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EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) is set to join Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and Brandon Sklenar in the Baldoni-directed film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel It Ends With Us, which is currently in development with Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures.  Related…

EXCLUSIVE: Everything Everywhere All At Once and Venom star Jenny Slate will lead cast in and executive-produce horror movie Mindful, about a possessed meditation app that begins to kill its followers. Actress, author and stand-up Slate is in the limelight having recently co-created, co-written…

After her animated film received an Oscar nomination today, Jenny Slate said she is completely overwhelmed. “I thought I’d be more energetic, but I’m really shocked,” she told Deadline. “I sort of felt like a bit smoothed over and I felt really calm … now I just can’t stop crying.” Marcel the Shell w…

Jenny Slate is pretty memorable as an entitled dry-cleaning client twirling a chihuahua around her head in Everything Everywhere All at Once, but it's her role as an animated shell with one googly eye that really captured attention this season. In Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, we're given a full-length…

Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate's A24 feature Marcel the Shell with Shoes On boasts one of the more captivating origin stories in recent memory. The stop-motion/live-action hybrid stems from a 2010 YouTube short of the same name that became the first in the series after going viral, also spurring the creation of…

A24's Marcel The Shell With Shoes On hit the top ten in North America at no. 8 with an estimated $340k in week three at just 48 locations and a cume north of $963k – the latest hit for the distributor after powerhouse Everything Everywhere All At Once blasted off at the specialty box office. Marcel, based on a popular…

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…