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Rom-coms depend heavily on the on-screen chemistry between their leads, and when you throw in a time-machine scenario, those actors really have to be on their game to give it half a chance at credibility. Fortunately for the modest but completely engaging new film Long Weekend, writer-director Steve Basilone got Finn…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has secured the North American distribution rights to Blush, the drama written and directed by Debra Eisenstadt. Formally titled Imaginary Order, the pic, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, will get a day-and-date release on April 10. Bridesmaids and The Goldbergs standout…

EXCLUSIVE: Wendi McLendon-Covey and Damon Wayans Jr. are set to join Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo for the Lionsgate comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. The film was co-written Wiig and Mumolo, who will also star in the pic which follows titular best friends Barb (Mumolo) and Star (Wiig), who leave their small…

ABC’s Big 80’s comedy series The Goldbergs and its 90’s spinoff Schooled are both coming back for another go-round. The network has renewed The Goldbergs for a seventh season, and Schooled for a sophomore run. We hear the renewal of The Goldbergs, which was never in doubt, was tied with a Season 2 pickup off spinoff, S…

EXCLUSIVE: Wendi McLendon-Covey, who currently stars in ABC’s long-running comedy series, The Goldbergs, is taking a trip back to the cool jazz era of New York City in the late 1950s/early 1960s in the indie film, Sylvie. Written and directed by Eugene Ashe, the romance pic stars Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha…

Through six seasons of ABC’s The Goldbergs, Wendi McLendon-Covey has garnered acclaim for her turn as Beverly, one of the most memorable matriarchs on network television. Recently, the actress teamed up with Debra Eisenstadt on Imaginary Order, to present a rather different portrait of the suburban mom. Starring…

EXCLUSIVE: Debra Eisenstadt, the writer, co-producer, co-editor and director of Imaginary Order, the drama that just premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Gersh. Wendi McLendon-Covey, Christine Woods and Max Burkholder star in the pic, which bowed Saturday at the…

The Goldbergs star Wendi McLendon-Covey is in negotiations to join Taraji P. Henson in What Men Want, Paramount Players’ gender-swapping revamp of the 2000 comedy starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The studio is fast-tracking this one, with principal photography underway in Atlanta and a January 11, 2019 release…

EXCLUSIVE: The Goldbergs star Wendi McLendon-Covey will lend her voice in Open Road Films’ Playmobil, the live-action/animated hybrid film based on the classic toy series. Frozen animator Lino DiSalvo is making his directorial debut in the film, which was developed in cooperation with Pathé France and produced by The L…

Before Melissa McCarthy picked up an Oscar nomination for Bridesmaids and became a box office star — and way before she won an Emmy for going full Spicey — she was in the cast of the ensemble comedy Cook Off, which bowed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 2007. Since then, Lionsgate Premiere picked it up, and now has…

During a TCA set visit for ABC’s The Goldbergs, reporters immediately were sent into a time warp. From VHS tapes to Star Wars action figures to pastel-hued home furnishings, the set of the Adam F. Goldberg sitcom spares no expense in making you feel like you were in the 1980s. This also applies to the wardrobe — to…

Wendi McLendon-Covey showed up in full Beverly Goldberg mode at Deadline’s annual The Contenders Emmy event on behalf of ABC’s hit comedy The Goldbergs. Onstage with TVLine’s Michael Ausiello, “Beverly” was asked among numerous topics about her obsession with former First Lady Nancy Reagan. “Her whole thing is just…