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  • Jeff Daniels Switches Gears Fast from Newsroom to Dumber

    Jeff Daniels was Harry Dunne opposite Jim Carrey’s Lloyd Christmas long before he was a brilliant anchor on Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. Maybe some people thought that it showed progression in Daniels’ career that he was now doing something “respectable.”

    But now The Newsroom is ending. And Harry Dunne is back in Dumb and Dumber To.

    Is this backsliding for Daniels?

    “It’s a thrill to me and a career highlight and perhaps unprecedented to have The Newsroom air its first episode on Sunday night and then Dumb and Dumber To open domestically on Friday,” Daniels told Esquire. “I couldn’t be happier with that. I’ve always wanted to show range.”

    Daniels appreciates the time he has had working with Sorkin and learning more about what news networks do behind the scenes.

    “I have a much better understanding of what they’re doing, Daniels says. “The big thing for me that I came away with was the struggle that they have. In particular, when news is breaking… I look at them as really great columnists. On whatever side of the aisle they’re coming from.”

    Daniels is amazed at what these 24-hour news cycle folks have to do. He said sometimes it’s like they know, “We have three facts, we don’t know anything more, and we have to keep talking for four hours.”

    But he also knows that some of them do not see it as their job to calm and reassure the public in times of crisis.

    “I don’t know about keeping the calm, he said. “Because fear sells. If there’s breaking news you want to keep everybody glued. And that’s part of the struggle. Whether or not there are people in these guys’ ears saying, ‘Keep the fear up,’ they know what keeps people glued. And it’s not ‘Everything’s okay.’”

    But he also sees a place for Harry Dunne and Lloyd Christmas in a world where things can get really scary, really fast, and all unfold on the news before us in real time.

    “I also think that maybe because there’s so much fear, because the world is so complex and dark and the economy isn’t great—though for some we’re being told it is—and Ferguson, Missouri, Ottawa, Ebola, ISIS, there are a lot of things to be scared of. Here’s a place you can go for 90 minutes to get away from that.”

  • “Dumb And Dumber To” Posters Spoof Scarlett’s Flick

    Dumb and Dumber To doesn’t come out in theaters until November, but we’ve already gotten some previews and an early look at the promotional posters for the film, courtesy of the stars.

    The movie studio has already released two posters this year, giving us images of the iconic blue and orange tuxedos the guys wore in the first film back in March, but the newest ads spoof a popular action flick that is still fresh on a lot of audience members’ minds.

    Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels tweeted out images last week of the posters, which are a play on the summer action flick Lucy–starring Scarlett Johansson–and ask audiences to imagine what the best friends could do with a fraction of the normal brain capacity.

    The sequel is a big deal to fans, as it’s coming 20 years after the original and will follow the guys across the country in search of a long-lost daughter. From the look of the trailer, the new film will be a mix of the gags we know and love and new silliness from our favorite dumbasses.

    Image via YouTube

  • ‘Dumb and Dumber To’ Trailer Debuts on ‘Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon’

    The Dumb and Dumber To trailer made its debut on TV Tuesday night on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, and almost as funny as the trailer was the interaction between Jimmy Fallon, Jim Carrey, and Jeff Daniels ahead of the big reveal. It’s been two decades since the original Dumb and Dumber hit the big screen and it may be that only those who found humor in the first one will show up for the second.

    According to the preview the antics performed by Carrey and Daniels are about the same. The plot for the new film involves the two searching for Harry’s daughter in hopes of convincing her to give up a kidney for her dear old estranged (read: didn’t ever know him) dad.

    Harry and Lloyd live in the same apartment in Dumb and Dumber To as they did in the original and they even wear the same clothes. This could be lost on new viewers or a younger generation if they don’t first rent the DVD of the original.

    “It’s not even a movie anymore,” Carrey jokingly said to Jimmy Fallon. “It’s a phenomenon.”

    Daniels recalled being cast for the original movie.

