Jim Carrey

By STV So she tried Hot Rod, another curious choice buying into the gamble that Andy Samberg could open a summer comedy for Paramount. He — and she — couldn't; it finished ninth at the box office its first frame and ended its run with a decidedly underwhelming $14 million. The underrated Definitely...

By Seth Courtesy of Gawker video editor Mike Byhoff (who assures us he experienced no unusual loin-stirrings while compiling these clips), we bring you some of the finest moments of man-on-man, saliva-infused passion ever to grace the silver screen. Enjoy bisous from Velvet Goldmine (whose E...

By Seth It was a happy discovery, made last night along with a giddy crowd of about 1200 at Park City's Eccles Theater for the world premiere of I Love You Phillip Morris. Based on the book of the same name, Morris is the too-strange-for-fiction story of Steven Jay Russell (Carrey), a brilliant Texa...

By STV 5. Jim Carrey: One month removed from a lukewarm success with Yes Man, Carrey isn't traveling to Sundance to reinvent himself as an indie influence-peddler. But he still has to convince distributors and a game if cynical-by-default press corps that I Love You Phillip Morris is anchored in...

By Seth It's rarer and rarer that we can call Jim Carrey the Biggest Star in the World, so let's savor this moment—granted a $10 million-lighter moment than we had predicted—and consider it a step in the right direction. Two years ago at this time, another forgettable Carrey comedy, Fun with Dick a...

By STV Also opening: The acclaimed, brutal Italian mob-novel adaptation Gomorrah; Bruce Campbell's misbegotten paean to himself, My Name is Bruce; John Leguizamo's working-class drama Where God Left His Shoes; the Southern-fried ensemble piece (led by William Hurt) The Yellow Handkerc...

By STV A veritable murderer's row of egos, tempers and divas, Defamer's All-Strop Team is on fire in recent weeks with heavy-hitters from Mike Myers to Edward Norton to Eddie Murphy digging new box-office holes around the country. But the heart and soul of the line-up, Jim Carrey, will get at lea...

By STV Jim Carrey: After early run of hits, managed to alienate studios and directors alike with excessive salary demands and minor on-set idiosyncrasies like pissing in the middle of scenes. For the dual suicides of overbudgeted projects Used Guys and Ripley's Believe it Or Not, we're starti...

By Seth · The Hoboken Beach Diet Bandit terrorizes Paradigm. · 1 out of 1 moms asked love Kid Nation. · Bruce Cutler abandons Phil Spector. · Defamer visits the Derby Dolls. · Miss Teen South Carolina gives what could likely be the worst answer in pageant history. · Jim Carrey sends one from the heart.

By Seth · Wilson has dropped out of his next project, a cameo role in the Ben Stiller-directed ensemble comedy Tropic Thunder, the result of a "mutual agreement between Stiller and Wilson." This tragedy is tearing one of Hollywood's great screen romances apart! [Variety]

By Seth Released from the burden of having to count paycheck zeros, Carrey now has time to concentrate on matters more weighty, like campaigning on behalf of Burmese political prisoners: The 45-year-old actor-comedian -- in rare serious mode -- appears in a new public service announcement on...

By Mark · Casting genius or casting insanity? You make the call*: Jim Carrey will play Scrooge and all three ghosts in a 3-D/motion-capture Robert Zemeckis reimagination of A Christmas Carol for Disney. [*And we bet we know what you're going to say!] [Variety]

By Mark · Universal signs up erstwhile Biggest Comedy Star In the World Jim Carrey for Sober Buddies, one of those magical projects with a title so concise that we don't have to waste any time explaining it. (OK, OK, Carrey is a Sober Buddy who falls off the wagon while helping an alcoholic pal on a bus...

By Mark · Jim Carrey will star in the dark comedy I Love You Phillip Morris (by Bad Santa's Glenn Ficarra and John Requa), an idea pitched as Catch Me if You Can meets Brokeback Mountain. There is no direct Judd Apatow involvement that we can discern, a fact that could doom the promising project to eve...

