The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

If you haven’t caught the film, yet, it’s still playing in some theaters, but if you are just waiting for the home entertainment release, you’ll be able to purchase the film beginning on June 25. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as if Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be putting together an early digital release for the flick, which means Blu-ray copies, DVD copies, and digital downloads will be available simultaneously.

The comedian’s slate is a mixed bag of surefire hits, Oscar hopefuls and dead projects … like Of All the Things. A feature version of a musical documentary centered around songwriter and producer Dennis Lambert – who worked with the Four Tops and Dusty Springfield – has been unplugged after years of development.

Looking to Oz the Great and Powerful, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, and The Call for inspiration, we've pulled together a selection of before-they-were-stars titles, niche-career narratives, and star-fronted thrillers.

Neither The Call nor The Incredible Burt Wonderstone saw much love from critics and audiences didn't offer much more support at the box office this weekend.

Going into this weekend there was no real doubt that any of the new releases would be able to unseat Oz The Great And Powerful, the mammoth Disney release still making tons of money all over the globe. What's surprised everyone, though, is which movie came in second place. Besting the splashy studio comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, the Halle Berry-led thriller The Call made $6.2 million on Friday, good enough for a (distant) second place behind Oz

“I think magicians are a lot more arrogant,” Carrey said. “That’s what bothered me about magicians growing up. I was always fascinated by it growing up, they’re kind of like, ‘Abracadabra, you’re an idiot!’ They don’t let you in on the joke. Comedians are in on the joke, unless you’re Andy Kaufman.”

When you take a trip to Vegas you're pretty much required to catch a big, probably cheesy magic act. Sure, the likes of David Blaine and Mystery have made magic a bit cooler over the years, but let's face it-- when we think of big magic shows, we still think of crazy wigs, sparkly suits, and the kind of showmanship you just can't get outside of Vegas

It presumably won’t take any amount of elaborately constructed mirrors or intentional distraction to make The Incredible Burt Wonderstone a runaway hit. It’s directed by Don Scardino, a television veteran with who helmed a season and a half of 30 Rock throughout its run. Stars Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey are playing over-the-top comedic roles that still feel atypical to what we normally see them doing

It’s been a fairly strong start to the year for the Rotten Watch and it’s time to keep the critical prediction train rolling. This week we’ve got Carrell, Buscemi and Carrey going magician and Halle Berry getting on the horn

“Austin is like a beautiful woman, and I just want to take advantage of you!” That was Jim Carrey, speaking from the stage of the majestic Paramount Theater as his dueling-magicians comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone kicked off the 2013 South By Southwest Film Festival.

This tongue-in-cheek trailer features Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi as Las Vegas magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton at the high point of the dynamic duo's career. But that has passed. Nowadays, audiences want something new and strange. Wonderstone and Marvelton are playing to dwindling crowds while a street performer (Jim Carrey) steals their thunder with bizarre fetes and grungy goth fashion sense.

In the upcoming The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Olivia Wilde doesn’t play your typical magician’s assistant. Rather than just being there to help out with the illusions and look pretty, her character, Jane, actually has big aspirations to be a magician herself...

We’ve all heard the classic line about how it’s always more fun to play the villain, but surprisingly you never hear about the benefits of playing the asshole hero. Sure, playing the baddie allows a sense of freedom from consequence...

Just a little over a year ago I drove out to the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles, CA where I joined a small group of other film journalists to visit the set of then in-production comedy, where we had the pleasure of not only watching the production in action, but also talking to stars Steve Carell, Olivia Wilde and Steve Buscemi, as well as director Don Scardino and producer Chris Bender.

Don Scardino’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, a Las Vegas-based magician comedy, co-stars Steve Carell, Jim Carrey and Steve Buscemi … though you’d never guess that based on the first official poster, because the three men look nothing like themselves. Which is probably great, because the further this movie drifts of the path of the safe and conventional, the better it will be for all of us!

Incredible! Evil! Franco!! These are just a few words that came to mind as we perused the just-announced line up for the South By Southwest Film Festival, which revealed that it will open on March 8 with the world premiere of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone before moving on to screenings of Evil Dead and Spring Breakers.

