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Glen Powell, well-known for his roles in Twisters, Top Gun: Maverick, and Hit Man, is donning a new suit in his major comeback to television as Hulu premieres the highly anticipated teaser for the upcoming comedy series Chad Powers. Co-created by Michael Waldron and Glen Powell, the eight-episode series is based on Eli Manning, a former professional football quarterback and two-time Super Bowl champion.

In the series, Russ Holliday, a disgraced quarterback who ruined his college career due to bad behavior, returns to the faltering football team in the disguise of Chad Powers, hoping to revive his career. Alongside Powell, Chad Powers stars Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, Perry Matfeld, and Clayne Crawford. With the series premiere seemingly right around the corner, Hulu released a fourteen-second teaser effective enough to reveal some significant shots of Glen Powell in his new role. The teaser also gives us a closer look at Holliday...

Stars: Randall Park, Melissa Fumero, Olga Merediz, Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur | Created by Vanessa Ramos | Directed by Payman Benz, Aleysa Young, Katie Locke O’Brien, Jackie Clarke

Timmy Yoon is an analog dreamer living in a 5G world. And after learning he is operating the last Blockbuster Video in America, Timmy and his staff employees (including his long time crush, Eliza fight to stay relevant. The only way to succeed is to remind their community that they provide something big corporations can’t: human connection.

Ah, Blockbuster. I genuinely miss going to my local store every other weekend to rent the newest video game, and spending the entire week playing it and having the time of my life before the dreaded day when I ultimately had to return the game in the little metal door outside the building. There was something special about Blockbuster Video that nearly everyone seems to miss.

When 6-foot, 9-inch rookie guard Magic Johnson ushered in the Showtime era Los Angeles Lakers in 1979, the team revolutionized the NBA with its relentless pace, instant success (winning five championships in the span of a decade), and Hollywood glam appeal. The great challenge for Adam McKay’s HBO series, “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” (which concluded Sunday), was recreating the essence of the Showtime offense as iconic, dramatic beats. This included Magic’s first showdown with Boston Celtics rival Larry Bird at the Boston Garden, and the stunning game six Finals clincher over the 76ers in Philadelphia without an injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

“Ultimately our goal is to dramatize it, to get inside it, and to try to give a window into their games for an audience that makes it feel as if you’re living in it,” showrunner Max Borenstein told IndieWire. “It’s the same thing...

Netflix has released a first-look photo of Randall Park and Melissa Fumero on the set of Blockbuster, its upcoming single-camera video store comedy series from Universal Television. See the photo below.

Park and Fumero star in the ensemble comedy that takes place in the last Blockbuster Video in America. It explores what it takes – and more specifically who it takes – for a small business to succeed against all odds.

Cast also includes Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, Olga Merediz, Jb Smoove and Kamaia Fairburn.

The photo was released as part of the Netflix Is A Joke festival. Later tonight, Park, Fumero, Smoove and Alvarez will be competing against each other in a Movie Trivia Happy Hour event out of the festival.

The series is created by Vanessa Ramos, with David Caspe and Jackie Clarke also serving as writers/executive producers. John Davis and John Fox executive produce for Davis Entertainment. Payman Benz...

Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur and Olga Merediz are set as series regulars and Jb Smoove and Kamaia Fairburn will recur in Blockbuster, Netflix’s upcoming single-camera workplace comedy. They join previously announced leads Randall Park and Melissa Fumero.

Blockbuster, from Universal Television, is a 10-episode ensemble comedy that takes place in the last Blockbuster Video store in America. It explores what it takes – and, more specifically, who it takes – for a small business to succeed against all odds.

Alvarez will play Carlos. As a first-generation son of immigrants, he learned English by watching

movies, and they quickly became his love language. He dreams of being a filmmaker, but can’t help but feel like he owes it to...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine alumna Melissa Fumero is set as the female lead opposite Randall Park in Blockbuster, Netflix’s upcoming single-camera workplace comedy.

Blockbuster, from Universal Television, is a 10-episode ensemble comedy that takes place in the last Blockbuster Video store in America. It explores what it takes – and, more specifically, who it takes – for a small business to succeed against all odds.

Fumero will play Eliza, a dedicated mother whose marriage to her high school sweetheart is on the rocks. She left Harvard after one semester to start a family and now works at Blockbuster alongside Timmy (Park) as his trusty Number 2 — and maybe more.

2022 Netflix Pilot & Series Orders

The series is created by Vanessa Ramos, with David Caspe and Jackie Clarke also serving as writers/executive producers. John Davis and John Fox executive produce for Davis Entertainment. Payman Benz will direct and co-executive produce four episodes, including the pilot.

