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Jeff Daniel Phillips, best known for standout roles in Rob Zombie films like Halloween 2 and The Lords of Salem, has unveiled the first trailer for his directorial debut, Cursed in Baja.

The trailer, revealed by Dread Central, offers a first look at the intense, genre-bending film from the new director, which also features horror icon Barbara Crampton. Phillips plays Pirelli, an ex-lawman, who travels to Mexico searching for the heir to a Los Angeles fortune, while confronting his own complicated past. But what he finds in Baja challenges him to the core. Cursed in Baja is set to have its world premiere at London's FrightFest, before it comes to VOD and Blu-ray via Anchor Bay Entertainment. Phillips wrote, produced, directed and also stars in the film. Cursed In Baja is also produced by Kent Isaacs, and executive produced by Thomas Zamback and Brian Katz. Vaaal composed the film's score.

Super Bowl commercials are, by and large, hilarious, with most using humor to plug their products and services. Many of them have become iconic, like Snickers' Betty White commercial, or the Old Spice Guy, aka Isaiah Mustafa. But there's a reason why commercials run a minute or less. Running with a joke for 30 seconds, or even across multiple commercials in 30 second spots ("Whassup?" ring a bell?), is much easier to do than to expand that joke across a 22 minute per week sitcom. Some have managed a degree of success, like Jim Varney's Ernest character, who fronted a children's Saturday morning show and transitioned to the big screen, or arguably the most notable, Space Jam, inspired by a Bugs Bunny/Michael Jordan ad. But the successful evolution of appearing during a break in a show to being the show are very few and very far between, with most failing spectacularly.

Peter Saji, the co-creator of Mixed-ish and longtime Black-ish writer, is staying in the Disney family.

He has just signed another multi-year overall deal with ABC Signature, the new name for what was known as ABC Studios.

Saji signed his last overall deal with the company in 2017 and since has co-created the spin-off, which tells the story of Rainbow Johnson’s childhood growing up in a mixed-race family and was renewed for a second season.

He has been with the studio since 2007, when he started on the Disney/ABC Writers program. He subsequently worked on ABC comedies Cougar Town and Cavemen and went on to spend five seasons as a writer on Black-ish, where he wrote episodes including “Juneteenth,” “Purple Rain” and the previously shelved “Please, Baby, Please,” which recently aired on Hulu.

“Peter has written some of the most evocative and important episodes of Black-ish, and hit a real...

Peter Saji is staying put at Disney.

The “Black-ish” producer and “Mixed-ish” co-creator has signed a new multi-year overall deal with ABC Signature, under which he will continue to create and develop TV projects for the studio.

Saji signed his first overall with what was then ABC Studios in 2017 (Disney rebranded its TV units earlier this month), and he in fact began his career at Disney as part of the ABC Writers program back in 2007. News of Saji’s deal was announced by ABC Signature president Jonnie Davis.

“Peter has written some of the most evocative and important episodes of ‘Black-ish,’ and hit a real home run for us with ‘Mixed-ish,’” said Davis. “Keeping him at ABC Signature, where he started his career, was a huge priority for us and for me personally. He’s a spectacular talent and I’m so happy he’s staying in the family.”

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Even with the hundreds of scripted series currently airing on TV, you’d be hard-pressed to find one more ridiculous than the shows on this list.

From iconic trainwrecks like Cop Rock and My Mother the Car to more recent fails like Cavemen and BH90210, Team TVLine has assembled 20 ludicrous programs that span more than five decades. And while it shouldn’t shock you that Pamela Anderson starred in two of the series on our list, you might be surprised to hear that neither show is Baywatch.

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Nick Kroll is currently starring in the rom-com Olympic Dreams, but he got his career off to an even unlikelier start: playing a caveman in the television comedy Cavemen, based on the series of Geico cavemen commercials.

“I was in four hours of makeup every morning for 13 episodes,” he tells Rolling Stone, “and truly almost lost my mind. They’d glue hair onto my arms, and so I remember shooting the pilot of that show, and I’m in the pool at one point. I lifted my arm, and it...

