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Mike Myers & Dana Carvey Use Academy To Bury ‘Wayne’s World’ Hatchet

By JEN YAMATO | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 10:17pm PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Dana Carvey, Hawk Koch, Mike Myers, Wayne's World

AMPAS President Hawk Koch tonight used the Academy as a promo tool for the 1992 comedy which he exec produced 21 years ago. Wayne’s World has zero to do with prestigious Academy functions, but a rep told me similar screenings are in the works to attract a new audience to AMPAS. Tonight’s event sold out in 90 seconds at $5 a pop.

With Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels (who produced the pic) Koch wrangled stars Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, and director Penelope Spheeris to the event following years of tensions between the trio. In a pre-film panel at the Academy’s Wilshire theater, moderator Koch skirted the infamous squabbles surrounding the Wayne’s World shoot. Those include Myers’ reputed difficult on-set demands. And reports that he Myers and Carvey had fallen out after Myers lifted his Dr. Evil voice from Carvey. Spheeris meanwhile has accused Myers of vetoing her as the sequel’s director because she didn’t listen to his edit requests. (“‘I hated that bastard for years”, she said in a 2008 interview.) No questions were allowed from the at-capacity audience. And the panelists were explicitly instructed not to talk to press at the event. READ MORE »

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WME Signs Mike Myers, Another Dan Aloni Client

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 12, 2012 @ 12:45pm PDTTags: CAA, Dan Aloni, Mike Myers, WME
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Mike Myers WMEEXCLUSIVE: Mike Myers has just left CAA and moved to WME. No big drama, I’m told. He simply followed his agent, Dan Aloni, who moved from CAA to become a WME partner. WME’s quick move to … Read More »

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What’s Really Happening With Mike Myers And ‘Austin Powers 4′?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday August 13, 2011 @ 4:08pm PDTTags: Cameron Diaz, Chris Tucker, Jamie Foxx, Jay Roach, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, New Line Cinema, Quentin Tarantino, Sacha Baron Cohen, Seth Green, Steve Carell
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After the Hitfix website reported that Mike Myers had signed a deal to do a fourth Austin Powers film, other websites are running wild with it. What’s really going on? Well, I wouldn’t necessarily dress for the premiere just yet. No deal has yet been signed, and top New Line brass are surprised the whole thing has reared up after they made Myers an offer six months to a year ago, and hear nothing. Forgive New Line for being skeptical: The film company thought it was well on the way to another Austin Powers installment when it made a deal in 2008 with Myers to collaborate with Mike McCullers for a Dr. Evil film that was to focus on his relationship with son Scotty (Seth Green), meant to be an unabashed homage to Myers’ father, whose Brit influence basically prodded Myers to create the British agent Austin Powers character in the first place. Then, Myers’ screen creation, The Love Guru, opened to $13 million in June 2008 against the nearly $40 million that Steve Carell’s Get Smart grossed with Steve Carell. Myers went AWOL, surfacing only for a small role in Inglourious Basterds. McCullers never moved forward with the script. Read More »

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Ben Stiller Turns Fox’s ‘Walter Mitty’ Reboot From Daydream To Reality

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 7, 2011 @ 7:58pm PDTTags: Ben Stiller, David Cromer, Edie Falco, Gore Verbinski, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Owen Wilson, Ron Howard, Sacha Baron Cohen, Scott Rudin, Steve Conrad, Steven Spielberg, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Will Ferrell, WME
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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Stiller is in talks with 20th Century Fox to play the title role in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty after the previous script was finally dumped and a new approach and screenwriter was put on the project. That produced a reboot that Stiller wants to make his next film. Stiller sparked to the new take by Steve Conrad, writer of the Will Smith hit The Pursuit of Happyness. Now that Stiller is coming aboard, Fox will move quickly to lock in a cinematic director who can mix action with a PG rating, and get the picture ready for a late fall start. Stiller is repped by WME.

Mitty is still based on the 1947 Danny Kaye film from the James Thurber short story first published in The New Yorker in 1939. The story of a perpetual daydreamer had been in development so long that it seemed like it might never be more than a daydream. Everyone from Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen flirted with that previous script, and directors who have circled include Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Gore Verbinski. Mitty‘s problems stemmed from that script which was never quite right. But then Conrad started fresh and Stiller felt he knocked it out of the park. Stiller, who has starred in the lucrative Night at the Museum and Meet the Parents franchises, might have another big one on his hands. His Red Hour Films banner is based at Fox. Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and John Goldwyn have been shepherding the project as producers for years. Read More »

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