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Apple TV+ has greenlit female-driven anthology series Roar starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever and Alison Brie. The series comes from GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, who have signed an overall deal with the streamer. Roar, which has been in the works since 2018, is based on Cecelia Ahern's…

Patton Oswalt is heading back to the Sundance Film Festival, though the comedian won't need a snow coat this year. The Big Fan star and 2017 jury member will be hosting the 2021 SFF Awards Night on February 2, the Robert Redford founded shindig announced today. Semi-virtual like all of Sundance '21 because of the…

If there was ever any doubt, and I assure you there wasn’t, Carey Mulligan’s tour-de-force turn in Promising Young Woman cements her as one of the true acting greats of her, or anyone else’s, generation. Navigating an enormously tricky landscape as a 30-year-old woman haunted by a tragic event in her teenage years and…

While the GLOW family agreed they’d all love to bring to the series to a close with a movie, star Alison Brie says fans shouldn’t get their hopes up too high. The actress spoke with The Playlist for an upcoming The Fourth Wall podcast where she discusses the Netflix cancellation and more. Netflix cancelled the…

The cast of GLOW come together for the first time since the Netflix show’s cancellation on Saturday. Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Betty Gilpin and other cast members assembled to encourage voter registration in partnership with voting initiatives HeadCount and #GoodTovote. During the YouTube livestream event the GLOW…

Betty Gilpin said that acting in Glow was “the best job I’ll ever have.” On Wednesday, the actress who stars as Debbie Eagan in the now-cancelled wrestling comedy, wrote a eulogy in Vanity Fair mourning and celebrating the show created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mesch. “GLOW was cancelled. I am sad. It was the best job…

Netflix announced Monday that it has cancelled its wrestling comedy GLOW, reversing the series’ fourth season renewal. Creators LIz Flahive and Carly Mensch told Deadline that the streamer decided not to finish filming the final season due to COVID-19 complications. Upon hearing the news GLOW stars including Alison Bri…

Dave Franco is also ambitiously looking for a career behind the camera as well, and with his sharp B-movie feature debut The Rental, he makes a good case for it. As a director and writer (here working with Joe Swanberg on the script) he isn’t quite on the level of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning debut with Get Out, which…

Alison Brie posted on Instagram Friday expressing regret over voicing the character of Diane Nguyen, a Vietnamese American writer on Netflix’s BoJack Horseman. In the statement, Brie says “We missed a great opportunity to represent the Vietnamese-American community accurately and respectfully.” Brie’s decision follows…

Creator Dan Harmon and the ensemble cast of the cult hit sitcom Community reunited on a livestream to table-read an episode from Season 5 of the show to raise money for World Central Kitchen’s and Frontline Foods’ efforts to feed COVID-19 essential workers. During the post-read Q&A, the conversation steered more than…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to The Rental, the thriller that marks the directorial debut of Dave Franco. The film stars GLOW‘s Alison Brie, Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) and Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night). Pic will be released July 24. Scripted by Franco…

Horse Girl marks Alison Brie’s first screenplay and is a story that hits very close to home for the G.L.O.W. actress. She co-wrote the script with director Jeff Baena and it is based on her own family history. “My mother’s mother lived with paranoid schizophrenia and I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother and…