Pepsi’s commercials featuring NBA star Kyrie Irving as the elderly basketball superstar Uncle Drew have become so popular that they decided to make a full-length movie out of it. Turning an idea for a 30-second advertisement into the basis for a full-length movie or TV series is the Hollywood equivalent of alchemy. But in our modern age of high-concept filmmaking, that hasn’t stopped studios from trying if they think an ad has a strong enough premise. Here are seven commercials that became something much more before “Uncle Drew.”

“Cavemen”: Probably one of the most infamous examples of commercials becoming a TV show. “Cavemen” was based off a series of Geico ads about modern-world cavemen insulted by the insurance company’s slogan “So easy a caveman could do it.”

The commercial’s creator, Joe Lawson, turned it into a sitcom in 2007 that aired on ABC, and it is...

The best film ever adapted from a series of soft drink commercials, Charles Stone III’s “Uncle Drew” is such a well-acted, warm-hearted basketball comedy that you’re liable to forget about its corporate origins. To be honest, it’s hard to think about such things when you’re struggling to make sense out of Reggie Miller — the ex-Pacer whose three-point daggers taught a generation of young Knicks fans what it means to hate another human being — being an immensely likable actor. And a good one.

Of course, you’re also liable to forget that Reggie Miller is even onscreen in the first place. Like most of the NBA legends who star in this movie, Miller is playing an old-timer several decades his senior, and the Hall of Famer is rendered virtually unrecognizable by layers and layers of Oscar-worthy makeup. To clarify: All of the NBA stars in “Uncle Drew...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.

This week’s question: Which show that actually made it to air has the most preposterous premise you’d ever encountered?

Kaitlin Thomas (@thekaitling), TVGuide.com

I don’t really know if “Sleepy Hollow” truly had the most preposterous premise I’ve ever encountered, but it was the first show that came to mind this week, because it never should have worked. The show was built around the idea that Ichabod Crane was a hunky history professor-turned-soldier who woke up in present day when someone raised the Headless Horseman, who was revealed to be one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. That sounds like a lot on its own, but there was so much more: America had a magical history! There was a magic bible belonging to George Washington that explained all this stuff!

For Nick Park, it always begins with a drawing. On “Chicken Run” (2000), it was a chicken digging its way out of a coop with a shovel, which became a riff on “The Great Escape,” and on his latest, “Early Man,” it was cavemen kicking what would eventually become a soccer ball.

Thus began Aardman’s first prehistoric underdog sports movie in stop-motion, and Park’s first feature since the Oscar-winning “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” (2005). Only this time, he decided to direct solo without partner Peter Lord or animator Steve Box.

“Cavemen are well covered now with ‘The Croods’ [which began at Aardman before DreamWorks took it over] and ‘The Flintstones,’ but I was looking for a quirky Aardman angle, and soccer became the hook,” said Park, who pitched “Early Man” as “Gladiator” meets “Dodgeball.”

“This could have legs: a group of idiotic, lovable cavemen who only know how to fight and use weapons,...

The Santa Monica-based company has reported a flurry of market and post-market activity on its Croisette slate.

John V Soto’s The Reckoning starring Luke Hemsworth, Viva Bianca and Jonathan Lapaglia has gone to Anchor Bay/Starz for North America.

Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow announced deals on the crime thriller have closed in the Middle East (Eagle Films), Portugal (Media Page), Scandinavia (Atlantic Film), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), South Korea (Zecon Plus Corp), Thailand (Ipa), Turkey (Moviebox), Mexico (Renaissance) and Israel (Yes/Dbs).

Herschel Faber’s comedy Cavemen starring Chad Michael Murray and Camilla Belle and Alexis Knapp has been licensed to Benelux (Koch Media), China (Melting Culture), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), South Korea (Zecon Plus Corp), Turkey (D Productions), Germany (Lighthouse Home Entertainment) and UK (Bskyb).

