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Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson say the most important lesson they drew from running “Broad City” was learning that friendship and business thrive on firm boundaries.

Speaking on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast this week, the comedy duo explained that by season three of their Comedy Central hit they scheduled a brief “after‑school club” each morning—ten minutes devoted only to personal chat—before launching into writers‑room decisions, a practice they credit with keeping conflict off‑camera.

Glazer recalled that during production they rarely socialized after hours “because we were already living together at work,” a choice Jacobson said preserved the spark that first drew them together at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade in 2006.

The conversation has resurfaced as both creators navigate increasingly separate careers. Glazer, 38, scored a modest box‑office hit last year with the pregnancy comedy “Babes,” which she co‑wrote and starred in,...

Growing up, I would always notice the Witchcraft movies sitting on the shelves of my local video stores. I was intrigued by them and the fact that this horror franchise was steadily pumping out sequels, but I never rented them. It wasn’t until 2011 that I spent thirteen weeks viewing my way through the entire series, one installment a week… and that was quite an experience, as this is one crazy series. In 2016, the franchise grew by three more sequels, with parts 14, 15, and 16 being filmed back-to-back-to-back. Now, prolific filmmaker Dustin Fergsuon, who has over 150 movies to his name, has announced that he’s making the next sequel, with Witchcraft Xvii: The Initiation scheduled to start filming on July 2nd with Ivy Smith taking on the lead role of Maya Reed. Smith’s previous credits include Lust, Magic, and the Witches’ Sabbath and the Full Moon productions Attack of the 50 Foot CamGirl and Giantess Battle Attack.

Neon has tapped industry veteran Alison Cohen as General Counsel, President of Business & Legal Affairs. She joins from FilmNation Entertainment, where she managed the business and legal affairs of the all the company’s divisions, including television, film, podcasting and live theater and was responsible for all of the company’s joint ventures and credit facility.

In her new role at Neon, Cohen will oversee the business affairs for the company’s activities in development, production, finance, acquisitions, and distribution, and act as point counsel for the company’s burgeoning merchandising, digital distribution, and music endeavors. She will also work closely with CEO Tom Quinn and CFO Ryan Friscia on all of the company’s strategic initiatives and corporate matters.

During her near 16-year tenure at FilmNation, Cohen executive produced several of the company’s films including Oscar winning titles Anora, Conclave, and Promising Young Woman, as well as Greyhound starring Tom Hanks,...

Family secrets, a love triangle, and self-discovery are just part of the creative tapestry in The Life List, an endearing tale full of “aw shucks” that’s designed to warm hearts. It will, even though the film struggles to land in any one genre. It’s a rom-com, it's a tragic family drama, it’s a mission-driven story with a goal in mind, it’s a coming-of-age story, it’s a "yas queen" girlboss flick, it's… not quite sure what it is. It’s all that and filled with attractive actors, so there's great eye candy all around. And there’s Connie Britton, playing a matriarch determined to make sure her daughter gets her life on track. This film is loaded with warm fuzzies, and the ever-reliable Britton is a believable emotional boost, adding an extra touch of warmth in a story already overflowing with it.

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Ilana Glazer is set to host the 2025 Webby Awards, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal exclusively.

The multi-hyphenate will emcee the 29th annual ceremony from Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 12.

The Webby Awards, known for its signature five-word acceptance speeches, celebrates the best of the internet across websites, podcasts, social media, games, apps, creators and ads.

Glazer is currently part of the cast of the George Clooney-led Broadway play, Good Night & Good Luck. Glazer also recently released the stand-up special Human Magic on Hulu. After co-creating Broad City, which began as a web series before its five-season run on Comedy Central, with Abbi Jacobson, Glazer has starred in such TV shows and films as The Afterparty, Babes and False Positive, co-writing the latter two. In 2016 she co-founded the Generator Collective nonprofit, which organizes and creates content around electing progressive candidates.

“Hosting The Webby Awards is...

For Pamela Adlon, starting to watch a new show can be a treacherous thing.

“I have Ocd so if I start something, I’m screwed. I know I’ve got to see this through,” the multi-hyphenate explained, kicking off the jury press conference for this year’s Series Mania.

