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A fifth Lego movie is now in development at Universal. The update comes over a decade after the first theatrical Lego movie hit theaters to near-universal acclaim.

According to Deadline, Inner Child is in early development at Universal and The Lego Group. The movie, described as "an elevated Lego comedy," hails from the mind of James Morosini, the actor/filmmaker behind the underrated 2022 comedy film I Love My Dad starring Patton Oswalt. While Morosini making a Lego movie is exciting in its own right, there is still cause for concern, as Deadline notes that the filmmaker's original script for Inner Child had nothing to do with the popular construction toy. Morosini's original script was considered edgier and was written for live-action. It was only after Universal snapped up the script that the decision was made to rework Inner Child as a project befitting the Lego brand. At this time, it...

Exclusive: Inner Child, an elevated Lego comedy from James Morosini, is in early development at Universal and The Lego Group, sources tell Deadline.

Reps for Lego and Universal declined comment, but sources close to the project said Lego Group will produce. Plot details are being kept under wraps.

The origin story here is interesting in that the project originated as an original spec from Morosini that had nothing to do with the Lego universe. It was originally a bit of an edgier concept, written for live-action. But since falling for the script and snapping it up, execs at Universal and Lego Group have elected to take the material in a direction, visually and otherwise, befitting the Lego brand.

First introduced in Denmark in 1932, the Lego brand has continued to engage audiences around the world by expanding into feature films more than a decade ago. In 2020, Universal closed a five-year exclusive...

Not long ago, Allen was a struggling science-fiction writer trying to get his work seen and his voice heard. But now he’s living high in the Hollywood Hills in a big mansion with a fountain, a vintage Mustang, and a room devoted to The Neptune Cycle, the classic science-fiction novels written by Allen’s hero, S.J. Purcell. Allen’s friends Maddie, Ryan and Vic have come to visit and celebrate Allen’s big book and movie deal, but they’re quick to believe his out-of-nowhere good fortune may be too good to be true. And Allen’s erratic behaviour isn’t helping matters any; he’s coming across as sad, paranoid, and delusional, not like someone who’s about to hit the big time. Is it writer’s block? Or maybe they picked the wrong time to visit? And maybe they weren’t the only ones?

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Exclusive: Utopia has acquired North American rights to Mermaid, a comedic thriller starring actor and comedian Johnny Pemberton (of Fallout fame), which premiered to critical acclaim at this year’s SXSW Film Festival. Pic is slated for release in theaters in early 2026.

Currently sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is written and directed by Tyler Cornack (Butt Boy), and follows a percocet-addicted Florida man named Doug (Pemberton) who discovers a wounded mermaid on the day he’s set to end his own life. As he nurses the mysterious creature back to health in his rundown home, Doug finds a new purpose — but as rumors of his secret begin to swirl, he’ll go to deranged and desperate lengths to keep her safe.

The cast also includes Robert Patrick (Reacher), Kevin Dunn (Veep), Kevin Nealon (SNL), Kirk Fox (Jury Duty), Tom Arnold (True Romance), and newcomer Avery Potemri. Daniel Brandt,...

As summertime approaches, anticipation starts to grow for the annual Fantasia International Film Festival, held every year in Montreal. This year makes the festival’s 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, presented by Mels in collaboration with Concordia University. Fantasia returns to their usual venues of Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

Fantasia will announce the full lineup in July, but for now, they’ve provided a delicious list for its first wave of titles, which include Julia Pacino’s feature film debut, the latest from the Adams’ Family, Kurtis David Harder’s sequel film Influencers, and so much more.

Check out the first wave of 2025 Fantasia titles below: Terrestrial (dir. Steve Pink)

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As director of the Hot Tub Time Machine films, Accepted, and About Last Night,...

The 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 17th through August 3rd at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas in Montreal, with additional screenings and events at Cinéma du Musée – and today the festival announced the first wave of titles that will be screening there this year! The full line-up will be announced in early July, but for here’s a sample of what attendees can expect to see there, with the information coming directly from the Fantasia press release:

Terrestrial Reveals A Different Shade Of (Steve) Pink: As director of the Hot Tub Time Machine films, Accepted, and About Last Night, and the co-writer of High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank, Steve Pink has made a distinctive name for himself with individualistic comedy works that ooze personality. Now, he’s exploring darker edges of his sensibilities with Terrestrial,...

The Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the very best events to experience the latest and greatest genre films from around the world. There's nothing quite like it, and if you haven't had a chance to attend, I highly recommend planning a visit to Montreal this summer, especially now that the first wave of titles has been officially announced:

From the Press Release: "The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early July but in the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a select first wave of premiere titles.