Comedy Gods Behaving Badly starring Christopher Walken, Sharon Stone, John Turturro and Edie Falco has gone to China (Melting Culture), Germany (Pandastorm), Portugal (Films4You), South Korea (Joy...

What would “Pitch Perfect 2” look like without Skylar Astin? Thankfully, fans will never have to find out. Ben Platt, who portrayed Benji in the first film, uploaded a picture to Twitter on Wednesday that confirmed Astin's involvement in the sequel to the hit musical comedy. Also read: ‘Pitch Perfect’ Star Skylar Astin's Rom-Com ‘Cavemen’ Acquired by Well Go USA “What better way to spend my first day on set for #PitchPerfect2 than by doing a scene with my roomie @SkylarAstin,” wrote Platt, adding a photo of the two actors smiling together. Much of the plot remains unknown for “Pitch Perfect 2,...

The new comedy Cavemen follows La playboy Dean (Skylar Astin) who is fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships and realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess (Camilla Belle), Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time – which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.

When Sam Moffitt reviewed the Cavemen Blu-ray Here at We Are Movie Geeks he wrote:

“Cavemen does have its fun moments…… Well Go USA’s Blu-ray looks terrific”

Now three lucky winners can have a copy of the Cavemen Blu-ray.

For A Chance To Win, All You Have To Do Is Answer This Question: What is your favorite movie that starts with the letter “C”?

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Review by Sam Moffitt

Charlie Kaufman has a lot to answer for. His multi level style of screen writing now has multiple imitators. Witness if you will a little film called Cavemen. In the style of Charlie Kaufman’s screen play for Adaptation and other films, we see a young, urban professional named Dean struggle to write a screen play, bounce ideas off some unnamed friends, present his screen play to a way too convincing Hollywood producer (very well played by Jason Patric) and struggle to live through the incidents that will come to make up the screen play we see him write, and that we also see being performed in front of our eyes.

Not quite as engaging as Kaufman’s style Cavemen does have its fun moments, but, well…

Dean and three of his friends have figured out how to keep the frat boy life style going well...

The Hunger Games star Dayo Okeniyi has landed the final lead role in Terminator: Genesis, portraying the son of Miles Dyson, Danny.

Earlier this week, we reported that John Boyega (Attack the Block) was vying for that role, just weeks after he was mentioned as a contender to play a Jedi apprentice in Star Wars: Episode VII. As it turns out, Deadline reports that Dayo Okeniyi also tested for a role in Star Wars: Episode VII before taking the Terminator: Genesis role.

(Does this mean Star Wars 7 is casting Boyega? We don't know yet.)

Danny is said to be a Steve Jobs-type genius, who figures heavily into the conclusion of the story. Since Terminator: Genesis is said to be the first in a stand-alone trilogy, which incorporates elements from the previous movies, it's possible that Danny could play a bigger role in subsequent sequels.

Danny's father Miles Dyson, portrayed...

Cavemen is a romantic comedy about how – with a little help from our friends – true love isn’t as evasive as it seems. During a recent press day for the film, I spoke with stars Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray and director Herschel Faber about filming a love story in La… and just who has the sweetest dance moves out of the bunch. Check it out below.

Cavemen follows La playboy Dean (Skylar Astin) who is fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships and realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess (Camilla Belle), Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time – which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.

Cavemen is written and directed by Herschel Faber,...

A tank top with a tail, a ruched floral gown and bird feather shoes -- stars were rocking all the wrong trends this week! Camilla Belle caught everyone's attention on the red carpet at the "Cavemen" premiere in Los Angeles -- and not in a good way.The actress donned a black top with a flower in front and a long sweeping cape in back, paired with loose-fitted black pants that completely swallowed her petite frame.Olivia Munn walked the red carpet at the Stockholm premiere of "Robocop," wearing a grass green Michael Kors halter dress with a white flower print. The ruched detailing down the front and the backless silhouette looked cheap -- not chic.And, Tilda Swinton is no stranger to making a statement with fashion, but the sandals she wore at "The Grand Budapest Hotel" premiere in Berlin were a little scary. The actress looked like she...

