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EXCLUSIVE: Nat Faxon, Kevin Dunn, Marquise Vilsón, Marinda Anderson, Don Fanelli and Nancy Lenehan are set for major recurring roles opposite lead Abbi Jacobson in Amazon's A League of Their Own, a reimagining of Penny Marshall's 1992 film, from co-creators Jacobson (Broad City) and Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle)…

Our Flag Means Death, the HBO Max pirate comedy series from Taika Waititi and David Jenkins, has added Leslie Jones and Nat Faxon to its crew. Coming 2 America and Supermarket Sweep star Jones and Married alum Faxon join the period comedy as recurring guest stars. Rhys Darby and Waititi headline the series alongside a…

EXCLUSIVE: Nat Faxon and Nicole Byer have been cast in the HBO Max pilot Delilah, a half-hour comedy starring Jessica Rothe, from Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford's Merman. In Delilah, after a life-changing event, Delilah's (Rothe) first step toward putting her life back…

Friends From College won’t be back for another semester. Show co-creator Nicholas Stoller took to Twitter to announce that the Netflix comedy won’t be returning for your bingeing pleasure. “Friends from College will not be returning for a third season,” Stoller wrote. “Thanks to everyone who watched it. Happy…

Oscar winners Sam Rockwell, Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney have been set to star in The Heart, which will be the next film from writer-directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. The duo, who won the Adapted Screenplay Oscar with Alexander Payne for The Descendants, will also helm this one next and start shooting at year’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Miranda Otto, who stars as Aunt Zelda in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Zoë Chao from Strangers on Facebook Watch, and Silicon Valley‘s Zach Woods are set for supporting roles in Downhill. The trio joins previously announced stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell in Fox Searchlight’s Nat Faxon…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell is attached to star with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Downhill, Fox Searchlight’s remake of Ruben Ostlund’s acclaimed Swedish drama-comedy Force Majeure. Oscar winners Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants) have come on board to direct. The biting comedy will chart how a narrow avalanche…

Forget Meghan Markle and Prince Whatshisname: The more important royal wedding was that of Princess Bean and the Prince of Bentwood. Except that she jilted him and he became head-impaled on an iron throne. Pity. Here’s the new trailer for Disenchantment, the upcoming Netflix series from The Simpsons and Futurama…

EXCLUSIVE: Sex and the City star Chris Noth and Friends From College star Nat Faxon are among the high-profile guest stars set to appear in the fourth season of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's Catastrophe. I understand that the pair have been lined up for guest roles in the next six-episode run of the Channel 4 and Ama…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Roberts and Ross Jacobson’s 3311 Productions has committed to finance and produce Batso and the Wall, a film that Nat Faxon and Jim Rash will direct about the exploits of Warren "Batso" Harding and specifically his climb up the Dawn Wall of the iconic El Capitan rock formation. Eamon O'Sullivan is…

Disenchantment, Matt Groening’s long-gestating adult animated comedy fantasy series for Netflix, is moving forward with an official 20-episode order. The series from The Simpsons creator and Futurama creator will premiere in 2018, with the 20 episodes airing over two seasons of 10 episodes each. Abbi Jacobson, Nat Faxo…

Walton Goggins is set as the star of a high-profile comedy project, which has landed at Showtime for development with a significant commitment. Titled Keeping It Real, the dark comedy is created/written by Charles Randolph, an Oscar winner for co-writing The Big Short, and has two other writing Oscar winners, Nat Faxon…