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Alan Yang Hits the Jackpot at 20th Century Fox

9 December 2009 3:48 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Alan Yang, who worked as a consultant on South Park before his latest stint as a writer for Parks and Recreations, has just sold his film pitch for Jackpot to 20th Century Fox. Variety describes the film as a teen version of the Kevin Spacey-headlined 21 and centers on a group of friends who win the lottery while they are still in high school. Jackpot will be produced by Michael Aguilar (Semi-Pro, What Happened in Vegas) through his newly formed, Fox-based Dos Tontos production company. The film will probably not garner the same critical recognition as Danny Boyle’s similarly themed Millions but it is always nice to see a writer break through and secure that first movie deal.

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- David Corbin

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Andy Daly Becomes Mayor In "Yogi Bear"

9 December 2009 3:31 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Andy Daly ("Semi-Pro," "Life as We Know It," "Easbound and Down") is set to play Mayor Brown in the "Yogi Bear" movie for Warner Bros. Pictures reports Variety.

Mayor Brown, who uses the city budget for his personal fun, drives the city into bankruptcy and comes up with the idea of selling Jelly Stone Park to fix his mess.

Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake and Tom Cavanaugh star in the 3D live-action/CG animated adventure which recently began shooting in New Zealand.

Eric Brevig ("Journey to the Center of the Earth") is directing from a script by Brad Copeland. …

- Garth Franklin

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Andy Daly Becomes Mayor In "Yogi Bear"

9 December 2009 3:31 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Andy Daly ("Semi-Pro," "Life as We Know It," "Easbound and Down") is set to play Mayor Brown in the "Yogi Bear" movie for Warner Bros. Pictures reports Variety.

Mayor Brown, who uses the city budget for his personal fun, drives the city into bankruptcy and comes up with the idea of selling Jelly Stone Park to fix his mess.

Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake and Tom Cavanaugh star in the 3D live-action/CG animated adventure which recently began shooting in New Zealand.

Eric Brevig ("Journey to the Center of the Earth") is directing from a script by Brad Copeland. …

- Garth Franklin

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Parks and Recreation writer hits the Jackpot

8 December 2009 11:15 PM, PST | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

It could be coming to a television set near you in about 8 months. "It" is a television show with the title of Jackpot, successfully pitched by Parks and Recreation writer/editor Alan Yang to the Fox Television Network. Hey, they gotta find something to replace Dollhouse with, right?

Yang's comedy project does have a hook that interests me: it's about what happens after a group of high school friends win the lottery. Now, that's a neat idea; every time I see a lottery winner on the TV news, they're middle-aged or older, established and entrenched in their lives and families, usually grinding away at a 9-to-5 job that they can't seem to bring themselves to quit even though it seems to have aged them beyond their years. Now take that kind of financial success and transpose it onto a bunch of teens just beginning to find out who they are, …

- Patrick Sauriol

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'Yogi Bear' Gets its Mayor...and it's Andy Daly

8 December 2009 9:10 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Andy Daly (Semi-Pro) has been added to the cast of Warner Bros.' big screen adaptation of the classic Hanna-Barbera property Yogi Bear.

Variety reports that Daly will play Mayor Brown, who uses the city budget as his personal expense account, driving the city into bankruptcy. He then comes up with the idea of selling Jelly Stone Park to fix his mess.

Daily will join Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake and Tom Cavanaugh in the 3-D live-action/CG animated adventure that has already begun shooting in New Zealand.

Donald De Line and Karen Rosenfelt are producing and Eric Brevig (Journey to the Center of the Earth) is directing from a script by Brad Copeland.

