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A lonely kid finds a robotic friend in Ron's Gone Wrong, an animated family movie from Disney premiering at the London Film Festival. An endearing mix of earthy values and sci-fi concepts, it takes a cynical swipe at social media culture while delivering characters to care about. Chief of these is Barney Pudowski…

Bleecker Street debuted the trailer and poster for Sundance Film Festival pickup Together Together on Wednesday. The film, which debuted in Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Competition is director Nikole Beckwith's second feature and stars Ed Helms, Patti Harrison, Tig Notaro and Julio Torres. Pic follows young loner Anna…

We’re getting the first look at Rutherford Falls, Peacock’s upcoming original comedy series from co-creators and exec producers Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, The Good Place), Ed Helms and Sierra Teller Ornelas (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Superstore). Peacock has slotted Thursday, April 22 for the series premiere. The…

This week on the New Hollywood Podcast, we have not one, not two but 16 guests in four separate segments. The Sundance Film Festival was virtual this year as was Deadline’s Sundance Studio. For this special episode, we share our studio interviews in podcast form. For this episode, I had the chance to speak with Christo…

In Nikole Beckwith’s Sundance comedy Together Together, the filmmaker tells a refreshing story of Matt (Ed Helms), a 40-year-old single man who hires Anna (Patti Harrison) as a surrogate. The result? A look at a very different kind of platonic love between two people that is seldom put on film. Beckwith, Helms and…

Ahead of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Together Together in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section, Bleecker Street has acquired North American rights to Nikole Beckwith's second feature which stars Ed Helms, Patti Harrison, Tig Notaro and Julio Torres. Pic follows young loner Anna (Harrison) who is hired…

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…