Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell presented with MTV Comedic Genius award

Film gossip

Will Ferrell took home the Comedic Genius award at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday (14.04.13). The 'Campaign' actor was introduced by 'Game Of Thrones' star Peter Dinklage at the event at Sony Studios in Culver City, who joked that…

Will Ferrell to be honoured at 2013 MTV Movie Awards

Film gossip

Will Ferrell is to be honoured at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. The 45-year-old actor will receive the first-ever Comedic Genius Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the world of comedy at the ceremony held on Sunday April…

Christmas 2012 TV round-up

Featuring Bad Santas, Friday Night Dinner, The Office, The Girl and The Snowman and the Snowdog

It’s not exactly a particularly seasonal thought, but 2012 might be less than fondly remembered as the year when many of our showbusiness heroes of the past were outed as, at best, sleazy letches and, at worst, sexual predators. Hurtling headlong into…

Anchorman 2 to get musical sequence

Film gossip

'Anchorman 2' will feature a musical spectacular. Plans are underway for the long-awaited sequel - which stars Will Ferrell as San Diego newsman Ron Burgundy - and co-writer/director Adam McKay is looking forward to getting the cast singing and…

Will Ferrell and Liam Neeson join Lego movie

Film gossip

Will Ferrell and Liam Neeson have joined the Lego film. The 'Elf' star and 'Taken' actor have signed on to voice characters in Phil Lord and Chris Miller's 3D animation movie - a cartoon adaptation of the popular children's toy - which is entitled…

The Campaign

Half-hearted political comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis

The director of Meet the Parents answers a not-exactly gaping need here: welcome to another comedy in which Will Ferrell plays a particularly pompous and idiotic member of a profession prone to pomposity and idiotism. One does begin to fear that the…

Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie

The comic duo’s first film is a brutal satire of Hollywood but sadly lacks laughs

Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is perhaps the worst comedy since Tom Green’s Freddy Got Fingered. Like Freddy, Billion Dollar Movie features a cult TV comedy act directing a feature film for the first time, and going overboard with bad taste…

Anchorman 2: 5 things we’d like to see

In honour of the sequel's new teaser trailers, we speculate on what should be in the final film

1 Champ’s struggle with his sexuality Sports presenter Champ Kind (David Koechner) obviously had a thing for Ron (Will Ferrell) in the first film – he broke down when Ron started spending more time with Veronica than the news team, and was visibly…

Casa de mi Padre

Will Ferrell's Spanish-language comedy is at once unfunny and too silly to take seriously

Funnyman Will Ferrell as a tough rancher in a violent Spanish-language Western? It could only be a joke, and that’s exactly what Case de mi Padre is, a ragged, silly spoof in the Airplane/Naked Gun mode. Unfortunately, as jokes go, it’s a not…

Anchorman sequel announced by Will Ferrell

The actor appeared in character on US talk show Conan O'Brien to reveal the plans

‘Mr Burgundy, we would be honoured if you will play some “yazz” flute for us one more time.’ That’s right, Ron Burgundy is due to hit our screens once more. Will Ferrell appeared in character as the moustachioed, suited and booted newsman on US talk…

The TV debut of web sensation Funny Or Die is more miss than hit

Classic sketches The Landlord and Drunk History

Making the move from online cult status to small screen uncertainty, the Funny Or Die project has inevitably lost some of its initial drive. Web-watchers previously had the voting power to save a sketch or have it dumped (hence the ‘funny or dying’ bit…

Megamind

DreamWorks' latest sports parent-pleasing rock tunes but let down by 2D characters

(PG) 95min Following on from this year’s other super-villain cartoon Despicable Me, DreamWorks’ Megamind does at least boasts an original premise and it is this: what would happen if Lex Luthor actually succeeded in killing off Superman? Or rather…

The Other Guys

(12A) 107min The action/comedy genre gets a welcome boost with Adam McKay’s crowd-pleaser The Other Guys teaming Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz, an oddly-matched couple of New York cops. After years in the shadows of…

Will Ferrell wants Cowell role

Celebrity Gossip

Will Ferrell wants to play Simon Cowell in a movie of his life. The comedy filmmaker would "love" to portray the music mogul on big screen because he is convinced there are huge similarities between Simon and his fictional news reader character Ron…

Most Overpaid Star Will Ferrell

Celebrity Gossip

Will Ferrell has topped a list of the Most Overpaid Stars. The 'Elf' actor and comedian topped the annual list by Forbes magazine, which calculated how much moviemakers earn per dollar paid to their lead actor. After the last couple of funnyman…

Will Ferrell interview

Land of the Lost star talk us through time

With the DVD release of Land of the Lost imminent, Will Ferrell explains his role in this fast-paced, action adventure comedy.

Will Ferrell 'thrilled' with son trio

Celebrity Gossip

Will Ferrell is to become a father for the third time. The 'Step Brothers' star - who already has two sons, Magnus, five, and two-year-old Mattias - and his wife Viveca Paulin are expecting another boy. A source said: "They are thrilled and can't…

Also Released - Film

The Blues Brothers (15) 148min John Landis’ enjoyable 1980 musical comedy re-released on digital print in original US edit. Selected release from Fri 24 Jul. G-Force (PG) 90min Comedy adventure about a covertly trained group of guinea pig special…

Will Ferrell rescues Bear

Celebrity Gossip

Will Ferrell saved the life of adventurer Bear Grylls. The 'Anchorman' actor stopped the ex-SAS soldier from plummeting down an ice cliff to his death while the pair were filming a one-off episode of Bear's TV show 'Born Survivor' in Northern…

Will Ferrell's urine refreshment

Celebrity Gossip

Will Ferrell drank his own urine to survive in arctic conditions. The 'Stepbrothers' star spent 48 hours in the far north of Sweden with TV survival expert Bear Grylls, who showed the Hollywood funnyman what extremes they needed to go to in order to…

Joker Will Ferrell

Celebrity Gossip

Will Ferrell doesn't want to be taken seriously. The 'Step Brothers' star - who made his name in comedy TV shows and movies - starred in quirky drama 'Stranger Than Fiction' in 2006 but insists he is not looking to become a serious actor. He said…

Step Brothers

COMEDY ‘Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream’ is the George W Bush quotation which opens new Will Ferrell comedy Step Brothers. Such crude expression sets the tone for a sporadically funny but generally gross comedy in…

Will Ferrell's toilet snacks

Celebrity Gossip

Will Ferrell loves eating ice cream while sitting on the toilet. The comic actor - who stars alongside John C. Reilly in new movie 'Step Brothers' - admits he can't help snacking on the frozen treat while emptying his bowels. He said: "I like to…

Will Ferrell's Nicole advice

Celebrity Gossip

Will Ferrell has jokingly advised Nicole Kidman to talk to her newborn daughter "at least once a week". Will says his 'Bewitched' co-star - who gave birth to Sunday Rose, her first child with husband Keith Urban, earlier this month - should attempt…

Semi-Pro

COMEDY (15) 91min Will Ferrell raises his game with this typically energetic and supremely daft ‘frat pack’ comedy that also boasts a surprising winning streak in its semi-serious celebration of the now defunct American Basketball Association. With…