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"I've never been a man of great conviction. I never saw the percentage in it."
Take a nostalgic trip back to America's Golden Age with tonight's Primetime Movie, The Majestic, a Frank Capra-inspired drama from three-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption).
Jim Carrey (I Love You Phillip Morris) stars as Peter Appleton, a young screenwriter working in '50s Hollywood who accidentally drives his car off of a bridge after accusations of Communist leanings cost him his job and movie star girlfriend. Appleton survives, washing up on a beach in a small town called Lawson, but he is stricken with amnesia. The locals believe him to be a hometown boy named Luke who never came back from the war and treat him like a hero; however, not everyone in town believes that Luke has really returned and federal agents are still hot on Peter's trail. Martin Landau and Laurie Holden also star.
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Carrey and Carell reunite to bring the magic.
It's pretty clear that Jim Carrey and Steve Carell like working together. The pair first worked together in 2003's Bruce Almighty, then both did voice work in 2008's Horton Hears a Who. In 2011, Carrey appeared in an episode of The Office, but it was the first to lack Carell as the show's lead. Finally, the two actors are together again for the upcoming comedy Burt Wonderstone playing rival magicians.
Carell plays the title role, one half of a magic act that also includes his longtime partner Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi). However, a rift forms between the two as a rising street magician named Steve Gray (Carrey) threatens to end their Las Vegas careers. As seen in the first trailer, Wonderstone must try to rediscover his love of magic, and finds help from the elderly Rance Holloway (Alan Arkin, reuniting with Carell for the first time since 2008's Get Smart), who inspired Wonderstone to become a magician in the first place.
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In June, Jim Carrey dropped out of a sequel to 1994's Dumb and Dumber, claiming that he was "frustrated" at the lackluster commitment from studios New Line and Warner Bros. "I would have thought Dumb and Dumber To was a no-brainer, after all it's implied in the title," Carrey explained at the time.
For those that were excited at the prospect of a sequel and then bummed at Carrey's exit, there's good news: the sequel may not be dead after all. During a recent panel for the Television Critics Association, Jeff Daniels told Crave Online that there's still hope that Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne could step in front of cameras again next year.
Jim wants to do it. I want to do it. The Farrellys [writer-directors Peter and Bobby] want to do it. They want to rewrite the script a little bit and they aren’t trying to jam it in before I have to go back and do Newsroom in November. So they’re going, "Why don’t we just do it right? Let’s get everybody organized to go next May or June." If everything works out on the business side, that’s what we’ll do but I think there’s more hope than ever.
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In April, it looked like a sequel to 1994's Dumb and Dumber was finally going to become a reality after co-writer and director Peter Farrelly said shooting would start this September with both Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels returning to their respective roles as dim-witted best friends Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. Unfortunately for those anxiously awaiting the sequel, Carrey has dropped out.
While everyone was passionate about returning for the sequel, Carrey told ETOnline that he had grown "increasingly frustrated" in the commitment from New Line and Warner Brothers, the studios that are also ironically behind his upcoming movie Burt Wonderstone. "I would have thought Dumb and Dumber To was a no-brainer, after all it's implied in the title," Carrey explained, revealing the sequel's proposed title.
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Even before Emma Stone dyed her red hair blonde (or should we say returned to her natural color?) to play Peter Parker's love interest Gwen Stacy in next month's The Amazing Spider-Man, she was on the fast-track to stardom. With Spider-Man hitting theaters in just a few weeks, Stone now is firmly planted on the A-List path.
In a new interview with Vulture, Stone talks about the pitfalls of fame, being hunted by the paparazzi, and Jim Carrey's weird obsession with her.
Stone said it's hard for her and boyfriend-Spidey co-star Andrew Garfield to leave their Chelsea apartment.
You start to notice just, like, little things. Like the people next to you taking sneaky camera-phone pictures, and you're like, "Okay, this is a thing now." ...I freak out having a Facebook.
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Not an April Fool's joke; we checked. A sequel to 1994's Dumb and Dumber will, in fact, start shooting this September. Last October, That's My Boy director Sean Anders and his occasional screenwriting partner John Morris (Mr. Popper's Penguins, Hot Tub Time Machine) were hired to pen the sequel for directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Clearly, their script must have hit the mark. While doing press for the siblings' upcoming remake/homage The Three Stooges, Peter revealed that the Dumb and Dumber sequel is gearing up to step in front of cameras this fall.
