Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) on Netflix
Ron Burgundy loses his New York anchor job when his boss promotes his wife, Veronica Corningstone. A new network offers him a job, and he rebuilds his team.
- Netflix3.3/5
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- Rotten Tomatoes75%
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Plot summary
Mack Tannen promotes Veronica Corningstone to the nightly news in New York and fires her husband, Ron Burgundy. Six months on, Ron is announcing at Sea World in San Diego and the crowd boos him. Freddie Shapp offers him a place at GNN, which is preparing to launch an around-the-clock news program, and Ron rounds up his old colleagues Champ Kind, Brian Fantana, and Brick Tamland and brings them east. Their new manager, Linda Jackson, hands the four of them the overnight hours, where they struggle to find anything to report, and prime-time star Jack Lime bets they cannot beat his ratings.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd agreed to take pay cuts so a sequel could be made, but in April 2010 Adam McKay announced that Paramount Pictures had turned down the proposal anyway, even after the budget was cut.
- A product placement deal led Miller Lite to bring back its original 16-ounce can packaging for the film's theatrical run, and the retro cans were so popular that in September 2014 Miller Brewing Company made the switch back permanent on all Miller Lite products.
- Anchorman 2 was Paramount's last film given a US release on 35mm film stock, a decision the Los Angeles Times said made the studio the first big one to stop releasing its major movies on film in the United States.
- An R-rated version called Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues: Super-Sized R-Rated Version, billed as featuring 763 new jokes, played in theaters for one week in February 2014.
- On St. Simons Island, Georgia, crews built a mock lighthouse and filmed a shark scene, while Atlanta was used to stand in for New York City.
