A premiere of the Foo Fighters’ horror-comedy ‘Studio 666’ at the Chinese in Hollywood was followed by a lively concert at the nearby Fonda.
“This is our last show,” Dave Grohl announced at the outset of the Foo Fighters’ set Wednesday night at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood. There was an awkward silence as the invited audience waited to see if there was a punchline coming or not. And there was: “Because now we’re fucking movie stars,” he declared. Whether they have a Beatle-esque future in film comedy remains to be seen, but their first feature, “Studio 666,” is certainly light-hearted, in its own satanic way — think of it as “Help!” goes to hell — with a willingness to subject producer-stars who are playing themselves to a bloody body count not often seen since “Penn and Teller Get Killed.” The after-party concert at the Fonda followed a premiere down the street of the horror-comedy, which has all five Foo Fighters members in starring roles, along with smaller parts or cameos for Whitney Cummings, Will Forte, Jeff Garlin, Lionel Richie, a host of demons and a disemboweled raccoon. The premiere took place at the… well, where was it, Dave? “At the fucking Mann’s TCB… what did it used to be called?” he asked. It was at what is now known as the TCL — not TCB — Chinese Theatre (formerly also known as Grauman’s and, yes, in a distant era, Mann’s). “Did you like it?” Grohl asked the Fonda audience, then responded, “You’re a little too enthusiastic, I have to be honest.
