Sony Pictures Television has taken a minority stake in UK-based Stolen Picture, the film, TV and digital banner launched by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost last May. The companies have also entered into an exclusive TV distribution deal. Miles Ketley has been appointed CEO of Stolen Picture, joining from Bad Wolf.

The deal w…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who co-starred in hit British comedies Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Paul, have formed the film and TV production banner Stolen Picture. The duo will kick open its doors with Slaughterhouse Rulez, marking their return to the comedy-horror genre.

The film, which Frost and Pegg wil…

Hot off his turn in Best Picture nominee Hacksaw Ridge, Vince Vaughn will next co-star with Dwayne Johnson, Game of Thrones' Lena Headey and Nick Frost in Fighting With My Family. This comes days after the whopping Berlin market deal where MGM agreed to pay as high as $17.5 million for world rights. Johnson developed…

EXCLUSIVE: In a whopping Berlin market deal that could be worth as high as $17.5 million, MGM is stepping up big to put a choke hold on world rights for Fighting With My Family.  This is the film that Dwayne Johnson developed with Film4. He’ll produce under his Seven Bucks Productions banner, as well as play a role…

Game of Thrones star Lena Headey and Nick Frost will join Dwayne Johnson in Fighting With My Family. The comedy-drama is set to be written and directed by Stephen Merchant (The Office) based on the true story of WWE star Paige and her family of professional wrestlers. The pic is produced by Seven Bucks Productions…

Nick Frost (The Cornetto Trilogy, Paul) has joined the second season cast of AMC's martial arts drama Into The Badlands as a series regular.

Loosely based on the Chinese tale Journey to the West and set in a land controlled by feudal barons, Into The Badlands tells the story of a ruthless, well-trained warrior named…

Created and written by Nat Saunders (Trollied) and James Serafinowicz (The Mark Steel Lectures), Sky Atlantic’s Sick Note is a six-part comedy about how desperate a person's actions can become when a lie starts to spiral out of control. Harry Potter‘s Rupert Grint, Nick Frost (Shaun Of The Dead) and Don Johnson are…

BBC America dropped its teaser to the Doctor Who Christmas special, which will air after tonight’s episode at 9 pm EST.  This year, Nick Frost, the actor and scribe behind Shaun of the Dead, will co-star as the jolly, white-bearded man in the red suit. Also starring alongside Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman will be Mic…

In a competitive situation, ABC has bought The Finger, a single-camera comedy written by Ben <img class="alignleft size-dl-vertical wp-image-117534" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt="benkarlin" width="151" height="184"…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Frost (The World’s End), Hope Davis (Louder Than Words) and Adelaide Clemens (Rectify) have been set to star in the black comedy Look Away, in which Clemens will play a young woman suffering from so-called “selective blindness” that leaves her unable to see her own mother (Davis). In search of a cure…

In one of the biggest casting coups for Fox this season, the network has tapped British writer-actor Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Paul) <img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-704157" alt="nickfrost1" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" width="150" height="150" data-…

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