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EXCLUSIVE: When the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama The Friend premieres tonight in Toronto, the film's tough subject matter – Dakota Johnson plays Nicole Teague, who at 34 was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer – was made more bearable by the presence of two classic Led Zeppelin songs. “Ramble On” and…

EXCLUSIVE: Tara Lynne Barr (Casual) is set to recur in Dispatches from Elsewhere, AMC's 10-episode anthology series created by and starring Jason Segel. Dispatches from Elsewhere is about a group of ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. They will come to find that the…

EXCLUSIVE: Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) and Cherry Jones (Boy Erased) are among cast to have joined Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck in Gabriela Cowperthwaite's (Blackfish) feature drama The Friend, which is now underway in Fairhope, Alabama. Country artist Jake Owen, Denee Benton (Hamilton: An Am…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free and Black Bear have set Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Oscar-winner Casey Affleck to star in The Friend, a fact-based touching drama that STX International will launch for offshore sales at the European Film Market. Directing is Gabriela Cowperthwaite, whose Blackfish was a BAFTA nominee for…

AMC has greenlit Dispatches From Elsewhere, an hourlong anthology series created by and starring Jason Segel in his return to television. The network will make the announcement during its portion of TCA today. Dispatches From Elsewhere, which will feature elements across multiple platforms, is about a group of…

“Don’t you think your discovery was too dangerous to share with the world?” Dr. Thomas Harber (Robert Redford) has done the unthinkable: offered proof of an afterlife. But the world is headed for serious strife as millions take their own lives to reach the other side. Here is the first full trailer for The Discovery…

EXCLUSIVE:  SVOD giant Netflix has acquired global rights to Charlie McDowell's The Discovery, starring Rooney Mara, Robert Redford and Jason Segel. The film will premiere on Netflix and also get a theatrical domestic run in 2017. This deal has been a few months in the making after the project was first brought to…

The ABC Broadcast of the Oscars may not be until two weeks from today, but for all intents and purposes the show started last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel where, in an elegant and, yes, actually fun ceremony the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences handed out their annual nerd, er, Scientific and Technical…

Yale University professor, playwright and screenwriter Donald Margulies isn't one to rest on his laurels—years after taking the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000 for his play Dinner with Friends, which he later adapted into a TV movie, Margulies has received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for The End of the Tour…

In taking on the role of David Foster Wallace for The End Of The Tour, Jason Segel raised a lot of industry eyebrows. With his hefty resume packed with comedic gems (How I Met Your Mother, The Muppets, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Segel wasn't an obvious choice to play an author struggling with depression and…

Actor Jason Segel and Director James Ponsoldt talked End Of The Tour, their acclaimed movie about the Rolling Stone magazine interview of  author David Foster Wallace  when they came to participate in Deadline’s big awards season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline which took place last month in front a packed…

One of the breakout hits of the Sundance Film Festival, The End Of The Tour begins hitting theaters Friday, and as I say in my video review (click the link above), it is a literate and rewarding look at something that — on the surface at least — would not seem very cinematic. Based on a bestselling book by Rolling Ston…