck this will just heighten my presence in Hollywood and make it even easier for me to get dope roles.
PW: So is there a dream movie, one that you'd kill to make happen?
Robert: Hell yes there is, "Yes Dance: The Movie!" If someone said, "Hey Rob, here's $150 million, go make a movie," I'd say, "gimme $50" and make "Yes Dance" immediately.
PW: So the Yes Dance video [watch it here] is only 4 minutes long, where do you take it from there?
Robert: No, the Yes Dance is how they would win! It would be about James Precious and Kiki coming up in the underground drag balls in New York and they're trying to get the confidence and courage to become a threat at the ball. So you'd go through the adventure and the trials or these new guys trying to own their style, own their sass and finally prevail. It'd be one of the most fantastic movies ever made!
"Aliens in the Attic" is now in theaters and Robert's MTV show debuts late 2009/early 2010.
Photo: WireImage; Twentieth Century Fox;
latimes.com article 7/30/09
Another article from latimes.com:
"It takes me about a five-day ramp-up to get mentally ready," Hoffman says of shooting his "Urban Ninja" opuses, which have collected millions of hits on various websites. He dons full black ninja gear over his blond hair and hides in public places, waiting to spring out at people. "To know you're going to be going out where there are police officers, gang people, paranoid war veterans that carry guns. . . . One guy turned on a reflex and punched me in the stomach."
The puncher seemed to take it well, however, when Hoffman came back and congratulated him for being the first to strike the prankster.
That goofball streak is apparently genetic.
"My dad is an über practical joker; he has this uncanny knack to create the most awkward situation possible," he says.
The elder Hoffman, who runs a temp agency in Huntsville, Ala., sometimes tells applicants that for their drug test he'll be shooting them with a reactive substance in their elbows -- then produces a giant needle. "Unbelievable. This man is a psycho. So I think that's where I get it from. Also as a kid, I had to deal with being uncomfortable a lot and find light in it. That's taught me to laugh off everything."
In that context, despite being known primarily as a dancer and choreographer, the 28-year-old Hoffman seems a natural for his current role in "Aliens in the Attic." In the comedy, pint-size extraterrestrials plan to invade Earth with only a handful of plucky kids in their way. Hoffman plays a scheming preppy who becomes a spastic automaton controlled (badly) by the unwelcome visitors.
"My whole life has been building my library of creative movement," he says, adding that on the set, "We'd have a premise, then 'He does something funny.' They'd go, 'Rob, what do you want to do?' I'm like, 'Really? I can do a monkey walk here and then prance like a Pussycat Doll, and then what if I bowl over the car and then do a pratfall.' 'Great! Get him a mat!' The pressure was completely off and the support was completely on."
As a rebellious boy growing up in Alabama, Hoffman became fascinated by dance after watching his first Michael Jackson videos.
"Any time I could, I would just move. I would shake my shoulders like Michael; that was part of what I wanted to be," he says, acknowledging that his discomfort in his surroundings was countered by his mother's help.
"I don't think Alabama was the place for me. There are some elements I really love and others I just did not get along with; a kind of blind conviction and a lot of condemnation. Me and the school systems just did not get along."
Fortunately, his mother encouraged formal dance training and enrollment in a fine-arts school: "I was dancing every day, I was focused, I had somebody work with me on schooling in the morning and then just dance all day. I got to go wild creatively.
"As a kid, I think I was hip to a lot of things. I said, 'The people around me are not happy.' These teachers, these preachers, they're not what they preach. Somebody asked me what I'd tell the 12-year-old version of myself. 'You're right, dude. The people around you are nuts.' "
[I'm going to have a hard time keeping up with all the recent articles, so I apologize for not having them all up by now. If you find a good one, then email it to me and I'll post it]
Robert Hoffman was made to move
The 28-year-old's rubber-boned moves in 'Aliens in the Attic' hint at a lifetime on the go. And then there are the ninja videos.
