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  • The First ‘Zoolander 2’ Trailer Is So Hot Right Now

    Magnum, baby! The first full “Zoolander 2” trailer is here, revealing Benedict Cumberbatch — sans eyebrows — as the new hottest male supermodel in the world. (No sh-t, Sherlock?) Justin Bieber and Penélope Cruz also co-star in the sequel to the 2001 cult classic.

    A ridiculously good-looking “Zoolander 2″ teaser was released back in August, but now we see the full extent of the plot and characters. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson return as Derek Zoolander and Hansel (so hot right now. Hansel). In the 2016 sequel, the duo must go undercover to find out who is trying to kill the world’s most beautiful people, including Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Usher, Lenny Kravitz, and Miley Cyrus. (Apparently they just want to kill pop singers? Are we really mad?) All of the murdered celebs died doing Derek’s signature look.

    The trailer also shows the wonderfully strange Benedict Cumberbatch rocking an androgynous Tilda Swinton look, plus Will Ferrell returning as Mugatu (still torturing Todd for his lattes), and Penelope Cruz as an Interpol agent. As Hansel put it, “She’s hot. I trust her.” Sound reasoning!

    Watch the trailer, it is not lamé:


    “Zoolander 2,” directed by Ben Stiller, is set for a February 12th, 2016 release. Schedule your orange mocha frappuccino viewing parties now.

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  • Best of Late Night TV: Justin Timberlake’s Looks and Stevie Wonder’s Carpool Karaoke


    If you’re like us and value your sleep, you probably nodded off into your Ambien dreamland before the party started on post-prime time TV. Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s the best of what happened last night on late night.

    First up, the best thing that’s ever come out of “The Tonight Show”: “Looks,” a short film starring Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake and Will Ferrell in which the key to communication is just staring at people without saying a word.

    Next up, a game of Long Story Short with Benicio Del Toro, Jessica Alba and Miguel. The rules? Describe a movie in under five seconds without saying it’s name. If it sounds complicated and slightly ridiculous, it’s because it is.

    Um, guys, The Late Show.” That is all.

    Meanwhile, James Cordon teamed up for some carpool karaoke, and after Cordon questioned Wonder’s ability to drive and Wonder mocked Cordon’s accent, they busted out a killer rendition of “Superstition” and drove around town together. Ugh, Cordon has literally the best job ever, life is not fair.

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  • 19 Judd Apatow Movies, Ranked From Worst to Best

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    Judd Apatow is such an ubiquitous figure in comedy — as a producer, director, and writer — that it’s hard to believe he’s actually not associated with certain films. He had nothing to do with “I Love You, Man” or “This Is the End,” even though those films star actors from his comic stable and center on the bromantic relationships that have become his trademark.

    His new film “Trainwreck,” opening July 17, marks a departure for Apatow; it’s the first movie he’s directed that he didn’t write (Amy Schumer stars in, and also cowrote, the romantic comedy). In honor of his new movie, we’ve ranked and filed 19 Apatow films — those he either wrote and directed or produced — that you need to see.

  • ‘Wedding Crashers’ Cast: Where Are They Now?

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    If “Wedding Crashers” had been a real wedding, we’d owe it a gift of tin or aluminum now, since those are the traditional 10th anniversary presents.

    When the raunchy romantic comedy came out 10 years ago this week (on July 15, 2005), it proved a career highlight for stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, while pushing the careers of Isla Fisher and Bradley Cooper to the next level. In the decade since, some of the movie’s stars have flourished while others have had a more tumultuous ride. Here’s what’s happened to the whole “Wedding” party since the last slice of cake went into the freezer.

  • Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg Fight for Fatherhood in ‘Daddy’s Home’ Trailer

    Who’s your daddy? If you’re very lucky it’s both Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, like the kids in “Daddy’s Home.” The comedy comes out this Christmas, but the first trailer was (wisely) released just in time for Father’s Day, pitting a tough-guy divorced dad (Wahlberg) against a mild-mannered new stepfather (Farrell).

