EXCLUSIVE:  The worldwide rights to Simple Wedding, executive produced by and starring Rita Wilson, with Shohreh Aghdashloo and Tara Grammy, has been reached in an agreement with Blue Fox Entertainment for domestic distribution. Blue Fox is introducing the film to buyers this week at the European Film Market in…

EXCLUSIVE: Everyone’s had those awkward family dinners where the discussion turns uncomfortable, if not downright unpleasant. That’s certainly what happens in this clip from Simple Wedding, a comedy directed by Sara Zandieh and starring and executive produced by Rita Wilson, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Tara Grammy that…

Forrest Gump as Sir John Sack-and-Sugar? Believe it. Tom Hanks is set to make his L.A. stage debut in Henry IV, which the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles will raise the curtain on in June. Rita Wilson also will star, but her role wasn’t revealed. Daniel Sullivan, who won a Tony for directing 2000’s Proof and has…

Tom Hanks is attached to star in a remake of A Man Called Ove, the Oscar nominated Hannes Holm-directed Swedish comedy that became the highest grossing foreign language film released in the U.S. in 2016. Pic will be produced by Playtone partners Hanks and Gary Goetzman, along with Rita Wilson and Fredrik Wikström…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominated and Emmy winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo has joined the cast of writer/director Sara Zandieh’s romantic comedy Simple Wedding. Principal photography has just begun on the indie from the filmmaker has had short films honored at Telluride and Tribeca and is making her feature directing…

Emmy winner Christine Lahti is set to co-star opposite Archie Panjabi and Austin Stowell in Fox's untitled university drama pilot (formerly known as Controversy), written by Up in the Air co-writer Sheldon Turner, directed by This Is Us' John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and executive produced by Scandal co-executive…

The Good Wife recurring player Rita Wilson is reuniting with former Good Wife co-star Archie Panjabi in Fox’s untitled drama pilot (formerly known as Controversy), written by Up in the Air co-writer Sheldon Turner, directed by This Is Us' John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and executive produced by Scandal co-executive…

Rita Wilson (My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2) and How I Met Your Mother alumna Lyndsy Fonseca have been tapped to guest star on Fox's Pitch, Dan Fogelman's baseball drama series. Written by Fogelman and Rick Singer and directed by Paris Barclay, Pitch follows Ginny (Kylie Bunbury), a young pitcher who defies the odds when…

Shtick is to Larry David as location is to real estate: everything, everything and everything. As I say in my video review above, David is making his first stage appearance since grade school. The acerbic comic genius behind Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld makes his Broadway debut as playwright and star of Fish in Th…

Very funny. Occasionally very, very funny. Four-stars funny. If that's all you need to know about Larry David's Fish I…