Exclusive: Payman Benz (Black Monday) has been tapped to direct and serve as co-executive producer on four episodes, including the pilot, of Blockbuster, Netflix’s upcoming single-camera workplace comedy starring Randall Park.

Blockbuster, from Universal Television, is a 10-episode ensemble comedy that takes place in the last Blockbuster Video in America. It explores what it takes – and more specifically who it takes – for a small business to succeed against all odds. Benz will direct and co-ep episodes 101, 102, 107 and 108.

The series is created by Vanessa Ramos, with David Caspe and Jackie Clarke also serving as writers/executive producers. John Davis and John Fox executive produce for Davis Entertainment.

Blockbuster is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and studio-based Davis Entertainment.

The project reunites Benz and Caspe who worked together on Showtime’s Black Monday. Benz directed nine episodes of the Showtime dark comedy series, which Caspe co-created and executive produced.

Patton Oswalt would really like you to spend your Memorial Day weekend binge-watching “A.P. Bio” on Hulu, as he and costar Glenn Howerton are leading a hashtag campaign to help find the recently cancelled NBC comedy a new home.

Oswalt and Howerton have called on the show’s cult fanbase to get #SaveAPBio trending on Twitter and to help get the show to the top of Hulu’s streaming metrics. The show stars Howerton as Jack Griffin, a disgraced Harvard scholar who is forced to return to his hometown of Toledo, Ohio, and teach an advanced placement biology class.

But as he realizes that his students are among the best in the school, Jack hatches a scheme to use them to simultaneously get revenge on those who cost him his spot at Harvard and find his way back into the upper echelons of academia.

I mean, there’s no...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine switches things up yet again with a real-time episode. Read our review!

This Brooklyn Nine-Nine review contains spoilers.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 6 Episode 14

Mama Maglione! Once again, Brooklyn Nine-Nine has offered a new twist on their tried and true formula with great success, this time taking the 24 approach and showing an investigation in real-time. Honestly, it’s surprising that the real-time case concept hadn’t already been done by this show, but it’s another welcome off-format episode that gives the entire cast the ability to share one story.

Even though all of our main characters are involved in the search for a hacker looking to expose NYPD’s undercover files, it still allows tiny B-plots, like Terry and Boyle dealing with mean sorority girls and Hitchcock and Scully’s quest for the perfect side dish for their microwavable lasagna, to pop up. The most successful of these is...

A review of “Tickling Clocks,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I find out about the hot goss…

“Tickling Clocks,” a frantic hunt for a precinct hacker that plays out in real time, is the fifth out of 14 episodes so far in Season Six to notably shift the series’ usual tone or structure. That’s following “Four Movements” (Gina says goodbye to everyone in very different ways), “The Crime Scene” (Jake and Rosa spend weeks obsessing over an unsolvable case), “He Said, She Said” (Amy...

Comedy Central is smarter than we are. The cabler is developing a brothers comedy TV series with Zack Pearlman and Julian Sergi. And just look at them! Don't you wish you'd thought of it, first? Pearlman played Andre on Mulaney, which was cancelled by Fox after one season. He voices the character Anou on Comedy Central's animated TripTank TV show.Sergi, who is in the War Dogs feature starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, has appeared on episodes of Grace and Frankie, as well as Key and Peele, which is ending next month. Per Deadline, Pearlman and Sergi are executive producing and starring in the unnamed project. They will co-write with Andrew Guest. Payman Benz has been tapped to direct and will executive produce with Principato-Young Entertainment.Read More…...

Comedy Central has put in development a brothers comedy series co-written, executive produced and staring Zack Pearlman (The Intern, Mulaney) and Julian Sergi (War Dogs, Key & Peele). Andrew Guest (Brooklyn Nine Nine, Community) will co-write the script with Pearlman and Sergi. Payman Benz (Last Man on Earth, Key & Peele) is set to direct the potential pilot and executive produces along with Principato-Young Entertainment. The show centers on brothers, George and Calvin…...

So mean! After teen bride Courtney Stodden, 19, reportedly separated from her husband of two years, ‘Green Mile’ star Doug Hutchison, 53, people took to Twitter to make fun of their split.

It seems everyone in the Twitterverse has something to say about Courtney Stodden‘s not-so-surprising separation from her significantly older husband, Doug Hutchison – and none of it is very nice. Many people sarcastically tweeted their shock over the reported demise of the couple’s May-December marriage, with one user saying, “Love Is Dead.” Read on for all the details.

Doug Hutchison & Courtney Stodden Split — Twitter Mocks Divorce News Take Our Poll

Courtney first made headlines when she married Doug in May 2011 — with her parents’ blessing — when she was just 16 years old. Now it looks like Courtney is all grown up and ready to move on — but unfortunately she and her split from Doug have become the butt of a cruel joke on Twitter.