    Linda Cardellini plays Wahlberg’s ex, with Farrell as her new husband. The trailer shows the dads competing for the kids’ affection — including bribing them with cash, which never fails. Things get increasingly out of hand, of course, in the manner of all hilarious man-child comedies, but at least this preview gives us a few shots of Wahlberg shirtless with slicked-back hair. (Shallow. Not sorry.) It doesn’t look like the “Freaks and Geeks” alum has much to do besides react to the two guys, but hopefully that’s just the deception of the trailer.

    Here goes:


    What do you think so far?

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  • The 7 Secret Weapons Behind ‘Home’s’ Astonishing Box Office Success

    rihanna and jim parson in homePoor Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. Any other week, the estimated $34.6 million opening of their R-rated comedy “Get Hard” would be a huge coup. Instead, they had to settle for coming in a distant second to a surprise kiddie cartoon smash about a little girl and an inept alien.

    Home,” the fourth film from DreamWorks Animation in little over a year, was supposed to race neck-and-neck at best with “Get Hard.” After all, the film got middling reviews for its relative lack of originality and unlikely voice cast (Jim Parsons and Rihanna?). Plus, it comes from DWA, the anti-Pixar, an animation house known in recent years for oversaturating the market and for costly flops (most recently, “Penguins of Madagascar”). No one expected it to do better than $30 million.

    So how did “Home” manage a stunning debut estimated at $54 million? Maybe its perceived weaknesses were actually strengths. Here are seven secret weapons behind the alien-invasion comedy’s success.

    1. Title Change. “Home” is an awfully generic title. It’s also not the title the property came with. Like many DreamWorks cartoons, it’s based on a children’s book. In this case, it’s Adam Rex’s, “The True Meaning of Smekday.” Normally, studios like to try to keep the titles of book adaptations in order to capitalize on pre-existing brand awareness. In this case, though, it made sense to ditch the title for a much less awkward, more marquee-friendly one. There’s no way a movie with “Smekday” in its name was going to earn $54 million.

    2. Word-of-Mouth. Critics tend to find DreamWorks movies formulaic; they tend to be about outsiders who learn to cooperate in order to save their world. “Home” fits this pattern (the alien even looks like the cute, snaggle-toothed dragon from DWA’s “How to Train Your Dragon” movies), and it borrows from several other familiar kid-meets-alien tales (see below). So it got middling reviews from critics. But kids and families who saw it really liked it and recommended it strongly, as is clear from the A grade it received at CinemaScore.

    3. Familiar Premise. The human-child-befriends-childlike-alien premise has been done before, in movies from “E.T.” to “Lilo & Stitch.” Then again, maybe it helped that the premise was familiar to kids from other well-known family-friendly movies. It may have helped the film overcome the “Smekday” issue of its arcane and eccentric source material.

    4. ‘Toon Drought. Yes, DWA has been flooding the zone over the past year. Still, there hasn’t been a new animated feature in theaters since “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” a couple months ago. And there won’t be another until Pixar’s “inside Out” in June. So “Home” was poised to benefit from the lack of direct competition.

    5. Voice Talent. Want to know how to get Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez songs on your movie’s soundtrack? Cast the pop stars as voice actors in the film. Sure, the husky-voiced Rihanna may not be the first choice for the role of a little girl, but suspension of disbelief is a lot easier with a cartoon. Jim Parsons is probably not as well known to kids as his female co-stars (do kids watch “The Big Bang Theory”?) Then again, who better than the performer behind TV nerd-king Sheldon Cooper to play an alien who has trouble communicating with and relating to humans? Plus, the presence of Parsons and Steve Martin in the cast probably reassured a lot of parents that the movie would be funny.

    6. Spring Weather. After months of brutal winter conditions in much of the country, spring finally sprung this weekend, allowing hibernating moviegoers to emerge for the first time in ages. As a result, a rising tide lifted all boats, enabling box office success not just for “Home” but for pretty much every movie currently playing at the multiplex. On the whole, domestic box office was up 16 percent over last week, and the estimated $152.2 million worth of tickets sold was the highest cumulative total since “Fifty Shades of Grey” lured moviegoers out of the cold six weeks ago.

