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Will Ferrell And Conan O’Brien Mock TV Business At Turner Upfront

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 12:11pm PDTTags: Conan O'Brien, Pete Holmes, Turner Entertainment Networks, Upfronts, Will Ferrell

Turner Entertainment seems to try hardest to make advertisers laugh at its upfront presentation — and generally succeeded this time with help from Will Ferrell, Conan O’Brien, and TBS newcomer Pete Holmes. In a recorded routine, Ferrell said that he had bought the company and with his background in comedy “I couldn’t care less” about networks including CNN, TNT, and TruTv. Since “I like to mess around with my new toys,” he introduced the new boss: Charles Barkley. The former NBA star said that since “I’m in charge now” viewers would be “seeing a lot more Charles Barkley” — cutting to clips from Turner shows that insert him into the action. “This is the kind of bold thinking I was hoping for,” Ferrell said. “With me as CEO of Turner, and Charles, can you really go wrong?”

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Vince Vaughn To Star Alongside Will Ferrell in Paramount’s ‘Daddy’s Home’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 9, 2013 @ 6:20pm PDTTags: Daddy's Home, Paramount Pictures, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell

HOLLYWOOD, CA (May 9, 2013) – Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom, Inc., announced today that Vince Vaughn has been cast in the comedy “DADDY’S HOME,” directed by Etan Cohen and starring Will Ferrell. The film is set to

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Aubrey Plaza Ejected After MTV Movie Award Mayhem With Will Ferrell: Video

By JEN YAMATO | Sunday April 14, 2013 @ 10:18pm PDTTags: Aubrey Plaza, MTV Movie Awards, Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell was accepting the Comedic Genius Award at tonight’s MTV Movie Awards. Suddenly he had company onstage – Parks & Recreation‘s co-star Aubrey Plaza. She ran up and tried to wrestle the award out of Ferrell’s hands. Apparently, it was to hype her own upcoming movie – the August … Read More »

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Showtime Buys Dark Comedy From ‘Hansel & Gretel’ Director, Will Ferrell & Adam McKay

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 1:57pm PDTTags: Adam McCay, Hellfjord, Showtime, Will Ferrell
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Tommy WirkolaEXCLUSIVE: After collaborating on Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the movie’s writer/director Tommy Wirkola and production company Gary Sanchez are reteaming, this time on the TV side. Norwegian filmmaker Wirkola and Gary Sanchez’s Will Ferrell … Read More »

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Jesse Andrews Set To Script ‘Crazy U’ For Will Ferrell At New Line

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 11:06am PDTTags: Crazy U, Jesse Andrews, New Line, Will Ferrell
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Jesse AndrewsEXCLUSIVE: New Line has set Jesse Andrews to adapt Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College, an adaptation of the Andrew Ferguson book that is being fashioned as a star vehicle for … Read More »

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Will Ferrell To Receive MTV Movie Awards’ Inaugural Comedic Genius Prize

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 7:12am PSTTags: MTV, MTV Movie Awards, Will Ferrell

MTV announced today that Will Ferrell will be the first-ever recipient of the Comedic Genius Award, created to honor an actor who has “provided a major influence through their work” and “transformed the … Read More »

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Will Ferrell Pitches Woo For Old Milwaukee In Another Spit-Swapping Super Bowl Ad

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 6:04pm PSTTags: Super Bowl, Will Ferrell
Mike Fleming

Here I thought that the only objectionable Super Bowl spit-swapping commercial was the Go-Daddy.com spot highlighted by Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli’s smooch session with that computer nerd Walter! There was another Super Bowl spot with another famous person … Read More »

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NBC Greenlights Three Comedy Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 11:15am PSTTags: Adam McKay, Greg Daniels, NBC, Will Ferrell
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NBC today added three more single-camera comedy pilots to its roster, including projects produced by Greg Daniels and the duo of Will Ferrell & Adam McKay. The Office boss Daniels and his Deedle Dee Prods have had a very active development season with a half-dozen projects landing at NBC and Fox. The one that got the nod at NBC today is an untitled half-hour written by The Office‘s Robert Padnick. The other two pilot slots went to Assistance, from writer Leslye Headland and Ferrell and McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods, and Donor Party, from writer Alex Schemmer and producer Geyer Kosinski.