Adlon, a multiple-Emmy nominee for her writing and acting work on FX’s Better Things and Louie, has been binging on some the best in global TV as head of of the international jury at the international television festival, which runs through March 28 in Lille, France. She joined her fellow jurors — Downton Abbey and Better Call Saul director Minkie Spiro, award-winning French actress Karin Viard (The Bélier Family, Polisse), U.S.-Argentine actor Ignacio Serricchio (Bones, The Young and the Restless), and French musician and composer Victor Le Masne — to talk up the small screen highlights of this year’s competition.

A seemingly unshakable female friendship is put to the test in director Delaney Buffett’s humorous and surprisingly believable comedy, Adult Best Friends.Buffett shares screenwriting credit with lifelong pal, producer and co-star Katie Corwin (City of Angels). The two met in middle school, in fact; Buffet once said they were spirited 10-year-old girls who “already had their periods.” Bonding instantly, the duo surfed life’s highs and lows together before coming to a crossroads in their early 30s. Could their childhood friendship withstand adulthood?

That’s the basic premise here in a film that milks the tensions spawned when one bestie in a Bff pair is about to head into marriage while the other one doesn’t appear to be moving forward in life at all. The movie immediately brings to mind director/actress Pamela Adlon’s (Better Things) stellar 2024 comedy, Babes, which garnered decent attention. That movie tracked...

Love, laughs, and labor pains — these movies prove pregnancy is the ultimate plot twist.

I watched the new Amy Schumer comedy,“Kinda Pregnant” with my wife last night and it was (on the whole) a good time. First, it’s actually funny and second, it pays off the high concept in all the ways you want it to (more on this shortly). I love romantic comedies, and so it got me thinking about all the other rom-com pregnancy movies out there. Not that many get made (Hollywood is a male-dominated industry), but there are some excellent movies among the ones that did. Here’s my list of the top 7 pregnancy rom-coms you can stream right now.

Top 7 pregnancy rom-com movies you can stream right now

No. 7: ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting’

No. 6: ‘Kinda Pregnant’

No. 5: ‘Babes’

No. 4: ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’

No. 3: ‘Baby Mama’

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With Broad City in their rearview, Ilana Glazer is plotting their return to television.

The Emmy winner recently revealed that they’re developing a series with nods to Sex and the City, which they said will focus on the “woman and gay guy friendship.”

“I’m writing a show right now. I’m doing a rewrite actually of this draft right now,” they said on the Dinner’s on Me podcast. “It’s like Sex and the City with two women and two gay guys. ‘Cause the woman and gay guy friendship is a big deal.

“My first best friend is my brother, [who is a] gay guy. All of my best friends growing up are gay boys. I want it to be them,” added Glazer.

After launching the show as a web series from 2009-2011, Broad City caught the eye of executive producer Amy Poehler and landed a five-season run on Comedy Central...

Universal and Blumhouse’s “Wolf Man” reboot and the Keke Palmer-led comedy “One of Them Days” will contend for the top slot on box office charts over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

Regardless of which lands in first, neither are expected to break out in what’s shaping up to be another quiet weekend for North American cinemas. “Wolf Man” is poised to open to $17 million to $21 million from 3,300 venues over the four-day frame, while “One of Them Days” looks to collect $8 million to $13 million from 2,650 theaters between Friday and Monday.

Universal and Sony each canceled the premieres of “Wolf Man” and “One of Them Days” due to the fires and extreme winds in Los Angeles. In terms of moviegoing, though, attendance doesn’t appear to be affected by the devastating wildfires that continued to ravage though parts of Los Angeles, one of the biggest theatrical markets in the country.

There are 323 feature films eligible for the upcoming Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday, though a whopping 36% of those – 116 feature films – are not eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category.

The discrepancy between films that have qualified for the top category and films that are eligible in other categories comes either because the filmmakers did not attempt to qualify – likely the case for several documentary, animated or international films. Or because of new eligibility rules that require Best Picture candidates to meet additional benchmarks for diversity and inclusion. This is the second year that Representation and Inclusion Standards (Raise) have been enforced, though they did not appear to disqualify any serious contenders in the category.

Among titles excluded from Best Picture consideration are Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” starring Barry Keoghan, Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut “Woman of the Year,” Michael Keaton’s directorial debut “Knox Goes Away,...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

No matter what 2025 brings, 2024 in cinema felt like a year of unprecedented freedom and resistance in global and domestic affairs. In many ways, the anxieties expressed in 2024 reminded me of 1999. Culture can be a canary in the coal mine.

