Sentences with phrase «as anchorman»

With a gift for gab ~ he gets recognized for his work as the anchorman for the schools morning news.

Will Ferrell stars as anchorman Ron Burgundy in DreamWorks Pictures» 2004 comedy «Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.»

What do you think, does this have the potential to live up to such classics as Anchorman or Step Brothers?

Humor is in the funny - bone of the beholder, and a film that's as all over the map as Anchorman is bound to annoy just as many people as it leaves in stitches.

Though not as gleefully absurdist as Anchorman, the movie achieves at least a garden - variety lunacy.

He is, after all, the director who guided Will Ferrell through such comedies as Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys.

Michael Carrick: The skipper acted as the anchorman in a three - man midfield, and he managed to make a couple of key interceptions, which restricted the hosts from making it into the box — 6.5 / 10

His role as an anchorman in front of the back line is vital to Vanney's clan as he provides security and experience; he can move in between the central defenders transforming it into a three - man back line and can also send long balls which overcome the lines of pressure formed by the opponents.

They must pay for their intrusion,» the creatures growl via subtitles, before grudgingly accepting newcomers as the anchormen do).

As the anchormen revel in smoking up, McKay breaks the aforementioned shot conventions and we see what Ron and company are doing; the rest of the crew desperately tries to get them to stop (without actually yelling at them, because that would break on - air set rules).

Not exact matches

Peter Trueman, a United Church layman, and until recently anchorman for the Canadian Global TV network's two nightly news programs, offers an explanation as to why so many reporters become cynical about institutionalized religion.

Samper's not as physical as Barca's first choice anchorman, but he's technically excellent.

Dennis Erickson has won two titles in four seasons at Miami without disturbing so much as a strand of his anchorman's hair.

To continue promoting Anchorman 2, Will Ferrell is making another appearance as Ron Burgundy on TSN to call live curling action...

Francis Coquelin is Arsenal's best anchorman, but does not perform his role as effectively as Dier, as evidenced by the Gunners often being caught out on the break, especially against the top teams.

I can seriously see us changing to a 4 -3-3 in the future to accommodate both of them (aswell as using a defensive anchorman) but where does that leave Ozil?

When I gave up what ITV called its «flagship political programme», Jonathan Dimbleby, in 2006 to travel 10,000 miles across Russia for BBC2, I effectively surrendered the lease which I had been granted in 1997, 2001 and 2005 as ITV's anchorman on the big night - confronting Big Brother on the other side.

The earth is being pulled to a warmer climate and will be pulled increasingly in this direction as the «anchorman» of greenhouse warming continues to grow stronger and stronger.

Using Anchorman as an example, all the main characters are Christina Applegate and the whole financial system is Will Ferrell's newsroom.

Also not surprisingly, considering this is the guy who directed Anchorman, it's funny as hell.

In his previous movie roles, as the addled newscaster in Bruce Almighty, the brain - dead meteorologist in Anchorman, even channeling Paul Lynde's snarky chiffon quiver in Bewitched, Steve Carell revealed a punchy genius for outsize personality tics.

Every bit as epically weird as its predecessor, 1999's Anchorman, Ferrell's shaggy collaboration with director Adam McKay, with whom he shares screenplay credit, represents a leisurely cinematic stroll with one of the comedian's more indelible characters.

An affable yet conventional romantic comedy, Weather Girl casts Tricia O'Kelley as Sylvia Miller - a Seattle - based meteorologist who quits her job after learning that her anchorman boyfriend (Mark Harmon's Dale) has been sleeping with his cohost (Kaitlin Olson's Sherry).

Hollywood - studio movies advocating socialism are something of a rarity, but Beatty's positioning of Jay Bulworth as an amiable loose - cannon visionary - at times, the character recalls the Peter Finch «mad as hell» anchorman in Network - tempers the message somewhat.

Adam McKay's 2004 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, starring Will Ferrell as a»70s TV anchorboob, was not only a hit; it nosed its way almost immediately into the comedy pantheon.

I hope «Anchorman II» won't be as awful as «The Campaign».

