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Cameron Crowe’s “Deep Tiki” Now Called “Aloha” and Gets a Trailer

February 13, 2015

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Last year, we caught wind of what might be a “Hawaii rocket launch rom com” in Cameron Crowe’s latest film, which was called Deep Tiki at the time.

Since then, the movie’s title has changed to Aloha and the first trailer has arrived. Where it will end up the Cameron Crowe spectrum of romantic comedies from Say Anything to Almost Famous to Elizabethtown has yet to be seen. The love triangle between Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, and Rachel McAdams seems to lean more in tone towards Elizabethtown, but the presences of Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin, and Bill Murray lean more towards Say Anything.

Either way, we’re intrigued to see another trailer as well as the movie itself.

SNL 40th Anniversary Will Bring Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Mike Myers, Norm MacDonald, Kristen Wiig, and More Together

February 3, 2015

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On Sun. Feb. 15th at 8PM, Saturday Night Live will celebrate their 40 years on NBC. They made some quick announcements during the Super Bowl of who will be appearing on this special anniversary episode spanning the entire generations of SNL including:

Bill Murray, Kristen Wiig, Laraine Newman, Eddie Murphy, Norm MacDonald, Peyton Manning, Fred Armisen, Chris Rock, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell Seth Meyers, Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Garrett Morris, Amy Poehler, Steve Martin, Molly Shannon, Martin Short, Tom Hanks, Maya Rudolph, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Alec Baldwin, Jason Sudeikis, David Spade, Paul Rudd, and Mike Myers.

There’s plenty of more names that were dropped and probably more to come.

We can’t even imagine what they’ll end up cutting for time.

Cameron Crowe Romantic Comedy with Bill Murray, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone Set for 2015 Release

October 19, 2014

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Once there was a script for a project that writer/director Cameron Crowe was writing called Deep Tiki, which was retooled for a cast of Bill Murray, Bradley Cooper, and Emma Stone. It’s been in the works, and untitled, for well over a year and can be best most fully described, so far as we can tell, as a “Hawaiian rocket launch rom com”.

If you like all of those elements together (and we really can’t imagine why you wouldn’t), be happy to know that this film is set for release in May 2015 according to Crowe in an interview with Variety.

We wouldn’t be surprised if a fun trailer with rockets, great music, Murray’s classic face, all against the Hawaii sunset is coming relatively soon.

Bill Murray Talks George Clooney’s Wedding, Trains for Marathon, and More on Letterman

October 16, 2014

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Every time Bill Murray comes on to The Late Show with David Letterman, it’s a pretty magical time.

Whether he’s merely telling true stories or thinking up of who should be in the female reboot of The Ghostbusters or “training for a marathon” or getting back from George Clooney’s wedding, Bill and Dave have some damn good fun.

Hopefully, Bill’s on a few more times before Dave leaves The Late Show.

Bill Murray to Star in Christmas TV Special Directed by Sofia Coppola

October 14, 2014

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Yes, Bill Murray will be singing Christmas songs and starring a Christmas TV special directed by Sofia Coppola.

While this is certainly something we wouldn’t have guessed for Murray’s next project, we’re surprised that it taken years after Lost In Translation for any thing of this nature to happen with Bill and Coppola. Now that the plans are in motion, we’ll all be very happy to have something to watch that isn’t TV series binge watching we haven’t done during the rest of the year.

There isn’t details as to where it will air or a specific air date, but we’re sure that you’ll check your DVR constantly to make sure you won’t miss it.

Getting a Hold of Bill Murray Is Like Something Out of a Wes Anderson Movie

October 3, 2014

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Bill Murray has no agent. In place of that, he has a lawyer and a 1-800 number where you can leave a voicemail. When a producer of the upcoming movie St. Vincent that Murray stars in wanted to reach Murray to see if he’d be interested, the process he went through was reminiscent of a montage in many a Wes Anderson movie that Murray himself was in.

International flights on a day’s notice, sending scripts to mysterious P.O. boxes, and more are just seemingly routine in Bill Murray’s world

Just read the rest of the journey here on Vulture.

