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Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish said a new Jackass series is in the works based the recent release of the latest film in the franchise. “Based off the success of Jackass Forever, we are working with the creators to continue the partnership with a new series bringing even more ridiculous antics straight to Paramount+,&#8221…

UPDATED, 8 AM: Jackass co-creator Bam Margera has dropped his lawsuit over his firing from the franchise’s Jackass Forever film. In court documents filed Wednesday, April 13 in Los Angeles Superior Court, Margera asks a judge that his case, alleging that he was wrongly fired by Paramount Pictures, be dismissed “with…

The much-delayed latest flick in the Jackass franchise is finally set to come out in early 2022, a date Paramount Pictures wants to stick to  — despite the best legal efforts of Bam Margera. “Margera's lawsuit is baseless,” said attorneys for the ViacomCBS-owned studio, MTV, fellow Jackasser Johnny Knoxville, director…

Police and firefighters were called out in the middle of a pandemic and a raging fire season to free a jackass who pasted himself to a Hollywood billboard. Only in the movies, kids. Or, in this case, in a real-life promo stunt to promote Gnarly, the new comedy special from Jackass star Steve-O, the aforementioned…

UPDATED, 8:31AM April 23: In the latest release-date move amid the coronavirus shutdown, Paramount has moved its Johnny Knoxville pic Jackass from its planned March 5, 2021, release to July 2 next year. It’s the fourth movie based on the MTV stunt-prank reality series. PREVIOUSLY, December 18: Jackass will continue to…

Vincent Margera, the “crazy uncle” co-star of MTV’s Viva La Bam and a former regular Jackass contributor whose career was sidetracked by a sexual assault conviction, died Sunday. He was 59. Johnny Knoxville confirm Margera’s death on Twitter: RIP Don Vito. You will be missed.❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/YwhNdAAPA8…

I wrote Johnny Knoxville’s first Hollywood story in the ’90s and can recall it like yesterday when I got hold of an underground VCR tape being circulated around Hollywood. A young man with movie-star looks being tasered, bitten by vile animals, shot with paintballs and enduring all kinds of punishment that somehow was…

BREAKING: Paramount Pictures has signed Johnny Knoxville and his Hello Junior banner to an exclusive 2-year first-look deal. This comes after Deadline revealed that he was brought in to voice Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and it follows a long string of hits with the studio including the Jackass films and B…

Here’s a redband peek at Paramount‘s Bad Grandpa that gives a better sense of the R-rated shenanigans Johnny Knoxville perpetrates on unwitting Americans in his October 25 Jackass spin-off. Jeff Tremaine directs the Borat-esque road trip comedy with Fun Size‘s Jackson Nicoll as Knoxville’s pint-sized…

Here’s the first clip from Paramount’s Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, in which Johnny Knoxville punks strangers while in character as senior citizen Irving Zisman. The previous three Jackass films grossed $79M, $84M, and $170M worldwide for Paramount – but they also kept to the show’s signature disconnected shocks and…

Jackass jackanape Johnny Knoxville returns to shock doc comedy in Paramount‘s Bad Grandpa, pranking real life strangers in character as his recurring Jackass character Irving Zisman. The Borat-style faux setup has Zisman shepherding his 8-year-old grandson (Fun Size‘s Jackson Nicoll) on a cross-country road trip…

EXCLUSIVE: Trip Taylor and Bobby Pura have signed with UTA. The agency will represent the duo's company The Uprising in all areas; they were previously with WME. Taylor was an executive producer on all the Jackass movies and a producer on the stunt-fueled TV series. He also was the EP on MTV's Nitro Circus and Wildboyz…