The Tracking Board’s Daily Debrief (05.26.17)

Rashida Jones to Join Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms in New Line Comedy Tag (EXCLUSIVE)

Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress and Annabelle Wallis will co-star in the film, which follows a group of friends who have been playing a no-holds-barred version of the children’s game Tag for the last 30 years.

Up-and-Comer of the Month: Baywatch Breakout Jon Bass on Singing Katy Perry in the Shower and Learning to Swim with Kelly Rohrbach

Bass plays lovable lifeguard Ronnie Greenbaum and the script puts his character through the ringer, dealing him one public embarrassment after the next. Bass makes the most of the comic opportunity, delivering some killer lines while holding his own against his muscled-up co-stars.

Internet Denizens Putting Together Films For Our Entertainment? Welcome to the New Normal

There are skeptics and cynics who will scoff at the whole turn of events around the Lupita Nyong’o and Rihanna movie and wonder where we went wrong. Pay them no mind. They will just end up on the outside looking in, like those poor suckers Rihanna and Lupita are about to scam out of their shorts.

More News From Around The Web

• STX has closed a deal for U.S. rights to the Amy Schumer pic I Feel Pretty. The Cannes acquisitions deal is reportedly in the $15 million range, with a commitment for a wide release on 2,000 screens. (Deadline)

• Paramount is moving Sherlock Gnomes from its scheduled January 12 wide release date to March 23. The pic is a follow-up to 2011 animated hit Gnomeo and Juliet. (Deadline)

• The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films have just scheduled the sequel to Paddington for Jan. 12th of next year. In Paddington 2, directed by Paul King from a script by the helmer and Simon Farnaby, continues the story of the very polite and loveable bear Paddington. (Deadline)

• Australian actress Emma Booth is reuniting her Hounds of Love director Ben Young in Universal’s sci-fi thriller Extinction while  Andy Buckley, whose credits include Jurassic World and Bridesmaids, has joined the cast of Christopher Blake Johnson’s written and directed horror/thriller All Light Will End. (Deadline)

• Paul Is Here, from Costa Rica’s Valentina Maurel, a student at Belgium’s Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS), snagged the First Jury Prize Friday at Cannes Cinefondation on Friday. (Variety)