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Apple Original Films’ upcoming holiday film Spirited required the hands and talents of multiple creatives behind the scenes including Ian Eisendrath, who served as the musical comedy’s executive music producer. After his performance of an original song at Deadline’s Sound & Screen event, he revealed the…

At this point it is almost impossible to count the number of remakes, ripoffs, variations, takeoffs and general thievery on the part of filmmakers riffing on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. The latest imitation, Spirited, isn’t even the only new…

Apple Original Films today unveiled the official trailer for its new holiday musical comedy Spirited, starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer. The synopsis: Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present (Will Ferrell) selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three…

Apple today unveiled the first teaser trailer for Spirited, its modern retelling of A Christmas Carol, starring Will Ferrell (The Shrink Next Door), Ryan Reynolds (The Adam Project) and Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer (Truth Be Told), which will premiere in theaters on November 11 before debuting…

Apple Original Films will premiere holiday musical comedy Spirited in theaters November 11 and globally on Apple TV+ on November 18. The modern musical rendition of Charles Dickens' classic holiday story A Christmas Carol directed by Sean Anders stars Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, Sunita…

Amazon has secured rights to the untitled wedding comedy from writer-director Nick Stoller (Bros), which has Will Ferrell (Barbie) and Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show) attached to star, Deadline can confirm. We brought you news of this hot package first, at a point when there were multiple offers for it. Specifics…

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell are attached to star in an untitled wedding comedy that will be scripted and directed by Nick Stoller. He directed the upcoming Universal Pictures comedy Bros, which Judd Apatow produces, and which Stoller co-wrote with Billy Eichner. UTA is handling the auction and there…

Liz Feldman is about to deliver her second comedy to Netflix: The streamer has greenlit her new dark comedy No Good Deed. No Good Deed “follows three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems,” according to Netflix. “But as the sellers…

Will Ferrell has rounded out the all-star cast of the Warner Bros film Barbie, the film centered on the iconic doll line starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. America Ferrara, Kate McKinnon and Simu Liu are also on board with Greta Gerwig directing. Robbie is on board to play Barbie with Gosling set to play Ken. It…

Will Ferrell has become a big player in the fledgling podcast world and he's just getting started. During a keynote interview at the Podcast Movement Evolutions event, where he was interviewed by Conal Byrne, CEO of the iHeart Digital Audio Group, which is partners on Ferrell's Big Money Players Network podcast…

"Having spent the last few years writing shows like Veep and Succession, I have kind of found a little niche for myself of writing for irredeemably awful people and I really enjoy that," exclaims The Shrink Next Door scribe Georgia Pritchett. "And I enjoy kind of trying to find compassion for people who perhaps on the…

Will Ferrell (The Shrink Next Door, Spirited), Jamie Foxx (Soul, Just Mercy) and Will Forte (MacGruber, HouseBroken) will star in Strays, an animated comedy that Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar director Josh Greenbaum is helming for Universal, Deadline has confirmed. The film combining CGI and live-action elements…