Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs have stepped up from Broad City to the big screen. Aniello directs and co-writes Rough Night with Downs, which sees “five best friends from college (played by Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, and Zoë Kravitz) reunite 10 years later for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami. […]
Continue ReadingBack in 2015, news broke that Broad City writers Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs had a movie in the works at Sony described as “combining elements of Weekend at Bernie’s and The Hangover,” and today, the premiere date for the film and first trailer dropped over at Buzzfeed. In addition to Downs, the main […]
Continue ReadingTracy Morgan and Luke Wilson are starring in a movie together. According to Variety, Morgan and Wilson have signed on to star in an upcoming comedy called The Shitheads written and directed by Macon Blair. The film centers on Morgan and Wilson as “a pair of deeply unqualified bozos who have been hired to transport […]
Continue ReadingAnna Faris and Eugenio Derbez are starring in a remake of the 1987 romantic comedy Overboard. According to Variety, Faris and Derbez have signed on to star in a remake of the film, which originally starred Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. For the remake, the main roles will be swapped, and the film will “focus […]
Continue ReadingStandup and Mindy Project cast member Fortune Feimster is headed to the big screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Feimster is set to star in an R-rated comedy called Bad Cop, Bad Cop, which centers on “two hapless cops who stumble on a case that exposes a conspiracy of corruption in their own precinct.” Feimster […]
Continue ReadingThe 2017 Independent Spirit Awards were handed out over the weekend, and hosts Nick Kroll and John Mulaney kicked off the ceremony with an opening monologue that’s about as hilarious as you might expect from the Oh, Hello guys. Kroll and Mulaney cover everything from Mel Gibson (“You know, people wondered, ‘How long would it […]
Continue ReadingEveryone’s talking about how the Oscars ended last night, but everything that came before that Best Picture mixup was very on brand for Jimmy Kimmel, who treated his first time hosting the Academy Awards as if it were an extended edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel usually, in fact, hosts a special live episode of […]
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Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron are starring in a movie together. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rogen and Theron will star in a dark comedy directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50, Amy Schumer’s upcoming film Snatched) and written by Dan Sterling called Flarsky. Rogen will play “an unemployed journalist, battered by his own misfortune and self-destructive […]
Continue ReadingNot since Tropic Thunder have we seen someone tackle the notion of “Oscar Bait” quite as accurately as Seth Meyers did last night on his NBC talker, Late Night with Seth Meyers. Here he was, in as the credits tell us if you didn’t blink and miss ’em, A Shoemaker Film, directed by Mike Karnell, […]
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