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*

Interview with WZRA TV

Interview with Rob for Aliens in the Attic:

Rob and Ashley at the Mall of America 7/23/09

Here is some more information about it from the Mall of America twitter:

@AshleyTisdale and @HoffmanRobert will be at @MallofAmerica tomorrow to promote their new movie "Aliens in the Attic"-will you be here too??
about 8 hours ago from web

You can get your wristband for the @AshleyTisdale and @HoffmanRobert autograph signing starting at 9 a.m. in the Best Buy Rotunda!
about 8 hours ago from web

@AshleyTisdale & @HoffmanRobert will be @MallofAmerica to sign autographs tomorrow!! Ashley performs at 11 a.m. with the signing to follow!!
about 8 hours ago from web

Rob in "It's On With Alexa Chung" Today

Rob is on "It's On with Alexa Chung" today. Don't know what time it's airing, but you may have already missed it.

from Alexa Chung's twitter:
today on the show: @TheRealJordin and @HoffmanRobert. we also have @MissInfo helping us out with What's Happening. 12pm, etc, you know.
about 5 hours ago from Power Twitter

from Rob's twitter:
Hey everyone check me out on It's On With Alexa Chung today at noon on MTV!!! My first talk show interview... shouuuuuld get crazy!
about 17 hours ago from web

[update: here it is!]

Aliens in the Attic Premiere

Aliens in the Attic will be having a premiere and performance by Ashley Tisdale on July 23. Details here:

Ashley and Aliens in the Attic co-star Robert Hoffman will be celebrating the movie premiere at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota! Come see Ashley & Robert on Thursday, July 23. And as an added bonus, Ashley will also be performing songs from her new album Guilty Pleasure! You won't want to miss out! For more detail on the event visit mallofamerica.com.

twitter 7/18/09

Hey! I beat him to it! He posted the following clip on his twitter, but a whole day after I posted the same clip (makeup kiss clip). You gotta move faster than that Rob.

Another clip! http://bit.ly/48hYyF =1616280
6:16 AM Jul 18th from web

He also posted the following:
Sooooo... totally unsnapped Ashley Tisdale's bra today. I'm such a badass hahaha.
1:17 AM Jul 18th from web

From @CarterJenkins:
Just finished the press junket for "Aliens in the Attic" with @kevin_nealon @ashleytisdale @HoffmanRobert
4:10 AM Jul 18th from TwitterFon

From @ashleytisdale:
Doing press for Aliens in the Attic.... @hoffmanrobert is sitting right next to me! O.M.G
11:35 PM Jul 17th from TwitterBerry

@hoffmanrobert just unsnapped my bra in the middle of the interview!
12:11 AM Jul 18th from TwitterBerry

[Hmmmm... now that Ashley's a brunette, I wonder if Rob sees her in a completely different light... But I'm sure it's just a fabricated media romance, like when they would send Keanu Reeves out with Charlize Theron and Sandra Bullock to interview them together to make up for the awkwardness whenever Keanu Reeves interviewed alone (don't get me wrong - I love the guy).

Also, his twitter followers top 15,000 now, which means he gained about 2000 tweeps in a matter of days. Any guesses on how many more will follow him a week after Aliens in the Attic opens? I say he'll gain about 10,000 more. Any other guesses?]

Another Aliens in the Attic Clip "Makeup Kiss"

Here's another clip from Aliens in the Attic. I think the media blitz is about to start.

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

Clip from Aliens in the Attic "Remote Control"

Rob posted this on his twitter:

cip from aliens in the attic! http://bit.ly/bUpxN
about 3 hours ago from web

[He meant "clip" and hopefully you can see it because it's so much funnier than the trailers that are out. Rob's facial expressions are really hilarious. Also, Rob's got over 13,000 tweeps now. Once Aliens is released, I'm sure that number will go way up]

new interview with rob

There's a new article/interview on movieline.com with Rob that is so recent it's still warm. It may help explain why there have been no recent twitter updates from Rob. Here's the text in case the link disappears:

The Verge: Robert Hoffman

Written by Kyle Buchanan | 13 Jul 2009, 7:00 AM |

There are all sorts of entrées into Hollywood stardom (be they model, waiter, or producer’s nephew), but Robert Hoffman went his own way: He moved to LA to pursue work as a dancer. Slowly but surely, his physical talents landed him lead roles in She’s the Man and Step Up 2, and viral videos he conceived in his spare time (like Urban Ninja and the irresistibly bizarre YES Dance) earned him a sketch comedy show in development at MTV. We talked with the actor last week about his eclectic resume and his role in the upcoming Aliens in the Attic, but first, he had to overcome a minor tragedy.

