Community star Alison Brie has joined the cast of a promising new comedy called Search Party, The Wrap reports. The film follows two roommates, played by T.J. Miller (She's Out of My League) and Adam Pally (Happy Endings), going to dangerous lengths to get their buddy Nardo (Thomas Middleditch, The Campaign) back from Mexico after he's stranded there, naked. Brie will be playing a co-worker and love interest of either Miller or Pally's character. Rasing Hope's Shannon Woodward recently signed on to play Middleditch's character's girlfriend. This is shaping up to be a pretty impressive cast made up of funny young people who haven't had the chance to [...]
SNL's Jason Sudeikis and Bridesmaids' Rose Byrne are starring in a romantic comedy together. THR reports that the two have signed on to play the lead characters in Tumbledown about a young widow (Byrne) who falls for a New York writer (Sudeikis) when he comes to her rural hometown to investigate the death of her folk singer husband. You know, light Meg Ryan rom-com stuff. The movie comes from writer Desi Van Til and director Sean Mewshaw, who are both making their feature debuts on the project. Olivia Munn, Joe Manganiello, Blythe Danner, Michael McKean and Beau Bridges also star. Sudeikis is set to start filming Horrible Bosses [...]
Comedy video website Funny or Die has released its first movie this morning. Called iSteve, it's a comedic biopic of Steve Jobs starring Justin Long as the Apple founder and it's now streaming on FOD. Clocking in at 79 minutes, it's not only the first movie for Funny or Die but also the first biopic of Jobs to see a wide release, beating Ashton Kutcher's Jobs out of the gate. iSteve was written and directed by Funny or Die staffer Ryan Perez, who says he only used Steve Jobs's Wikipedia page and a few interviews as source material. It took Perez five days to write the script [...]
Details have been sparse so far about writer/director Wes Anderson's new period piece comedy-drama The Grand Budapest Hotel until today, but Screen Daily has a bunch of new details. Here's the plot:
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
In addition the enormous, previously-announced ensemble cast of Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Owen [...]