Some people talk with their hands. Robert Hoffman talks with his fingers extending from the hands, flowing from the arms and the trunk. But the classically trained dancer, award-winning hip-hop choreographer and rubber-boned scene stealer of "Aliens in the Attic" isn't waxing balletic with those dexterous digits; he's describing prank videos in which he scares the bejesus out of total strangers."It takes me about a five-day ramp-up to get mentally ready," Hoffman says of shooting his "Urban Ninja" opuses, which have collected millions of hits on various websites. He dons full black ninja gear over his blond hair and hides in public places, waiting to spring out at people. "To know you're going to be going out where there are police officers, gang people, paranoid war veterans that carry guns. . . . One guy turned on a reflex and punched me in the stomach."
The puncher seemed to take it well, however, when Hoffman came back and congratulated him for being the first to strike the prankster.
That goofball streak is apparently genetic.
"My dad is an über practical joker; he has this uncanny knack to create the most awkward situation possible," he says.
The elder Hoffman, who runs a temp agency in Huntsville, Ala., sometimes tells applicants that for their drug test he'll be shooting them with a reactive substance in their elbows -- then produces a giant needle. "Unbelievable. This man is a psycho. So I think that's where I get it from. Also as a kid, I had to deal with being uncomfortable a lot and find light in it. That's taught me to laugh off everything."
In that context, despite being known primarily as a dancer and choreographer, the 28-year-old Hoffman seems a natural for his current role in "Aliens in the Attic." In the comedy, pint-size extraterrestrials plan to invade Earth with only a handful of plucky kids in their way. Hoffman plays a scheming preppy who becomes a spastic automaton controlled (badly) by the unwelcome visitors.
"My whole life has been building my library of creative movement," he says, adding that on the set, "We'd have a premise, then 'He does something funny.' They'd go, 'Rob, what do you want to do?' I'm like, 'Really? I can do a monkey walk here and then prance like a Pussycat Doll, and then what if I bowl over the car and then do a pratfall.' 'Great! Get him a mat!' The pressure was completely off and the support was completely on."
As a rebellious boy growing up in Alabama, Hoffman became fascinated by dance after watching his first Michael Jackson videos.
"Any time I could, I would just move. I would shake my shoulders like Michael; that was part of what I wanted to be," he says, acknowledging that his discomfort in his surroundings was countered by his mother's help.
"I don't think Alabama was the place for me. There are some elements I really love and others I just did not get along with; a kind of blind conviction and a lot of condemnation. Me and the school systems just did not get along."
Fortunately, his mother encouraged formal dance training and enrollment in a fine-arts school: "I was dancing every day, I was focused, I had somebody work with me on schooling in the morning and then just dance all day. I got to go wild creatively.
"As a kid, I think I was hip to a lot of things. I said, 'The people around me are not happy.' These teachers, these preachers, they're not what they preach. Somebody asked me what I'd tell the 12-year-old version of myself. 'You're right, dude. The people around you are nuts.' "
[I'm going to have a hard time keeping up with all the recent articles, so I apologize for not having them all up by now. If you find a good one, then email it to me and I'll post it]
Review of Aliens in the Attic
Review of Aliens in the Attic here:
There’s nothing remotely original or inventive about this Sci-fi comedy in which Aliens bent on destroying the human race invade the Maine vacation home of an upper class suburban family, but the 8 year olds at which it’s aimed will lap it up. For everyone else, this 86 minute, slapstick-laden time waster is a real chore to sit through. Distributor 20th Century Fox did not preview this for critics and has limited expectations for what is bound to be a short box office life on the express lane to a more promising DVD afterlife.
Cast: Carter Jenkins, Ashley Tisdale, Kevin Nealon, Gillian Vigman, Doris Roberts, Andy Richter, Robert Hoffman, Tim Meadows and Ashley Boettcher.
Director: John Schultz
Screenwriter: Mark Burton and Adam F. Goldberg
Producers: Barry Josephson
Genre: Sci-fi comedy
Rating: PG for action violence, some suggestive humor and language.
