Lionsgate has picked up the North American, UK and Ireland rights to John Carney’s musical comedy Power Ballad, which stars Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd. The project, which was recently shot in Dublin, follows Rudd as a wedding singer and Jonas as a flagging pop star who come together to write a song to comedic …
The premise of Netflix‘s Exploding Kittens will sound like the stuff of wacky comic fantasy — unless, that is, you have cats. Speaking as someone who does, I’ve called my boys perfect angels and demon spawns in the same breath; I’ve seen them go from snuggling to fighting to cuddling again in the space of …
The six comedians who gathered for The Hollywood Reporter’s first-ever Stand-Up Emmy Roundtable had plenty to catch up on, from their early days on the circuit to their complicated impulses to make comedy out of tragedy. Perhaps fittingly, they also had little trouble taking playful jabs at each other. The group — Mike Birbiglia, Alex …
Riz Ahmed is returning to television — both in front of and behind the camera. Amazon’s Prime Video has ordered a comedy series created by and starring Ahmed. The Oscar winner will play a struggling actor named Shah Latif, who’s the cusp of landing a breakthrough role when he finds himself thrust into a full-blown existential …