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Exclusive: Emily Rios, Michelle Farrah Huang, Verton Banks, Nicholas Olbina, and Savannah Schoenecker have signed on to star in the LGBTQ+ independent feature The Queerdos.

The film will be distributed internationally by The Open Reel. The Queerdos marks the feature film debut of writer and executive producer Sandra Grace, alongside director Jenifer Yeuroukis.

Stanley Yung and Alan Chu will produce. The Open Reel is handling international sales.

Set in contemporary Los Angeles, The Queerdos is described as a female-driven queer comedy centered on a quirky, struggling delivery driver (Schoenecker) who inherits a rundown Hollywood Hills home. Faced with raising $50,000 to keep it, she rents out every room to an eclectic group of queer misfits—all while navigating unexpected romance, viral fame, and the shadow of a past child star legacy.

“As a proud Queerdo, nothing makes me happier than to help tell this beautifully human story, for us and by us,...

If a crisis erupts on board a commercial aircraft, you want to know the flight attendants are prepared to handle any desperate situation. Chris, Wes, and Clear, the cabin crew in the comedic short Cock N’ Bull 3, are not those guys. They’re more likely to be the cause of an emergency than the ones resolving it.

Wes (Danny Rhodes) provides a running stream of non-faa approved commentary over the Pa system. Chris (Nathan Adloff) locks eyes with an older man within minutes of takeoff. Later, he tumbles out of the forward lavatory with his shirt off, apparently having just joined the Mile High Club with his gentleman friend. Clear (Pete Zias) declares, “I wanna get fucked in there!”

Things only get more chaotic on the ill-fated red eye from L.A. to New York, after the pilot mysteriously becomes incapacitated. Cock N’ Bull 3, directed by Adloff and co-written by Adloff and Rhodes,...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Amy Hill packed her bags in Hollywood and returned home to her family in Hawaii, thinking she would quarantine there. But the actor-comedian’s short-lived break from production came to an end with a surprise Zoom call in April.

Hill, 67, stars in director Quentin Lee’s sci-fi feature “Comisery” as a Japanese American psychiatrist based in, ironically, Hawaii. Having previously collaborated with Lee in the webseries “Comedy InvAsian,” she didn’t hesitate to sign on to be the lead in an experimental project filmed entirely over Zoom.

“I’ve played a psychiatrist, therapist before, so the challenge, for me, was figuring out how this is a different character than the ones I’ve played before,” the veteran actor tells Variety. “Now that I’m getting older, my time is more valuable, because I have fewer moments left in life. So I don...