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Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, and Benicio Del Toro as the Three Stooges??

Wow.  It’s now confirmed that Sean Penn is set to play Larry in the Farrelly Brothers’ upcoming The Three Stooges movie.  Jim Carrey is officially in negotiations to play Curly, and Benicio Del Toro is the “rumored possibility” for Moe. What a cast. The film is not a biopic but instead, according to the Hollywood Reporter, a [...]

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Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal Starring in ‘Damn Yankees’?

Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (Hairspray) are bring the stage musical Damn Yankees to the big screen for New Line Cinema, and heavyweights Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal have been attached. The plot — known to high school drama clubs but probably not a ton of other people — follows a middle-aged baseball fanatic named [...]

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First Look at Animated Jim Carrey

Director Robert Zemeckis is doing to A Christmas Carol what he did to The Polar Express, just this time with Jim Carrey as his guiney pig instead of Tom Hanks: Carrey plays a motion-capture animated version of Scrooge and the three ghosts who visit him in the Christmas ‘09 film, which also stars Gary Oldman [...]

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Warner Bros. Conjures Up Its 2009 Film Slate

Warner Bros. led the 2008 North American box office with $1.79 billion in ticket sales.  What does the studio have in store for 2009?  A few long stagnat franchises, a revered children’s tale and a boy wizard to name a few. Gran Torino (Jan 9th) - Clint Eastwood takes on an Asian gang and develops an [...]

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