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Kick-Ass 2 Heroes and Villains Poster Released

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It’s just a few weeks until Kick-Ass 2 arrives in cinemas on August 14th, and to help ensure we don’t forget that fact, a new ‘heroes and villains’ poster has been released, featuring Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), new character Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey) and the villainous The MotherF—er (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).

Here’s the synopsis: ‘After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes, our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother F%&*^r — only the blade-wielding Hit Girl can prevent their annihilation. When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave.

‘With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world’s first superhero team with Mindy. Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she’s forced to retire-leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes.

‘Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world’s first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad. But there’s only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all.’

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Dumb & Dumber To With Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels Gets Revived By Universal

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dumb-and-dumber-pic1After years in development, earlier this year it finally seemed Dumb and Dumber To was finally going to go ahead, with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels both agreeing to star. Then last week disaster struck when New Line Cinema dropped the comedy sequel.

However that’s turned out to just be a bump at the end of a very long road, as now Universal Pictures and Red Granite Pictures have come onboard to back the film.

Directors Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly revealed the news themselves, tweeting, ‘IT”S OFFICIAL: Dumb and Dumber To is going into production with @RedGranitePics and @UniversalPics!!! #DumbTo’

Carrey and Daniels will be back as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, with the stars, filmmakers, and studios working out scheduling to get production started as quickly as possible. There is a bit of extra urgency as Jeff Daniels wants to shoot before he has to go back to work on The Newsroom, while Jim Carrey wants to get it in the can ahead of filming the bank heist comedy Loomis Fargo with Owen Wilson.

Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly are directing from a script by Sean Anders and John Morris, which the directors rewrote themselves. The story revolves around Lloyd and Harry trying to find one of their illegitimate children, so they can donate one of their kidneys to save the child’s life. It’ll shoot on a $35 million budget.

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Owen Wilson Joins Jim Carrey In The Heist Comedy Loomis Fargo

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owen-wilsonOwen Wilson is picking himself up from a disappointing first weekend at the US box office for his comedy, The Internship, by signing up to star in Loomis Fargo (which may be in the process of changing its name), alongside Jim Carrey.

Deadline reports the news, but doesn’t say exactly who Wilson will play. Loosely based on a true story, it follows an armoured truck driver who is convinced to help participate in a $17 million robbery, but his partners are quick to turn on him once the job is done and leave him stranded in Mexico while they go off to live the high life. Then it’s time to settle the score.

The presumption is that Carrey is playing the driver, but it could be that role is going to Wilson. We’ll have to wait and see.

Jared Hess is directing from a script by Emily Spivey, Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer

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Jim Carrey On For Ensemble Comedy Ricky Stanicky

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jim-carreyJim Carrey has been busy trying to revive his career, and while The Incredible Burt Wonderstone didn’t work out too well, he’ll be hoping better from Kick-Ass 2 and Loomis Fargo. Now he’s added another movie to the list, as THR reports he’s signed up to star in Ricky Stanicky.

The trade paper says, the film is ‘an ensemble comedy in the vein of The Hangover, and begins when three teens pull a prank and burn down a house in their neighborhood’. To get out of trouble, the gang invents a fictional scapegoat called Ricky Stanicky, a figure they continue to use to get out of scrapes over the next 20 years. However things get tricky when their wives and girlfriends get fed up with hearing about the irresponsible Ricky and demand to meet him, so the guys have to hire an out of work actor to play him.

It’s not clear which role Carrey is up for, although it is known James Franco was previously attached to the Ricky role, which Jim could have taken over.

Steve Oedekerk, with whom Carrey worked on both Bruce Almighty and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, is currently rewriting the script (based on Jeff Bushell’s original screenplay) and will also direct.

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New Kick-Ass 2 Character Posters Revealed

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A great new international trailer for Kick-Ass 2 arrived yesterday, and now to back that up, two new character posters have been released, featuring Colonel Stars and Stripes poster (Jim Carrey) and Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz).

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Red Mist return for the follow-up to 2010’s irreverent global hit: Kick-Ass 2.  After Kick-Ass’ (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol.  When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)—reborn as The Mother F%&*^r—only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) can prevent their annihilation.

‘When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave.  With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world’s first superhero team with Mindy.  Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she’s forced to retire—leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own.  With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes.

‘Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets,  the world’s first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad.  But there’s only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all.’

