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Louie Anderson, the veteran comedian, game show host and three-time Emmy winner, has died. He was 68. The Baskets star died Friday morning in Las Vegas, where he had entered hospital this week for treatment of diffuse large B cell lymphoma, a form of cancer, his longtime publicist Glenn Schwartz told Deadline. A…

Apple Original Films has landed rights to the package The Beanie Bubble, a new film hailing from Imagine Entertainment that will be co-directed by Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash and star Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook and Geraldine Viswanathan. Based on the book by Zac Bissonette is inspired by the…

A lonely kid finds a robotic friend in Ron's Gone Wrong, an animated family movie from Disney premiering at the London Film Festival. An endearing mix of earthy values and sci-fi concepts, it takes a cynical swipe at social media culture while delivering characters to care about. Chief of these is Barney Pudowski…

Netflix has released the first trailer for Between Two Ferns: The Movie, the feature film expansion of Zach Galifianakis’ quirky Internet talk show. The pic hits the streaming service September 20. The guest stars on the pic written by Galifianakis and Scott Aukerman and directed by Aukerman are legion in the first…

Spoiler alert: This article contains details of tonight's series finale of FX comedy Baskets.  After four seasons on FX, the Baskets family is moving on. Tonight, FX aired the final episode of the oddball comedy created by Jonathan Krisel, Zach Galifianakis and Louis C.K.—before the latter comedian's fall from grace…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s movie adaptation of Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns talk show has added Ryan Gaul (The Last O.G., Bajillion Dollar Properties), Lauren Lapkus (Crashing, Orange is the New Black) and UCB’s Jiavani Linayao. The trio will join Zach Galifianakis’ crew in the feature that will be directed by Comedy Ban…

Netflix and Zach Galifianakis have confirmed that the long-rumored movie version of Funny or Die series Between Two Ferns will bow globally on Sept. 20. The announcement was made at this evening’s FYSEE Event for My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman in Los Angeles,  The premise: Galifianakis…

When Rebecca Dinerstein set out on a solo journey to the Arctic, she intended only to write a book of poems. Living “completely alone, on an island in the Norwegian Sea,” she soon found that she needed to fill her time, so she turned to prose, writing the book that became The Sunlit Night. A Sundance drama from…

UPDATE: With Universal moving its family feature The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle off of April 12 to MLK weekend 2020, Annapurna is moving its Laika toon Missing Link up by a week to that date. Pic will be up against such wide releases as Aviron’s Hero Fiennes Tiffin-Selma Blair sci-fi pic After and the Fox drama Breakthr…

For Zach Galifianakis, the co-creator and star of FX’s comedy Baskets, it was the simple notion of a California rodeo clown that inspired a series now in its third season. “That idea was enough fertile ground to kind of grow everything up,” he said recently at Deadline’s annual The Contenders Emmys awards-season…

Jerry Seinfeld is back in the driver’s seat for a new laps of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which will premiere July 6 on Netflix. The 12-episode second half of Season 10 will feature guests Kate McKinnon, Ellen DeGeneres, Hasan Minhaj, Dana Carvey, Neil Brennan, Tracy Morgan, Brian Regan, Alec Baldwin, Zach…

LAIKA, which put its last four animated films through Focus — Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman, and Coraline — has moved its latest with Annapurna Pictures for U.S. release. Called Film Five, the pic features the voices of Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana and Zach Galifianakis. Pic’s in production with…