Terrestrial Reveals A Different Shade Of (Steve) Pink

As director of...

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 29th edition with another densely packed slate of events and programming running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas and presented by Mels, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early July, but in the meantime, Fantasia 2025 has revealed a select first wave of premiere titles. Highlights include Influencers, writer-director Kurtis David Harder‘s follow up to his 2022 thriller. Actor Al Pacino‘s daughter, film producer Julie Pacino, makes her feature directorial debut with the Lynchian I Live Here Now. From the director behind Hot Tub Time Machine and multiple episodes of “Santa Clarita Diet,” Steve Pink, comes an unconventional sci-fi comedy Terrestrial. The Adams family (Hellbender) is back with Mother of Flies, desrcribed as a personal dark fairy tale.

Martial arts decide the fate, and the faith, of humanity in the first trailer for next month’s indie action thriller, Absolute Dominion. Combining action classics like Bloodsport, The Hunger Games, and Mortal Kombat, Absolute Dominion drops audiences in a dystopian future in which the world’s governments decide to end the ongoing holy wars that have devastated civilization by gambling everything on a martial arts tournament. Which, considering the state of the real world, is some political policy we could get seriously behind.

Directed by Lexi Alexander, who is best known for helming the likes of the Marvel movie Punisher: War Zone starring the late Ray Stevenson on the big screen, as well as Arrow, Limitless, Taken, and S.W.A.T. on the small screen, Absolute Dominion is all set to land on Digital and in select theaters on May 9, 2025. You can check out more about the movie, and the trailer,...

Exclusive: Horror-comedy Haunted Heist, which is set to star Lil Rel Howery (Get Out) and Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), has added Andrew ‘King Bach’ Bachelor (The Babysitter), Karlous Miller (Wild ‘N Out), Brett Gelman (Stranger Things), Ari Dayan (Entitled), Tony Baker (One of Them Days), and newcomer Tara Terry.

Currently in pre-production, Haunted Heist will mark the directorial debut of Howery. The screenplay, written by Carl Reid (Mr. Crocket), follows four estranged friends who reunite at a seemingly typical house. Unbeknownst to them, one friend intends to rob the place, seeking a valuable antique. However, the house is haunted, and the group must confront their differences to survive the night against a host of mischievous ghosts.

Pic is being produced by Sean King O’Grady (I Love My Dad), Josh Feldman and Jesse Ford (Mr. Crocket), and Lil Rel Howery. Executive producers include Feras M. Shammami, Priscilla Ross Smith, and Kendall Anlian.

Exclusive: Kelly Marie Tran (The Wedding Banquet) and David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil) are set to topline Kodak SuperXX, a psychological thriller marking the feature directorial debut of Auden Bui, which is going into production this year.

Written by Tony Rettenmaier (They Cloned Tyrone), the indie is set against an atmospheric Los Angeles and follows Linh (Tran), a quiet woman whose solitary life revolves around her work as a darkroom developer at one of the city’s last boutique photo labs. Her quiet existence takes a paranoid turn when she becomes entangled with a mysterious stranger (Dastmalchian), whose photographs reveal a dark secret.

Tonally, the project is compared to to Nightcrawler and Francis Ford Coppola’s classic The Conversation. Dastmalchian and Jen Iacobino will produce under their Good Fiend Films banner (Late Night with the Devil), alongside Rettenmaier & Juel Taylor and Death Ground’s Jesse Ford,...

Rhenzy Feliz walked into West Hollywood’s Soho House Holloway on Wednesday for The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen bash in partnership with Instagram and Waymo, posed for a couple of photos and then managed to perfectly capture the spirit of the celebration in a few short sentences.

“We’re surrounded by so many people who really care about this thing,” explained The Penguin breakout of this thing called entertainment. “People who are passionate about what we’re doing and the future of what it might look like. It’s exciting to even be a part of the conversation.”

Over the actor’s shoulder, there were plenty of exciting conversations happening between creatives, creators, executives and actors, all of whom had been singled out as the future of Hollywood by this publication as part of the annual (and coveted) Next Gen lists. There’s the 31st annual tally of the...

The body-swapping genre is getting a fresh and energetic twist with Greg Jardin's It's What's Inside. The sci-fi horror-comedy serves as Jardin's feature directorial debut, with the filmmaker having previously made a name for himself as a director both in shorts and in music videos. Some of Jardin's more notable previous productions include the teaser promos for Netflix's 13 Reasons Why seasons 2 and 3, When They See Us and Colin in Black & White: The Path is Power, as well as the short film teaser Cowboy Bebop: The Lost Session for the streamer's live-action adaptation.