The year’s best and most essential films chose to fight back and comment on the “machine.” This year’s boldest films included sprawling epics, essential documentaries, personal stories, and a surprising number of unhinged works of fantasy. Call it the year of Yolo (full disclosure – one of the films I missed this year was Jia Ling’s Yolo), where on one end, films like Love Lies Bleeding, Aggro Dr1ft, Rumours, Megalopolis, Longlegs, Anora, Strange Darling, Armand, The Beast, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, Kinds of Kindness, The End,...

There were a lot of funny movies in 2024, but most of them weren't what we'd call 'comedies.' There were funny action movies, funny dramas, funny horror movies, funny thrillers, and so on, but not many straight-up comedies. One film, however, embraced the very roots of comedy, combining silent slapstick with very early animated comedy to great effect, and it's now free to watch basically everywhere. That would be the absurdist, utterly wacky delight, Hundreds of Beavers.

Hundreds of Beavers is co-written by its lead star Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, who gives one of the best physical performances in years. It's a good thing he was a co-writer, because most actors wouldn't do what he's subjected to in director Mike Cheslik's film. The movie is a microbudget passion project made for $150,000 over the course of many years; actual filming took place in the subzero winters of Wisconsin and Michigan...

Michelle Buteau, comedian and star of the underrated 2024 film Babes, slammed fellow comedian Dave Chappelle over the anti-trans rhetoric rampant in the comedy routines. The Survival of the Thickest star returned to Netflix for her second special, where she didn't shy away from addressing her fellow Netflix stand-up.

Per Variety, Buteau unleashed on Chappelle in her latest Netflix special, Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall, after telling a story about her "Black lesbian friend." Noting the variety of reactions from the audience – some laughing, some uncomfortable – Buteau said comedians should be able "to tell jokes and stories and not disparage a whole community," adding, "We can do that. We can make it funny... We just have to work at it, right? So, if you ever run into Dave Chappelle, can you let him know that sh-t? I don't think he knows that sh-t."

She then referred to Chappelle as "the Goat,...

Deadpool & Wolverine is the second highest-grossing movie of 2024, with $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, but does that mean it should have a chance at an Academy Award? Franchise star, producer, and co-writer Ryan Reynolds thinks so and is making a case for it. As with every movie released in 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine is beginning its "For Your Consideration" campaign ahead of the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, whose nominees will be announced on Jan. 17, 2025.

While speaking with IndieWire, Reynolds explained why he believes Deadpool & Wolverine is worth consideration for an Academy Award, particularly Best Adapted Screenplay. Reynolds believes there is a genre bias against the film, not because it is a superhero movie but as a comedy, which many people dismiss as not being as important as dramatic fiction or that most of the movie was improvised. Yet Reynolds believes the movie's ability to balance both comedy and...

The holidays are officially in full swing and that means a lot of folks are heading into some well-earned time off, and probably some long-overdue catchup on the biggest movies of the year. As we all know in 2024, trying to find out what’s streaming where is half the battle when you’re wondering what to watch.

Whether you’re looking for major box office hits like “Beetlejuice Beeltejuice” and “Inside Out 2” or lesser-known gems like “Thelma” and “The Bikeriders,” there are a ton of 2024 movies that you can watch on streaming over the holiday. Want to caught up with some awards contenders? “Conclave,” “Challengers” and “Emilia Perez” are all streaming now too, among others. Rather catch up on horror? “The Substance” is on Mubi and, naturally, Shudder has you covered with “Oddity,” “In a Violent Nature” and more.

Whatever you’re looking for, here are all the 2024 movies you can stream right now.

If the only stand-up comedy specials you’d ever watched came out in 2024, you might think there are only two kinds: ones that are about being a parent, and ones that are about never being a parent. Are you the kind of comic who’s figured out how to talk about your kids without seeming like you just walked out of a Jim Belushi sitcom, or the kind who’s had to defend your choice not to continue your family name? You have to decide, dammit, Deciiiiiiiide.

If you haven’t checked in with Ilana Glazer in a while, you might be surprised and possibly even a little alarmed to learn that they’ve ended up on the parent side of the divide. But the most astonishing trick in their new special, Human Magic — considering that it opens with a joke about sleep deprivation causing them cognitive decline — is how...

As Wicked hit theaters, it's interesting to see Disney's surprisingly long history with the Oz books!

