This March, five things people love are all going to be on the big screen together: Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde and magic. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, is scheduled for release March 15 and earlier this year, /Film was invited to the set to see a few of these comedic geniuses work. We spoke to the…
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NBC's Community may be on hiatus, but don't think for a second that its cast has been slacking off. Not only is production still in full swing, several of the show's stars have been working on outside projects as well. Gillian Jacobs, for one, has just wrapped Revenge for Jolly! and has a part in…
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For a while there it looked like Ariel Vromen's The Iceman was on the verge of falling apart, as James Franco dropped out of the project. But the hitman biopic is moving along with David Schwimmer and Chris Evans added to the cast in recent weeks, and now Winona Ryder has boarded the picture as…
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Louis Leterrier's magician heist movie Now You See Me keeps getting better. The movie features a story about a group of illusionists who rob banks during their performances, and then give at least some of the proceeds out to the audience, even as the FBI is hot on their tail. The cast already includes Mark…
Read MoreNicole Kidman's Blossom Films and Olympus Films have teamed up to acquire the movie rights for Kevin Wilson's bestselling book The Family Fang, which they plan to develop as a starring vehicle for Kidman. The two companies previously collaborated on Rabbit Hole, for which Kidman received a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Wilson's debut novel centers…
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Sometime last summer, a report surfaced that Jim Carrey had been offered a part, possibly the lead, in the magician comedy Burt Wonderstone. Steve Carell has since landed the title role, but now it seems Carrey may be interested in climbing aboard in a different capacity. Carrey has entered negotiations for the film, which will…
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Briefly: One of the great Hollywood means to Making an Extra Buck is working as a script doctor or uncredited rewrite artist. Many a now-famous writer/director has done such work either early in their career (Quentin Tarantino on Crimson Tides) or throughout it (John Sayles on more movies than I have space to list here).…
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The comedy Burt Wonderstone, which is planning to star Steve Carell as a "traditional magic man who is dethroned by a hip younger illusionist and must then find a way to rediscover his love for magic,” has been kicking around for a few years. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses) wrote the script,…
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Steve Carell has a bunch of possible projects in the works, and earlier this week he became attached to produce and star in an adaptation of the novel The Dogs of Babel. It looked then like that would definitely be his next film after his departure from The Office. And it still might be. But…
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One of the more unusual projects in the long list of potential films for Steve Carell is a dramatic feature based on the documentary Of All the Things, which chronicles an unlikely tour of the Philippines undertaken by songwriter Dennis Lambert. We heard about this project in May when Warner Bros. started negotiating a deal…
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Ah, it's the notorious 'an offer is out to...' story, which has of late become more of a staple. These are both potentially interesting projects, but keep in mind that at this point we're just documenting offers that have been given to actors to appear in these projects -- the films aren't greenlit, and there's…
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