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Steve Carell and company offer some intelligent insight into their latest action comedy

In 1965, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry joined forces to forge one of the greatest sitcoms of its time with Get Smart! The show revolved around Maxwell Smart, aka Control Agent 86, as he and his partner, the beautiful and dangerous Agent 99, worked to battle the evil forces of KAOS and save the world time after time. Now, more than thirty years later, director Peter Segel has resurrected the show in the form of a big screen outing, which stars Steve Carell as Max and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Rounding out the cast are Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, and the great Terrance Stamp.

This fine ensemble recently gathered in Los Angeles to recount their time spent on the set and to regale us with intellectual bon mots, all in a means to help us Get Smart. Here is that wonderful conversation:

Did you guys watch the original TV show before diving head first into this endeavor?

Steve Carell: I steered clear of it. I didn’t want to do an impression of Don Adams. I figured there was no way to improve upon what he had done. I thought the more I watched him, the more I would be inclined to do an impersonation. He was so good and so definitive in that role. I sort of backed away from it.

Alan Arkin: I made the choice thirty years ago not to watch the show. For me, it was easy. I had no problem making this character my own.

Anne Hathaway: I actually grew up watching the show on “Nick at Nite”. I used to love it, so it was really fun to revisit that. I was one of the last people cast, so I missed the whole collaboration of it. The: “This is the movie we’re making” part of it. I wanted to make sure that I understood what tone we were trying to achieve. I think we’ve managed to have that silly, sweet, yet sophisticated feel that the original series had.

Dwayne Johnson: I watched the show when I was a kid. I was a big fan of the show. I would have loved to have met Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. I was a big fan of the original, but I didn’t get a chance to meet those guys. When they first approached me with the idea, I thought, “Uh-oh, here we go. They’re messing with something that’s great.” You’ve got to be careful. But the material was great. All the elements came (more…)

The Rock Talks Shazam, Get Smart and more!

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in Sin City Sunday for a special Cinevegas charity premiere of Get Smart to benefit The Rock Foundation children’s charity.

Cinevegas 10th AnniversaryReelzChannel.com spoke with The Rock about the Vegas premiere, The Rock Foundation and his exciting upcoming project Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam, in which he will be playing villainous Black Adam. (more…)

Dwayne Johnson (AKA “The Rock”) has been working hard to leave his tough wrestling persona behind as he pursues a big-screen career. He took a giant step last year when he put on a tutu for the surprise hit comedy The Game Plan.

Now, he’s doing schtick in the big screen version of the TV series Get Smart, co-starring with Steve Carell. When he isn’t acting, Johnson’s first priority is his six-year-old daughter Alexandra.

You got to kiss Steve Carell. Was that a memorable moment?

“It was great. How many men can say they had a nice big lip-lock with Steve Carell? It shows the lengths I go to be a committed actor. Jake Gyllenhaal did it. Will Smith did it. I thought it was my turn to kiss a man.” (more…)

Interview with The Dead bolt

Formerly known as “The Rock” in the wrestling world, Dwayne Johnson has made huge strides as an actor. After starring in The Scorpion King and The Rundown in 2002 and 2003, Johnson set his sights on making a career as a big screen actor, adding to his Hollywood resume with roles in such films as Walking tall, Be Cool,Doom, Southland Tales, Gridiron Gang, and hugely successful family hit The Game Plan. Now, with his wrestling persona far behind him, Dwayne Johnson joins Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway as Agent 23 in the big screen remake of the classic TV series Get Smart, which hits theatres on June 20. (more…)

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal:

The race is on, but only for a few more days, as “Race to Witch Mountain” races to complete its 10-day Vegas location visit Thursday.

Planet Hollywood Resort serves as headquarters for the update of the 1975 Disney favorite “Escape to Witch Mountain.”

The movie stars Dwayne Johnson (better known, during his wrestling days, as The Rock) in the role of a down-on-his-luck Vegas cabby whose two teen passengers (AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig) are really aliens with telepathic and telekinetic powers.

“Witch Mountain” represents a reunion for Johnson and his “Game Plan” director, Andy Fickman, who turned out to be “a huge UFO nut and a massive fan of the original movie” and its 1978 sequel, notes producer Andrew Gunn. (more…)