Jardin wears the hats of writer, director and editor for the movie, with It's What's Inside focusing on Shelby, Cyrus, Reuben, Dennis, Nikki, Brooke, Maya and Forbes, a group of friends who reunite at Reuben's family home to celebrate his upcoming wedding. Forbes, who has been estranged from the group since college when a...

A group of college friends' reunion party becomes a more surreal adventure when one person finds a mind-bending device in It's What's Inside. The group is composed of Shelby, Cyrus, Reuben, Dennis, Nikki, Brooke and Maya, who come back together at Reuben's family home to celebrate his upcoming nuptials. Initially planning a night of relaxation and nostalgic reflections on their friendship, the arrival of their estranged group member, Forbes, brings with it a machine that allows them all to swap bodies, which subsequently becomes a dangerous game that leads to long-hidden secrets and biases.

Forbes is brought to life in It's What's Inside by David W. Thompson, who first found success starring in Macon Blair's Blue Ruin before going on to star in everything from Gotham as Scarecrow to fellow Netflix title, Fear Street Part One: 1994. Shelby and Cyrus, the couple centered at the heart of the movie's story,...

Not every friends group's reunion can be full of nostalgia and love, as seen in It's What's Inside. The Netflix sci-fi comedy focuses on Shelby, Cyrus, Reuben, Dennis, Nikki, Brooke and Maya, a group of friends who gather to celebrate Reuben's impending wedding, alongside their estranged college friend Forbes, who brings a mysterious device to the party that allows for body swapping. As they initially enjoy the surreal experience, tensions rise when the changing leads to old secrets being revealed, and puts multiple lives at risk.

It's What's Inside is comprised of an ensemble cast, some of whom include Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's Gavin Leatherwood, The Resort's Nina Bloomgarden, Fear the Walking Dead alum Alycia Debnam-Carey and Barry's Devon Terrell. Leatherwood portrays Dennis, the brash personality of the friend group, while Bloomgarden plays Maya, the free-spirited one, Debnam-Carey as Nikki, a popular social media influencer, and Terrell as Reuben, the...

Greg Jardin’s high-concept techno-thriller It’s What’s Inside weaves a tangeled web of deceit and deception among a group of old friends gathering together for one last fling before the group’s first wedding sends them all into the world of adult relationships and responsibilities. Reuben, the man of the hour, has invited all the usual suspects but threw the group a curveball when he also invited Forbes, an estranged friend who hasn’t spoken to anyone since a big dustup split the group 8 years ago.

As we all know, it’s rude to come to a party empty-handed but rather than bringing a bottle of wine, Forbes has brought an opportunity with him. Now, Forbes has made a bit of a name for himself in the tech world since the group last saw him, like a Great Value brand Mark Zuckerberg. He promises the group an experience like no other…...

It’s October, officially known as “spooky season,” a term I just realized I’ve seen a lot less this year than in years prior. Maybe it’s a less spooky season than usual? In any case, “spooky season” means the streamers are putting up a lot of original horror movies this week. Max has “‘Salem’s Lot,” the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s vampire classic; Prime Video has “House of Spoils,” a Blumhouse psychological horror thriller starring Ariana DuBose as a Carmy-esque chef who’s either losing her mind or actually haunted; and Hulu has a period horror movie called “Hold Your Breath” starring Sarah Paulson as a mother in Dust Bowl Oklahoma who thinks there are monsters in the dust storms.

But none of those are our top picks this week. That would be “It’s What’s Inside,” a stylish Netflix horror comedy with a “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Netflix’s “It’s What’s Inside” is the body-swapping thriller that sparked a bidding war at Sundance, and it’s finally streaming for all to see. And you’re probably going to want to see it a couple of times, because the ensemble cast is constantly rotating through characters, leaving the audience to keep up with who’s who — and in who’s body — at what point in the film.

We’re going to keep the basic cast and character details here spoiler-free, though we will add some hints to help you keep track, in case you’re wondering where you’ve seen that actor before without getting the whole movie ruined for you. But not to worry, if you’re looking for a breakdown of who’s in who’s body, we’ll include that in a spoiler section below, too.

Here’s your guide to the “It’s What’s Inside...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for It's What's Inside.

