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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: 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…

Refresh for updates Adam Scott, co-star of the Fox sitcom Ghosted, has added his voice to the growing opposition – both inside and outside the Fox entertainment family – against Fox News and what the actor calls the network’s “support for & blatant lying about state-sponsored child abuse.” The chorus of critics has…

Paul Feig, whose movies at 20th Century Fox include the Melissa McCarthy comedies Spy and The Heat, has condemned the movie studio’s sibling Fox News Channel for its coverage of the Donald Trump administration’s immigration policies. The writer-director-producer joins the likes of fellow producer-director Judd Apatow…

Judd Apatow is urging Fox showrunners and talent to call out Fox News Channel’s coverage of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy to separate families from their children at the southern U.S. border. “I haven't worked with Fox since 2002, wrote Apatow in one of a series of tweets. “That family…

When it comes right down to it, the late Garry Shandling didn't quite get into comedy for the laughs. That conclusion comes from his close friend Judd Apatow, who plumbs Shandling's long and sometimes tortured quest for enlightenment in The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, the two-part HBO documentary that's contending…