Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart will return to feature directing with Irresistible, a political satire based on his original idea with Steve Carell the top choice to headline. Carell, of course, being a correspondent on Stewart’s Daily Show.  Stewart previously helmed Rosewater, which was released in November 2014…

It’s official: Jim Carrey is back. Universal/Red Granite’s Dumb and Dumber To took No. 1 this weekend with $36.1M, outpacing Disney’s Big Hero 6 which settled for second with $34.66M, off 38% in its second weekend.  Word of mouth late Saturday night was that Big Hero 6 could rally the weekend, particularly in how the…

Foxcatcher, the creepy true tale about a wrestling-obsessed millionaire played by Steve Carell, put a hold on the weekend’s best specialty debut on a per-theater average, pinning Jon Stewart‘s directorial debut, Rosewater, and Tommy Lee Jones‘ The Homesman. That said, Rosewater had a solid debut, reporting a muscular…

Update, Sunday, 1:15 AM: Big Hero 6 was bench pressing and drinking Red Bull yesterday as the kid toon surged 105% in its second Saturday over its second Friday with $16.5M, kicking Universal’s Dumb and Dumber Two To into second for a day’s haul of $14.39M. While industry weekend estimates as of tonight see DDT taking…

“Jon Stewart entering the No Spin Zone! Hide the children — pull the shades!” Bill O’Reilly joshed at the top of his Fox News Channel show tonight, by way of warning his fans the Comedy Central star was visiting again. Stewart stopped by as part of his media tour to promote his new film Rosewater. But the host started…

John Oliver returned to The Daily Show to step in as host. Regular host Jon Stewart kicked things off last night, explaining that, for the first time, the guy who would appear on the show to shamelessly plug a new movie would be himself. His movie, Rosewater, opens today. Stewart summoned Oliver — the former Daily Show…

This weekend’s onslaught of smaller new films will have awards contenders and big names to jostle with at the box office. Awards hopefuls Foxcatcher and The Homesman begin their theatrical runs in limited New York and L.A. rollouts, with the former a likely winner in the first weekend when the numbers come in Sunday…

Jon Stewart heads to Fox News Channel tomorrow to plug his new movie, Rosewater on The O’Reilly Factor. Yesterday he appeared on FNC rival CNN to plug the movie, and Jake Tapper asked why he used so much CNN footage in the docu-drama, given how much he “craps” on CNN on his Comedy Central late night show. Last month, O…

Jon Stewart has roasted and toasted journalists for years on The Daily Show. When it came time to make his directorial debut (and take off for several months from The Daily Show), as I say in my video review above, Stewart chose this project, to which he has a personal if indirect connection. It’s the story of TV…

Appearing on CNN today to plug Friday’s opening of his directing debut in Rosewater, Jon Stewart was asked by Jake Tapper why he spends so much time “crapping on CNN” but uses so much CNN footage in the movie. “For someone who craps on CNN a lot, you used a lot of our footage,” Tapper joked. “You’re the best,&#8221…

Though Gael Garcia Bernal was well known in his native Mexico as a child actor (he even appeared in a popular soap), the fact is, he really made it big when he exploded on to the international radar with two hotly regarded, Oscar-nominated movies, Alejandro G. Inarritu's  Amores Perros, followed the next year by…

Comedy Central late-night host Jon Stewart stopped by Christiane Amanpour’s CNN studio to plug his new movie Rosewater.  The full interview with Stewart and Maziar Bahari, the subject of the film, will air tomorrow on Amanpour at 2 PM on CNNI. But she also sprung on Stewart a couple of questions about how he saw…