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EXCLUSIVE: Fantasy film Man & Witch has announced the addition of Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous, Shrek), Eddie Izzard (The Riches, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), Daniel Portman (Game of Thrones), Bill Bailey (Black Books, Spaced) and more as shooting wraps in Los Angeles and Scotland. Saunders, Izzard…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Dynamics has inked a deal with Eddie Izzard to license her entire comedy catalog and release her new stand-up special, Wunderbar. The comic’s new special will be released through the company’s hybrid distribution system composed of Comcast, Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Spectrum, Apple TV, Dish…

Actor and comedian Eddie Izzard has come forward to reveal that she will use “she” and “her” pronouns from here on out. Izzard made the announcement while making an appearance on the Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year, a competition series where artists are challenged to create a portrait of three famous subjects…

EXCLUSIVE: Valorie Curry (The Tick) and Eddie Izzard (Six Minutes To Midnight) are set to star opposite Ashley Zukerman in Langdon, NBC's drama pilot based on Dan Brown's best-selling thriller novel The Lost Symbol. The project, which hails from Imagine Television, CBS TV Studios and Universal Television, was among…

Animated features sometimes take years in development and production before hitting the big screen, so maybe it is understandable when similar ones start popping up all over the place. Such is the case with DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studios’ latest entry, Abominable, the story of a young yeti on a journey to get…

UPDATE, with venue Rupert Everett will take over for the previously announced Eddie Izzard as George in director Joe Mantello’s upcoming Broadway staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? co-starring Laurie Metcalf as Martha. The announcement was made today by producers Scott Rudin/Barry Diller/David Geffen, who said…

Bill Pullman, Eddie Izzard and music producer/DJ Diplo have joined the cast of Covers, the Focus Features and Working Title comedy being directed by Late Night‘s Nisha Ganatra that already stars Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Ice Cube. The film, penned by Flora Greeson, is set amid the talent, fame and…

Eddie Izzard and Laurie Metcalf will tackle George and Martha next season when producer Scott Rudin brings Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? back to Broadway under the direction of Joe Mantello. Rudin made the announcement today. Co-starring will be Russell Tovey and Patsy Ferran. The production will…

Production is underway in the UK on thriller Six Minutes To Midnight, starring Victoria & Abdul duo Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench. Filming will take place over six weeks in locations across Wales, UK. Lionsgate International is selling worldwide rights and Lionsgate UK will release in the UK. Directed by Andy Goddard (Do…

Update With New Video In some odd conversational and attitudinal twists, Bill Maher sided with Megyn Kelly in the same hour he criticized New York’s Public Theater production that features a Trump-like Julius Caesar. And that was all before one guest demanded an apology from another for allegedly inspiring a campaign…

EXCLUSIVE: Bollywood actor Ali Fazal (Happy Bhaag Jayegi, Furious 7) has boarded Stephen Frears’ Victoria and Abdul opposite the previously announced Judi Dench in the Working Title-BBC-Focus Features pic. Fazal takes the role of Abdul Karim, the young servant from India who became an unlikely confidant and teacher to…

HBO drama pilot The Devil You Know (working title), co-written by Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan, Bruce Miller and Tracy Miller, is building out its cast. Joining previously announced Eddie Izzard, Nadia Alexander and Ismenia Mendes in series regular roles are Ever Carradine, Damien Molony, Julian Rhind Tu…