    7. Counterprogramming. The strategy of trying to target a demographic otherwise not served by the weekend’s expected winner — in this case, “Home” aiming at families and young girls while the R-rated “Get Hard” went after adults and young men — hasn’t been too productive lately. Two weekends ago, older, male-oriented action thriller “Run All Night” flopped against younger, girl-oriented “Cinderella,” and last weekend, “The Gunman” repeated the scenario against “Insurgent.” But this weekend, there really was something for all the fair-weather moviegoers to enjoy, so “Home” and “Get Hard” both did well. So did still-strong “Insurgent” and “Cinderella” (this weekend’s No. 3 and No. 4 films), even though both films are attracting some of the same tween-girl audience, and “Cinderella” and “Home” are both big family-oriented movies with an emphasis on girls. Even “It Follows,” the cult horror hit that expanded this weekend from 32 screens to 1,218, performed well, coming in fifth with an estimated $4.0 million, very good for a horror film with no star power or franchise familiarity — and in a week when young women (who make up a preponderance of horror viewers) already had a lot to choose from.

    Even all these reasons aren’t really enough to explain how “Home” managed to open a jaw-dropping $20 million above even the most optimistic projections. Sure, word-of-mouth was great, but the movie was doing well even before that, with strong showings at Thursday night early-bird screenings and robust pre-sales on Fandango. Maybe “Home” was just an incredible fluke. Or maybe there’s some worldwide alien mind-control conspiracy at work…
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  • Best of Late Night TV: Maisie Williams Shares ‘Game of Thrones’ Arya Clip, Kevin Hart Disses Will Ferrell (VIDEO)

    If you’re like us and value your sleep, you probably nodded off into your Ambien dreamland before the party started on post-prime time TV. Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s the best of what happened last night on late night.

    “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) was on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Tuesday night, and one of her videos included a clip from Season 5, which starts in just a couple of weeks on HBO. Maisie started playing Arya when she was 12, which is too young to watch the show, but she watched it with her whole family. They had to get her gran drunk when the boob scenes came on! She trained herself to sword-fight left-handed, since that’s how Arya was written and that’s what the fans expected. She admitted she hasn’t read the GoT books (“A Song of Ice and Fire”), though. The second video shares the GoT clip with Arya in Braavos. Kevin Hart was on “Conan” and shared his disastrous “SNL” audition. He was rejected from the show after doing an impression of somebody nobody knew; it lasted about two seconds, and he acted like it was awesome. Kevin also talked about working with Will Ferrell, who is in the top two of the people he’s ever worked with. Will is a great guy – “cheap as hell, though” and has never spent a penny. He’s still using the first BlackBerry they ever made, it’s taped up and looks like a dog ate it. Will is also one of the worst dressers he’s ever met. Poor Will! Kevin loves to spend money on clothes but gets offended if people don’t notice that his clothes are expensive. Haha. Elizabeth Banks – she’s hilarious – was on “The Tonight Show” and arranged a marriage between her sons and Jimmy Fallon’s daughters. She also talked about FaceTiming with her kids. Jimmy also shared “Freestylin’ with The Roots: Spring Edition.” Ben Stiller was on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” to talk about his new movie “While We’re Young.” One of the Beastie Boys is in the movie and Ben performed live with the Beastie Boys a few years ago. It was the most nervous he’s ever been. He’s a huge fan. Seth quizzed Ben on Beastie Boys lyrics. Ben also talked about the long-awaited sequel to “Zoolander” and taking tennis lessons in Rome. Elisha Cuthbert was on “Late Night” and shared her craziest “24” fan story – about a pregnant fan who pushed her first birth back so she could watch the show. Bill O’Reilly was on David Letterman’s “Late Show” and talked about Brian Williams and accusations of false claims. He boiled it down to America’s beloved sport, “Let’s Destroy the Famous Person.” He thinks Brian will come back. What Bill does is very different from what Brian does – editorial vs. hard news – but Dave said trust is at the heart of both viewpoints. Bill also discussed Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton.

