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HBO Max has given a pilot order to Verbatim, an anthology series from Brett Weiner (Honest Trailers), Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films, Left/Right Productions and the New York Times. Created and directed by Weiner, Verbatim is based on his New York Times Op-Docs digital series. It tackles actual events with all dialogue…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the heels of selling their films Where’s My Roy Cohn?  and Knock Down the House at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Wavelength Productions announces their involvement as producers of the feature documentary Chippendales, directed by award-winning documentarians Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce…

EXCLUSIVE: Production has begun in Los Angeles on romantic comedy Plus One from first-time feature directors Andrew Rhymer and Jeff Chan. Jack Quaid (Logan Lucky, The Hunger Games) and Maya Erskine (Casual, Man Seeking Woman) are starring in the pic from Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Studio71, the LA-headquartered…

Red Hour is teaming with Bold Films to produce a slate of film, TV and digital projects, with producer/executive Nicky Weinstock joining Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld’s now-indie company, which previously had a deal at 20th Century Fox. As part of the deal, Red Hour’s offices will fold into Bold Films’ L.A. and N.Y…

TBS has quietly greenlighted and cast the leads of an untitled comedy pilot from writer Matt Fogel (Bob: The Musical) and writer-director Todd Strauss-Schulson (The Final Girls). Adam Shapiro (Steve Jobs, Sense8) and Jack Carpenter (The Good Wife, Reckless) have been tapped as the leads in the project, produced by…

Following their collaboration on the comedy variety series The Birthday Boys, IFC is reteaming with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour on a new project — comedy Start Making Sense (working title), from creator and writer Jake Fogelnest (Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp, Billy On The Street). The network has ordered…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has set Brad Parker to direct The Mountain, a psychological thriller that will be produced by Red Hour Films. This comes on the heels of the work Parker did as a 2nd unit director on the Matt Reeves-helmed Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. The studio wanted to keep Parker in the fold, and offered this…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has made a pre-emptive deal for Brothers Of The Bride, a comedy pitch that will be written by PJ Byrne, Terry Scannell, Aaron Ginsburg and Wade McIntyre. Ben Stiller’s Red Hour will produce what sounds like a pretty good one. A dying father makes his three estranged sons promise they will work…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has acquired remake rights to Quantum Hoops, the 2007 documentary that followed the 2006 Caltech basketball team that had 21 seasons and 245 conference games without a single win, routinely getting walloped by 60 points or more. Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld’s Red Hour will produce a comedy based…

20th Century Fox has hired Red Hour partner Jeremy Kramer to be EVP of production. He will report to Emma Watts, president of production. Kramer joined Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld at Red Hour in 2007, where he is currently producing the Ruben Fleischer-directed comedy 30 Minutes or Less with Jesse Eisenberg, Danny…