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Exclusive: Production has wrapped on Suburban Psycho, a comedy feature from Big Smits Entertainment in association with Danny McBride and David Gordon Green’s Rough House Pictures (The Righteous Gemstones).

Written by Jeff Howard and Bj Bales, Suburban Psycho features the duo in co-starring roles opposite Veronica Mars and Party Down alum Ryan Hansen. The ensemble includes Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Malin Akerman (Watchmen), Dennis Haysbert (24), Patty Guggenheim (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law), Darryl Johnson, Allison Dunbar, Parvesh Cheena, Abe Farrelly, Ryan Gaul, and Emily Pendergast.

The logline reads: When two lifelong friends suspect their beloved best friend is the infamous Infinity Killer, they become reluctant detectives, uncovering dark truths hidden in plain sight.

The film was financed and produced by Jeffrey M. Zucker’s Janowski Entertainment, in partnership with Core 4 Films and 19 Pictures. Zucker produced alongside Ross Kohn, Kale Murphy, Jeff Howard, Bj Bales and Jeff Tyner. Fred Goss directs.

Exclusive: Ahead of RuPaul’s Drag Race producer World of Wonder’s appearance at MIPCOM, the company has announced two new series – House of Laughs, a stand-up comedy series starring Joel Kim Booster, Cameron Esposito, Daniel Franzese, Jimbo, and more, as well as its first non-English speaking commission Grag Hearts Drag with Drag Race Brasil host.

They join recently announced RuPaul’s Drag Race Live Untucked, a behind-the-scenes look at RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! Vegas show. The three new original series will join World of Wonder’s independently owned-and-operated streaming platform Wow Presents Plus.

Grag Hearts Drag will begin streaming on Wowpp on November 8, 2023; House of Laughs will be available for streaming in the spring of 2024 and RuPaul’s Drag Race Live Untucked in early 2024.

Wow Present Plus has seen significant growth since its launch six years ago. Outside the U.S., there has been a 32% increase in global...

Woody Harrelson steps onto the court once again in the heartfelt sports comedy “Champions.” Directed by Bobby Farrelly, the remake of the 2018 Spanish film “Campeones” sees Harrelson as Marcus, a former minor-league basketball coach who leads a team of intellectually disabled players called the Friends.

“It’s really hard to make an authentically funny and emotionally vulnerable film, and I thought they did such a wonderful job,” Kaitlin Olson, who plays Alex in the movie, told Variety Monday night at the New York premiere of “Champions.” “I met all the Friends and they’re such an incredible cast. They all showed up ready to play, and we just had the most amazing time.”

After watching hundreds of auditions during an open casting call across the U.S. and Canada, the production team found the ideal Friends: Kevin Iannucci, Joshua Felder, Madison Tevlin, Ashton Gunning, Matthew Von Der Ahe, Tom Sinclair,...

"I wanted to see this guy try to make a movie." Gravitas has revealed an official trailer for an indie dark comedy titled Killer Whales, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker William Hamilton. This is riffing on the "true crime" craze right now, with too many true crime shows and series and films being released. Killer Whales is a mockumentary style film that follows a naive filmmaker who sets out to make the next true crime hit. Woefully underprepared and faced with a cast of kooky suspects, his plans unravel in spectacular fashion and threaten to throw him behind bars. All of this sounds so kooky and absurd. Killer Whales stars Anthony Carrigan, Neal Bledsoe, Greg Vrotsos, and A.B. Farrelly. This looks like both a cautionary tale about filmmaking and ego, as well as a satire about the true crime craze and how ridiculous it is. Not every death...

Activist Jay Ruderman on March 3 presented an award to brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly for their decades of championing people with disabilities, saying show business “has the power to change public perception like no other industry.”

The occasion was the sixth annual Morton E. Ruderman Award for Inclusion, presented by the Ruderman Family Foundation and held at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills.

Onstage, Jay Ruderman pointed out that U.S. unemployment is now 4%, but people with disabilities have 70% unemployment, despite being an estimated 20% of the population. The Farrelly brothers have cast people both in front of and behind the camera since their second film, the 1996 “Kingpin.”

Bobby Farrelly said, “Whatever we’ve given to the disability community, they’ve given us a lot more back.” Peter Farrelly exploded two prevalent myths: “That they will slow you down and cost you money. It’s just the opposite,” saying people with...

Sprockerfeller Pictures will produce Lez Bomb, an upcoming comedy from writer and director Jenna Laurenzo (Girl Night Stand), who will star. A family ensemble comedy, Lez Bomb is about a closeted young woman who brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming out plans thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate. Also starring are A.B. Farrelly (Treading Yesterday), Brandon Micheal Hall (Search Party), Elaine Hendrix (Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll)…...