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STX has acquired comedy script The Miserable Adventures Of Burt Squire Aboard The Horn High Yo with Harrison Ford and Ed Helms attached to star. Inspired by a true story, Burt Squire revolves around a family man in the midst of a midlife crisis who embarks on what he hopes would be a dream sailing vacation, but ends…

"You never see Indians on TV," said Rutherford Falls co-creator and showrunner Sierra Teller Ornelas. "When you do it's one guy and he has to transform into a wolf." The Peacock comedy, which also comes from Ed Helms and Mike Schur is set in a small town in upstate New York and the Native American reservation it…

Peacock’s upcoming Rutherford Falls has set its initial cast. Joining Ed Helms in the comedy series are Jana Schmieding (Blast), Michael Greyeyes (I Know This Much Is True), Jesse Leigh (Heathers) and Dustin Milligan (Schitt’s Creek). The castings were announced as part of Rutherford Falls’ panel at the CTAM virtual…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC is going to fuse comedy with shocking real-life stories in True Story, a hybrid alternative-scripted series hosted by Ed Helms (The Office, The Hangover) and Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat, Always Be My Maybe). The six-episode series, based on the Australian show True Story with Hamish & Andy, hails…

Screen Media has released a pair of trailers (red or green band, depending on your mood) for Corporate Animals, the horror comedy starring Demi Moore and Ed Helms that bowed in the Midnight section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It hits theaters and on-demand September 20. Moore plays Lucy, the delusional (OK…

Golden Globe-winning Empire star Taraji P. Henson and Ed Helms, most recently seen in WB’s ensemble comedy Tag, are attached to star in Coffee & Kareem, a Netflix film which Helms is producing with Mike Falbo under their banner, Pacific Electric Pictures Co. (Corporate Animals, The Fake News with Ted Nelms). Michael Do…

Screen Media has acquired North American rights to Corporate Animals, the horror comedy from Patrick Brice that bowed in January in the Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival. Demi Moore, Jessica Williams, Karan Soni, Isiah Whitlock Jr, Dan Bakkedahl, Calum Worthy, Nasim Pedrad, Martha Kelly, Jennifer Kim and E…

In Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals, Demi Moore relished the opportunity to play “the Trump of the movie.” In the comedic horror pic written by Peep Show‘s Sam Bain, Moore’s terrible CEO leads her suffering assistants on a corporate team-building retreat. During a caving weekend in New Mexico spearheaded by Bear…

NBC has put in development a father-son autobiographical comedy from Jon and Josh Silberman, Ed Helms and Mike Falbo’s Pacific Electric Picture Co., Marlon co-creator Chris Moynihan and Universal TV, where Pacific Electric Picture Co. is based. Written by the Silberman brothers, the untitled comedy based on Josh…

Based on a Wall Street Journal article and a touching subsequent CBS Sunday Morning profile, Tag simply doesn’t get it. Literally. The film is inspired by the real lifelong shenanigans of a group of elementary school friends who played tag as kids and turned it into an ongoing annual game well into their 50s (so far)…

STXsurreal, the VR and immersive content division of STX Entertainment just unveiled its new its VR slate which contains several new, original short-form series in development, including a new comedy series from 'The Office' star Ed Helms, an untitled Dave Bautista action-comedy, a spinoff of STX's 'Mile 22' film…

Here is your one-sentence logline for this new comedy: “Our group of friends have been playing the same game of tag for 30 years.” To which the new bride of one replies, simply, “What?” You might get the same reaction when people hear that it’s based on a true story. Behold the first trailer for Tag, starring Ed…