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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…

Jillian Bell, who was last seen starring in Sundance film Brittany Runs a Marathon, has been cast in the Alex Winter- and Keanu Reeves-starring Bill & 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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Beckinsale, Jason Sudeikis, Edie Falco, John Malkovich and Jillian Bell are closing deals to join Charlie Day’s feature directorial debut El Tonto which starts shooting this month in Los Angeles. The Armory Films and Metalworks Pictures financed and produced independent follows Day, who also wrote El To…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Jillian Bell is attached to star as the titular character in Brittany Runs a Marathon, with Michaela Watkins (Casual), Utkarsh Ambudkar (White Famous), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Micah Stock and Alice Lee rounding out the cast. The indie film marks the debut for director Paul Downs Colaizzo, who came up with…

Fox has handed a script commitment with penalty to Murdertown, a single-camera comedy executive produced by Idiotsiotter co-creator/star Jillian Bell. Written/executive produced by writer-comedian Hayes Davenport (HBO’s Divorce), Murdertown centers on a New York radio journalist who, after a career-ending gaffe…

“Don’t get in too much trouble, OK?” the concerned groom-to-be (Paul W. Downs) tells his betrothed (Scarlett Johansson) as they say goodbye before her bachelorette weekend in Miami. “Yeah, I won’t,” she reassures him. But of course, there’d be no movie if that were the case. Here is the first redband trailer for Rough…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is moving full speed ahead with a re-imagining of Splash, the 1984 sleeper hit film that launched the stars of Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, along with Imagine partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, the latter of whom hatched the idea for the fish wish-fulfillment story that Howard directed. They’ve got…

Prior to the Awardsline Emmy screening of Idiotsitter last night, the Comedy Central series received a 10-episode season 2 pick-up. “We wrote today. Today was our first writing day (on Season 2),” co-creator and star Jillian Bell told Deadline’s Dominic Patten. “We thought today,” co-creator/star Charlotte Newhouse…

Last night, episode three (“Funeral”) of Comedy Central’s original series Idiotsitter screened for an enthusiastic crowd, as part of AwardsLine’s ongoing Emmy Screening Series. Following the screening, series creators and stars Jillian Bell and Charlotte Newhouse were in attendance for a Q&A. Absorbing the success of…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedic standout Jillian Bell went toe to toe with Jonah Hill as a caustic co-ed in this summer’s 22 Jump Street. Now Sony’s bringing her into its untitled Christmas Eve Comedy project opposite Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie. Rogen and Gordon-Levitt reunite with their 50/50 helmer…