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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[...]

Since his seven season run as Dunder-Mifflin's own Michael Scott on NBC's The Office, Steve Carell has built up a pretty diverse filmography of work: Foxcatcher, The Big Short, Battle of the Sexes, Beautiful Boy, and many more He's been recognized for his work by the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards,[...]

Credit (left): Joe Seer – Shutterstock.com / (right): Dark Horse Comics The Big Short's John Magaro is going from Wall Street crisis to troubles of a slightly more epic (read: global) nature, joining the cast of Netflix's adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba's comic book series The Umbrella Academy Magaro is set to play Leonard Peabody, described[...]

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[...]