The world of Oz is about to see a new spark in popularity. After two decades as one of the biggest musical hits in the world, Wicked is about to hit the big screen in part one of a two-part epic. It's a revisionist take on the property showing how Elphaba aka the Wicked Witch of the West, wasn't that bad a person and her friendship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.

The movie is from Universal and seems set to become a major box office hit. Yet there was a time when it looked like Disney might get their toes into the property and the history of Disney and Oz is fascinating to see!

The early Oz foray

The early days of moviemaking were tricky, yet was always interested in adapting some beloved books.

The intriguing 2073, a hybrid documentary and science fiction thriller produced by Neon and directed by Asif Kapadia, will land in theaters on December 27, 2024, it has been revealed. The film blends speculative storytelling with nonfiction reporting and serves as a warning against climate change, the dwindling of global democracy, and authoritarian states, among other societal ills. Starring Samantha Morton and Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice), 2073 is inspired by Chris Marker's landmark 1962 short film La Jete, in which a time traveler attempts to change past events in order to save his own dismal future.

The short also inspired Terry Gilliam's 1995 film 12 Monkeys, which starred Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeleine Stowe. The release date has now been revealed courtesy of Variety, and you can check out the film's official logline is as follows:

"It's the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones...

Sebastian Stan's role as former President and current Presidential candidate Donald Trump certainly came as a surprise to some, but now that the film is playing in limited theaters, it's performing roughly as expected. The Apprentice recently crossed $5 million at the worldwide box office, with $3.3 million coming from domestic earnings and $1.7 million coming from overseas. If the film can scrape together another $500,000 or so, it will move into the top 100 movies at the 2024 domestic box office, surpassing The Front Room, Perfect Days, and Babes. The Apprentice boasts a reported production budget of $16 million, which it has still yet to earn even one-third of at the box office, and with numbers slowing down more and more by the day, it may close out its theatrical run as a net loss for Briarcliff Entertainment.

Exclusive: Josh Safdie’s A24 ping pong prodigy feature Marty Supreme has added The King of Comedy actress and comedienne Sandra Bernhard.

Bernhard will be playing a neighbor and friend of Fran Drescher in a cameo role. Bernard joins a cast that also includes Timothée Chalamet in the title role, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler, The Creator; Odessa A’zion, Penn Jillette, Kevin O’Leary a.k.a Mr. Wonderful and Abel Ferrara. The original screenplay was written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein.

Marty Supreme is based loosely on Marty Reisman’s life, who was a force to be reckoned with in 1950s Ping Pong culture. Known for his unconventional style, he won two U.S. Men’s Singles Championships in 1958 and 1960 and more than 20 international and national titles.

Bernhard recently wrapped Percy Jackson and The Olympians for Disney+ and was seen onscreen this year in Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution for Netflix and in...

The Bold and the Beautiful (B&b) spoilers tease that fall is going to be hot this year on the LA-based sudser. The show is introducing a romance storyline for Will Spencer (Crew Morrow), possibly with Fc model Willow (Shannon McMullen).

Shannon McMullen debuted on the soap on September 30 and her character made an immediate impression on Will. In fact, meeting Willow and a couple of other Fc models influenced his decision to intern at Fc rather than work at Spencer Publications with his dad.

The Bold And The Beautiful Spoilers – Will Spencer And Willow A New Power Couple?

Will’s mom Katie Logan (Heather Tom) was pleasantly surprised at Will’s decision, given that he doesn’t have a strong interest in fashion. But he does have a strong interest in fashion models!

Fans saw Willow a second time on October 2, and this week she enjoyed a lunch date with...

Shannon McMullen officially joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful on September 30. She plays the role of Willow, the top model at Forrester Creations.

Her character immediately connects with Will Spencer, the new man on campus. Fans want to know more about the beauty that’s been gracing daytime television.

Forrester’s Top Model

Shannon McMullen portrayed Willow on September 30 and October 2. She returned during the week of October 7th, when she had lunch with Will (Crew Morrow) and his brother Liam (Scott Clifton). Willow is joined by fellow model Kingsley (Jade Coatsworth). The two get an earful about Liam’s love life.

Will and Willow already make a cute couple. Their names are fitting, too. It’s unclear whether McMullen will appear in future episodes. She’s just one of the many young models who turned Will’s head. This was the reason why he went for the intern position.

Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton's beautiful and dark fairy tale starring Johnny Depp, is finding streaming success after Hulu added it to their library just in time for the spooky season. The 1990 film is getting love from new audiences after Burton appears to have returned to the Hollywood spotlight with major recent successes like Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Edward Scissorhands is climbing high into Hulu's Top 15 movies. Today, it falls behind more modern films like Hold Your Breath, Babes and Blood for Dust. Nevertheless, its resurgence during Halloween is not a coincidence. The film, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder as a very unlikely couple, is a modern take on fairy tale tropes in a fantasy world that only Burton could create. It's the perfect Halloween feature.

Edward Scissorhands follows the Boggs family as they meet a very peculiar character who the mother, Peg, takes under her wing. Shes a...

With Tim Burton's recent box-office hit Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dominating theaters, many fans at home are revisiting his and Johnny Depp's first collaboration in Edward Scissorhands. The 1990 movie starred Depp as an unfinished artificial boy who is adopted by a suburban family and tries to fit in with the community to much difficulty. Earning $86 million on a budget of $20 million, Edward Scissorhands was a critical success and stands out as one of the director's finest works.

Amid the filmmaker's recent resurgence with the back-to-back successes of Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Burton's Edward Scissorhands is now gaining heat on Hulu. At the time of writing, the movie, which serves as Burton and frequent collaborator Depp's first pairing, currently sits at the No. 4 spot on the platform's Top 15 Movies. In addition to charting just in time for the Halloween season, the movie is only just surpassed by Sarah Paulson's...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Babes (Pamela Adlon)

Transitioning the naturalistic comic sensibilities that made Better Things a success, Pamela Adlon’s feature debut Babes manages to co-opt the rhythms of a romantic comedy to explore the relationship between two best friends at opposite points of their lives. – Christian G. (full review)

Where to Stream: Hulu

Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang)

While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on Aim, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an “in”. Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low-res GIFs is a list of her favorite movies. Oh, A Walk to Remember is one of them. He fakes loving it; “its helllllla good,” he says. Now he has to maintain that––at least for a few scenes. This...

The 2009 raunchy comedy, The Hangover seemingly appeals to folks of all ages, according to one of the movies stars. Per Entertainment Weekly, Ed Helms, known for his role on The Office, played Stu in the movie, and recently went on Dany Carvey and David Spades Fly on the Wall podcast and said even old ladies love the gross-out film.

I was in a hotel lobby maybe a month or a few weeks or two after it came out, Helms explained. There was a group of old ladies, like literally grandmothers, sitting around talking about bits from the movie and how funny it was. I remember thinking, Okay, this, and then of course you had all the frat boys that love it, he said.

Related 'Who Approved This?' The Office Fans React to Australian Reboot Trailer

The Australian reboot of The Office has gotten its first trailer, and it's drawn some divisive reactions online.

Summer movie season is winding down and awards season is still on the horizon, so you might be looking for some movies to stream at home this month. Whether you’re looking for scary movies to kick off spooky season in earnest, recent theatrical releases that are just making their way to streaming or nostalgic faves, there’s a lot to choose from in the new movies on Hulu this month.

We’ve assembled a curated list below to help you skip the scrolling and streaming. Check out the seven best new movies streaming on Hulu in September below.

Olivia Colman in “The Favourite” (Searchlight Pictures) “The Favourite” (2018)

Biting historical comedy “The Favourite” was Emma Stone’s first collaboration with her current go-to-guy, “Poor Things” and “Kinds of Kindness” director Yorgos Lanthimos,” though it was Olivia Coleman who walked with the Best Actress Oscar for this one. Not your typical period piece,...

The Alan Ritchson action vehicle War Machine has found its battalion.

Dennis Quaid, currently starring in Reagan, The Piano Lesson star Stephan James, Jai Courtney, and Esai Morales have been enlisted into War Machine, a sci-fi action movie that Patrick Hughes (The Man from Toronto) is directing for Netflix.

Also on the call sheet are Blake Richardson (Mystery Road), Keiynan Lonsdale (The Flash), and Daniel Webber (The Dirt).

The feature begins shooting in Australia this week and is being produced by Todd Lieberman and Alex Young of Hidden Pictures as well as Hughes via his banner, Huge Film.

The script, written by Hughes and James Beaufort, is set during the final 24 hours of the world’s toughest selection process and sees a team of Army Rangers encountering a threat beyond their imagination.

