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The offbeat Bruce Willis film Breakfast of Champions is back in theaters for a limited time, with an all-new 4K restoration. 25 years after its original release, the adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's satirical novel can now be experienced by those who did not see it the first time around which could be a lot of people considering it struggled to find an audience back in 1999.

Breakfast of Champions is a dark comedy that took Bruce Willis from his action hero persona at a time he was finding success in other genres, with movies such as The Sixth Sense. Willis stars as Dwayne Hoover, a wealthy yet mentally unstable car dealership who becomes convinced that a pulp science fiction novel holds the secrets to his existence. The satirical film tends to border on absurdity, a strong suit of Vonneguts work, but the mixed reviews from critics all questioned how successful the...

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The first thing Mike Birbiglia does before staging one of his one-man shows at a new venue is sit in every seat. “I try to understand what the sightlines are, how they can hear. I’m obsessed with it because that’s all we have,” he says over Zoom in October, hiding in daughter Oona’s bedroom from the noise of Brooklyn construction outside. “The intimacy is everything.”

Birbiglia is known as a comedian, a filmmaker (2016’s Don’t Think Twice), a podcaster and a for-hire actor — recurring on Billions and, more recently, making a memorable cameo in Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” music video. But it’s his plays, narrative interpretations of stand-up, that have always distinguished him from his peers. He’s now 44 and committed to shirking Hollywood for his life in Brooklyn with wife Jen Stein (the poet who publishes under the pen name J.

Buddy Morra, the former talent manager who at one time handled comedians as Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Robert Klein, JoAnn Worley, David Letterman, Martin Mull, Jim Carrey, Marty Short, Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, Dick Cavett, Woody Allen, Tom Poston, John Pizzarelli, Michael Feinsten, Michael Richards, and Jake Johannsen (among others) has died. He passed on March 19 after a long illness. He was 88.

“Buddy was the most important person in my career. He believed in me even before I did,” Billy Crystal told Deadline. “In 1974, I was with a struggling three-man comedy group, and he took me aside and said if I wanted to be a stand up that, he’d be there for me along with the highly respected Jack Rollins, Charlie Joffe and Larry Brezner. He gave me the confidence to go it alone. A humble, gentle, humorous man, we had great highs together, and a few setbacks, but...

SenoReality Pictures, in association with Free State Studios, has just wrapped production on a new short film entitled "Get Off My Porch". "Get Off My Porch" is a horror comedy about a man terrorized by Girl Scouts insisting that he buy a box of cookies. You Will get some Thin Mints or else!

The short film, which was shot in Kansas City, was written and directed by Patrick Rea and produced by Rea, Ryan Jones, and Free State Studios. Hanuman Brown-Eagle was director of photography. The film will be scored by Harry Manfredini.

"Get Off My Porch" completes a set of short films produced by SenoReality Pictures and Free State Studios and will be released on a compilation DVD sometime in 2010. The collection will include "Woman's Intuition", "Next Caller", "Now That You're Dead", "Cafe at the Crossroads" (review here), "Mrs. Brumett's Garden", and "Emergency Preparedness", which have screened at such...