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…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell is attached to star and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant will adapt and direct Prince of Fashion for Amazon Studios. The project is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon’s GQ article, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion," which follows the reporter’s visit to Paris Men's Fashion Week…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell is attached to star with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Downhill, Fox Searchlight’s remake of Ruben Ostlund’s acclaimed Swedish drama-comedy Force Majeure. Oscar winners Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants) have come on board to direct. The biting comedy will chart how a narrow avalanche…

Georgia’s hot governor’s race is about to get Oprah’ed. Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams’ camp said Wednesday that Oprah Winfrey will join Abrams for a pair of town halls Thursday as her race against Republican opponent Brian Kemp enters the final days ahead of Tuesday’s elections. Winfrey is the latest high-profile…

There’s plenty of room inside the Sherlock Holmes tent, with the canon easily available to everything from those fantastic gravel-crunching British movies, to teenage (Barry Levinson’s Young Sherlock Holmes) and elderly (Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes) takes, Guy Ritchie’s action-hero versions and, most recently, a simply…