The 27th edition of the SXSW Film Festival has unveiled its robust slate of feature and episodic premieres which will kick off with its opening night film, Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island starring Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson. The fest is set to run March 13-22 in Austin.
In The King of Staten…
Judd Apatow will host the 72nd annual DGA Awards – his first time since 2018 – and Don Mischer will return as Awards Chair for the third consecutive year, DGA president Thomas Schlamme announced today.
The event is set for Jan. 25 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
"I am so excited to host again as…
Some filmmakers reacted angrily today to Netflix’s experiment with a variable playback speed, which allows viewers to watch TV shows and movies at slower or faster speeds on the service.
The streamer announced the experiment today after testing it with Android app users last week. The feature is available for Android…
EXCLUSIVE: Colson Baker aka rapper Machine Gun Kelly will be working with Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson again on the big screen in the latter’s Untitled Judd Apatow/Pete Davidson Comedy at Universal.
Earlier this year, Baker and Davidson starred in Jason Orley’s indie comedy Big Time Adolescence which…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Emmy winner Pamela Adlon has joined the cast of Universal's untitled Judd Apatow-Pete Davidson comedy, which is set to start shooting soon in New York. She joins the already announced cast of Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Maude Apatow and Bel Powley who star alongside Davidson. Apatow directs and wrote the pic…
EXCLUSIVE: White Boy Rick and The Diary of a Teenage Girl actress Bel Powley has landed the female lead in the Judd Apatow directed Pete Davidson comedy at Universal.
Powley can next be seen opposite Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston in Apple’s The Morning Show. Airing in the UK this month, she’s part of an…
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Emmy nominee Billy Eichner will write and star in an untitled romantic comedy which is set up at Universal. Neighbors director Nick Stoller will direct, co-write and co-produce under his Global Solutions banners with Judd Apatow’s Apatow Productions banner.
Comedy will center around two men who…
Universal will be releasing Judd Apatow’s Pete Davidson comedy on June 19, 2020, and will open DreamWorks’ Henry James-inspired thriller The Turning on Jan. 24, 2020.
As Deadline reported, the Apatow comedy is the filmmaker’s first since the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwrecked. There is no reported logline for the…
Judd Apatow has set his next feature film, an untitled comedy that will star Saturday Night Live castmember Pete Davidson. It will reflect a storyline that mirrors the comic’s own life, including his firefighter father on 9/11. It’s Apatow’s first film since Trainwreck, a vehicle crafted for Amy Schumer.
Davidson has…
Much of Hollywood will be locked in on the Oscar nominations Tuesday, but some A-listers will be focusing on a bigger picture late that day.
One day after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, Ava DuVernay's ARRAY will host a National Day of Racial Healing event to examine efforts to end discrimination and…
2ND UPDATE, 6:50 PM: Never one to mince words, Steve Bannon has fired back in his battle with The New Yorker. After being scheduled as a headliner of the October 5-7 event, the former White House Chief Strategist was disinvited after a slew of people including Judd Apatow, Jim Carrey and John Mulaney said they…
With a vibrant producing and directing career that has spawned hit movies like Trainwreck, The Big Sick, Knocked Up, The 40-Year Old Virgin, Bridesmaids and series like HBO’s Girls, Love, and Crashing, how does Judd Apatow have time to take a detour back into the world of stand-up comedy that he did from age 17 to 24…
