Comedy and Film Industry Updates

A fully AI film, Gods Don’t Give Gifts, is poised to become the next feature to leap from a popular YouTube channel to the big screen. Makers of the sci-fi title said Wednesday it will open in several hundred movie theaters on October 30. The film is directed by Zack London, who is known onlin

EXCLUSIVE: After hitting a home run with their 2016 college baseball pic Everybody Wants Some!, Glen Powell and Richard Linklater are ready to take the mound again for an untitled Lou Gehrig film at Universal. Powell will play the iconic New York Yankee, with Linklater attached to direct and Simon R

EXCLUSIVE: Mt. Mystic, the comedy series based on a YouTube pilot, has added Johnny Knoxville to its cast. It comes as Knoxville’s Jackass: Best and Last, the final movie in the franchise’s film franchise, was released last month. Knoxville, who also hosts Fox’s Fear Factor: House of Fear, which is

Duo’s eponymous album arrives on Sept. 18

A sample of the kind of "historically accurate" adaptation he craves features Odysseus wearing foam earplugs