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Patti Blagojevich and Bazooka Joe Tied to the Railroad Tracks By Wicked Jim Carrey
It's just a near-summer Friday, so not all that much is happening. A Trainspotting author turns to directing. Jim Carrey will soon be steaming into your town. And terrible TV series and movies still get made, every day, in this old place of ours. More » -
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If Only All Hot Tubs Could Be Time Machines
News from pilot season, from Disney's secret horrible laboratory, from the mixed-up files of Jim Carrey, from Japan, and from the Hot Tub Time Machine. Yes m'am. More »
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medicine
Jim Carrey Blogs a Blog About Vaccines
Oh, good, Arianna Huffington is using her "Huffingtontowne Evening Post-Gazette" to promote the idiotic vaccine conspiracy nonsense of Earth Girls Are Easy star Jim Carrey. More »
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By PareeneComment by Spirit Fingers: As an adult who is starting to believe that most FDA approved manufactured chemicals are poison, I don't totally disagree... 28 Responses | Other threads
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casting
Sean Penn's Addition to Three Stooges Movie Does Not Make It Oscar Bait
Sean Penn will play Larry, alongside Jim Carrey as Curly and Benicio del Toro in the Farrelly brothers' Three Stooges movie. While some had assumed/hoped this would be a classy biopic, it's not. Just slapstick. More »
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Comment by Smitros: This film sounds like a fool's errand. The Three Stooges came out of a particular time and its intersection of... 3 Responses | Other threads
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cattle call
Jake Gyllenhaal To Continue His Illustrious Singing Career
Casting has been announced for the movie version of Damn Yankees, the baseball musical. Jake Gyllenhaal will sing! Also in casting news are Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, a Woody Allen movie, and Gossip Girl. More »
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Comment by EdnaOverhill: Jake Gyllenhall? Be still my heart. Does anyone know if there's a locker room scene in Damn Yankees?... 2 Responses | Other threads
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sundance
Loving 'Phillip Morris'
Let's get this out of the way: Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor make just about the cutest, most gaga-in-love couple we'll likely see in any movie at Sundance. More » -
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The 10 Celebrities With The Most To Lose at Sundance '09
Sundance affords as many opportunities for career setbacks in 10 days as it does for meteoric advancement — not even Robert De Niro or Dakota Fanning could get out of Park City alive. More » -
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'Yes' He Can't
Studios found no happy surprises beneath the Chrismukkah bush today, as snowed-in audiences opted out of Will Smith's messianic broodiness and Jim Carrey saying "yes" more times than Tara Reid at the Promises buffet line.
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defamer attractions
Jim Carrey Battles Will Smith For Holiday-Fiasco Heavyweight Belt
Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or potentially toxic at the movies. This week: Will Smith is bad, Jim Carrey is affirmative, and Mickey Rourke takes a beating for Oscar.
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Yentazilla Ellen DeGeneres Won't Stop Until Every One Of Her Celebrity Friends Is Gay-Married
When did Ellen DeGeneres turn into such a yenta?