Netflixs Its Whats Inside features a cast of primarily up-and-coming actors who help create the bold and dysfunctional characters who participate in a daring body-swapping game. Since its Sundance Film Festival debut, the buzz has been high for the horror-comedy movie, which holds an impressive 84% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The expectations were furthered by Its Whats Insides first trailer, which shows a group of friends playing a game that goes horribly wrong.

Due to the movies premise, the eight lead actors in Its Whats Inside end up playing more than one character during the one-and-a-half-hour runtime. Luckily, the actors manage to distinguish each character with different mannerisms and personalities. Though it isnt the only strength, Its Whats Inside succeeds because of the strong performances of the cast of rising stars.

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Brittany O'Grady

Shelby

James Morosini

Cyrus

Gavin Leatherwood

Dennis...

A gaggle of college friends reunite in a remote setting and play a mysterious party game in the trippy dark comedy thriller, Its Whats Inside. Thats a clear sign that everything is going to head south fast in writer/director Greg Jardins debut feature, which successfully places a unique spin on whats become a feverishly overused premise. Here, a cozy pre-wedding destination party soon becomes a freak fest after an estranged friend arrives toting a suitcase holding a mysterious device that ultimately will uproot everybodys lives.

You see, that machine has the ability to induce body swaps. That generates a bevy of WTFs for our spunky gang, so why not play the twisted game, eh? That they do, but the fallout is fierce. From discovering suppressed desires and long-held grudges to uncovering a slew of hidden truths, the revelations become ever so mind-bending. These reactions are fun to watch in and of themselves,...

The 4:30 Movie, the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith, received a theatrical release on September 13th, and now it has been revealed that the movie is coming to 4K and Blu-ray on November 5th! Copies of the physical media versions of the movie are available for pre-order on Amazon – including an Amazon-exclusive steelbook edition where the case is designed to look like a large VHS tape and the discs look like VHS tape spools! A fitting design for a movie that’s set in 1986. Images of the steelbook design can be seen right here:

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The 4:30 Movie is a coming-of-age comedy that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each...

There are some minor Spoilers ahead if you don’t want anything about writer/director Kevin Smith’s new film The 4:30 Movie given away before you see it… but for those of you who would like to weigh whether not these are the sort of spoilers you feel you should avoid, I will say that this only concerns one exchange of dialogue and some of the special thanks seen in the end credits. Now, to get to the point: The 4:30 Movie is in theatres as of today, and since its release date also happens to be a Friday the 13th, I thought it was worth pointing out and celebrating the fact that Jason Voorhees, the iconic star of the Friday the 13th franchise, gets a shout-out in the movie!

Set in the summer of 1986, The 4:30 Movie is a coming-of-age comedy that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend...

Nothing like a little decapitation to ring in the spooky season! Expanding on one of its most beloved showcases, “Mind F*ck Night” the Lower East Side Film Festival is unveiling a new, three-day pop-up festival called “Off/Season.” The series will focus on terrifying, mind-altering, genre-defying cinema and feature a curated selection of advanced screenings, retrospectives, short films, as well as filmmaker Q&As and receptions, all held at the Alamo Drafthouse, Lower Manhattan location from October 2-4.

In honor of the film’s 60th anniversary, “Off/Season” is proud to present “Strait-Jacket” from B-Movie horror master William Castle. Featuring screen legend Joan Crawford, this “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” follow-up continued the star’s decent into hagsploitation, but has become a cult classic in its own right, with her madly swinging an axe becoming one of cinema’s most iconic images. Castle’s daughter, Terry Castle, will be...

Exclusive: James Morosini, the actor-filmmaker known for projects like I Love My Dad and It’s What’s Inside, has signed with CAA.

This fall, Morosini will be seen starring in Greg Jardin’s horror thriller It’s What’s Inside, which Netflix swooped on for $17M after a bidding war at the Sundance Film Festival, as we first reported. Premiering on the streamer on October 4, the film watches as a group of friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires, and grudges.

Over the summer, Morosini was tapped by Lionsgate to direct Mommy’s Home, a psychological horror thriller for which he also penned the script, as we were first to tell you. Following a young dad whose family life becomes terrifyingly unhinged when his 24-year-old mom is unfrozen decades after being cryogenically preserved, the...

Fear the Walking Dead cast member Colman Domingo has executive produced a horror film called It’s What’s Inside, which earned a lot of positive reviews after having its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival at the start of this year. (You can read an 8/10 review from JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray right Here.) The Netflix streaming service quickly picked up the distribution rights for $17 million, with their plan being to release the movie on October 4th – and with that date right around the corner, a trailer for the film has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.