Pulling a Matthew McConaughey? Chad Michael Murray recently went on an extreme diet to lose weight for an upcoming role. At a roundtable interview for his current film Cavemen on Wednesday, Feb. 5, the 32-year-old actor told Us Weekly about his dramatic weight loss. "I played a homeless heroin addict for a film called Other People's Children," Murray said of his role in the Liz Hinlein-directed drama. "I lost 25 pounds for it, and I was really in a dark place for about a month. It was [...]...

This weekend, an ordinary Lego is on a mission to stop a monstrous tyrant in "The Lego Movie," George Clooney and Matt Damon are on a mission to rescue priceless art from Nazi thieves, and high school gets a ghoulish makeover in the action-comedy "Vampire Academy."

In "The Lego Movie," a perfectly average Lego mini-figure named Emmett is mistakenly identified as the extraordinary Master Builder, leading him on a journey with a fellowship of strangers to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together. Written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ("21 Jump Street"), the film features an all-star cast, with Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, and many more.

Based on a true story, "The Monuments Men" follows an unlikely World War II platoon tasked to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves. The film is directed by George Clooney, who also produced...

As though timed precisely to make “That Awkward Moment” look better, along comes “Cavemen,” a vapid and empty-headed rom-com about dudes in the big city that makes the Zac Efron/Miles Teller/Michael B. Jordan comedy seem like David Mamet by comparison. Apparently answering the unasked question, “What would happen if you told a 12-year-old at screenwriting camp to combine ‘Swingers’ and ‘(500) Days of Summer’?” writer-director Herschel Faber compiles an assemblage of trite observations about relationships and movie clichés you forgot even existed into a rancid stew of ennui and cynicism. What kind of clichés, you ask? There are two separate scenes.

Puddle of Mud: Faber’s Debut an Antiquated Exercise of Quest for Love

Romantically inclined comedies from the dude’s perspective may seem rare, but often suffer just as acutely from narrative cliché as their feminine inclined counterparts, and screenwriter/director Herschel Faber’s debut, Cavemen, is not an exception to the rule. Modern hetero courtship gets a superficial overview in this examination of four males who may or may not be looking for the mysterious object known as “the one,” but Faber’s tame observations seem more like a lost opportunity to say something fresh about dating (not to mention a highly criticized Los Angeles social scene).

Dean (Skylar Astin), lives and works with several of his buddies in Los Angeles, including the rather woman hungry Jay (Chad Michael Murray). Beyond struggling to be a screenwriter, Dean seriously would like to experience love, which would also help his new script,...

A screenwriter tries to fall in love in order to lend authenticity to his script about a man falling in love in Cavemen, a tiresome film that itself knows nothing but other rom-com plots.

Ignoring the belief held by his friend Jay (Chad Michael Murray) — a lothario in the Neil Patrick Harris How I Met Your Mother mold — that guys are driven by a primal urge to hook up, struggling movie scribe Dean (Skylar Astin) desperately searches for "the one," clueless to the fact that she's his beautiful best friend, Tess (Camilla Belle).

In the lead-up to the obvious realization that Dean and Tess are meant for each other, writer-director Herschel Faber indulges in the usual, worn-out genre conventions: guys talking dirty about sex, suffering through cau...

Title: Cavemen Director: Herschel Faber Starring: Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Alexis Knapp, Kenny Wormald Seems like the new trend in movies is that men want to settle down; so say good-bye to Don Juans and welcome in the male-types who are desperately hunting for love. The flick ‘Cavemen’ proves this point by following L.A. playboy Dean (Skylar Astin), who is fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships and realises he wants something more out of life than just a party. His best friend Tess (Camilla Belle) will predictably prove to be the chosen one. The comedic film, with a slight edge of drama – revolving around the [ Read More ]

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It seems as if Herschel Faber‘s Cavemen just might have all the ingredients for the kind of traditional romantic comedy that the box office has been missing for quite some time now – after all, there’s a playboy (Skylar Astin) with a plan to finally go after true love in sunny Los Angeles (his playground, apparently), a cute nephew to inspire him, a gorgeous best pal (Camilla Belle) to help him, and also Chad Michael Murray, just around for some reason that doesn’t appear to involve the kind of basketball-playing and general mooning he exceled at on television’s One Tree Hill. While we’re fairly certain we know where this is going - cough cough, gorgeous best friend, cough - we’re also not opposed to seeing the star of Pitch Perfect stumble his way into true love, especially if that means kicking his caveman habits. The trailer for Cavemen will pop up some...

