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EXCLUSIVE: After relaunching its film division last October, Castle Rock Entertainment has set a first project out of the gate that will have a familiar ring. It’s Spinal Tap II, a sequel to the fabled rock mockumentary that set the film company on a run of hits, many of them directed by Rob Reiner. He made his…

Leslie Bibb (Jupiter’s Legacy) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Keegan-Michael Key and Johnny Knoxville in Reboot, Hulu's comedy pilot from Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan. Also cast in the project are Rachel Bloom, in her return to series television after her starring turn on her CW series Crazy Ex-G…

EXCLUSIVE: Uly Schlesinger (HBO Max’s Generation), Michael McKean (Better Call Saul), Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect franchise), Ann Harada (Schmigadoon!) and Devyn McDowell (Annette) have joined the cast of Jerry and Marge Go Large. They’ll appear in the Paramount+ Original Film alongside previously announced cast…

David Lander, the actor best known as “Squiggy” on the long-running ABC sitcom Laverne & Shirley, has died. He was 73 and passed Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications related to multiple sclerosis, which he battled for 37 years. Lander studied acting at the High School for the…

Good Omens‘ Michael McKean has joined the cast of the HBO Max pilot Delilah, a half-hour comedy starring Jessica Rothe (La La Land), from Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford's Merman. In Delilah, after a life-changing event, Delilah's first step toward putting her life back…

Four years and four Emmy nominations into playing Better Call Saul's good-hearted lawyer Jimmy McGill, Bob Odenkirk is currently deep into Season 5, with McGill continuing his metamorphosis into the Saul Goodman we know from Breaking Bad. Despite playing Goodman for several years, Odenkirk says his deep work with the…

Oscar-nominated Mudbound star Mary J. Blige, Better Call Saul and Good Omens actor Michael McKean, Lady Bird’s Odeya Rush, and Evan Ross, from Fox’s recently canceled Star series, have joined the cast of Pink Skies Ahead, Stampede's first feature which just commenced production. Kelly Oxford wrote and is directing the…

The 35th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap, the classic mockumentary film on the fictional British rock band’s misadventures, saw the group reunite Saturday night following a Tribeca Film Festival screening. As reported by PageSix, the original cast members – Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer…

In Neil Gaiman’s new Amazon series Good Omens the end of the world is fast approaching and the forces of good and evil  set out to find the Anti-Christ to stop Armageddon from happening. Good comes in the form of the charming angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the snide demon Crowley (David Tennant). The unlikely…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the season 4 finale of Better Call Saul. There are many moving parts to Better Call Saul, with the main lingering question being: “How did Jimmy McGill become Saul Goodman?” The season 4 finale addresses this and continues to clear the path for the inevitable…

A judge has denied the defendants’ motion to have a fraud claim dismissed from the lawsuit filed by the principals of the 1984 feature This Is Spinal Tap. Original filed nearly two years ago by Harry Shearer and seeking $125 million, the suit since has added his fellow Spinal Tap bandmates Christopher Guest and Michael…

Luke Benward (Warner Bros’ Life Of The Party), Michael McKean (Better Call Saul), Alan Tudyk (Suburgatory), and Hannah Kasulka (The Exorcist) will star in the indie comedy, Playing God, written and directed Scott Brignac. Currently shooting in Houston, the pic follows Rachel (Kasulka) and Micah Benward), a brother and…