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Get ready to proclaim the good news, all ye fans of Steve Carell, The Office and Bruce Almighty. Tomorrow night (Thursday, March 29) at 9PM EDT Moviefone will be debuting the brand-new full-length trailer for Evan Almighty, aka the sequel to Bruce, right here. Sensitive folk that we are, we understand that 9PM tomorrow night sounds like it's eons away to some of you Carell junkies. To this end, we're offering an exclusive glimpse at the poster for Evan Almighty right this minute. Behold it in all its godly glory below (double-click on the image for a larger version).

In this sequel to the 2003 box office hit, Carell reprises his role as Evan Baxter, but he's come a long way from competing with Jim Carrey for the job of news anchor at a Buffalo, New York, TV station. Newly elected to Congress, Evan is determined to serve his country -- that is, until God (Morgan Freeman) charges him with the task of becoming a modern-day Noah (complete with gray beard and Iggy Pop-length hair), building a new ark and perhaps saving all of mankind. Remember to check out Moviefone tomorrow night for the premiere of a trailer so funny you just might exclaim -- as Evan did in Bruce Almighty -- "I like-a do the cha-cha like a little sissy girl." Evan Almighty sails into theaters June 22.

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So it seems that Will Ferrell is not the only one who thinks audiences can't get enough of sports comedies -- although to be fair I can't help but giggle at the sight of Ferrell on a treadmill singing My Humps. The Hollywood reporter has announced that Tom Shadyac, director of Bruce Almighty, has signed to produce the cycling comedy Tour de Frank for Universal. The comedy pitch by Andrea King and Andy Marx is being produced through Shadyac's Shady Acres Entertainment in partnership with Universal. Shadyac is expected to direct, but so far he hasn't made any commitments.

Shadyac just finished directing Evan Almighty and also produced the upcoming Adam Sandler comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. So while he seems to be keeping busy with comedies, Shadyac is also working on a film based on the memoirs of John Francis, titled Planetwalker (also with Universal), and judging by Eric's description of that project, I doubt there will be any opportunities for lighthearted humor. There aren't many details on Tour de Frank's story so far beyond the initial set up of a comedy set in the world of competitive cycling; but I can already see a world of possibilities in spandex-related humor.

"All the characters in this book are fictitious, and anyone finding a resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, should proceed no further ..." Disclaimer from the novel 'The Number 23.' Sadly no such disclaimer was given to the beginning of this film, which could serve as a warning to people who might be wanting those two hours from their lives back, should they ignore it and watch the film. Okay, that might be a bit harsh, but not by too much. This film reunites director Joel Schumacher with star Jim Carrey, who both worked over-the-top together in 1995's Batman Forever. Oddly enough (although unrelated) that was the same year that gave us Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. It would still be a few more years, three to be exact, until we would start to see the serious side of Jim Carrey, in 1998's The Truman Show. Since then he's dabbled in more dramatic roles in films like Simon Birch, The Majestic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and arguably Man on the Moon, but he has never really managed to capture audiences when he plays a dramatic role the same way he does when he's in a comedy.

In fact, Bruce Almighty grossed more than those four films combined. So, with all that in mind, it might seem strange that Carrey would turn to a much darker role in a thriller like The Number 23. Although on paper the film actually sounds intriguing: a happily married man with a teenage son starts to become unraveled by a mysterious novel his wife gives him one day. It taps into a hidden obsession that some people have with "The 23 Enigma," and he soon becomes obsessed with it. He is also convinced that the book is actually written about him, and that somehow the author used his life as a template for the book. In some of the particularly darker scenes in the film, Walter (Carrey) imagines himself as the main character, Detective Fingerling, in the novel, and his wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen) as the dark and sexy Fabrizia, his love interest. His wife's friend and academic Isaac (Danny Huston) who tells Walter about the 23 enigma is also cast in his dark fantasies as psychologist Dr. Miles Phoenix.

When screenwriter Steve Oedekerk and comedian Jim Carrey get together, very profitable things happen. True that they only worked on two movies together (Ace Ventura 2 and Bruce Almighty), but they were pretty solid moneymakers. So I suppose it's pretty good news that Paramount has hired Oedekerk to give a facelift to the screenplay for Ripley's Believe It or Not, which was originally penned by the writing team of Alexander & Karaszewski.

Obviously this bodes fairly well for the project as a whole, because when Paramount back-burnered the thing a few months back, nobody really knew if the project would wither away or come storming back. With Variety reporting an intended late-2008 production date, and the pretty-much-guaranteed involvement of director Tim Burton and leading man Jim Carrey, it looks like Ripley will live once Sweeney Todd gets wrapped.

Gotta love that nutty Tim Burton stuff. (That's not sarcasm; aside from his misguided Apes remake, Burton's a pretty admirable filmmaker, and a consistently good one at that.) And anything that keeps Oedekerk distracted from his intended Kung Pow: Enter the Fist sequel, well, that makes me very happy indeed.

Back when he was just a dorky-looking guy struggling to make it big, Steve Carell played Evan Baxter, Jim Carrey's nemesis in Bruce Almighty. Now that a Carrey-free sequel is in the works (Morgan Freeman will be back) and Carell is a box office king, Universal reportedly want him to star. If he accepted the role, the film would be called Evan Almighty and it would be Carell's character with all the cool powers. Details on the plot are vague, but Evan might be asked to build an Ark. Hey, arks are funny. Steve Carell is funny. And the name "Evan Almighty" for some reason strikes me as hilarious. Hey, Steve, I know I was getting on you before about taking too many roles, but I take it back. Do this! Please?