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CBS Films Moves Up Aubrey Plaza Comedy ‘The To-Do List’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 9, 2013 @ 4:20pm PDTTags: Aubrey Plaza, CBS Films, Parks and Recreation, The To Do List

Audrey Plaza, The To-Do List, Parks and RecreationBusy day for Aubrey Plaza: First, her NBC sitcom Parks And Recreation got picked up for a sixth season, then CBS Films set a new domestic release date for her next movie. The To Do List, a comedy about an awkward overachiever who tries to make up for her sexual underachieving in high school before she heads to college, has been moved up from August 16 to July 26. Instead of going up against Universal’s action-comedy sequel Kick-Ass 2, it now will be counterprogramming to Fox’s tentpole The Wolverine. Writer-director Maggie Carey’s film also stars Johnny Simmons, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat, Rachel Bilson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Andy Samberg and Connie Britton. It is produced by Jennifer Todd, Brian Robbins and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett, with Mark Gordon, Greg Walter, Tom Lassally, Maggie Carey, Bill Hader and Tracy McGrath aboard as exec producers.

Related: Summer 2013: Sleeper Movie Forecast

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‘Townies’ Duo Sells Pitch To Fox 2000 Based On Viral Wedding Date Ad

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 1, 2013 @ 11:21am PDTTags: Andrew Cohen, Big Deals Film, Brendan O'Brien, Fox 2000, Townies

Brendan O'Brien TowniesAndrew Cohen TowniesEXCLUSIVE: After scoring a seven-figure deal with Universal for their R-rated comedy Townies, Andrew Cohen and Brendan O’Brien sold another pitch over the Easter weekend. This one also went for 7-figures and is based on the Craiglist ad that went viral in February when brothers Mike and Dave Stangle took to the personals in search of wedding dates. The untitled project takes it one step further: When the hard-partying bros finally select plus-ones, their dates end up even being even bigger messes than they are. Read More »

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Hot International Trailer: ‘Kick-Ass 2′

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:31 UKTags: Chloe Moretz, Kick-Ass 2

The new international trailer for Kick-Ass 2 is Hit Girl-centric, focusing on Chloë Grace Moretz‘s orphaned character as she enters high school and deals with issues of identity. The follow-up to 2010′s original is directed by Jeff Wadlow and also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jim Carrey, as Colonel Stars and Stripes. There’s a July 19 release set for the UK, ahead of Universal’s August 16 slot in the U.S.

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Web Buddies Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Join ‘Townies’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 22, 2013 @ 8:38am PDTTags: Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dave Franco, Townies, Universal Pictures
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EXCLUSIVE: Dave Franco and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who’ve developed chemistry in a popular series of Funny Or Die web videos, are joining forces onscreen. They’re joining Universal Pictures‘ Nicholas Stoller-directed comedy Townies, the upcoming Seth Rogen and Zac Efron comedy that will also star Rose Byrne. Efron plays a frat president and Franco plays his best pal and vice president. Pic is produced by Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver for Point Grey Pictures and Good Universe’s Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane are exec producers with Andrew Cohen and Brendan O’Brien. GU’s Matt Leonetti and Nicole Brown are co-producers.

Franco is coming off Warm Bodies and has Now You See Me coming out in May from Summit. Mintz-Plasse just wrapped Kick Ass 2 and worked with Rogen in Superbad. Franco is repped by CAA and Miles Levy at James Levy Management, and Mintz-Plasse is repped by UTA and Principato Young.

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Hot Trailer: ‘Kick-Ass 2′ Red Band

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 9:30am PDTTags: Kick-Ass 2, Universal Pictures

Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) are back for the follow-up to the original 2010 pic, which made $48.1M domestic for Lionsgate. Kick-Ass 2, directed by Jeff Wadlow and now from Universal, also stars Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes, leader of a band of self-made superheroes. It’s due for an August 16 release after the studio pushed back its original date a couple of weeks.



