The Film Arcade has acquired U.S. rights to Family, the comedy written and directed by Laura Steinel and starring Taylor Schilling that world premiered earlier this year at SXSW. Brian Tyree Henry, Jessie Ennis, Kate McKinnon and newcomer Bryn Vale also star in the pic, which now will get a spring 2019 theatrical…

“I think I wanted to make a movie for women to be able to be rougher characters than they're usually given opportunities to play,” writer/director Laura Steinel told Deadline yesterday out of SXSW, of her latest directorial effort, Family. “That was my first goal, just to make a character that was a little bit more…

EXCLUSIVE: If you need to up the stakes in your comedy film, send in the clowns. With Family, Laura’s Steinel puts a different spin on mother-daughter big screen angst. If you thought Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood had it bad in their tug-of-war in Thirteen, Taylor Schilling’s workaholic Kate Stone is tasked with…

EXCLUSIVE: SNL‘s Kate McKinnon, Allison Tolman, Matt Walsh, Jessie Ennis, Bryn Vale, and FX’s Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry have boarded first-time director Laura Steinel’s indie comedy Fam-i-ly, joining previously announced star Taylor Schilling (Orange Is The New Black). Steinel wrote the screenplay, which follows…

UPDATED: Fox today picked up six more pilots to series — four dramas and two comedies — bringing the total to six new dramas, 24: Legacy, Star, Pitch, The Exorcist, Lethal Weapon, and A.P.B., and two comedies, Making History and The Mick. Of the rest, I hear that drama Recon, executive produced by Kevin Williamson and…

Esai Morales is set to co-star opposite Judy Greer and Patton Oswalt in Fox's untitled Laura Steinel comedy pilot (aka HR). The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, centers on Jane (Greer), the overused and underappreciated head of Human Resources for a plastics molding plant, who is caught between trying to manage her…

Actor-comedian Patton Oswalt is set as the male lead opposite Judy Greer in Fox's untitled Laura Steinel comedy pilot (aka HR). The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, centers on Jane (Greer), the overused and underappreciated head of Human Resources for a plastics molding plant, who is caught between trying to manage…

Milana Vayntrub (Other Space) is set as a series regular opposite Judy Greer in Fox's untitled Laura Steinel comedy pilot (aka HR). The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, centers around Jane (Greer), the over-used and under-appreciated head of H.R. for a Fox plastic molding plant, who is caught between trying to…

Dougie Baldwin (Nowhere Boys) has booked a series regular role opposite Jason Lee in What Goes Around Comes Around, CBS' single-camera comedy pilot from Dan Kopelman and Aaron Kaplan. Written by Kopelman and directed by Tim Story, the project centers on two fortysomething parents — Kenny (Lee), a husband, father and…

Judy Greer is set to play the lead in Fox’s untitled Laura Steinel comedy pilot (aka HR). In addition to starring, Greer will serve as a producer on the single-camera workplace pilot, written by writer-actress Laura Steinel and directed by The League co-creator Jeff Schaffer. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV…

Fox has given a pilot order to an untitled single-camera workplace comedy from writer-actress Laura Steinel (Red Oaks). The League co-creator Jeff Schaffer has been tapped to direct. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, enters around Jane, who is caught between trying to manage her charmingly incompetent human…