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EXCLUSIVE: Adrian Politowski's LA-based Align has come aboard to contribute production financing on animated comedy Blazing Samurai. The $46M toon is a re-imagining of Mel Brooks' classic Blazing Saddles and is currently in CG production with Aniventure at Cinesite's Montréal and Vancouver facilities. Completion is…

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Ricky Gervais has struck an overall deal with Netflix as the streamer brings back comedy After Life for a third season. The Office creator will develop new scripted projects for the digital platform as well as stand-up specials as part of the multi-year deal. This comes after the launch of season two of the British…

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With just about anything he does, Ricky Gervais makes me laugh, and that is a key reason I warmed right away to the loony high jinks of the latest attempt by Netflix to crash the animation market.  As the chatty tabby who guides us as narrator of The Willoughbys, a film version of the children’s book by Lois Lowry…

Ricky Gervais is exploring what comes next. No, not after his Golden Globes hosting. For the second season of his Netflix series, After Life, which returns on April 24. Set in the small, fictitious town of Tambury, the comedy-drama series follows Tony (Gervais), a writer for the local newspaper whose life is upended…

Netflix has dropped the first look at its forthcoming highly stylized CG animated film, The Willoughbys, which features the voices of Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, Alessia Cara, Terry Crews, Martin Short, Jane Krakowski, Séan Cullen, and Ricky Gervais. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 helmer Kris Pearn wrote and…

The second season of Ricky Gervais’ comedy After Life will premiere on Netflix on April 24, the streamer has confirmed. The six-part series will return to the fictional town of Tambury, where Gervais’ character Tony is attempting to rebuild his life following the death of his wife and a traumatic bout of…

With most of the top categories long locked in, if there was any real drama in the 92nd Oscars on Sunday it was how well another year of no host would fare. Not so great turned out to be the answer for Hollywood and ABC after the more than three-hour-long ceremony. After the novelty of last year's forced lack of a…

He’s not hosting the Oscars (no one is) and he claims he’s too old to return to the Golden Globes. But Ricky Gervais still has a few arrows to sling. Responding to a fan’s question on Twitter regarding what his “first best joke” would be if he were the Oscars host, Gervais unleashed on the gathering. He returned later…

Less than a week after the telecast of the 2020 Golden Globes hosted by Ricky Gervais in his fifth turn, NBC on Saturday announced that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will return as hosts for the fourth time next January. In contrast,  a few days earlier, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke confirmed at TCA that the…

We caught up with Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais last night at the Netflix party and asked him if he was really serious about not returning for a sixth time as Golden Globes emcee. “I’m too old,” Gervais quipped to us as he was exiting the party at the Beverly Hilton. “Christmas was ruined” he added referring to the…