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Hot TV Spot: ‘Movie 43′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 8:46pm PSTTags: Movie 43

It’s a collection of loosely related shorts directed by a bunch of different people — we count 13 on one site and it may be more or fewer but at one time the potential tally was considerably higher. Shot rather on the fly when people were available, it has an even longer list of in-front-of-the-camera participants, among them Elizabeth Banks (also one of the directors), Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler, Bobby Cannavale, Common, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, John Hodgman, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Greg Kinnear, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Naomi Watts, and Kate Winslet. Directors include Steven Brill, Peter Farrelly, Griffin Dunne, and Brett Ratner. Movie 43, from Relativity Media, opens January 25th:

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Santa Barbara Film Festival Lineup Announced

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 10:20am PSTTags: Santa Barbara Film Festival

The Santa Barbara Film Festival has announced its 2013 lineup. The 28th edition features films from 49 countries and runs January 24-February 3. The Jason Bateman-starring drama Disconnect is the opening-night film and Rowan Athale’s Wasteland closes it. Here’s the full lineup of movies by category: Read More »

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Relativity Firms 2013 Release Slate

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 4:30pm PDTTags: 21 And Over, Movie 43, Paranoia, Relativity Media, Safe Haven

MOVIE 43
Release: January 25, 2013

Directors: Steven Brill, Peter Farrelly, Will Graham, Steve Carr, Griffin Dunne, James Duffy, Jonathan Van Tulleken, Elizabeth Banks, Patrik Forsberg, Brett Ratner, Rusty Cundieff, James Gunn
Writers: Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellström, Jack Kukoda, Bill O’Malley, Matthew Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan Van Tulleken, Jonas Wittenmark, Ricky Blitt
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Leslie Bibb, Kate Bosworth, Gerard Butler, Bobby Cannavale, Common, Kieran Culkin, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, John Hodgman, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Greg Kinnear, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Dennis Quaid, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet (Cast listed in alphabetical order)
Producers: Charles B. Wessler, John Penotti, Peter Farrelly, Ryan Kavanaugh
Co-Producers: Kenneth Halsband, Jason Barhydt, Marc Ambrose, Tom Gormican
Executive Producer: Tim Williams, Tucker Tooley, Jason Felts
Co-Executive Producers: Rene Rigal, Brian Kornreich

SAFE HAVEN
Release: February 8, 2013

Director: Lasse Hallström
Writers: Dana Stevens, Gage Lansky
Cast: Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, David Lyons, Cobie Smulders
Producers: Ryan Kavanaugh, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Nicholas Sparks
Executive Producer: Tucker Tooley

21 AND OVER
Release: March 1, 2013

Directors: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
Writers: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
Cast: Miles Teller, Justin Chon, Skylar Astin, Sarah Wright, Francois Chau, Jonathan Keltz, Daniel Booko, Dustin Ybarra
Producer: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Ryan Kavanaugh
Executive Producer: Tucker Tooley, Jason Felts, Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, David Manpearl, Luo Yan

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘Movie 43′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 3, 2012 @ 8:40am PDTTags: Movie 43, Peter Farrelly, Relativity Media
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Movie 43 Trailer Red BandHere’s a first look at Movie 43, a film that I’ve written about several times here, because I loved those raunchy 70s comedies The Groove Tube and Kentucky Fried Movie, and because the filmmakers who put this together, –Peter Farrelly, Charles Wessler and John Penotti, Ryan Kavanaugh and Tucker Tooley–assembled such a killer cast of directors and actors for these completely inappropriate comic vignettes. The final cast, in alphabetical order: Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Leslie Bibb, Kate Bosworth, Gerard Butler, Bobby Cannavale, Kieran Culkin, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, John Hodgman, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts, and Kate Winslet. Relativity Media will release it January 25. Here’s a Red Band trailer:

 