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Carreying On
Jim Carrey Tells Larry King That Prozac Is For Suckers
Jim Carrey is self-aware enough to know that he pulled a Tom Cruise last night by railing against anti-depression meds like Prozac, and yet, he spreads his completely unscientific opinion anyway. [Jezebel]
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Plan B-List. Were the last words you said to your laid-off assistant as he carried a cardboard box of personal effects out the doors of your office for the very last time, "I cannot BELIEVE they cut $25 million from my budget! What the fuck is the world coming to? We're screwed!!!" Fret not: Your tentpole might not have collapsed just yet. Empire has a list of perfectly serviceable alternative to costly A-list stars—some even arguably less box-office-poisony than the originals! [Empire] -
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I Now Pronounce You Mc and Carrey
For all those hopeful that the success of Brokeback Mountain would lead to more films with A-list male stars in the throes of gay romance, here is what you have wrought: the Jim Carrey/Ewan McGregor romcom I Love You, Phillip Morris. A trailer for the film just emerged from France (of course it would be France!), detailing the wild true story of Steve Russell (Carrey), who was a devoted family man until a car accident turned him gay. Watch out, Morgan Freeman! The newly liberated Russell quickly turns into a con artist, eventually ending up in jail, where he falls head over heels for the incarcerated titular character (McGregor). Suddenly, a gay audience that's clamored for more on-screen kisses will be forced to confront the terror that is Carrey initiating them. The clip, after the jump:
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sundance film festival
Mountain Men: The Sundance Film Festival broke out its non-competition selections for 2009 this afternoon, a starrier, funkier twist on yesterday's slate of barbershop docs and Pierce Brosnan weepies. At the top is Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor's gay prison romance I Love You Philip Morris, which we've been anticipating since first spying Carrey's frolicsome South Beach sojourn. Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle will be around for the cop drama Brooklyn's Finest, while Billy Bob Thornton is bringing two films — the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation The Informers (also with Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke — stay off the slopes, guys!) and the crap-salesman comedy Manure. Robin Williams, Uma Thurman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Spacey, Zooey Deschanel and Kristen Stewart bring up the rear; here's hoping Winona leaves them their gift bags. [SFF]
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Red Bull Commercial Cleverly Disguised as New Jim Carrey Film
A veritable murderer's row of egos, tempers and divas, Defamer's All-Strop Team is on fire in recent weeks with heavy-hitters from Mike Myers to Edward Norton to Eddie Murphy digging new box-office holes around the country. But the heart and soul of the line-up, Jim Carrey, will get at least one more chance this fall to knock a bomb out of the yard with his forthcoming Yes Man; based on the memoir by British humorist Danny Wallace, the film follows the life changes of a downbeat man who decides to say yes to everything. The A-list set-urinator reportedly accepted no money up front for the title role, inspiring us to wonder exactly who is benefiting from the aggressive product placement spotlighted in this new trailer. Is Zooey Deschanel really commanding such lucre already? This has All-Strop rookie of the year written all over it. [YouTube]
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defamer
Who Are the Difficult Actors Missing From the All-Strop Team?
Temperamental and/or difficult actors are nothing new, of course, but as alluded to earlier today in our glimpse at the new-and-slightly-spiritually-improved Mike Myers, it takes a special kind of difficult to make the "stroppy" cut. To wit, does your rep for tantrums, whining and/or demanding final cut equal or exceed your rep for such actions making your films better? Then you might be headed for the All-Strop Team, as laid out today by Guardian contributor Andrea Hubert: Folks like Edward Norton (the captain), Eddie Murphy (the leadoff hitter, if only for knowing when to take a walk on Pluto Nash), Gwyneth Paltrow (the cleanup hitter, for publicly referring to her film View From the Top as View From My Ass) and others. More »
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By STVComment by Julius Seizure. (the CANUCK one): @moseskitty: How dare YOU misspell her first name! Oh, honey, you are on her sh*t-list now. She can still aim a... more » | Other threads
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defamer
New Paramount Theme Park in Korea to Offer 'The Norbit Adventure' and Other Fine Attractions
