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Wicked's plot may not sit well with everyone....

In light of recent no-set accidents, Anchorman director Adam McKay recalled an Anchorman 2 stunt leading to a real scary situation for Will Ferrell.

Adam McKay went into great detail about why he and Will Ferrell no longer work together.

After founding their production company in 2006, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay split up in 2019.

Jonah Hill sets up the meet-cute of himself, Will Ferrell, and Adam McKay.

Production on the film was temporarily halted following Jennifer Lawrence's incident.

Holy moly! Adam McKay has hinted he'd be putting together an A-list ensemble for his upcoming Netflix movie Don't Look Up, and he wasn't messing around, as Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep are set to join fellow Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Cate Blanchett along with Timothée Chalamet, Jonah Hill, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Matthew Perry, Himesh Patel, Tomer Sisley and Rob Morgan. Don't Look Up is described as a sci-fi satire that follows two low-level astronomers who embark on a media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that will …

After working together on Vice and Talladega Nights, Amy Adams and Adam McKay are reteaming for a third time on Kings of America, a Netflix limited series about a famous lawsuit involving Walmart. Kings of America hails from creator Jess Kimball Leslie, a journalist/author who will write the script and serve as an executive producer on the series, which follows three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world's largest company -- a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive, and a longtime Walmart saleswoman and preacher who dared to fight against the retail giant in the biggest class …

Despite having more than 40 projects in development around town, Adam McKay is slapping his name on one more, hopping back into business with HBO on an untitled limited series about the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine. HBO has optioned the non-fiction book The First Show from author Brendan Borrell, who writes for the New York Times, the Atlantic and Wired, the latter of which published his piece The Dire Diplomacy of the Global 'Race for a Vaccine.' The book will explore the people and companies risking everything to find a vaccine, as well as the science it'…

Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett is in talks to join Jennifer Lawrence in Adam McKay's sci-fi satire Don't Look Up, sources tell Collider. Netflix is backing the original project, which sounds like it'll make good use of McKay's talent for calling out systemic idiocy, inefficiency, and corruption. The comedic film centers on two mid-level astronomers who discover that a meteorite will destroy earth in six months, prompting them to go on a media tour to warn mankind. McKay has described Don't Look Up as "a dark satire in the school of Wag …

Jennifer Lawrence is making some new career moves.

Adam McKay's one busy dude, and it turns out we're gonna get his next movie a bit earlier than you probably expected. Netflix has scooped up McKay's sci-fi satire Don't Look Up with Jennifer Lawrence set to star. We first heard about the project last year, when McKay described it as a “dark satire in the school of Wag the Dog, Doctor Strangelove and Network," and added, "if it is half as good as any of them, I will be happy.” And Don't Look Up didn't just find a home quickly, it's …

Ben Schwartz reveals details about the "Goonies as adults" movie screenplay he wrote for producers Seth Rogen and Adam McKay.

WarnerMedia's new streaming service, HBO Max, has officially greenlit Adam McKay's climate terror anthology series titled The Uninhabitable Earth.

Adam McKay is a director and a producer and an Oscar-winning writer, too. He's also an activist, and he'll be putting his passion for the environment to good use with The Uninhabitable Earth, a new anthology series for HBO Max inspired by David Wallace-Wells' bestselling book and New York Magazine article of the same name. Announced by the streamer at TCA on Wednesday, the series concerns climate change, global warming and other environmental catastrophes, and will be comprised of fictional standalone stories that cover a wide range of genres and possible futures that could result from …

In the biggest WTF news of the week, an HBO limited series adaptation of the critically acclaimed feature film Parasite is in the works. Per THR, Bong Joon-ho—who wrote and directed the movie—is onboard to adapt the film alongside… Adam McKay! Yes indeed, the filmmaker behind Anchorman and Step Brothers is teaming up with Bong Joon-ho to make a Parasite miniseries. To be fair, McKay has been stretching his dramatic talents in recent years with films like The Big Short and Vice, and on HBO as the executive producer of the critical smash Succession. McKay won …

The Los Angeles Lakers are coming to HBO. Adam McKay’s untitled Lakers project, once called Showtime, chronicling the dynasty’s big personalities during its dominant run in the 1980s, is getting a series order at the premium cable network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Not every high profile pilot gets the series treatment at HBO, as was the case with Steve McQueen’s Codes of Conduct, so the network must feel pretty strongly about this one. Based on Jeff Pearlman’s book, Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, the series boasts an …

Filmmaker Adam McKay has had quite the unpredictable career. From head writing on Saturday Night Live, to making Will Ferrell comedy classics Anchorman and Step Brothers, to making political muckrakers The Big Short and Vice, to helping birth the "It Show" of the moment Succession -- McKay's points of interest seem to know no bounds. Now, as reported by Deadline, McKay will keep poking the hornet's nest of hot-button issues with newly founded production company Hyperobject Industries. Their deal with Paramount Pictures will hopefully foster the home for McKay's next directorial project: Don't Look Up. If …

In a bit of news that we all probably knew was inevitable if we're being honest with ourselves, Adam McKay will be the one to tackle the Jeffrey Epstein story in a limited series at HBO. The series—which falls under the five-year first-look deal McKay signed with the network and its upcoming streamer, HBO Max—is based on the soon-to-be-published book by Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, whose reporting was key in Epstein's July arrest for sex trafficking. “We are delighted to continue our longtime collaboration with Adam McKay with this …