By Seth In today's episode: Vince Vaughn; Steve Carell; Ryan Gosling; Joaquin Phoenix; Sumner Redstone; Seth Rogen; Robin Tunney; Jason Schwartzman; Lindsay Lohan and Seann William Scott; Adrian Grenier; David Boreanaz and Dylan Walsh; Rosanna Arquette; Matthew Modine and Chris Robinso...

By Mark · CAA takes the first steps in building ice-cold new client's Jim Carrey confidence back up, working to book him in the easy comedy gig Me Time, in which he'd play a put-upon, Mr. Mom-style househusband. [Variety] · Variety salutes Scary Hollywood Lawyers! All your favorites are here: Bert...

By Mark To date, we've found the marketing push for the upcoming Jim Carrey vehicle The Number 23 somewhat inscrutable, with the few commercials we've seen leading us to blindly guess that the film is some kind of thriller/documentary hybrid detailing how the mysterious reappearance of the ac...

By Seth · Disney made off with $3.26 billion this year. Wonder what kind of bonuses they gave out this Christmas?

By Mark Jim Carrey's recent preemptive dumping of A Little Game Without Consequence had us crippled with worry that we might never again see the unemployed megastar's name on the marquee of our local theater, but today's Variety allays those admittedly hysterical fears that a couple of big-bu...

By Mark Today's Page Six puzzles through how floundering megastar Jim Carrey and multimedia-brand-in-decline Jennifer Lopez squeezed onto the guest list for last month's Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Billion Year Commitment Ceremony Spectacular, connecting the dots first through evil age...

By Mark · Following in the footsteps of fellow sickly A-lister Jim Carrey, M. Night Shyamalan shitcans his longtime rep at UTA, succumbing to CAA's promises to lovingly suckle him back to health with the career-restorative milk flowing from its pair of demon teats. Details are sure to follow, but...

By Mark Stories of how crushed jilted UTA agent Nick Stevens was to discover that soulmate-client Jim Carrey defected to hated, baby-devouring rival CAA will probably continue to trickle in over the next few weeks, with new anecdotes of Carrey callously returning a once-cherished locket con...

By Mark Variety reports that Paramount has unexpectedly decided to postpone production on the big-budgeted Jim Carrey/Tim Burton project Ripley's Believe It Or Not for "at least a year." If this move seems eerily similar to Fox and Sony's unexpected decision to "pull the plug" on the big-budge...

By Seth Last night's MTV Movie Awards, which were shot Saturday on the Sony lot, were a series of hits (the streamlined set and projections, Jessica Alba as host) and misses (Andy Samberg's painfully unfunny Ron Google opening sketch, anything involving AFI), though not even Jim Carrey surrou...

By Mark In today's The NY Times, Sharon Waxman looks at why Fox and Sony "pulled the plug" on Used Guys, the long-gestating comedy starring Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, and directed by Meet the Parents/Austin Powers'Jay Roach, a seemingly sure-thing project featuring all the rubber-faced and/or...

By Seth However, his recent big-budget movies like "Fun with Dick and Jane" barely topped $100 million in domestic ticket sales, leaving his star tarnished, the magazine said. Will Ferrell's $20 million also made the list of risky bets given recent box office disappointments and Eddie Murphy'...

By Seth Jim Carrey introduced a clip from the Howard-directed "The Grinch" by observing, "A lot of people don't think Ron is tough. But he's done a couple of movies with Russell Crowe and there isn't a mark on him." Then again, Carrey added, "I haven't seen him with his shirt off lately."

By Mark Sitting on the beach in front of two catered and full-bar parties (one a TV station owner, the other a music label owner) from 3-10, it was a virtual parade of the b through d group. Gone from the walking tour this year were regulars Leo and Tobey, Courteney and David, various Osbournes and oth...