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Houston Tumlin, who at 13 played the elder son of Will Ferrell's title character in 2006’s Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, died Tuesday night at his home in Pelham, AL. He was 28. Shelby County Coroner Lina Evans confirmed to Deadline that Tumlin died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Tumlin, in his…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit Voting for nominations for the 93rd annual Academy Awards finally starts today. And you thought this day would never come, right? In the longest season in the modern history of Oscar campaigning, we have now completed six months since the traditional…

The iHeart Radio Podcast Awards 2021 has named Office Ladies as its “Podcast of the Year” winner. A woolly Will Ferrell, who has The Ron Burgundy Podcast on the iHeart network, opened the show with a series of badly informed statistics. The awards were simulcast tonight on iHeart radio, YouTube and Facebook. The Office…

‘Tis the season to be political activists, at least from the perspective of the main cast members from the classic Christmas film, Elf. They are on board for a livestreamed table read from the film screenplay in support of the Democratic candidates in the crucial Georgia Senate runoff in January. Will Ferrell…

Kathryn Hahn (WandaVision, Mrs. Fletcher) is set as a lead alongside Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd in Apple limited series The Shrink Next Door, based on the hit podcast by Wondery and Bloomberg Media. The series hails from director Michael Showalter (The Big Sick, The Lovebirds), writer Georgia Pritchett (Succession, Vee…

Saturday Night Live alum and announcer Darrell Hammond joined a number of Hollywood actors and figures who have honored Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery following his death on Saturday. While many shared their condolences and fond memories with the first James Bond, Hammond also paid tribute by sharing one of his…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. Just as the 10-day kickoff for final Emmy voting started in earnest at 9 a.m. Friday, an unprecedented two regular issues of Emmy magazine, the exclusive mag sent to all 23,000 voting members of the Television Academy, arrived in tandem. Both are…

If you loved Will Ferrell passing himself off as a men’s figure skating champ in 2007’s Blades of Glory, then I have the perfect streaming movie for you. In Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Ferrell is back on the ice, sort of, as an Icelandic wannabe singer whose lifelong dream is to be…

There won’t be the actual Eurovision Song Contest this year because of the coronavirus pandemic — organizers were forced to cancel the annual global event back in March — but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your fix this summer. Netflix on Thursday unveiled the official trailer for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of…

Will Ferrell "crashed" a Seattle Seahawks coaches virtual team meeting earlier this week, claiming to be new team member and former Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen. The bogus “Olsen” set down a few ground rules for his new team during the video meeting. "I do not do special teams," Ferrell said in the video…

Apple has given a straight-to-series order to The Shrink Next Door, an eight-episode limited series starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, which is based on the No. 1 new podcast of 2019 by Wondery and Bloomberg Media. The streamer landed in competitive situation the project, from director Michael Showalter and writer…

Not that we all haven’t seen a big-name actor washing his hands while singing “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” right? Well, for anyone who somehow missed it over the years, James Corden has posted a clip of Will Ferrell doing just that. Watch it below. The video is culled from Homefest: James Corden's Late Late Show…