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‘Portlandia’ Renewed For Seasons 4 & 5

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 12, 2013 @ 7:25am PDTTags: Fred Armisen, IFC, Portlandia
Nellie Andreeva

IFC has given flagship series Portlandia a two-season renewal. The 10-episode Season 4 and Season 5 of the off-beat comedy will premiere in early 2014 and early 2015, respectively. The Emmy-nominated series is created and written by stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein and director Jonathan Krisel. Portlandia is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and produced by Broadway Video. “Portlandia has celebrated sustainable local agriculture, underemployment, avian crafting, gender politics, intense bicycle messengers and so much more,” said IFC’s president and GM Jennifer Caserta. “We can now celebrate two more seasons.”

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WE TV Opening Los Angeles Office

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 5, 2013 @ 8:15am PDTTags: IFC, WE TV
Nellie Andreeva

On the heels of New York-based IFC establishing a presence on the West Coast in March, sibling WE tv too is opening a Los Angeles outpost. Promoted from director to senior director, Megan … Read More »

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IFC Announces Star-Studded Cast For Will Ferrell’s Spoof ‘Spoils Of Babylon’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 3, 2013 @ 7:26am PDTTags: IFC, The Spoils Of Babylon
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We already scooped the some of the top castings in The Spoils Of Babylon, IFC’s  six-episode epic miniseries spoof produced by Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Funny Or Die, including Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig and Haley Joel Osment. Now IFC has officially unveiled the cast of the project, which also includes Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Michael Sheen and Tim Robbins, as well as more details about the mini. Here is the release: Read More »

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Cannes: IFC Lands ‘The Face Of Love’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 5:12am PDTTags: Annette Bening, Big Deals Film, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Ed Harris, IFC, The Face Of Love
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: IFC Films acquired U.S. rights to the Arie Posin-directed The Face Of Love, which stars Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Jess Weixler and … Read More »

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Haley Joel Osment To Co-Star In IFC’s Will Ferrell Miniseries ‘Spoils Of Babylon’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 3, 2013 @ 10:22am PDTTags: Haley Joel Osment, IFC, The Spoils Of Babylon
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Haley Joel Osment is set to co-star opposite Will Ferrell, Tobey Maguire and Kristen Wiig in The Spoils Of Babylon, IFC’s  six-episode miniseries produced by Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Funny Or Die. In the vein of The Thorn Birds and Winds Of War, the epic story of The Spoils Of Babylon chronicles the sexy and dramatic lives of the Morehouse family who made their fortune in the oil business. Read More »

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IFC Acquiring Olivier Assayas Pic ‘Sils Maria;’ Juliette Binoche, Mia Wasikowska To Star

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 22, 2013 @ 5:01pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, IFC, Juliette Binoche, Olivier Assayas, Sils Maria
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Why wait for Cannes? IFC is taking domestic distribution rights off the table for Sils Maria, the Olivier Assayas-directed film that will star Mia Wasikowska and Juliette Binoche. The … Read More »

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IFC Announces Three Comedy Pilots, Eight Half-Hour Projects In Development

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 10, 2013 @ 11:02am PDTTags: IFC
Nellie Andreeva

IFC today announced a slate of 11 comedy projects, including three pilot orders. Here are details:

PILOTS

TIMMS INDUSTRIAL PIPING (Pilot; working title)
A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and livelihoods of its citizens are intertwined with the fate of the town’s biggest employer, Timms Industrial Piping. When the company’s founder and CEO goes missing in a plane crash, the lives of the characters are turned upside down. Shot in stop-motion animation with baby dolls repurposed as an array of adult characters, and modeled on 1980s primetime soaps like Dynasty, the show is written by Steven Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Pursuit of Happyness), and created by Conrad, Jeff Dieter and Tom Glynn. Read More »

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IFC Opens West Coast Office Run By Erin Keating

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 4:35pm PDTTags: Erin Keating, IFC
Nellie Andreeva

As it ramps up original programming, New York-based IFC is establishing a presence on the West Coast with the relocation of Erin Keating, Director of Development, who will be based at AMC Networks’ offices in … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Look Of Love’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 1:25am PSTTags: IFC, StudioCanal, The Look Of Love

