It's battle between the impossibly dominant alpha males from both sides of the pond.  British spy and unstoppable ladies' man James Bond got his first Skyfall teaser trailer in the middle of the night.  Now, San Diego's finest newscaster is proving that he, and by extension America, are kind of a big deal, as next year's Anchorman sequel now has not one, but two teaser trailers online.  That's right.  Two.

It's Wednesday, May 16th, which means that Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles' The Dictator is opening in theaters from coast to magnificent coast.  That, in and of itself would be cause for celebration, since the movie's a fun mixture of intelligent satire and calculated idiocy.  But humanity can raise its hands to the heavens in thanks that the first teaser trailer for Anchorman 2 is attached to The Dictator, giving our first taste of the Channel 4 Newsteami n years, like the first taste of coffee after a long sleepless night.

Only the biggest of big would-be blockbusters get super-teasery teaser trailers way ahead of their releases.  We're talking about the Godzillas and Spider-Men and the like.  Movies with marketing budgets greater than the GDP of many industrialized nations and more stars than the damn Milky Way Galaxy.  It's appropriate, then, that the sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, has a teaser before it has a script or release date.  It's kind of a big deal, after all.

Two weeks ago, the world rejoiced and the angelic choirs sang as Ron Burgundy himself announced on national television that a sequel to 2004's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy was finally happening.  The finest newscaster in 1970s San Diego is indeed returning, along with his formidable newsteam, but just what shenanigans they'll get into is pretty mysterious.  Adam McKay, who returns as director and co-writer, has given a tiny bit of information on just what the not-really-titled Anchorman 2 will be about and how it came to be after so long.

A sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is finally, mercifully, wonderfully happening.  Paramount Pictures, which resisted the idea of an Anchorman 2 for the last few years, but the studio has apparently come it to its collective senses and the sequel is proceeding with the original director and cast on board.  The finest 1970's news team in the greater San Diego area is finally coming back to theaters.

Typically, an apocalyptic movie involves undead hordes, huge visual effects, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.  The first trailer for this summer's comedy-drama Seeking a Friend at the End of the World goes an entirely different way, though.  The movie suggests that the end times will, in fact, be pretty funny, as humanity attempts to deal with its impending extinction by way of a giant asteroid.

Steve Carell brings the deadpan as the central character, a withdrawn type who takes the news of Earth's destruction in three weeks with the same sort of resignation he's lived his entire life.  He strikes up a friendship with a neighbor played by Keira Knightley and the two navigate a world filled with absurd reactions to doom.

For the better part of a decade, audiences around the world have vehemently demanded a movie following the illusionist exploits of GOB, the imbecilic cad from Arrested Development.  Since a GOB Bluth-based movie won't redefine the image of cinematic magicians for all time, though, we've got to put our hopes in Burt Wonderstone, a comedy centered on a successful Vegas magician who loses his professional partner and must rediscover his flare for the magical.  The production is currently on location in Las Vegas, and a fresh batch of unofficial photos from the set provide our first peek at Steve Carell looking quite different from The Office's Michael Scott as Wonderstone himself, along with a blonde-haired Steve Buscemi and Olivia Wilde sporting a pretty funny little outfit.

We normally don't spend a whole lot of time on television news around these parts, this being a movie news section and all, but last night saw the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards go down here in sunny Los Angeles, and we'd be remiss if we didn't share the full list of winners.  Glee's Jane Lynch hosted the ostentatious goings-on, which saw AMC's Mad Men winning the coveted Outstanding Drama Series trophy, while Modern Family won in the Comedy Series category.  Also worth noting, Peter Dinklage won a supporting actor award for his role as a man who always pays his debts on Game of Thrones, Melissa McCarthy took home a trophy on account of Mike & Molly, and Martin Scorsese naturally got some dramatic directorial kudos for helming the Boardwalk Empire pilot.

Now that Dunder Mifflin Regional Manager Michael Scott has departed NBC's The Office, your Steve Carell-fix will have to come from the former Daily Show correspondent's film appearances.  Burt Wonderstone, which would star Carell as the eponymous Las Vegas magician, has been seeking right director since talks with television veteran Charles McDougall ceased in early April.  According to Deadline, fellow TV director Don Scardino has signed on to make his feature directorial debut with Burt Wonderstone.

Remember The Ambiguously Gay Duo, the most popular recurring bit on TV Funhouse, an animated interlude on Saturday Night Live?  The Robert Smigel-written cartoon starred the voices of pre-hitting-it-huge Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell as Ace and Gary, two crimefighters who made the subtextual sexuality of spandex superheroes surprisingly explicit.  On the latest episode of SNL, TV Funhouse returned, bringing Ace and Gary with it.  This time, though, the duo ends up in live action, as played by Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon.  Carell and Colbert even show up in unexpected roles, along with Ed Helms.  Dally no longer.  Watch it now, friend of friends.