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Amanda Lund To Co-Star In Midseason CBS Comedy ‘Friend Me’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 18, 2012 @ 4:11pm PDTTags: CBS, Friend Me
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EXCLUSIVE: CBS is adding some estrogen to midseason buddy comedy Friend Me with the introduction of a new regular female character to be played by Amanda Lund. Created by Alan Kirschenbaum and Ajay Sahgal, Friend Me is about two twentysomething best friends who just moved from Indiana to Los Angeles to start cool new jobs. Rob (Nicholas Braun) is eager to embrace the L.A. scene and meet new people, while Evan (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) prefers to socialize online at home in his underwear, web-chatting and playing poker with his Hoosier buddies Mike (Parveesh Cheena), Sully and Farhad (Dan Ahdoot). In what is considered the female lead on the ensemble, Lund will play the upbeat and often socially awkward Amanda Baxter, new to Los Angeles, alone after a break-up, and eager to move on with her life. Working for a caterer with dreams one day to be a chef, she finds the first friends of her new life in her neighbors Rob and Evan. Read More »

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DreamWorks Animation’s Release Schedule

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday September 9, 2012 @ 5:52pm PDTTags: DreamWorks Animation, The Croods, Turbo

The following DreamWorks Animation films will be distributed by Fox:

The Croods - March 22, 2013
Turbo – July 19, 2013
Mr. Peabody & Sherman - November 1, 2013
Me And My Shadow – March 14, 2014
How To Train Your Dragon 2 – June 20, 2014
Happy Smekday! – November 26, 2014
The Penguins Of Madagascar – March 27, 2015
Trolls (working title) – June 5, 2015
B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations – November 6, 2015
Mumbai Musical (working title) – December 19, 2015
Kung Fu Panda 3 – March 18, 2016
How To Train Your Dragon 3 – June 18, 2016

Related: DreamWorks Animation To Fox For 5-Year Distribution Deal
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TOLDJA! Jim Carrey Takes Colonel Role In ‘Kick-Ass 2′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 4, 2012 @ 10:53am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Jim Carrey, Kick-Ass 2
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Jim Carrey Kick-Ass 2BREAKING: Jim Carrey has been set to play the role of The Colonel in the Jeff Wadlow-directed sequel Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall. Deadline broke this August 20 when Carrey had the offer to play a guy who helps galvanize the team of misfit super heroes assembled to fight evil. Wadlow just tweeted the news. The sequel brings back Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage. Carrey is a big fan of Matthew Vaughn and his original Kick-Ass film. Here, he wore the Kick-Ass costume for a musical duet with Conan O’Brien.

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘The To Do List’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 7:14pm PDTTags: Aubrey Plaza, The To Do List

Here’s Aubrey Plaza (most recently seen in FilmDistrict’s Safety Not Guaranteed) introducing the R-Rated trailer for her Valentine’s Day movie that CBS Films will open on that day in 2013. Written and directed by Maggie Carey, The To Do List also features Rachel Bilson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Andy Samberg, Alia Shawkat, Donald Glover, Bill Hader and Clark Gregg.


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CBS Films Sets Ensemble Comedy ‘The To Do List’ For February 14, 2013 Release

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 10:07am PDTTags: CBS Films, The To Do List
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BREAKING: CBS Films has set a February 14, 2013 release for The To Do List, an ensemble comedy written and directed by Maggie Carey (Funny or Die Presents). Aubrey Plaza (Safety Not Guaranteed) plays Brandy Klark, a Type-A, overachiever who comes up with a “to-do list” featuring all the risqué extra-curricular activities she missed out on in high school and wants to complete before college. Rachel Bilson, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Scott Porter, Connie Britton, Clark Gregg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Donald Glover, Johnny Simmons, Sarah Steele, and Alia Shawkat co-star.

Jennifer Todd produced for the Mark Gordon Company along with Brian Robbins and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett via Summer Break Productions for their Varsity Pictures banner. Mark Gordon, Maggie Carey, Bill Hader, Tracy McGrath, Greg Walter and Tom Lassally are the Executive Producers. CBS Films financed the film, will handle domestic distribution and has sold all worldwide rights.

