EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Chris Cooper (Adaptation) is joining Steve Carell and Rose Byrne in Jon Stewart’s sophomore feature as writer-director Irresistible, which we can confirm will be backed by Focus Features. Set amidst a heated political campaign trail, the comedy is being produced by Vice and Moonlight producers…

The Office star Steve Carell is reuniting with the Emmy-winning series’ developer/executive Greg Daniels for a new workplace comedy at Netflix, which takes on President Donald Trump’s Space Force initiative. Co-created by Carell and Daniels and starring Carell, Space Force is centered around the people tasked with…

EXCLUSIVE: Many directors can believe they put their hearts into their movies, but on Vice, Adam McKay came closer than most any of them. Similar to Dick Cheney — whose trouble with heart attacks before he finally got a heart transplant are well known — McKay suffered a heart attack during the making of the film. And…

Timothée Chalamet had a meteoric rise last year, co-starring in two of last season’s most buzzed-about awards movies— Hostiles and Lady Bird—and landing an Oscar nomination for his lead in a third, Call Me by Your Name. But when he first met Nic Sheff, the journalist and recovering addict whose story he tells in Beauti…

After a 10-year break, Steve Carell returned for his third stint as host of Saturday Night Live last night. The episode, featuring musical guest Ella Mai and a mini Office reunion, averaged a 4.4 Live+same day household rating in the metered markets and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local people…

On the heels of Amazon announcing Arlington, Virginia, and New York’s Queens as the locations of its second headquarters, the company’s CEO Jeff Bezos, played by this week’s host Steve Carell, came out to explain the decision in a special video message on Saturday Night Live. “As you know, Amazon just announced the…

For the past year and a half, there rarely has been an interview with Steve Carell where he has not been asked about doing a reboot of The Office. He could not avoid the topic even during his hosting stint on Saturday Night Live, where his opening monologue was “hijacked” by a audience Q&A. In it, a number of Carell’s…

Rest assured, “serious actor” Steve Carell is ready to be funny again. Former The Office star Carell tells Saturday Night Live castmembers Aidy Bryant and Chris Redd he is totally prepared to step back into comedy as he readies for his upcoming hosting gig on SNL. “You’re kind of like a serious actor now. Are you…

Steve Carell will host NBC’s Saturday Night Live on Nov. 17, with musical guest Ella Mai. The hosting gig will mark the Beautiful Boy star’s third time heading the show. In addition to his current starring role, with Timothée Chalamet, in Beautiful Boy, Carell will star in the upcoming Robert Zemeckis film Welcome to M…

Beautiful Boy and Cold War, the films Amazon Studios brought to Deadline’s The Contenders LA on Saturday at the DGA Theater, both dig deep into troubled and tortured relationships. Based on not one but two memoirs – those of father and son David and Nic Sheff – Beautiful Boy looks at the impact of addiction and its…

Steve Carell and David Steinberg are pitching their comedy interview series Inside Comedy to cable and streaming networks. The series, hosted by Steinberg and executive produced by him and Carell, ran on Showtime for seasons, from 2012 to 2015. The pay cable network has not ordered more seasons since, and the rights…

In his return to TV, Steve Carell has been tapped as a male lead opposite Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston in Apple's untitled morning show drama series. It markes his first TV series role since his Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning turn on NBC’s comedy The Office. Written by Kerry Ehrin based on an…