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Eduardo Franco (Booksmart) and Patrick Gibson (The OA) are set as the leads in USA Network’s Masters of Doom pilot, a drama based on David Kushner's nonfiction book, from James and Dave Franco's Ramona Films, The Gotham Group and UCP. John Karna (Valley of the Boom), Jane Ackermann (Neptune) and Siobhan Williams (Deadl…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has put in development Troll, a comedy from writer Lee Sung Jin (Undone), and Joe Lewis’ Amplify Pictures. Rhys Thomas (Documentary Now!) is attached to direct and executive produce. Written by Lee, Troll is a comedy series about an eternal optimist, who refuses to give up on his dreams of being a…

When Documentary Now! producers are choosing which docs to tackle next, “the first thing is always can we do it? Can we make it seem funny and real at the same time? There is also the budgetary thing,” said Fred Armisen, one of IFC mockumentary series’ creators and executive producers, during Deadline’s recent The…

Rhys Thomas at first thought the call from the FBI was a joke. The author and documentary filmmaker listened to the phone message again and jotted down the return number. "Could this be a crank call?" he wondered. "Am I a person of interest in some investigation I know nothing about?" But it was no joke. The FBI…

Fred Armisen sang a song about Catalina Island, we think, to warm up the TCA crowd to talk about Documentary Now! – his comedy series nod to Eagles documentaries and such, for IFC. “We just love soft rock," Armisen gushed moments later, onstage with fellow series creators/SNL alums Seth Meyers and Bill Hader. "It's so…