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That Pistol Shrimps Documentary Just Got Picked Up By Seeso

April 15, 2016

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Seeso continues to make a really good case for their $3 per month comedy streaming service.

Yesterday, we posted the trailer to the Brent Hodge documentary on The Pistol Shrimps, the rec league basketball team comprised of many great comedy folks, hoping that it would get to play beyond its film festival run at Tribeca.

Over the last 24 hours, NBC’s Seeso has acquired the worldwide rights to the film and will exclusively stream it later in 2016.

Again, Seeso gets more enticing everyday if you don’t already have it.

Comedies From 2015 Sundance That You Might Have a Chance To See in Theaters

This year’s Sundance Film Festival has distributors combing through the big bills in their wallets for comedy/dramedy.

Even though, Me And Earl And The Dying Girl ended up not setting a buy record at the festival, it still carried a decently sized price tag in the mid 7 figure range.

Other films that might potentially rule the specialty box office and beyond this year include:

–Kevin Pollak’s documentary Misery Loves Comedy acquired by Tribeca Film.

–The D Train with Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike White, and Kyle Bornheimer bought up by IFC Films for $3 million.

-The world rights for Results from Andrew Bujalski, the man who brought Computer Chess into the world, acquired by Magnolia Pictures.

–The North American rights to Don Verdean with Sam Rockwell, Danny McBride, Leslie Bibb, Jemaine Clement, Will Forte, and Amy Ryan from Jared Hess acquired by Lionsgate.

–The U.S. rights to The Bronze starring and co-written by Melissa Rauch acquired by Relativity for $3 million.

–The Overnight produced by The Duplass Brothers and Adam & Naomi Scott’s Gettin’ Rad bought up by The Orchard for $4 million.

–The world rights to Tangerine, also produced by The Duplass Brothers, acquired by Magnolia Pictures.

–Dope with Zoe Kravitz, the voice of Forest Whitaker, Blake Anderson, and more bought up by Open Road Films and Sony Pictures for $7 million.

–Mistress America from Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig bought up by Fox Searchlight for $6.5 million before it even played at the festival.

It’s inevitable that we’ll all be obsessing over their trailers in the coming months.

Watch Trailer for Israeli Military Female Led Workplace Comedy “Zero Motivation”

November 13, 2014

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It’s not often you get to hear of non-English language comedies reaching the States that go beyond being light and quirky. However, Israel’s Talya Lavie has got just such a film in “Zero Motivation” that seems like The Office set within an Israeli military HQ excepts its female led both by its cast and its director.

The Tribeca Film Festival definitely took notice of this when they gave it the award for Best Narrative Feature.

Zeitgeist Films has set it for a theatrical release in the next couple of months, but, for now, you can see what we’re talking about in Zero Motivation’s trailer.

Watch Trailer for What Might Be a Sports Movie Parody to Remember “Intramural”

April 9, 2014

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Intramural from Andrew Disney and Bradley Jackson just might be the sports movie parody that we’ve been waiting for. You were waiting for that right?

Even if you’re not, an ensemble comedy featuring the likes of SNL cast, BriTANick, Good Neighbor, DC Pierson and more playing intramural sports is definitely enticing.

Watch the trailer here before it makes it premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Apr. 19th.

Rashida Jones To Star in Steve Carell’s TBS Comedy Pilot ‘Tribeca’

January 22, 2014

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Rashida Jones To Star in Steve Carell’s TBS Comedy Pilot ‘Tribeca’

Having Rashida Jones star in this a police procedural comedy pilot from Steve Carell should equal automatic series pick up. With that news, Carell’s Tribeca just even got more highly anticipated amongst comedy pilots this season.

Let’s see if the TV development math checks out soon.

TBS Orders Police Procedural Spoof Pilot From Steve Carell

November 6, 2013

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TBS Orders Police Procedural Spoof Pilot From Steve Carell

Called ‘Tribeca’, there’s undoubtedly going to be a crosstown rival dynamic that will happen with Brooklyn Nine Nine if Steve Carell’s pilot goes to series at TBS.