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Spire Animation Studios has closed a $20 million funding round that includes a strategic investment from Epic Games. It said the fresh funds are earmarked for staff expansion, studio technology and infrastructure build out and creative development. Epic will also join Spire's board of directors. The collaboration will…

HBO will get a holy trinity of The Righteous Gemstones as it renews the comedy for Season 3. The renewal news comes just weeks after Season 2 debuted on January 9. Created, written by and starring Danny McBride, The Righteous Gemstones tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of…

Ben Best, an actor and writer who penned and co-starred alongside Danny McBride the cult indie pic The Foot Fist Way and later co-created, wrote and appeared with McBride in the HBO comedy series Eastbound & Down, died Sunday. He was 46. His death was announced by Rough House Pictures, the Eastbound & Down production…

EXCLUSIVE: Danny McBride, Gemma Chan and Benedict Wong are in talks to join John David Washington in New Regency's upcoming film True Love, an original sci-fi project written and directed by multi-hyphenate filmmaker Gareth Edwards. Kiri Hart will serve as a producer on the project along with Edwards. New Regency will…

The Garbage Pail Kids will go from trading card to screen in an animated series in the works at HBO Max. From co-creators and writers Danny McBride, David Gordon Green and Josh Bycel, the series is inspired by McBride and Green’s affinity for Garbage Pail Kids and Saturday morning cartoons. The animated program is set…

Jason Schwartzman, Eric Roberts and Eric Andre are set for recurring roles on Season 2 of HBO’s comedy series The Righteous Gemstones. Production is currently underway on the nine-episode second season. Created, written by and starring Danny McBride, The Righteous Gemstones tells the story of a world-famous…

Phil Lord and Chris Miller have found a way to put their unmistakable stamp on the animated feature world with such out-of-the-box fresh hits as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie and their Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, not to mention pitch-perfect live-action…

EXCLUSIVE: Danny McBride's Rough House Pictures is partnering with Spire Animation Studios to develop the animated feature, Trouble. Pic centers on Jax, a 13-year-old who gets in trouble with his family, and is swept into a parallel reality known as the World of Trouble. Embarking on a whimsical adventure, within this…

EXCLUSIVE: Another classic TV sitcom is mounting a comeback. The iconic 1960s comedy Hogan’s Heroes is being rebooted by the original series co-creator Al Ruddy, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group and Rough Pictures. The reimagined version will be a single-camera action adventure comedy series set in present day…

Three weeks following its freshman-season launch, HBO has renewed its comedy series The Righteous Gemstones for Season 2. "Danny [McBride], Jody [Hill] and David [Gordon Green] are among our favorite collaborators and we're thrilled that their take on a family comedy has been met with such enthusiasm," says Amy…

HBO received a blessing of sorts from the TV Gods this past weekend with the premiere of megachurch comedy The Righteous Gemstones and the second episode of the second season of Succession. Coming in almost the same as the series high of the August 11 Season 2 debut, the Brian Cox-led global media moguls drama snared…

Almost four years after James Franco’s Zeroville was acquired at the Toronto Film Festival by the now-defunct distributor Alchemy, the film adapted from Steve Erickson’s novel now has a trailer and a new lease on life. After being tied up in Alchemy’s bankruptcy wranglings, the film directed by and starring Franco…