With Casa de mi Padre set to hit theaters on March 16, Will Ferrell is currently in New Orleans working on his latest movie, Dog Fight. The first image was released last week (via NOLA Films) so now we can all start getting really excited about it, because LOOK! HE HAS FUNNY HAIR! And there’s Jason Sudeikis! Warm up the message boards, folks, because we have speculating to do.

Ferrell plays a South Carolina politician with presidential ambitions, but he’s locked in a heated rivalry with a fellow statesman played by Zach Galifianakis. I assume there will be hijinks when the two try to derail each other’s campaigns, and I’m guessing a lot of yelling of the shirtless variety. Dog Fight also stars Jason Sudeikis, who is currently playing the role of “The Luckiest Bastard Alive” in Olivia Wilde’s bedroom, as well as Dylan McDermott, Brian Cox, John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd, who was apparently able to pry himself away from his current Happy Madison obligations.

The film is scheduled for the convenient election season release date of August 10.

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If you thought that the brilliant Twitter campaign launched by Tim Heidecker and Neil Hamburger was a masterpiece of destroying what looks to be a terrible film, then make some more room in your Louvre because animator Edmund Earle has put together an alternate ending to the live action Yogi Bear film, which opens this Friday. Starring that guy from the TV show Ed and Anna Faris’ fine self and featuring the voices of Dan Aykroyd as the titular picnic basket thief and Justin Timberlake as his furry twink Boo Boo, this movie is 20 years too late and should only be viewed by death row inmates. However, Earle’s contribution – that he claims he put together with his coworker in their spare time and inspired by The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in the 21st and a Half Century – is almost enough to make me want to watch it if I knew that this was the real ending.

Video after the jump…

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For months, comedians Neil Hamburger and Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job) have been trying to raise awareness about the Yogi Bear movie, and the threat it poses to our society.  They recently compiled a series of tweets into an informational pamphlet.  Since this is such an important cause, I’ve included some of the best of them here.

timheidecker: AP reporting #yogibear Movie contains subliminal messages encouraging children to commit suicide!

Neil_Hamburger: Justin Timberlake drew on his experience as a human urinal for his portrayal of beloved Boo Boo. #f*ckyouyogibear

Neil_Hamburger: Tom Bosley’s dying final words: “Please don’t let Aykroyd voice Yogi Bear.” Died 1 min later. #f*ckyouyogibear

timheidecker: Long John Silvers stunner: “although we are aware that this means losing thousands of dollars a week, we will now refuse to serve dan aykroyd after hearing his embarrassing and disrespectful impersonation of #yogibear

timheidecker: Why is @burgerking offering free temporary swastika tattoos with purchase of #yogibear kids value meal?

Neil_Hamburger: “Yogi Bear” becomes first film to be banned in Poland since “Hitler’s Giant C*ck And Great Ideas Also” was banned from theaters in 1967

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Whoa, Big Momma’s House 3 and Yogi Bear on the SAME DAY??  What God did I please!  But anyway, yeah, it’s a 3D Yogi Bear movie with Justin Timberlake and Dan Aykroyd (nice try disguising your voices there, guys, but you do realize we have Google).  The studios have got appealing to the 6-year-old brain down to a science at this point (anything else would require ambition), which means that this has all the standard elements of every lame children’s film: a fart joke, CGI characters dancing to pop music, and someone getting hit in the butt a bunch of times (all kid movie protagonists spend half the movie smiling at the camera and swinging their butts from side to side, has anyone else noticed this?).

Basically, it’s exactly what you’d expect.  My only question is, where are the semen-filled bears I was promised in the poster?  Don’t tell me I have to wait for Yogi Bare.

"I'm going to chug vodka from this skull and punch a girl," he seems to be saying.

If you read movie news at all, and God help you if you do, you probably saw yesterday’s story about Dan Aykroyd saying that writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg* (The Office, Year One) had done “a strong first draft” of Ghostbusters 3 that he was “excited about working on.”  A bunch of sites took that to mean Aykroyd was rewriting the script, which seemed strange, because A., if everyone was as happy with the script like he said, why would he need to rewrite it?  And B., because Dan Aykroyd seems a bit nutty these days.

Anyway, the reason there are a million Ghostbusters 3 stories going around is the same reason there are a billion Arrested Development movie stories going around — lots of people involved. For the project to go forward, all the original players have to agree: Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, and Bill Murray.  In order to make it, the studio (Columbia/Sony) has to keep everyone feeling like they’re involved, which is why the story seems to change depending on who you talk to.  I asked a source close to the project who I trust about it, and this was the update I got:

Aykroyd is involved enough that the studio will listen to his input, but he’s NOT doing a rewrite of the script, which the director (Reitman) and studio (Columbia) are already happy with.

Stupnitskenberg are currently the only writers on the project and as of now the studio has no plans to replace them

Ramis, Reitman, and Aykroyd have all signed on, and the script is going out to Bill Murray now.

Without Murray, there’s no movie. (And he’s always seemed pretty wishy-washy on it, but that’s kind of his thing).

If he agrees, pre-production will start early next year for a late spring/early summer start date and a Thanksgiving or Christmas 2012 release.

I usually try to stay away from the he said/she said stories about projects that have a million people involved, because honestly, I don’t care enough about any movie to write 10 separate speculative stories and corrections.  Sometimes I think the world would be a better place if everyone was as lazy as me.  But other times I think, hey, I wonder what’s on TV. Hey, I should go jerk off and eat a sandwich.

*I heard they once spike stripped Kurtzman and Orci at the annual male screenwriter duo tandem bike race.  Meanwhile, both teams agreed Hawk and Ostby are total fruitcakes.