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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. “It’s…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie distributor The Orchard has closed a deal with Duplass Brothers Productions to take worldwide theatrical and other rights to a slate of seven upcoming feature films produced by Jay and Mark Duplass. The films are included in the exclusive SVOD deal the Duplasses signed with Netflix at Sundance in…

After more than two decades of working in Hollywood, New Zealand-born actress Melanie Lynskey is in a really good place. Since her 1994 debut as a manipulated, murderous teen in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, she's built a diverse film and TV career that has included a role in 2009's Oscar-nominated Up in the Air…

The two companies will split rights for The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, with Red Flag handling theatrical distribution while Fox Searchlight takes all other ancillary markets. Produced by Stephanie Langhoff, the film written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass will have its world premiere at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival on…