Here's a new teaser trailer for Anchorman 2 released this weekend. It doesn't feature any actual footage from the sequel, but it is nice to see our four favorite '70s news guys back together again nearly a decade later. Christmas can't come fast enough.
The 21 Jump Street sequel is starting to take shape. Collider has an interview with producer Neal Moritz, in which he reveals that Ice Cube will be back as the police captain, with original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller attached to return too. It was previously announced that Jonah Hill and the first movie's screenwriter, Michael Bacall, are working on the script. Hill and Channing Tatum are expected to return in the lead roles with a summer 2014 release in mind.
Here's all the non-boring stuff Moritz said about the sequel:
It leads off where we ended the last film and our guys are going to college [...]
Fox is very confident that its upcoming Melissa McCarthy-Sandra Bullock buddy cop comedy The Heat will be a hit – so confident, in fact, that they've already started work on a sequel. Deadline reports that the studio has made "a pricey deal" with Katie Dippold, who scripted the first movie and previously wrote for Parks and Rec, to write a sequel. While it's a little crazy for the studio to be putting money and time into a sequel to a movie that doesn't come out until the summer, this kind of practice is fairly common in Hollywood. Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall were hired to write a 21 [...]
Sony began prepping the sequel to 21 Jump Street before the first movie even hit theaters, and now, the studio has announced that 21 Jump Street 2 will be out in 2014. Sony revealed the info at CinemaCon yesterday with a logo for the sequel being included as part of the studio's 2014 slate. No specific date has been set for a release at this time, just the year. The original movie's writers, Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall, are also writing the new one, with Hill and Channing Tatum are expected to return as stars. 21 Jump Street's ending set up a sequel where the two main characters [...]
While it bombed at the box office during its initial release, Will Forte's SNL spinoff MacGruber has grown into a cult favorite. Forte was asked about the movie this week by EW when promoting Run and Jump, an upcoming drama he's acting in. Forte had this to say:
"We are going to make MacGruber 2 for sure. Whether we have to do it with a video camera in our backyards – there will be some form of MacGruber 2."
With the recent success of the Veronica Mars Kickstarter, that could be a way the MacGruber movie could happen. Says Forte, "Jorma [Taccone], the MacGruber director, he had the idea to do a [...]
Anchorman 2 is currently filming in Atlanta, and The Daily Mail snagged a bunch of pictures from the set during the filming of the movie's inevitable news anchor brawl. Click through to the post if you want to see 17 pictures of the scene, most of which spoil big-time cameos, none of which I'll reveal here. It looks like it's about 1000x crazier than the news fight in the first Anchorman and should make for a pretty delightful scene.
A new Vacation movie scheduled to shoot this summer has been delayed indefinitely, and, to the surprise of everyone, noted difficult person Chevy Chase is not the root of the problem. THR reports that shooting on the film, which is set to star Ed Helms as grown-up Griswold spawn Rusty taking his wife (Christina Applegate) and kids on a road trip to Wally World, will be delayed at least a few months – possibly until late this year. The reason for the difficulties is creative differences caused by a split between those who want the movie to be R-rated like the original and those who want a broad PG-13 [...]
"Every joke in Hangover II is completely different. My feeling is that it's the better movie of the two. I think it's human nature that any time people want to try something for a second time, people go to a negative. I think in five or ten years time, people will come to realize how brilliant Hangover II is."
-Hangover II director Todd Phillips to Empire about the brilliance of Hangover II.
It's official: Universal is making a sequel to Pitch Perfect. While the studio began exploring the option of sequelizing the college a cappella comedy last year, /Film reports that a sequel has officially been greenlit and they're aiming for a 2015 release. The original movie's writer Kay Cannon will be returning to script Pitch Perfect 2, but there's no confirmation on any of the cast coming back yet. Given that they all reunited at the MTV Movie Awards this past weekend, I'd say there's a pretty good chance everyone will be back. Movieweb reported last year that Universal was in talks with stars Rebel Wilson and Skylar [...]
Production on Anchorman 2 is still underway in Atlanta, and The Hollywood Reporter, um, reports that three big-name actors have joined the cast for cameos or small parts. We'l refrain from spoiling the cameos, but two of the actors played small parts in the previous movie, while the other is an Oscar winner who wasn't in the original Anchorman. Click through to the above link if you want to read the cameo spoiler and continue to ruin the movie for yourself, piece by piece.
Adam Scott may be the new face of the Hot Tub Time Machine franchise. When a sequel to the 2010 time travel comedy was announced in January, stars Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke were onboard but leading man John Cusack was not. Now, The Wrap reports that Parks and Recreation and Party Down star Adam Scott is in negotiations to play the sequel's lead character, a totally different character from Cusack's. Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink is returning and co-writing the script with Corddry, who didn't have a hand in writing the original. Although John Cusack was fine in the original, Adam Scott [...]
Dan Aykroyd has been talking to the press about his dreams and hopes for Ghostbusters III for the past several years now, and he discussed the movie again in a new interview with ABC News. Aykroyd says he hopes to have filming take place in 2014, but that doesn't really mean anything really considering that the movie's been delayed so much. Filming was previously supposed to take place this summer but was delayed in October of last year. Here's Akyroyd today:
I feel re-encouraged, reinvigorated by the pages that I have seen. I know that we’re expecting half of the screenplay to be completed very [...]
A sequel to the 2004 Ben Stiller-Vince Vaughn comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is in the early stages. THR reports that Stiller has hired Clay Tarver to write a script to the sequel. Tarver's only produced credit is writing the movie Joy Ride with JJ Abrams, but he's scripted a lot of comedies that are in the works or that never got made, including Quantum Hoops (about a nerdy Caltech basketball team), Men Making Music (about competitive barbershop quartets), and projects with Stiller and Mike Judge. Prior to this, the only public word on a Dodgeball sequel, beyond Stiller joking about it on Ricky Gervais's Extras, was [...]
Here's the trailer for the third and final Hangover movie, which hits theaters May 24th. Up until now the plot has been kept under wraps, but the trailer reveals that it's about Ed Helms and Bradley Cooper's characters taking Zach Galifianakis's character to a mental health center after the loss of his father, only to be stopped by a criminal (John Goodman) who's looking for Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong). Oh, and Melissa McCarthy has a cameo, which is probably like 30 seconds longer than her bit in the trailer.
