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If you feel like you've been hearing about HBO, Bong Joon Ho & executive producer Adam McKay's (The Big Short) series take on the Academy Award-winning film Parasite for quite some time now, that's because you have It's been 1,236 days and counting (or a little less than 3 years and 5 months) since the project[...]

From executive producer Adam McKay, the ten episodes will focus on the 80's Showtime Lakers, run by Jerry and Jeanie Buss, and after they drafted Magic Johnson Hell of a cast in this one too You can see them all in the trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYOlUZrHRT8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Winning Time: The Rise[...]

Don't Look Up is the newest satire film from Adam McKay, and Netflix dropped the first trailer for the doomsday comedy this morning Look at this cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Chiklis, Tomer[...]

But executive producer and Academy Award winner Adam McKay (The Big Short) has some updates to offer that should make Bong fans very happy With the series "chugging full speed ahead," McKay appeared on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast to clarify that the series will not be an adaptation or remake Think more "expanded[...]

Adam McKay shifted his comedy over the years creating lovable buffoon characters to the point of caricatures in films like Anchorman (2004), Talladega Nights (2006), and Step Brothers (2008) (all films featuring Will Ferrell) to progressive, populist like The Big Short (2015) then Vice (2018) The director spoke to the New York Times about trying[...]

"Will Ferrell and [director] Adam Mckay wrote the script Anchorman and they showed it to me," Apatow said "The first drafts were really hilarious and crazy It was about the anchor team flying to an anchorman convention The plane crashes and they wind up on the side of a mountain where they are all trying[...]

HBO would not confirm or deny the reporting – issuing the following statement: "The HBO limited series inspired by Parasite is in the early stages of development, and to speculate on any characters or casting is wildly premature." Bong is partnering with Adam McKay (The Big Short) on the limited series – with Bong explaining why the[...]

A little less than two weeks after new broke that HBO was in talks with Bong Joon Ho and Adam McKay (The Big Short) to bring the award-winning, Oscar-nominated film Parasite to limited series, the film's director is offering up some new details on the series Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter a few days ago,[...]

Directors Bong Jun-Ho and Adam McKay are both in talks for the adaptation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhPROyE0OaMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Parasite [Trailer 2] – Now Playing in New York & Los Angeles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhPROyE0OaM) "Parasite": The Movie of the Moment Parasite is a major zeitgeist movie[...]

To prove his point and remind viewers that classic television is timeless, Kimmel is teaming with television icon Norman Lear and executive producers Brent Miller, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Justin Theroux for Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' Airing live on Wednesday, May 22, on ABC, the 90-minute prime-time event[...]

But even as we celebrate more programming choices across a wide range channels/services, it's important to not forget where all of this began: the networks – ABC, NBC, and CBS (sorry, this was pre-FOX days). One person who hasn't forgotten is ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who is teaming with television icon Norman Lear as well[...]

It was in March of this year that Freeform gave a 10-episode series order for Motherland: Fort Salem, an hour-long drama from Claw screator Eliot Laurence and executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick Written by series creator/showrunner Laurence and directed by Steven Adelson, the series stars Ashley Nicole Williams, Jessica Sutton, Taylor Hickson, Demetria McKinney, and Amalia Holm. "So[...]

Set to premiere on Friday, May 3, Dead To Me is produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gloria Sanchez Prods and CBS TV Studios. Dead To Me Here's a look at the trailer, along with an official image gallery from Netflix: https://youtu.be/BwYBw1raC2oVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Dead to Me | Season 1 Official Trailer [HD][...]

In what would be the makings of a very cool "shared universe" with their popular mermaid-fantasy series Siren (one can always dream), Freeform has given a 10-episode series order for Motherland: Fort Salem, an hourlong drama from Claws creator Eliot Laurence and executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick Written by series creator/showrunner[...]

The second is expected to air in mid-2019, according to Funny or Die, which is run by Ferrell and Adam McKay. Credit: Funny or Die/iHeartRadio   https://youtu.be/0u_jcTy3JHMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Ron Burgundy Podcast: Hard Questions (https://youtu.be/0u_jcTy3JHM) The video demonstrates the "hard-hitting" and rapid fire questions Burgundy plans to ask his guests, while creating topical[...]

