{"id":361770,"date":"2026-01-09T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361770\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:42:11","slug":"new-national-lampoon-film-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361770\/","title":{"rendered":"New National Lampoon Film Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-national-lampoon-film-announced.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-national-lampoon-film-announced.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"new-national-lampoon-film-announced\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Lampoon brand is returning to the realm of feature films with \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s Hollywood Hustle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The cast includes a number of controversy-laced celebrities in its cast which includes Mickey Rourke, Alec Baldwin, Nick Cannon, Tara Reid, Danny Trejo, Til Schweiger, Carrot Top, and Patrick Warburton.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Hatton will make his directorial debut on the project, which he co-wrote with Paul Sloan.  Hatton will also star in the movie as an independent producer desperately trying to save a crumbling movie production alongside Sloan\u2019s washed-up movie star character.<\/p>\n<p>Working together, the two must try to navigate chaotic Los Angeles after someone steals the production\u2019s money.  The film is expected to tackle issues of dysfunction within the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>Cannon will play a Hollywood agent who helps Hatton\u2019s character by trying to secure Baldwin\u2019s character for the project. Baldwin, Rourke, Reid, and Trejo will all play over-the-top versions of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>National Lampoon launched with \u201cAnimal House\u201d in 1978, though is best remembered for the \u201cVacation\u201d and \u201cVan Wilder\u201d franchises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Lampoon brand is returning to the realm of feature films with \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s Hollywood Hustle\u201d. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-361770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}