So you lost your iPhone today?
Yeah, I was getting a massage and I lost it. [laughs] So I’m without any sort of scheduling.

Admit it: It’s kind of a nice feeling to be without a phone.
It’s a weird feeling. There’ve been times when I haven’t had a phone and I thought, “This is really awesome, I don’t think I want to go back.” Actually, the first time I lost my phone and I was driving through LA with no distractions, I did think to myself for a second, “I should commit to this! I should fully commit to this.”

You must have been the only person who wasn’t watching the Michael Jackson memorial today.
Were you there?

No, I watched it on TV. But I know he was a big influence on you.
Michael was definitely one of my first and biggest inspirations — without him, my love for movement wouldn’t have been realized nearly as early. Death is such a final step, though. You kind of have to let it go.

You started dancing after you saw his video for “Thriller”?
Yeah. I saw it, and it wasn’t that it registered with me that I wanted to dance — to me, it was the first important thing I had ever seen. It seemed like there was nothing cooler or more wonderful than moving to music. It was just all I could think of as a kid.

When you first began in the industry, you were a background dancer in two notorious Hollywood flops: From Justin to Kelly and Gigli. Which was the better gig?
You know, I gotta be honest with you: Gigli was a really good job. Not that it would win any awards, but I was there on the beach every day in Malibu with a bunch of bikini models. On Justin to Kelly, though, it was a month in Miami with all my dancer friends. So I gotta say, it’s a dead tie. They were both really fun movies to make.

Have you learned anything from dance that’s bled into your work as an actor?
I think dance can be a very tricky thing for actors, because when you dance, you’re at 110% all the time. When you’re acting, though, you have to come at it from a grounded level. But I do think there’s a physical confidence there with dancers. I’ve done a lot of physical comedy jobs where there’s a lot of my movement [background] coming out.

Is your role in Aliens in the Attic like that?
Yeah, I’m Ashley Tisdale’s boyfriend, but for most of the movie I’m under the influence of these alien mind control plugs that shoot in the back of my brain. So I’m a pawn — I’m being physically manipulated and guided by the aliens, and at some point the kids steal the controller and guide me too. I’m doing 110 crazy physical gags, twisting like my body’s being controlled.

Do you ever go too far when you throw yourself into a role that requires so much movement?
Well, shoot! In dancing, please — that’s all we did. We’d throw ourselves too far and do things we probably shouldn’t be doing. In [Aliens], there’s a shot where the kids are controlling me and I come storming through a field, and I said, “I’ll go straight through that bush and fall flat on my face and I won’t even put my hands up to brace myself.” So I bowled over this bush and fell on my chest and my head came down and hit the ground, not too hard, but this bush tore a hole right in my eyelid.

I got up and I kind of felt blood coming down my face, but I had to commit to the shot and not react. The camera’s behind me, and I’m walking along and the two boys are walking with me and I go, “Guys, am I bleeding?” And they’re smiling and laughing, and they’re like, “Yeah.” “Is it bad?” “Oh, yeah.” [Laughs]

You’re also in Burning Palms, Christopher Landon’s upcoming series of vignettes satirizing five LA neighborhoods. Which hood is yours?
Oh, shoot. Don’t ask me that, I can’t remember right now — that was last year! I’m basically a really dimwitted boyfriend to Jamie Chung, and I have a very specific sexual request to make of her. And that sexual request ends up spinning her into a complete psychotic breakdown.

Let’s go back even further than that…a couple years ago, you acted in Young Americans with Topher Grace and Anna Faris, based on a story Topher co-wrote. The movie’s been on the shelf forever and Topher hasn’t made another film since. Do you know why there’s been such a holdup?
No, I don’t! It’s this great project, and no one understands it. We’ve got all these great actors in it and a great script. There’s a couple of different rumors about why one person in power didn’t think it should go this one time, or someone didn’t like a certain topic, but at the end of the day, it keeps getting held back. Meanwhile, Anna Faris became a big star, and all these things keep happening…there’ve been 101 key times to put this damn movie out. Every time I talk to someone, they’re always like, “Yeah, it’s pretty crazy, but they’re finally putting it out.” “For sure?” “For sure.” That’s all I hear.