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With an entire new line-up of films Lighting Entertainment is present at Afm this week. The Santa Monica-based company dedicated to the worldwide distribution and licensing of independent content with a focus on quality theatrical films, has 10 new features in the market. Among them there are comedies, several thrillers, and heartfelt dramas.

Here is Lighting Entertainment's Afm line-up

We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Director: Zeke Hawkins, Simon Hawkins

Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis

With his best pal Bobby and his girlfriend Sue getting ready to leave town for college, troublemaker B.J. steals money from his boss, Giff, so he can treat his friends to a wild weekend of partying. Unfortunately, the stolen money belonged to a dangerous gangster known as Big Red. The three teens are forced to rob a local money-laundering front to settle their debt and buy their freedom. They are driven into a world of organized crime to fight for their lives. Deception and insecurities among the three friends increase the tension leading to the heist, making it uncertain who will come out on top — or even alive.

Freezer

Director: Mikael Salomon

Cast: Dylan McDermott, Peter Facinelli, Yuliya Snigir

Robert (Dylan McDermott), an average guy with an average life, is tested beyond human endurance when he awakens to find himself locked in an industrial freezer by Russian thugs. The gangsters threaten his life unless he returns the $8 million dollars he stole from them. The only problem is, Robert has no idea what they are talking about. Searching his surroundings, he discovers Sam (Peter Facinelli) under a pile of boxes in the corner, beaten and battered.

As both men fight for their lives before freezing to death, the truth about their situation slowly reveals itself…

The Reckoning

Director: John V. Soto

Cast: Luke Hemsworth, Jonathan Lapaglia, Viva Bianca

A detective discovers a mysterious video while investigating the roadside execution-style murder of his partner. The footage, shot by two teenagers, reveals murky details behind the death of their sibling in an unsolved hit and run case. The teens have since gone missing, and as the detective retraces their journey to find them, he quickly uncovers a bloody trail of murder...that leads all the way back to him!

Healing

Director: Craig Monahan

Cast: Hugo Weaving, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Robert Taylor, Anthony Hayes, Jane Menelaus

After 16 years in prison, Viktor Khadem (Don Hany) is a man who has almost given up on life.

For his final 18 months, he is sentenced to Won Wron, a low-security, rural prison where Senior Officer Matt Perry (Hugo Weaving) has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men by giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors – beautiful, proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic Wedge-tailed Eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible. Healing is a powerful, moving story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit – in the most unlikely place, for the most unique men, through the most unusual catalyst.

Inspired by a true story, Healing is a new Australian feature film written and directed by Craig Monahan, the multi-award winning director of The Interview (selected for Montreal, Seattle, Flanders and 30 other international Festivals); and Winner of Best Film - Australian Film Institute Awards

The Wonders

Director: Avi Nesher

Cast: Adir Miller, Yuval Scharf, Yehuda Levi, introducing Ori Hizkiah

This story focuses on Arnav, a graffiti artist and bartender living in Jerusalem. Always wearing a mask, he paints at night, and yearns for the day that his beloved ex-girlfriend Vax will return to him. But when Arnav sees a mysterious stranger forced into an abandoned apartment one night by three bearded men, he becomes involved with a hard-boiled investigator, a gorgeous mystery woman, and the conflicted mysterious captive himself. The captive, Shmaya Knafo, leads a cult of fanatically devoted followers who believe he can see into the future. Knafo may possess supernatural powers, or he might be just a clever con man. As dark, incriminating secrets come to light, Arnav is drawn into a world where lines blur between fact and fiction, and reality and imagination. When loyalties shift, Arnav finds his life turning stranger than his art. His attraction to Knafo’s mystery might be the artist’s way of reaching nirvana...or prove to be a fatal attraction.

