Greg Jackson, trainer to the MMA stars, has revealed the true brilliance behind his training, his ability to think outside the box and inside the strip club:

Thanks to mmamania for linking to the video and proelite.com for producing it.

If you’re not already planning to, be sure to watch Shamrock Vs. Cung Le on Showtime tonight. It should be an exciting style fight:

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Variety just informed me personally (by personally, I mean through their website) that every episode of South Park is available for viewing online through the newly launched southparkstudios.com.

Clips, not full episodes, can be embedded like so:

Entire episodes can be linked.

The site is still in beta, and I’ve already come across a bug in the video overlay functionality, but the videos themselves play fine and look decent. Also, they’re following the commercial break revenue model, so no free rides here.

I’ve been watching South Park for years, but have had entire episode runs go by unseen. These new fangled internets may come in handy after all.

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The cast of BSG invaded The Late Show with David Letterman this week and destroyed the talk show host and leader of the Cylons. Either that, or they just showed up to share the ‘Top 10 reasons to watch Battlestar Galactica.’

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In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

Variety is reporting that the A-team movie set for release by FOX on June 12, 2009. John Singleton’s directing, but there’s no cast, yet.

I think there’s a lot of potential here, for good and for evil. Let’s hope they get it right, because I pity the fools that mess up the A-team movie.

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The final season of Battlestar Galactica is getting ready to launch (April 4th). We know it’s the final season because we were told ahead of time by the show’s creators. That’s something rare and to be appreciated in the entertainment business: The conscious decision of content providers to let the content determine the length of its run more than its ratings.

Whether it’s great shows getting killed too soon (hold on Jericho!), crappy shows overstaying their welcome (the reality TV genre, in general), or once great shows slipping to good (Stargate SG1) or worse (My Name is Earl), the norm is to follow the money, not the quality.

The producers of Lost have also put a cap on their island in a bottle, although the writer’s strike has modified that plan a bit.

The point, which has surely been lost somewhere in the past few paragraphs, is that knowing that Battlestar Galactica will end on its own terms is a good thing. There’s always a catch, though, and here it is:

It has been confirmed that the long rumored and scantily reported spin-off, Caprica is in fact a go project. SCI FI Channel has given the green light to a two-hour “backdoor” pilot for the series – which means it’ll air as a TV movie (not unlike the promotion and rollout for “Razor”) – and if that’s successful it’ll get a series commitment from the network. The project is currently slated to shoot this spring and air in the fall. IGN

I’m a big BSG fan, don’t get me wrong, but I sincerely hope they take this show in a different enough direction that it is able to serve as more than just a reminder of how great that other show was. From the description [Dallas, in space (it could work)], that’s their goal.

I can’t help but hear a bomb coming, though. Make the show too different, and you lose the original audience. Keep it too close, and you would have been better off not cancelling the original in the first place. “All of this has happened before,” as they say.

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The trailer for Tropic Thunder is now online. If your initial reaction is, huh?, then perhaps we’re not as close as I thought we were.

Tropic Thunder is Ben Stiller’s latest as actor and director. It also stars Jack Black (as a comedian taking on a more serious role) and Robert Downey Jr. (as a dramatic Australian actor who turns to surgery-enhanced black-face to further commit to character).

The film is also begging to feature Powerade as a product tie-in. If ‘Tropic Thunder’ isn’t already a kickass Powerade flavor, then Coca-Cola is a failure. I know for a fact that Powerthirst won’t let this turbopun possibility pass them by.

Tropic Thunder tells the tale of a director who wants a more realistic war movie and drops his actors into a real life war zone to get it. Of course, hilarity ensues because there’s nothing funnier than war and racism.

In all seriousness, the movie looks to have a lot of potential. The trailer’s funny and shows pretty solid production value. There are also rumors of about a half dozen cameos, some confirmed, some not. The biggest is confirmed, but don’t click the link unless you really want to know. I really want to know.

It seems kind of risky for Paramount/Dreamworks to have its Summer movie action mega-star Iron Man, in Downey Jr., starring blackfaced in a race based comedy whose marketing and predictable ‘controversy’ will be picking up around the time Iron Man launches. It’s also the kind of risk with a big potential payoff, and I suppose that any time controversial news about Robert Downey Jr. has nothing to do with his personal life is a good time.

”At the end of the day, it’s always about how well you commit to the character,” he says. ”I dove in with both feet. If I didn’t feel it was morally sound, or that it would be easily misinterpreted that I’m just C. Thomas Howell in [Soul Man], I would’ve stayed home.” EW

Watch the trailer in high res here or youtube it below:

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