Schemers and dreamers inhabit a TV newsroom in «Less Than Perfect,» starring Sara Rue as an office temp elevated to anchorman's personal assistant.

McKay has long been known as Will Ferrell's creative partner, having followed the funnyman from «Saturday Night Live» to direct Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers and more.

Speaking to Sky Movies, Pegg confirmed he had read Wright's screenplay for the comic - book movie, which is now moving ahead with Yes Man's Peyton Reed as director and a new screenplay by Anchorman's Adam McKay.

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This isn't groundbreaking, but the attempt at showing a slightly different side is worth applauding, as anything has to be better than Anchorman.

The screenplay had originally been scripted by Edgar Wright (The World's End, Scott Pilgrim) and Joe Cornish (The Adventures of Tintin, Attack the Block), with Wright, who had cultivated the vision of Ant - Man for years, intending to direct, but creative differences saw a divorce from the project (Marvel became more controlling as they grew to massive popularity — a queen ant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seeking.

I hope I'm not as disappointed in this like I was with Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

The pictures show us Will Ferrell in character as Ron Burgundy and Harrison Ford as a legendary anchorman type character.

Steve Carell and Paul Rudd have worked together previously on The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Anchorman, but in their previous films they didn't have as much on - screen time together, so it was interesting to see how their dynamic changed.

The couple is played by none other than Anchorman «s very own Champ Kind David Koechner and Sara Paxton (who previously starred alongside Healy in Ti West's modestly successful The Innkeepers) and is a complete send - up of those possessing wealth... or at least how those of a lesser class often view them, as Ben Franklin - frittering fools; as socially - superior success stories.

Regardless, co-writer and director Adam McKay has done nothing but direct massive comedy hits tweaking the concept of American exceptionalism since the first «Anchorman,» growing in leaps and bounds as a satirist.

That episodic format can work in some cases (Harold & Kumar, Anchorman), and even seems well - suited to Vacation's «stops along the road trip» structure; but again, Daley and Goldstein keep things so amped up the entire time along the journey that it becomes impossible to appreciate the biggest gag setups and set pieces, as the big payoffs get lost in the rush of little «filler» gags in between each big set piece.

Support work comes from Tracy Letts as the frustrated news director, Michael C Hall as the mixed - signals anchorman on whom Christine has a quiet crush, J. Smith - Cameron as her mother and housemate, Maria Dizzia as her friend and co-worker, and Timothy Simons as the misunderstood and ignored weatherman.

While Ferrell is excellent once again as the mustachioed anchorman, Paul Rudd and David Koechner are pushed to the sidelines for much of the film, while Steve Carell's simple - minded weatherman is given a romantic subplot with Kristen Wiig's similarly awkward secretary that isn't as funny as intended.

Still, while it's not as quotable as the first movie, «Anchorman 2» has more than enough laughs that it's an enjoyable, albeit uneven and incredibly gonzo, comedy.

New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow produced the film, with Marc S. Fischer («Dumb and Dumber To») serving as an executive producer, and Adam McKay («The Big Short,» «Anchorman») producing.

If we're judging in terms of pure quotability, the only comedy film of the last 20 years to even exist in the same solar system as Step Brothers is Anchorman.

Critically acclaimed for his comedic television ventures along with an enormously successful list of film credits, Apatow has produced such films as: The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, The Cable Guy; and television series: Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, The Larry Sanders Show and The Ben Stiller Show, among others.

Nostalgia sequels are Hollywood's next favorite thing, and «Anchorman 2» and «Dumb And Dumber To» have proven in the last couple of years that even if your movie wasn't a giant hit at first (as «Zoolander» wasn't), being a small - screen favorite will lead to a big boost next time around.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

The 2008 housing market crash was no joke, which is why it might come as a surprise that «The Big Short» was directed by the same man responsible for goofball comedies like «Anchorman» and «Talladega Nights.»

Of course, as anybody who remembers Will Ferrell's sign - off in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy can tell you, that wouldn't be enough to get an R - rating today.

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Modern - Day Version of Noah's Ark Arrives on DVD Steve Carrell's breakout role came in Bruce Almighty where he managed to upstage Jim Carrey as TV news anchorman Evan Baxter.