We're getting set to shoot Dumb and Dumber 2 in September. It's the first sequel we've ever done and we've got Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels back.
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It's finally happened. For the first time in his career, Adam Sandler is making a sequel. However, instead of going back to some of his revered comedies like 1996's Happy Gilmore or 1998's The Waterboy, Sandler is returning to his most financially successful movie, 2010's Grown Ups.
Almost universally disliked by critics, Grown Ups earned $271 million in worldwide box office, nearly as much as both of Sandler's 2011 movies, Just Go With It and Jack and Jill, combined. Coming Soon reports that Sony Pictures is targeting a July 12, 2013, release date for the sequel. Screenwriter Fred Wolf, who co-wrote Grown Ups with Sandler, is in negotiations to write the sequel.
According to the report, Sandler isn't completely locked for Grown Ups 2, but is expected to return along with his former Saturday Night Live co-stars, including David Spade, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, as well as Kevin James, who would all reprise their roles as five childhood friends coping with fatherhood.
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The Wall Street Journal took a break from P/E ratios and IPOs to name Emma Watson's pixie 'do and Justin Bieber's "swish" as the most influential haircuts of 2011, with the Journal claiming the fastest-rising searches for celebrity haircuts on Google are for Ms. Watson and Mr. Bieber.
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The mystery blonde pictured with Jim Carrey last week — the one roundly admonished online for stealing her hairstyle from the '90s — has been identified as Russian Anastasia Vitkina, currently attending school in NYC.
Earlier this year Carrey engaged in some other odd behavior, recording a creepy video love letter to Emma Stone and painting a giant spermatozoa on the outside of his NYC apartment.
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Ashton Kutcher looks to have moved on from Demi Moore, tweeting a pic of himself with screenwriter Lorene Scafaria, who is rumored to have hooked up with Kutcher as early as February of this year when he tried out for the male lead in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, a film she wrote. (The part ended up going to Steve Carell).
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Deiondra Sanders, the 19-year-old daughter of Deion Sanders, is calling BS on her mom Pilar's claim that she read about her divorce on TMZ.com, and is making no bones about whose side she's on, unleashing a flurry of tweets criticizing her mom for a half-naked photo shoot, hosting parties like she's a 20-year-old model, not cooking dinner, "flying out to see other n**gas," and even closing one tweet with the hashtag #GoldDigginH*e.
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Tiger Woods' former mistress Rachel Uchitel is expecting and posted her baby registry online that includes $300 nipple pumps, a $500 high chair, a $300 car seat, a $1000 stroller, and $300 cashmere bedding.
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Melanie Amaro won the first The X Factor and took home the $5 million recording contract winner's prize. What's she going to do with the money? Buy her mom a new house because "the one we live in now sucks," and a lifetime supply of chicken, saying, "I can't live without it. It's my favorite food."
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Lindsay Lohan has landed a new modeling contract that doesn't require her to get naked, but the deal with Jag Jeans does involve LiLo "posing provocatively in tiny cutoff shorts, a belly-baring top, high heels and lots of accessories."
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Louis Vuitton is suing Warner Brothers, claiming the bag carried by Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover 2 — the one roughly handled by Stu that prompts the line "Careful, that's a Louis Vuitton!" — is a fake made by the Chinese American company Diophy.
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Things are clearly serious between Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux as they've sent out a joint mass-produced Christmas card neither one actually signed.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but Jim Carrey's unidentified new girlfriend is, uh ... geez.
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After sending Blake Lively down the road, Leonardo DiCaprio was linked to Australian models Alyce Crawford and Kendal Schuler, and Romanian beauty Madalina Ghenea but seems to have settled on American Victoria's Secret model Erin Heatherton.
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US Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin, plans to call the First Lady's office and apologize after being publicly heard stating that Michelle Obama has a "large posterior."
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While it doesn't always seem like it these days, not everyone in Hollywood wants to make a sequel. However, after decades of aversion, writer/directors/siblings Bobby and Peter Farrelly admitted they were finally ready for a sequel and are working on a follow-up to 1994's Dumb and Dumber. "We’re starting to think about what those two dimwits would be doing twenty-years later in life," said Bobby at the time. "And hopefully we’ll be able to come up with something worthy of a sequel." It appears they did.
more about a Dumb and Dumber sequel >> Posted 10.27.11 by Ryan