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.
Funny or Die's new IFC miniseies The Spoils of Babylon is sounding better and better by the minute. Kristen Wiig and Tobey Maguire have signed on to star opposite Will Ferrell in the six-episode series, which is expected to debut in late 2013. Produced by Ferrell and McKay via their Funny or Die label, Spoils of Babylon is a parody of epic '80s miniseries like The Thorn Birds and Winds of War. It's being written by Andrew Steele and directed by Matt Piedmont, the team behind Ferrell's Casa de mi Padre.
Spoils is an adaptation of a fictional best-selling novel written by renowned author Eric Jonrosh (played by [...]
Here's this weekend's SNL host Vince Vaughn on Jimmy Fallon last night, recalling a prank they tried to play on Will Ferrell in a bar bathroom during his Fallon's first season on SNL in 1998. Hopefully, the unintended victim of this prank really was watching and accepts their apology.
Before reprising his role as Han Solo for the new Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford will be appearing in a more important sequel: Anchorman 2. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ford has joined the cast as a veteran newscaster in the vein of Tom Brokaw. The Anchorman 2 cast also includes returning stars Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and David Koechner, plus newcomers Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, and John C. Reilly. This will be Harrison Ford's first role in a comedy since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
MTV announced today that they're handing out a new annual prize at the MTV Movie Awards this year. It's called the "Comedy Genius Award," and Will Ferrell will be the recipient of the first one ever at the 2013 Movie Awards, which'll be held on April 14th and be hosted by Rebel Wilson if you aren't totally sick of awards shows already after these past couple months.
Hit the jump for a bunch of videos of Will Ferrell's best MTV Movie Awards appearances (via MTV):
Old School stars Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn are set to reunite. Paramount announced yesterday that the duo will be starring alongside each other in Daddy's Home, a project Ferrell has been attached to for over three years. The movie follows "a mild-mannered radio executive (Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife’s two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father (Vaughn) arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the affection of the kids."
Ferrell originally signed on to play the other part in 2010 with Ed Helms cast as the wimpy stepdad. Helms is no longer involved in Daddy's Home, which is being [...]
Will Ferrell and Jack Black may star in their first movie together. Beyond Black's cameo in Anchorman, the two comedians have never appeared in a movie together, but all that may change soon. The Wrap reports that Ferrell and Black are attached to star in a comedy called Tag Brothers, based on a recent Wall Street Journal article about a group of 10 guys in their 40s who have been playing a game of tag together one month a year since they were in prep school 24 years ago. The movie version will have four male leads, with the other parts not yet cast. Mark Steilen, who's worked as [...]
Here's the first episode of a new web series from The Office, tied to the show's series finale next month. Directed by John Krasinski, each episode features guest stars and regular actors from the show looking back at The Office and its legacy. Hopefully, everyone refuses to stop eating lunch the whole time like Will Ferrell did.
Details on Anchorman 2 have been scarce so far, but the website Bleeding Cool picked up on a casting call for a stand-in from an agency in Atlanta, where the movie begins filming this week:
Do you look like John C. Reilly? We’re seeking a caucasian male, 6’2″, any age. THIS SHOOTS TOMORROW, FEB 28th. Please submit your stats and 3 photos to TeachMan2ATL@gmail.com with the subject line JOHNNY DOUBLE.
It's pretty reasonable to presume that, if production is looking for a John C. Reilly lookalike, they're using John C. Reilly. It looks like Reilly's part in the film may be a small one, as the stand-in [...]
Will Ferrell donned a red security guard coat – complete with a namebadge reading "Ted Vagina" – at last night's Lakers game and proceeded to usher Shaquille O'Neal out of the arena. He doesn't need to explain why; he's Will Ferrell.
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.
Last night during the MTV Movie Awards, Aubrey Plaza ran onstage and tried to grab Will Ferrell's "Comedic Genius award" out of his hands during his acceptance speech (at the 1:53 mark in the above video). She had the title to her upcoming movie The To Do List written in marker on her chest, and quickly returned to her seat after about ten seconds of trying to take Ferrell's award. MTV is claiming that the stunt was unplanned and that Plaza was removed from the premises after the incident, but she did appear in the audience later in the show so that could be bullshit. Watch the video [...]
Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell are currently filming Anchorman 2 in Atlanta, but they'll be working on another movie together once production on the long-awaited sequel wraps. THR reports that Kristen Wiig is in talks for the lead role in an independent comedy called Welcome to Me that Ferrell will produce with Adam McKay through their company Gary Sanchez. McKay's wife, Shira Piven, will direct from a script by Eliot Laurence (The Big Gay Sketch Show). Piven made her directorial debut with another indie comedy, Fully Loaded, which premiered on demand and at film festivals last year. Welcome to Me follows a woman (Wiig) with [...]
Plot details are scarce about the new Anchorman movie, which starts filming next week in Atlanta, but writer/director Adam McKay shared some more tidbits with Empire, revealing that part of the action will be taking place in New York. "San Diego is too close to Ron's heart to go away, but we feel that New York City is the holy grail for all newsmen," explained McKay. The director also discussed Kristen Wiig's character, who is the love interest of Steve Carell's dimwit weatherman Brick Tamland. "Brick's so far gone that you can't have a relationship with him," continued McKay. "It takes a special someone to get a rope [...]
