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Steve Carell may get Dumped
Total Film News —
Warners has picked up the rights to the comedy Dumped, and is hoping that Steve Carell will agree to star. Based on a novel by Andrew Gottlieb, Dumped finds a man searching for new meaning in his life when his wife suddenly files for divorce. Vic Levin is assigned to adapt the book, and Carell has agreed to produce the film. But it’ll have to join the crowd of films jostling for the star’s attention during his downtime from The Office. He’s also working on Hi-T, a comedy about a man who takes testosterone after an injury, only to discover it gives him massive mood swings. Honestly, ...
Steve Carell Gets Dumped
Cinema Blend News —
Steve Carell Gets Dumped Steve Carell has been a 40-year-old virgin, now hell be a 40-something divorcee. Variety says hell star in a comedy called Dumped , based on a novel by Andrew Gottleib and being adapted into a script for him by Vic Levin. Dumped is about a man looking for new meaning in his life after his wife divorces him. Its a genre Steve Carell does well in, audiences seem to love it when world uses him as a doormat. Much as I enjoyed Get Smart , Id rather see Steve failing at life than failing at the spy game. Hes an everyman, not a 007 man. RELATED : ...
Steve Carell Gets ‘Dumped’
We Are Movie Geeks —
Warner Brothers has acquired distribution rights to ‘Dumped,’ a comedy based on the novel by Andrew Gottlieb that is to be adapted by ‘Win a Date wiht Tad Hamilton!’ scribe, Vic Levin.
The film will serve as a starring vehicle for Steve Carell. Carell would play a man searching for new meaning in his life after his wife abruptly files for divorce.
No director has been attached.
Source: Variety ...
Steve Carell set to get Dumped
Film | guardian.co.uk —
... The 40-Year-Old Virgin star will play a man who is knocked for six when his wife abruptly files for divorce Steve Carell is to play yet another unlucky-in-love, middle-aged man in the comedy Dumped, Variety reports. Dumped is based on the novel by Andrew Gottlieb about a man searching for new meaning in his life after his wife files for divorce. The plot should be familiar ground for the star of The 40-Year-Old Virgin (in which he played the title role), Little Miss Sunshine (playing a Proust scholar who attempts suicide after being jilted for another ...
Shortcuts: Will Arnett And Michael Shannon Join 'Jonah Hex', 'Clash Of The Titans' Finds Its Princess Andromeda
:: The Playlist :: —
Arrested Development alum Will Arnett and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon ("Revolutionary Road") have joined the comic book adaptation, "Jonah Hex." They join Megan Fox, Josh Brolin and John Malkovich in the Jimmy Hayward ("Horton Hears A Who") helmed film. Arnett is set to play a union soldier who enlists Hex while Shannon will portray Doc Cross Williams, the bizarre ringleader of a brutal gladiator circus event. This film project ...
Daily news dose: Sally Hawkins finds 'Wonderful Afterlife;' Carell in talks to star in 'Dumped'
The Screening Log —
Here's your dose of daily film news for April 1, 2009:
• Sally Hawkins, Zoe Wanamaker, Jimi Mistry and Mark Addy have signed on to star in Gurinder Chadha's upcoming comedy "It's A Wonderful Afterlife." The plot follows an Indian mother who's ready to engage in anything to marry off her daughter, even serial murder. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to "Dumped," a comedy based on a novel by Andrew Gottlieb. Vic Levin jumped on board to write the screenplay, and Steve Carell is attached to star in the project, which follows a man searching for new meaning in his life ...
Steve Carell to star in 'Dumped' for Warner Bros.
FilmWad —
According to Variety, Warner Bros. has acquired "Dumped," a comedy Vic Levin will adapt as a star vehicle for Steve Carell based on a novel by Andrew Gottlieb. Carell would play a man searching for new meaning in his life after his wife abruptly files for divorce. Carell and his Carousel Production partners Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock would produce. Project becomes one of several potential comedies that are percolating since Carell berthed Carousel in a first-look WB deal. The company is also developing "Hi-T," in which Carell would play a man who begins taking ...
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Reel Talk —
... Steve Carell suffers from a lot of relationship problems. Good for him, they’re only in the movies. Variety reports that Carell has signed on to star in “Dumped,” a Warner Brothers flick based on an Andrew Gottlieb novel. Carell’s character will be a guy trying to put himself back together after being divorced by his wife. ...
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