Last year, Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams signed on to star in a comedy together called Game Night, and today a new trailer for the film was released. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who also directed 2015’s Vacation reboot), the movie “tells of a group of couples who gather for their regularly planned […]
Continue ReadingThe fourth movie from Adam Sandler’s original four-movie deal with Netflix now has a teaser trailer and release date. Originally announced last year, The Week Of stars Sandler alongside Chris Rock and follows “the week of preparation for a wedding in which Sandler’s character’s daughter marries Rock’s character’s son.” Sandler co-wrote the film with Robert […]
Continue ReadingDoug Kenney flamed out early. A child of the 1950s, he produced comedy in print, radio, and film from the late ‘60s through his death in 1980 that has become classic, either through its enormous influence on the comedy that followed or as works in their own right (“People really like Caddyshack,” Martin Mull intones, […]
Continue ReadingDavid Wain is no stranger to disrupting an unsuspecting comedy mainstream. Before solidifying himself as a household name as the writer-director behind cult classics (Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten) and commercial hits (Role Models) alike, Wain and his pioneering sketch comedy troupe The State staged a comedic coup at MTV back in the early […]
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Fresh off her Oscar nomination for co-writing The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordon has landed another movie gig. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gordon has signed on to write a movie for Amazon called The Nest. The film is based on Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s 2016 novel of the same name and follows “the dysfunctional Plumb family. […]
Continue ReadingIt’s hard to argue that anyone could be doing better in comedy production right now — digital, TV, and film — than Peter Principato and Jonathan Stern. Principato is coming off the recent releases of Central Intelligence and Keanu, the first of which grossed over $200 million worldwide and both of which are north of […]
Continue ReadingWhat a huge day for comedians and comedy fans. Please welcome Academy Award nominees Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, for writing a screenplay based on how they met and fell in love, in The Big Sick; Jordan Peele, for writing and directing one of 2017’s best movies and commentaries on race in America, in […]
Continue ReadingSpinal Tap’s career continues to climb past 11. In 2018, Harry Shearer’s Derek Smalls character is releasing a solo album! Smalls Change, Meditations on Ageing will drop globally on April 13, 2018, via Twanky Records/BMG on Digital, CD and Vinyl. Smalls Change is a poignant and oftentimes furious contemplation on aging that explores the passing of time […]
Continue ReadingAhead of its release in April, the first full trailer for Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers 2 dropped this week. The sequel, which was made possible by an impressive 2015 crowdfunding campaign, centers on “an international border dispute between the US and Canada,” and in addition to the original Super Troopers cast, Rob Lowe also stars […]
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