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Ben Stiller has done some good for the world. He's also done some meh. But with The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, he seems to be vying for sainthood. The star/director of the remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye fantasy dramedy has decided to put some of Hollywood ...  

Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller born November 30, 1965 is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.After beginning his acting career with a play, Ben Stiller wrote several mockumentaries, and was offered two of his own shows, both entitled The Ben Stiller Show. He began acting in films, and made his directorial debut with Reality Bites. Throughout...  

“Tower Heist” features an all-star cast including Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, Gabourey Sidibe, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Nina Arianda, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Juan Carlos ...  

Ben Stiller is making some serious progress on his remake of 1947’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty—with director Ben Stiller workshopping daily with star Ben Stiller, giving him honest advice, Stiller to Stiller, and offering the sort of constructive criticism that Ben Stiller knows will get the best performance out of Ben Stiller. But as there are limits even to the capacity of Stiller, Ben Stiller has hired some non-Ben Stillers to join the...  

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Today is a big day for novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. The author of such critically acclaimed works as Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close received two pretty major pieces of good news. First, the film version of EL was nominated for Best Picture and he and Ben Stiller are also developing an original pilot at HBO.  

Once Ben Stiller got his claws into the Secret Life of Walter Mitty remake it pretty quickly went from being a long-floundering project that was maybe going to happen and maybe not going to happen, to becoming a hot comedy prospect on the fast track to getting made. I guess it didn’t hurt that Stiller is pulling double duty by both starring in the film and serving as the director; that’s one less person they had to hire. Still, barring some...  

Daniel S Levine Ben Stiller arrives for the "Tower Heist" premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York on October 24, 2011. UPI /Laura Cavanaugh Ben Stiller has signed on to star in a Jewish family comedy for HBO called All Talk. Stiller will direct the pilot and also act as executive producer on the show. read more  

Ben Stiller and HBO clearly want to work together.  Word of a David O. Selznick biopic Stiller wants to produce (and possibly star in) surfaced in October.  That may still be in the early stages, but THR reported on a separate project that Stiller is more directly, more officially involved in.  Stiller has signed on to executive produce, direct, and star in the comedy pilot All Talk, scripted by Jonathan Safran Foer, the writer behind the...  

Take The Long Train Home: What's more frustrating than having to squeeze onto a crowded six-car Metro train even though the subway system can handle eight cars in each station? Watching a ten-car train go by. The transit agency recently disciplined some workers for allowing a train too long to fit properly in stations to [...]  

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim really don't want you to pirate their new film "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie ... their pals who guested on Adult Swim's "Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" like Weird Al, Ben Stiller and Paul Rudd ...  

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Ben Stiller arrives at the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards hosted by Jameson Irish Whiskey at Santa Monica Beach on February 26, 2011Universal Pictures is celebrating 100 years in show business in a variety of ...  

It’s clearly the day that HBO has decided would work for announcing new comedy pilots. Hot on the heels of news about Paul Feig directing Goldie Hawn in The Viagra Diaries comes word that Ben Stiller has jumped aboard to star, direct, executive produce ...  

It's been 18 years since Ben Stiller made his directorial debut at Sundance Film Festival with the '90s cult classic "Reality Bites." And it has been almost that long since he has watched the flick in its entirety. When Stiller screened the film ...  

HBO: well on its way to breaking the record for Most Shows Set in Washington. The pay cable network has ordered a comedy pilot directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller, about a Jewish family in Washington D.C. Stiller has cast his favorite ...