EXCLUSIVE: HBO is nearing the big deal of the Toronto Film Festival, acquiring for a sum nearing $20 million world rights to Bad Education, the Cory Finley-directed fact-based dark comedy that stars Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney as supervisors in the Roslyn, Long Island, school district who masterminded the largest…
The surprised look on audience faces at Manhattan’s Comedy Cellar when unannounced guest Ray Romano strides onto the stage says it all: Ray’s back! And he’s not Louis C.K.!
They can be forgiven their shock: Romano hasn’t done a stand-up special in 23 years, and here he is doing not one but two gigs for his Feb. 5 Netfl…
Epix has picked up a seven-episode third season of original series Get Shorty for premiere in 2019. The episode order is down from the 10-episode orders from seasons 1 and 2. The dark comedy is one of Epix’s three original three scripted series, along with Berlin Station and Graves, and comes from the now-sole owner…
EXCLUSIVE:Ray Romano is set to star with Hugh Jackman and Allison Janey in Bad Education, the movie based on a true story from I Think We're Alone Now screenwriter Mike Makowsky and Thoroughbreds director Cory Finley. Finley is directing the pic, from Automatik’s Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sight…
Film producer screens some footage and solicits feedback. “It’s — not good,” is the first response. “Well, we’re all in agreement on that pretty much,” is the reply as said producer plunges his face into his hands.
Here’s the first trailer for Season 2 of Get Shorty, Epix’s dark comedy based on Elmore Leonard’s novel…
EXCLUSIVE: Ray Romano is returning to his standup roots with an hourlong comedy special on Netflix. While Romano started off as a comedian before segueing to acting with his own sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond on CBS, this actually will be his first standalone comedy special. It will feature new material, with the…
Netflix and filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass have signed a worldwide rights deal that will see the brothers’ next four movies stream exclusively on the streaming service. The first film in the deal is a comedic drama starring Ray Romano and Mark Duplass. The deal comes after the parties signed an exclusive worldwide…
Approaching The Big Sick—a dramatic comedy based on the life experiences of writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon—Oscar winner Holly Hunter was happy to return to the comedy realm, and found herself compelled by an “openness” about the entire endeavor.
In the film, Hunter plays Gordon’s real-life mother, who is…
Jimmy Kimmel Live threw its host a celebrity-strewn surprise party to celebrate his 50th birthday.
“Hello I'm George Clooney. Join us now or the next four and a half hours, as we take a look behind the beard: 50, Fierce & Fabulous,” Clooney contributed.
Among the revelations in the “cautionary tale,” Clooney said…
Get Shorty is coming back. Epix has ordered a 10-episode second season of the original series for premiere in 2018. The dark comedy from MGM Television is the third of Epix’s initial original series to be renewed for a sophomore run, joining Berlin Station and Graves, and is the first from Epix’s new sole owner…
While drawing from the always-strong source material of Elmore Leonard and starring the often sterling Ray Romano and Chris O'Dowd, Epix's August 13 debutingGet Shorty ultimately comes up short.
The fact is the 10-episode series from Davey Holmes, based in part on the prolific crime writer's 1990 novel of the same…
Kicking off TCA’s summer 2017 clambake, cast and creators of Epix’s Get Shorty got asked to mull the difference between series, the movie, and the Elmore Leonard book on which both are based.
“It’s like visiting the same bar at different times of the week, explained series star Chris O’Dowd, who plays Miles Daly, a…
