Maya Rudolph can't remember her character's name, and Steve Carell jokes about stealing as a kid. We talk to them and Sam Rockwell at the premiere of The Way Way Back at the Sundance Film Festival in this PopSugar Rush.
Maya Rudolph, Steve Carell, Allison Janney, Toni Collette, and Sam Rockwell joined the rest of their cast for their Sundance Film Festival premiere of The Way, Way Back on Monday. The movie, which is directed by the team who wrote The Descendants, immediately became one of the most buzzed-about debuts of the festival. The Way, Way Back has already been reportedly picked up by Fox Searchlight. The movie's title refers to the rear-facing back seat in older station wagons, and it takes place at a water park. On the red carpet, we spoke to Maya, Steve, and Sam about some of their best and worst Summer jobs ever. Maya revealed that she lied about her age to get a job at a cool clothing store when she was only 14. Steve, who was rocking a more salt-and-pepper look than we've seen before, joked that he actually dyes his hair gray. Check out lots more from our red-carpet interviews on today's PopSugar Rush!
If you're thinking you could use a little bit of magic in your life, the trailer for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone might be just the cure. Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi star as Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton, an old-fashioned magician team who have lost their magic touch, so to speak, with the Las Vegas crowds. It might be their goofy hair that's driving audiences away, but it's probably the hip new guy in town, a Criss Angel-type (Jim Carrey) stuntman whose tricks include sleeping on hot coals overnight. Olivia Wilde also stars as a magician's assistant.
Despite The Incredible Burt Wonderstone's semidazzling tricks, I'm not that enthusiastic about this movie. I like Carell and Carrey (who starred together in Bruce Almighty), but there's something in the trailer that's lacking a little pizzazz. However, I am looking forward to Alan Arkin as the sage magician. The movie opens March 15, and you can watch the trailer when you read more.
Steve Carell and Keira Knightley play neighbors who find themselves forced together by fate in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. The apocalyptic romance raises a lot of questions about life, love, and human behavior, and when we caught up with Steve and Keira at a recent press day, they told us they were both struck by the script's thought-provoking story. The costars talked about how they'd personally spend their last days on the planet and about how their own loves — Steve is married and Keira is engaged to James Righton — helped inform their performances. Seeking a Friend For the End of the World hits theaters tomorrow.
It's been eight long years since the original, but Anchorman 2 is so on, you guys. The movie is finally coming out in 2013, but two short teasers are here — and as brief as they are, they're both pretty funny. Will Ferrell's legendary Ron Burgundy is back on deck with his fellow news anchors, Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), Champ Kind (David Koechner), and Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), and as usual, Brick needs help coming up with anything to say in both of the clips.
Like I said, they're short, and we also have no idea what the plot will be, but I dare you not to get excited that Anchorman 2 is a reality. Watch the teasers and let me know what you think after the jump.
In Seeking a Friend For the End of the World, Steve Carell plays Dodge, a man facing the reality that an asteroid is about the destroy the earth and he, along with everyone else, has to figure out what to do with the last three weeks of his life. For people like Patton Oswalt's character, it's sleeping with as man people as possible, but for regretful Dodge, it's love. When he meets his pixie-ish neighbor, played by Keira Knightley, she takes it upon herself to help Dodge find the girl that got away, if he helps her see her family before the world ends.
The trailer is very funny, considering its bleak subject matter (I giggled at Melanie Lynskey's character wearing all the clothes she never had a chance to wear), and Carell is the perfect leading man for the dark comedy. I'm especially curious to see what his chemistry with Knightley is like, and even though the title and what we see in the trailer implies it's just a friendship, it seems like something romantic must come up — the world is ending, after all. To watch the trailer for Seeking a Friend For the End of the World, just keep reading.
We're used to seeing Steve Carell call the shots in his role as the former regional manager of Dunder Mifflin on The Office, but now he's ready to take a position of power on the soccer field. Steve Carell will star as a referee in Lunatics, a film based on a book by comedy writers Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. In addition to reining in young athletes, Carell's character will also have to deal with a particularly boisterous soccer dad. I love seeing Carell play an angry character — I loved his irrational outbursts on The Office as Michael — so I hope he'll get into a few blow-up arguments with his costar. What do you think of Carell taking to the soccer field?
We already know that Ryan Gosling looks smokin' hot in Crazy, Stupid, Love, but does the rest of the movie measure up to those abs? Find out if you should head to the theater to see it by watching our video review!
In a sea of Hollywood movies depicting relationships through clichés, Crazy, Stupid, Love actually gets it right. Steve Carell stars as Cal, a man who's been abruptly dumped by his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore). Despondent and friendless, Cal takes to hanging out in a local bar, where slick ladies' man Jacob (Ryan Gosling) takes pity on him. Under Jacob's tutelage, Cal dresses better and learns to be assertive, as he unhappily figures out his life without Emily in it. A couple of subplots are woven throughout as well: Jacob, not used to being rejected, falls for the only girl who seems to be able to resist his charms, a law student named Hannah (Emma Stone). Meanwhile, Cal and Emily's teenage son Robbie is in the throes of unrequited love for his babysitter, Jessica (Analeigh Tipton) — who's harboring a crush on Cal.
There's certainly a lot going on, but Crazy, Stupid, Love manages to illustrate the value of each emotional connection in the movie without veering too far off course. To find out why I loved the film, just read more
