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Warner Bros Acquires ‘Turkey Bowl’ For Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg Re-Team

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 1:49pm PDTTags: Adam McKay, Alec Baldwin, Cannes, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Carlock, Scott Silveri, The Other Guys, Will Ferrell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has closed a deal for Turkey Bowl, a comedy that will re-team The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as guys from football-obsessed towns who lead rival teams in an annual tackle football game for bragging and trash-talking rights. The tackle games are grandiose, and I’m told they plan to pack it with fun cameos, just the way they did during the rival broadcaster gang fights in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Alec Baldwin is already aboard as Wahlberg’s father. Sold as a pitch, the project will be written by 30 Rock‘s Robert Carlock, and Scott Silveri, with the story by Owen Burke of Gary Sanchez Productions. Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy will produce through their Sanchez banner and Wahlberg through his Closest to the Hole banner. Ferrell is coming off a stint on The Office and will next be seen in Everything Must Go. Wahlberg just became aligned to re-team with David O. Russell in The Silver Linings Playbook, which The Weinstein Company is selling at the Cannes Film Festival market. He’s starring in the Seth MacFarlane-directed Ted after wrapping Contraband.

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FX Picks Up Rights To ‘Other Guys,’ ‘Takers’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 2, 2010 @ 8:19am PDTTags: FX, Takers, Takers Box Office, The Other Guys, The Other Guys Box Office
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: FX has added two more No.1 summer movies to its roster, acquiring the TV rights to Sony’s The Other Guys and Takers, both expected to fit right into the … Read More »

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‘The Other Guys’ Beats ‘Inception’ For #1; ‘Step Up 3D’ Takes Big Leap Backwards

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday August 7, 2010 @ 10:20pm PDTTags: Adam McKay, Box Office, Dinner for Schmucks, Inception Box Office, Mark Wahlberg, Salt Box Office, Sony Pictures, Step Up 3D, The Other Guys, The Other Guys Box Office, The Other Guys Panel, Will Ferrell

SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM UPDATE: It’s looking like a down box office weekend in the U.S. and Canada with total grosses of $133 million, which is -9% compared to last year’s. Here are Friday’s and Saturday’s numbers with weekend and cume grosses:

1. The … Read More »

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Comic-Con #8: ‘The Other Guys’ Panel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 24, 2010 @ 2:29pm PDTTags: Adam McKay, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Dwayne Johnson, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson, Sony Pictures, The Other Guys, The Other Guys Panel, Will Ferrell

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

Sony Pictures’ THE OTHER GUYS is that cop comedy with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as an awkward buddy duo in the shadow of Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson. The panel features Will Ferrell, Eva Mendes, Adam McKay, and Mark Wahlberg. McKay introduces footage, saying it features some stuff you won’t see in the movie, and some you will. It’s an expansion of the existing trailer, with way more profanity. When Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson slam their car into a bus, for example, Sam says “Somebody call 9-1-Holy Shit!” Read More »

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Comic-Con 2010 Preview: Friday, July 23

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 18, 2010 @ 3:18pm PDTTags: 2010 Comic-Con, AMC The Walking Dead, Caprica, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Comic-Con Schedule, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Drew McWeeny, Drive Angry 3D, Frank Darabont, Hawaii Five-0, James Gunn Super, New Comic-Con, Nicolas Cage, Roger Corman, Skyline, The Green Hornet 3D, The Other Guys


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FRIDAY, JULY 23

STAR WARS DAY (This is a meaningless appellation unless and until George Lucas sees fit to say or do anything regarding the proposed live-action TV series.)

Luke Y Thompson covers Hollywood events at the … Read More »

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