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Network: Fox

Episodes: Eight (half-hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: March 27, 2014 -- May 15, 2014

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Christopher Meloni, Rachael Harris, Connor Buckley, Claudia Lee, Kevin Hernandez, and Tyler Foden.

TV show description:

Set in the 1990s, this single-camera comedy is based on the autobiographical book I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern (Sh*t My Dad Says).

Jack Dunlevy (Christopher Meloni) is an ex-military oncologist who's also a no-bull kind of guy. He sees little, if any, need to sugar-coat the truth. Jack's been a typical working dad who left most of the parenting to his stay-at-home wife. But now, his wife Joanne (Rachael Harris) is starting law school and this leaves Jack as a full-time parent for the very first time.

Their teenage son Frankie (Connor Buckley) is...

Fox hasn't had much ratings success with new sitcoms this season. How will Surviving Jack fare? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.

Surviving Jack revolves around Dunlevy family. A no-nonsense father (Christopher Meloni) starts tough-love parenting his teenage kids (Connor Buckley and Claudia Lee) while his wife returns to college (Rachael Harris). Others in the cast include Kevin Hernandez and Tyler Foden.

The higher a show's ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better its chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available -- typically the following morning, around 11:30am Est/8:30am Pst. Refresh to see the latest.

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5/7 update: This series has been cancelled after one season of...

Christopher Meloni had a long run on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit but his Fox sitcom didn't last. Surviving Jack has been cancelled after one season.

Surviving Jack revolves around Dunlevy family. A no-nonsense father (Christopher Meloni) starts tough-love parenting his teenage kids (Connor Buckley and Claudia Lee) while his wife returns to college (Rachael Harris). Others in the cast include Kevin Hernandez and Tyler Foden.

The series was originally supposed to have 13 episodes this season but the network cut the order down to eight installments. That's never a good sign.

Surviving Jack has been drawing poor ratings on Thursday nights, following American Idol. The six episodes that have aired so far have averaged a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.35 million total viewers.

The series finale is scheduled for next Thursday, May 15th.

Stars: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia Du Veaux | Written and Directed by Destin Cretton

Destin Cretton (I Am Not A Hipster), who as well as this version also wrote and directed the short film on which Short Term 12 is based, is certainly a director to watch after his work on this movie, released in November of 2013 in cinemas and on Blu-ray and DVD just a week or so ago.

Set in a facility that cares for and houses foster kids that are in-between homes and for whatever reason are no longer with their birth families, the story of Short Term 12 follows a twenty-something manager of the facility named Grace, played with subtlety, heart and a wonderful sense of realism by Brie Larson (The Spectacular Now). Grace is juggling her work at the facility, her secret relationship with co-worker Mason,...

Chicago – There are certain jobs that I know that I could not do not because of the physical requirements but the emotional baggage I would take home with me at the end of the day. The brilliant, moving “Short Term 12” captures one of these jobs – people who look out for abandoned kids, many of them abused, addicted, and troubled the point of pure heartbreak.

Especially now that I’m a father, seeing kids abused shatters me to the point where I can’t even watch a movie about it without getting emotional. I’d be a wreck on the job every day.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

And yet some people take on this challenge and Destin Cretton has used his experience doing so to craft his debut film. “Short Term 12” is difficult to describe without it sounding manipulative or melodramatic but I’ll do my best. Trust me when I tell...

Watch clips from Destin Daniel Cretton's critically-acclaimed Short Term 12 from Cinedigm, starring Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr. and Kaitlyn Dever. Cretton directs and scripts the film which opens in theaters from August 23rd, and also has Stepanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia De Veaux, Keith Stanfield and Frantz Turner on board. Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty- something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.)...

Title: Short Term 12 Directed By: Destin Cretton Starring: Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Rami Malek, Keith Stanfield, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez “Short Term 12” is infinitely dynamic, making it one of the most moving, harrowing, heartwarming, and satisfying films of the year. Brie Larson leads as Grace, a young supervisor at Short Term 12, a facility for at-risk teens. Grace is all business, running a smooth operation, taking the time to truly get to know each and every kid, and essentially caring for them all like they’re her own. The problem is, Grace has a troubled past of her own and when a new kid comes and [ Read More ]

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Check out a clip, see the trailer, and browse the images from Destin Daniel Cretton's Short Term 12 drama, which opens on August 23rd, 2013 from Cinedigm. The film which is both directed and scripted by Cretton, also includes John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Stepanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia De Veaux, Keith Stanfield and Frantz Turner. Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Larson), a twenty- something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (Gallagher Jr.)...

