During his SXSW Film Festival Q&A, David Gordon Green revealed a few small, but key details about “Eastbound & Down” the HBO show created by his good filmmaker friends, Ben Best and Jody Hill, starring Danny McBride. The trio were the team behind Hill’s breakthrough film, “The Foot Fist Way” and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are executive producers on the show. The show, if you haven’t seen it, centers on Kenny Powers (McBride), a former professional baseball pitcher, who after a disappointing career is forced to return to his hometown middle-school in Shelby, North Carolina as a substitute physical education teacher.

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AnyHOW, yeah, ‘Foot Fist Way’ wasn’t actually good*, but it did turn Danny McBride into a star. Everyone loved the film (inexplicably), the Judd Apatow crowd adored it so much, they invited him to the set of “Knocked Up,” (which lead to “Pineapple Express” and McBride pal David Gordon Green directing) and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay adored it so much they executive-produced (endorsed the finished product) the film ensuring it got a release in 2008.

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At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist.

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The only other film announced so far for SXSW is Paul Rudd and Jason Segel’s ‘bromance’ film, “I Love You, Man.”

Anna Faris, Ray Liotta, Patton Oswalt,Aziz Ansari, and Michael Peña (pictured with Rogen) also star.

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“Shorts” has a August 7, 2009 release date and features William H.

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No one tells us anything. Despite the fact that we were the only fuckers on planet earth who cared to even bother discussing the music and soundtrack to the tae kwon do comedy, “The Foot Fist Way,” somehow, the promotion of that disc was a blatant failure pile and no one notified us of shit.

Anywhooo, last time we wrote about this, we had talked to members of Pyramid, the North Carolina collective that had composed most of the film’s score, a mix of purposefully dated music or what they called, “Iron Eagle II’ meets ‘Karate Kid II’ meets ‘Flash Gordon.’ “

Last we heard a digital-only release was coming later this summer, but it looks like it was released at the end of May and is available now.

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Well, “Pineapple Express” and “The Foot Fist Way” aren’t even in theaters yet, but the buzz that both films are generating have already paid off as Universal has just green lit the project. McBride in particular is the comedic talk of the town with upcoming summer appearances yet to be seen by the public in ‘Pineapple,’ Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” and the adaptation of “”Land of the Lost” with Will Ferrell in 2009.

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Wait, no Vince Vaughn? Case in point: this small omission seems to be Danny McBride’s biggest “problem” at the moment cause everyone else in comedy Tinseltown seems to adore him. Shot two years ago on credit cards, McBride and co.screened the “The Foot Fist Way” at Sundance ’06 and Ferrell and McKay were so damn impressed they snatched the film via their production imprint and got Paramount Vantage to distrib (Comedian Patton Oswalt called the film, “a sui generis work on par with ‘The Big Lebowski‘ “)

Written by McBride, co-star Ben Best and director Jody Hill, “The Foot Fist Way” tells the tale of Fred Simmons, “king of the [instructional] demo” and an inept strip mall tae kwon do instructor who berates his students while trying to impart the wisdom and skills of the martial art he has ‘mastered’ (“Your weakness disgusts me!” Simmons yells at one of his six-year-old students).

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McBride is seemingly Hollywood’s favorite new comedian golden boy and this cult film was adored in L.A. circles that Will Ferrell and Adam Mckay (the pair behind “Anchorman” and “Talladega Nights”) quickly snatched in up at Sundance ’06 and compelled Paramount Vantage to back the film’s distribution (fans also include Jonah Hill and much of the Apatow crew, “I’m calling it right now: [McBride]’s the funniest person on the planet,” “Superbad” star Hill declared to EW a few months ago.).

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Wait, that doesn’t make any sense. Entertainment Weekly called him the next Will Ferrell, and tons of comedians including Seth Rogen and Ferrell have sung his praises, Danny R. McBride is having a moment. Or at least, he’s about to.

“I’m calling it right now: he’s the funniest person on the planet,” declared “Superbad” star Jonah Hill to EW recently.

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