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SPOILER ALERT! NBC’s ‘The Office’ Finale

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 9:48pm PDTTags: NBC, Steve Carell, The Office, The Office finale

Diane Haithman is a contributor to Deadline.

The Office FinaleSPOILER ALERT! UPDATE: Steve Carell reprised his role as former Dunder Mifflin manager Michael Scott after all — appearing about 45 minutes into The Office finale to be Dwight’s “bestest mensch” (read: best man) at his wedding to Angela. After Michael unexpectedly appears, Dwight (Rainn Wilson) says: “Michael, I can’t believe you came.” His former boss replies: “That’s what she said.” Later in the episode, he tells the documentary crew: “I feel like my kids all grew up and married each other — it’s every parent’s dream.” Carell earned six Emmy noms for the role but never won. He left the series after its seventh season.

PREVIOUSLY: No, Michael Scott is not going to turn up at Dunder Mifflin on Thursday. Really. Ken Kwapis swears to Deadline [and lied to us, the asswipe - NF] that longtime star Steve Carell does not appear in this week’s series finale of The Office. “I sure wish Steve had done a cameo. It would’ve been a wonderful touch,” said Kwapis, who also directed the pilot episode of the midseason-replacement comedy that aired in March 2005. “Sadly, he didn’t.” So why did NBC choose to sneak a peek of Carell into its finale promo after last week’s episode? A spokeswoman said the network would maintain its “no comment” stance but noted the footage of the erstwhile Office manager could be a clip from an old episode. READ MORE »

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Jennifer Garner Joining Steve Carell In ‘Alexander And The No Good, Very Bad Day’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 12:02pm PDTTags: Alexander And The Terrible, Disney, Jennifer Garner, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Disney is in talks with Jennifer Garner to star with Steve Carell in the Miguel Arteta-directed live-action adaptation of the Judith Viorst children’s book Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Way, Way Back’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 11, 2013 @ 12:03pm PDTTags: Steve Carell, The Way Way Back, Toni Collette

The Way, Way Back is the coming-of-age story of a 14-year-old introvert who spends a difficult summer vacation with his single mom, her not so warm and fuzzy boyfriend and his daughter. Having a hard time fitting in, the teen finds unlikely friendships with the prickly manager and the … Read More »

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Steve Carell & James Gandolfini To Star In HBO Movie About Feuding Paleontologists

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 5, 2013 @ 8:47am PDTTags: Bone Wars, HBO Films, James Gandolfini, Steve Carell
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After recently co-starring together in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Steve Carell and James Gandolfini are reuniting for another comedic movie, this time on … Read More »

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Delay At The Altar On Tina Fey-Steve Carell Comedy ‘Mail Order Groom’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 28, 2013 @ 5:15pm PDTTags: Mail Order Groom, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Warner Bros comedy Mail Order Groom has been pushed to next year. The film, which will re-team Date Night stars Tina Fey and Steve Carell, has been postponed because of scheduling conflicts with other … Read More »

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Miguel Arteta Will Helm Disney’s ‘Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’ With Steve Carell

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 9:02am PDTTags: Alexander And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, Big Deals Film, Disney, Miguel Arteta, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is in talks with Miguel Arteta to replace Lisa Cholodenko as the director of its live-action adaptation of the Judith Viorst children’s book Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. You might recall that late last month, The Kids Are All Right helmer Cholodenko stepped out as director. She wrote the script with Rob Lieber, and Disney has Steve Carell attached to play Alexander’s dad. Shawn Levy is producing through his 21 Laps banner along with Lisa Henson and Dan Levine. Production will begin in the fall. Read More »

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Lisa Cholodenko Exits ‘Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 22, 2013 @ 9:26am PSTTags: Alexander And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, Disney, Lisa Cholodenko, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: It’s not a great day for Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at Disney. The Kids Are All Right helmer Lisa Cholodenko, who has long been working on the project, has stepped … Read More »

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Universal Moving Toward Altar On Steve Carell FBI Wedding Comedy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 13, 2013 @ 4:29pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, David Flebotte, FBI Wedding, Steve Carell, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set David Flebotte to rewrite its untitled FBI Wedding comedy, the one that has Steve Carell attached to star and his Carousel Productions partners Charlie Hartsock and Vance Degeneres producing with Sparkler Entertainment’s … Read More »

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Favorite SAG Awards ‘I’m An Actor’ Speeches

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday January 26, 2013 @ 6:00pm PSTTags: Anne Hathaway, SAG Awards, Sally Field, Steve Carell

Anthony D’Alessandro is Managing Editor of AwardsLine.

