Adam McKay Movie Updates

Sony Pictures is back in business with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and John C. Reilly.

Will Ferrell looks ready to hit the tennis courts for his next sports-themed pic.

Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul are currently writing the movie for Sony and Gary Sanchez Productions

Vince Vaughn is joining the Will Ferrell comedy Daddy’s Home.

Kristen Wiig to Reteam with Will Ferrell on Indie 'Welcome to Me'

Paramount and MGM have begun developing a sequel to Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which recently passed the $200 million marker at the worldwide box office.

James Bobin has signed on to direct a period musical “Tribyville” a person with knowledge of the situation has told TheWrap. Disney is in negotiations to acquire the project from Gary Sanchez Productions.

Warner Bros is negotiating to acquire Get Hard, a comedy pitch package that will be developed as a star vehicle for Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart.

Warner Bros. and Overbrook are still hoping to get a remake of Uptown Saturday Night off the ground, as the studio has hired Jeff Shakoor to write the script for the project which has been in development for some time.

Adam McKay is in negotiations to develop to direct Uptown Saturday Night, the Warner Bros remake that the studio hopes will star Will Smith and Denzel Washington.

The team of Sean Anders and John Morris is in negotiations to rewrite the Warner Bros. project known as Turkey Bowl. Anders will direct.

New Line Cinema is acquiring screen rights to the Andrew Ferguson book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College.

Justin Malen has been hired to rewrite The Manny for Gary Sanchez and Red Wagon at Sony.

Fox 2000 has picked up the comedy spec He's F***ing Perfect from newbie scribe Lauryn Kahn, with with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay producing via their Gary Sanchez Prods shingle.

Vulture hears that Adam McKay is now in talks to direct Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, whom he worked with on The Other Guys, in Three Mississippi, the newly retitled Ferrell and Wahlberg comedy previously known as Turkey Bowl.

Warner Bros has gotten back in business with Due Date scribes Alan Cohen and Alan Freedland, in a big way. The studio has just acquired Swear to God, a pitch they will write that has Will Ferrell attached to star and Adam McKay to produce and direct. I'm told it's a buddy comedy in which Ferrell plays a narcissistic hedge fund m ...

Warner Bros has closed a deal for Turkey Bowl, a comedy that will re-team The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as guys from football-obsessed towns who lead rival teams in an annual tackle football game for bragging and trash-talking rights.

Lizzy Caplan, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott and Casey Wilson are attached to star in an indie comedy being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay via their Gary Sanchez productions.

With his newest comedy "The Other Guys" about to open, Will Ferrell has committed to star in his next project, the Spanish-language comedy "Casa De Mi Padre."