Competing top-line Android phones already have the same resolution, so Samsung isn't breaking new ground here.

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Ferrell isn't breaking new ground, but one day -- when he's branching out to play psycho killers and getting in touch with his inner Thespian -- we'll look back on his clowning period and wonder why he would want to do anything else.

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"I don't think they're breaking much new ground, at least as far as theater is concerned, " he told me.

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