Community has often, hilariously compared itself to The Breakfast Club.
Now, in an inspired bit of casting, one of the stars from that iconic film will guest star on the NBC sitcom.
TV Guide Magazine confirms that Anthony Michael Hall will appear on a the December 10 episode. His character will brawl with Joel McHale's Jeff Winger.

“We all freaked out when Hall’s casting was announced. I blushed profusely," said Alison Brie (Annie). "I couldn’t help but let him know that I’ve been a big fan. It’s funny, because Annie’s the nerdy character, and we referenced The Breakfast Club in the pilot and in episodes.
Over two decades ago, Hall also appeared with Community's Chevy Chase in the comedy Vacation. »
- matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)

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In the past ten years MODERNCINÉ has been dedicated to making high-quality, groundbreaking and edgy horror films avoiding clichés and complacency in favor of original ideas and memorable performances. Founded by Andrew van den Houten during his college years, Andrew began producing and directing a number of award-winning short films including the 2005 multiple award winning Headspace, MODERNCINÉ's first full-length feature. Headspace began a winning streak for Van den Houten producing Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door and Home Movie (directed by Christopher Denham [1]) which  received favorable reviews at Montreal's [2] 2008 Fantasia Film Festival [3]. Recently Sound On Sight had a chance to catch up with Andrew and discuss his recent release, Offspring. 1- Offspring is your debut feature. Aside from the practical challenges, how was working on a feature different than a short, in terms of creative challenges? - I have made six features and Offspring was my fifth.  Working on »
- Ricky

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Is Lost planning an homage to John Hughes?  The ever vigilant Ryan from TheTransmission passed on some details regarding a day of shooting that, among other things, suggested: Mario Van Pebbles onset as a guest director or producer; fan favorites Locke and Ben possibly taking on the role of substitute teachers; second stringers Alex Rousseau and Leslie Arzt; and, Ryan has exclusively revealed to us the identity of a certain William Atherton's character.  Anyway you slice the scoops, one thing is clear:  this episode of Lost is high-school centric.
Atherton's appearance on Lost was first revealed through some teasing tweets from Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse, and we now know he will be playing the part of Principal Reynolds.   Tell me this guy wasn't born to play a bad ass principal.  Arzt, as you will recall, was a junior high science teacher so it appears we will see him back in his role, »
- Jon Lachonis

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Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, has signed a first look deal with Paramount Pictures to bring more low-budget genre films to the studio.
Since its creation in 2001 by Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form, Platinum Dunes has primarily focused on horror remakes including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, and the upcoming redo of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
As an arm of Paramount, the company will continue to focus on what they’ve built their name on, like a new original project “The Butcherhouse Chronicles” being described as “The Breakfast Club in a haunted house.”  Though the new deal will allow them to expand to thrillers and action films as well.  It’ll be nice to see them try something new and hopefully it won’t shift to the bright idea of remaking classic thrillers instead.
The deal and its timing could mean Paramount and Platinum Dunes »
- Jeff Leins

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When informed people (like those over at Collider, who brought this to our attention) think Platinum Dunes, they recall the production company owned by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.  When I think Platinum Dunes, I imagine that Kanye West “Dancing in the Desert” music video.
But I digress.
Platinum Dunes has signed a first-look deal with Paramount, starting with their next film, The Butcherhouse Chronicles.  A first-look deal, for those who don’t know, is (very briefly) an agreement in which a Party A (Paramount) has the right to pick up a project before Party B (Dunes) can offer it to anyone else.
 

The Butcherhouse Chronicles is a thriller that follows teenagers into an allegedly haunted house.  Collider tells us the producers are calling it “The Breakfast Club in a haunted house” - although I swear that’s been the catchy pitch for 20 other movies in the last decade. »
- Scott Miller

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Paramount Pictures has inked a first-look producing deal with Platinum Dunes, the genre division run by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, according to Variety.
The Platinum Dunes deal puts him and his partners in position to be the go-to guys for low-budget fright fare.
"We offer a valuable service to the studio, especially with all this turmoil going on in the business right now, in that we do things cheaply, and we've had a lot of success with it," Bay said. "Through the first two 'Transformers' films, I've gotten to know the studio very well, and I've got a good rhythm with them. I'm excited about this."
The Paramount relationship gets under way with The Butcherhouse Chronicles, a thriller that is being scripted by Stephen Susco and is being likened to The Breakfast Club in a haunted house. The producers have also come aboard the Paramount project Property of the State, »

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Perhaps tied a little too closely to the generic plot arc of a sports film, Whip It nevertheless delivers a fun time and a long overdue worthwhile return to generational exploration. It is unfortunately macabre now to say that there is no John Hughes working in Hollywood today, but there hasn't been since the mid-80's, and while Drew Barrymore is not remotely John Hughes, Whip It is at least a cleverly-expressed attempt. Had we someone at the helm who could really pull at the small nuances and milk every scene for all it's worth (in the good way), this one would in all likelihood have been able to rock you to the core and shoot to instant classic status. Remember the first time you say The Breakfast Club, or Ferris Bueller's Day Off? That kind of potential is in here. As it stands, we only have a really good effort, »
- Marc Eastman

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Platinum Dunes, the company owned by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form has signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures - whom Bay has worked with on the “Transformers” movies. Now it’s being reported that Platinum’s next film will be “The Butcherhouse Chronicles”, which is being described as “The Breakfast Club” in a haunted house. More details after the jump.
Since its inception, Platinum Dunes has predominantly been a production company that specializes in making genre pictures (typically horror) that have strong name recognition (typically remakes) and that are made at a relatively low cost. This system has brought decent financial success to Platinum Dunes with its “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” releases, among others. Its newest addition to the remake canon “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” starring Academy Award-nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley as the horror heavy Freddie Krueger, looks to continue the streak. »
- Adam Charles

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Wow, what a pointless remake.
I’m sitting here wracking my brain, trying to understand what could have possibly motivated the folks who remade the 1980 movie Fame.
Any updating they did was purely superficial. On the contrary, the original was far grittier, just as inclusive (if not more so, as I’ll explain in a minute), and gave you a much better sense of the emotional cost to a life in the arts.
And if the point was just to eschew reality and make an entertaining fantasy version of a school for the arts – a sort of High School Musical for older teens -- well, the 1980s Fame series was far more entertaining than this current movie too.
The only possible motivation I can see is money. But as all the instructors at the school in the movie say again and again, art must be “truthful” and “authentic” or there »
- Brent Hartinger

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Before you can say "The Breakfast Club," Community begins challenging stereotypes while also arguing that community college is one of the great equalizers.
The funny thing about being smart is that you can get through most of life without having to do any work. -- Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) Community gets the obvious jokes out of the way early. Tracking out from a shot of an idyllic college campus full of busy-seeming students, the scene soon reveals that the bells tolling in the background are coming not from a ivy-covered tower off in the distance, but from a dodgy boom box operated by an incompetent dean fumbling his way through a Welcome Week speech. And so, within the first minutes of NBC's new… »
- By Daynah Burnett

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