The Actors Stories speeches that set the stage for each Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony—unofficially referred to as the “I’m An Actor” speeches—have become one of the most anticipated elements of the awards show. Here’s a look at some of the most memorable:

2006
“My first memory of wanting to be an actor came when I saw my mother play the title role in Evita. I watched her die on stage and come back to life in time for the applause, and I thought, Hi-diddly-dee. My name is Anne Hathaway, and I’m an actor”.

2008
“I performed my first scene ever when I was 12 years old in the 7th grade at Birmingham High School. I was very shy, and I had no idea what I was doing, so I just flung myself off the cliff and felt like I was falling. I’ve been falling ever since. I think that’s kind of what it is, informed falling. I’m Sally Field, and I’m an actor”.  Read More »

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Steve Carell Explains Why He’s Not Returning To ‘The Office’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 24, 2013 @ 10:45am PSTTags: Steve Carell, The Office

The Office exec producer Greg Daniels announced at TCA last week that Steve Carell would not make a re-appearance in the show’s last season or the final episode and Carell explained why in a recent interview … Read More »

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UPDATE: SUNDANCE DEAL PRECEDENT PART 2 – Fox Searchlight Confirms ‘The Way, Way Back’ Deal For Nearly $10 Million

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 10:19am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Fox Searchlight, Steve Carell, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Wrap-Up, The Way Way Back
Mike Fleming

UPDATE, 10:19 AM: Fox Searchlight confirms that it has closed the deal on The Way, Way Back, saying it’s for just under $10 million. Since I was up all night writing cross-eyed to break the story hours ago, I would rather not repeat myself, so here is the early-morning story again, and I’ll put the official press release below my original story break when it arrives (it’s there now).

EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 4:09 AM: The Sundance Film Festival has emerged as one of the craziest for deal making in recent memory. After a wild all-night negotiating session following a raucous premiere screening yesterday of The Way, Way Back, Fox Searchlight has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire domestic rights and several other territories. The price tag is around $10 million minimum guarantee, with a P&A and theatrical commitment.

Searchlight was among bidding distributors that include Lionsgate, FilmDistrict, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Bros. Buyers began mobilizing right after the film’s Monday 3:30 PM first screening at Eccles Theatre, and numerous sources have been telling me all night that this has been one of the most spirited auctions in recent Sundance memory.

Related: SUNDANCE DEAL PRECEDENT: Relativity Media Pacts For Joseph Gordon-Levitt Comedy ‘Don Jon’s Addiction’

By the time the deal gets closed this morning, it should also be just about the richest deal ever made at the festival, as the sale of additional foreign territories will raise the value of the deal even higher. The rabid pace of deal making and the high numbers are a surprise to me, because both buyers and sellers expected the films to go in low upfront deals. Then, the buyers started discovering an exceptional crop of films programmed by Sundance. Read More »

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‘The Office’ Staff On How The NBC Series Will End: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 4:54pm PSTTags: NBC, Steve Carell, TCA, The Office

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

It’s official. Greg Daniels, executive producer and showrunner of The Office, said at today’s TCA that Steve Carell would not make a re-appearance in the last season or the final episode of the show’s nine-season run. Daniels said that Carell “was very much of the opinion that the ‘Goodbye Michael’ episode and story arc leading up to it was the goodbye to the fans and the show”. This final season, the producer said, “is the goodbye that the rest of the show gets to have.”

Daniels said viewers should not expect every detail of 9 seasons to be wrapped up in the final episode, which does not yet have a completed script and is still at the table-read stage. He said next week’s episode is “the beginning of the end” of the 24-episode season. Daniels would not reveal any plot spoilers but said that one character is fired in Episode 15.

He added that the finale will be one hour and some series regulars and guest stars may return, including Mindy Kaling. Read More »

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Steve Carell Unlikely To Return For ‘The Office’ Finale: TCA

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday January 6, 2013 @ 12:12pm PSTTags: Steve Carell, The Office
Nellie Andreeva

When he announced in August that the current ninth season of The Office will be the series’ last, developer/executive producer Greg Daniels was hopeful that the final season and especially the series finale would feature original … Read More »

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‘Daily Show’s Jason Jones To Create & Star In Fox Comedy Produced By Steve Carell & Weitz Bros.

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 24, 2012 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Chris Weitz, Fox, Paul Weitz, Steve Carell
Nellie Andreeva

Steve Carell successfully made the transition from Daily Show corespondent to comedy series star with The Office. He is now getting behind another well-known Daily Show cast member, Jason Jones, in his foray into primetime. Steve Carell and Chris & Paul Weitz are executive producing an untitled comedy project for Fox written by and starring Jones.