“St. Vincent” Starring Bill Murray To Get Early Limited Release

September 6, 2014

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Ahead of its original Oct. 24th wide release, Bill Murray vehicle St. Vincent will get a run in theaters in LA and NYC on Oct. 10th, then in a few more select cities on the following week Oct. 17th.

Bill Murray Day at TIFF must have gone well and The Weinstein Company could subsequently want to get St. Vincent out as soon as they can.

Rock The Kasbah with Bill Murray Set For Spring 2015 Release

August 20, 2014

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

You will be able to see Bill Murray as a has been rock manager making one last go for success by shepherding a talented, young girl through Afghan Star next spring. Not only are Danny McBride, Zooey Deschanel, and more, but Good Morning Vietnam’s Barry Levinson is at the helm.

Murray in a foreign place seems to be a pretty good comedic formula, so keep a watch out for this come springtime.

Bill Murray Plays The Sweet, But Debaucherous Neighbor/Father Figure in St. Vincent

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If many of us looked back at our childhood, it would be pretty great if we got Bill Murray to show us the ways of the world.

One lucky kid in the movie St. Vincent has Murray as a neighbor, as well as Melissa McCarthy as a mother, and gets to learn about life through Bill’s lens.

Watch the trailer here and keep an eye out for its release on Oct. 24th.

Also, we wonder if Annie Clark will have a song on the soundtrack or something?

Bill Murray Checks Off Some of His Bucket List on The Late Show

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Every time Bill Murray stops by to hang out at The Late Show with David Letterman, it’s always one hell of a great, silly time.

For instance, last night, Bill just needed to check off a few things from his bucket list like telling a joke and playing a clip from his movie “since he’s never done those things before”.

Ivan Reitman Passing Ghostbusters Director Torch To Someone Else

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Ivan Reitman Passing Ghostbusters Director Torch To Someone Else

With the passing of Harold Ramis, director Ivan Reitman felt it appropriate to step down in directing the reboot of the beloved franchise. This means that the reboot of Ghostbusters set to start shooting next year will not have Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, or Bill Murray.

Before you get skeptical, let the casting decisions and director attachments be made as they may be good ones.

Open Road Acquires Barry Levinson’s All-Star Comedy ‘Rock the Kasbah’

February 7, 2014

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Open Road Acquires Barry Levinson’s All-Star Comedy ‘Rock the Kasbah’

Rock the Kasbah will feature Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride, Shia LaBeouf and Zooey Deschanel as well as being directed by Barry Levinson (Good Morning Vietnam, Wag The Dog) and is supposed to film this summer.

So, you should be looking out for this. Also, given the title of the movie, we’d like to imagine if the, for whatever reason, The Clash’s song Rock The Kasbah couldn’t be in the soundtrack or any trailers.

Watch New Clips From Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel

February 5, 2014

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Watch New Clips From Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel

It’s from Wes Anderson upcoming film Grand Budapest Hotel that you’re probably excited about and one of them has Bill Murray in it, so yeah go ahead and watch it.

On Leno’s Final Night of Tonight Show, Kimmel, Conan, Letterman, The Daily Show Go Big

February 3, 2014

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On Leno’s Final Night of Tonight Show, Kimmel, Conan, Letterman, The Daily Show Go Big

Tonight, Feb. 3rd, 2014 will be the final night of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show after well over a score of years. Of course, it’ll be a big celebration at The Tonight Show with Billy Crystal as the guest.

However, Jimmy Kimmel with cast of Monuments Men including Matt Damon and Bill Murray, Conan with the entire cast of The Walking Dead, David Letterman with Michael Keaton/The Flaming Lips w/Sean Lennon, and The Daily Show with NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio are making the 11PM hour fierce.

We wouldn’t be surprised if everyone has a joke about a Leno leaving in their monologue tonight as well.

Bill Murray Flies Into The Late Show as Peter Pan, Then Gets a Shave

February 2, 2014

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Bill Murray continues to be one of the few people whose life would make for a non-guilty pleasure reality show, but chooses to just delight us all randomly whenever he pleases.