Ritchson is the lead Ranger candidate with James, Courtney, Richardson, Lonsdale, and Webber playing other aspirants who themselves in way over their heads.

The crowds of film sellers and buyers are still rolling into Toronto from Venice and Telluride, but the puck dropped Thursday night on the acquisitions marketplace with the premiere of Nutcrackers.

David Gordon Green has taken a detour from genre to serve up a Ben Stiller-starrer that proved a crowdpleaser in two opening-night showings.

That kind of movie — with promising premises with stars and directors with proven track records — is all over the schedule. There is a lot to like in this 2024 TIFF acquisitions market. But I’ve just come from an L.A. visit and cannot recall as bleak a black cloud hangover from the twin strikes of last year. It will take time for the business to recover, and this caution could factor into the dealmaking. Also on the minds of distributors is how elusive box office has become. Comparable films to the ones on sale here...

Bad Moms writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have assembled an all-star cast for their next female-led ensemble comedy. Titled Spa Weekend, the upcoming movie will be headlined by Leslie Mann (Knocked Up), Isla Fisher (Now You See Me), Michelle Buteau (Babes), and Anna Faris (Scary Movie).

According to Deadline, the "buzzy package" from Black Bear and Suzanne Todd Productions will launch at the Toronto International Film Festival next week. Spa Weekend follows "three best friends, Jane, Coco and Sophie, as they embark on some much-needed pampering during a luxury spa break in Palm Springs. But when their trainwreck friend, Mel, turns up, the relaxation quickly descends into chaos with hilarious consequences," reads the synopsis. Lucas and Moore are set to direct the comedy movie from a screenplay that they wrote. The filmmakers are perhaps best known for writing The Hangover, as well as writing and directing Bad Moms and A Bad Moms Christmas.

Exclusive: Here’s a hot one. Black Bear and Suzanne Todd Productions are checking in for female ensemble comedy, Spa Weekend, which will be led by Leslie Mann (Knocked Up), Isla Fisher (Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy), Michelle Buteau (Babes) and Anna Faris (Scary Movie).

The buzzy package has been written by and will be directed by Bad Moms writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.

The film follows three best friends, Jane, Coco and Sophie, as they embark on some much-needed pampering during a luxury spa break in Palm Springs. But when their trainwreck friend, Mel, turns up, the relaxation quickly descends into chaos with hilarious consequences.

The picture will be produced by Suzanne Todd (Bad Moms) for Suzanne Todd Productions and John Friedberg (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) for Black Bear, with Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler executive-producing.

Black Bear reps international rights on the film and will also co-rep U.

Hulu’s stand-up push continues with Ilana Glazer.

The Broad City alum will debut her second special, Human Magic, on the platform Dec. 20. The hour, which Rotten Science and Starrpix will produce and Jeff Tomsic is set to direct, was taped in early May in Toronto. It will air internationally on Disney+.

The new hour arrives a month after Jim Gaffigan’s November special, which will kick off Hulu’s monthly stand-up initiative, which it’s dubbed “Hularious.” The platform has also lined up hours from Bill Burr, Daily Show vet Roy Wood Jr. and, pending deals, Sebastian Maniscalco, Atsuko Okatsuka and Jessica Kirson. As part of the new effort, Hulu will also launch a curated collection of licensed specials, a mix of iconic hours and recent releases.

“The mantra is very much quality over quantity,” Hulu’s head of scripted content Jordan Helman said recently of the platform’s curated approach.

Ilana Glazer is ready to share more of her comedy with the world, this time on Hulu.

The “Broad City” and “Babes” actress will debut “Human Magic” on Dec. 20. This will be her second stand-up special after “The Planet Is Burning” debuted on Amazon’s Prime Video in January 2020.

Glazer is now the fourth comedian tapped for Hulu’s new Hularious comedy brand, formerly known as Laughing Now, which promises one special a month. Starting in November with Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr and Roy Wood Jr. are also set to tape upcoming specials for the streamer.

Meanwhile, “Human Magic” was taped in early May at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre. Jeff Tomsic directed, with Rotten Science and Starrpix producing. It will air internationally on Disney+.

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Ilana Glazer has set a new comedy special titled “Human Magic” at Hulu.