The planned release date for Yogi Bear is December 17, 2010. …

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Will Ferrell Is Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actor

19 November 2009 11:41 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Just five years ago, The Frat Pack brought back the R-rated comedy and were the kings of mainstream comedy. Movies like Old School, Anchorman, and Wedding Crashers killed at the box office, and the biggest cog in the machinewas SNL-alum Will Ferrell. Since then, the group kind of petered out, with Judd Apatow's gang taking the reins, and while Ferrell has continued to have big hits (both Step Brothers and Blades of Glory made more than $100 million), his price tag is not worth what it used to be. Forbes has printed a list of Hollywood's most overpaid actors, using a salary to returns ratio, and have determined that Ferrell tops the list, drawing only $3.29 for each dollar he was paid. His statistics were most harmed by the performance of both Semi-Pro and this past summer's Land of the Lost, neither of which earned more than $50 million. Second on …

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Will Ferrell named most overpaid star in Hollywood (IrishCentral)

19 November 2009 6:44 AM, PST | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »

Irish-American comedian Will Ferrell has topped the list of the Most Overpaid Stars. The “Elf” actor and comedian was named at the top of the annual list by Forbes magazine, which calculated how much moviemakers earn per dollar paid to their lead actor. After the last couple of the funnyman’s films, “Semi-Pro” and “Land of the Lost,” bombed at the box office, his rate of return has dropped to $3.29 for every dollar of his fee. This contrasts greatly with the other end of the scale, which saw Shia Labeouf named as the Best Actor for the Buck in August, earning studios an average of $160 for every dollar he was paid. Behind Ferrell on the Most Overpaid list was Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, while Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson all made the top 10. However, Ferrell, who has roots in County Kerry, could turn his box office figures …

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Will Ferrell, Ewan McGregor Top List of Most Overpaid Actors

19 November 2009 4:22 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Will Ferrell and Ewan McGregor on Wednesday headed a Forbes.com list of Hollywood’s most overpaid stars when looking at the financial returns of their movies.

Ferrell tops the list of stars who cost more than their movies do, taking in one dollar for every $3.29 his films make. According to Forbes, “Land of the Lost” cost an estimated $US100 million to make but earned just $US65 million at box offices worldwide for movie studio Universal Pictures. The movie followed a disappointing $US43 million box office for Ferrell’s 2008 outing “Semi-Pro“, and $US128 million for “Step Brothers.”

No. 2 on the overpaid actors list is Ewan McGregor (I Love You Phillip Morris, Angels & Demons, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Amelia), who made a slew of poorly performing movies after playing Obi-Wan Kenobi four years ago in “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.” McGregor’s films earned $3.75 per dollar he was paid. …

- Allan Ford

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Blu-ray Giveaway: I Love You, Beth Cooper

9 November 2009 7:50 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Hayden Panettiere makes the jump from Heroes to a big screen leading role in I Love You, Beth Cooper, now available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD from Fox Home Entertainment.

While you enjoy (or stay away) from season four of Heroes now airing on Monday evenings, you can enter for a chance to win one of five I Love You, Beth Cooper on Blu-ray Disc titles up for grabs. Send in the completed entry form below for a chance to win. You can also return any day after and enter again to increase the odds of winning each time.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Chris Columbus (Home Alone films) and starring hot Hollywood sensation Hayden Panettiere in the title role, the film is based on a novel written by Emmy Award-winner Larry Doyle (The Simpsons). When Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust; Semi-Pro), the geekiest guy in high school, proclaims his love for …

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20 Ways to Get Your "Arrested Development" Movie Fix*

5 November 2009 7:09 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

*Until they actually make the movie

Forget Scientology or Heaven's Gate. Today, the biggest cult in our country may very well be the teeming masses anxiously awaiting the return of "Arrested Development." After years of rumors and dashed hopes, it seems the beloved TV show will finally, for real, this time, be reincarnated on the big screen.

But don't break out your Cornballers yet: the film isn't set to hit theaters until 2011. How will you last that long? While you can treasure your DVD collection of all three seasons (or, for that matter, catch re-airs on IFC), you'll probably want to vary things up in the year-plus before we get sweet relief. Off the top of your head, you might know to watch Michael Cera in "Juno," but where can you find Judy Greer in a role as crazy as Kitty Sanchez? Will Arnett as a man as bumbling and self-involved as Gob? …

- Matt Singer

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John Singleton Tackles Comedy Concert Film With Comedian DeRay Davis

4 November 2009 2:56 AM, PST | The Humor Mill | See recent The Humor Mill news »

We have just discovered from our sources that director John Singleton has his next project and its not the A-Team as reports would have lead you at one time to believe- even though they are filming that movie now; but is a comedy concert film.

We discovered that Singleton has decided to film comedian DeRay Davis’ stand-up performance (yet to be titled) and release it nationally, and not as a DVD for the video store but as the first stand up film in years to be released theatrically. As of this writing, rumor has it that the film will be shot next month.

