Hey Guys,

Just a heads up, due to the Memorial Day holiday the office will be closed Monday 5/31. We’ll be announcing winners on Tuesday. The standard rules and times still apply, next week’s tournament will still start on Monday, like normal. We’ll just all be at barbecues.

Have a great Memorial Day, we’ll see you Tuesday!

The Empire Strikes Back is 30, and is the only 30 year old I know who didn’t have to move back in with his parents. In honor of the big 3-0, Spike is throwing a big party and screening a marathon of the films starting today at 1pm ET. One of last year’s winners, Star Wars In A Notebook will be screened during the marathon as well. If you’d like to have your film acknowledged by George Lucas himself and screened on TV, you should check out the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge.

Ozzy Osbourne finally found an advantage to having waxy, pasty skin and his innate ability to terrify children.  Check out Ozzy pose as the wax version of himself at the Madame Tussauds in Times Square. There’s nothing more rock ‘n roll than viral marketing!

via Access Hollywood

Our friend Scott Chernoff, remixes pop-culture weirdness (and makes it even weirder) in his new blog series: Smash’d.
Hi, I’m Scott.  Atom viewers may also know me as Gannon, the evil yet fun-loving fog monster on “The Legend of Neil.”  But I also worked on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien,” making videos for Conan’s monologue until the show ended for some weird reason – I don’t know, maybe you heard something about it.  Now I’m here at atom.com, posting new videos like this amazing interview Jesse James gave to ABC News…

In honor of Dan Fogler’s off-the-rails cop comedy, M’Larky we’re looking for a few good maniac filmmakers. Upload a video that honors the spirit of M’Larky, and Lt. Black himself will select the winning Atom Pick. That’s $500 bucks for uploading the craziest, most maniacal sketch you’ve got. It doesn’t necessarily have to match M’Larky’s vibe exactly – it doesn’t have to be about cops, or have a Gilbert Gottfried impression in it – we’re mainly looking for something that a guy like M’larky and Lt. Black would love. Black’s a guy who loves good characters and out-there comedy, so catch up on your M’Larky and get shooting. You’ll still be eligible to win top plays awards, just like normal.

Let me know when you’ve uploaded your video in the Creators Group Forum . That way I’ll be sure to pass the right videos on to Dan. And this goes without saying, but keep it safe out there, friends.

As the BK Value Meal 1$ Talent Show rumbles ever onwards (upload videos of your weird talents here!), we wanted to take the time to give credit to one particularly enterprising dude with a tripod, a little time, and a desire for a cheap Whopper Jr.

Keep jumpin’ around, kid!

* Editors Note: This is a paid endorsement by Burger King.

As we announced last week, one of the great projects we’re working on in 2010 is a sketch called Patriot Dog, from hilarious and lovely comedienne Natasha Leggero and the hilarious and lovely comedianDuncan Trusell. We just got some photos from the set, and are pleased to let you know that besides an adorable dog, Patriot Dog will also feature Thomas Lennon, from Reno 911! and The State.

Patriot Dog will arrive this summer, only on Atom.

Due to some technical difficulties (the Amiga that writes all our jokes went down for a day), episode 3 of M’Larky is going to premiere tomorrow. While you’re waiting, get caught up with Episode 2 right here:

and check out everything at the Official M’Larky Site

Here at Atom, it’s no secret that we love Derrick Comedy. We had a great conversation with Donald Glover a couple months ago that led someone in the office to dub him “The Coolest Guy In America” (it was Matt). But fine, they’re great. Their great movie Mystery Team is finally out of DVD today! For those of you who missed it on its theatrical run (and honestly, shame on you), it’s a really Fun Romp, and I give it Two Thumbs! Fun For The Entire Family (Provided Your Family Is Over 18 and Kind Of Dirty)! You’ll Laugh Til It Hurts!

Sorry, I have no idea how to write a movie review. But Mystery Team is really great and stars a sick amount of people who are extremely famous and are literally getting more famous every day. Oh look, the trailer!

The machinima revolution is a virtually blowing up (pun intended- AS USUAL) and our friends at Reallusion.com have recently launched a film making competition for Machina and Sci-fi enthusiasts. Make a short video with their super crazy iClone software and then reap the rewards.  All skill levels are encouraged to participate and they’re offering $10,000 worth of gear! The competition begins April 14, 2010 and concludes on July 4th 2010. Hit the reallusion for more info.

If you were to say, create a Star Wars Fan Movie, then you’d be killing to online-festival-birds with one machinima-stone.