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Ed Helms (Together Together) and McG (The Babysitter) have boarded the Netflix body swap comedy Family Leave, inspired by New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s book, Bedtime for Mommy. Helms will star alongside the previously announced Jennifer Garner, with McG serving as the project’s…

Peacock has released the official trailer for Season 2 of Rutherford Falls, the comedy series from Sierra Teller Ornelas, Ed Helms and Mike Schur, ahead of its release later this month. In the first season, we meet lifelong best friends, Nathan Rutherford (Helms) and Reagan Wells (Jana Schmieding), who find…

Ed Helms & Mike Falbo's Pacific Electric Picture Company has upped executive Brett Harris to Vice President. Brett will continue to work across the company's film, scripted & unscripted television, and podcast slates. At Pacific Electric, Harris most recently worked on True Story with Ed & Randall for Peacock. Prior…

A die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan jumps the wall at the 1979 Super Bowl to watch his favorite team, a Muslim teen girl (comedian-attorney Yasmin Elhady) conquers 9/11 adversity and wins over students at an Alabama high school to become class president, and a working-class guy is slowed down by the cops in his blitz…

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…

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…