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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Tobey Maguire & Kristen Wiig Join Will Ferrell’s The Spoils Of Babylon

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tobey-maguireIt’s not often a TV series can boast a cast including Tim Robbins, Kristen Wiig, Michael Sheen, Tobey Maguire, Haley Joel Osment, Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Steve Tom and Will Ferrell, but The Spoils Of Babylon can. The series comes from Ferrell, Adam McKay, and several other Funny or Die guys, with the show set to air on IFC in the US.

The six-parter will follow a fake book written by fake author Eric Jonrosh (Ferrell). The story will span multiple generations in the oil industry, which allows it to follows plenty of stories, allowing all sorts of famous faces to pop up.

IFC says, ‘The Spoils of Babylon, a century-spanning saga, chronicles the sexy and dramatic lives of the Morehouse family, led by Jonas Morehouse (Robbins), his daughter Cynthia (Wiig) and her adopted brother Devon (Maguire) who made their fortune in the oil business. The series takes viewers from the oil fields of Texas to boardrooms in New York City, through war torn battlefields and velvet-sheeted bedrooms.

‘Cynthia and Devon’s unbridled and taboo passion for one another cannot be prevented. Add in Cynthia’s evil son Winston (Osment), her put upon husband Chet Halner (Sheen), and Devon’s new love interest Dixie Mellonworth (Alba), and the booze, the pills, more passion, more pills and the heartache, and you have a mercurial potboiler. Then add in illegal arms deals, international espionage, the Shah of Iran (Ferrell), and two US Army Generals (Kilmer, Steve Tom) and it begins to overflow with boiling liquid in a pot on a hot stove that is operational.’

Production has already commenced with a 2014 premiere planned.

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New Girl Most Likely Trailer – Kristen Wiig and Darren Criss get quirky

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Kristen Wiig’s passion project, Girl Most Likely (previously known as Imogene) is heading for cinemas this July, and now a new trailer has dropped to give us a taste of its quirky sense of humour.

Wiig plays Imogene, who stages a fake suicide in the hope of winning back her ex. However her plan works a bit too well, as everyone thinks she really was trying to kill herself and so they put her in the custody of her gambling addict mother (Annette Bening). Imogene is thrust back into a life she hoped she’d left behind, but discovers that perhaps the things she’s shunned are just what she needs.

Darren Criss, Matt Dillon and Natasha Lyonne also star.

 

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Kristen Wiig Says Welcome To Me

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kristen-wiigKristen Wiig has only just started shooting Anchorman: The Legend Continues, but it seems she’s keen to stay in the Will Ferrell and Adam McKay business, as she now in talks to reteam with them for the indie comedy Welcome To Me, according to THR.

Ferrell and McKay are producing this one, with McKay’s wife, Shira Piven, in the director’s seat. Eliot Laurence’s (who previously worked on TV’s The Big Gay Sketch Show) screenplay is about a woman with dissociative personality disorder who wins the lottery and decides to spend her winnings on a cable access talk show about her life.

As THR notes, the success of Silver Linings Playbook has sparked an interest in other comedies that can see the lighter notes of mental illness, and probably helped get this one off the ground.

There’s no news on when the movie will shoot.

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Girl Most Likely (Imogene) Trailer – Darren Criss gets shirtless in Kristen Wiig’s latest

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Kristen Wiig’s latest, Girl Most Likely (aka Imogene) debuted last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, but it doesn’t reach the US until July and no UK date is currently set at all. Nevertheless we’ve now got a trailer, giving us a look at the quirky indie comedy.

Wiig plays Imogene, who stages a fake suicide in the hope of winning back her ex. However her plan works a bit too well, as everyone thinks she really was trying to kill herself and so they put her in the custody of her gambling addict mother (Annette Bening). Imogene is thrust back into a life she hoped she’d left behind, but discovers that perhaps the things she’s shunned are just what she needs.

Plus she meets Glee’s Darren Criss, who very kindly gets shirtless for us in the trailer, which certainly ensures this is worth a look. [Read more…]

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Kristen Wiig Confirmed For Anchorman 2

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kristen-wiigFor years there were rumours and speculation about a sequel to Anchorman, but even since it was officially announced the progress to production has been painfully slow. However now it’s actually moving towards the shoot, and for the last couple of months it’s been known that producers were trying to get Kristen Wiig to star.