It’s What’s Inside marks the feature directorial debut of Greg Jardin, who also wrote the screenplay. Details on the plot are being kept under wraps, with most reviewers doing their best to keep the movie’s secrets. The set-up is, A pre-wedding party descends into an existential nightmare when...

If you could step into your friends’ minds to see how they truly think and feel, would you?

This is the question at the center of the upcoming Netflix horror comedy, “It’s What’s Inside.” Executive produced by Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo, the film marks the directorial debut of Greg Jardin, who also wrote the script and has a long history at Netflix after having directed promos for “Thirteen Reasons Why” and “When They See Us.”

The official synopsis for the film reads: “A group of friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires, and grudges.”

Brittany O’Grady (“The White Lotus”), James Morosini (“I Love My Dad”), Gavin Leatherwood (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Nina Bloomgarden (“The Resort”), Alycia Debnam-Carey (“Fear the Walking Dead”), Reina Hardesty (“The Flash”), Devon Terrell (“Rap Sh!t...

The 4:30 Movie is the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith, and a while back the movie not only received an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board, but it also secured a distribution deal with Saban Films that will see it reaching theatres on September 13th. In the trailer that has made its way online (and is embedded above), there’s a moment where we see a construction worker played by Jason Biggs having an intense experience in a port-a-potty… and Smith has revealed what’s going on in that scene. As it turns out, this is a movie-within-the-movie moment, much like the Sister Sugar Walls faux trailer that opens the trailer and the imagery we’ve seen from Astro Blaster and the Beaver-Men, which is the movie the characters are going to see at 4:30. The scene with Jason Biggs in a port-a-potty is from...

In the lead-up to fall, Netflix has announced the long-awaited premiere date for It’s What’s Inside, the buzzy horror thriller that it purchased for around $17 million at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, as we first reported.

Marking an accomplished first feature for writer-director Greg Jardin, the film releases globally on the streamer on October 4. Netflix also unveiled a new series of first-look stills, which can be found above and below.

Greg Jardin

An enticingly twisty tale tonally reminiscent of Halina Reijn’s 2022 A24 horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies, It’s What’s Inside watches as a group of friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires, and grudges.

Pic’s cast includes Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus), James Morosini (I Love My Dad), Gavin Leatherwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Nina Bloomgarden (The Idea of You...

Fear the Walking Dead cast member Colman Domingo has executive produced a horror film called It’s What’s Inside, which earned a lot of positive reviews after having its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival at the start of this year. (You can read an 8/10 review from JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray right Here.) The Netflix streaming service quickly picked up the distribution rights for $17 million – and now they have announced that It’s What’s Inside will be available to watch on Netflix as of October 4th! Along with the release date announcement comes the unveiling of a batch of first look images, which can be seen at the bottom of this article.

It’s What’s Inside marks the feature directorial debut of Greg Jardin, who also wrote the screenplay. Details on the plot are being kept under wraps, with most reviewers doing their best to keep the movie’s secrets. The set-up is,...

The 4:30 Movie is the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith, and a while back the movie not only received an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board, but it also secured a distribution deal with Saban Films that will see it reaching theatres on September 13th. Smith showed a trailer for the film to fans who attended his Hall H panel at the San Diego Comic-Con this past Saturday… and now that trailer has made its way online. Check it out in the embed above!

Set in the summer of 1986, The 4:30 Movie is a coming-of-age comedy that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each of the teens will learn something serious about life and love before the credits roll.

The 4:30 Movie is the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith, and a while back the movie not only received an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board, but it also secured a distribution deal with Saban Films that will see it reaching theatres sometime this fall (we had previously heard that it would be out this summer, but it apparently shifted back a little bit). Today, Smith took to social media to unveil a poster for the film, which can be seen at the bottom of this article, while also confirming that he’ll be showing the trailer to fans who attend his Hall H panel at the San Diego Comic-Con this Saturday. The trailer with then drop online next Monday morning, which is also when tickets to the world premiere event will be available for purchase.

Set in the summer of 1986, The 4:30 Movie is a...

Patton Oswalt’s Dark Horse comic book Minor Threats is heading to the small screen as a live action series for Netflix.

As well as acting, Patton Oswalt is well known as an award winning stand-up comedian, having released several specials and toured all over the world. He’s also built up an impressive CV in film and TV, from voicing Remy in Brad Bird’s wonderful Ratatouille and starring opposite Charlize Theron in Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, indie comedy I Love My Dad, to shows like A.P. Bio, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season four of Veronica Mars and many, many more.