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  • Will Ferrell’s 29 Funniest Characters Ever, Ranked

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    It’s hard to tell from the premise alone of a Will Ferrell project whether his character will be brilliantly funny, painfully moronic, or some unholy, sidesplitting combination of the two. Take Ferrell’s latest, “Get Hard” (opening March 27). He plays a millionaire arrested for fraud who enlists the only black person he knows (Kevin Hart) to train him to cope with the harsh realities of prison life. The result could be razor-sharp satire of the insular cluelessness of rich white people, or it could be offensive and cringe-worthy; probably, it’ll be some of each.

    After all, Ferrell’s characters tend to be unpredictable because they’re volatile. As the performer has proved over the past 20 years, from his tenure on “Saturday Night Live” (1995-2002) to his decade-plus reign as an unhinged comic leading man in movies, Ferrell likes to play the unfettered id, man-children with no impulse control (Ferrell likes to strip down and show his flabby, pasty body for laughs) and a demented, obsessive zeal to prove themselves in their chosen field of endeavor.

    Not every Ferrell character is funny. (Let’s try to forget his turns in “A Night at the Roxbury,” “Bewitched,” “The Producers,” and “Land of the Lost — oh, wait, you already did.) He’s proved himself in more dramatic roles (“Stranger Than Fiction,” “Everything Must Go”). And even some of his comic roles are too bizarre or perverse for some viewers. Still, that willingness to do anything for a laugh has resulted in many unforgettable comic characters over the past two decades, as the following list proves.Will Ferrell's funniest roles

  • Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart on the ‘Get Hard’ Scene Everyone Will Be Talking About (EXCLUSIVE)

    Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart at This weekend, “Get Hard” opens in theaters nationwide. And it is insane. The movie stars Will Ferrell as a white-collar criminal who is sentenced to 10 years in jail for cooking the books. He hires Kevin Hart, the guy who runs his car wash, to teach him how to prepare for prison, assuming that he’s served time (he hasn’t). What follows is a wildly profane and outrageous comedy about the stereotypes we see in others and the ones we perpetuate in ourselves.

    I got to sit down with Hart and Ferrell in Austin, Texas, where the film was making its world premiere as part of the South by Southwest Film Festival. And it was just as insane as the actual movie. The first two minutes or so of the interview Ferrell was investigating my beard. The exchange follows.

    Will Ferrell: You’ve got a great beard.

    Me: You should grow one.

    Ferrell: When I do it comes in salt and pepper. Hold the pepper. Lot more salt.

    Kevin Hart: No. I get it. Will. I get it.

    And then the interview began.

    We discussed how long they’d been wanting to do a project together, whether the movie ever got stuck with an NC-17 rating, the political subtext of the film, and whether or not Ferrell will be back for “Zoolander 2.”

    Had you guys been looking for a project to do together for a while?

    Ferrell: Quite the opposite. We’d been avoiding each other.

    Hart: We’d been trying to avoid this for some time now. But everybody was like, “Please. Guys. It’s good. Just read it.” And after reading it I knew it had to happen. But there was a road that I took purposely. I could go this way, or I could go this way…

    Ferrell: Kevin! Why is this so hard? I can’t figure out how to get a hold of you.

    Hart: There were literally times when I know Will saw me when he called me. He would say, “Hey I’m in town, let’s meet.” And I said, “Sorry, I’m not here.” I think he saw me.

    Ferrell: I said, “Alright. Okay. So I guess you’re not on Ventura Blvd right now.”

    Hart: “No, that can’t be me. That can’t be me.”

    Ferrell: “Right in front of the Starbucks.”

    Hart: “Nope. Not me.”

    Ferrell: “You’re in yellow Adidas tennis shoes. And you’re waving at me? Okay. Fair enough.”

    Hart: “No. Not me.”

    Will could have been the Ice Cube part in “Ride Along.”

    Hart: He could have. It would have been a completely different movie.

    Ferrell: But I don’t want to go up against Cube.

    Hart: No.

    Why was this project the one that you guys decided to do together?

    Ferrell: Well, this was one that my company had developed. I mean… This really came from us. And Kevin was the perfect piece to complete the puzzle.

    Hart [mocking Ferrell]: I’ve got a company! And we develop stuff. We and Adam [McKay], all we do is genius sh*t!