There has been no shortage of potential cross-pollenation opportunities for Paramount Pictures over its 90 years in business, but for sheer monolithic stature and creative promise, nothing tweaks our loins quite like the just-announced Paramount Movie Park Korea. While we're mildly disappointed to hear that the park is slated for Seoul and not Pyongyang (tell us you wouldn't have been first in line for "Kim Jong Il's Marathon Man Experience"), we're glad to see the studio back in the theme-park business and eager to have a go at the 30-plus attractions planned for a 2011 opening. More »
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defamer
Seen At Cannes: Phillip Morris Is Jim Carrey's Boo
Snapped at Cannes by Cinematical, it's the only known billboard for Jim Carrey/Ewan McGregor con-on-con gay prison romance I Love You Phillip Morris. At first glance, the tasteful campaign seems to be going for something like an Anderson Cooper Christmas card. A mere ten seconds later, however, the slats on the mechanized sign rotate, revealing a far edgier tableau of a Versace-clad and spray-tanned Carrey offering horsey rides to a bethonged and delighted Rodrigo Santoro. More » -
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Julia Roberts Can't Open! (And Other Crises Setting a Shattered Hollywood on Edge)
OK, OK, Hollywood Reporter — we get it. The trade paper today took 1,600 words, three pie charts, two line graphs, and a half-dozen adorable floating-head info boxes to confirm the long-suspected word on the street that — are you ready? — the star system is dying. Jim Carrey can't open! Brad Pitt's last film did $4 million! Julia Roberts hasn't broken $70 million since 2001! Shriek! More »
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Jim Carrey Embraces South Beach Lifestyle
Here's a first glimpse at Jim Carrey on the set of I Love You Phillip Morris (from the team who wrote Bad Santa, the movie is based on a true gay prison love story and was pitched as Catch Me If You Can meets Brokeback Mountain), in which Carrey's character appears to have been vomited upon by a Versace Medusa logo. It also features him grabbing a generous handful of actor Rodrigo Santoro, who was required to butch things up significantly since playing 300's chainmail-swimwear-fetishist Xerxes. More »
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By SethComment by MiniMencken: Wait! How can Carrey be grabbing Rodrigo Santoro's ass? His character's love interest, Phillip Morris, is supposed to be played... 1 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Jim Carrey On Board To Muck Up Jason Reitman's Winning Streak
· Jason Reitman will direct Jim Carrey in Pierre Pierre for Fox Atomic, a "politically incorrect story centers on a self-indulgent French nihilist who transports a stolen painting from Paris to London." The challenging role will require Carrey to stretch as never before, with several scenes written to be spoken through the ass in fluent French. [Variety] More » -
going once, going twice
If You Have The Means, Michael Keaton's Sweaty 'Batman' Codpiece Can Be Yours
Got an extra six grand lying around with nothing to consume? Well, the folks at Guernsey's Auction House will be happy to solve your fiscal problem. What could possibly be more fulfilling than spending those benjamins on a previously worn wife-beater with holes in it, coupled with silk purple and maroon pants? Not buying it? Well, what if we told you said ensemble was worn by Jim Carrey in the legendary bird-calling scene from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. And if you roll higher than that, say with 100 grand taking up space in your wife's shoe closet, get your ass to Vegas on March 15th because Michael Keaton's likely-sweat-drenched Batman Returns costume awaits. What else will the Pugliese Pop Culture Collection feature? More offerings, prices and images follow after the jump. More »
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ripoffs
'Forbes' Overpaid Celebrity List Reveals Which A-Listers Are the Best At Flushing Studio Money Down The Toilet
Forbes.com has curated yet another multimedia gallery of famous faces and their estimated earning potentials, but in a less-charitable twist on their favorite theme, these are The Most Overpaid Celebrities, and some of them may surprise you: everyone from Nicole Kidman, whose The Golden Compass vastly overestimated audience's interest in backyard polar bear fighting, to Will Smith, whose three-tiered template to conquering Hollywood—FX, creatures, and love—we thought was as close as anyone has come to movie-stardom code-cracking. More »
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By SethComment by whitekidinflatbush: @fembot: Yes, but I remember she also downplayed it on Oprah by saying "It's all Eddie's fault we got paid... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Jim Carrey Resists Urge To Talk Through Ass In YouTube PSA
With the recent news that he had deferred the entirety of his $20 million fee on Yes Man, the general consensus among the deal-making elite was that onetime King of Comedy Jim Carrey had officially ceded his crown. (All too eager to take his place were a new generation of chubby, Jewfroed actor-writers, who choose to wallow in the basest depths of menstrual blood humor, and wouldn't know real funny if a pair of talking ass cheeks walked right up and bit them.) More » -
