Eight years after Superbad won over comedy fans everywhere, Jonah Hill and Emma Stone are re-teaming for a new dark comedy series entitled Maniac, based on the Norwegian format, with True Detective helmer Cary Fukunaga set to direct. That and more in our daily TV casting round-up!
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Forte and Wain will come together for a darkly comedic drama about National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney, who wrote the iconic comedies Animal House and Caddyshack before his life was cut tragically short.
Once Upon A Time taps Hank Harris and Sam Witwer for recurring roles, while Tina Fey’s The Kicker and Mike Schur’s Good Place add to their casts.
Lizzy Caplan, star of Showtime’s Masters of Sex, has been cast opposite Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, and Jared Harris in a new action thriller form The Walk director Robert Zemeckis.
After a summer of teasing fans via social media, comedy trio The Lonely Island have finally announced the film they spend their summer vacation putting together: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
Follows a rapper whose album bombs and leaves him with little career choice other than to reform his old boy band.
Logline: When a group of outcast teenagers return to high school after an elite summer camp for “personal reform,” their social status is not what it used to be when they start the new school year as vampires.
Actor-Writer Jason Mantzoukas has signed on to write Battling Boy for Paramount and Plan B. Patrick Osborne is set to direct.
Logline: Amidst an alien race’s attempt to assimilate into Earth’s culture, a cop teams with a newfound alien to solve a homicide.
