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In March 2018 another documentary "The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling" premiered on HBO about the late comedian Garry Shandling. Jim spend a day with Judd Apatow in the studio to film his interview for the 4 1/2 hours doc.
Filmed in November 2015, "Dark Crimes" finally premiered in theaters in May 2018. It's the first European production for Jim Carrey, being filmed in Poland and Germany. It has been hard to find a distributor even though it premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival in October 2016.  In April of 2018, Jim Carrey started filming, for Showtime a TV series called "Kidding". It had 10 episodes all with 30 minutes. Written by Dave Holstein with Jim Carrey in mind and was directed by Michel Gondry whom Jim had previously worked with in "Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind". "Kidding follows Jeff (Jim Carrey, in a brilliant performance that's his first series regular role in more than two decades), who's also known as Mr. Pickles, an icon of children's television. Although Mr. Pickles is supposed to be a beacon of kindness and wisdom for America's youth, Jeff is finding it increasingly difficult to deal with his imploding personal life while his grief over a family tragedy causes a slow meltdown of his own sanity, in a way that is both heart breaking and hilarious." In September 18th it premiered with good critics reviews. Later on, was renewed for a second season. The other TV show by Showtime "I'm Dying Up Here", executive produced by Jim Carrey was cancelled that same year after two seasons. On July, filming of the movie "Sonic The Hedgehog" where Jim played the villian Dr. Robotnik. At the end of 2018 from October 23rd to December 8th, Jim political drawings were shown at the art exhibition called IndigNATION. It was Jim's third solo exhibition and a compilation of all his political drawings that he had made the previous two years. 2019 was a calm year for Jim Carrey, with only the filming of the second season of "Kidding", from his acting skills. But summer brought us yet another art exhibition. From June 20th to September 1st. This one was called "This Light Never Goes Out" and it was a public exhibition with over 50 of his political cartoons, done the previous 3 years. It marked Jim's fourth solo exhibition. 2020 was a challenging year for the whole world. But when it comes to Jim Carrey's career it was amazing! On February 9th, we had the premiere of the second season of "Kidding". It had 10 episodes but unfortunately was cancelled, afterwards.  On February 14th we had an amazing Valentine's Day gift - the premiere of "Sonic the Hedgehog". The movie is an action-adventure comedy film based on the video game franchise published by Sega and the most known blue hedgehog in the world, Sonic. Jim Carrey played the villain Dr. Robotnik who chases after him. It was a box office success! It had the highest opening weekend (70 million) for a movie based on a video game. For Jim it was represented the biggest box office success since "Bruce Almighty" (2003). Unfortunately due to the Covid-19 pandemic in March the theatrical run was cut short. But the good news was that now only we had the movie available in DVD sooner but also in April a sequel was officially announced to happen and premiere in April 2022. Of the many talent that Jim has, writing is on of them and in May 2020, we were able to see him publish his first book called "Memoirs & Misinformation" that he co-wrote with Dana Vachon for eight years. The book is a "fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our "one big soul," Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world--apocalypses within and without." A tour was planned to promote the book but was cancelled because of the pandemic. All promotion of the book was done via Zoom from Jim's home in Hawaii. The book became a bestseller and his audio version was narrated by fellow colleague and friend Jeff Daniels.  Finally and the end of a difficult year, in October, Jim was part of Saturday Night Life assembler as a guest, were he played Joe Biden for 6 episodes. In his last appearance, during the sketch about Biden winning the election, Jim reprised his role as Ace Ventura by calling Trump a loser. Also in October we got to see Jim in the 5 episodes of the documentary series about the famous Comedy Store, called "The Comedy Store". The first episode aired on October 4th in Showtime. It gives us a never-before-seen footage and incisive, emotional interviews with some of the biggest names in comedy. « | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | » |
