New Girl alum Jake Johnson has been tapped as one of the male leads opposite star Cobie Smulders and Michael Ealy. in Stumptown, ABC’s new fall 2019 drama series from ABC Studios. For Johnson, who was sought this past pilot season, this marks the first regular role on a live-action series since New Girl ended its…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC’s hot Untitled Cobie Smulders pilot (fka Stumptown) was the first new drama series order at the network this year. When the pickup was announced on Wednesday, the cast list did not include one of the male leads opposite star Smulders in the pilot, Mark Webber. He is being recast. According to sources…

Secrets and Lies alum Michael Ealy and Mark Webber (Green Room) are set as leads opposite Cobie Smulders in Stumptown, ABC's drama pilot from writer Jason Richman, Ruben Fleischer and ABC Studios. Written by Richman, Stumptown is inspired by the graphic novels published by Oni Press. It follows Dex Parios (Smulders)…

Mark Webber (Green Room), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire) and Alana Arenas (Electric Dreams) have booked lead roles opposite Brian J. Smith and Walton Goggins in CBS drama pilot L.A. Confidential, based on James Ellroy's classic noir novel. It comes from Arnon Milchan, producer of the acclaimed 1997 L.A. Confidential…

EXCLUSIVE: At last year’s SXSW, filmmaker Mark Webber unveiled Flesh and Blood to critical kudos. The film, which was in the cinema reality genre, starred his real mother, father, and half-brother. It was acquired by Monument Films, had a theatrical release and is now available On Demand. Now, Webber is back at it…

Producer Richard Guay announced the cast of the upcoming crime drama Clover. Jon Abrahams (Meet the Parents), who will also direct, will star alongside Mark Webber (Green Room), Nicole Elizabeth Berger (All At Once), Erika Christensen (Parenthood), Julia Jones (Wind River), Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl), and Jake Weber…

EXCLUSIVE: Monument Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to Mark Webber's latest film Flesh and Blood, the indie that premiered at SXSW this year to critical acclaim. The company will release the film theatrically this fall. It marks Webber's fourth feature film as director. "Flesh and Blood is a…

EXCLUSIVE: Married actors Mark Webber and Teresa Palmer make a bold foray into indie filmmaking in the digital era with The Ever After, a mostly self-financed drama the couple co-wrote, star in, and will release online worldwide on Valentine’s Day via direct-to-consumer platform VHX. Webber, seen recently in Jessabelle…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Mark Webber, whose film The End Of Love got nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at 2012 Sundance and who just wrapped The Ever After. Webber, who wrote The End Of Love, also scripted The Ever After, and stars in it with Melissa Leo, Rosario Dawson, Kid Cudi, Jaime King, and Teresa Palmer…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Webber (Bomb the System, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) is set to star in and exec produce indie horror/sci-fi pic Welcome To Willits, which Metamorphic Films and Real Horror Show Pictures have slated for an October production start. Webber plays pot farmer Brock, who along with some unlucky campers runs…

Oscar winner Melissa Leo has signed on for Mark Webber's third directorial effort. A hard examination of a marriage, The Ever After also stars Webber and Warm Bodies' Teresa Palmer in the lead roles from a script the duo wrote together. Rosario Dawson, rapper Kid Cudi, Phoebe Tonkin and Hart of Dixies’ Jaime King are…