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“Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
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Though principal photography for the long-awaited Anchorman 2 isn’t scheduled to begin until next February, it appears that we’ll actually get our first look at the reunited Channel 4 news team much sooner than we thought.  We’ve been told by someone who caught an advanced screening of The Dictator that the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy is preceded by a brief teaser featuring the entire news team (sans Christina Applegate) talking about how excited they are to return.  Huzzah!  Hit the jump for more.

Adam McKay, who wrote and directedAnchorman and is currently writing the sequel with Will Ferrell, did some script work on The Dictator so this move would make sense.  Moreover, McKay tweeted the following earlier today:

“See the Dictator (I worked on it and it’s crazy funny), in addition to Campaign trailer with Zach and Will there’s another treat before it.”

By Odin’s beard, it appears this teaser is all but confirmed.  Here’s what our source had to say about the teaser:

“Just got out of a screening of The Dictator. There is an Anchorman 2 teaser attached featuring the Channel 4 news team (minus Veronica) stating how excited they are to return… a concept that Brick seems to have a hard time with. Also, not sure if it was an official title or more of a slogan but the screen title readAnchorman: The Legend Continues followed by ’2013′”

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Lights, camera, Marshfield! Well, maybe.

Part-time Marshfield resident Steve Carell is set to begin filming the dysfunctional family dramedy “The Way, Way Back” in Massachusetts in June. Rumor has it, part of the flick will be shot in Marshvegas.

The film, which reunites Carell with “Little Miss Sunshine” co-star Toni Collette, is an indie from the Oscar-winning “The Descendants” scribes Jim Rash and Nat Faxon in their directorial debut. Co-starring Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and Annasophia Robb, the movie tells the story of a teenage boy on summer vacation and his struggle in coming to grips with a mother (Collette) who’s distant and a father (Carell) who’s a cad.

Carell has a pair of flicks opening later this year. In “Hope Springs,” Carell plays marriage counselor to Oscar-winner Meryl Streep and Tomm Lee Jones. Before that he shares the screen with Keira Knightley in “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” opening June 22.

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“The Tower Ravens” are descending on Warner Bros., where Steve Carell’s Carousel Prods. will take it on as its first animated project.

Carell is producing with Carousel’s Charlie Hartsock and Vance DeGeneres exec producing. Story’s penned by Jim Cooper, who sold the pitch to the studio and has written the first draft.

“The Tower Ravens” is set at the Tower of London, where seven ravens have been in residence for the past five centuries. The ravens attempt to solve a theft of the Crown Jewels.

Courtenay Valenti is overseeing for Warner Bros.

The ravens are believed to protect the British Crown and the Tower and have had lifespans of over 40 years. They are under the care of the Yeomen Warders, also known as the Beefeaters.

Warner-based Carousel produced a pair of Carell comedies — “Crazy, Stupid, Love” and “Burt Wonderstone.” Carell voiced the lead character in Universal’s animated “Despicable Me” and the Mayor of Whoville in Fox’s “Horton Hears a Who.”

Cooper worked on the “How to Train Your Dragon” TV series and a Lee Unkrich feature at Pixar. He’s repped by Rothman Brecher.

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“Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley, will be among the gala screenings at the L.A. Film Festival, organizers announced Monday. The Sundance award-winning ”Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Middle of Nowhere” will also have gala presentations at the June festival in downtown Los Angeles.

“Seeking a Friend” will be having its world premiere at the fest. Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria (who adapted “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist”), the movie follows two neighbors (Carell and Knightley) who strike up an unlikely friendship as the Earth is faced with extinction because a giant asteroid is hurtling toward the planet. The movie, being released by Focus Features, will be released nationwide June 22.

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