    Ferrell: That’s all. That’s all we do. I’m going to subscribe to that theory of yours.

    Hart: No, it was a great idea.

    Ferrell: It was an idea we had and the more we talked about it, it was like, “Let’s develop that.” And we’ve known each other for a long time and Kevin’s meteoric wise.

    This ascension!

    Ferrell: Exactly.

    Hart: That’s a great word.

    Ferrell: So we thought, Kevin Hart is so freakin’ funny. What if he’s the guy? We called him, he was into it and then helped us develop the script.

    In a more straightforward buddy movie, Kevin’s character would have just been a criminal.

    Hart: 100% I would just be the criminal.

    Ferrell: He would be the guy with the real past who is trying to do right and it just became much more interesting to just have a guy who gets thrown into the situation.

    Hart: There was a first draft, and it wasn’t that it was far away, but there were holes. There were things that we felt were this and that. And Etan Cohen [the director] came in and did a pass and I will give him a lot of credit because his writing background is strong and while this is the first one that he’s directed, he knows comedy. And what he wanted to do was meet and talk, and what he allowed me to do was make my guy human. I want to give a sh*t about the character, and I thought you should give a sh*t about Will’s character, too. On the page it was a little bit more defined. But my guy was just coming in and doing some funny sh*t. I wanted to make both worlds interesting. And Etan came in and came up with the idea to show the other life with him with his wife and kids and everything…

    Ferrell: …To show the B-side to that story — that this is a family guy, really a middle-class guy who’s fronting all the time makes it much more interesting.

    Obviously, there’s a lot of improvisation…

    Hart: Well, I can’t read.

    That’s going to be a good headline for this interview: “Kevin Hart Can’t Read.”

    Hart: It’s tough.

    Ferrell: And is against learning to read. “Reading is for suckers.”

    Hart: Yeah, I don’t want to learn. It’s the dumbest thing to do. It takes so much time. I know how to talk. I’ve got other sh*t to do. Who wants to sit here and learn all this sh*t when I can just get up there, “Yappa yappa yappa.” It’s just a better route.

    Ferrell: “Yappa yappa yappa?”

    You know that expression.

    Ferrell: Yeah yeah yeah.

    Hart: I read that.

    So what was the percentage between written word and improvised material?

    Ferrell: It just depends. We’re both used to getting down what we had in the script. You know, it really began in rehearsals. We were already writing in the improvisations we’d done and add that into the scene. Then you’ve got Etan, who’s got a stack of alt lines to feed us as well. So that makes us think of other things, too. That’s the recipe now for these movies. We’d have to sit and go through scenes with you and go, “Oddly enough, that’s 100% from the page. This one we totally went for it.” So it’s that combination.

    Hart: It was a loose set. We wanted to make sure we got what was on the page but you don’t hire these two guys without allowing us to bring something or try something.

    Ferrell: And nobody’s allowed to be precious.

    Hart: That’s a good thing.

    Ferrell: And we both are encouraging of each other, saying, “It would be funny if you did this.” So all of that makes for a creative dynamic.

    I think there are nine separate cuts of “Anchorman 2” on home video.

    Ferrell: I know.

    What’s the craziest thing that didn’t make it into this movie?

    Hart: So much. Damn. There’s one scene where we go to jump on the yacht and you’re hanging off and I jump on his back and there are so many variations of me hanging off of your back. I know we have a shorter version in the movie but the versions we did of me hanging on his back, me grabbing his face, me pulling your hair, that sh*t there, is about five or six different versions.

    Ferrell: And the scene in the movie after I have stabbed myself in the head with my own homemade shiv, we riffed on that for… hours.

    Hart: And I have to take responsibility. I messed up 70% of those takes. 70% of those takes were unusable because of me laughing that day. I couldn’t get it together.

    This is an R-rated movie. Was it always R from the get-go?

    Hart: Well, I’m a filthy motherf*cker.

    Ferrell: I like how your voice got lower: I’m a filthy motherf*cker. [continuing with his low Kevin Hart voice] Here’s the thing. You come to a Kevin Hart joint, you’re about to go on a ride. It’s gonna get nasty.