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Jim Carrey Reducing Up-Front Fee From $20 Million To Zero
Jim Carrey, once the best-remunerated butt-ventriloquist and Method urinator of his Hollywood generation, has just signed a deal for new comedy Yes Man that's so financially risky that the project's failure could result in the actor having to sell his 10,000-square-foot ski chalet on the Sultan of Brunei's favorite indoor, manmade mountain. Carrey, reports DHD's Nikki Finke, will be getting his entire reward on the back end: More » -
defamer
Agents Really Earning Their Ten Percent During Studio Stockpiling
With the possibility of a disastrous™ writers strike (or, a little later down the line, a combined writers/actors/directors one) looming, THR notes that agents are sweating through their Armani as they try to panic-book clients into any movie that might provide a pre-labor-Armageddon commission. (One needs to look no further than the Reporter's singling out of Jim Carrey, who's collecting roles like a homeless man whose next meal is dependent upon his ability to accumulate a shopping cart full of "good enough" aluminum cans, to see how dire the situation is becoming.) Now that much of the top-flight talent is either booked or sitting the next few months out, the THR piece offers some big names who are still looking for jobs: More »
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defamer
Mickey Mouse To Kick Two-Pack-A-Day Cancer Stick Habit
ยท Disney becomes the first major studio to kowtow to the anti-smoking lobby's crusade against the innocence-corrupting depiction of smoking in films, banning the super-fun, status-conferring activity of enjoying a delicious cigarette from its family films bearing their flagship brand. They'll also "discourage" their Touchstone and Miramax productions from showing the act unless, of course, shooting an actor languidly puffing away on a sexy-stick somehow enhances the vaguely dangerous appeal of their character . [THR] More » -
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In the high-concept spirit of Liar, Liar (and in the even higher-concept spirit of a recent career cold streak in which he can no longer turn down any paycheck offered him), Jim Carrey is attached to Yes Man, the story of a guy who agrees to "every thing that comes his way." [MTV Movies Blog]
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trade roundup
Jim Carrey Scrooged
· Casting genius or casting insanity? You make the call*: Jim Carrey will play Scrooge and all three ghosts in a 3-D/motion-capture Robert Zemeckis reimagination of A Christmas Carol for Disney. [*And we bet we know what you're going to say!] [Variety] More »
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defamer
Rat Vs. Willis
· After a summerlong run of sequel-clogged weekends where the eventual winner of the box office battle was all too obvious, the outcome of the upcoming Die Hard vs. Ratatouille fight seems up for grabs. We're not betting against Pixar, even though we'll probably wind up watching John McClane blow shit up. [Variety] More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Jim Carrey Tries Doing The Comedy Thing Again
ยท CAA takes the first steps in building ice-cold new client's Jim Carrey confidence back up, working to book him in the easy comedy gig Me Time, in which he'd play a put-upon, Mr. Mom-style househusband. [Variety] More » -
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New Line Trying To Annoy People Into Paying Attention To Their Jim Carrey Movie
To date, we've found the marketing push for the upcoming Jim Carrey vehicle The Number 23 somewhat inscrutable, with the few commercials we've seen leading us to blindly guess that the film is some kind of thriller/documentary hybrid detailing how the mysterious reappearance of the accursed, titular number in Carrey's life is somehow to blame for his recent career deceleration. Slate's Kim Masters now reports that the campaign has taken a new and annoying turn by peppering media types with e-mails noting the supposedly heebeejee-inducing reoccurrence of [actual number deleted for concerns that reading it here again could plunge you into depths of madness] in actual news items: More »
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By MarkComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: What a coincidence as 23 is the number of times I won't see this movie. Creepy. more » | Other threads
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Jim Carrey's OK, You're OK
Perhaps there is no better illustration of the career-related problems currently plaguing Jim Carrey than the cover of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue. It features a dapper quartet consisting of Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Chris Rock and Jack Black, all actors who have managed, through a combination of talent and a reluctance to take improvisational leaks on set, to squeak by Carrey on their way to the top of the big screen funnyman heap. Radar now notes that the notoriously erratic comedian is shopping around a new project—a self-help guide entitled Be Ready to Be OK: More »
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If He's Not Careful, Jim Carrey Might Start To Develop A Reputation As A Difficult Actor