Check out the latest poster for the Destin Cretton-written-and-directed Short Term 12, starring Brie Larson, John Gallagher and Jr. Kaitlyn Dever. The film is a tour de force when it comes to its’ acting and stars Brie Larson (Spectacular Now) and John Gallagher Jr (Newsroom) in a story about a young foster-care supervisor who looks after troubled teens while struggling with demons from her past. Short Term 12 opens in theaters from August 23rd and informed by Cretton's own experience working with foster kids. Also in the cast of the film are Stepanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia De Veaux, Keith Stanfield and Frantz Turner.

Coming away with both the Grand Jury and the Audience Awards at SXSW, Short Term 12 premiered to very promising early reviews back in March, and is definitely set to be a must-see movie this year.

With its release date now set for the end of August across the Atlantic, Yahoo Movies have released the first trailer for the independent movie, and it is an excellent first look at the film for those of us unable to go to Austin in the spring.

“Short Term 12″ is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr). But Grace’s own difficult past – and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself – throw her into unforeseen confusion,...

Cinedigm-distributed Short Term 12 opens in theaters from August 23rd and the first trailer is up for the drama directed and written by Destin Cretin (I Am Not a Hipster). The cast includes Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Stepanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia De Veaux, Keith Stanfield and Frantz Turner. In Short Term 12, a young foster-care supervisor looks after troubled teens & reckons with her own past.

Fox has one of its better slates coming your way with the new season, especially if you take the midseason shows into account. Some of these shows may not jump out at you now as must-see, but some of them are going to take over, if I’m any judge anyway.

Clear showcase offerings Dads, Almost Human, and Us & Them are guaranteed to take off early. Almost Human has J.J. Abrams recognition to pull people in, though it looks to be a show that could flounder after a few episodes, even if I hope it doesn’t. The other two are going to become hits. Unfortunately, we have to wait until mid-season for the Gavin & Stacey remake.

Rake also looks like a winner, as long as the translation can be made to work as an Americanized product, and the show actually delivers what made the Australian original so brilliant.

Take...

Fox will announce its 2013-2014 schedule on Monday, but the network gave viewers an idea of what's to come yesterday by announcing pick-ups of four dramas and five comedies.

Among the big names headed to the network this fall: J.J. Abrams, Terry O'Quinn and Andy Samberg. Read on for a rundown of new programming...

Gang Related

Cast: Terry O’Quinn (Lost), Ramon Rodriguez (Charlie’s Angels), Jay Hernandez (Last Resort), Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious), Inbar Lavi (Underemployed), Rza, Cliff Curtis (Missing), Shantel VanSanten (One Tree Hill)

Synopsis: Follows a gang member sent in to infiltrate the San Francisco Police Department and rise through its ranks — ultimately landing on the Gang Task Force. There, he must balance his obligations to his crime family with an increasing sense of loyalty to his new “family” on the Sfpd.

Almost Human

Cast: Karl Urban (Star Trek), Michael Ealy (Common Law), Lili Taylor...

Fox has officially picked up five new comedies for its 2013-2014 season -- among them, an offering from "Family Guy" boss Seth MacFarlane and star vehicles for TV favorites Jason Ritter and Chris Meloni. The network only picked up three comedies last year.

First off, some sad news for "Parenthood" fans but great news for Jason Ritter -- he's finally found a strong pilot to lead in "Us and Them," previously known as "Friends and Family." Based on the British series "Gavin and Stacey," "Us and Them" pairs Ritter with Alexis Bledel in a long-distance rom-com.

"Law & Order: Svu" star Chris Meloni is taking a comedic turn with "Surviving Jack," based on  Justin Halpern's book "I Suck at Girls." Set in the '90s, the series comes from the team behind "S#*! My Dad Says" and also stars Alex Kapp Horner, Connor Buckley, Claudia Lee, Kevin Hernandez, and Tyler Foden.

Piggybacking on Wednesday’s drama pickups, Fox has ordered five new comedy series for the 2013-14 season, including the Jason Ritter/Alexis Bledel romantic satire Us & Them (fka Friends & Family) and the Andy Samberg-fronted sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Also receiving series orders from the network are the military-themed Enlisted, Chris Meloni’s Surviving Jack and Seth MacFarlane’s previously-greenlit live-action sitcom Dads.

