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In Tyler MacIntyre’s horror-comedy Tragedy Girls (in theaters October 20), Alexandra Shipp plays McKayala, the perfect mix of an outgoing, popular homecoming queen hopeful and deviant sociopath who enjoys the occasional act of Final Destination-inspired homicide. Along with her BFF  Sadie (Brianna Hildebrand), the two…

Murder clearly trends, seems to be the lesson, or one of them, of Tragedy Girls, director Tyler MacIntyre’s bloody spin on the horror-comedy teen. Think Heathers, with butcher knives. Tragedy Girls stars Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse) as the titular psychopaths, with Josh…

UPDATED with more details: Tyler MacIntyre and Chris Hill have sold their original spec script Nightlight, which is being described as a contained horror thriller, to Sony’s Columbia Pictures. MacIntyre, who directed the SXSW horror comedy Tragedy Girls which he also co-wrote with Hill, is in line to direct. We’re…

APA has signed director Tyler MacIntyre, whose Clueless-inspired film Tragedy Girls debuted at SXSW this year. The horror comedy follows two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror…

Brian O'Shea's The Exchange has boarded international sales rights to horror-comedy Tragedy Girls, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year. The company will launch sales in Cannes to foreign buyers. CAA is repping domestic rights and a U.S. deal is expected to be announced shortly. Story, which is produced by The…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Parnell is continuing his education and has signed on to Melissa McCarthy’s college-set comedy Life of the Party, which began filming last week in Atlanta. Described as in the vein of the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield comedy Back to School, Life of the Party stars McCarthy as an adult attending university…

Exclusive: Jessie Ennis (Better Call Saul) is continuing her education and has signed on to New Line Cinema's upcoming college-set comedy Life Of The Party. While plot details are being kept under wraps for the pic described as in the vein of Rodney Dangerfield’s 1986 comedy Back To School, Ennis will play “a sorority…