Watch him fly, not walk, in to The Late Show with David Letterman, then get a full shave.

Bill Murray Gets Around To Hanging Out at Reddit

January 18, 2014

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Bill Murray Gets Around To Hanging Out at Reddit

Famously known for hanging out randomly in public places as recounted at BillMurrayStory.com, Murray finally got to moseying on over to Reddit for an AMA session.

As you’d imagine, it was delightful, so read away.

The Most Intentionally Funny Videos of 2013 Part 4

The Most Intentionally Funny Videos of 2013 Part 4

Our final edition of The Most Intentionally Funny Videos for 2013 at The Nerdist was posted yesterday featuring Bill Murray as Liberace on Letterman, Eddie Pepitone rapping on Arsenio Hall, Jon Stewart’s Deep Dish Pizza Rant, and more.

Watching all of those as well as MIFV part one, two, and three should make any day that you have in 2014.

Give them all a watch again like we’re probably going to.

Sony Supposedly Set To Start Shooting Ghostbusters 3 In Cleveland Come Spring

November 9, 2013

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Sony Supposedly Set To Start Shooting Ghostbusters 3 In Cleveland Come Spring

Whatever your feelings of Bill Murray being left out of the film, we all hope it’s just all an elaborate prank for Bill to “crash” (you know how he likes to do that) the set if they indeed do start shooting Ghostbusters 3 next year and all will be right with the Ghostbusters universe almost 25 years since Ghostbusters 2.

Bill Murray Joins ‘B.O.O.’ at Dreamworks

October 31, 2013

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Bill Murray Joins ‘B.O.O.’ at Dreamworks

An animated supernatural action comedy will now have Bill Murray joining the likes of Seth Rogen, Rashida Jones, Jennifer Coolidge, Melissa McCarthy, and more.

Let’s hope that this isn’t another star studded cast doing a summer family movie that ends up being just for kids.

Bill Murray Joining Cameron Crowe Romantic Comedy

October 14, 2013

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Bill Murray Joining Cameron Crowe Romantic Comedy

We don’t need to tell you that this latest Cameron Crowe film just got that much better now that Bill Murray is part of the cast.

How much better is “that much better”? Well, you did read the headline, right?

Bill Murray To Star in Barry Levinson-Directed ‘Rock The Kasbah’

September 3, 2013

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Bill Murray To Star in Barry Levinson-Directed ‘Rock The Kasbah’

The plot of Rock The Kasbah really rings of The Sapphires that made it’s way to limited release earlier this year with following young female singers into enemy territory, thus seeming a little suspect.

However, having vet Barry Levinson directing (he directed Good Morning Vietnam) and comedy legend Bill Murray starring makes up for a lot that suspicion.

Bill Murray Is Just Awesome on Late Show w/David Letterman’s 20th Anniversary

August 30, 2013

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Bill Murray making an appearance for David Letterman’s 20th Anniversary of hosting The Late Show at CBS did not disappoint.

Just watch Bill’s dazzling entrance, his gift to Dave, his time capsule, and a special song, and wish every episode of The Late Show kind of went like this.

Tonight, Bill Murray Celebrates David Letterman’s 20th Year at The Late Show

August 29, 2013

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Tonight, Bill Murray Celebrates David Letterman’s 20th Year at The Late Show

There’s a reason the Internet can conceive to do a supercut of David Letterman’s inside drums joke as Letterman’s hosted the show for over 20 years and tonight’s commemorative episode should be really fun as Letterman’s good pal Bill Murray is stopping by.

Don’t miss the hijinx on CBS at 11:35PM.

Bill Murray to Return to David Letterman’s ‘Late Show’ for 20th Anniversary

August 26, 2013

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Bill Murray to Return to David Letterman’s ‘Late Show’ for 20th Anniversary

To help commemorate 20 years of being at the reins of The Late Show, Bill Murray is set to make another appearance, which is only news because of what Bill does on Letterman like this.

What will happen? Your guess is as good as ours, but we’re going to guess that Bill will recreate being the first guest on Letterman as a Groundhog Day gag.