Gus

Director: Jessie McCormack

Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Radha Mitchell, Jon Dore, Michael Weston, Mimi Kennedy

Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) longs to start a family with her husband Peter but is unable to conceive. Her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan), single and adrift, gets pregnant from a one-night stand and offers to give Lizzie the baby. Reluctantly, Peter agrees to be the child's father, and before he knows it Andie has moved into the guest room for the duration of her pregnancy. When Peter also invites his ne'er-do-well brother to the house, chaos ensues, testing the limits of friendship, family and a marriage. "Gus" depicts the deeply human struggles of these four people, taking a funny and poignant look at the ways we try to plan ahead when life has something else in mind.

Cavemen

Director: Herschel Faber

Cast: Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Dayo Okeniyi, Alexis Knapp, Kenny Wormald

Fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships, La playboy Dean realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time - which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles! After a few hilariously bad first dates and some awful advice from his over-sexed guy friends, Dean begins to realize that the true love he has been seeking may be much closer to home. But when he is forced to make a decision between the girl he knows is perfect for him and the seductive party-girl of his fantasies, will Dean finally grow up…or will he just continue the party?

Storm Rider

Director: Craig Clyde

Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, C Thomas Howell, Danielle Chuchran

After her father loses his fortune and family home, a privileged teenage equestrian is forced to give up her beloved championship horse and is sent to live in the country with her reclusive uncle. She struggles to adjust to life on the secluded ranch without any friends, her horse, or her Dad, who has been sent off to prison. But after she meets the nice boy from the neighboring ranch, and is gifted a young horse , Stormy, she soon settles into her new life and realizes that this is perhaps where she was meant to be all along. A heartfelt family drama about second chances, finding happiness, and making the impossible possible.

Dead Drop

Director: R. Ellis Frazier

Cast: Luke Goss, Cole Hauser, Nestor Carbonell

After being shot by his best friend, pushed out of a plane, and miraculously surviving a dead-drop from 5,000 feet, Michael awakens to a living nightmare. His memory is limited, and psychotic tendencies have begun to creep in. Defying the orders of his CIA handlers, Michael re-inserts himself into the dangerous Mexican smuggling ring where he was operating deep under cover. He snakes his way through the underbelly of Northern Mexico, hunting for Santiago, the cartel boss who Michael believes threw him out of the plane and who is also holding his girlfriend hostage.

American Idiots

Director: Robert Taleghany

Cast: Jeffrey T. Schoettlin, Sean Muramatsu, Caroline D’Amore, Madeline Merritt

After losing the girl of his dreams to another man, Wyatt and his posse pack their suitcases and head out on the craziest, screwball road trip to Las Vegas to win her back. With less than twenty-seven hours to break up her wedding, they must make it before it is too late without falling apart at the seams and living up to their names... American Idiots!

Well Go USA has licensed all North American rights to “Cavemen,” a romantic comedy that marks the feature debut of writer-director Herschel Faber, the company announced Tuesday. “Pitch Perfect” stars Skylar Astin and Alexis Knapp lead the cast, which also includes Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray (“Fruitvale Station”), Kenny Wormald (“Footloose”) and Dayo Okeniyi (“The Hunger Games”). Also Read: Toronto: Cory Monteith Drama ‘McCanick’ Acquired by Well Go USA Astin stars as a Los Angeles playboy who is fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships and realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little.

