Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Bridesmaids, are reuniting for Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar, a comedy the pair teamed to co-write and star in for Lionsgate. Josh Greenbaum, the director whose credits include episodes of New Girl and Fresh Off the Boat and the…

Studiocanal, Netflix and Blueprint Pictures have begun production on live-action family movie A Boy Called Christmas.

Gil Kenan (Monster House) will direct the feature whose starry cast includes Jim Broadbent (Paddington 1 & 2), Zoe Colletti (Scary Stories To Tell…

The plot summary could be a horror – literally. Seattle woman disappears without a trace, leaving a loving husband and brilliant daughter to set out on a search to solve the mystery.

But the trailer for Richard Linklater’s Where'd You Go, Bernadette, from Annapurna Pictures, makes clear to everyone who hasn’t read…

Launching a new animated series on Fox has been a top priority for the network’s entertainment president Michael Thorn ever since he joined the network last fall. After commissioning development and presentations for multiple projects in the past 12 months, the network has made its first series order in the arena in a…

Wonder Woman: 1984 doesn’t drop until November 2019, but director Patty Jenkins just revealed a first-look photo on her personal Twitter page of Kristen Wiig as Barbara Minerva who is the alter ego of the villain Cheetah. The photo is now going viral as fans flock to get a glimpse of Wiig in character.

The first Wonder…

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live alumna Kristen Wiig has departed Apple’s upcoming comedy series, which she was attached to star in and executive produce, because of a scheduling conflict with Wonder Woman. The untitled half-hour project, inspired by Curtis Sittenfeld's short story collection You Think It, I'll Say…

Brooklyn-based Gimlet Media, the company behind hit podcasts such as Reply All, Homecoming, The Nod and StartUp, has set its spring slate with three new original series. They are Sandra, a scripted fiction series starring Kristen Wiig (SNL, Bridesmaids) and Alia Shawkat (Search Party, Arrested Development), simulated…

Director Patty Jenkins confirms today what Deadline reported last month: Kristen Wiig will play villain Cheetah in the upcoming Wonder Woman sequel.

“So excited to confirm the most thrilling news!,” Jenkins tweeted today (see it below). “Yes! It's true. So incredibly lucky to welcome the sensationally talented Kristen…

EXCLUSIVE: The hot name for the villainess role in Wonder Woman 2 is Kristen Wiig. Word is that Warner Bros and DC are in talks with Wiig to play the role of Cheetah. The pic, which has Gal Gadot back and director Patty Jenkins, is set in the ’80s during the Cold War. Sounds like this will happen quickly, and a symbol…

When you make nearly $1.5 billion from your first two films in a franchise, you can pretty much guarantee there will be a third, and likely many more. That’s good news for fans of Illumination Entertainment’s shamelessly manic Despicable Me series and particularly this third installment for Gru and company, which lays…

Saturday Night Live alum Will Ferrell will likely always be pushing the comedy envelope, but with A Deadly Adoption–his 2015 Lifetime movie–he really took the cake. As Ferrell himself said during a post-screening panel discussion at the ATX Television Festival, "If you’re sitting in this audience thinking, 'This is…

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Crudup has been set to star with Cate Blanchett and Kristen Wiig in the Richard Linklater-directed Where’d You Go, Bernadette. The film is based on the Maria Semple novel and focuses on Bernadette, a mother in Seattle who has gone missing and left her teenage daughter to pick up the pieces. Annapurna…