Like VICE director Adam McKay's admission that he was approached to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 after Disney fired James Gunn And then there is the realization that he was originally going to direct the Inhumans movie, which eventually became the short-lived ABC tv series. Filmmaker Adam McKayPhoto by Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com That's not even the truly crazy part-[...]

Credit: STXfilms After six years and a number of series and pilot offers, Christina Applegate (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) is returning to television as lead and executive producer in Netflix's half-hour dark comedy series Dead to Me. Written by showrunner Liz Feldman (2 Broke Girls), the 10-episode season is described as a "comedic Big Little Lies" that highlights a[...]

In this world, the traditional roles of gender and power are flipped with the more dominant women on the front lines fighting looming terrorist threats that are familiar to our world, but with tactics and weapons supernatural. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZzZFiu2EIYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Claws: Season 1 Recap [EXCLUSIVE] | TNT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZzZFiu2EIY) With a pilot directed[...]

Booze helps bring out the truth—it's just that, sometimes, the truth is a little incoherent. Created for television by Waters and Jeremy Konner, Drunk History is produced by Central Productions and executive produced by Waters and Konner, along with Gary Sanchez Productions' Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Owen Burke. Credit: Comedy Central The first seven episodes of Drunk[...]

Proving that a streaming service does not live on The Good Fight and Star Trek: Discovery alone, CBS unveiled the first red-band trailer for No Activity, the upcoming CBS All Access comedy series from executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Funny or Die. Developed and executive produced by Patrick Brammall and Trent O'Donnell (who also[...]

With the understanding that CBS All Access cannot live on Star Trek: Discovery alone (and maybe they listened to us over on Bleeding Cool Chatter), the new live/on demand streaming service is lining up some major names for its first original comedy series, No Activity, from Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Funny Or Die[...]

CBS has emerged the winner in what was an intense bidding war over Things You Should Already Know, an ensemble single-camera comedy about millennials from Ben Schwartz (House Of Lies), Laura Moses, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions, and CBS TV Studios Based on the upcoming illustrated guide to millennial dating by Schwartz and[...]

The film is written and directed by Adam McKay. If all goes well, the movie will begin shooting in September. Batman is a superhero published by DC Comics, and Dick Cheney was a Vice President in Washington DC, but the two have far more in common than that when diggiging below the surface. While Cheney was a[...]

But that didn't stop him from being interviewed about the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp film that he, star Paul Rudd, Adam Mckay, Gabriel Ferrari, and Andrew Barrer have begun to write The self professed comic nerd admitted that he felt possessive of the Scott Lang character and a bit jilted when Rudd went off to shoot with[...]

Archie and his on-going love triangle with Betty and Vernoica are being developed by Ant-Man writer Adam McKay along with Funny Or Die Productions and Archie Comics' Jon Goldwater and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. There had been a feature film in the works, but that seems to be stalled which may be why the shift of focus to[...]

But Marvel shifted gears, brought in Peyton Reed and Adam McKay to work with Paul Rudd and the cast on the film Now we're seeing a very promising looking trailer and are under three months away from the films release But there was one thing left to figure out… just how the film would be[...]

Pitt and his Plan B production company are putting together an all-star cast for an adaptation of another Michael Lewis bestseller, The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine. Adam McKay will be directing and writing the adaptation while joining Pitt will be Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling. The nonfiction book tells the story of several key people who[...]

When Edgar Wright left Ant-Man, the first name that became involved with Adam McKay (Anchorman) He didn't end up directing the film, but he and star Paul Rudd did a writing pass over the script Now the writer/director is in talks to possibly handle other characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe… I just did a big[...]

Let me start by admitting I watched this show when I was a kid and kind of liked it… Now, Hollywood Reporter says that Will Ferrell and his comedy partner Adam McKay have signed on to produce Sony's live action/animated hybrid adaptation of the 80's TV show Manimal. The critically panned series Manimal followed Dr[...]

So does that mean script based on Edgar Wright's original idea and then revised by Adam McKay is in trouble? Not necessarily It is common for studios to hire production writers to be around during the filming of the movie in case any changes need to be made And that is what the report is[...]