Adam McKay Details Will Ferrell Break Up Over HBO’s ‘Showtime’ Casting: “He took it as a way deeper hurt than I ever imagined”

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorJoe Wright — the director of serious period pieces such as “Atonement,” “Anna Karenina” and “Darkest Hour” — would like to set the record straight. He loves Adam McKay’s comedies.

Charles Randolph is reuniting with Adam McKay, with whom he won a 2016 Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for “The Big Short,” for an HBO limited series about the global coronavirus vaccine race.Randolph is joining the untitled project — which has been in the development stage at the pay TV channel since July 2020, when the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine was still ongoing — as its writer and will executive produce alongside McKay.Based on the books, “The First Shot” by Brendan Borrell and

HBO’s newly released trailer for the show “Winning Time.” “Winning Time” will debut its 10-episode first season sometime next March.

Will Ferrell faced quite the scare on the set of "Anchorman 2," according to the film's director Adam McKay. The two collaborated on "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" in 2013, following up on the film's successful 2004 predecessor.The two flicks followed fictional and outrageous newscaster Ron Burgundy, played by the famed "Saturday Night Live" alum.

(now ex-) friend Will Ferrell on the set of their 2013 comedy film, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.”The “Don’t Look Up” director, 53, explained to the Hollywood Reporter in a profile about his career and was asked about his thoughts on “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ untimely death in October.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorThe first time Adam McKay met Meryl Streep to discuss “Don’t Look Up,” he was momentarily intimidated. But Streep quickly put him at ease — until McKay’s phone rang, and his ringtone was the theme from “The Deer Hunter.”“It’s a stunning piece of music!” McKay says with a laugh, saying he was just looking for something beautiful for his phone.

The first trailer for Adam McKay’s upcoming Lakers scripted series was released by HBO on Thursday.

Will Ferrell nearly died on the set of 2013’s “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.”

Over the past week or so, there have been multiple stories about the reasons behind the professional breakup of producing partners, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The duo created the popular production company, Gary Sanchez, to only eventually go their separate ways.

Plenty of ink has been spilled on the evolution (or, depending on who you’re talking to, de-evolution) of Adam McKay, who has gone from the “Saturday Night Live” writers room to the auteur of such likably goofy Will Ferrell vehicles as “Anchorman” and “Talladega Nights” to the Oscar-winning purveyor of message movies like “The Big Short” and “Vice.” His critics, and there are plenty of them, have accused McKay of committing the ultimate crime for a comic artist: taking himself too seriously,

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticHumans are stupid and can’t be expected to agree on anything, even if their existence depends on it.

Bad Blood, a biopic about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.The actor will play Holmes in the forthcoming film, set to be written, directed and produced by McKay.

Jennifer Lawrence is taking on a new role!

Way back in 2016, after the success of “The Big Short,” it was reported that Adam McKay would team up with Jennifer Lawrence for a film titled “Bad Blood,” about the downfall of Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes. Then, like so many projects, things went silent.

With his Netflix satire Don’t Look Up, writer-director Adam McKay looked to address “the largest issue in the history of mankind”—that being the climate crisis, and the way people tend to either deny it is happening or refuse to acknowledge its “urgent and terrifying” weight.

A collaboration for the ages. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay have produced tons of comedy classics together, but their partnership — and their friendship — came to a halt in 2019.

Step Brothers and Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy.A statement was released in April that year that read: “The two of us will always work together creatively and always be friends. And we recognise we are lucky as hell to end this venture as such.”However, their relationship ended on more turbulent ground.“It ended not well,” McKay said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair.

“Funny or Die” and founded the company Gary Sanchez Productions. But seemingly out of the blue, the once dynamic duo announced they were ending their working relationship in 2019.