In a brief preview of an article to appear in the upcoming Resurrection Issue of Radar (much more background info on that here for the curious), Ben "The Gatecrasher" Widdicombe assembles a variety of anecdotes, that when taken together, seem to add up to the shocking revelation that serial studio dumpee Jim Carrey might be somewhat difficult to work with: Tales of unbidden urination, tantrum-having, and fun-list-deletion follow: More » -
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Paramount Hires Jim Carrey Pal To Save 'Ripley'
Jim Carrey's recent preemptive dumping of A Little Game Without Consequence had us crippled with worry that we might never again see the unemployed megastar's name on the marquee of our local theater, but today's Variety allays those admittedly hysterical fears that a couple of big-budget plug-pullings might drive the actor into an early retirement: Carrey will work again! Probably, in late 2008! As Paramount promised at the time it decided to put Ripley's Believe It Or Not on a shelf until it could figure out how much money they wanted to spend on an already expensive movie that could spiral out of financial control each time director Tim Burton decided to indulge one of the actor's requests to "try that take again, but this time, can I do it while riding on the shoulders of a twenty-foot-tall, solid gold robot? I really think that's what my performance needs here," it's revived the project, adding a writer amenable to Carrey's helpful creative input: More » -
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Jim Carrey And Jennifer Lopez's Suppressive Reps Deflect Rumors Of Scientology Involvement
Today's Page Six puzzles through how floundering megastar Jim Carrey and multimedia-brand-in-decline Jennifer Lopez squeezed onto the guest list for last month's Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Billion Year Commitment Ceremony Spectacular, connecting the dots first through evil agenting monolith CAA, then through a possible interest in discovering how some time in the sauna with a fistful of vitamins can help one's career or family-building ambitions. Says Page Six: More »
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By MarkComment by StuntBunny: Ah, no wonder Oprah didn't score an invite to either wedding event. Her career isn't on the downslide and she... more » | Other threads
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Jim Carrey Uses His Pyrokinetic Powers To Halt Steve Carell's Ascendancy
Evan Almighty may be headed towards becoming the costliest comedy in movie history, but this deleted scene from the movie's prequel, Bruce Almighty, reminds us just how much can be accomplished on a limited effects budget. (It comes courtesy of Cracked's highly entertaining "The Most Absurd Deleted Scenes of All Time".) The original version of Steve Carell's famous gibberish scene was initially envisioned as a much more disturbing sequence, in which Jim Carrey's character wills blood to stream out of Carell's nostril moments before his head bursts into giant flames. We can't help but agree with Cracked's assessment that Carrey wasn't just acting here, but was actually conjuring up real, firestarting powers to use against his cunning protégé, who, in a classic, All About Steve scenario, was in the midst of stealing not just this movie from him, but his entire career. More » -
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'Evan Almighty': The Most Expensive Comedy Story Ever Told?
Today's LAT details the budgetary problems affecting Bruce Almighty sequel Evan Almighty, which threaten to saddle the movie with the unwanted distinction of becoming the most expensive comedy in history. According to the Times, even without Bruce star Jim Carrey and his massive salary, the Evan production could reach a $175 million budget, as uncooperative weather during shooting, the logistics involved in scheduling predatory animal actors so that they don't accidentally devour their tasty, lower-billed co-stars during their downtime, and the expense of convincingly staging Biblical disasters have all driven costs heavenward. Still, Universal executives Marc Shmuger and David Linde think they've got everything under control: More »
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Jim Carrey Preemptively Dumps Next Project, Momentarily Feels Sexy Again
Superstar-in-turnaround Jim Carrey, whom you undoubtedly remember recently had two high-profile projects shelved because of studios' reasonable fears of the budget overruns associated with the daily filming of two-hour improvisations centered on shiny props with which the actor might become fascinated, has left his latest project (along with co-star Cameron Diaz and director Gabriele Muccino, to be fair), A Little Game Without Consequence, just about two weeks before the planned start of filming. Variety writes the film's likely obituary, citing the usual "creative differences" as the cause of death: More »
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By MarkComment by MagicMarker: Hmm... I agree. If Ben Stiller = 2.5b (where b = bigness), Judd Apatow = 1b and Jack Black =... more » | Other threads
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