The project, produced by 20th Century Fox, Carell’s Carousel Television and the Weitz Brothers’ Depth of Field, chronicles what happens to a successful single guy (Jones) in Manhattan who never wanted a family until his sister’s two kids are thrust upon him when she is called back to active duty. Jones, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Carell, Carousel TV’s Thom Hinkle and Depth of Field’s Andrew Miano exec produce. Read More »

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Disney Picks Up ‘Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday October 20, 2012 @ 10:36am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Disney, Lisa Cholodenko, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Disney is stepping up to make Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the adaptation of the Judith Viorst children’s book that has Steve Carell attached to star and The Kids Are … Read More »

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Sienna Miller Plays Murdered Wrestler’s Wife In ‘Foxcatcher’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 5, 2012 @ 10:08am PDTTags: Bennett Miller, Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Moneyball helmer Bennett Miller is putting together the final casting pieces for Foxcatcher, the Annapurna Pictures-funded drama that stars Steve Carell as paranoid schizophrenic heir Jon DuPont, who created a training center for wrestlers and murdered … Read More »

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Fox Puts In Turnaround Steve Carell-Starrer ‘Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 27, 2012 @ 8:58am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Lisa Cholodenko, Steve Carell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE:  Here’s a hot little property hitting the market. 20th Century Fox has put in turnaround its adaptation of the Judith Viorst children’s book Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the one that has Steve Carell attached to star and The Kids Are All Right writer-director Lisa Cholodenko helming a script she wrote with Rob Lieber. Carell boarded the project last April. Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps is producing.

The film is far along the development track, and it will be shopped immediately with those participants I hear. It is live-action, and I understand that Fox was uncomfortable with the budget. Carell is getting ready to star for Moneyball’s Bennett Miller in Foxcatcher, the story of paranoid schizophrenic heir John du Pont, who build a wrestling camp and wound up killing Olympic grappler Dave Schultz. In Alexander, Carell is aboard to play the boy’s father in a tale that is one of the more entertaining and humorous of the yarns you read endlessly to your kids at night. Alexander starts a wretched day with the realization that the gum he fell asleep chewing is now hopelessly tangled in his hair, and things get worse from there, to the point he threatens Read More »

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Justin Theroux To Helm ‘Swear To God’ With Will Ferrell And Steve Carell

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 9, 2012 @ 5:17pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Justin Theroux, Steve Carell, Warner Bros, Will Ferrell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Theroux has been set to rewrite and direct Swear To God, a Warner Bros comedy that will star Will Ferrell and Steve Carell. They are looking to get this … Read More »

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Sony Banks On Meryl Streep As ‘Hope’ Springs Into Theatres & 2012 Awards Race

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday August 8, 2012 @ 10:01am PDTTags: Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Sony Pictures, Steve Carell, Todd Black, Tommy Lee Jones
Pete Hammond

Today Sony Pictures is doing the unthinkable. It is breaking, on a wide release of 2500+ screens, a dialogueHope Springs-driven adult comedy/drama about the sex life (or lack of it) of a long-married couple both in their 60′s. And in the middle of August no less!

Sure it stars Meryl Streep, a bona fide box office draw even at her age, but  it’s highly unusual and somewhat risky business to go this wide with a movie that is clearly aimed at the much older audience who is slow to show up no matter what the attraction. The studio is opening on a Wednesday in order to build some good word of mouth and reviews for its first weekend where it must face more typical summer flicks like Universal’s The Bourne Legacy  and Warner Bros. The Campaign. Currently it stands at a decent 77% fresh for reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, a good sign for a movie that would seem like it would be more indie-oriented fodder than summertime major studio fare.

With the August release though Sony is also getting a jump on awards season as this cast  includes such Oscar favorites as 17- time nominee and 3- time winner Streep (most recently in February for The Iron Lady) as well as Supporting Actor winner Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive), along with a deadpan Steve Carell as their couples therapist who counsels them at a week-long retreat on how to put the sexual spark back into their marriage. Of course Streep tends to get Oscar noms for just showing up on the set, while Jones was last nominated for Best Actor for 2007′s In The Valley Of Elah, a bit of a surprise then since his film was a boxoffice non-starter that had largely been written off at that point indicating the Academy likes him, they really like him. Both stars are getting strong reviews so far. Whether the strategy works at the boxoffice for this very Academy-friendly fare (official Los Angeles Academy member screening is Sunday night at the Goldwyn) remains to be seen but producers Todd Black and Guymon Casady told me they are just hoping the audience turns out, and happy they decided to go the studio route even though that wasn’t initially the plan. Read More »

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