Among the noteworthy comedy pilots not getting the go-ahead from Fox: Rob Riggle’s Gabriels and the Kelli Garner starrer Two Wrongs. (Fox’s complete development slate can be found here.)

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Boss alum Troy Garity has joined ABC‘s untitled John Leguizamo comedy pilot, co-created and starring Leguizamo and based on his life as a husband, father and fish out of water on New York’s Upper West Side. Garity, repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment, plays Crash, a loyal friend of John’s from the Old Neighborhood who was a talented graffiti artist and now is John’s personal assistant and lives in the basement of John’s brownstone. Argentinian actor Ezekiel Stremiz has joined Fox comedy pilot Two Wrongs. It centers on Zach (Jake Hoffman) and Jenny (Kelli Garner), a couple whose friends and family don’t think they are right for each other. Recent Hollywood transplant Stremiz, repped by Apa and DePaz Management, plays Johnny, Jenny’s unbelievably sexy ex-boyfriend. Beatrice Rosen has been cast in the CBS drama pilot Backstrom, about Everett Backstrom, an overweight, offensive, irascible detective as he tries,...

The New Adventures of Old Christine‘s Alex Kapp Horner has joined Fox’s currently untitled comedy adaptation of Justin Halpern’s book, I Suck at Girls.

Horner will play Joanne Dunlevy, wife to Chris Meloni’s Jack, in the single-camera pilot from Cougar Town‘s Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and $#*! My Dad Says‘ Halpern and Patrick Schumacker.

Related | Pilot Season 2013: Get Scoop on All This Fall’s (Possible) Newcomers

The project tells the story of “a boy becoming a man and a man becoming a father, in a time before ‘coming of age’ was something you could Google.

The distribution and reception to Mel Gibson’s latest starring role in How I Spent My Summer Vacation (aka Get the Gringo) is a real sign of just how far this former box office king has fallen.

The film played for barely a week in UK cinemas and went direct to DVD in the states. Even the inferior The Beaver got a proper cinema release despite the surrounding controversy. It’s almost impossible to view the man’s work now without his personal shenanigans in the back of your mind but taken on its own terms, How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a proper return to the amoral badass Gibson made his own in films like Payback and Mad Max.

Beginning with a full tilt police chase at the Us-Mexican border after a bank robbery, the film is hard-boiled, grubby neo noir all the way. The opening scene fills...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Stars: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris, Kevin Hernandez, Tenoch Huerta, Bob Gunton, Aaron Cohen | Written byAdrian Grunberg, Mel Gibson | Directed by Adrian Grunberg

Everybody’s favourite anti-Semite Mel Gibson returns to our screens in How I Spent My Summer Vacation, a back to basics action thriller set in a Mexican prison. The film was formerly known as Get the Gringo – is it too preposterous to presume that after the latest allegations involving Gibson’s intolerance ‘issues’, the film’s distributors decided to opt out of lumbering their film with a title that carries anything approaching baggage pertaining to race? Maybe. Whatever the reason, a pretty full-on actioner has been given the kind of title one would probably assume belongs to a weak Katherine Heigl rom com.

The film begins with Gibson driving a getaway car in a clown mask with a bag full of someone else’s money,...

by Vadim Rizov

The films of cinematic multi-hyphenates like Vincent Gallo and Jerry Lewis are beloved for presenting their egotism and naked need for approval in odd, self-interrogating, strangely disarming form. In a much less sophisticated way, Get the Gringo offers a terrifying chance to romp through Mel Gibson's id. He's just one of three credited writers on this pulpy action-thriller and didn't direct, but at least a superficial grasp of the Gibson persona (including his well-documented personal problems) is essential to making sense of a movie that would otherwise be inexplicable.

Gibson's in a Mexican jail, apprehended by corrupt police who snatch his $5 million in cash before leaving him to rot. The prison is a sort of semi-free-enterprise experiment, based on the long-closed Baja penal colony El Pueblito, where prisoners governed themselves and free enterprise, especially in drug sales, was openly practiced. (Predictably, richer convicts took control and charged outrageous rates for shelter,...

Get the Gringo, the latest action-comedy starring Mel Gibson, will be making its debut on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download July 17, 2012

Before the film comes home, it will be making an appearance at Sdcc at Fox Booth #4313, where attendees can pre-order the film and participate in numerous activities. Fans will also be treated to loads of cool swag, including an exclusive mini-poster where fans are tasked to find the ‘Gringo’s’.

