SNL: Best of Will Ferrel

[72teeth]

Satire? Most definitely, This is Adam "Whale's Vagina" McKay were talking about. I don't even think it'll be counted as "satire," I belive his type of comedy is known as "doofus" according to Lorne Michaels. None the less, this should be funny

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Ferrell & Reilly Reteaming on Step Brothers
Source: Variety

Variety reports that Columbia Pictures is developing another star vehicle for Will Ferrell and his Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-star John C. Reilly.

The studio has made a preemptive deal for Step Brothers, a comedy Adam McKay will direct from a script he'll write with Ferrell. Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce.

Ferrell and Reilly will play coddled guys who live with their respective single parents. Their folks fall in love and marry, making the guys stepbrothers.

The studio is targeting a summer 2007 start date and a tentative budget that will be slightly less than that for "Talladega Nights," which required the NASCAR setting.

Step Brothers will be the third script for Ferrell and McKay, who before "Talladega" wrote Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. They began collaborating on "Saturday Night Live," where McKay was head writer.

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Sanchez's 'P.E.' plays for HBO
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's recently launched Gary Sanchez Prods. is expanding into television with "P.E.," a single-camera comedy for HBO.

After a bidding frenzy among a number of broadcast and cable networks, the project landed at HBO in what sources described as one of the pay cable network's richest development deals, with sizable penalties attached to it.

Jody Hill, Ben Best and Danny McBride will write "P.E.," which centers on a guy who, after flaming out as a major league baseball pitcher, returns to his small Southern hometown to teach physical education at the middle school he once attended and has to make amends with all the people he turned his back on.

Hill, Best and McBride wrote and starred in the indie kung fu comedy "The Foot Fist Way," which Hill directed. When the movie screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the trio was signed by CAA, the agency that also represents Ferrell.

After seeing a tape of the movie, Ferrell and McKay made it Gary Sanchez's first acquisition under the company's first-look deal with Paramount Vantage.

Ferrell and McKay then teamed with Hill, Best and McBride for "P.E.," which all three will executive produce. Gary Sanchez's head of production Chris Henchy, who most recently served as a writer on HBO's comedy "Entourage," will oversee the project for the company.

In addition to its busy slate on the film side, Gary Sanchez Prods. plans to be active in television. The company will take a selective approach, developing a couple of TV projects a year, sources said.

Ferrell and McKay are coming off the summer blockbuster "Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby," which the two wrote, McKay directed and Ferrell starred in.

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ZOIGAS! BOIGAS! I just got bit by the... love bat... and it's driving me MAAAAD!!!

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Universal OK's 'Land of the Lost'
Will Ferrell comedy to cost $100 million
Source: Variety

Universal is pushing the button on "Land of the Lost" for a March start.

Decision to greenlight the Will Ferrell project surprised observers, who are aware that U had a rough ride with its $160 million comedy "Evan Almighty." Studio sources suggest the budget of "Land of the Lost," described as an event comedy, was recalibrated from $125 million to $100 million in order to earn its start date.

Brad Silberling will helm the bigscreen adaptation of Sid & Marty Krofft's children's skein of the same name. Jimmy Miller is producing along with the Kroffts; Julie Wixson-Darmody and Daniel Lupi exec produce.

Decision to move ahead effectively removes Ferrell from availability for other pre-strike projects on the cusp, such as "Himelfarb" for Warner Bros. The comedian has been attached to "Land of the Lost" for several years. Miller reps Ferrell and the Kroffts, who have long tried to get a bigscreen adaptation of their show made.

Adaptation by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas revolves around a disgraced paleontologist, his assistant and a macho tour guide who find themselves in a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people and reptilian Sleestaks.

Donna Langley spearheaded the effort to obtain rights from the Kroffts, who also produced and created smallscreen skeins such as "H.R. Pufnstuf," "Lidsville" and "Donny and Marie."

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Ferrell, Wahlberg join 'The B Team'
Adam McKay to direct comedy for Sony
Source: Variety

Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired "The B Team," a spec pitch package for an Adam McKay-directed action comedy that will team Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as cops, with Chris Henchy and McKay writing the script.

Pic will be a co-production between Gary Sanchez Productions and Mosaic. Sony has not set a release date on the film, but it is expected to go into production as quickly as the filmmakers can get it ready.

The comedy was pitched around town on Tuesday by Endeavor and CAA, and Sony co-president Matt Tolmach moved quickly. Tolmach was comfortable committing to a film without a finished script, because Columbia worked in exactly the same fashion on "Talladega Nights" and "Step Brothers," both of which were set up with a pitch and the collaborative track record of McKay and Ferrell.

"Talladega Nights," which cost around $72 million, grossed $148 million domestically in 2006, and "Step Brothers," which cost around $65 million, grossed $100 million for Columbia Pictures in 2008.

The newcomer to this equation is Henchy, but he has ties to all the participants. He co-wrote "Land of the Lost," the Universal summer comedy that stars Ferrell. Henchy works for McKay and Ferrell's Gary Sanchez Productions, where he is co-executive producer of the GSP-produced HBO sitcom "East Bound & Down." Henchy previously spent several seasons as co-executive producer of "Entourage," the HBO series on which Wahlberg is executive producer with Doug Ellin and Stephen Levinson.

"We have a great relationship with the team at Sony from 'Talledega Nights' and 'Step Brothers' and we couldn't be more excited about doing our next one with them," said McKay. " Also I feel like we've put the physical altercation I had with Matt Tolmach on 'Step Brothers' behind us, and it's time to get back to the business called show."

Sony intends to register the title "The B Team," a challenge considering that 20th Century Fox is mobilizing a movie based on the TV series "The A Team," with Joe Carnahan directing.

A McKay-Ferrell comedy is a departure for Wahlberg, who stars next in the Peter Jackson-directed drama "The Lovely Bones."

"The B Team" is one of two star-studded packages that studio toppers eyeballed this week. The other is "The Adjustment Bureau," a sci-fi drama mobilized by Media Rights Capital as a re-team between Matt Damon and his "The Bourne Ultimatum" writer George Nolfi, who'll direct. A deal hadn't been made for the film by late Wednesday.

[SiliasRuby]

I don't know.....this seems just strange but consider me slightly intrigued. The McKay/ferrel team always makes me laugh.