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EXCLUSIVE: In a move that could become more common as major studios lean in heavily toward their streaming launches, the Ben Falcone-directed Melissa McCarthy-starrer Superintelligence has exited its December 20 theatrical release date to instead become the first Warner Bros Pictures Group film to premiere on HBO…

EXCLUSIVE: As we watch superhero movies dominate Deadline’s Most Profitable Pic tournament, it was just a matter of time before Netflix got in that game. Sure enough, sources say they are wrapping up deals with Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy to star this fall in Thunder Force, a film that Ben Falcone has written…

The first trailer for New Line Cinema's college-centric Life of the Party has dropped, and it has Melissa McCarthy in all her alcohol-consuming, “cool mom” physical comedy glory. Directed by McCarthy’s husband Ben Falcone and in the same vein as the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield classic Back to School, Life of the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, New Line has purchased an Untitled Female Boston Cop project based on a book proposal by Alexandra Lydon about the first women to join Boston’s police department in the ’70s. The film will be developed as a dramatic vehicle for Melissa McCarthy to play one of the main women cops…

Debuting on March 29 and already renewed for a second season, TV Land’s Nobodies executive produced by Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone is a near-perfect example of what having famous friends can do for you in this town – and how that doesn't always work out for the best. With its first episode already online and…

Actress-writer Annie Mumolo has been tapped as the female lead in Amy's Brother, Fox’s single-camera comedy produced by the husband-and-wife duo of Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone and Warner Bros TV. The project reunites Bridesmaids co-writer Mumolo with McCarthy, who got her big break in the movie, and her husband…

Fox has given pilot green light to Amy’s Brother, a single-camera comedy produced by the husband-and-wife duo of Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone and Warner Bros TV. This is Fox’s first pilot order to an outside studio this season. The network has picked up 10 other pilots — five comedies and five dramas — all from…

Two months before Nobodies‘ March 29 series premiere, TV Land has picked up a 12-episode second season of the single-camera comedy series, executive produced by Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, for premiere in 2018. Nobodies stars and is executive produced and written by Groundlings alums Davidson, Dorf and Ramras…

Fox has put in development a half-hour single-camera family comedy project executive produced by the husband-and-wife duo of Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone. Written and co-executive produced by Jim Cashman (Saturday Night Live) and Mitch Silpa (Bridesmaids), the untitled project is about an unconventional family…

TV Land has given a 12-episode series order to Nobodies, a single-camera comedy pilot executive produced by Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone through their production banner On The Day. Starring, executive produced and written by Groundlings alums Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras (Mike Tyson Mysteries), Nobod…

Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone have set up their next film, the comedy Life of the Party, their second for New Line which, like their current The Boss out this weekend, will star McCarthy with Falcone directing. The married duo wrote the script for the film which will be produced through their On The Way banner…

Melissa McCarthy proves again she has no current peer as a physical comedienne: She’s the new Lucille Ball, with no pratfall too much in order to get a laugh. And she gets a lot of them, even if shamelessly, in The Boss, which ought to be re-titled Melissa McCarthy’s The Boss since she is virtually the whole show…