While the mainstream is fetishizing the '90s, a crew is still looking back at the forgotten corners of '80s pop culture. IFC mini-series The Spoils of Babylon is from exec producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Matt Piedmont, Andrew Steele and Nate Young. (Steele and Piedmont wrote.) It is designed as a spoof of '80s event television, and…
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Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are living in the past. The modern TV "event series" has its roots in, well, Roots, and other mini-series adaptations of popular epic fiction. The late '70s and early '80s saw a rash of highly-touted adaptations of historical novels and family sagas, with the runaway success of Roots followed by…
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We all have our favorite "so bad they're good" movies. They're films with poorly written scripts and terrible performances, but huge entertainment value due to, or in spite of, near-total incompetence. Casa de mi Padre, Will Ferrell's Spanish-language comedy, was conceived and executed to be one of those films. It's filled with totally self-aware mistakes…
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Many months ago we saw a rough quality teaser trailer for Casa de mi Padre, the Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. Now, with US distribution set via the small label Pantelion Films, we've got a much better quality teaser that will give you the basic setup of the movie.…
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Last year, Will Ferrell shot a Spanish-language comedy called Casa de mi Padre, with co-stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. The movie seems to be both a loving ode to and a send-up of classic Mexican telenovellas. A trailer appeared in April and was taken down not long afterward, but we haven't heard much…
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Funny or Die Presents director Matt Piedmont will soon be directing Will Ferrell in the Spanish-language comedy Casa de mi padre. That's odd enough, and now Ferrell has two great co-stars: Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, who are making quite the career of working in films together. (They've acted opposite one another in Y…
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