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Jason Segel has been tapped to play Paul Westhead in Adam McKay's Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay's Hyperobject Industries is producing. Written by Max Borenstein, the fast-break series chronicles…

Our Friend is a triangular narrative based on an Esquire article by journalist Matthew Teague about the death of his wife, Nicole. Before Nicole succumbed to cancer at age 36, an unusually intimate bond formed among the couple and mutual friend, Dane. Despite the ravages of fate, Dane offered a preternatural degree of…

When Our Friend premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, it was simply called The Friend, but the slightly altered new title feels better for this touching true story based on Matthew Teague’s sensational award-winning Esquire magazine article. It was written about his family crisis when his wife, Nicole, was…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures is finally set to release the upcoming dramedy Our Friend directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and starring Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck. Along with a new trailer that provides the first look at the heartwarming and inevitable heartbreaking pic, Gravitas and Universal Home…

EXCLUSIVE: Cherry Jones and Jason Segel are set to join Grace Kaufman in The Sky Is Everywhere, a new Apple Original film that hails from Apple’s existing partnership with A24. The pic is based on the novel by Jandy Nelson, who will adapt the script. Josephine Decker, who helmed Madeline's Madeline and the Elisabeth…

In HBO's Euphoria, music supervisor Jen Malone found one of the most rewarding and challenging projects of her career—a frenetic series calling for wall-to-wall music, in a diversity of styles. Created by Sam Levinson, the teen drama centers on Rue (Zendaya), a 17-year-old recovering drug addict struggling to find her…

Jason Segel, the creator, writer, director, producer and star of the innovative AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere, said it straight out during Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event: he is essentially playing himself. "My character starts out not knowing who he is and by the 10th episode I become Jason…

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details from tonight’s finale of AMC’s Dispatches from Elsewhere. In Monday’s season finale of Dispatches from Elsewhere, we finally learn the backstory of one mysterious, recurring character, with the unexpected entry of another into the narrative. Titled "The Boy," episode 10 of…

Roadside Attractions and Gravitas Ventures are teaming on the U.S. distribution The Friend, the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama starring Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck that world premiered at Toronto. The pic is based on Matthew Teague’s autobiographical essay published in Esquire. The companies…

UPDATED with trailer. AMC’s forthcoming Dispatches From Elsewhere is an interesting series. The 10-episode anthology created by and starring Jason Segel is a self-reflective, transcendental series about a group of ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. The series also…

When Gabriela Cowperthwaite read the Esquire article on which her new feature, The Friend, is based, she found something she wasn’t expecting—a new way into talking about grief that she hadn’t seen before. “What it was, was not talking directly about grief, but focusing on the thing that keeps you tethered,"…

Deadline on Saturday kicked off this year’s edition of Nespresso presents COFFEE WITH CREATORS at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 with The Friend, the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama that had its world premiere last night as a TIFF Special Presentation. The film is based on the true story related in…