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Will Ferrell Tries Not to Be Funny in the Everything Must Go Trailer

Posted on April 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Casting Will Ferrell in a dark adaptation of a Raymond Carver story sounded like a pretty intriguing idea when the synopsis for Everything Must Go first surfaced before its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. In it, he plays an alcoholic who loses his job, only to come home and find that his wife has locked him out and scattered all of his possessions on the lawn. So begins Ferrell’s three-day yard sale, where everything must… never mind. But wait, why does an adaptation of a Carver story look so uplifting?

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‘Everything Must Go’ Trailer and Poster: Will Ferrell Gets Serious

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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In late 2009 Dan Rush started turning Raymond Carver’s short story Why Don’t You Dance? into a film called Everything Must Go, starring Will Farrell in a very rare dramatic turn. He plays an alcoholic who, in the same day, loses his job and is thrown out by his wife. With his possessions scattered on the lawn of his former home, he spends a week living out in the open and confronting his problems…. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 01/04/2011 00:00 Number of articles : 2

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True Blood’s Theo Alexander On His Gay Vampire Sex Scene with Alexander Skarsgard

Posted on August 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

How do you recover from a graphic vampire-on-vampire sex scene that ended with one nasty staking and screams that literally curdled blood? If you’re actor Theo Alexander, you fly to Greece to unwind — and edit the aforementioned sequence out of the bootlegged episode of True Blood you plan on screening for your mother. This morning, the Greek actor took a break from his two-week vacation to phone Movieline and discuss the sensual way he prepared for True sex, his fear of getting in touch with his “gay” side, and his character’s 700-year romance with the King of Mississippi.

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Will Ferrell’s Raymond Carver Film Heading to TIFF

Posted on August 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Will Ferrell’s adaptation of the Raymond Carver story Everything Must Go will have its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film features Ferrell as a recovering alcoholic who tumbles off the wagon and is forced to sell his belongings while exiled on his family’s front lawn. He may very well be the first actor to have a No. 1 box-office opener in August while attempting to sell an indie at Toronto in September; I’ll check it out in a few months and let you know how he fares… [ THR ]