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Emmy-nominated GLOW star Betty Gilpin has come aboard the Netflix original film, Coffee & Kareem, along with Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor (The Babysitter, Meet The Blacks), RonReaco Lee (First Wives Club, Survivor's Remorse), and up-and-comer Terrence Little Gardenhigh (Speechless, Just Roll With It). They are joining…

Golden Globe-winning Empire star Taraji P. Henson and Ed Helms, most recently seen in WB’s ensemble comedy Tag, are attached to star in Coffee & Kareem, a Netflix film which Helms is producing with Mike Falbo under their banner, Pacific Electric Pictures Co. (Corporate Animals, The Fake News with Ted Nelms). Michael…

EXCLUSIVE: Betty Gilpin (GLOW, Nurse Jackie) has signed on for 20th Century Fox’s Michael Dowse-directed action comedy Stuber, which is toplined by David Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani. Tripper Clancy wrote the script about a mild-mannered Uber driver (Nanjiani) who picks up a grizzled cop (Bautista) hot on the trail of…

The raucous R-rated hockey comedy Goon has racked up significant international distribution deals for Myriad Pictures. Starring Sean William Scott, the movie has been sold in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Russia Scandinavia, Latin America, Turkey, the Middle East, Indonesia and South Africa, and several other…

This red-band trailer for the R-rated hockey comedy Goon is as rowdy as the rating suggests. Magnolia/Magnet picked up the movie — directed by Michael Dowse with Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber and Jay Baruchel — at the Toronto International Film Festival and according to the Magnet website plans a March…

Toronto, ONTARIO (September 13, 2011) – The Cuban/Wagner Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm to Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have taken US rights to Michael Dowse's raucous hockey comedy GOON. Starring Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber and Alison Pill, GOON was written by Baruchel…

While most of the industry views the Toronto International Film Festival as a place to showcase films for acquisition or Oscar runs, festival organizers always stock the program with homegrown films. The festival just announced that part of the program, setting a Gala premiere for the Ken Scott-directed drama…