Now director Adam McKay has confirmed her involvement on Twitter, saying ‘Just found out Kristen Wiig officially on board for Anchorman 2. Cannonball!’

It’s still not been revealed what character she’ll be playing, although earlier speculation suggested she could be a women who gets involved with Steve Carell’s Brick Tamland. Others have said she could be the new boss in the newsroom, which upsets Ron Burgundy’s misogynistic machismo.

The plan is for shooting to start next month with the movie heading for a Christmas release.

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Kristen Wiig Sought For Anchorman: The Legend Continues

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The seemingly endless saga of getting Anchorman 2 onto our screens continues, with TheWrap reporting that Kristen Wiig is being eyed for a role in the movie. If a deal is reached, she’d play the love interest of Steve Carell’s Brick Tamland.

Anchorman: The Continues already has Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, and Christina Applegate set to return, with Adam McKay and Will Ferrell currently working on the script. All that is known about the story is that it will be set in the late 1970s and focusses on how the Action 4 News team tries to adapt to the changes in broadcast news.

Not too long ago is was revealed that director Adam McKay hopes to begin shooting in either January or February, but as it seems the script isn’t ready yet, things may get delayed.

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Ty Burrell Signs Up To Be Bill Hader’s Ex-Boyfriend In Skeleton Twins

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Ty Burrell has gained a lot of fans thank to play Phil Dunphy in Modern Family, but he’s had less success in film (even if he’s been popping up in things for years, such as Evolution, Black Hawk Down and Dawn Of The Dead). However he’ll be hoping he has better luck when he plays gay in Skeleton Twins.

Just last week we reported that Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader signed up to star in the movie, playing Maggie (Wiig) and Milo (Hader), who are twins who went their separate ways years ago, but when they coincidentally cheat death on the same day, the shock makes them reunite and figure out how their lives went wrong. Maggie starts to re-examine her marriage to nature-loving slacker Lance (Luke Wilson), while the gay Milo goes to visit old flame Rich (Burrell).

It’s not an easy reunion for the old lovers though, as Rich was fired when his affair with Milo was uncovered. This pushed him even further into the closet and so when they meet again, Rich is married to a woman and working in a bookstore.

The movie starts shooting in New York later this month. (Source: Variety)

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Friends With Kids (Cinema)

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What do you do if you want a kid but you don’t have a significant other (or indeed if you’re a gay man)? Well, if you’re a woman you could pop down the sperm bank, I suppose, but in the case of Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt), they decide perhaps they should have a kid together, despite not being in love. Now in their 30s, the duo are best of friends, but for various reasons haven’t settled down.

That’s not true of their friends, Ben (Jon Hamm) and Missy (Kristen Wiig), and Leslie (Maya Rudolph) and Alex (Chris O’Dowd), who are married and on the baby train. Despite the fact both couples seem harassed and on the edge due to their children, Jason and Julie decide to go ahead anyway and have a child. [Read more…]

Kristen Wiig Teams With Descendants Writers For Action Comedy

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Screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash are the toast of Hollywood after winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Descendants, and now they have even mroe reason to celebrate, as ShowBlitz reports they’ve sold an action-comedy to Indian Paintbrush, which has Kristen Wiig attached to star.

No plot details have been revealed regarding the project, although the script sparked a competitive bidding situation between a number of studios, before Indian Paintbrush secured the project. Both Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have a working history with Kristen Wiig, going back to their involvement in the famed L.A. improv company, The Groundlings.

It isn’t clear when production might begin on this untitled action-comedy.

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Patton Oswalt Circling Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

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Actor/comedian Patton Oswalt, who’s just coming off his critically-acclaimed performance in Young Adult, is in talks to join Ben Stiller and Kriten Wiig in 20th Century Fox’s comedy remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

The film is based on the 1947 film of the same name, which starred Danny Kaye as a timid man who spends his life daydreaming about being a heo but realises heroics aren’t all they’re cracked up to be when he gets caught up in an international conspiracy. In the new take Mitty is played by Stiller and tasked with an important mission when he is sent to find a missing negative.

Patton Oswalt will play an eHarmony consultant, who helps Walter create a dating profile. Kristen Wiig stars as the woman of Walter’s dreams, with Shirley MacLaine portraying Walter’s mother.

After several years of delays (and numerous actors having sniffed around the title role), production is finally scheduled to begin this April, with Stiller directing as well as starring. (Source: ShowBlitz)

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