Ben Stiller has been relatively quiet over the recent years. Sure, he’s starred in a variety of films and TV shows, including “The Meyerowitz Stories,” “Brad’s Status,” and “Arrested Development,” but nothing has been a major film on the level of “Zoolander 2.” And apparently, there’s a good reason for that.

Now, as his latest project debuted over the weekend, the limited series “Escape at Dannemora,” Stiller explains how the box office failure of “Zoolander 2” opened him up for more interesting projects that he could spend his time developing.

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You know us —it’s all sunshine and buttercups round here. Almost every other day of the year, we can be found frolicking in the bee-loud glades of cinephilia, delighting in the wonders on display with the unjaded eyes of gurgling infants. But very rarely, we stray to the Dark Side, and today is such a day, one given over to calling out the most ignominious and faith-destroying films of the year so far.

If “best” is subjective, “worst” is just as much so, but with added vitriol. 

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Appearing at NYCC for David Gordon Green’s “Your Highness” now, Theroux has provided several updates on the sequel. The gestating script is described as being in “good shape right now. I’m feeling very optimistic about it. We’re doing a few little tweaks before we submit it, but I’m very hopeful that I’m going to be working on that soon,” Theroux told MTV.

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Talent quickly circled the project. Hill and buddy Jason Schwartzman were pretty much immediately attached as the leads and then Jason Segel and director Akiva Schaffer, known for his SNL Lonely Island skits with Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone soon followed.

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Not long after the decision was made public, another Twitter account was set up, purporting to belong to Paramount Films. The sarcastic and bitter tweet feed is not official to say the least, and Deadline have revealed that it’s the work of a “multi-talented actor-writer-director-producer angry at the studio.” McKay is the obvious suspect, although he’s not really an actor, so the likes of Will Ferrell, Justin Theroux and Ben Stiller (the latter two of whom are having similar problems getting “Zoolander 2” set up) could also be possibilities.

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This is of course referring to an tweet last week where Ben Still suggested that Paramount may have passed on “Zoolander 2,” just as they kinda, sorta, not really did on “Anchorman 2” because of the film’s costs.

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But Deadline is reporting there still might be life in the cards for the San Diego-based news team.

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Maybe not so much. Our last two reports mentioned that “Iron Man 2” scribe Justin Theroux was helping pen the script, Jonah Hill would possibly play the villain, and the film would be set 10 years after the first.

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“We have a new story idea that we feel excited about and we’re going to try to go forward,” he said. “The beginning of the movie is … 10 years later, and Derek & Hansel are literally forgotten.

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Stiller wrote and directed the original, but this time he’s got company, with “Tropic Thunder” and “Iron Man 2” scribe Justin Theroux joining him on the script.

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Joe Cornish, Edgar Wright’s co-writer for “Ant-Man” and the new “Tintin” movie, is gearing up to make his first feature, “Attack The Block.” The comedy focuses on a group of South London hoodies forced to save the day when aliens attack.

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