In addition to the mini-posters, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will be hosting a few fun activities to promote the release, including photo-ops with Lucha libre wrestlers and sexy ring girls (on Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14, 2012).

Attendees can also take part in the #GetheGringo San Diego Comic-con social media experience. The ring girls will be carrying posters with an exclusive Qr code and fans who scan the code, post photos of the wrestlers via Twitter (using #GettheGringo) or upload pictures to Facebook,...

So. A young babysitter takes their three young charges on an ill-advised trip into the big city. What should be a simple errand turns into chaos, as the four find themselves on the run from dangerous men, bouncing from one outrageous situation to the next, desperately trying to resolve their issues and beat the parents back home. Thrilling, exciting, and downright hilarious. Now fast forward twenty-five years, strip away all that is smart, good-natured, and well written from Adventures in Babysitting, (or A Night on the Town, depending on where you live), and you end up with this Jonah Hill comedy vehicle, David Gordon Green’s The Sitter.

Hill plays Noah Griffith, a loveable, jobless loser, still living with his Mum, and unlucky in love. You could have guessed that though, right? Forced to babysit three tweens, things take a wrong turn when he agrees, on the promise of sex,...

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Outburst after outburst, toil after toil, and Mel Gibson incredulously plods on, albeit in less familiar forms. His last film, the criminally underrated The Beaver, was a box office flop, likely not just for its peculiar premise, but due to Gibson’s much-publicised – and seemingly never-ending – array of personal demons. That his latest film, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, did not even secure American theatrical distribution – instead opting for the Video-on-Demand route earlier this month – is a worrying sign for the actor’s career, but controversy aside, pound-for-pound, he can still spit expletives and shoot guns with the best of his caste.

No matter the criticisms people will have of Gibson the man, Gibson the actor will never be criticised for half-assing his way through an assignment. That the first sight we see of the actor is him decked out in a clown outfit, fleeing...

Mel Gibson attempts to reboot his career with the crime caper, How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Here’s Michael’s review of a surprisingly good action film...

Let’s face it. If you were Mel Gibson, you would want a holiday. But he’s not jetting off into the sunset just yet. No, with his public reputation in tatters, and his movie career in freefall, the actor-filmmaker has drafted his own action-packed comeback, the sweat-soaked, bullet-ridden lark How I Spent My Summer Vacation.

Gibson stars as a grizzled career criminal - a Man-With-No-Name listed in the production notes as Driver - who within minutes literally jumps the USA-Mexico border with a car full of cash. Apprehended by the corrupt Mexican police force, the crook is banged up in an open-plan prison-cum-slum, while the coppers make off with the dough. Left to fend for himself in this minimum-security favela, Driver...

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

“It’s Mel Gibson” is what I kept thinking for the first 10 minutes of “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” or “Get the Gringo” if you live in the States. Once one of Hollywood’s most bankable actors, Mel Gibson’s spectacular fall from grace means that when he is starring in a new film, it’s like spending time with an old friend that doesn’t come around too often.

In “How I Spent My Summer Vacation,” Mel Gibson plays a criminal (known only as Driver) in a getaway car being chased by police along the Mexican border. Desperate to escape, Driver steers his car over a mound of dirt and goes straight through the border wall and into Mexico. However, waiting for him on the other side are corrupt Mexican police officials who, after noticing the car is full of money, take Gibson into custody.

The Sitter

Stars: Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor, Sam Rockwell, J.B. Smoove, Max Records, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez, Kylie Bunbury | Written by Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka | Directed by David Gordon Green

Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green follows up the less-than-stellar Your Highness with yet another stoner comedy, this time teaming up with another of Hollywood’s funny fat men, Jonah Hill, in a film that is in essence a remake of the Chris Columbus directed 80?s classic Adventures in Babysitting by way of Uncle Buck and Hill’s own uber-hit Superbad. And as a fan of both movies that’s not a bad thing.

If you’ve seen the aforementioned Adventures in Babysitting the plot will be all too familiar: Noah Griffith (Hill) is a slacker, a college drop-out and fantastic at eating girls out… He’s also the world’s most irresponsible babysitter. In fact he’s not really a babysitter at all,...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Stars: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris, Kevin Hernandez, Tenoch Huerta, Bob Gunton, Aaron Cohen | Written by Adrian Grunberg, Mel Gibson | Directed by Adrian Grunberg

Everybody’s favourite anti-Semite Mel Gibson returns to our screens in How I Spent My Summer Vacation, a back to basics action thriller set in a Mexican prison. The film was formerly known as Get the Gringo – is it too preposterous to presume that after the latest allegations involving Gibson’s intolerance ‘issues’, the film’s distributors decided to opt out of lumbering their film with a title that carries anything approaching baggage pertaining to race? Maybe. Whatever the reason, a pretty full-on actioner has been given the kind of title one would probably assume belongs to a weak Katherine Heigl rom com.

