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“I have no breaking story about a Veep comeback,” Matt Walsh told us at Deadline’s SXSW studio, “I wish I did because it would blow up the internet.” But in short per the the guy who played the White House press secretary Mike McLintock to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ VP Selina Meyer: “I know everybody would…

EXCLUSIVE: 2x Emmy nominee Matt Walsh (Veep) has signed on to star alongside Alejandro De Hoyos (The Man from Toronto), Chelsea Rendon (Vida), Francisco Ramos (Gentefied), John Kaler (The Wrong Guy) and Jason Konopisos-Alvarez (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay) in the action-comedy The Unexpecteds…

Filming has wrapped in Alaska and LA on indie sci-fi adventure movie Bolt From The Blue, starring Kate Flannery (The Office), Matt Walsh (Veep) and Kevin Michael Martin (The Last Ship). Writer-director Jack Martin’s film revolves around an electrical engineer who travels up to Alaska to investigate a local scientist…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy nominee and SAG Award winner Matt Walsh has boarded the Apple Original limited series Manhunt about the Lincoln assassination and aftermath. Walsh will play Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Mudd did not report Booth to…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to the comedy Unplugging, starring Eva Longoria (Sylvie’s Love), Matt Walsh (Veep), Lea Thompson (J. Edgar), Keith David (Greenleaf) and Nicole Byer (Nailed It!), with plans to release it in theaters nationwide next spring. In the feature directorial debut of…

The Avenue has claimed North American rights to Press Play, a romantic drama from Parasite producer CJ ENM, starring Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon franchise) and Matt Walsh (Veep), which it will release next year. The film picked up by Highland Film Group's…

Emmy season is finally upon us, and who better to help us kick it off than some of TV’s biggest stars? Actors from shows like Veep, Vida, Ramy and more partied the night away Monday at Deadline’s Emmy Season Kickoff Party on the rooftop of the W Hotel in Hollywood. A big thanks to everyone who attended. Click on the…

Two-time Emmy-nominated Veep actor Matt Walsh and Isla Fisher are set to star in Unplugging, a new comedy Walsh co-wrote with Brad Morris (Cougar Town). The pic will mark the directorial debut of editor Debra Neil-Fisher (Ted, The Hangover movies). Both Walsh and Morris will produce alongside Deborah Liebling (PEN15…

As Veep has wrapped production on its upcoming seventh and final season, co-star Matt Walsh has been tapped as a lead of Happy Accident, ABC’s single-camera family comedy from Modern Family writers Abraham Higginbotham and Jon Pollack, 20th Century Fox TV, where both Higginbotham and Pollack are under overall deals…

EXCLUSIVE: Awesomeness Films has brought together Riverdale star Camila Mendes, Austin & Ally alum Laura Marano,  Noah Centineo (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser), and Odiseas Georgiadis to topline The Stand-In, a film directed by Chris Nelson. Veep‘s Matt Walsh has also signed on to star in the pic, which is currently in…

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…

Landing his second consecutive Emmy nomination for the role of White House Press Secretary Mike McClintock, Veep's Matt Walsh hopped on the phone to discuss the challenges of the series' sixth season. "[Season 6] was sort of bringing the band back together, so there were a lot of disparate storylines being juggled,"…