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Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlights the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Judd Apatow, Saturday Night Live writer Dave Sirus and Pete Davidson came together to pen the script for The King of Staten Island, the dramatic comedy based on Davidson’s life…

EXCLUSIVE: In what marks another A-list talent headed to Netflix, sources tell Deadline that Judd Apatow has set his next comedy at the streamer. Apatow will direct and produce the untitled comedy and co-write the script with Pam Brady. Apatow’s longtime partner Barry Mendel will serve as executive producer. The film…

According to Judd Apatow, Hollywood’s desire to bring home major box office wins in China and Saudi Arabia comes at the cost of meaningful and truthful content. The director, comedian and producer sat down with MSNBC’s Ari Melber to talk comedy and the industry’s content censorship when catering to international…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is teaming with Knocked Up creator Judd Apatow to make a two-part documentary on legendary U.S. comedian George Carlin, with UK outfit Rise Films producing alongside Apatow Productions. HBO Documentary Films has commissioned Apatow and his longtime collaborator Michael Bonfiglio to direct the films…

A couple of years ago, comedian Gary Gulman went through one of the worst experiences of his life, opening up about it in HBO's The Great Depresh. In the comedy special, executive produced by Judd Apatow, Gulman speaks to his lifelong struggles with depression and anxiety, the rock bottom he hit, when he felt like he…

I’d never laid eyes on Pete Davidson before, nor have I ever set foot on Staten Island in all the time I've spent in New York City; nobody has ever remotely recommended it, although I must say that one scene in The King of Staten Island shot at the local minor league baseball park affords so spectacular a view of…

EXCLUSIVE: Ricky Velez (The King of Staten Island) is reuniting with Judd Apatow for his first comedy special at HBO. The untitled special is set to tape later this year. Velez is reteaming with Apatow following their work together on feature The King of Staten Island, which Apatow, co-wrote, directed and produced…

Earlier during this pandemic, I reviewed Big Time Adolescence, in which Pete Davidson plays a weed-smoking slacker aimlessly marching through life. This week Universal opens director Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island, in which Davidson also appears to be a weed-smoking slacker. But the comparison stops there…

Wanda Sykes, Judd Apatow, Ray Romano, Roy Wood Jr., Carl Reiner, Craig Robinson, Dave Attell, Jeff Ross and Jim Norton are among the line-up of stars set for Laughter in Lockdown, a two-hour, one-night-only streaming event to benefit comedians and other comedy professionals impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The…

Judd Apatow’s comedy starring Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson is due to hit VOD on June 12, and Universal has today unveiled the first official red band trailer. Check it out above as Davidson’s character struggles with growing up and letting go, even though he’s in his mid-20s. The film was expected to make its…

Judd Apatow said Monday during an Instagram/Twitter conversation with Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson that their summer comedy The King of Staten Island, originally slated to hit theaters on June 19, will now go on VOD on June 12. The comedy based on Davidson’s life, directed by Apatow and co-written by Davidson…

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…