yes man

Another Visit From Marley’s Ghost

2:17AM Seth | The Holidays™ are over. We hope yours ended on a lighter note than ours did—curling up with a 60 Minutes story about a seven-year-old girl decapitated in the back of a limo by a drunk driver. More »

‘Yes’ He Can’t

2:10AM Seth | Studios found no happy surprises beneath the Chrismukkah bush today, as snowed-in US audiences opted out of Will Smith’s messianic broodiness and Jim Carrey saying “yes” more times than Tara Reid at the Promises buffet line.

Jim Carrey Battles Will Smith For Holiday-Fiasco Heavyweight Belt

1:50AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or potentially toxic at the US movies. This week: Will Smith is bad, Jim Carrey is affirmative, and Mickey Rourke takes a beating for Oscar.

Red Bull Commercial Cleverly Disguised as New Jim Carrey Film

5:50AM Defamer Hollywood | A veritable murderer’s row of egos, tempers and divas, Defamer’s All-Strop Team is on fire in recent weeks with heavy-hitters from Mike Myers to Edward Norton to Eddie Murphy digging new box-office holes around the country. But the heart and soul of the line-up, Jim Carrey, will get at least one more chance this fall to knock a bomb out of the yard with his forthcoming Yes Man; based on the memoir by British humorist Danny Wallace, the film follows the life changes of a downbeat man who decides to say yes to everything. The A-list set-urinator reportedly accepted no money up front for the title role, inspiring us to wonder exactly who is benefiting from the aggressive product placement spotlighted in this new trailer. Is Zooey Deschanel really commanding such lucre already? This has All-Strop rookie of the year written all over it. [YouTube] More »

Jim Carrey Reducing Up-Front Fee From $20 Million To Zero

5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Jim Carrey, once the best-remunerated butt-ventriloquist and Method urinator of his Hollywood generation, has just signed a deal for new comedy Yes Man that’s so financially risky that the project’s failure could result in the actor having to sell his 1,000-square-metre ski chalet on the Sultan of Brunei’s favourite indoor, manmade mountain. Carrey, reports DHD’s Nikki Finke, will be getting his entire reward on the back end: He’ll receive NO upfront cash and NO first-dollar gross. So Carrey won’t get his standard $US20M plus 20% (and in some cases $25M – but that was before he and his projects began to crash and burn). Instead, Jim has a cash-break deal in theory of at most 36.2% on the back end – which in reality may turn out to be a lot less. More »