Just yesterday the cast of the upcoming comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone introduced a lot of magic in the air in Hollywood. In addition to the first ever trailer for the film we also got two brand new character posters featuring Steve Carell (as the titular magician) and Jim Carrey (as Steve Gray, the film's main villain). But the other two main stars of the movie are not to be ignored and now have some artwork of their very own.

Directed by Don Scardino, best known for his work on television series like 30 Rock, Royal Pains, Law and Order and 2 Broke Girls, the new comedy centers on an aging magician named Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and his partner Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi).

Steve Carell has built a career out of playing the sad sack everyman, but in his next movie he’ll drape himself in sequins and become a superstar. The new movie Burt Wonderstone casts Carell and Jim Carrey as rival magicians out to destroy each other.

Based on a screenplay by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses), the movie centers on a long-time magician named Burt Wonderstone (Carell) who remains an egotistical, selfish, jaded diva despite his waning fame. Unable to take any more abuse, Anton Marvelton (Buscemi), Wonderstone’s partner from the beginning...

Steve Carell has been focusing on his movie career ever since he left the cast of The Office and it looks like 2013 should be his boom year. In addition to working on Anchorman: The Legend Continues, the long-awaited sequel, he will be front and center in a number of new releases, including Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon's The Way, Way Back and the animated Despicable Me 2.

Warner Bros. has some huge movies coming out next year, including titles like Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and while dates for those titles are probably pretty set in stone, the studio has been doing some moving and shaking with four of their other films due out in 2013.

Since it was put on perpetual hiatus, many people are experiencing a serious case of Community withdrawal but thankfully, this week we got a double dose of Gillian Jacobs. The actress was last seen kissing Keira Knightley and Steve Carell in the trailer for Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World and, well, it must have been something because Jacobs just joined Carell in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone for a role even more intimate.

Jay Mohr gets stuck doing a lot of crap. While he does have the occational gem on his resume, like the cancelled-too-soon TV show Action, Go, and Jerry Maguire, most of his career has been spent doing crappy movies and short-lived sitcoms. He has talent but rarely gets the opportunity to show it off. Hopefully Burt Wonderstone can do something to buck that trend.

Burt Wonderstone is already looking like a movie with enough magical star-power to lift it off the ground. With Steve Carell set to star, and Jim Carrey, James Gandolfini and Steve Buscemi also attached, not to mention Olivia Wilde, the cast of New Line's magician comedy is already top notch. Factor Brad Garrett into the equation and there may even more reason to speculate over whether this movie could manage to live up to the sum of its parts.

People are going to come to Wonderstone to see Carell play off of Carrey, but it’s encouraging that director Don Scardino is going out of his way to surround the comedians with solid character actors and eye candy (I mean Steve Buscemi, of course)

Deadline reports that Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan, Judy Greer, Sarah Silverman and Jessia Biel are in the running to fill out the comedic triangle, though we’re not sure yet what role the actress would play in director Don Scardino’s film. But depending on which actress you choose, you’re going to get a specific tone that could take Wonderstone in completely different directions.

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell may not have shared a scene in the season finale of The Office earlier this year, but it's becoming easier and easier to see them in movies together. In addition to staring as antagonists in Bruce Almighty, both comedians lent their voices to the animated adaptation of Horton Hears A Who.

Reitman will be the fourth writer to get his hands on the script, which has already been in the hands of John Frances Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, as well as original scribbler Charles Kultgen. As Reitman gives it his seal of approval, casting is feverish for someone to star across from Carell in the role of the rival magician. Wanna bet it’ll be Sacha Baron Cohen? More on Burt Wonderstone as the film nears production.

We are living in tough times, my friends. With Michael Scott leaving The Office, we no longer have a means of seeing new Steve Carell material every week. Seeing as Carell is one of the most likable leading men going at the moment, what's important to remember is that not being on the show will allow him to do a lot more movies, and now one of his upcoming projects has taken a huge step forward.