EXCLUSIVE: What We Do in the Shadows and Workaholics producer Kyle Newacheck has teamed with music video vet Brandon Dermer for the sci-fi dramedy I’m Totally Fine. Jillian Bell and Natalie Morales are set to lead the project.
I’m Totally Fine follows a Vanessa (Bell), a woman in mourning who takes a solo trip to…
Syfy's TZGZ weekly late-night animation block continues to expand its slate, with a six-episode series order to holiday comedy The Pole. The series, starring Bobby Moynihan and Jillian Bell, hails from Future Man writers Matthew Bass and Theodore Bressman, and Yeti Farm Creative (Hotel Transylvania Season 2, Pete the C…
The writer/director behind Amazon Studios' Brittany Runs a Marathon, Paul Downs Colaizzo is a rare bird in this day and age. Bringing his first feature to the Sundance Film Festival this year, Colaizzo left Park City with a major prize (the Audience Award for Dramatic Features), and a $14 million deal to boot.
The…
Brittany Runs a Marathon — one of the big hits at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which got a top price from Amazon Studios for its distribution — proves to be a real crowd pleaser as well as a certain star-making performance for Jillian Bell in the title role.
Paul Downs Colaizzo makes his feature…
It’s the dawn of civilization and humans don’t know how to act, what to eat or what a wheel or fire is. In the new trailer for the Facebook Watch animated series, we see characters voiced by Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick try to navigate this new thing called human civilization and try to make it to the end of the day…
Jillian Bell, who was last seen starring in Sundance film Brittany Runs a Marathon, has been cast in the Alex Winter- and Keanu Reeves-starringBill & Ted Face The Music, which is currently before cameras. Dean Parisot is at the helm of the sequel, directing from a script from franchise writers Chris Matheson and Ed…
In Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Brittany Runs a Marathon, we see change is possible — even for the hard-partying underemployed. In the new trailer for the Sundance Audience Award winner, we get to see the titular Brittany Forgler (played by the talented Jillian Bell) transform from an irresponsible 27-year-old who is…
UPDATE: Amazon confirmed the scoop. The release is at the bottom of the original break.
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is closing another breathtaking Sundance film deal. After another all-night auction, Amazon is nearing the finish line on a $14 million world rights deal for Brittany Runs A Marathon, the film that Paul Dow…
Based on the cast, Brittany Runs a Marathon seems like it would be a comedy, but when writer-director Paul Downs Colaizzo and stars Jillian Bell, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Michaela Watkins came to the Deadline Studio at Sundance to talk about the film it leans more drama than comedy.
The film, which…
In a gender switch from the original British series, Jillian Bell(22 Jump Street) is set as a lead opposite Ben Schwartz in The Wrong Mans,Showtime’s remake of the UK comedy that was created by and starred James Corden & Matthew Baynton. The U.S. version hails from The Late Late Show host Corden, Baynton, J.J…