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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…

Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Re-Training Day, a single-camera comedy from Uncle Buck developers/executive producers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, Ed Helms and Mike Falbo’s Pacific Electric Picture Co., Storied Media Group and Universal TV. Written and executive produced by Cragg and Bradley and…

Comedy Central has set the premiere date for The Fake News With Ted Helms comedy special toplined by Daily Show alum Ed Helms. The satire special will debut December 13 at 10 PM on Comedy Central. The one-hour comedy special will featured absurd, made-up news that closely resembles real news, delivered by an absurd…

Brothers Kyle and Peter Reynolds grew up without a father. Turns out their mom raised them on the lie that Dad had checked out when they were little. But now they’re hip to the truth and set out to find their old man. Along the way, the guys learn a little more about their eccentric mother than they probably want to…