The film begins with Gibson driving a getaway car in a clown mask with a bag...

Chicago – Originally titled “How I Spent My Summer Vacation,” Mel Gibson’s latest star vehicle is taking an unusual road to your viewing pleasure, bypassing theatrical release and even skipping Blu-ray/DVD for a debut this week on DirecTV On Demand. Is this the new delivery system of the future? The new way to watch movies that, for whatever reason, couldn’t make it to the multiplex? It’s too soon to tell but a technology like this is going to need a surprisingly-good flick to draw viewers to it. “Get the Gringo” is not a surprising flick in any way, unless you find mediocrity surprising.

Rating: 2.0/5.0

“Get the Gringo” has a tone that’s notably reminiscent of Elmore Leonard in the way that the man who created Chili Palmer and Raylan Givens has an amazing gift at making lowlifes and their unique situations cool, entertaining, and genuine. The script by Mel Gibson,...

On the same day that Mel Gibson’s new movie, the enjoyably junky and excessively violent “Get the Gringo” (formerly “How I Spent My Summer Vacation”), was shown in an advance screening across the country via a bizarre satellite transmission (based out of Austin, Texas), another expletive-laced Gibson rant was unleashed on the internet (this time, instead of his estranged girlfriend, Gibson’s ire was directed at “Showgirls” screenwriter Joe Eszterhas). It was a perfectly timed example of the duality of Gibson the artist (he not only stars in ‘Gringo’ but also co-wrote and produced) and Gibson the unhinged fucking madman. It’s enough to make you wonder if maybe Gibson hasn’t succeeded despite his obvious insanity, but because of it, especially since “Get the Gringo” is so insanely entertaining.

“Get the Gringo,” which is ingloriously debuting on pay satellite channels instead of actual, you know, theaters, opens in...

Mel Gibson.s action flick Get the Gringo will debut on DirectTV on Tuesday, May 1st! An Icon Production, Get the Gringo is an explosive action filmed infused with dark comedy directed by Adrian Grunberg from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mel Gibson and produced by Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey and Stacy Perskie. Filmed in Mexico, the film also stars Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Jesus Ochoa, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Kevin Hernandez, Fernando Becerril, Mayra Serbullo, Mario Zaragoza, Gerardo Taracena, Tenoch Huerta and Peter Gerety. During a high-speed car chase with the Us Border Patrol and a bleeding body in his back seat, Driver (Mel Gibson) violently crashes his car into the border wall as he tries to outrun...

The movie Get the Gringo premiered in Austin at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar last Wednesday night, followed by a special Q&A with producer and star Mel Gibson (seen above on the red carpet), young actor Kevin Hernandez, director Adrian Grunberg and producer Stacy Perskie. What made this Q&A moderated by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News so special was that it was streamed live to audiences in nine other cities that viewed a simultaneous screening of the film along with Austin. Audience members were able to submit questions directly to Knowles via the internet.

In Get the Gringo, Gibson portrays Driver, a career criminal who is nabbed by corrupt Mexican police and then hidden away in a tough prison where he must learn to survive through his own street smarts along with the help of a 9-year-old boy and a not so reputable U.S. Consulate representative.

Plot: After a mad dash to the Mexican border, a criminal (Mel Gibson) is captured by federales, and sent to a Mexican prison- which is so crooked that the co-ed inmates not only have access to drugs, prostitutes, and all the other comforts of a sordid existence, but their families are even allowed to join them inside for the duration of their sentence. Inside, the out of place gringo is taught to survive by a young boy (Kevin Hernandez) whose mother is serving a sentence for drug smuggling,...