Running Time: 86 min
Release Date: July 31, 2009
There’s nothing remotely original or inventive about this Sci-fi comedy in which Aliens bent on destroying the human race invade the Maine vacation home of an upper class suburban family, but the 8 year olds at which it’s aimed will lap it up. For everyone else, this 86 minute, slapstick-laden time waster is a real chore to sit through. Distributor 20th Century Fox did not preview this for critics and has limited expectations for what is bound to be a short box office life on the express lane to a more promising DVD afterlife.
The Pearson Family head off on summer vacation with Dad (Kevin Nealon) and Mom (Gillian Vigman) dragging along their brood. The group includes reluctant teen Tom (Carter Jenkins), his boy-crazy sister Bethany (a bikini-clad Ashley Tisdale), cousin Jake (Austin Robert Butler) and younger sister Hannah (Ashley Boettcher) along with Bethany’s obnoxious and horny boyfriend Ricky (an amusing Robert Hoffman) plus Uncle (Andy Richter) and Grandma (Doris Roberts), among others. In no time, the kids discover a quartet of “evil” aliens on the roof who announce they are bent on zapping humans. Of course, just like in most films of this ilk, the adults are totally clueless while the kids, led by Tom, take on the invaders with all the gusto of Luke Skywalker. Their cause is helped when they are befriended by the one alien in the bunch who promotes a policy of peace.
Much of the comedy comes at the expense of Hoffman’s doofus boyfriend who, early on, becomes the victim of the aliens’ space age controller (which looks like the prop department got it straight out of a Playstation 3 box) that can manipulate physical and mental behavior. Hoffman’s wild contortions had the young tykes in our audience convulsing with laughter. Oh well, as Woody Allen would say, “Whatever Works.” Unfortunately, in an age of such sophisticated CGI-assisted special effects, the actual aliens that have been cooked up here look like something out of a bad ’50s Martian movie and their unfunny dialogue doesn’t help. The bulk of the film contains lots of frantic action, alien vs. teen battles and even one rip-roaring fight with Granny.
Performances are strictly by the numbers, but Tisdale is nice to look at and may draw some High School Musical fans just by her prominently located name on the ads. Hoffman gets the laughs, which is probably why producers tacked on an added scene as end credits start just to milk more of his dopey antics.
After the abysmal I Love You, Beth Cooper, this mindless programmer won’t revive Fox’s early summer momentum (Wolverine, Night At The Museum 2) but for its target pre-pubescent audience, its still a harmless diversion as the dog days of August convene.
Distributor: 20th Century FoxCast: Carter Jenkins, Ashley Tisdale, Kevin Nealon, Gillian Vigman, Doris Roberts, Andy Richter, Robert Hoffman, Tim Meadows and Ashley Boettcher.
Director: John Schultz
Screenwriter: Mark Burton and Adam F. Goldberg
Producers: Barry Josephson
Genre: Sci-fi comedy
Rating: PG for action violence, some suggestive humor and language.
Running Time: 86 min
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
MTV.com's 2009 Movies That Will Have You Screaming OMG
Aliens in the Attic was listed #4 on MTV.com's Top Ten Movies that will have you screaming OMG or something like that. It seemed like a bogus list to me since it didn't list NM or HP, which had some diehard Twilight and HP fans screaming foul. As a RH fan, even I was screaming foul, because it seemed like the title of the article should have been "Top Ten Movies that May or May Not Do Well at the Box Office But We're Going to Make a List That Includes Them So If They Do Well, Then We Can Say We Predicted It."
Now if the top 3 included New Moon, HP and Watchmen or Transformers or even Bruno (which definitely got a lot of people screaming OMG), then it would've been a more legit list. But as it is, Alvin and the Chipmunks also made the list. *groan*
Now if the top 3 included New Moon, HP and Watchmen or Transformers or even Bruno (which definitely got a lot of people screaming OMG), then it would've been a more legit list. But as it is, Alvin and the Chipmunks also made the list. *groan*
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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