EXCLUSIVE: SXSX Special Jury Award winner Yes, God, Yes, starring Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things), Timothy Simons (Veep) and Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why), has been picked up for international sales by Highland Film Group. Writer-director Karen Maine's well-received (Obvious Child) comedy follows a Catholic teenager in…

Timothy Simons (Veep) and Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) are set as series regulars opposite Charlie Plummer and Kristine Froseth in Looking for Alaska, Hulu's eight-episode limited series based on John Green's novel. The series, which began production this week, hails from Paramount Television and Josh Schwartz and…

Timothy Simons has set his next project at HBO to follow his run on Emmy-winning comedy series Veep, which is currently filming its final season. The premium cabler has put in development assisted suicide comedy Exit Plans, from Simons, who also stars, and Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) via his Field Trip…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has finished Round #2 of chemo in her battle with breast cancer and, as her Veep costars point out in a funny, sweet music video tribute, she’s still got the eye of the tiger. “Chemo #2: finito,” Louis-Dreyfus posted yesterday on Instagram. “We are NOT f*cking around here.” The actress followed up…

EXCLUSIVE: Jacki Weaver, Timothy Simons and Claire Holt have joined the cast of Stephanie Laing's romantic drama Irreplaceable You. The Walking Dead's Alanna Masterson, Merritt Weaver (Nurse Jackie), Erin Richards (Gotham) and Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta) also star in the pic alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michiel Huisman…

EXCLUSIVE: Brit actress Imogen Poots is attached to star in romantic comedy Serial Dater, written and directed by comedian Jena Friedman. Timothy Simons, who’s best known for his role in HBO’s Veep, is also set to star in the pic with John Cho. Molly Conners, who was an exec producer on Birdman and upcoming Tulip Fever…

Freeform has put in development the comedy Bad Dates from Veep's Timothy Simons, Black List scribes Derek Elliott and Jack Donaldson and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Co-written by Elliott and Donaldson, Bad Dates will feature re-enactments of regular everyday people’s worst and most awkward dating experiences…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Ford (Supernatural), Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals), and Timothy Simons (Veep) have joined the cast of director Jay Lowi's Extracurricular Activities, a dark comedy/thriller being produced under Lowi and David Wilson’s Free Chicken Films shingle. Paul Schiff (Young Guns, Rushmore, Maid in Manhattan)…

For anyone that didn’t get enough of half-naked Seth Rogen on yesterday’s The Tonight Show, well, here’s the length that his backside will go “to secure the package” on a C.I.A. assignment to off Kim Jong-un in Sony’s new red band trailer for the Dec. 25 comedy The Interview (Rogen’s butt? No wonder why the North…

EXCLUSIVE: VEEP star Timothy Simons is joining Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Josh Brolin, Martin Short, Katherine Waterston and Jena Malone in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Inherent Vice, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 detective novel. Shooting is underway for the Warner Bros pic with Anderson…

EXCLUSIVE: The Veep actor has been set for Ivan Reitman‘s NFL comedy alongside Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, and Denis Leary. Draft Day follows the GM of the Cleveland Browns as he frantically tries to secure a #1 pick for his team. Timothy Simons will play Marx, a scout with an opinionated presence in the draft day…