Twitter has spoken. Give us Dennis Farina back, please.

How awesome is it that Dennis Farina will be reincarnated as the royal baby.

— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) July 22, 2013

Did Dennis Farina reincarnate as the Royal Baby? No?? Then get outta my face, chump.

— Payman Benz (@PaymanBenz) July 22, 2013

Dennis Farina died so the Royal Baby could live.

— Dan St. Germain (@DSGermain) July 22, 2013

Hoping Dennis Farina transferred his soul into the Royal Baby at the last minute.

— Abraham Riesman (@abrahamjoseph) July 22, 2013

If what I know about Buddhism is correct, the Royal baby will have Dennis Farina's soul. I think we'd all be ok with that.

— Alex Mizrahi (@alexmiz) July 22, 2013

I'll just pretend that Dennis Farina was reincarnated as the #RoyalBaby and that will ease the pain.

— Jacob King (@cptblicero) July 22, 2013

The only thing we can hope is that Dennis Farina's soul has been reincarnated in the new royal baby.

— Pete DeCourcy...

Payman Benz, the gentleman director behind such cinematic lampoons as Bavatar and Fakeboring Nightvisioncrap 2, returns with a parody that might have you bursting - literally - at the seams: The Hungry Games. Starring Alison Becker ("Parks and Recreation"), Erin Gibson ("Parks and Recreation"), Ryan Lee (Super 8) and Nick Krause (The Descendants), The Hungry Games is a shot-for-shot parody of The Hunger Games' first trailer. Does it, like it did to me, make you want a donut? If you see a cool video online you think would be perfect for this spotlight, drop us a line at yourvideos@joblo.com.

hollywoodnews.com:The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, has unveiled its line-up of finalists for this year’s festival, founder and executive director Carlos de Abreu announced today. The festival’s mandate is to bridge the gap between emerging independent filmmakers and established Hollywood, and includes features, documentaries and shorts.

The Hollywood Film Festival, which takes place October 21-24 at ArcLight Cinemas, will open on Friday, October 21, with the world premiere of “Dorfman,” a romantic comedy about Deb Dorfman who moves to Los Angeles and ends up igniting a renaissance of her own, while profoundly transforming both herself and those around her. The comedy was directed by Brad Leong and stars Sara Rue, Elliott Gould, Sophie Monk, Haaz Sleiman, and Catherine Hicks.

Special Tribute To “Footloose” Director Craig Brewer

In addition, to commemorate the 15th year of the Hff, director Craig Brewer, who...

He's baaack! Tommy Wiseau, star of cult classic The Room, is back in a brand new online series from Studio 8. The Tommy Wi-Show, distributed on the Machinima Network, follows Wiseau as "he is repeatedly abducted by different races of mysterious aliens and transported to distant planets, where he is forced to test popular video games. Each weekly episode has Wiseau playing a different game and delving deeper and deeper into strange, unknown areas of the universe." Yeah, you read that right. It's going to be awesome. Brock Laborde and Jared Richard, who directed and produced the Atom.com comedic horror pilot The House That Drips Blood on Alex (starring Wiseau and premiering at San Diego Comic-Con), are teaming up with director Payman Benz for The Tommy Wi-Show. "For the past year Studio 8 been trying to make Tommy Wiseau's dreams come true, and one of those dreams is to host his own talk show,...

Jessie Spano is so excited. Shel's also so scared. The most histrionic scene in all five seasons of Saved by the Bell is etched in the minds of every child of the early '90s. While Joey Lawrence's "Woah" and Pauley Shore's "Wheez the Juice" have fallen by the wayside, Spano's exclamations after overindulging on caffeine pills have stood the test of time. So, if you're someone like Dan Levy and creating a web series that's an amalgamation of your favorite early '90s sitcoms, this is a scene you want to spoof. And wouldn't ya know, Levy channels one helluva Elizabeth Berkley. In the first installment of Atom's latest web series, Dan Levy's Laugh Track Mash-Ups, Levy plays your stereotypical, naive high school student from which all after school specials are made. Dripping with impressionability, Dan dives headfirst into illegal substance abuse with the helping hand of resident bad boy,...

We knew we hadn't seen the last of the engine room on the Us Azureas when things left in a black hole cliffhanger this past spring. Sci-fi comedy web series The Crew is coming back for a second season next week after singing an exclusive deal with online video site Babelgum. For creator Brett Register, who had been using the hiatus from the show to roll out a number of short experimental web series like Craig and the Werewolf, he said he is excited to be able to pay his talent and crew this time around. "We were indeed able to pay everyone who worked on the show this season, which was amazing as the tagline when producing season one was, 'don't worry about money, we'll all get paid in season two,'" quipped Register. "Who knew that'd turn out to be true!" While it's not exactly TV-level money going around,...