In the New Hollywood Podcast’s first installment of a live series of episodes, Amanda N’Duka traveled to our friendly neighbor to the north to moderate a special panel at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The panel featured filmmakers from Shatterbox, a platform from Refinery29 that gives female storytellers…
Refinery29 has tapped Yara Shahidi, Gillian Jacobs, Gilly Barnes, Ivy Agregan, Janine Sherman Barrois, A.M. Lukas, Jessica Sanders, and Allana Harkin as the filmmakers for season two of Shatterbox Anthology, which will consist of eight wide-ranging short-form films. The series provides emerging and established female…
Netflix has set an August production start in Europe for Ibiza, a comedy that will star Gillian Jacobs (Love), exiting Saturday Night Live cast member Vanessa Bayer, and Phoebe Robinson (2 Dope Queens). Alex Richanbach will direct a script by Lauryn Kahn, and Gary Sanchez Productions’Â Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and…
Netflix has ordered a third season of Judd Apatow’s relationship comedy Love, starring Paul Rust and Gillian Jacobs.
Co-created and written by Apatow, Rust and Lesley Arfin, Love follows Gus (Rust) and Mickey (Jacobs) as they navigate the exhilaration and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they…
When Love’s Gillian Jacobs was faced with portraying a character who struggles with sobriety, the actress, who doesn’t share the same struggle, attributes her performance to “a great script” which she described as “beautiful, accurate, and truthful.” Created by Judd Apatow, Lesley Afrin and co-star Paul Rust, the Netfl…
Since first arriving in Los Angeles from his home state of Iowa, Love co-creator Paul Rust has arguably been an overnight success. He was one of the first Los Angeles alums out of the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Hollywood outpost after they opened in 2005. There, along with his writing partner Neil Campbell, they…
From real-life married couple Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin, and shepherded by Judd Apatow, Netflix original series Love addresses the tricky details of modern dating, as a gas station meet-cute evolves into something far more complicated. A triple threat, writer-producer Rust also stars in the series opposite…
Dean, written and directed by Demetri Martin, tells the bittersweet story of a Brooklyn illustrator (Martin) coping with his mother’s recent death. Single after having dumped his fiancee, he spends most of his time drawing very dark cartoons about death, until he travels to Los Angeles for possible new work. While…
As everybody learns eventually, love is complicated. As I say in my video review above, that’s kind of true for Judd Apatow's new Netflix series titled Love. Debuting on Friday, the first season is a TV romance of sorts well worth hooking up with — and I mean that more than just that Netflix and chill way.
Already…
It’s been over a decade since comedy movie mogul Judd Apatow has created a TV series, Fox’s Undeclared. Now he has, and his return vehicle, a relationship comedy starring Paul Rust (I Love You, Beth Cooper) and Community’s Gillian Jacobs, is getting a big two-season straight-to-series pickup from Netflix. The…
EXCLUSIVE: Hell On Wheels‘ Anson Mount has been cast opposite Isla Fisher in Blumhouse thriller Visions, about expectant mother Julia (Fisher) who is plagued by strange and terrifying visions of a sinister hooded figure only she can see when she and her husband (Mount) move to the countryside. To protect her unborn…
EXCLUSIVE:Gillian Jacobs has landed the female lead in MGM's Hot Tub Time Machine 2, the Steve Pink-directed sequel that stars Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Adam Scott and her former Community co-star Chevy Chase. Jacobs has Walk Of Shame in the can, which she stars in opposite Elizabeth Banks and James…
