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EXCLUSIVE: Grey's Anatomy's Jesse Williams and The Fast and the Furious star Jordana Brewster have signed up to star in Jay Baruchel's Random Acts of Violence. Man Seeking Woman and This Is The End star Baruchel has writes and directs the road-trip horror feature and also will star. Baruchel, who wrote Seann William…

Simon Rich’s Man Seeking Woman has been picked up by FXX for a 10-episode third season to premiere early next year. The renewal comes on the heels of a record-tying two-season pickup for veteran It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. FXX has now renewed all 3 of its current original comedy series — Sonny and 2015…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One is dropping the puck on Goon: Last Of The Enforcers, a sequel to the 2011 indie. Wyatt Russell has just been set to star in the film, with Liev Schreiber returning as the iconic brawler Ross "The Boss" Rhea and Seann William Scott as lovable enforcer Doug "The Thug" Glatt. Jay Baruchel…

If you're looking for a good laugh and something very out of the ordinary, then I suggest checking out Man Seeking Woman when it debuts on FXX on Wednesday night. As I say in my video review above, this Jay Baruchel-starring show about a good-hearted but unlucky-in-love twenty-something nebbish named Josh is a…

FXX has ordered 10 episodes of half-hour comedy Man Seeking Woman, from Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video. It’s slated for a 2015 premiere. Jay Baruchel stars in the project based on Simon Rich’s book The Last Girlfriend On Earth, Man Seeking Woman. It centers on Josh Greenberg (Baruchel) a naive romantic on a desperate…

FX has found its man for comedy pilot Man Seeking Woman, from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. Undeclared alum Jay Baruchel has signed on for the lead role in the project based on Simon Rich's book, The Last Girlfriend On Earth, Man Seeking Woman. Described as a sweet and absurd look at the life-and-death stakes of…

In a competitive situation, a half-hour project from actor-writer Jay Baruchel has landed at ABC with a significant penalty and pre-negotiated license fees. Baruchel will co-write the 20th Century Fox TV/Tagline comedy with his writing partner Jesse Chabot. The semi-autobiographical project centers on a successful…

The raucous R-rated hockey comedy Goon has racked up significant international distribution deals for Myriad Pictures. Starring Sean William Scott, the movie has been sold in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Russia Scandinavia, Latin America, Turkey, the Middle East, Indonesia and South Africa, and several other…

This red-band trailer for the R-rated hockey comedy Goon is as rowdy as the rating suggests. Magnolia/Magnet picked up the movie — directed by Michael Dowse with Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber and Jay Baruchel — at the Toronto International Film Festival and according to the Magnet website plans a March…

Toronto, ONTARIO (September 13, 2011) – The Cuban/Wagner Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm to Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have taken US rights to Michael Dowse's raucous hockey comedy GOON. Starring Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber and Alison Pill, GOON was written by Baruchel…

While most of the industry views the Toronto International Film Festival as a place to showcase films for acquisition or Oscar runs, festival organizers always stock the program with homegrown films. The festival just announced that part of the program, setting a Gala premiere for the Ken Scott-directed drama…

Jay Baruchel has joined Robert Pattinson in the David Cronenberg-directed Cosmopolis. Pattinson plays a financial wiz kid who puts his life in danger by betting his entire fortune against the yen on a tumultous day in the adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. Baruchel plays the shy guy who founded the company, and who…