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EXCLUSIVE: I’ve always wondered by Viacom hasn’t done more to create franchises from some of its youth-oriented TV networks. Well, they’ve just cooked up a pretty clever original feature that uses the signature characters of Nickelodeon to create an original narrative that sounds like Paramount’s answer to Who Framed R…

This just in: The Holy Grail of biblical archaeology is the Holy Grail. Now get ready for a hoax of biblical proportions. Here’s the first trailer for Don Verdean, the latest romp from the team behind Napoleon Dynamite. The title character (Sam Rockwell) is an archaeologist renowned for discovering artifacts tied to…

Jack Black will play a lovable oddball in Micronations, a comedy helmed by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess that reteams the pair after 2006’s Nacho Libre. Brandt Andersen, Dave Hunter and Hess are producing via their newly launched Buffalo Film Company. Black's Electric Dynamite and Damon Ross also will…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the massive opening of Avengers: Age Of Ultron, it’s no surprise that the audition process everybody’s talking about is the selection of a director for the next iteration of Sony Pictures’ live-action Spider-Man franchise, the first one that teams rights holder Sony Pictures with Marvel…

Dig into this clip from Don Verdean, a comedy that premieres January 28 at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by Lionsgate last week. The film marks a return to Sundance by Jared Hess, a decade after he hit an unlikely critical and box office home run there with Napoleon Dynamite. Hess directed and co-wrote D…

EXCLUSIVE: Out in front of its January 28 Sundance Film Festival premiere, Don Verdean has been acquired for North America by Lionsgate in the first significant deal of the festival, unless you count the sight-unseen prebuy that Fox Searchlight made of the Noah Baumbach film Mistress America. The film is directed by Ja…