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EXCLUSIVE: Jack Black and brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the team behind the 2001 comedy Shallow Hal, look to be reuniting for the holidays — and bringing an infamous character along for the sleigh ride. Sources tell Deadline that Black is set to star in the Christmas comedy Dear Santa with Bobby…

There's scarcely a word or move in Champions that you haven't seen somewhere else before, but in a very modest way this goofball minor-league basketball yarn throws off enough amiable and vaguely raucous charm to keep a smile on sports fans' faces much of…

Focus Features has unveiled the first trailer for its basketball comedy Champions, pairing Oscar-nominated actor Woody Harrelson (Triangle of Sadness) with filmmaker Bobby Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber), which is slated for release on March 24, 2023. The film penned by Mark Rizzo is based on the Goya…

Focus Features will open Champions on March 24, 2023. In the movie, Woody Harrelson plays a former minor-league basketball coach who, after a series of missteps, is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go…

EXCLUSIVE: Ernie Hudson (Grace and Frankie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife) is the final addition to the cast of Champions, the recently-wrapped Special Olympics film that Bobby Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) directed for Focus Features and Gold Circle Entertainment. He’ll star alongside the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Woody Harrelson (True Detective, Zombieland), Emmy nominee Kaitlin Olson (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Hacks), Grammy nominee Cheech Marin (Born in East L.A, From Dusk Till Dawn) and Matt Cook (Man With a Plan, The Comeback) will lead Champions, a recently-wrapped film…

Quibi has given a formal series order to comedy The Now from Peter and Bobby Farrelly and Anonymous Content, with Dave Franco in the lead role. Written by Oscar winner Peter Farrelly (Green Book), Steve Leff (The Ranch) and Pete Jones (Hall Pass), The Now is a comedy that examines what exactly makes life worth living…

Tricky negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents have many writers considering their options. And at the WGA Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, it emerged that many big-name writers are standing behind their union, and will even walk away from their agents if necessary. "I…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Lez Bomb, written and directed by and starring Jenna Laurenzo and executive produced by Bobby Farrelly. The pic, financed and produced by Sprockefeller Pictures, won a jury award when it world premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival, and now will…

AT&T Audience Network has set the premiere date for comedy hit Loudermilk’s second season and also scheduled a new feature length documentary chronicling the decay in East St. Louis, Illinois, Give Us This Day. Bobby Farrelly joins the Loudermilk season two as a director. Both Farrelly brothers (Peter and Bobby) will…

EXCLUSIVE: Lez Bomb is Jenna Laurenzo’s directorial debut and her follow-up to her short film Girl Night Stand, which went viral online, garnering well over 2M views on Youtube, then was translated into other languages by lesbian fans from around the world and ended up, surprisingly, having a big Chinese following…

During the ITVFest in Vermont, an “emergency” panel titled "The Elephant in the Room: Harvey Weinstein/A Dialogue on Changing the Myth of the Casting Couch" was arranged in the wake of the recent scandal involving the former Miramax and TWC mogul. Among those who spoke at the panel was director Bobby…