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Oct 23 2012 09:35 AM ET

Disney picks up 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day' movie

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Good news for fans of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: a rep for Disney confirms to EW that the studio is now developing an adaptation of Judith Viorst’s classic picture book. Previously, the project was being overseen by 20th Century Fox.

The story, first published in 1972, follows ginger-haired Alexander, a five-year-old who trips on a skateboard when he’s getting out of bed one morning — and things only get worse from there. Two sequels followed: Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday and Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 22 2012 12:38 PM ET

'Despicable Me' minions spinoff set for December 2014 release

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The minions are coming, the minions are coming! Our favorite short, yellow, overall-clad, goggle-sporting workers from 2010′s animated film Despicable Me — which starred Steve Carell, Jason Segel, and Russell Brand — and 2013′s upcoming Despicable Me 2 will be coming to a theater near you on Dec. 19, 2014, EW has confirmed.

The 3D-CG spinoff will be directed by Pierre Coffin, who co-directed the original movie and its upcoming sequel with Chris Renaud. This new minions project will be co-directed by Kyle Balda. The film will also be produced by Illumination Entertainment’s Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. This project marks Universal Pictures’ fifth motion picture collaboration with Illumination.

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Aug 9 2012 10:58 PM ET

Casting Net: Steve Carell will help Will Ferrell 'Swear to God.' Plus: Heather Graham's back for 'The Hangover Part III'

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• Steve Carell and Will Ferrell will star, and actor-screenwriter Justin Theroux (Tropic Thunder) will direct, the comedy Swear to God. Ferrell, who has been attached to the film for a year, will play a self-involved money manager who believes he has seen God. Carell’s role is unspecified. Theroux will also rewrite the script, first penned by Alan Cohen and Alan Freedland (Due Date). [Deadline/Deadline]

• Heather Graham will reprise the role of Jade, the stripper with a heart of gold, in The Hangover Part III. The character did not appear in the 2011 sequel, but it appears she’s due for a reunion with her one-time husband Stu (Ed Helms). Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Helms, and director Todd Phillips are all returning for the threequel. [Variety]

• Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) is attached for the eponymous role in Mary Queen of Scots, about the tumultuous life of the half-sister to Queen Elizabeth I. Appropriately, the screenplay was written by Michael Hirst, who penned Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age — both of which earned star Cate Blanchett an Oscar nod for Best Actress. No director is yet attached. [Deadline]

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Casting Net: Jennifer Lawrence may go to ‘Ends of the Earth.’ Plus: Mickey Rourke, Kevin Costner, and a ‘Catching Fire’ baddie

May 16 2012 09:22 AM ET

'Anchorman II' poster revealed

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This is happening, people. On the heels of the Anchorman II teaser that began playing before screenings of The Dictator last night, Paramount has released a teaser poster for its highly anticipated comedy sequel. Like that one-minute clip, the new image doesn’t reveal anything about the film’s plot — but seeing it might put fans in a glass case of emotion anyway. And if nothing else, it does seem to indicate that the new film’s official title is Anchorman: The Legend Continues. Click through to see Ron, Brick, Brian, and Champ once more… or, at least, part of them.

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May 15 2012 02:56 PM ET

'Anchorman II': Adam McKay talks new teaser, reuniting the news team -- EXCLUSIVE

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Though the plot of Anchorman II is still just an evolving idea in the delightfully delirious minds of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, the return of Ron Burgundy and the Channel 4 news team will take an enormous step towards reality tonight when a teaser for the 2013 sequel debuts in front of The Dictator. Filming the top-secret minute-long clip “was like the Manhattan Project — except without the possibility of destroying all of mankind,” writes McKay, in an e-mail. The teaser reintroduces Burgundy and his news team, and McKay writes that reuniting the gang was an afternoon delight. (No, not that “Afternoon Delight.”) READ FULL STORY »

May 14 2012 03:56 PM ET

'Anchorman 2' teaser to play before 'Dictator'

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Ron Burgundy is coming back. We’ve known that ever since Will Ferrell donned the red blazer on Conan O’Brien’s show and confirmed the buffoonish anchorman’s return for a long-awaited sequel. But the voice of San Diego will be back in theaters tomorrow, when a teaser for Anchorman 2 will play before midnight screenings of The Dictator.

On Twitter, Burgundy himself typed, “Dont get Twirter. Anchorman2 teaser w Dictator tom night. Dont know what a teaser is. World is crazy? Having a scotch.”

