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The IP pipeline connecting the comic book sector to Hollywood continues to pump at a robust pace (and superhero movies now account for 10 of the top 25 highest-grossing films of all time) but the flow isn’t entirely a single-direction one. Last summer, I wrote up a roll call round-up about the parade of Hollywood…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Man Seeking Woman star Jay Baruchel is set as a lead opposite Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins in The Moodys (fka A Moody Christmas), Fox's half-hour holiday event series adaptation of the Australian series. Slated to air in December, the single-camera comedy series hails from CBS TV Studios, which…

Completing the trilogy of DreamWorks Animation’s enormously satisfying adaptations of Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon book series, writer-director Dean DeBlois has again invested the story with adventure, emotion, great characters, and this time even a charming romance (in beautiful black and white). At its…

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…