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Saturday Night Live‘s Chloe Fineman, Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Jeff Garlin and The Middle‘s Troy Metcalf have joined Damien Chazelle’s 1920s Hollywood epic ensemble Babylon for Paramount.

The trio join Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Katherine Waterston, Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, Flea, Rory Scovel, Samara Weaving, Eric Roberts, P.J. Byrne, Damon Gupton, Olivia Wilde, Spike Jonze, Phoebe Tonkin, Tobey Maguire and Jean Smart in the pic.

Oscar winner Chazelle is directing and also wrote the script, and Olivia Hamilton, Matt Plouffe and Marc Platt are producing. Tobey Maguire, Helen Estabrook and Adam Siegel are executive producing. Babylon is shooting in Santa Clarita, CA, and will hit theaters on December 24, 2022 and expand nationwide on January 6, 2023.

Fineman is a Groundlings alum who has been a featured player on Saturday Night Live since September 2019, known for her precise impersonations of Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman,...

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Jeff Garlin swung by HuffPost Live on Wednesday to promote his new movie "Dealin' with Idiots," and didn't hold back on his opinion about the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial.

"Until the law is changed, I won't go back to Florida," Garlin said, referring to the state's infamous "stand-your-ground" law (which was not actually used as a defense in the trial).

The actor and stand-up comedian has roots in the state. He attended high school and college in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, respectively, and launched his comedy career there.

He told host Ricky Camilleri that he cannot altogether blame the jurors in the case for carrying out a law that he believes is unjust.

"Standing your ground -- what does that mean?" Garlin asked. "It means you can do what you want. You wanna shoot a black kid, have fun."...

"I saw who was running, and I voted for the porn star." That's Jeff Garlin on his decision to vote for Mary Carey over Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election. The stand-up comedian had a lot to say Monday night at the 92nd Street Y in a conversation where nothing was off limits, including the future of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and his recent arrest. Appearing in support of his new movie, "Dealin' With Idiots," and his upcoming ABC sitcom, "The Goldbergs," Garlin took the stage for "A Conversation with Jeff Garlin Moderated by Michael Moore." Moore, a long-time friend of Garlin and vocal commentator of pretty much everything, kept to himself for most of the evening, showing a surprising amount of self-control even when prompted by audience questions. The evening's focus was on Garlin, and the "Bowling for Columbine" director made sure to keep it there. The duo...

New opener "Fruitvale Station" and "The Way, Way Back" (in its second week) are the biggest specialty hits of the summer season so far, after several weeks of promising new openings that have failed to cross the $10 million mark as they expanded. The timely and unsettling "Fruitvale" boasts the best limited release of the summer, while Fox Searchlight's "The Way, Way Back" earned a high-end per-screen-average for its number of theaters, suggesting solid audience response with much more to come. Two IFC VOD releases -- "The Crystal Fairy" and "Dealin' With Idiots" -- showed some decent numbers, with Magnolia's "The Hunt" and Goldwyn's "Still Mine" also made decent initial showings. Opening "Fruitvale Station" (Weinstein) - Criticwire: B+; Metacritic score: 82; Festivals include: Sundance 2013, Cannes 2013, Los Angeles 2013 $377,000 in 7 theaters; PSA (per screen average): $53,857 The best specialized opening of the summer and 2013's third best (behind "Spring Breakers" and "A...