    “I remember the audition, because I was Mr. Drama and he was Jim, and I had to prove that I could be funny,” he said. “We were doing the hot tub scene, and before we even said a word, he just went into Lloyd.”

    Carrey butt in saying, “I motor-boated him!”

    To get back into Dumb and Dumber character, Daniels said, “I just kind of sloshed my brain around and then I was there.”

    Jimmy Fallon was as funny as Daniels and Carrey with his facial expressions alone as the two discussed the upcoming film. Shortly thereafter the three did a sketch together that involved all of them maneuvering with mannequin arms.

    Dumb and Dumber To is set to hit theaters in the U.S. in November. Will you be visiting the box office incognito so your friends don’t find out or will you simply leave well enough alone–allowing the film from 20 years ago to be your one and only dose of Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey together on the big screen?

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  • “Dumb and Dumber To” Gets New Posters

    The upcoming sequel to 1994’s “Dumb and Dumber,” entitled “Dumb and Dumber To” just got a couple of new promotional posters. The Warner Bros.-distributed film, starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, is set to be released on November 14th.

    The premise of the movie concerns idiotic best buddies Harry and Lloyd setting off on a road trip, in order to obtain a kidney from one of their long lost children. The plot picks up 20 years after the original, and explains what the duo had been up to in the interim.

    The film also stars Laurie Holden and Kathleen Turner, and will feature a cameo by Jennifer Lawrence, who had said in interviews that she is a big fan of the original “Dumb and Dumber.”

    Who can forget Harry’s baby blue tuxedo?

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    Or Lloyd’s mandarin orange getup?

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    Back in September of last year, Jim Carrey took to Twitter to convey this omen:

    The film is co-written and directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. The latter brother explain last year, “It’s going well. We have a great script and now we are just trying to get it made. I love the script. It’s exactly like the first one. We pick up 20 years later. We explain what they’ve done for the last 17 or 18 years. We take off from that and it’s just a lot of laughs.”

    Judging by the new posters, it would appear that Harry and Lloyd held on to their party clothes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Vgag2PtNA

    On November 25, 2013, Daniels announced that principal photography had been completed.

    Images via Facebook.

  • “Dumb And Dumber To” Teases Us With Iconic Tuxes

    “Dumb And Dumber To” has been twenty years in the making, and although some are worried that too much time has passed for its characters to have retained their ability to make us laugh, many are anxiously awaiting a new story about Harry and Lloyd.

    We still have a while to wait–the sequel isn’t due out until November–but there are two new teaser posters up to give us a glimpse of what we’re in for, and fans of the original will be happy to know that they’ve brought back two very familiar items from the first movie: the orange and blue tuxes that Harry and Lloyd wore to the benefit gala.

    The scene is one of the most memorable in a movie full of memorable moments: the best friends get themselves all dolled up–which includes sanding down their toenails–and into the finest clothing their “borrowed” money can buy to attend a fancy party. It’s not clear if the tuxes will make an appearance in the new film or if the posters are meant to simply escalate our excitement for it, but either way, they’re a bit of nostalgia that many will appreciate.

    The film opens on November 14 and follows Harry and Lloyd in their quest to find one of their children in order to secure a kidney transplant.

    Images via Dumbler.com

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  • Jim Carrey Tweets Out Teaser Image of Lloyd Christmas’ Chipped Tooth

    A few hours ago Jim Carrey took to Twitter to share an image of his teeth.

    What’s the importance of this you may be wondering, well he was teasing his reprisal of everyone’s favorite dummy, Lloyd Christmas. If you’re still not sure what I’m talking about, it’s the sequel to Dumb & Dumber, aptly named “Dumber & Dumber To”.

    The film reunites Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, and also stars Kathleen Turner, Cam Neely and Brady Bluhm. There isn’t much in the way of a film synopsis yet, but below is what IMDB had about the film:

    “20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.”

    It was recently announced that”Dumb & Dumber To” will begin filming in Atlanta soon.