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Russell Brand and Paula Patton have joined Oscar-winner Michael Caine and The Crown star Matthew Goode in family adventure film Four Kids And It. Shoot is under way in Ireland on the feature which is directed by Andy De Emmony (West Is West) and follows four children who are horrified to learn that their beach holiday…

Get Him To The Greek star Russell Brand is heading back to the big screen in action feature Butterfingers. The comedian is to play a hitman in the movie, which is directed by I, Anna's by Barnaby Southcombe and based on a script from Full Nelson's Tom Nash. Butterfingers will be produced and financed by The Fyzz Facili…

Russell Brand is getting into bed with Netflix after the streaming service signed up his forthcoming comedy special Re:Birth. The Get Him To The Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall star is the latest British comedian to launch a comedy special with the SVOD service following deals with comedians including Jimmy Carr…

Update with video Bill Maher seized on the so-called Hot Cars Act – a legislative proposal that would require automobile sensors reminding drivers of kids left in rear seats – as yet another example of Democrats attempting to “child-proof the Republic” while the government ignores larger issues. “Thanks Government,&#8221…

Russell Brand is set to appear in the Edinburgh International Television Festival's "Alternative MacTaggart" slot this year. The comedian, writer, actor and broadcaster will be interviewed by comedy writer Matt Morgan, addressing Brand's lifelong devotion to comedy, his extensive portfolio of work on and off the…

UPDATE Monday afternoon: Brand has also set a West Coast premiere, on September 25 at the Arclight Hollywood. Ignite Channel (Twinsters, Poached), which acquired Brand: A Second Coming after its subject tried to get the Russell Brand documenary pulled from last spring’s SXSW fest, has released the trailer and set a…

Brand: A Second Coming, the Russell Brand documentary whose subject tried to get the film pulled from its opening-night slot at SXSW in March, has found a North American distributor. Ignite Channel, whose pickups include Twinsters and Poached, both from SXSW, has acquired director Ondi Timoner’s film for theatrical…

An army of actors has joined Nicolas Cage in Endgame Entertainment and Condé Nast’s comedy Army Of One. Russell Brand, Denis O'Hare, Ken Marino, Paul Scheer and Rainn Wilson have lined up for director Larry Charles. They join the previously announced Wendi McLendon-Covey in the comedy that will be distributed by <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/twc/" id="auto-tag_twc"…

UPDATED, 7:40 PM: At tonight’s SXSW premiere of her documentary Brand: The Second Coming, director Ondi Timoner acknowledged that she and her subject clashed during the filmmaking process. “Once he gave me creative control, it was a tug of war. You know I like characters like this. And I like challenges.” The…

South by Southwest 2015 will open with BRAND: A Second Coming, a feature documentary about comedian Russell Brand directed by Ondi Timoner (Dig!, We Live In Public). The doc chronicles Brand’s evolution from addict to movie star to political disruptor and will kick off a line-up that will also include Michael…

Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Morgan Spurlock, and comedian/actor Russell Brand are set to appear at next year’s South By Southwest confab, which today announced the first wave of 2015 Convergence speakers. The announcement of over 60 sessions includes panels in the growing SXsports program, TV, and Digital…

British comedian Russell Brand has waded into the Israeli-Gaza Strip battle in a big way, backing an online petition calling for six companies to divest holdings in Israeli military operations that “support and facilitate the oppression of people in Gaza.” Brand posted a 4:42-minute-long video, the latest installment…