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If laughter is the best medicine, comedy spots should be considered essential businesses, comedian and director Mike Binder said. “I am so surprised that the governor and the mayor of the state and the city have not declared the comedy stores essential businesses. I think people need to laugh so hard and so bad,” he…

Coming to the stage next: a Showtime documentary series about the legendary Comedy Store. Mike Binder will direct the four-part project that’s eyed for 2020. The untitled series from Showtime Documentary Films brings to life the legends, heartbreak and history created at the Comedy Store. As a Comedy Store alum…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema has acquired rights to Keep Calm, the first novel by filmmaker Mike Binder, which Henry Holt will publish next month. Binder, who most recently directed Black Or White with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer, will write and direct the film. Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Alex Gartner…

At one point, there was no bigger movie star in the world than Kevin Costner. On top of starring in memorable films such as Field Of Dreams, Bull Durham, The Untouchables, JFK and so many others, he went on to win two Oscars for directing and producing Dances With Wolves in 1990. Since then he has made consistently…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty), Andre Holland (42), and comedian/actor Bill Burr (The Heat) have joined the cast of Black and White, the indie drama that re-teams Kevin Costner with his Upside Of Anger director Mike Binder. Costner stars as a grieving widower fighting for custody of his bi-racial…

Deadline revealed last week that Kevin Costner was going to reteam with Upside Of Anger helmer Mike Binder on Black And White. IM Global has confirmed the scoop, adding that The Help‘s Octavia Spencer will also be in the cast. Here’s the official release: IM Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford announced today that IM…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Costner has been set to re-team with Upside Of Anger helmer Mike Binder in Black And White, an indie that Costner will star in and produce through his Treehouse Productions banner. The film will be done in co-production with Binder’s Sunlight Productions, and Todd Lewis. Shooting begins in New Orleans…