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EXCLUSIVE: MGM has landed rights to the novel The Husbands from New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker, with Kristen Wiig attached to star and produce a feature film version along with Plan B Entertainment. Baker will adapt for the screen, marking her feature screenwriting debut. Baker will serve as an…

Peacock is stacking up the cast of MacGruber, the eight-episode action comedy series based on Will Forte's recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot. Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne and Mickey Rourke have joined the series, from Universal Television, joining Forte, Kristen…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off the critical success of Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Oscar-nominated writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo will reteam on their first adventure with Disney: a live-action untitled Cinderella Evil Stepsisters film. Sources add that at this time it is unknown whether Wiig and Mumolo would also…

FINAL UPDATE, 10:35 AM: The HFPA, dick clark productions and NBC have revealed their final group of presenters for tonight’s 78th annual Golden Globes Awards: Ava DuVernay, Colin Farrell, Gal Gadot, Tracy Morgan, Sandra Oh, Sarah Paulson, Amanda Seyfried, Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux. Watch a new promo below. They…

Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo actually got nominated for an Academy Award with 2011’s Bridesmaids as Best Original Screenplay. That hilarious comedy also made a mint at the box office for Universal and sparked numerous imitators. Wiig, who also starred in it, steadfastly has resisted turning out a sequel, so I guess…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. This crazy season is starting to heat up. The National Board of Review, usually first up in a “normal” season, settled for bringing up the rear this time since the Oscars were moved so late to April 25, and same goes for the Indie Spirit Awards which…

The Bridesmaids duo are back, and they’re going on vacation. Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote and co-starred in the 2011 hit comedy have reteamed for Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar, due on demand next month. Lionsgate released the first full trailer for the upcoming film today. (Watch it above). The…

Lionsgate has slated Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar for a February 12 release on premium video on demand, the latest concession to a theatrical marketplace upended by Covid-19. The comedy, which was set up nearly two years ago, had originally eyed a 2020 release. It pairs Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who got…

Wonder Woman 1984 has been delayed due to the pandemic, and it might not be the kind of theatrical big-screen release for which it was planned, and the way it is hitting multiplexes and home screens via HBO Max day-and-date is controversial to say the least, but the movie itself is a lot of fun. That is not to say…

The Christmas-themed Dec. 19 telecast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, hosted by Kristen Wiig with musical guest Dua Lipa, drew a 1.3 Live+ Same Day rating in adults 18-49 and 6.3 million viewers overall. The episode was on par in the demo and a little off in total viewers with last week’s original hosted by Timothée…

On Saturday Night Live‘s Christmas show, the sketch comedy spoofed a Christmas movie, the 1992 Home Alone 2: Lost In New York. Host Kristen Wiig portrayed the Pigeon Lady as SNL in a “never before scene” from the movie, recreating a meeting with Kevin, played by SNL‘s Melissa Villaseñor, in Central Park. In Home Alone…

Kristen Wiig returned to the Saturday Night Live stage and joining her were a couple of her beloved skit characters. The Wonder Woman 1984 actress reprised her old-timey Hollywood star Mindy Grayson and the easily-flustered Sue for various sketches on Saturday night. Up first was Mindy Grayson who once again appeared…