Steve Carell starred with Tina Fey in "Date Night" during late 2008 and was released on April 9, 2010 in the U.S. He voiced Gru, the main character in the Universal CGI film "Despicable Me" along with Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, and Kristen Wiig. He reprised the role in the 2013 sequel "Despicable Me 2" and in the third installment of the film franchise "Despicable Me 3" in 2017. He has several other projects in the works, including a remake of the 1967 Peter Sellers film "The Bobo". He is doing voice-over work in commercials for Wrigley's Extra gum. Carell has launched
Sequel is usually a sequel to another film). Producing sequels to a work in another medium has recently become common, especially when the new medium is less costly or time-consuming to produce. A sequel to a popular but discontinued television series may be produced in another medium, thereby bypassing whatever factors led to the series cancellation. Some highly popular movies and television series have inspired the production of multiple novel sequels, sometimes rivaling or even dwarfing the volume of works in the original medium. For example, the 1956 novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians", its 1961 animated adaptation and that film's