Mel Gibson starrer Get the Gringo gets new clips as well as images for the actioner from Fox Home Entertainment. Pic helmed by Adrian Grunberg from the script by Mel Gibson, Stacy Perskie and Grunberg, opens finds release via Video On Demand on May 1st. Cast also includes Peter Stormare, Dean Morris, Bob Gunton, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Jesus Ochoa, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Kevin Hernandez, Fernando Becerril, Mayra Serbullo, Mario Zaragoza, Gerardo Taracena, Tenoch Huerta and Peter Gerety. During a high-speed car chase with the Us Border Patrol and a bleeding body in his back seat, Driver (Mel Gibson) violently crashes his car into the border wall as he tries to outrun them. Driver survives the crash only to land inside a hard-core Mexican prison where he enters the strange and dangerous world of "El Pueblito." He finds unlikely guidance from a 10-year-old kid who shows him the ropes...

Mel Gibson starrer Get the Gringo gets new clips as well as images for the actioner from Fox Home Entertainment. Pic helmed by Adrian Grunberg from the script by Mel Gibson, Stacy Perskie and Grunberg, opens finds release via Video On Demand on May 1st. Cast also includes Peter Stormare, Dean Morris, Bob Gunton, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Jesus Ochoa, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Kevin Hernandez, Fernando Becerril, Mayra Serbullo, Mario Zaragoza, Gerardo Taracena, Tenoch Huerta and Peter Gerety. During a high-speed car chase with the Us Border Patrol and a bleeding body in his back seat, Driver (Mel Gibson) violently crashes his car into the border wall as he tries to outrun them. Driver survives the crash only to land inside a hard-core Mexican prison where he enters the strange and dangerous world of "El Pueblito." He finds unlikely guidance from a 10-year-old kid who shows him the ropes...

Mel Gibson's latest movie How I Spent My Summer Vacation has released a new video clip exclusively through Digital Spy. The film, which will be titled Get the Gringo in the Us, sees Gibson take on the role of 'Driver', a criminal who learns to survive in a Mexican prison with the help of a 10-year-old boy. Watch the exclusive How I Spent My Summer Vacation clip below:

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Trailer for Get the Gringo, starring Mel Gibson. Get the Gringo stars Mel Gibson as Driver, an American criminal who violently crashes his car into the border wall as he tries to outrun the U.S. Border Patrol. Driver survives the crash only to land inside a hard-core Mexican prison where he enters the strange and dangerous world of “El Pueblito.” Driver finds unlikely guidance from a 10-year-old kid who shows him the ropes. Also in the cast are Peter Stormare, Dean Norris, Bob Gunton, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Jesus Ochoa, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Kevin Hernandez, Fernando Becerril, Mayra Serbullo, Mario Zaragoza, Gerardo Taracena, Tenoch Huerta and Peter Gerety. Gibson also produces the film alongside Bruce Davey and Stacy Perskie, and scripts with director Adrian Grunberg, and Perskie.

Trailer for Get the Gringo, starring Mel Gibson. Get the Gringo stars Mel Gibson as Driver, an American criminal who violently crashes his car into the border wall as he tries to outrun the U.S. Border Patrol. Driver survives the crash only to land inside a hard-core Mexican prison where he enters the strange and dangerous world of “El Pueblito.” Driver finds unlikely guidance from a 10-year-old kid who shows him the ropes. Also in the cast are Peter Stormare, Dean Morris, Bob Gunton, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Jesus Ochoa, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Kevin Hernandez, Fernando Becerril, Mayra Serbullo, Mario Zaragoza, Gerardo Taracena, Tenoch Huerta and Peter Gerety. Gibson also produces the film alongside Bruce Davey and Stacy Perskie, and scripts with director Adrian Grunberg, and Perskie.

Trailer for Get the Gringo, starring Mel Gibson. Get the Gringo stars Mel Gibson as Driver, an American criminal who violently crashes his car into the border wall as he tries to outrun the U.S. Border Patrol. Driver survives the crash only to land inside a hard-core Mexican prison where he enters the strange and dangerous world of “El Pueblito.” Driver finds unlikely guidance from a 10-year-old kid who shows him the ropes. Also in the cast are Peter Stormare, Dean Norris, Bob Gunton, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Jesus Ochoa, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Kevin Hernandez, Fernando Becerril, Mayra Serbullo, Mario Zaragoza, Gerardo Taracena, Tenoch Huerta and Peter Gerety. Gibson also produces the film alongside Bruce Davey and Stacy Perskie, and scripts with director Adrian Grunberg, and Perskie.

Here's the latest Austin (and a little Dallas) movie news, as well as some upcoming events.

