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Trailers

Watch the Trailer for Funny or Die's Steve Jobs Movie 'iSteve'

by | April 2nd, 2013

Here's a new teaser trailer for iSteve, a feature-length Steve Jobs biopic made by Funny or Die that will debut on the website Monday, April 15th. The movie will be somewhere between 60 and 75 minutes in length, and it will be the first Steve Jobs biopic to be released, beating the two real ones. iSteve was written and directed by FOD staffer Ryan Perez, and it stars Justin Long as Jobs, James Urbaniak (Venture Bros.) as Bill Gates, Michaela Watkins (SNL) as Melinda Gates, and Jorge Garcia (Lost) as Steve Wozniak. Let's hope this kicks off a "comedy biopics about real people" trend.

trade roundup

Trade Roundup: Emma Stone May Star in He's F***ing Perfect, Steve Carell Finds Director For Depressing Dog Movie, High School Reunion Gets Spring Release Date

by | November 3rd, 2011

Emma Stone may star in Lauryn Kahn's He's F***ing Perfect. The movie's still a long way from theaters, but it'd be pretty cool to see Emma Stone leading a romantic(ish) comedy.

Steve Carell just keeps planning movies, huh? One of them, Dogs of Babel, will be directed by John Carney, who also directed Once. Amazingly, and unfortunately for us, this film about "a professor who tries to coax his dog to speak out about the death of the professor's wife" is still not a comedy.

A high school reunion comedy called Ten Year will be released sometime this spring. It's an ensemble comedy starring, [...]

Movies

Funny or Die Made a Feature-Length Steve Jobs Biopic

by | March 18th, 2013

There are currently two Steve Jobs biopics in the works – one that was already filmed starring Ashton Kutcher and another written by Aaron Sorkin – but Funny or Die beat them to the punch and is releasing a Steve Jobs biopic first. The NY Times reports this week that Funny or Die's Ryan Perez wrote and directed a comedic biopic about Jobs called iSteve that stars Justin Long as the Apple mogul and runs somewhere between 60 and 75 minutes in length. Perez wrote the script in three days and shot it in five. The movie also stars James Urbaniak (Venture Bros.) as Bill Gates, Michaela Watkins (SNL) [...]

Books

John Hodgman the Deranged Millionaire Celebrates His Upcoming Book

by | October 26th, 2011

Hey, I have a ferret skeleton room too! Granted it also doubles as my bedroom, but you wouldn't be wrong if you called it that either! John Hodgman's new book That Is All will be released November 1, giving you over a year to read it before the End Times begin, and about a week for Hodgman to successfully make his way out of his grotesquely opulent mansion. I'm very interested in the void where he keeps Justin Long, but truly, only a deranged millionaire would keep Dick Cavett waiting around with only a belly full of chips.

Festivals

Sundance Premieres Will Feature Celeste and Jesse, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan & More

by | December 6th, 2011

The Sundance 2012 premieres have been announced, and like this year's film selections they include lots of comedyfolk! We've got Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones in the long-awaited Celeste and Jesse Forever (with more photos here), Chris Rock in 2 Days in New York, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Scott in Bachelorette (Party Down reunion alert!), and Josh Radnor in Liberal Arts. And Justin Long and Ty Burrell and Parker Posey, oh my. Full synopses below.

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