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‘Piranha 3D,’ the Oscar campaign

By Steven Zeitchikwriter 

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The novelty wears a little thin in this spoof video for the blood-in-the-water comedy ‘Piranha 3D,’ in which the movie’s actors plead for an Oscar. But Paul Scheer (‘You got so many of them; just give us one’) and Adam Scott (‘There’s enough CG in this movie to nominate us for best animated feature’) elicit a chuckle, just as the notion of a thousand bikini-clad spring-breakers getting their heads bitten off elicits a chuckle. Next up for the movie’s cast: a nighttime swim with Tom Sherak.

--Steven Zeitchik

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Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

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