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Jim Carrey Courted For ‘Kick-Ass 2′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 20, 2012 @ 5:36pm PDTTags: Jim Carrey, Kick-Ass 2
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I am not sure he’s going to say yes, but Jim Carrey is being courted by Universal to play a showy supporting role in Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall, the Jeff Wadlow-directed sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s crazy superhero movie. The character is called The Colonel, and he helps galvanize the team of misfit super heroes assembled to fight evil. The sequel brings back Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage. Carrey is a big fan of Matthew Vaughn and his original Kick-Ass film. Here, he wore the Kick-Ass costume for a musical duet with a bearded Conan O’Brien. But dealmaking is dealmaking, and this is far from a sure thing, at this point just a great idea.

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Donald Faison In ‘Kick-Ass 2′ Talks

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 8, 2012 @ 11:06am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Kick-Ass 2, moving casting

EXCLUSIVE: Kick-Ass 2 is very close to getting its Dr. Gravity. Donald Faison is in negotiations to join the sequel in the role of the baseball bat wielding masked character who fights alongside Kick-Ass. The Scrubs alumni will be joining returning casting members Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage as well as new addition John Leguizamo in the Universal Pictures financed film. Kick-Ass 2, as Mintz-Plasse let slip at Comic-Con last month, is set to start shooting in September. The movie will film in Toronto and London. No stranger to the big screen, Faison has appeared in Skyline and Remember The Titans, among others. The actor currently stars in The Exes, which is in its second season on TVLand. Kick-Ass 2 is being directed and scripted by Jeff Wadlow, based on the Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr. comics. Matthew Vaughn, who directed the 2010 original, is serving as producer on the sequel. Faison is repped by APA and Intellectual Artists Management.

Related: Comic-Con: Mintz-Plasse Says ‘Kick-Ass 2′ To Start In September

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John Leguizamo Sets Two Films Before Making ABC Pilot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 30, 2012 @ 5:10pm PDTTags: John Leguizamo, Kick-Ass 2, The Counselor
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EXCLUSIVE: John Leguizamo, who just made a deal to star in the ABC pilot Only Fools and Horses, has just signed for roles in the Ridley Scott-directed The Counselor and the Jeff Wadlow-scripted Kick-Ass 2. In The Counselor, he’ll play a low level drug dealer, in a Cormac McCarthy-scripted film that stars Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. In Kick-Ass 2, he’ll play Javier, the bodyguard assigned to protect aspiring evil guy Red Mist, the role to be reprised by Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz are back along with Nicolas Cage. Leguizamo is repped by UTA and The Collective.

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Comic-Con: Mintz-Plasse Says ‘Kick-Ass 2′ To Start In September; ‘ParaNorman’ Panel Wins Over Fans

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 11:42am PDTTags: Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Kick-Ass 2, ParaNorman

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse was on hand today for Focus Feature’s ParaNorman panel in Hall H but broke some news of his own. Making fans happy, he said Kick-Ass 2 should start shooting in September. In his words: “You heard it from me first, and now I’m probably gonna get my butt kicked.” Deadline reported earlier that Universal Pictures was stepping in to finance the film with Jeff Wadlow directing his script. Matthew Vaughn directed the 2010 original. Read More »

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Universal Close To ‘Kick-Ass 2′ Deals With Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Others

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 4:35pm PDTTags: Aaron Johnson, Big Deals Film, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kick-Ass 2, Nicolas Cage
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After Deadline revealed that Universal Pictures was stepping in to finance Kick-Ass 2 with Jeff Wadlow directing his script, the big question was whether the original Kick-Ass cast of Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, among others, would be back for an encore. There has been a lot of rumors lately that Johnson, who stars in the upcoming Oliver Stone-directed Savages, would leave and that other actors were being lined up for a recasting. This has been exacerbated by the fact that the original cast didn’t have sequel options, which meant that returning cast members from the Matthew Vaughn-directed 2010 original would require new negotiated deals. The original cost $28 million and grossed $103 million worldwide.

Related: Universal Talks ‘Kick-Ass 2′ To Build Franchise; Jeff Wadlow Eyed To Direct

Here’s what I am hearing. Johnson is nearly done with his deal to reprise as the title character. Moretz in a similar situation as is Mintz-Plasse. Also in talks is Nicolas Cage to return in a cameo role (his reps say he has yet to receive an offer). There are several other star roles for new characters, and it’s sure looking like it will work out well for a fall shoot.

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