    Hart: Expect some nasty sh*t when you come to a Kevin Hart movie.

    Ferrell [still doing the Kevin Hart voice]: You’re going to feel a little sick to your stomach. But ultimately you’re going to laugh. [Will resumes his normal voice] Well this was a decision… There was a discussion from other powers that be asking us, “Is there any way you can do this PG-13?” And there’s just no way. Prison is a horrible, nasty place, and for us to do a PG-13 version… We just had to have the free reign to talk about any subject any way we wanted to. That being said, there were certain cuts of the movie that were still NC-17, before we made some choices.

    Hart: Oh Jesus.

    What made it NC-17?

    Hart: There was one scene in particular.

    Ferrell: I don’t want to spoil it.

    Hart: It’s a bad one. Trust me, when you see the movie, there’s no way you won’t know. But I remember about midway through, we talked about this during the movie, we’re cussing. We’ve got a lot of stuff in it. But we said, “Hey, let’s make sure it’s not overkill.”

    Ferrell: It’s a weird thing.

    Hart: I know it sounds crazy. And you had told me during “Step Brothers…”

    Ferrell: Yeah, that was our first R-rated movie and we got so excited that we had to come back and pull out so many F words because we were too excited to say it and we just became immune to it.

    Hart: I remember on this one, you telling me that story and me talking to Etan saying, “We know that we’ve got our cuss words here and there and at a certain point the dialogue doesn’t need that.” You know you’ve got your moments where that works but it probably works better because we didn’t overkill it. That was something we were both conscious of.

    There’s some subtle political stuff there, and you and McKay are obviously political dudes.

    Hart: They’re into that sh*t.

    Ferrell: Yeah, he’s all about the Black Panthers.

    Hart: I’m all about the goddamn revolution.

    How important was that political element?

    Ferrell: The genesis of the idea is thought that if, for whatever reason, you, after this interview, find out that you’re going to prison. How would you react? And what’s the comedic potential in what you would do. That’s where the comedy comes from. But once we had this whole other thing we could talk about too. You’re constantly bombarded with news about the hedge fund guy who’s fined one dollar for scamming millions of people. So we get to comment on that a little bit and we get to comment on, in this racial world we live in, stupid perceptions we have of each other and how silly they can be. So it was a platform for that as well. Ultimately we were just trying to make people laugh.

    Hart: I’m just trying to start the revolution.

    Are you guys going to work together again? Is this the new Crosby and Hope?

    Hart: No. This is it for me.

    Ferrell: You’re seeing the new Crosby, Stills and Nash.

    Hart: [laughs uncontrollably]

    Ferrell: We just need a third person and we’ll play some folk music.

    I think you’re looking at him.

    Ferrell: Are you musical?

    Hart: Are you musical?

    No. Are you?

    Hart: I am.

    Ferrell: Oh yeah. Just listen to him.

    Hart [singing]: If I’m gonna fly…

    Ferrell: You know what? Save it.

    Hart: That’s what I got.

    Just before they kick me out, are you coming back for “Zoolander 2”?

    Ferrell: Oh yeah. I’ll be in Italy the entire month of May.

    “Get Hard” opens in theaters nationwide March 27.
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  • The ‘Get Hard’ Red Band Trailer Is Absolutely Filthy (VIDEO)

    Get HardWill Ferrell is on a mission to prepare for prison in the new red band trailer for “Get Hard,” and if Kevin Hart is to be believed, his stint in San Quentin is going to involve lots of sexual favors.

    The NSFW clip features Ferrell’s naked posterior and an in-depth discussion with Hart’s character, Darnell, who explains that there’s “a 100 percent chance” that Ferrell’s white collar criminal character, James, will wind up as “somebody’s bitch.” So James does what anyone would do: He walks up to a complete (and incredibly buff) stranger and meekly threatens to “fight the s–t out of” him.

    James’s misadventures — led by an equally-clueless Darnell — also include smoking lots of weed and downing 40s. In one especially graphic scene, James works up the courage to perform a sexual favor for another man in an effort to put a decidedly different spin on the old adage, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

    Check out the raunchy clip below. “Get Hard” is due in theaters on March 27.

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