Your Day in Pop Culture (Wednesday, June 19, 2013)

This Day in Pop Culture History
1846: The first officially recorded game of baseball is played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1910: The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. If this is your Father's Day reminder, you're a few days late.
1978: Garfield debuts in comic pages. For 35 years, this iconic cat has warned us about the dangers of Mondays, yet we keep going to work.

Famous People Have Birthdays Too
1948: Phylicia Rashad, actress (The Cosby Show, Cosby)
1950: Ann Wilson, musician (Heart)
1953: Larry Dunn, musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1954: Kathleen Turner, actress (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Body Heat, Prizzi's Honor)
1959: Mark DeBarge, singer (DeBarge)
1962: Paula Abdul, singer, dancer, reality show judge (American Idol)
1967: Mia Sara, actress (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Timecop)
1972: Robin Tunney, actress (The Mentalist, Prison Break)
1978: Zoe Saldana, actress (Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Avatar)
1983: Ben Haggerty, better known as Macklemore
1984: Paul Dano, actor (The Girl Next Door, There Will Be Blood, Little Miss Sunshine, Looper)

Who's On What Tonight: Your Guide to Late-Night TV
CONAN: REPEAT
LETTERMAN: The Newsroom's Jeff Daniels, My Morning Jacket's Jim James
KIMMEL: REPEAT
LENO: Meet the Press' David Gregory, the winner of The Voice
FALLON: Let Me Explain's Kevin Hart, The Newsroom's Olivia Munn, music group Chvrches
FERGUSON: White Boys Can't Jump's Rosie Perez

'THE NEWS TEAM IS BACK!': 'Anchorman 2' Trailer Adds Kristen Wiig to Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd

Unlike Sex Panther cologne, Anchorman works 100 percent of the time, all the time, which is why fans of the original movie will be eating up the newest trailer for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. From this trailer, it seems like after dominating the 1970s, the Channel 4 News Team disappeared. We don't know why, but we do know that they're back and they haven't changed much. Which is a good thing.

The new Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues trailer shows off a few good bits, with the interaction between Steve Carell's Brick Tamland and Kristen Wiig's character probably being a pairing comedy fans will go crazy for.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues hits theaters on Dec. 20, 2013 and stars Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Carell, David Koechner, Wiig, Fred Willard, Meagan Good and James Marsden. Head past the jump to check out the new trailer.

So You're Telling Me There's a Chance? 'Dumb and Dumber' Sequel Gets a New Studio

The tale of the sequel to Dumb and Dumber is a long and roadblock-filled one. There's been talk of a sequel for years, but so far the closest thing we've gotten is that awful 2003 prequel, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. I don't think any fan of the the 1994 original movie counts that prequel as a real installment in the story of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. Over the past few years, progress on a sequel has picked up, but minor things like Jim Carrey bailing for a bit and Warner Bros. dropping the movie just last week have held the movie up.

After losing Warner Bros. as its studio, Deadline is reporting that Dumb and Dumber To (which is what they're calling the sequel) has been picked up by Red Granite and Universal Pictures, putting the long-awaited sequel on pace for a 2014 release, a brief two decades after Dumb and Dumber first hit theaters.

All this is going down as we speak, and now the scheduling will begin for a movie that will find its way into production very quickly, with Conundrum’s Bradley Thomas and The Farrellys producing with Charlie Wessler. The film will be PG-13 like the original, and once again it puts Lloyd (Carrey) and Harry (Daniels) back on a road trip. The urgency has to do with scheduling: Daniels needs to do it soon before returning for his Aaron Sorkin HBO series The Newsroom. Carrey also has that bank heist comedy at Relativity with Jared Hess directing and Owen Wilson co-starring.

Look, I love Dumb and Dumber. It's one of the great comedies of the 1990s. That said, it's not the 1990s anymore, and the brand of humor that Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly made famous with movies like Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary just doesn't fly anymore. The Judd Apatow crowd changed the comedy landscape. I would hate to see the legacy of Dumb and Dumber tarnished by an official sequel that can't let go of an era of comedy that has passed it by. That would be the most annoying sound in the world.

