EXCLUSIVE: After making her directorial debut on Palo Alto, Gia Coppola is set to direct and co-write Mainstream as her followup. Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff and Jason Schwartzman have been set to star in an eccentric love triangle and cautionary tale of preserving your identity within the fast-moving…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Schwartzman and Cherry Jones are boarding Amy Poehler’s feature directorial debut Wine Country.  They join a cast that includes Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Maya Rudolph, Emily Spivey and Tina Fey. The Netflix comedy, written by Spivey and Liz Cackowski, follows longtime friends…

While HBO’s comedy series Bored to Death was cancelled after three seasons back in 2011, and a possible movie has been in development since 2013, not much progress has been reported so far. However, speaking on a panel at the Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Sunday, the show’s creator Jonathan Ames said, “I did…

He has played an ape’s showman in King Kong, a sweet mortician-turned-murderer in Bernie and now a polka maestro/Ponzi scheme impresario in The Polka King. Larger-than-life characters seem embedded in Jack Black’s DNA, so playing the real-life Polish immigrant Jan Lewan — a Grammy nominee, friend of Pope John Paul II…

"That was the most exciting thing about it. was if a kid or a teenager were turned on by music, that's the goal," said Mozart In The Jungle executive producer/actor Jason Schwartzman of the award-winning Amazon series about backstage lives of the fictional New York Symphony. "To be pro-music, to have people check it…

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Sevigny and Analeigh Tipton are starring in Golden Exits, the next film from writer-director Alex Ross Perry. The pic is being described as an intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of…

Deadline’s studio at the Tribeca Film Festival, now in its second year and hosted by The Lincoln Motor Company, has been greeting such fest-goers as Jason Bateman (actor/director of The Family Fang), Jason and Robert Schwartzman (Dreamland), Danny DeVito with kids Lucy and Jake (Curmudgeons), Zosia Mamet (Mildred and t…

Johnny Simmons is doing double duty at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival as a struggling MLB pitcher in The Phenom and a cash-strapped piano player in Dreamland. The pic also marks the feature directorial debut of Coppola cousin and Jason Schwartzman’s brother, Robert Schwartzman, and like the Golden Globe-winning…

For your Monday, here’s an exclusive clip from the slacker comedy 7 Chinese Brothers, starring Jason Schwartzman. The film follows Schwartzman’s Larry, a bluntly honest, abrasive and constantly drunk slacker who takes a job at the local Quick-Lube to support himself and his faithful dog Arrow, and maybe hit on his new…

EXCLUSIVE: Spotlight Pictures has added 7 Chinese Brothers to its Cannes sales slate. The comedy from writer-director Bob Byington (Somebody Up There Likes Me) debuted at SXSW in March and will have a U.S. day-and-date release through Screen Media Films in August. Jason Schwartzman, Tunde Adebimpe, Eleanore Pienta…

Screen Media Films, which just released the Helen Hunt-directed surf movie Ride on the specialty box office front over the weekend, has acquired U.S. rights to Bob Byington's comedy 7 Chinese Brothers. Jason Schwartzman, Olympia Dukakis, Stephen Root, Tunde Adebimpe and Eleanore Pienta star. It will be released…

After several years spent playing the most wholesome man in Indiana on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, it makes sense that Adam Scott’s resume is now filling up with roles that go a full 180-degree turn away from his Ben Wyatt. His latest, The Overnight, a very well-received sex comedy that provoked a minor bidding war…