Well Go USA announced today that it has acquired North American rights to "Cavemen," a romantic comedy from first time filmmaker Herschel Faber, and produced by Traverse Media and Fascination Films. The film, which stars Camilla Belle, Skylar Austin, Chad Michael Murray, and Alexis Knapp, world premiered at the Austin Film Festival on Saturday, October 26th. The deal was negotiated by Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films representing the filmmakers and Doris Pfardrescher, President of Well Go USA. Said Pfardrescher, “Herschel has put together a wonderful film about the trials and humor of finally growing up and moving on from the life of a bachelor with some of the best young actors working today and we’re excited to bring it to audiences next year.”The film follows an La playboy who, tiring of his empty lifestyle, tries his hand at finding true love. Well Go will release the film on February 7th,...

Well Go USA has licensed all North American rights to Cavemen, the romantic comedy feature debut by director and writer Herschel Faber. It stars Pitch Perfect’s Skylar Astin and Alexis Knapp, and Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Kenny Wormald and Dayo Okeniyi. Traverse Media and Fascination Films are producing. Astin plays a lothario who, fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships, tries to find true love in La. Pic premiered at the Austin Film Festival and gets released February 7.

Well Go USA has acquired all North American rights to Traverse Media and Fascination Films’ rom-com Cavemen.

Herschel Faber wrote and directed the story of a young Los Angeles playboy’s quest for true love.

Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle and Chad Michael Murray, Kenny Wormald and Dayo Okeniyi star.

Cavemen premiered on October 26 at the Austin Film Festival and will be released on February 7 2014 in theatres and on VOD.

Well Go USA president Doris Pfardrescher negotiated the deal with Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films.

Now playing is The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia. Based on a true story, the sort-of sequel is not a continuation of the Campbells’ story from the first film, but follows a new family, the Wyricks, as they confront the supernatural. Andy (Chad Michael Murray) and Lisa (Abigail Spencer) move their daughter (Emily Alyn Lind) to a historical Georgia home, joined by Lisa’s free-spirited sister Joyce (Katee Sackhoff) the Wyricks soon find themselves face to face with the ghosts of the Underground Railroad. I recently landed an exclusive interview with Chad Michael Murray. We talked about what attracted him to the role, what it was like playing a father, his favorite horror films, and, meeting the Wyrick family. We also discussed the Sundance success of Fruitvale, what people can expect from Cavemen, and trying his hand at comedy. Check out what he had to say after the jump.

Today Tom Elkins' The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (review) arrives on VOD and in limited theaters. Starring Chad Michael Murray, Katee Sackhoff, Abigail Spencer, and Emily Alyn Lind.

Ghosts of Georgia follows the Wyrick family after they move into a historic Georgian estate only to find out that their not the only residents living on the property and the ethereal habitants are none too happy about their arrival.

Dread Central recently had the chance to catch up with Murray on the phone to discuss his involvement with the sequel and heard more about what attracted him to the role of a young father whose forced to deal with a wife and a daughter who both have very special abilities. Murray also chatted about his experiences meeting the real-life family that Ghosts of Georgia is based on and caught us up on other projects he has on...

Chad Michael Murray has left WME for the Gersh Agency.

The actor, who is best known for starring on the long-running TV hit One Tree Hill, recently wrapped the horror film A Haunting in Georgia. During the height of One Tree Hill's popularity, Murray appeared in a series of high-profile movies like Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave and the horror film House of Wax opposite Paris Hilton.  He is currently filming Cavemen as well as the Forest Whitaker-helmed Fruitvale.

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Meet Benji Lessman. He’s an agent’s agent. No, he’s not the toast of the percentery business. He’s an agent for agents, proprietor of the Less is More Agency. And he’s got his own publicist — twin publicists, in fact.

If it all sounds absurb, well, it should, because it’s the conceit of of "Layers," an inside-showbiz satire series of vid shorts set to debut Sept. 21 on Turner Broadcasting’s Superdeluxe comedy broadband net. (Click here for a streaming video sneak of the debut installment.)

"Layers" is the brainchild of twin comics Jason and Randy Sklar and thesp Nick Kroll (pictured above), who is soon to make his primetime series debut on ABC’s "Cavemen." Superdeluxe has ordered eight five-minute segs of the trio’s sendup of showbiz and its ever-growing entourages.

"I’m passionate about people who are passionate about people," Lessman explains of his vocation.