In 2022, Oswalt co-authored Minor Threats with Jordan Blum for Dark Horse Comics. It follows low-level supervillains who usually find themselves bound in front of a police station with a note saying, “Courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Batman.”

It subverted genre tropes by having the main villain,...

American actor and filmmaker James Morosini, who is known for writing, directing, and starring in the comedy film I Love My Dad, has found his next project. It's a psychological horror flick titled Mommy's Home, which he'll be teaming up with Lionsgate to make. More on this upcoming movie below.

Morosini wrote the script for Mommy's Home and is signed on to direct. Besides I Love My Dad, Morosini is best known for his previous acting roles in the TV shows Loosely Exactly Nicole, Foursome and The Sex Lives of College Girls. His most recent acting gig was playing the role of Cyrus in the comedy horror It's What's Inside. This film will eventually be released on Netflix. In terms of his directing and writing work, Morosini wrote and directed the comedy movie Threesomething, as well as some short films.

Craig Flores, Dawn Olmstead, and Anonymous Content are listed as producers of Mommy's Home,...

Filmmaker James Morosini (I Love My Dad) will write and direct the psychological horror movie Mommy’s Home for Lionsgate, Deadline reports this afternoon.

Deadline details, “The story follows a young dad whose family life becomes terrifyingly unhinged when his 24-year-old mom is unfrozen decades after being cryogenically preserved.”

Producers include Craig Flores, Dawn Olmstead, and Anonymous Content. David Levine, Garrett Kemble and Ryan Schwartz will executive produce on behalf of Anonymous Content, with Scott O’Brien and Jon Humphrey overseeing the project for Lionsgate.

It’s interesting to note that James Morosini is also an actor, starring in FX’s “American Horror Story” and the upcoming Netflix-purchased horror movie It’s What’s Inside.

Stay tuned for more on Mommy’s Home as we learn it.

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The 4:30 Movie is the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith, and a while back the movie not only received an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board, but it also secured a distribution deal with Saban Films that will see it reaching theatres sometime this fall (we had previously heard that it would be out this summer, but it apparently shifted back a little bit). Today, Smith took to social media to share a behind-the-scenes look at a movie within the movie, and also revealed that he will be showing the trailer for The 4:30 Movie during his panel at the San Diego Comic-Con later this month!

Smith wrote, “Astro Blaster And The Beaver-men is the fake flick all the kids in 1986 wanna see in my new film The 4:30 Movie – coming this fall!. Logic plays the Flash Gordon-ish hero from Earth and Diedrich Bader plays...

The 4:30 Movie is the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith, and a while back the movie not only received an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board, but it also secured a distribution deal with Saban Films that will see it reaching theatres sometime this fall. Smith is currently putting the finishing touches on the film in post-production, and has taken to social media to share a look at the color timing. You can check out the images on Instagram or Facebook.

Smith wrote, “What a difference a little color can make! My new flick that Saban Films is releasing this fall is set in 1986 and titled The 4:30 Movie. So while color timing the film, our cinematographer Yaron Levy was able to dial up the warmth to give the picture the halcyon glow of the 80s!“

Set in the summer of 1986, this one is a coming-of-age...

Its pretty impossible not to adore Patton Oswalt. Aside from being a very talented performer in both comedy and drama, he has an infectious energy and enthusiasm that radiates off of him when he talks about his projects. Since starting in stand-up comedy in the late 1990s, Oswalt has steadily built an impressive resume in roles across all genres and mediums, from stand-up, supporting roles in A.P. Bio, Veep, and the long-running series The King of Queens, as well as starring in critically praised indies Big Fan, Young Adult, and I Love My Dad.

The 4:30 Movie is the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith – and while he was making the movie, he thought he was making something that would get a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board. But the MPA saw it differently. When they had the chance to watch the movie earlier this year, they felt the sexual references in the dialogue were enough for the movie to earn an R rating for sexual content. Smith appealed the rating (and subscribers to That Kevin Smith Club got some interesting insight into the appeals process), but the ratings board decided to stick with the R. They confirmed today that The 4:30 Movie will remain an R rated film.

Smith has a history of being able to get his films re-rated on appeal. Clerks and Zack and Miri Make a Porno were both given Nc-17 ratings, but were re-rated R on appeal.

Exclusive: Verve has signed Tracie Laymon, the filmmaker whose debut solo feature Bob Trevino Likes It won both the Grand Jury and Audience Award at SXSW 2024.