'The Lego Movie' Pieces Together Its First Poster

I watched the trailer for The Lego Movie that debuted on Tuesday again before putting together this post, and, boy, do I love how this movie is coming together. As I mentioned before, I adore Lego. There isn't a better toy in the world. The idea of a Lego movie was one that I was wary of, but after watching the movie's first trailer with Chris Pratt voicing Emmet, the story's hero, I think The Lego Movie is going to be a good one.

In addition to a trailer, The Lego Movie got its first poster on Tuesday. Head past the jump to check it out.

Ron Burgundy's Mustache Is All You Need to Know About New 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' Poster

It only took almost a decade, but we're finally getting a sequel to 2004's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy this year. With Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues hitting theaters this winter, Paramount Pictures has started cranking up the promotion machine, running alternate versions of that trailer it debuted WAY back in May 2012. Yeah, I think we kind of jumped the gun when it came to getting excited about this movie. A trailer a year and a half before a movie actually comes out is kind of ridiculous. (That said, if JJ Abrams wants to release a Star Wars: Episode VII trailer right now, I'm cool with it.)

Paramount added another piece to the Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues promotional puzzle on Tuesday, releasing a new poster for the movie. Is Ron Burgundy's mustache the most famous mustache in all of cinema? We don't even need to see all of Will Ferrell's face on this poster to know exactly who it is.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues hits theaters on Dec. 20, 2013. It stars Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, Kristen Wiig, Fred Willard and a ton of actors cameos, which I'm not going to spoiler here. Head past the jump to check out the new poster.

TRAILER: 'The Lego Movie' Assembles an Awesome Tribute to the Greatest Toys Ever

I love Legos. I have since I was a kid. I still do. If there was ever a greater toy invented, I never found it. In a perfect world, kids would be handed Lego sets and given the freedom to imagine whatever they wanted instead of sitting glued to video games.

When it was announced that a movie based on my favorite toys was being put together, I was just a bit apprehensive. Hollywood has not been kind with childhood icons, bastardizing Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Smurfs into dreadful movies. The Lego Movie is being directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, though, the duo that gave us an the extremely funny 21 Jump Street movie last year. That's a good sign, right? On top of that, The Lego Movie is going to feature the voice talent of some very good comedy talent like Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Will Ferrell, Alison Brie and Nick Offerman. Not a bad group of actors.

The first trailer for The Lego Movie hit the Internet on Tuesday, giving us our first look at the movie. I'm impressed not only by the Lego minifigures featured in the trailer — everyone from old-school astronauts to Superman to the collectible Minifigures — but also by the style The Lego Movie is going with. Everything looks like it's been assembled. Some of the animation isn't even all that smooth, but that kind of sells the style. This movie looks awesome.

The Lego Movie hits theaters on Feb. 7, 2014. Head past the jump to check out the first trailer for the movie.

TRAILER: Disney's Next Animated Feature 'Frozen' Looks Way Too Much Like 'Ice Age'

When it comes to animated movies, there are certain things a film should strive to be. Pixar's glory days are a good place to start, with movies like the Toy Story trilogy, Up and Wall•E being some of the best animated movies we've ever gotten. If you want to go back to the hand-drawn years, the 1990s gave us Disney's most-recent golden age, with films like The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid debuting. What you DON'T want to emulate, though, is the glut of lowest-common-denominator movies that have been pumped out by DreamWorks Animations and other studios.

The first teaser trailer for Frozen, Disney's upcoming animated film, hit the Internet on Tuesday, and I'm awfully worried that it looks a lot like Ice Age. Now, based on what I've read about the movie's plot — which is based on Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen — there's a lot more to Frozen than just watching a snowman and a reindeer fight over a carrot. Unfortunately, all I could think of while watching this trailer is just how much is resembles every trailer we've ever seen for an Ice Age movie. You know the ones I'm talking about — that prehistoric squirrel, Scrat, spends the entire trailer chasing an acorn, only to get foiled at every turn. That's pretty much all Olaf, the snowman voiced by Josh Gad, does in this Frozen trailer. Not a good omen.

Hopefully Disney just chose a poor marketing angle for our introduction to Frozen, as the studio's last movie, Wreck-It Ralph, was the best animated film of 2012. Sorry, Brave fans, but that movie only won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature because of the Pixar pedigree. Wreck-It Ralph was superior.

Frozen features the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff and Gad. It opens on Nov. 27, 2013. Head past the jump to check out the first trailer for Frozen.