jackassworld

When all the guys got together to make jackass number two in 2006, they filmed more than a movie—they filmed a movie and a half. Maybe even two. The problem was only 90 minutes of the resulting mess could be used in the final feature presentation, which left almost an hour of movie-caliber material piled up in the corner of the cutting room floor like a mound of elephant shit. Not knowing quite what to do with all this extra crap, Jeff Tremaine and Johnny Knoxville decidedly set it aside for some undecided future use.

For the better part of the year following the release of jackass number two, this cache of unseen footage remained in limbo until someone came up with the bright idea to film all new interviews with the cast about this excess of never-before-seen pranks, stunts, and random acts of behind-the-scenes mischief and stupidity, and package it up into a documentary-like feature called jackass 2.5. And to dispel any myths, rumors, or misguided notions that this was indeed the “new” jackass movie, the feature went straight to the Internet where anyone with a decent connection and half a technological brain could stream it for free.

Although this wasn’t necessarily a new jackass movie, it still proved to be every bit as funny, unbelievable, dirty, and downright sexy as its predecessors—maybe even more so at points.

Following its web debut, jackass 2.5 went straight to the DVD market with “added value” up the ass, including all the other extra footage that didn’t make the final cut, as well as featurettes on “the making of jackass 2.5,” an insightfully random look into the occupational life and times of Greg Wolf, and “the making of jackass the video game.”

Hollywood’s First Studio-Backed Broadband Movie Streamed In Its Entirety For Free

ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU – Dec. 13, 2007 – MTV New Media, Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment, both part of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), and BLOCKBUSTER® today announced they are unleashing “JACKASS 2.5,” the first-ever, studio-backed feature streamed in its entirety online. JACKASS 2.5 will be made available for free courtesy of BLOCKBUSTER at blockbuster.jackassworld.com beginning December 19th through December 31st, 2007. To mark this unprecedented event, Johnny Knoxville delivered a special message to the media on jackassworld.com, a new site and joint venture of MTV Networks and Dickhouse Productions that officially launches February 9th, 2008. (more…)

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The masturbatory act of writing about art is just that: gross self-indulgence. Me, I’ve never had a taste for it. I mean why go to such publicly embarrassing lengths when you can just sit in the bathroom and hammer it out in privacy with a much more practical end result? So instead, for this otherwise lackluster event of releasing production stills from jackass 2.5, I have appropriated some random bio done up for the photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. With but a few simple nips and tucks—indicated in brackets—I’ve magically transposed his arty crap for mine, which really calls into question the fine line between art theory and sheer idiocy. (more…)