Your costar Dan Fogler has implied that some people had problems with all the drug use in the film.
There’s a lot of drug use that happens, but we’ve got a lot of hard R-rated movies that are wildly successful right now. So I don’t know.

Is there anything you haven’t gotten to do in your career yet that you’re itching to do?
All I ever wanted to do was be good at dancing. People told me I could go to LA and make money off it, but I had no clue that any of this would happen. I’m just enjoying the ride, but I have four or five ideas that I’d really like to do. Like, I’d really like to make YES Dance: The Movie. It’d be the funnest thing ever.

My God. What would that even be?
A cross between Zoolander, Paris is Burning, and Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny. ♦

Young Americans: straight to video?

Young Americans might be too controversial for a wide-release, or even a limited release. I wonder if it's slated to go straight to video. It's already posted on amazon.com if you want to reserve your copy. Hmmmm.....

Of course, Burning Palms isn't available on amazon.com yet, but Aliens in the Attic is, and so is Transformers 2 and Ice Age 3, which are both at the tops of the box office for the 4th of July weekend, so I know it doesn't mean anything. But I wonder if it will ever get released.

Burning Palms Interview with Shannen Doherty

Here's an interview with Shannen Doherty about Burning Palms, a movie Rob filmed that's set to release sometime this year. Rob's not mentioned in the video, but Shannen does talk about the movie, so if we were playing 6 Degrees of Rob Hoffman, you'd score with Roseanne Barr (Roseanne co-starred with Sara Gilbert, who is Melissa Gilbert's sister, who co-starred with Michael Landon in Little House on the Prairie, where the role of Jenny Wilder was played by Shannen Doherty, who is in Burning Palms with Robert Hoffman).

@HoffmanRobert

Here are some of Rob's latest Twitter posts:

I'm a lover AND a fighter. Get some.
1:08 PM Jun 22nd from TwitterFon

(rookie airline pilot) "Alright folks were gonna be taking off in just a few WHOA here we go..." haha dl @kevin_nealon on itunes he fuuunny.
1:46 AM Jun 26th from TwitterFon

Clip from my new movie! Check it: http://tinyurl.com/nte9z9 [this is a clip of the Nana Trailer for Aliens in the Attic]
1:01 AM Jun 28th from web

[tweet from @TarynSouthern, who incidentally was one of the bikini girls in Rob's Jager Behavior video]
Has anyone read A New Earth by Echart Tolle? I've heard amazing things.
9:21 PM Jul 2nd from web

[Rob's tweet back to Taryn]
@TarynSouthern Taryn, that book is the only important thing ive ever read. My life was just trivial time spent till i read it. Yes. read it.
10:58 PM Jul 2nd from TwitterFon in reply to TarynSouthern

For anyone wondering i was talking about A New Earth.
11:00 PM Jul 2nd from TwitterFon

[and there were a few #followfriday mentions]
from @CarterJenkins
Follow Friday: @Austin_Butler @HoffmanRobert @alexavega @KyleKaplan @DarylSabara
2 days ago from TwitterFon

from @kevin_nealon
#followfriday: @andymilder has got some Weeds give-away contest going! Check out @roberthoffman, @Sukiyeagley,@conjurman.
8:46 PM Jun 26th from Tweetie

[I'm positive @kevin_nealon meant @hoffmanrobert, and not @roberthoffman since @roberthoffman is some random guy with a bulldog. There are a lot of mixups with @robhoffman and @Rob_Hoffman, the photographer for the Jonas Brothers too.

I also noticed that Rob stopped following a few people. Adam Sevani was one of them. Hmmm.... I wonder if he read a particular post on this blog, and realized Adam wasn't following him.......

And Rob's followers top 11,000+ now.]

We Got the Beat Promo Video

Here's a ten minute promo video for Rob's upcoming movie "We Got the Beat" that was posted on youtube in March of 2008. Rob's not in it, but that's because he hadn't been cast yet (he was cast in July of 2008). No word yet on when this will be released.

Aliens in the Attic Nana Trailer

Here's a new trailer for Aliens in the Attic that shows Rob fighting with Nana. After seeing all the trailers, you can see why they cast Rob for this. He's got a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, he loves all this ninja stuff, and when he's being mind-controlled, he can make it look easy without the added expense of special effects or stunt doubles (although I'm pretty sure they used a stunt double for some of the stuff).