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Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Spoiler Alert: This story contains major plot details of Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spider-Man: No Way Home opened December 17 and shattered box office records for…

Today's raucous Vulture Festival LA panel featuring the team behind NBC's meta-comedy Community (2009-2015) was billed as a reunion but the event did not really answer the real "reunion" question — that is, whether the cast and creatives will ever reunite to make a Community movie. Show creator Dan Harmon and…

Three days after his star Joel McHale fell flat at the White House Correspondents Dinner, "Community" executive producer Chris McKenna waxed pessimistic about his perennially on-the-bubble NBC show’s chances for a pickup. @AltNationNet @nbc @Sony @danharmon Community is dead. Pick a new show to make unthreatening…

After several weeks of negotiations, Community producer Sony Pictures TV just confirmed that there are deals in place for series creator/former showrunner Dan Harmon and former co-exec producer Chris McKenna to returning as executive producers for Season 5. Harmon will once again take the reins of the show as…

As we reported at the time of NBC’s eleventh-hour renewal of Community, there had been interest in bringing back series creator Dan Harmon for what I hear is expected to be the final 13-episode season of the cult comedy. (It is not on NBC‘s fall schedule). I have learned that both Harmon and key former Community…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris McKenna (Community) has closed a two-year overall deal with Universal Television. Under the pact, he will develop and supervise new and existing projects for the studio. McKenna spent the last three seasons as a co-executive producers on the cult NBC/Sony TV comedy series Community. “Chris is a…