Oh yeah, we're all going to hell in a handbasket.

I hereby declare at the year's halfway point that the funniest (non-"Pineapple Express") movie I've seen so far is "Hamlet 2," a blissfully demented flick that feels like the best elements of "Anchorman," "Waiting for Guffman" and "Being John Malkovich," all thrown into a blender and set to puree.

The film is powered by a performance that should finally make Steve Coogan a star here in the states. At the beginning of the film he's a D-level actor whose wife hates him, reduced to teaching the dramatic arts at an Arizona high school where the students mock him while he rollerskates to work; from there, his life just gets worse. Read more...

U2, P-Diddy, Morgan Spurlock and Charlize Theron were just a few of Hollywood's elite who took to the slopes of Sundance this past week to showcase their films – and my colleagues at MTV News spoke with all of them.

But forget the stars. From ground zero here in Los Angeles, the bird's eye view of the Festival was full of dollars, not Cents (as in 50), meaning big paydays for the following filmmakers:

"Hamlet 2": Hamlet tells his friend Horatio that "There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in [his] philosophy." Yeah, no kidding, apparently there was a whole other story! The comedy flick with Steve Coogan as a teacher who writes a Shakespearean sequel sold to Focus Features for $10 million, easily the tops of the festival. And they said he was indecisive.
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