Previously, director Adam McKay had hinted that something special was in store, tweeting, “See The Dictator (I worked on it and it’s crazy funny). In addition to Campaign trailer with Zach and Will there’s another treat before it.”

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Apr 25 2012 09:52 PM ET

'Hope Springs' trailer: What is Meryl Streep doing to that banana?

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Meryl Streep may not be sporting fancy wigs or plummy accents for Hope Springs, her new comedy about a sixtysomething married couple (Streep and a growly Tommy Lee Jones) facing down the sexual doldrums of entering retirement age. But thanks to a can-do couples counselor (Steve Carell), her character does contend with some salacious fruit. Check out the new trailer below:  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 20 2012 05:33 PM ET

Casting Net: Taylor Swift nearing noteworthy role as Joni Mitchell, plus Mark Wahlberg, Guy Pearce, Jaden Smith

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• Taylor Swift is in negotiations to make her big-screen dramatic debut as singer-songwriter icon Joni Mitchell in Girls Like Us, based on the book by Sheila Weller. Casting directors are also looking to fill the roles of Carly Simon and Carole King, with Milk star Allison Pill reportedly under consideration. [Variety]

• Mark Wahlberg will come a-knockin’ for Avon Man. Hugh Jackman was supposed to headline the long-in-development project, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with his X-Men spin-off The Wolverine. Wahlberg is now looking to produce and star. [Deadline]

• Lockout lead Guy Pearce is in final talks to join Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, and Don Cheadle in Iron Man 3. Pearce will play geneticist Aldrich Kilian, who develops nanotechnology that can spread viruses and sells it to terrorists. [Variety]

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Apr 18 2012 09:57 PM ET

Casting Net: Gerard Butler going on 'Manhunt.' Plus: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Shailene Woodley

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• Gerard Butler is nearing a deal to headline Manhunt, a thriller about an F.B.I. team hunting a domestic terrorist in the North Carolina mountains. Breck Eisner (The Crazies) would direct. [Deadline]

• Steve Carell and Toni Collette are boarding The Way, Way Back, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriters Jim Rash and Nat Faxon (The Descendants). The indie drama follows a young boy with an neglectful mother (Collette) and a lout of a stepfather (Carell). The cast also includes Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney, and Annasophia Robb. [Variety]

• Speaking of The Descendants, Shailene Woodley is attached to star in The Spectacular Now, an adaptation of Tim Tharp‘s coming-of-age novel, about a teenage girl who confronts an alcoholic classmate. James Ponsoldt (Sundance hit Smashed) will direct. [Variety]

• Boardwalk Empire‘s dearly departed Michael Pitt has found his next project: He’ll produce and star in You Can’t Win, about the loose fraternity of hobos hopping trails in the early 20th century. [THR]

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Apr 9 2012 08:42 PM ET

Casting Net: 'Iron Man 3' gets its villain, and Steve Carell may have a 'Very Bad Day.' Plus: Selena Gomez, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks

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• Ben Kingsley is close to joining the Marvel Universe as the Big Bad for Iron Man 3. He would join Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, and Scarlett Johansson for the threquel, set to start filming next month for a May 3, 2013 release date. The exact details of Kingsley’s roles aren’t yet clear, but it appears he won’t be playing Tony Stark’s alpha nemesis the Mandarin. [Variety]

• Call it Pulling a Timberlake: Selena Gomez will set her recording career aside for a spell, and will star in the action film The Getaway with Ethan Hawke. [MTV News]

• Some wonderful, incredible, all good, very great news: Steve Carell is in preliminary talks to headline a live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) is directing, from a script she wrote with Rob Lieber. [Deadline]

• Tom Hanks is circling the role of Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks, the story of how the legendary mogul cajoled author P.L. Travers for the rights to her books about magical nanny Mary Poppins. Emma Thompson may take on the role of Travers. [Deadline]

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• Horrible Bosses co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis are in talks for the road comedy We’re the Millers, about a made-up family concocted to help a drug dealer (Sudeikis) smuggle a motherlode of pot over the Mexico border. Dodgeball helmer Rawson Marshall Thurber would direct. [Deadline]

• Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol‘s Paula Patton is in talks to join Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg in the graphic novel adaptation 2 Guns. Baltasar  Kormakur (Contraband) is set to direct. [Deadline]

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