Hollywood Feeds Weed Habit

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Stoners rejoice! There's yet another Harold & Kumar movie coming down the line. Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, the geniuses behind Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay, have signed on to write and direct another one for Mandate pictures.

We know what you're thinking. The first one was pretty enjoyable, but the Guantánamo Bay one looked like what that annoying guy from last season's Project Runway would call a "hot trannie mess." But actually, we think we saw it sober and still really enjoyed it. Beneath the layers of stoner stupidity (we write that lovingly) and Neil Patrick Harris cameos, there was some pretty intelligent commentary on post-9/11 racialism. Kal Penn and John Cho, the stars from the first two flicks, are also expected to return for the third one.

Mandate Pictures president Nathan Kahane says: "Thanks to Jon and Hayden, the Harold and Kumar movies pushed envelopes, broke boundaries and connected with fans." Translation: making these stoner flicks is a pretty cheap enterprise and even if they don't do huge at the box office, they sell a lot of DVDs. Guantánamo Bay cost just $12 million to make. While it only made $38 million in theaters, it's hoped it will sell well when the DVD comes out next week. The first Harold & Kumar made more than $30 million on DVD sales, nearly double what it did at the box office. The continuation of the Harold and Kumar franchise is just another puff on Hollywood's growing obsession with the wacky weed.

Stoners getting stoned is this year's pregnant chic and unplanned pregnancy. In addition to Hurwitz and Schlossberg, we have the man who also brought us that big preggers movie last year to thank: Judd Apatow. While nearly all Apatow flicks play homage to immature men and the ganja that helps them stay that way, his latest is taking things a step further. On August 6, the Apatow produced and penned Pineapple Express comes to theaters. In case you hadn't noticed by the huge posters of stoned and obliterated Seth Rogens and James Francos dotting your metropolis, this is a movie about pot—more specifically, a pothead and a pot dealer who witness a murder. Spark up.





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