Michael Winterbottom‘s The Look Of Love premiered in Sundance where it was acquired by IFC for North America. The film stars Steve Coogan as Paul Raymond, aka ‘The King of Soho.’ Raymond built businesses that included the notorious Raymond Revue Bar and … Read More »

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IFC Orders Comedy Series From Will Ferrell & Adam McKay, Ben Stiller & Bob Odenkirk

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 7:32am PSTTags: IFC, The Spoils Of Babylon
Nellie Andreeva

IFC has greenlit original scripted comedy series The Spoils Of Babylon, produced by Funny or Die, and The Birthday Boys, a sketch comedy series executive produced by Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller who first worked together on Saturday Night Live and The Ben Stiller Show.

The Spoils Of Babylon, which has received a six-episode order, is an adaptation of a best-selling novel by fictional famous author Eric Jonrosh (played by Ferrell). The blowsy century-spanning saga chronicles the sexy and dramatic lives of a family who made their fortune in the oil business. Andrew Steele (Saturday Night Live) co-wrote the script with Matt Piedmont (Casa de mi Padre) who is directing. The two executive produce with Ferrell and McKay. “This is a crazy and maybe even a stupid idea,” said Will Ferrell. “IFC is either really courageous or really stupid which makes them the perfect partner for us.” Read More »

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IFC’s ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ Renewed For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 8, 2013 @ 8:32am PSTTags: IFC
Nellie Andreeva

IFC has picked up a second season of original series Comedy Bang! Bang!, hosted by comedian-writer and podcast host Scott Aukerman (Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis). The network has ordered 20 episodes, double the first … Read More »

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IFC’s ‘Portlandia’ Up In Season 3 Return

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 12:05pm PSTTags: IFC, Portlandia, TV Ratings

The third season premiere episodes of Portlandia were up solidly over last year. Friday’s airing on IFC garnered a total audience of 1.1 million. That’s a 30% rise over the Oregon-based Peabody-winning comedy series’ January 6, … Read More »

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Toronto: IFC Sinking Teeth Into Neil Jordan Vampire Tale ‘Byzantium’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 11, 2012 @ 12:20pm PDTTags: Byzantium, IFC, Neil Jordan, TIFF Wrap-Up, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In the second seven-figure deal so far today at the Toronto Film Festival, IFC is acquiring U.S. rights to Byzantium, the vampire film by Neil Jordan that has festgoers feeling the filmmaker has returned to the terrain of Interview With The Vampire. I’m told that the deal coming together is several million dollars in minimum guarantee and marketing commitment. While IFC has been heavy into multiplatform, this film has designs on a theatrical release broadening out to several hundred screens.

Related: Toronto: Lionsgate & Roadside Near Consummation On ‘Thanks For Sharing’

Scripted by Moira Buffini, Byzantium stars Gemma Arterton, Caleb Landry Jones, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley and Saoirse Ronan. It is produced by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen. The story focuses on two vampires who are on the run from the past and who are hiding a terrible secret. Read More »

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IFC Inks Deal With Chris Gethard Under New Programming Initiative For Comedians

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 20, 2012 @ 8:38am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, IFC
Nellie Andreeva

IFC has launched an “Adopt-A-Comic” program designed to spotlight the standout work of comedians who share the cable network’s “Slightly Off” sensibilities. The network’s first “adoptee” is comedian Chris Gethard (The Chris Gethard Show) who will … Read More »

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IFC Acquires ‘Knife Fight’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 9, 2012 @ 1:55pm PDTTags: IFC, Rob Lowe
Mike Fleming

New York, NY (August 9, 2012) – IFC Films announced today the company is acquiring all U.S. rights to director Bill Guttentag’s (SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION) political drama KNIFE FIGHT. Guttentag wrote the screenplay with political consultant Chris Lehane, who served as White House advisor to President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton andserved as Vice President Al Gore’s press secretary. The film stars Rob Lowe,Jaime Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison, David Harbour, EricMcCormack, and Carrie-Anne Moss. Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila produced the film, with Lowe and William Green executive producing. KNIFE FIGHT had its world premiere earlier this year at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

