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Big Screen
No Amount Of John Travolta-Brand Gatorade Can Cure This Hangover
12:43AM Richard Lawson | The movie about drunks and their drunken ways keeps hitting the big time. As does the movie about white people in the jungle. Meanwhile, Eddie Murphy and John Travolta have both seen better days. Click through for more on the US box office. More »
Small Screen
Cameo-Laden SNL Season Finale Will Traumatise Lorne Michaels
1:00AM Foster Kamer | Last night’s Will Ferrell-hosted SNL season closer was a perfect freak-storm of cameos (Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Norm McDonald, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler) and nostalgia. The play-by-play, post-jump. More »
Jake Gyllenhaal To Continue His Illustrious Singing Career
3:44AM Defamer Hollywood | Casting has been announced for the movie version of Damn Yankees, the baseball musical. Jake Gyllenhaal will sing! Also in casting news are Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, a Woody Allen movie, and Gossip Girl.
‘A Nucular Hit’: Will Ferrell’s ‘W’ Review Round-Up
9:50AM Seth | The curtain came up last night on Will Ferrell’s Broadway debut, You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush, and the reviews are… More »
Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, And An Emboldened HuffPo Blogger Enliven Thursday ‘SNL’
5:07PM Kyle Buchanan | Returning alumni Will Ferrell (as George W. Bush) and Tina Fey turned last night’s Thursday edition of Saturday Night Live into a veritable class reunion, but one other notable name returned behind the scenes: Ferrell’s frequent collaborator Adam McKay. Little over a month ago, McKay (Step Brothers, Anchorman) lit up the left with a sky-is-falling Huffington Post blog entitled “We’re Gonna Frickin’ Lose This Thing,” but to judge from the opening sketch he co-wrote, he now finds the Republican ticket about as threatening as a Jackie Mason PSA. The clip, after the jump: More »
10 Celeb Marathoners to Beat in Ryan Reynolds’ Rookie Race
9:20AM STV | Ryan Reynolds hit the fundraising circuit running — literally — in an essay today on The Huffington Post, where he opened up about his training for next month’s New York Marathon. There, despite vowing to avoid such events after once observing an epidemic of runners’ bleeding nipples, the newlywed is racing on behalf of Michael J. Fox’s foundation to fight Parkinson’s Disease. But while we applaud his determination in battling 26 miles of nipple-chafe, Reynolds is running for more than just a good cause. He’s also trotting into a celebrity pastime with a rich tradition of its own, competing against the likes of Will Ferrell, Katie Holmes, Diddy and even David Lee Roth’s six-hour slog through New York in 1987. After the jump, find the ten swiftest boldfacers who ever laced up a pair of track shoes. Train harder, Ryan — and happy bleeding! More »Will Ferrell To Play Drunk, Naked Watson To Sacha Baron Cohen’s Sherlock
5:35AM Seth | If you’ve been longing for a re-pairing of rival NASCAR champions Ricky Bobby and Jean Girard, only this time in something a little more fog-enshrouded, well, then, hold on to your pipes: It was announced today that Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell will star in the working-titled Sherlock: Elementary Deductions For Solving Puzzling Murders Throughout Queen Victoria’s London in a Deerslayer Hat—an updating of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic mysteries. From Variety.com: More »Does Declaring Danny McBride The Next Big Thing Doom Him To Making Movies Like ‘Semi-Pro?’
8:25AM Seth | A little-known Hollywood antitrust ruling from the early 1900s—passed to prevent Fatty Arbuckle from an abuse of monopoly power—proclaims that every 15 months, a Next Big Funny Thing must be announced. That coronation is immediately followed by the casting of the new cat’s whiskers in every humorous screenplay in existence, where he’ll be called upon to play a variety of subtly tweaked takes on the same buffoonish character. Previous beneficiaries of the Doughy-White-Comedian Competition Law include Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, and Will Ferrell, and now, the star of Sundance breakout hit The Foot Fist Way, of whom an LAT headline demands to know, “Is Danny McBride the next comedy superstar?” More »‘Ellen’ Assistant Quits Job To Ride Rollercoasters
11:20AM Mark Graham | · As anyone who has ever done it will attest, there are few feelings more liberating than quitting one’s job. The following video is of an assistant on the Ellen show who found himself teetering on the brink of sanity until he up and quit his job on May 20. He describes the decision on his blog as being “an exciting stupid move to prove to myself that I need to keep moving toward my dreams… Every time I’ve made a major move to pursue my dreams I have lost something (2 girlfriends both 3year relationships) but I’ve gotten a step closer. This time around I don’t know what I have to lose… as I look at it right now I have nothing to lose, and those seem to be pretty good odds. If I never do anything, don’t ever say that I didn’t try.” Good luck making your Hollywood dreams come true, Delbert. [Delbert Shoopman] · Finally, a device for those of you who prefer your exercises in misogyny to sound crisp and lifelike! [Videogum] · A few months ago, we told about the disastrous first screening for Will Ferrell’s Step Brothers. Our operative described it as being “less entertaining than Two And A Half Men.” From the looks of this preposterous red-band trailer, that description might end up actually being a compliment. [/Film] · While we’re having a hard time fathoming why on earth Kill Bill billboards are still up in New Zealand, the simple fact of the matter is that this is our third favourite billboard of all-time (behind Angelyne and Vincent Gallo’s Brown Bunny blowjob). [Copyranter] More »
