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A24 today unveiled the trailer for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, its anticipated stop-motion film starring Jenny Slate, which is slated for release in theaters on June 24. The comedy is based on Dean Fleischer-Camp and Slate’s viral shorts of the same name, which have garnered more than 50 million YouTube views…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Eric Roberts (The Righteous Gemstones) is reteaming with his Runaway Train co-star Danny Trejo as part of the cast of Alone Today, an upcoming crime drama from director Wendy Wilkins, which will also star Shannon Elizabeth and Frank Whaley. The film tells the story of a woman (Elizabeth) in an…

Who says there aren’t any good romantic comedies anymore?  Sometimes it just takes a bright idea, a talented cast, good writers and a director who keeps things grounded in enough “romantic” reality to prevent going over the top with the “comedy” part. That is exactly the case with I Want You Back, Amazon’s gift for…

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Slate has signed with CAA for representation. The actress, author and comedian gained recognition for co-writing, producing, and voicing the short film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, with Dean Fleisher-Camp. A feature-length version of the 2014 short, which went viral, recently premiered at Telluride…

Amazon today unveiled the first official trailer for I Want You Back, a comedy starring Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), which is set for release on Prime Video on February 11. The film from director Jason Orley (Big Time Adolescence) centers on Peter…

A24 announced today that it has acquired North American rights to Marcell the Shell with Shoes On, a stop-motion feature from Dean Fleischer Camp, which premiered to critical acclaim at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. Deadline hears that the company nabbed rights in a competitive situation involving at least three…

Jason Orley’s I Want You Back starring Charlie Day and Jenny Slate will drop on Amazon Prime on Feb. 11, 2022. The pic, written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger (Love, Simon and This Is Us) follows Emma (Slate) and Peter (Day). They thought they were on the precipice of life's biggest moments – marriage, kids…

When Nick Offerman was approached to voice Beef Tobin in Fox animated comedy series The Great North, he responded immediately to its style of storytelling. “We're arriving at this point where you can fuel your stories with empathy and inspiring humanism, [and] it's still funny,” the actor said during a recent panel…

During The Great North‘s TCA slot on Wednesday, creators Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin had a message for networks with new shows in progress: “Pick up those seasons early.” Months before the Molyneux sisters’ Alaska comedy made its debut on Fox in January, the network ordered a sophomore reason, granting…

Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Jenny Slate (Parks and Recreation), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Scott Eastwood (Pacific Rim: Uprising), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), and Clark Backo (Letterkenny) will lead the ensemble romantic comedy I Want You Back from Amazon Studios. Big Time Adolescence…

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Slate is set to host Sex Plants, a travel docuseries for Quibi. She also will executive produce alongside Richard Perello and Stacey Offman, and Jigsaw Productions will produce. The program for the bite-sized streaming service will see the former Big Mouth star speak with researchers and botanical…

Netflix has cast Jenny Slate’s replacement as Missy on its animated series Big Mouth, Deadline has confirmed. The series’ co-creator, executive producer and star Nick Kroll said in June that the show would recast the voice role of Missy, a biracial character on the Netflix animated series, with a black actress. The…