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Dan Aykroyd Joins Will Ferrell & Zach Galifianakis In Political Comedy 'Dog Fight'
There's one major problem that Jay Roach's political comedy "Dog Fight" faces next year: if the Republican debates have been anything to go by, there's no way that the film, produced by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as a pair of rival South Carolina...
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That's One Shagadelic Dead Horse: Mike Myers Returns For 'Austin Powers 4'
Hollywood is a strange beast -- projects come and go every day with a chance to bankrupt everyone but make one or two people a lot of money. This leads to the high demand for sequels, further installments that no one asked for in franchises that should have stopped either after the first film, or ev...
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Universal Developing Family Action Pic, Uglydoll & Secret Service Movie
Universal is currently working on three projects, two of which don't exactly interest us and a third which, if done properly, could be incredibly entertaining.
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Will Ferrell Says 'Southern Rivals' With Zach Galifianakis Is Next & Will Shoot This Fall
Comedian Says Paramount Pictures Are Being "Idiots" About 'Anchorman 2'Playing the Tribeca Film Festival this week is the low-key Will Ferrell film, "Everything Must Go," directed by first-timer Dan Rush. Loosely based on a Raymond Carver short story and co-starring Michael Peña and Rebecca Hall, Fe...
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Zach Galifianakis Won't Be In 'R.I.P.D.'; Comedy With Will Ferrell Now Titled 'Southern Rivals'
What happens when you become hot in Hollywood is that you're able to attach yourself to a lot of projects, firstly to give yourself more options, and secondly because the material that gets sent your way tends to get better as your fame meter rises. But timing, schedules and other factors mean that ...
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Ed Harris To Play John McCain To Julianne Moore's Sarah Palin In HBO's 'Game Change'
For politics buffs, or really anyone, the 2008 election campaign provided an enormous amount of drama. The twists and turns, from Barack Obama's surprise victory at the Iowa caucuses and the tanking of Rudolph Guiliani's campaign to the death of Obama's grandmother on the eve of his election, grippe...
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Julianne Moore To Play Sarah Palin In Jay Roach's HBO Drama 'Game Change'
It looks like Tina Fey doesn't have the sole lock on portraying one of the most embarrassing political figures in recent memory.
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'Recount' Director & Writer Jay Roach & Danny Strong Reteaming For Political Drama 'Game Change'
Perhaps the least well-known script ever to top the Black List and still get made, "Recount," from former "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actor Danny Strong (who most recently penned "The Butler," which is set to team Lee Daniels and Denzel Washington), went behind the scenes of the drama of the 2000 ele...
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Will Ferrell & Zack Galifianakis Political Comedy Finds A Home At WB
Two days ago, a pitch went out to studios with Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis attached that would depict them as Presidential candidates timed to coincide with the 2012 elections. And now, the auction has ended: Deadline reports that Warner Bros. will back a Jay Roach-directed comedy that pits t...
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Make This Hollywood: Will Ferrell & Zach Galifianakis Linked To Political Comedy Eyeing 2012 Release
Jay Roach Attached To DirectListen Hollywood, we know that for whatever inane reason you can't find sufficient reason to greenlight "Anchorman 2" or "Zoolander 2" (yet), but holy sweet molasses, when Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis come knocking on your door, don't turn them away.
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