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EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Brownstein is set to direct MRC Film's upcoming comedy Witness Protection, starring Emmy winner Annie Murphy, who will also executive produce. The film reunites Murphy with writers Rupinder Gill and David West Read of the Emmy-winning Schitt's Creek, who will write and executive produce the film…

IFC Films has unveiled a new trailer for its psychological thriller The Nowhere Inn, starring Grammy winner Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia) and Dakota Johnson (Our Friend), which it is releasing in theaters, on digital and VOD on September 17. In the metafictional feature, Clark and her…

EXCLUSIVE:  Deadline has learned that IFC Films has just taken North American rights to The Nowhere Inn from Topic Studios. The pic, a fractured commentary on reality, identity, and authenticity, is produced, written by, and stars Carrie Brownstein and Grammy winner Annie “St. Vincent” Clark. The Nowhere Inn also reps…

Dakota Johnson is attached to executive produce and star in Rodeo Queens, a comedy, which Amazon Studios nabbed in a competitive situation from Platform One Media (a Boat Rocker Company) in association with TeaTime Pictures for series development. Christy Hall, the co-creator and executive producer of Netflix’s I Am No…

In 2017, St. Vincent approached her longtime friend Carrie Brownstein, to helm a feature in which she would star—a concert documentary, with scripted sketches mixed in. A two-time Grammy winner, also known as Annie Clark, St. Vincent was on tour at the time with her sixth record, Masseduction. A multi-talented artist…

How hard is it to say goodbye to Portlandia? Even David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld at a recent Netflix Emmy-season event went back and forth about their love for Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein and Jonathan Krisel’s sketch comedy series, which ended its run after eights seasons on IFC back in March. At Deadline’s…

Following eight seasons of IFC's Portlandia, creator, writer, EP, director and actor Carrie Brownstein was quick to cite some favorite characters she and co-star Fred Armisen portrayed over the years. At a Contenders Emmys panel moderated by Deadline’s international co-editor Peter White, Brownstein put feminist…

The very last question the creators of Portlandia will ever take at TCA was, appropriately: Is this the first time you have worked with a horse? "This was our first horse experience," series creator Fred Armisen acknowledged. "It seemed like a very tame horse," the critic said, which, technically, was an observation…

Hulu has given a pilot order to half-hour Search and Destroy, from Portlandia co-creator Carrie Brownstein and Annapurna Television. Written and to be directed by Brownstein, Search and Destroy is loosely based on her best-selling memoir Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, as well as her experiences as a young musician…

Grab your granola and mason jars of small-batch whiskey and put on your North Face vests because IFC has released the trailer for the eighth and final season of Portlandia. And it has everything fans want out of the put-a-bird-on-it, Emmy-nominated comedy sketch show about life in the hip Pacific Northwest city. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Brownstein, the actress, writer, musician, is getting ready to add “feature director” to her repertoire. The co-creator, writer and star of IFC's Emmy-nominated comedy Portlandia will make her feature film directorial debut on MGM’s Fairy Godmother. Take note: this marks the sixth female director…

IFC has picked up Portlandia for Seasons 6 and 7, ordering 10  half-hour episodes for each. Creators and stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein will remain at the helm for both seasons. Portlandia is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and produced by Broadway Video. Shot entirely in Portland, Portlandia is created…