So many comedy stars have now invaded the horror genre that it’s not even funny. This month, it was Orion Pictures pouncing on a Scandinavian slasher pitch by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Last month, Lionsgate trumpeted Chris Rock as the idea man and executive producer who can pump new lifeblood into the studio’s rusty S…

EXCLUSIVE: Vice Principals alum Walton Goggins will re-team with his former co-star Danny McBride on McBride’s new HBO comedy series The Righteous Gemstones. Goggins is set for a recurring role on the series, on which McBride also stars along with John Goodman. Written, directed and EP’ed by McBride, The Righteous Gems…

He burst on the scene as the hapless proprietor of a strip mall dojo in the low budget The Foot Fist Way, and Danny McBride just scored his biggest success as co-writer of the low budget sequel to the 40-year old John Carpenter film Halloween. Its $80 million opening gross, a record for October, likely will prevent…

HBO has given a series order to The Righteous Gemstones, the Danny McBride-created half-hour comedy about a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work — all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. John Goodman stars the patriarch Eli Gemstone, and the order comes as…

Tonight in Toronto, Laurie Strode makes a triumphant return to cinemas with David Gordon Green's Halloween. While the latest installment of John Carpenter's iconic horror franchise—centering on the murderous, masked Michael Meyers—is the first to hit theaters in over a decade, Green's contribution to the canon goes…

It’s hard to believe that the stoner comedy Pineapple Express was released 10 years ago today. Directed by David Gordon Green and starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride, the film became a hit with audiences and put itself in the film history books as a weed comedy for the ages. Rogen, who co-wrote it…

Danny McBride and John Goodman are returning to HBO for The Righteous Gemstones pilot. The televangelist family comedy created by the Eastbound & Down star finds McBride and the Treme vet teaming up to play the offspring heir apparent to Goodman's world famous and acerbic preaching patriarch. As the McBride portrayed…

Jonathan Watson’s dark comedy Arizona starring Danny McBride has landed at RLJE Films, which has acquired all North American rights to the film. Arizona marks another collaboration between Watson and McBride, who have worked together on the HBO comedy Vice Principals. The film was penned by Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Luke…

Jody Hill and Danny McBride’s creative fusion has a brazenly hysterical yet sincere way of showing the underbelly of men; characters who aspire to greatness, but through their flaws, fall short as divorced fathers or misfits, from the Sundance hit that made the duo, The Foot Fist Way, to their latest HBO comedy…

The Deadline Studio is making its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, opening its doors to the most riveting and groundbreaking talent at the 25th edition of the fest, running March 9-17, in Austin, Texas. Actors, directors and producers – from film and television – stopping by the Deadline Studio for portraits and…

For weeks, star-studded trailers for Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home have been making their Internet rounds making people ask, “Is this a real movie?” Our questions were finally answered tonight during the Super Bowl when it was revealed that all of these bizarre movie trailers to a what seemed like another…

Wrapping up his exceptional and outlandish HBO series Vice Principals last fall, Danny McBride is on to his next extreme character portrait with the darkly comedic thriller Arizona. The feature directorial debut of Jonathan Watson—who had previously worked for many years as a 1st AD and second unit director, and met…