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After bringing the laughs on TV and film, Will Ferrell is jumping into the podcast business. The comedian, actor, and producer and iHeartMedia today announced a partnership to launch Big Money Players Network, a new podcast company focused on comedy shows. “The iHeartPodcast Network has been such a pleasure to work…

Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds will be starring in the musical rendition of the Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, which was acquired by Apple in a competitive bid. Sean Anders and John Morris will direct. Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum will produce through their Gloria Sanchez label. Reynolds and George Dewey…

Demi Lovato is teaming up with Will Ferrell for a bit of music and comedy. The singer and actress has joined the cast of Ferrell’s Netflix comedy film Eurovision, inspired by the real-life global singing competition, the streamer announced Tuesday. Lovato will play Katiana, one of the best and most angelic singers in…

A list of Will Ferrell’s great late night talk show appearances would be a long one (maybe topped by his 2015 Conan appearance with his bird Professor Feathers on his shoulder, and his Little Debbie Tonight bit not far behind), but the roster grew by an apparently unprecedented six network-spanning drop-bys last…

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Dern and Will Ferrell will star in Fruitcake, a film that Max Winkler will direct from a script by Trey Selman. Eclipse Pictures is set to finance. Fruitcake is the true story of Sandy and Kay Jenkins, a seemingly upstanding middle-class couple, who achieved the American dream after Sandy used his job…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel McAdams is in talks with Netflix to star in Eurovision, which means a re-team with her Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin and co-star Will Ferrell. The comedy is set around the The Eurovision Song Contest, the longest-running annual international TV song competition. The contest is famous around…

EXCLUSIVE: Richie Keen, the director behind the Ice Cube-Charlie Day comedy Fist Fight, has been tapped to direct an eSports comedy at Legendary Pictures that has Will Ferrell attached to star. Fist Fight marked Keen’s feature directorial debut. He has directed multiple episodes for shows like It’s Always Sunny in Phil…

EXCLUSIVE: The hot project du jour: The Menu, a dark satirical comedy that Alexander Payne will direct. So far, Emma Stone and Ralph Fiennes have signed on to star, and it’s anticipated that other swell names will enlist. Scripted by Will Tracy & Seth Reiss, the pic focuses on an eccentric culinary event that is…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay have mutually decided to branch out separately and refocus their creative efforts. This will wind down one of the longest creative partner relationships in town. The duo met when they were hired the same day on Saturday Night Live in 1995, and 13 years ago they formed with Chris…

EXCLUSIVE: Leslye Headland is rewriting to direct for HBO Films a picture based on American Huckster: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich from-and Sold Out-the Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports. Will Ferrell is attached to star as Blazer, a hustler from Queens who managed to wheel and deal his way to the top of FIFA, the…

Will Ferrell’s Cord Hosenbeck and Molly Shannon’s Tish Cattigan are returning to “host” coverage of the 2019 Rose Parade. Last year, the pair debuted via Funny or Die on Amazon Prime Video; for this edition, the spoofy coverage will be simulcast live on FunnyOrDie.com and its social platforms as well as on…

The podcast world is about to get classier. Will Ferrell is reviving his legendary Anchorman character Ron Burgundy with a new podcast appropriately titled The Ron Burgundy Podcast. The podcast is set to launch on the iHeartRadio Podcast Network and will be available for your listening pleasure in early 2019. It will…