Bill Hader and Issa Rae team up for smart, dark cruise ship comedy “Empress of Serenity”
Beloved Saturday Night Live alum Bill Hader and star of HBO’s Insecure, Issa Rae, have signed on to co-star in a dark comedy that’s got something for everyone. The film, titled Empress of Serenity, comes from writer and director Jesse Andrews (who earned a cult fan base with 2015’s intensely emotional Me and Earl and […]
“Get Out” is now the second highest grossing horror film of all time
It’s official! According to Forbes, Jordan Peele’s Get Out is the second highest grossing horror film of all time. In the category of R-rated scary movies, Get Out is dominating all previous competition – The Phantom Menace and The Lost World – to sit soundly behind The Exorcist as the second highest grossing. As of early this week, Get Out has […]
Kevin Hart is starring in a remake of 80s classic, “The Great Outdoors”
Kevin Hart will star in a remake of John Candy’s classic summer family film The Great Outdoors, Deadline reports. Originally released in 1988, The Great Outdoors features the late, great Candy alongside Dan Aykroyd and Annette Bening, with a script by legendary 80s comedy writer John Hughes. The story of one family trying to keep it together […]
If you liked watching Fyre Fest burn, you’ll love Seth Rogen and The Lonely Island’s latest film
If, in the middle of a weekend that hosted both the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and Sam Bee’s “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” you were too busy laughing at the trainwreck that was Fyre Festival, good news: Seth Rogen and The Lonely Island boys have been working on a script with a very similar […]
Robin Williams’ last film, Monty Python production “Absolutely Anything,” premieres this month
Legendary, universally beloved comic actor Robin Williams passed away nearly three years ago, but we still have one more unreleased film of his to look forward to: Absolutely Anything, a slapstick British comedy, which hits theaters later this month. Absolutely Anything wrapped shooting just three weeks before Williams’ death, a suicide that shook the world […]
What do Dave Chappelle, Bradley Cooper, and Lady Gaga have in common?
It sounds like the first line of a bad joke, but comedian Dave Chappelle, musician Lady Gaga, and actor Bradley Cooper really do have something in common — they’re all starring in an upcoming remake of 1937 film A Star Is Born. Presumably encouraged by the success of showbiz musical La La Land, Cooper is making his directorial debut […]
Kate McKinnon, Ilana Glazer, and Scarlett Johansson’s “Rough Night” gets a new trailer
Hooray, there’s a new trailer for one of this summer’s most highly anticipated comedies, Rough Night! Written by Broad City‘s Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello, Rough Night stars Ilana Glazer, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Scarlett Johansson, and Zoe Kravitz as a bachelorette party gone wild in Miami. This alone is an amazing premise — imagine all […]
“I Am Battle Comic” filmmaker Jordan Brady talks capturing comedy in a war zone
Documentary filmmaker Jordan Brady is no stranger to comedy: the director of acclaimed documentaries I Am Comic and I Am Road Comic, he’s spent years profiling performers from Tim Allen and Tom Arnold to Maria Bamford and Doug Benson, exploring their lives at home and on the road and capturing better than almost anyone what it’s like […]
Thomas Middleditch joins Millie Bobby Brown and Kyle Chandler in “Godzilla” sequel
Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch is officially branching out from comedy, with the announcement that he’ll be joining the cast of a forthcoming Godzilla sequel. Middleditch will co-star alongside Stranger Things heroine Millie Bobby Brown, and Friday Night Lights #1 coach, Kyle Chandler, in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. While the horror / sci-fi movie hasn’t even started filming […]
Judd Apatow visits “The Craig Ferguson Show” to talk about accents, famous Jareds, and his latest indie hit
Writer and director Judd Apatow stopped by SiriusXM’s live taping of The Craig Ferguson Show at Largo in Los Angeles recently to talk about his latest film, The Big Sick, and to joke around a lot with the show’s Scottish host. Apatow was joined onstage by fellow comics Thomas Lennon, Mary-Lynn Rajskub, John Thompson, and Claudia […]