Davis, you may recall, recently featured his comedic performance in Shaq’s Comedy All Stars on Showtime and was in several films such as Imagine That (starring Eddie Murphy), Semi-Pro (starring Will Ferrell) and Code Name: The Cleaner (with Cedric The Entertainer) just to name a few …

- noreply@blogger.com (The Humor Mill Magazine)

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The Blu-Ray Review: Land of the Lost

3 November 2009 7:55 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

If you'll pardon the pun, Will Ferrell's movie career has become a decidedly hit or miss proposition. He still churns out successes like 2008's Step Brothers, but he also stars in duds like that same year's Semi-Pro.

Plop 2009's Land of the Lost in the "bomb" category. Given its huge budget and summer blockbuster expectations, Lost definitely disappointed. $49 million isn't total disaster territory, but it's far below the levels achieved by the average summer hit. I like Ferrell, so I hope he rebounds soon. A loose remake of the 1970s Sid and Marty Krofft TV series, Lost introduces us to paleontologist Dr. Rick Marshall (Ferrell). He advocates the existence of time warps and touts them as a solution to energy problems.

His peers view him as a crackpot, but it turns out that Marshall's tachyon amplifier actually works. Down on his luck, Rick doesn't believe in himself of his invention, …

- Paul

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Steve Carell on Par for Rick Reilly Golf Comedy 'Missing Links'

26 October 2009 5:50 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

While I admit that I do still love the curly haired comedic force that is Will Ferrell, his recent foray into nonsensical off-the-wall sports comedies (e.g. Semi-Pro) is beginning to lose its appeal. Thankfully he's moved on and seems to be passing the reins over to Steve Carell, as THR's Risky Biz Blog reports that the actor will star and produce Missing Links, a comedy set in the world of golf about a player angling for a better place to drive his balls. Okay that sounded dirty, but we've all seen 40-Year-Old Virgin so I think we can handle it. Writer Jay Lavender (The Break-Up) adapted the script from a novel by Espn’s Rick Reilly. More specifically, Reilly's novel "tells of a group of bumblers who, after playing for years at a run-down municipal golf course in a working-class Boston neighborhood, concoct a series of schemes that they …

- Ethan Anderton

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Paul Rust to Star in TV Comedy Series About Working at Wal-mart

21 October 2009 11:12 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

How does this show not exist yet? Oh, sure, there are workplace comedies. But America's big-box and discount chain stores, of which Wal-mart is the rarely-disputed and ready to be deposed king, haven't played home to a sitcom that targets what it's like to actually work for one of the stores day in and day out. Actor Paul Rust (Semi-Pro, I Love You Beth Cooper, and glimpsed in Inglourious Basterds) worked for Wal-mart after college, and now he's sold NBC on a half-hour sitcom based on the experience. The show, which Variety says is as yet untitled, won't take place at an actual Wal-mart, which is unfortunate. Allowing that to happen might show that the company has a sense of humor. Instead it will be set in a 'fictional big-box' store, and hopefully at the end of one of the show's seasons we'll get to see it burn. "This is …

- Russ Fischer

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What Jackie Earle Haley Has to Say About Sinestro Rumor

18 October 2009 10:48 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Rumored to be on the top of the list to portray villainous Sinestro in "Green Lantern", Jackie Earle Haley delivered a different story when attending Spike TV's 2009 Scream Awards. On Saturday, October 17, the Rorschach of "Watchmen" confessed to MTV, "I just heard about this, literally."

Commenting more on the rumor, the 48-year-old shared, "I know the guys that are doing it. It's exciting to me. It makes me want to go get the Green Lantern comics and start reading up." While he admitted to have just heard about the speculation, he didn't shoot down the possibility. He said, "I don't know much about it. I'm a comics fan, but I haven't gotten into that one yet. I guess I'd better do my homework."

On Friday, October 16, Ain't It Cool News sparked rumors that the new Freddy Krueger of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" could be playing the villain who …

- AceShowbiz.com

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Will Ferrell Set For “Everything Must Go”

17 October 2009 6:18 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Will Ferrell (Step Brothers, Semi-Pro, Old School) has agreed to star in the low budget film, “Everything Must Go.” The indie film from first-time feature director Dan Rush will have a budget of just $10 million.