The Dallas Film Society announced that actress Laura Linney will be honored with a Dallas Star Award at the Dallas Film Society Honors on April 20. "A Conversation with Laura Linney" will follow the awards at 11 am on April 21 at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The Dallas International Film Festival will begin Thursday, April 12 with the screening of the movie Liberal Arts, starring Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Zac Efron and Josh Radnor. In addition, Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater's latest film, Bernie (Don's review), has been added to the fest's schedule. Jette and J.C. will be at the fest this year watching and writing about Austin and Texas movies.The movie Get the Gringo will have a premiere screening in Austin this month, with the film's star and co-writer Mel Gibson in attendance.

Chicago – Jonah Hill is Everywhere. He was just on the Oscars for his nominated work in “Moneyball,” his work in “21 Jump Street” still stands high on the box office chart, and previews for “Neighborhood Watch” with Ben Stiller & Vince Vaughn have been lighting up theaters. And then there’s “The Sitter,” probably the least of these four films but a reasonable rental if you’re looking for a new comedy and a Blu-ray release that comes with some pretty funny deleted scenes and other bonus material.

While David Gordon Green’s “Your Highness” was a complete failure, his second 2011 comedy was more of a near-miss (and the 25 minutes of deleted footage on the Blu-ray reveal that it was even closer to working than I suspected after my theatrical screening). It’s more of a disappointment than pure torture. And Hill’s stellar comic timing is actually the best thing about it,...

Lionsgate have just sent over the first UK poster and trailer for their new movie starring Mel Gibson with the title ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation. he movie sees Mel Gibson in his first action movie for some years and I’m really hoping (like The Beaver) that he puts in an amazing performance. Could it be a new Lethal Weapon or has that time been and gone for Mel? I guess we’ll see.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation is directed by Adrian Grunberg and also stars Peter Stormare, Bob Gunton, Dean Norris, Scott Cohen, Patrick Bauchau. It’ll be with us May 11th.

It’s been a bad day for Driver (Gibson) and it’s not getting any better. He just made a big haul of millions that would give him a nice summer vacation on easy street. A good idea that went south – literally.

During...

I’m starting to wonder, truly and sincerely, if David Gordon Green is suffering from one of those brain tumors that radically alters one’s personality. It’s the only explanation for how he could go from making sensitive indie dramas to a series of studio “comedies” in which he continually one-ups himself for awfulness. I didn’t think a flick could be worse than Green’s rapey medieval “romp” Your Highness, but The Sitter tries its damnedest, with its oversexualized grade-school diva who isn’t merely appalling within the context of the (flimsy) story but actually makes me wonder whether the things young actress Landry Bender had to do and say and sing on set didn’t constitute a sort of child abuse. (Surely this film would not have been possible prior to the rise of Toddlers and Tiaras and the willingness of stage parents to let their small...

Originally titled How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Get the Gringo stars Mel Gibson and was shot almost two years ago by director Adrian Grunberg, a long-time second unit director that worked on Gibson's Apocalyto as well as Steven Soderbergh's Traffic and Amores Perros for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu to name a few. The film, however, isn't as dire as those three films as I'm sure you've already ascertained based on the title alone. The story centers on a career criminal by the name of Driver (Gibson), who, during a high-speed car chase with the U.S. Border Patrol and a bleeding body in his back seat, crashes into the border wall as he tries to escape. He survives, only to be placed inside a hard-core Mexican prison where he enters the strange and dangerous world of "El Pueblito." There, he finds unlikely survival guidance from a 10-year-old kid (Kevin Hernandez...

After sitting on the shelf and collecting dust for the past two years, the first trailer for Mel Gibson’s latest actioner ‘Get the Gringo’ has finally got its first trailer. The movie was originally called How I Spent My Summer, and with the way the trailer flowed it should have stuck with that title. But the movie is called Get the Gringo, and from the looks of things looks pretty decent. The film was written by Gibson, with cowriting and directing credits going to Adrian Grunberg. Stacy Perskie produced.

You can check out the first trailer to Get the Gringo below. Thanks to TheFilmStage for the embed.

Looking at the trailer, the movie looks like it can be a fun actioner filled with some comedic punches. But the latter seems to disappear into the wayside halfway through as the trailer gets more serious when we find out more about Gibson’s character.