Inspired by true events and drawing heavily from Laymon’s own life, Bob Trevino Likes It follows a people-pleasing young woman (Barbie Ferreira) who sends her estranged and curmudgeonly father (French Stewart) a Facebook friend request, only to unwittingly befriend a grieving man with the same name (John Leguizamo).

With the film, which she wrote, directed and produced, she becomes the third Verve client in recent memory to land Sxsx’s Grand Jury prize, the others being I Love My Dad‘s James Morosini and Raging Grace‘s Paris Zarcilla. It’s set to screen at Siff Cinema Uptown, as part of the Seattle Film Festival, on May 15 and 16.

A Texas native, Laymon spent some of her formative teen years in Russia before returning to the States for college,...

Saban Films announced today the acquisition of worldwide rights to the upcoming comedy The 4:30 Movie, directed and written by Kevin Smith.

Set in the summer of 1986, The 4:30 Movie is a coming-of-age story about three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams (Siena Agudong) to see the latest comedy, each of the teens will learn something serious about life and love before the credits roll.

Set in the mobile phoneless, social media-free era of the ’80s, Smith shot The 4:30 Movie at his Smodcastle Cinemas in New Jersey—the same movie theater he haunted every weekend as a teenager. Two years ago, Smith and his co-owners saved the century-old Atlantic Highlands bijou from demolition, renaming it after his podcast theater.

The cast features an all-star ensemble that includes Ken Jeong,...

The 4:30 Movie is the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith – and as reported on Deadline (plus Smith’s own social media accounts), this film has officially secured a distribution deal that will see it reaching theatres sometime this summer! Saban Films has picked up the worldwide rights to The 4:30 Movie, which Smith will be taking on a multi-city national tour that will be followed by a nationwide theatrical rollout. Specific dates have not yet been revealed.

Set in the summer of 1986, this one is a coming-of-age comedy that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each of the teens will learn something serious about life and love before the credits roll.

Austin Zajur (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), Nicholas Cirillo...

Exclusive: Saban Films has acquired worldwide rights to The 4:30 Movie, the latest film written and directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks). The film marks the second collaboration for Saban and Smith, on the heels of 2019’s Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, which scored one of the top-per theatre average openings of the year amongst titles like Parasite and Avengers: Endgame.

Set in the summer of 1986, the coming-of-age comedy follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams (Siena Agudong) to see the latest comedy, each of the teens will learn something serious about life and love before the credits roll.

The 4:30 Movie also stars Ken Jeong (The Hangover), Sam Richardson (Veep), Genesis Rodriguez (Tusk), Justin Long (Barbarian), Jason Lee (Almost Famous...

Exclusive: The cast for the American High and Hartbeat Hulu movie Prom Dates has been set with Chelsea Handler and Best in Show‘s John Michael Higgins, but also Julia Lester, Antonia Gentry, Kenny Ridwan, Jt Neal, Jordan Buhat, Zión Moreno, and Terry Hu. The movie will hit the service this spring.

The Kim O. Nguyen directed, D.J. Mausner scripted movie follows best friends Jess and Hannah (Gentry and Lester), who make a pact at 13 to have the perfect senior prom. Despite the impending changes that college will bring over the next four years, the two are committed to honoring their prom pact. But with only 24 hours left before the big event, everything falls apart when they break up with each of their dates. Jess and Hannah are left with one night to find new dates and live out their middle-school fantasies.

Producers are Jeremy Garelick, Will Phelps and Molle DeBartolo...

Exclusive: Verve has grown its partner roster.

The agency has promoted Parker Davis and Tyler Reynolds to partners.

Davis has been Co-Head of the Motion Picture Literary since 2022, while Reynolds is Head of Television Directing.

The move is the latest internal move at the agency, which hired Jenni Ferrari-Adler to its media rights team earlier this year.

Davis was employee number five at the company and was promoted to agent in 2012. His clients include Arkasha Stevenson (The First Omen), Emily Carmichael (Jurassic World: Dominion), James Morosini (I Love My Dad), Richard Wong (The Valet), Derek Connolly (The Legend of Zelda), Bragi Schut (Samaritan) and Sarah Streicher (The Wilds).

Reynolds joined Verve in 2021 through the acquisition of New Deal Mfg. Co. He has a big list of television directors including Fred Berner and Amy Durning, who produced Maestro, Arthur Forney and Anastasia Puglisi, who work with Wolf Entertainment, Allen Coulter (Tulsa...

