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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cera (Arrested Development), Maya Erskine (PEN 15) and Michael Angarano (This Is Us) are set to star in road trip movie Sacramento, which Angarano will also direct. Due to shoot early next year, the film will follow Rickey, an energetic and free-spirited young man who convinces Glenn, his long-time…

With no fewer than three acclaimed Broadway productions of plays written by Kenneth Lonergan to his credit – This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero and The Waverly Gallery –actor Michael Cera seems the playwright’s ideal, go-to stand-in, an embodiment of the confusion, awkwardness, deadpan humor and sly charm that helps give…

EXCLUSIVE: Adrian Politowski's LA-based Align has come aboard to contribute production financing on animated comedy Blazing Samurai. The $46M toon is a re-imagining of Mel Brooks' classic Blazing Saddles and is currently in CG production with Aniventure at Cinesite's Montréal and Vancouver facilities. Completion is…

Kenneth Lonergan, along with his Manchester by the Sea discovery Lucas Hedges and Lobby Hero star Michael Cera, team with the astonishing Elaine May and Joan Allen for The Waverly Gallery, a vital comic drama that dares us to laugh before delivering the gut punch we know is coming. Opening tonight at the Golden…

Last week, Brian Tyree Henry was having the sort of moment his Atlanta character – the reluctant, verge-of-success rapper Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles – might observe with both envy and fear. That night’s episode of the FX hit, titled “Woods,” would lean almost entirely on Henry’s performance, a Season 2 showcase both the…

Elaine May, Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera have been cast in Scott Rudin’s production of Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery, a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist set for its Broadway premiere next season, Rudin announced today. Directed by Obie Award winner Lila Neugebauer, in her Broadway debut, The Waverly Gallery will…

Even by Hollywood-meets-New York standards, the production of Lobby Hero at Broadway’s newly renovated Hayes Theatre is an impressive crossover affair. Written by Kenneth Lonergan 15 years before his Manchester by the Sea triumph, starring Michael Cera, Chris Evans (in a really terrific Broadway debut), Atlanta‘s…

Adult Swim is set to unlock unconscious minds with a pilot order for The Shivering Truth, a stop-motion project from Vernon Chatman. He also will add his voice to the project, along with guest stars Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Starlee Kane. Part of Turner’s upfront today in New York, The Shivering Truth is a darkly…

The one thing I can’t stand is to see a decent cast wasted on dopey material, but that is exactly the case with How to Be a Latin Lover, a flat and generally unfunny attempt to expand Mexican superstar Eugenio Derbez’s international appeal. I loved his previous import, 2013’s heartwarming and hilarious hit Instructions…

Magnolia Pictures has picked North American distribution rights to Dustin Guy Defa’s written and directed comedy Person To Person. The pic, which world premiered at this year’s Sundance film fest, stars  Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Olivia Luccardi, George Sample III, Bene Coppersmith and Philip Baker…

Meet 40-year old Isaac Lachmann, a struggling actor who is struggling with life. His career is tanking amid directing a small theater production of The Seagull. His family is tired of him and to make matters worse, his blind girlfriend of 10 years can’t even stand to be in the same room as him. Deadline’s sister…

Captain Dad is looking for a new father figure, as Deadline has confirmed that star Will Ferrell has dropped out of his starring role in the indie comedy just days before shooting was set to begin. The move puts the production in an awkward place, as Captain Dad, which also stars Michael Cera and Catherine Keener, was…