Spin Me Round is an indie comedy having its world premiere at SXSW 2022—directed by Jeff Baena (The Little Hours) and co-written by the film’s star Alison Brie. Alongside Brie, the movie also stars Alessandro Nivola, Aubrey Plaza, Debby Ryan, Zach Woods, Molly Shannon, Ayden Mayeri, Tim Heidecker, and Ben Sinclair…
EXCLUSIVE:Vice News has acquired international distribution rights to Not Going Quietly, a documentary feature about activist Ady Barkan that screened at the 2021 SXSW and Tribeca film festivals.
The movie is now available via Vice News outside of the U.S.. The film is currently on domestic theatrical release via…
Showtime has ordered a new anthology series, Cinema Toast, created by Jeff Baena (The Little Hours) and produced by the Duplass Brothers (Room 104), set to stream later this month. The series is described as a post-modernist reinvention of older movies that turns pre-existing imagery from the public domain on its head…
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is continuing to ramp up its original documentary push with a three-part series about Bigfoot from the Duplass Brothers and Lorena director Joshua Rofé.
The streamer has ordered Sasquatch, which investigates rumors of a bizarre twenty-five-year old triple homicide said to be the work of a mythical…
Shook, a hip-hop dance focused original short-form series starring singer/actress/dancer Sofia Wylie, will debut next month, the Disney Channel announced today.
Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass serve as executive producers through their DBP Donut banner. The series will be available on Disney Channel’s YouTube page.
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Teri Wyble (The Walking Dead, Terminator Genisys), Dane Rhodes (True Detective, The Magnificent Seven), and Hunter Burke (Claws, The Big Short) are set to co-star in Lost Bayou, an English and Cajun French-language film, which was a top six finalist and grant recipient of the Duplass Brothers and Seed&Spark "Hometown…
HBO’s teaser trailer for the Duplass Brothers’ upcoming anthology series Room 104 doesn’t give much away in terms of plot, but offers what seems a pretty clear sense of the show’s bonkers mood and eccentric approach. Set in a single room of an American hotel (hence the title), Room 104 tells a different story in each…
EXCLUSIVE: Production has officially started on Creep 2, with actor-director Desiree Akhavan signing on to star in the Blumhouse and Duplass Brothers production opposite Mark Duplass. A sequel to Creep, the cult horror film that debuted at SXSW 2014 and was a critical hit in 2015, Creep 2 will see the return of the…
Netflix acquired worldwide rights to Asperger’s Are Us at the SXSW fest in Austin today. The documentary, marking the debut of first-time director Alex Lehmann, follows the Boston comedy troupe that gives the film its title, and was exec produced by Duplass Brothers Productions.
Asperger’s will be released on Netflix…
Jay and Mark Duplass — whose fiefdom as writers, directors, actors and producers includes HBO’s Togetherness and Amazon’s Transparent — have closed a deal with Ballantine Books to publish an untitled essay collection in 2017. The busy sibs (whose second season of Togetherness is set to premiere in February and whose An…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is expanding its global indie film strategy by working directly with independent filmmakers and producers to launch titles worldwide, simultaneously, in all Netflix territories. While Netflix reps declined to comment on the specific size of each investment, Netflix typically invests anywhere from…