Following his various personal scandals, former A-lister Mel Gibson struggled to find Hollywood players willing to bet on him or his work. It seemed his only friend was actress/director Jodie Foster, who stuck by him while promoting their collaboration The Beaver. The drama, which starred Gibson as a furious man who tries to channel his rage with the help of a furry hand puppet, drew mostly positive reviews from critics, but failed to win audiences over, pulling in less than $1 million domestically. Thus Gibson bankrolled his next feature Get the Gringo (formerly How I Spent My Summer Vacation) himself under the banner of his production company, Icon Productions. The action-drama throws Gibson back into the kind of roles he played in his heyday, meaning a smug but charismatic action-star. Here he plays a career criminal who unexpectedly bonds with a young boy (Kevin Hernandez) after being busted in Mexico.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

David Gordon Green has certainly had one of the more peculiar career trajectories of any young director, starting out with grimly effective dramas like George Washington and Snow Angels, before unleashing his uniquely caustic brand of comedy with the uneven Pineapple Express, and finally opting for the more conventional – not to mention hugely disappointing – fantasy jaunt Your Highness. His latest, The Sitter, though passable enough and mercifully short, never seems sure quite what it wants to be, and the jarring tonal shifts ensure it fails to sufficiently satisfy as either a rambunctious comedy or a nuanced character study.

It does at least get to the point quickly; Noah (Jonah Hill) is a suspended college student who, to ensure his mother can go out on her first date in years, babysits the neighbours’ three kids. They are equivocally an odd bunch – there’s the self-indulgent, angsty teenage...

Jonah Hill may appear to have grown up in Moneyball, and got some intellectual credibility in an adult environment, but he reverts back to the same self-depreciating man-boy role we all know him for in David Gordon Green’s new mainstream comedy, The Sitter. It’s really a half-hearted, mischievous Noughties twist on zany 1980s comedy adventure, A Night on the Town – more commonly known as Adventures in Babysitting, starring Elizabeth Shue, but minus the hot babysitter and the child-friendly fun.

Hill is immature Noah Griffith, a suspended college student fixated on one sexy girl down the road, Marisa (Ari Graynor), who he gives ‘personal favours’ to. Planning to hook up again later that night, Noah begrudgingly agrees to stand in and baby-sit instead, so that his mother can go on a date. Inexperienced and out of his depth, Noah is tasked with looking after the neighbours’ three dysfunctional kids: an anxiety-riddled,...

The Sitter

Stars: Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor, Sam Rockwell, J.B. Smoove, Max Records, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez, Kylie Bunbury | Written by Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka | Directed by David Gordon Green

Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green follows up the less-than-stellar Your Highness with yet another stoner comedy, this time teaming up with another of Hollywood’s funny fat men, Jonah Hill, in a film that is in essence a remake of the Chris Columbus directed 80′s classic Adventures in Babysitting by way of Uncle Buck and Hill’s own uber-hit Superbad. And as a fan of both movies that’s not a bad thing.

If you’ve seen the aforementioned Adventures in Babysitting the plot will be all too familiar: Noah Griffith (Hill) is a slacker, a college drop-out and fantastic at eating girls out… He’s also the world’s most irresponsible babysitter. In fact he’s not really a babysitter at all,...

New 'The Sitter' Jonah Hill movie delivered outrageous comedy,drama & more. 20th Century Fox Recently released their new Jonah Hill,branded,comedy flick "The Sitter." I just checked it out today,and thought it was funny as hell. Jonah Hill always cracks me up. The movie served up a lot of laughs. There was one scene,I'll mention later, that was really very shocking. It stars: Jonah Hill, Sam Rockwell, Max Records, Kevin Hernandez, Landry Bender, J.B. Smoove,and Method Man. In the flick, character Noah Griffith (Jonah Hill) hasn't really done much with his life,and is currently trying to date a girl who really isn't interested in him,but certainly doesn't mind stringing him along. He finally ends up doing something for someone else other than himself when his mother asks him to babysit one of her friend's kids so she can go out on a date,...

Jonah Hill headlines a movie for the first time. So then: is The Sitter a quality, R-rated comedy to round off the year? Er...

Noah (Jonah Hill) is a nice guy. We know this because, as his semi-girlfriend Marisa (Ari Graynor) says in the movie’s cold opening - after some moaning and writhing from the lady in question - nice guys give the best oral sex. Aside from that, Noah’s not got much on the ball. He’s got no job, he’s got no prospects, he’s a college drop-out, and he’s even kind of a jerk to his hapless mother.

Still, when he absolutely has to step up and do something nice for someone else, he eventually comes around. He always comes around in an attempt to please the people around him, starting with agreeing to babysit the children of his mother’s friends Dr and Mrs.