variety.com - 5/5/2009
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Faris, Dayton in talks to direct futuristic comedy Fox's "Used Guys" has a new lease on life. Three years after the studio pulled the plug on the futuristic comedy that had Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller onboard to star and Jay Roach directing, Fox is aiming to rebirth "Guys," originally centered on ...
variety.com - 5/4/2009
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Filmmaker to direct Participant pic Ben Stiller has
been set by Participant Media to direct "Help Me...
Spread Goodness," a drama with comic overtones. Script, about a Chicago banker who gets swindled in a Nigerian Internet scam, was written by Mark ...
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Ben Stiller to 'Spread Goodness' - Entertainment News, ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 5/5/2009
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hollywoodreporter.com —
"Used Guys" just might be re-activated. The high-concept
sci-fi comedy, kneecapped by Fox several years ago, is...
rising again in a new guise. While the earlier incarnation would have seen Jay Roach directing Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey, the new ...
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Fox plans new 'Used Guys'
filmschoolrejects.com - 5/4/2009
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Since I know that your life is not
complete if you don’t get your morning news, I...
am happy to be back with you on this fine Monday morning for this week’s first Early Edition. This morning we will take a look at a quick few stories that have been making the rounds with all of our ...
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Early Edition: Ben Stiller Spreads Goodness, David Slade ...
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Re-USED GUYS! Fox spending some of their Wolverine money to resurrect sci-fi comedy!
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Fox is all over the trades today, I'm sure eagerly spending their WOLVERINE money (and the promise of more on the horizon... although I predict they'll be hurting a bit next weekend when TREK opens) they have decided to move on a project that almost happened a couple years ago called USED GUYS. If you don't remember it, it was to star Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey and was going to be directed by Jay Roach. The film was set in a future where women are all that's left. Two obsolete pleasure clones escape and try to find the legendary and mythic Mantopia. Sounds like AI mixed with Y: THE LAST MAN and DUMB AND DUMBER, doesn't it? ...
Daily news dose: Ken Watanabe joins 'Inception;' Ben Stiller in talks to star in 'Used Guys'
The Screening Log —
Here's your dose of film news for May 5, 2009:
• Ken Watanabe and Tom Hardy are the latest to board Christopher Nolan's upcoming sci-fi thriller flick "Inception," which is described as an action flick set within "the architecture of the mind." Watanabe will play a villain. Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard and Cillian Murphy co-star. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Ben Stiller is in negotiations to star in Fox's futuristic comedy "Used Guys." Jay Roach was originally set to direct Stiller and Jim Carrey, but Fox halted the project in 2006 because of budget concerns. Valerie ...
Ben Stiller Still Feeling Used
Cinema Blend News —
Ben Stiller Still Feeling Used When the Jim Carrey- Ben Stiller comedy Used Guys was canceled in 2006, it was because of budget concerns, given that the movie was set in a future in which Carrey and Stiller would be pleasure clones. But now Fox is ready to take the project on again, and somehow making the movie more of a romantic comedy is going to keep the budget in check. Yeah, I don't understand it either. But according to Variety , Stiller is back on board, with Little Miss Sunshine directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton in it to helm and Reese Witherspoon ...
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getthebigpicture.net 5/17/2009 — People sure did love that Zoolander , but I'm not sure they want a sequel. I think it has more to do with Ben Stiller making Night at the Museum movies than anything else. Need I remind you of Tropic Thunder ? Maybe he can continue to play both sides, and he's certainly going to try with ...
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theplaylist.blogspot.com 10/16/2008 — Elton John is writing a musical for Ben Stiller ? That's the word according to a recent GQ interview . John apparently has a ton of projects on the go." "I’ve got so much energy and so many things on the go. I want to do another Vegas show. I’ve ...
Ben Stiller and 'Help Me Spread Goodness'
byeshane.blogspot.com 5/6/2009 — Ben Stiller will direct Help Me Spread Goodness , a film about a Chicago banker who falls for a Nigerian internet scam (people still fall for these things?). The film will be developed by Participant Media, a film company that "has a mandate that says their films must compel social change" ( ...
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atomicpopcorn.net 5/22/2009 —
Night at the Museum 2 or Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian is a movie for all of you out there. Ben Stiller stars again as Larry Daley, the night watchmen we have all come to adore and laugh at. The hilarity ensues with the likes of Amy Adams, Hank Azaria and Jonah Hill. For ...
Ben Stiller among 'Chicago' contenders
hollywoodreporter.com 10/23/2008 — "The Trial of the Chicago 7," the DreamWorks project about the 1968 riots at the Democratic convention and their aftermath, is a high priority for the newly configured studio and is moving forward quickly. The latest well-known director who has met ...
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