This marks Gary Sanchez’s first pilot order under the company’s deal with Universal TV where Deedle Dee is also based. All three pilots hail from NBC’s sister studio, with Lionsgate TV co-producing Donor Party. This is Lionsgate’s second consecutive comedy pilot at NBC, following last year’s Next Caller, which went to series but was ultimately shelved. The trio of pilots join recently picked up About A Boy, also single-camera, and multi-camera comedy Joe, Joe & Jane. Here are details about the newly picked up pilots: Read More »

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‘Anchorman 2′ Release Set Dec. 20, 2013

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 5:08pm PSTTags: Anchorman: The Legend Continues, Paramount Pictures, Will Ferrell

Paramount has announced the wide release date for the sequel to the 2004 Will Ferrell-starring comedy: December 20, 2013. Anchorman: The Legend Continues brings back Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner and was announced … Read More »

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Warner Bros In Talks For ‘Get Hard’ With Will Ferrell And Kevin Hart Attached To Star

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday December 7, 2012 @ 3:15pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Kevin Hart, Warner Bros, Will Ferrell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating to acquire Get Hard, a comedy pitch package that will be developed as a star vehicle for Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. The plan is for Ferrell to play a rich, soft-handed investment bank manager who is sentenced to a maximum security prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He hires the streetwise guy who normally washes his car to get him ready to do hard time in the 30 days before he has to report to prison.

The script will be written by Ian Roberts & Jay Martel, who are currently executive producers and showrunners on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele. Gary Sanchez is attached to produce. Read More »

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Will Ferrell & Liam Neeson Among Additions To ‘Lego’ Pic Voice Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 9, 2012 @ 10:03am PSTTags: Lego, Liam Neeson, Warner Bros, Will Ferrell

Liam NeesonWill FerrellEXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Nick Offerman and Alison Brie have joined Warner Bros and Village Roadshow’s Lego feature film. They join Chris Pratt, … Read More »

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Hollywood’s Obama Endorsements: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 7, 2012 @ 3:20pm PSTTags: Harvey Weinstein, Ricky Gervais, Will Ferrell

Now that the election is behind us, we’re posting a handful of Obama endorsements from the Hollywood set. Enjoy.

Harvey Weinstein and Bradley Cooper’s Hindsight:

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Will Ferrell & Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez, Lauryn Kahn Sell Marriage Comedy To NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 4, 2012 @ 10:07am PDTTags: Adam McKay, Will Ferrell
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Lauryn KahnEXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods. have sold a single-camera comedy to NBC to be written by rising young scribe Lauryn Kahn. Universal Television, where Gary Sanchez is under a deal, is producing. Titled I Guess I Do, the comedy centers around a sham green card marriage between a womanizing British celebrity trainer and a psychology grad student who is using her new husband as the subject for her dissertation on the modern male. Ferrell and McKay will executive produce the project, which has received a script commitment from the network.

I Guess I Do expands Kahn’s relationship with Gary Sanchez Prods. where she started out as McKay’s assistant. Noticing her comedic potential, he encouraged her to take improv classes at Upright Citizens Brigade. Kahn then began writing, directing and performing videos on Ferrell and McKay’s comedy Web site FunnyorDie.com. Last year, her debut feature script, comedy He’s F*cking Perfect, sparked a bidding frenzy, landing at Fox 2000 in a $1 million deal, with Gary Sanchez producing and Emma Stone circling the lead. 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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Red Band Trailer: ‘Bachelorette’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 11:07am PDTTags: Adam McKay, Bachelorette, Bridesmaids, Gary Sanchez Productions, Will Ferrell

The Bridesmaids rip-offs were inevitable. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay through their Gary Sanchez productions just released the red band trailer for Bachelorette starring Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher, and James Marsden. Written by ex-Harvey Weinstein assistant Leslye Headland (FX’s Terriers), the low-budget indie generated some buzz … Read More »

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Daily Show: Jon Hamm, Will Ferrell, And Zach Galifianakis Improvise

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 29, 2012 @ 8:50pm PDTTags: Jon Hamm, The Campaign, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis swung by The Daily Show to promote their new political comedy The Campaign opening August 10th – and Jon Hamm had to intervene.

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Hot Teaser Trailer: ‘Anchorman 2′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday May 21, 2012 @ 9:06am PDTTags: Anchorman 2, Paramount, Will Ferrell

Paramount released a primer for its sequel Anchorman: The Legend Continues in front of The Dictator this weekend in theaters. The fab four from the original are back, led by Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy himself, and the film is set to be released sometime next year.

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‘Anchorman 2′ Teaser Ties To ‘The Dictator’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 14, 2012 @ 1:23pm PDTTags: Anchorman 2, Paramount Pictures, The Dictator, Will Ferrell
Mike Fleming

Anchorman 2 DictatorA teaser for Paramount Pictures‘ sequel to Anchorman will go up with prints of the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy The Dictator. Why, Ron Burgundy himself just tweeted it. Here it is, verbatim: ”Dont get Twirter. Anchorman2 teaser … Read More »

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HBO To Develop 1980s Wall Street Comedy Starring Rob Riggle With Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg And Chris Henchy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 14, 2012 @ 11:44am PDTTags: Adam McKay, Big Deals TV, HBO, Rob Riggle, Will Ferrell
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Rob Riggle Wall Street HBOEXCLUSIVE: The Other Guys gang is back together, this time on HBO. The pay cable network is developing a comedy project for Rob Riggle to star and produce. The single-camera comedy, based on an … Read More »

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