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The Bishop Sycamore high school football scandal is one of the stranger sports stories of recent years. The presumed high school football team from Columbus got whooped 58-0 by IMG Academy and the game was televised by ESPN. However, the game turned out to be just the beginning of the story. HBO Sports has now landed…

Netflix has unveiled a new clip from Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, which will hit theaters on December 10, and arrive on the streamer on the 24th. In the Oscar-winning writer-director’s satirical sci-fi pic, a comet is hurtling towards Earth. So what are we gonna do about it? Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio play…

Move along. Please disperse. Nothing to see here — just an approaching comet that will destroy Planet Earth. Here’s the first teaser for Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay’s satirical feature for Netflix starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as a pair of low-level astronomers who go on a giant media tour to warn…

EXCLUSIVE: In competition, Apple has landed a multi-year, first-look deal for scripted feature films with Hyperobject Industries, the multi-platform production company from Oscar-winning writer/director/producer Adam McKay. McKay brings a team that includes his longtime producer Kevin Messick and producers Betsy Koch…

EXCLUSIVE:  Adam McKay’s HBO L.A. Lakers drama series is rounding out its cast. Mike Epps (The Upshaws), Carina Conti (The Last Tycoon), Max E. Williams (Dreamland) and Mariama Diallo will recur in the series based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s…

Rory Cochrane (White Boy Rick), Danny Burstein (Evil), Austin Aaron (13 Reasons Why), Ta’Nika Gibson (Iron Fist), Edwin Hodge (Mayans MC), Terence Davis (Twenties) and Ja’Quan Cole (Wu Tang: An American Saga) have joined the cast of Adam McKay's Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtim…

Gillian Jacobs (Community) and The Wire alum Wood Harris have joined the cast of Adam McKay's Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay's Hyperobject Industries is producing. Written by showrunner Max…

EXCLUSIVE: Tracy Letts (Ford v. Ferrari, Divorce) Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown), Jimel Atkins (David Makes Man), LisaGay Hamilton (To Kill A Mockingbird) and Andy Hirsch (Fort McCoy) have joined the cast of Adam McKay's Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem…

HBO is developing a comedy set in the world of a sugar baby – where an older person dates a younger person with the promise of money and gifts. Sugar comes from Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman and Adam McKay and his Hyperobject Industries production company. The half-hour project follows a young woman in New York who…

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Cullen (Joker) will play former NBA star and Lakers head coach Bill Sharman, and Lola Kirke (Mozart in the Jungle) will portray Jerry West’s wife Karen in Adam McKay's Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty o…

Adam McKay's Hyperobject Industries and Three Uncanny Four Productions, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, today launched Death at the Wing, a new podcast series that focuses on the tragic intersection of basketball, politics, and socio-economics in the 1980s that led to an extraordinary number of untimely…

Sarah Ramos (Parenthood) has been tapped to play Cheryl Pistono, the girlfriend of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in Adam McKay's Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay's Hyperobject Industries is…