Fear the Walking Dead cast member Colman Domingo has produced a horror film called It’s What’s Inside, which just earned a lot of positive reviews after having its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. (You can read an 8/10 review from JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray right Here.) Now Deadline reports that, while numerous studios were chasing the distribution rights to this movie, Netflix has come out the winner in this situation, forking over $17 million to bring It’s What’s Inside to their streaming service.

It’s What’s Inside marks the feature directorial debut of Greg Jardin, who also wrote the screenplay. Details on the plot are being kept under wraps, with most reviewers doing their best to keep the movie’s secrets. The set-up is, A pre-wedding party descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend shows up with a mysterious suitcase.

The film stars Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus), James Morosini...

Hulu has picked up “Prom Dates,” a coming-of-age comedy film produced by Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat as well as American High.

“Prom Dates” follows best friends Jess and Hannah, who made a pact at 13 to have the perfect senior prom. Despite the impending changes that college will bring over the next four years, the two are committed to honoring their prom pact. But with only 24 hours left before the big event, everything falls apart when they break up with each of their dates. Jess and Hannah are left with one night to find new dates and live out their middle-school fantasies.

The movie, which has already been shot, was directed by Kim O. Nguyen, repped by 3 Arts, from a script written by D.J. Mausner (“Baroness Von Sketch Show”). Producers include Jeremy Garelick, Will Phelps and Molle DeBartolo for American High; Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley and Luke Kelly-Clyne for Hartbeat; and...

The Mill is a dystopian science fiction thriller available on Hulu that follows the story of a disoriented businessman who wakes up in an outdoor prison and must push a massive grist mill to ensure his survival and that of his family. Director Sean King O'Grady was drawn to the incredible script of The Mill, which gave a unique perspective on the world we live in through the protagonist's experience, and felt it had to be made into a movie. Working in a confined space like the prison cell presented challenges, but O'Grady relied heavily on the talented actor Lil Rel Howery, who delivered a remarkable performance and truly brought the character to life.

Currently available to stream on Hulu, The Mill opens on a disoriented businessman who wakes up in an outdoor prison. Joe is greeted by a daunting computer system, courtesy of his employer, that informs him of...

Jermaine Fowler, who recently had a role in the horror comedy The Blackening, has just finished up his work on a psychological thriller from Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink, Deadline reports. The untitled project was able to get through production in the midst of the SAG strike by securing an interim agreement.

Written by Sam Johnson and Connor Diedrich, the thriller sees Fowler taking on the role of Allen Perkins. The story follows Allen through various twists and turns on a descent into darkness as he hosts his old college pals for the weekend.

Fowler is joined in the cast by James Morosini (I Love My Dad), Pauline Chalamet (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Edy Modica (Jury Duty), Rob Yang (Succession), and Brendan Hunt (Ted Lasso).

Pink said this thriller is “one of the coolest films I have ever had the opportunity to direct in my career.

Jermaine Fowler, fresh off his comedic turn as Clifton in this year’s horror comedy The Blackening, is set to return to the genre once more in an upcoming psychological thriller. Deadline reports that Fowler just wrapped production on the genre-bending thriller from Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink (“Santa Clarita Diet”).

The untitled thriller “follows Allen Perkins (Fowler) through various twists and turns on a descent into darkness as he hosts his old college pals for the weekend.”

Pink called this project, “One of the coolest films I have ever had the opportunity to direct in my career.”

Further quotes to the outlet tease more than just psychological thrills ahead; the mysterious thriller also appears to dabble in science fiction and the supernatural.

“I’m grateful for the extraordinary cast that came together around a phenomenal script that explores themes residing in the darker and possibly supernatural corners of the human experience,...

Exclusive: Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You) has wrapped production on a new psychological thriller directed by Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine).

Rounding out the cast of the pic, shot under a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement, are James Morosini (I Love My Dad), Pauline Chalamet (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Edy Modica (Jury Duty), Rob Yang (Succession), and Brendan Hunt (Ted Lasso). The production companies involved are Hurley/Pickle Productions (The Wheel), Phiphen (Butcher’s Crossing), Range Media Partners, and Gummy Films (What Doesn’t Float).

Written by Sam Johnson and Connor Diedrich, the film follows Allen Perkins (Fowler) through various twists and turns on a descent into darkness as he hosts his old college pals for the weekend. Producers included Josh Jason and Molly Gilula of Hurley/Pickle Productions, along with Molly Conners of Phiphen, Aj Bourscheid & Austin Lantero of Range Media Partners, and Chalamet, Rachel Walden, and Luca Balser of Gummy Films.