the beaver

Flotsam & Jetsam

If Only All Hot Tubs Could Be Time Machines

1:57AM Richard Lawson | News from pilot season, from Disney’s secret horrible laboratory, from the mixed-up files of Jim Carrey, from Japan, and from the Hot Tub Time Machine. Yes m’am. More »

‘The Black List’ Declares ‘The Beaver’ 2008’s Hottest Unproduced Screenplay

7:45AM Seth | The Black List is out today. It’s an annual poll, begun a few years ago by a plucky assistant at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, wherein all of Hollywood’s D-boys and D-girls are asked to nominate the strongest unproduced screenplays of the year. The scripts are then ranked according to numbers of mentions, then the list is distributed throughout the industry, adding luster to projects that might be otherwise languishing as a makeshift agency doorstop or on the floor of an assistant’s Jetta.

Steve Carell Takes An Unusually Public Interest in ‘Beaver’

4:55AM STV | We’re hearing today about a script setting a new land-speed circulation record among directors’ agents, and why not: Who wouldn’t savour the chance to have something called The Beaver on their resume? It’s just a bonus that Steve Carell is attached, and that he spends all his time with his hand inside said beaver. What could go wrong? More »