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EXCLUSIVE: Anna Kendrick is set to star in Unsound, a new crime thriller movie to be directed by Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and The Man Who Invented Christmas helmer Bharat Nalluri from a screenplay by Matthew Ross and Christopher Edwards. The Oscar-nominated Kendrick will play a New England state trooper…

EXCLUSIVE: Search Party‘s Meredith Hagner has been cast opposite Anna Kendrick and Donal Logue in Dummy, a comedy for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form video platform Quibi from Deadbeat co-creator Cody Heller and independent studio wiip. Created by Heller, Dummy is a buddy comedy that follows Cody, an…

Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick is set to star in and executive produce Love Life, a 10-episode half-hour romantic comedy anthology series from Lionsgate TV and Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, for WarnerMedia’s forthcoming streaming service. The series greenlight was announced today during Lionsgate’s analyst call…

Daniel Dae Kim is joining Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette, along with Shamier Anderson, in Joe Penna's sci-fi thriller Stowaway. This is the second feature from Penna and Ryan Morrison, the duo behind last year’s Cannes Official Selection Arctic, which released domestically in February. Penna is directing and co-wrote…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off his starring role in Gotham, Donal Logue has been tapped as the male lead opposite Anna Kendrick in Dummy, a comedy for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form video platform Quibi from Deadbeat co-creator Cody Heller and independent studio wiip. Created by Heller, Dummy is a buddy comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick is set to topline and executive produce Dummy , a comedy for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi from Deadbeat co-creator Cody Heller and independent studio wiip. Tricia Brock (The Walking Dead) has come on board to direct the project…

Facebook Watch’s new original animated comedy Human Discoveries has set Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick as its stars. The forthcoming series, which will debut later this year, comes from Chris Bruno and David Howard Lee with ShadowMachine founders Corey Campodonico and Alex Bulkley (BoJack Horseman, Final Space…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ and CAA have inked key pre-sales at AFM on Anna Kendrick sci-fi-thriller Stowaway, including a multi-territory pact with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Sony has taken rights in UK/Ire, Australia/NZ, Latin America, Eastern Europe, most of Asia and South Africa. Additional territories sold include…

Corey Lewandowski is facing the fire and the fury from social media after he mocked a 10-year-girl  with down syndrome being separated from her mother at the U.S.-Mexico border during a Fox News panel Tuesday. While Democratic strategist Zac Petkanas was discussing his views on the family separation policy that has…

The new teaser for A Simple Favor tells us it’s “from the darker side of director Paul Feig.” And his follow-up to Ghostbusters certainly is a left turn. The film stars Anna Kendrick as Stephanie, a small-town mommy blogger whose new bestie Emily (Blake Lively) vanishes suddenly — after we hear a snippet of a phone…

Anna Kendrick and Orange Is the New Black's Danielle Brooks are set to star in the latest directorial effort from Four Lions helmer Chris Morris. I hear that the long-awaited but secretive project was filmed in the Dominican Republic during the summer. It is understood that the untitled film, which would be Morris'…

“We don’t do anything with dignity, okay?” Rebel Wilson’s “Fat Amy” (her ball cap reads “Make America Eat Again”) says in this first trailer for Pitch Perfect 3, and fans wouldn’t expect otherwise. Having graduated from college and finding the non-singing world a depressing place – service jobs and bull-tending…