Will Ferrell

Rush wrote the script, based on a Raymond Carver short story. Ferrell plays a man who loses his job and then gets locked out of the house by his wife. When she throws out all of his belongings, he decides to spend the next four days on the lawn trying to sell them.

Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will produce through their Temple Hill Productions company.

In a statement, producer Bowen said:

Will is one of the best at making an audience sympathize with a character’s ordeal, and the blending and comedy in this script will show a side of him that we haven’t really seen before.

Filming begins in March …

- Allan Ford

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Jackie Earle Haley, the Top Contender for 'Green Lantern' Villain

17 October 2009 12:27 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Following confirmation about its production that has been pulled out of Australia, "Green Lantern" is hit with a casting rumor. Ain't It Cool News (AICN) has come up with the story that the lead villain in this adaptation of the DC Comics' superhero may well be portrayed by Jackie Earle Haley.

According to Harry Knowles of AICN, someone "working on the film" claimed that the new Freddy Krueger of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is on top of the actors list considered for the part of Sinestro. The scooper reportedly also spoiled that Superman "will be making a cameo," adding that "all depends upon how... other DC things go."

Sinestro is the former mentor of Hal Jordan and the arch-nemesis of the entire Green Lantern Corps. He was banished from the Corps after using the power of the Green Lantern to instill fear rather than combat it. In the casting call, …

- AceShowbiz.com

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Everything Must Go for Will Ferrell

16 October 2009 7:47 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

Another screenplay listed on the 2008 Black List is headed into production. Will Ferrell will topline Everything Must Go, the Dan Rush-penned comedy about a man who, after being kicked from his family home by his wife and finding all of his worldly possessions on the front lawn, starts to sell of everything he owns. Rush will also get to direct the modestly budgeted $10 million dollar production.

"Will is one of the best at making an audience sympathize with a character's ordeal, and the blending and comedy in this script will show a side of him that we haven't really seen before," said Marty Bowen, one of the producers.

Based on a Raymond Carver short story, Everything Must Go could be an opportunity for Ferrell to reprove himself in the eyes of Hollywood. Land of the Lost cost a lot of money to make but proved to be an underperformer …

- Patrick Sauriol

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Woke Up Dead | Zom-Com Web Series

5 October 2009 6:34 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »

Woke Up Dead is a new live-action zombie comedy from Electric Farm Entertainment appearing on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s online video network, Crackle.com. The original online series stars comedian Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory), Josh Gad (Back to You, The Rocker), Krysten Ritter (Breaking Bad, 27 Dresses), Jean Smart (24, Samantha Who?) and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld). Woke Up Dead, marks Heder's first foray into the world of web programming and takes place in various locations around Los Angeles, California. The story of Woke Up Dead follows Drex Greene (Heder), a regular recent college grad who finds himself undergoing an inexplicable transformation that begins when he wakes up at the bottom of a water-filled bathtub. Drex’s roommate Matt, who has been eagerly filming his demise, informs him that he’s easily (and inhumanly) been underwater for more than a half-hour. As he starts to develop zombie-like tendencies, Drex finds …

- Dave Campbell

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Screen Rant Invades Fantastic Fest

24 September 2009 12:51 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

[Guest writer (and all around cool dude) Kevin Kelly will be covering Fantastic Fest for us - enjoy!]

Have you ever enjoyed a movie while having dinner and beer… at an actual movie theater? That’s the main claim to fame of Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse. But if that wasn’t enough, they’ve gone above and beyond by creating special programming that caters to the geek in all of us. Things like quote-alongs with The Big Lebowski and Office Space, outfitting an entire audience with Flint Tropics uniforms for Will Ferrell’s Semi-Pro, and tailoring their menu to match what’s on-screen. For example, right now you can enjoy root beer extract cookies while watching Mike Judge’s Extract.

 

How do you top all of that? By creating a film festival made entirely for movie geeks. This year marks their fifth annual Fantastic Fest, which was originally conceived by Drafthouse founder Tim League, among others. It’s an eight day celebration of movies that appeal to the geek in all of us, …

- Kevin Kelly

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