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Jim Carrey & Adam Sandler Sought For Guardians of the Galaxy

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jim-carreyWhile we’ve heard about numerous candidates for the lead role of Peter Quill in Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, now Latino Review suggests the comic book company is looking at comedians Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler for roles in the movie. It isn’t clear what parts they are being eyed for, although it’s been suggested they may be being sought to voice CG characters such as Rocket Raccoon and Groot.

Actors Wes Bentley, Cam Gigandet, and Chris Lowell have also recently tested for the Peter Quill (a.k.a. Star-Lord) role in this superhero adventure. Last month, we reported that Jim Sturgess and Zachary Levi were the finalists for the Star-Lord lead role. Since then, though, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Rosenbaum have also tested for the part, there’s bee no news on whether any of them have actually scored the part.

James Gunn is directing from his own screenplay. Shooting will begin this summer at London’s Shepperton Studios.

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First Official Kick Ass 2 Pic Arrives, Featuring Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes

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kick-ass-2-pic1There have been numerous set photos from Kick-Ass 2 that have shown up online, but now we get our first official look at the movie, via EW (scanned in by BillKuchman), showing us both Aaron Johnson’s title character and newbie Jim Carrey and Colonel Stars and Stripes.

Here’s the tagline for the image: ‘In the action-comedy sequel Kick-Ass 2 (out June 28), the eponymous hero (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, right) joins a superhero team called Justice Forever, led by Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey, left). Chloe Grace Moretz reprises her role as Mindy, but has “given up Hit Girl and is trying to be a normal teenage,” says Jeff Wadlow, who picks up the directing reigns from Matthew Vaughn.’

Oh, and if you haven’t notices, take a closer look at the dog.

In this sequel, after Kick-Ass’ bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes, our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother F%&*^r — only the blade-wielding Hit Girl can prevent their annihilation. When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave. With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world’s first superhero team with Mindy. Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she’s forced to retire-leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes.

Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets the world’s first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad. But there’s only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all.

It hits cinemas July 19th.

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Jim Carrey Circling Heist Movie Loomis Fargo

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Jim Carrey has recently been shooting a cameo as Colonel Stars in Kick-Ass 2, which he’s hoping will give his career a bit of a boost. Now he’s mulling starring in a film called Loomis Fargo, about one of the biggest heists in US history, according to TheWrap.

The story follows four men in the American south who managed to get $17 million out of an armed Loomis Fargo truck. It isn’t known exactly who Carrey would play, but the main players are a “former company employee, David Scott Ghantt, who struck up a relationship with a fellow employee, Kelly Campbell, who then introduced Ghantt to an old school friend, Steve Chambers, who helped pull off the robbery.”

Napoleon Dynamite’s Jared Hess will direct, with production planned to begin early next year in North Carolina, as a long as a few final financing issues are sorted.

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Jim Carrey Sought For Kick-Ass 2

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With Kick-Ass 2 set to go into production in Toronto next month, Universal Pictures and director Jeff Wadlow are busy putting the last pieces of the cast together, and are currently courting Jim Carrey to play Colonel Stars, according to Deadline. It isn’t known how interested the actor is.

The character helps form the superhero ensemble known as Justice Forever, which Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) becomes a part of. Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Red Mist), Nicolas Cage (Big Daddy), and Yancy Butler (Angie D’Amico) will reprise their roles from Kick-Ass. New additions to the cast include John Leguizamo, Donald Faison, Morris Chestnut, and Robert Emms.

Jeff Wadlow (Never Back Down) is directing from his own screenplay, based on the comic book series created by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. Kick-Ass 2 will be released next year.

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Jim Carrey Out Of Dumb and Dumber 2

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Last October, is was revealed that Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly were planning Dumb and Dumber 2 (apparently going under the working title Dumb and Dumber To), which at the time had both Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels set to return as Lloyd and Harry.

However Jim Carrey has left the project, due to New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. showing a, “lack of enthusiasm” for the follow-up, according to ET Online. Here’s what Carrey had to say, through his publicist. “I would have thought Dumb and Dumber To was a no-brainer, after all it’s implied in the title.”

The Farrelly brothers have had casting roadblocks in the past involving the funnyman. He was set to star alongside Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro in The Three Stooges before the project fell apart. Of course, it will be a lot harder to re-cast a role like Lloyd Christmas for a sequel, especially for a comedy as popular as Dumb and Dumber. It’s also not clear what a ‘lack of enthusiasm’ means, although suggests perhaps the studio didn’t want to pay what Carrey was asking.

Sex Drive writers Sean Anders and John Morris wrote the screenplay for the Farrelly’s to direct from. It’s not clear yet if this casting departure will mean the end of the sequel or not.

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