If a political candidate is personally flawed, but stands to make a positive difference in millions of lives, would you help him win? That question looms over the life of “true believer” Paul Turner (Lowe), a savvy strategist sharply maneuvering politicians out of scandal and into public office in KNIFE FIGHT. With the help of a bright young assistant (Chung) and a seedy operative (Schiff), Turner spins every news cycle and a shrewd reporter (Bowen) on behalf of his clients: a philandering Kentucky governor (McCormack), a blackmailed California senator (Harbour), and an idealistic doctor turned gubernatorial candidate (Moss). When the ugly side of Turner’s work begins to haunt him, he learns that even in the bloodiest of battles, sometimes you have to fight clean.

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TV Teaser: IFC’s ‘Bullet In The Face’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 8, 2012 @ 2:58pm PDTTags: Bullet in the Face, IFC

IFC‘s bloody and unabashedly politically incorrect new half-hour drama Bullet In The Face allegedly made network execs shocked and nervous during a screening. Now comes our first peek at the series, about a German assassin-turned-cop who is without conscience or filter, shooting people indiscriminately and accompanying the … Read More »

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IFC’s Violent New Comedy ‘Bullet In The Face’ Stirs Controversy, Will Make It To Air

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 11:50am PDTTags: Bullet in the Face, IFC

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Bullet In The Face IFCWhen IFC and Sundance Channel president Evan Shapiro departed his post in April, the forthcoming IFC original comedy Bullet In The Face lost its biggest champion. And champions are exactly what a show like Bullet needs considering that the broad, over-the-top half-hour may be the most violent comedy in television history. According to sources, when IFC execs screened the six-episode series, there was shock and nervousness in the room. And now the controversial Bullet, which was not mentioned during IFC’s upfront presentation in March, is being scheduled in a very odd pattern: three episodes back-to-back on two consecutive nights, August 16 and August 17, from 10 PM-11:30 PM.

Bullet In The Face ViolentThe uncertainty of what to do with Bullet In The Face is understandable. While its first three screened episodes show it to be uproarious and twisted, it’s also rife with cinematic-level violence and wildly politically incorrect imagery. It stars Canadian actor Max Williams as Gunter Vogler, a brutally psychopathic, deliriously misogynistic German assassin-turned-cop. The character is utterly without conscience or filter, shooting people indiscriminately and accompanying it with radically offensive invective. The blood spurts freely and often. Eric Roberts and Eddie Izzard co-star as wacko mob bosses. But here is the kind of stuff that may have spooked IFC into turning Bullet into a two-night event rather than a weekly series: We see Gunter in a church using a crucifix as a backscratcher and casually lumping former VP Dick Cheney with Hitler and Stalin in conversation. He mows down basketball players on a court as if taking target practice. It isn’t difficult to see watchdog groups taking offense at the material and using it to demonize IFC. Read More »

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Jennifer Caserta Named IFC President & GM

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 8:29am PDTTags: IFC
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Jennifer Caserta IFCAs expected, AMC Networks has promoted Jennifer Caserta to IFC president and general manager. She succeeds IFC TV and Sundance Channel president Evan Shapiro, who recently left the company to become president of Participant Television. AMC Networks … Read More »

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IFC Unveils 2012-13 Programming Slate

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday March 20, 2012 @ 5:11pm PDTTags: IFC, Portlandia

IFC has picked up a third season of breakout Portlandia, the cable network announced at its first ever upfront presentation today in New York on the heels of becoming an ad-supported network earlier this year. IFC  also unveiled a programming slate that includes several new comedies. Among newcomers are the animated coming-of-age series Out There; the unscripted comedy/talk show Comedy Bang Bang, based on comedian Scott Aukerman’s podcasts; the comedy game show Bunk; and the tentatively titled Maron, inspired by the life of edgy comedian Marc Maron. In addition to Portlandia, other returning shows on the IFC slate include Whisker Wars, from Original Productions and a new installment of rapper R. Kelly’s “hip hopera” Trapped In The Closet (the original aired in 2007). Here is the release:
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