Harold Ramis

  Colgate students had a chance this week to meet with director, actor, writer, and producer Harold Ramis, who spent two days on campus talking shop and showing special previews of his upcoming movie. Ramis, whose son is a first-year at Colgate, is a veritable Hollywood heavyweight with many popular movies under his belt such as Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Analyze This, Animal House , and Ghostbusters . Ramis met with students in a film history course and two theater classes, and had lunch with Colgate's improvisational group, Charred Goosebeak, and with the Student Lecture Forum. Students responded to Ramis's down-to-earth nature and quick humor ... Read Full Story

Harold Ramis's latest comedy - Year One - will be in a theater near you on June 19. One of his most successful films, Ghostbusters , celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer, and a video game based on the film is to be released June 16. There also is much buzz about a potential third installment of the comedy blockbuster. Not a bad summer for Ramis, the 64-year-old writer, director, producer, and actor, who continues to make comedies that he says reflect his "old hippie philosophy, dressed up in different ways." Ramis sat down for a wide-ranging interview during his most recent visit to ... Read Full Story

What do you get when you cross the underdog, yet witty Jack Black with the underdog Michael Cera? Of course the answer is you get a predictable comedy set in the stone age. Year One is the latest installment in goofy movies. Black and Cera are early tribesmen who are shunned by their peers for being too lazy. They are too feeble to be good hunters and too interested in the women to be good gatherers. Additionally, they have a 21st century mentality in a 1st century world. Their world radically changes when Zed (Black) decides to eat the fruit from the forbidden tree ... Read Full Story

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world in Columbia Pictures’ comedy Year One. Harold Ramis directs. The screenplay is by Harold Ramis & Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg (”The Office”) from a story by Harold Ramis. The film is produced by Harold Ramis, Judd Apatow, and Clayton Townsend. Directed by: Harold Ramis Screenplay by: Harold Ramis & Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg Story by: Harold Ramis Produced by: Harold Ramis, Judd Apatow, Clayton Townsend Executive Producer: Rodney Rothman Cast: Jack Black, Michael Cera, ... Read Full Story

Olivia Wilde We first caught a glimpse of the divine actress on The O.C., where she hooked up with snobby dudes and dudettes alike. Then she injected herself into our hearts for good as the terminally ill (and terminally bisexual) internist Thirteen on Fox’s smash hit House M.D. This month she’s poised for a breakout of biblical proportions playing a princess in the prehistoric comedy Year One, which boasts Judd Apatow as producer, Harold Ramis as director, and Jack Black as a caveman named Zed. Black. Ramis. Apatow. Year One has quite the comedic pedigree. I don’t know how they let me in there. ... Read Full Story