“Human Magic” was taped at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre in Toronto in May of this year during Glazer’s 48-city tour across the U.S. and Canada. This is their second stand-up special, following “Ilana Glazer: The Planet Is Burning,” which debuted on Amazon Prime Video in 2020 and saw them discuss their “thoughts on homophobes and Nazis, how crappy women’s razors are and what a joke the patriarchy is.”

Glazer is best known for “Broad City,” the Comedy Central series they co-created, co-showran and co-starred in with Abbi Jacobson. After debuting as a webseries, “Broad City” ran on Comedy Central for five seasons. In film, Glazer’s credits include co-writing and starring in Pamela Adlon’s 2024 comedy “Babes” and John Lee’s 2021 horror “False Positive.” They also played roles in “Broad City” executive...

Hulu announced on Tuesday that Human Magic, a new stand-up special from Ilana Glazer, is set to premiere on the streamer on December 20, launching on Disney+ internationally.

The special marks Glazer’s second on the heels of The Planet Is Burning, which premiered on Prime Video in early 2020. She taped it at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre in Toronto in early May, after touring the hour in every corner of the country, playing 52 shows across 48 cities in the U.S. and Canada.

Jeff Tomsic directed the special, with Rotten Science and Glazer’s Starrpix producing.

An Emmy-nominated comedian, actor, writer and producer, Glazer is coming off of co-writing, producing and starring in Babes, the acclaimed pregnancy comedy directed by Pamela Adlon, which Neon released in May. Best known for co-creating and starring opposite Abbi Jacobson in the hit Comedy Central series Broad City, which ran for five seasons,...

Exclusive: Range Media Partners has inked a strategic partnership with Artists For Artists, the production company of Kenan Thompson & John Ryan Jr., spanning production, management, endorsements, and more.

Under the partnership, Range will co-produce projects with Thompson, Ryan and Afa, also representing the interests of the company and its principals from a management perspective, when it comes to endorsements and film/TV opportunities, and working with them to identify new business opportunities.

“Since Afa’s launch just a year after our own, we’ve been watching their growth from the incredible breadth of projects to the brilliant talent they work with,” said Range CEO Peter Micelli. “Our two companies both hold a core belief that when talent share in greater creative and financial autonomy, good things ensue. We couldn’t be more excited to be in business with Kenan, Johnny and the whole Afa team.”

Stated Artists For Artists’ Co-Founder and CEO,...

Exclusive: Actor-comedians Ramy Youssef (Ramy) and Hasan Minhaj (Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj) have boarded Mustache, the 2023 SXSW Audience Award winner from first-time feature filmmaker Imran J. Khan, as executive producers.

The pair join a stellar producing team, which also includes Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed and Allie Moore exec producing for Left-Handed Films (The Long Goodbye), Good Movies Inc., and producers Christina Won (Birdman) and Jessica Sittig, among others.

Minhaj is now involved in a dual capacity, as he also has a comedic supporting role in the film.

An homage to John Hughes coming-of-age films, ’90s nostalgia, and awkward teenage transitions, Mustache is a Northern California story revolving around 13-year-old Ilyas, a Pakistani American portrayed by new discovery Atharv Verma, whose world is turned upside down when his parents abruptly transfer him from his familiar Islamic private school to the challenges of public education.

Struggling with the mash-up of...

Comedy creator Ilana Glazer recently opened up about their evolving understanding of gender. In a recent interview, Glazer said their pregnancy experience shed light on both their masculine and feminine sides. This realization has prompted Glazer to use they/she pronouns and feel more authentic in how they present themselves.

Glazer co-created and starred in the Comedy Central series “Broad City” from 2014 to 2019. In the interview, Glazer reflected on how viewers saw feminist themes in the show, which surprised them. Glazer said they “hadn’t even thought about it like that” when learning it was viewed as feminist.

An episode from 2016 featured a cameo from then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the heated race against Donald Trump. Glazer acknowledged mixed reactions but wanted Clinton to win. While not friends with Clinton, Glazer said she sits “somewhere in the middle” of liking and disliking her as a person.

Comedy is central to Glazer’s work.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (August 9-11)Total gross to dateWeek 1. It Ends With Us (Sony) £4.5m £4.5m 1 2. Deadpool & Wolverine (Disney) £4.1m £43.7m* 3 3. Despicable Me 4 (Universal) £1.4m £35.5m 5 4. Trap (Warner Bros) £1.1m £1.1m 1 5. Inside Out 2 (Disney) £619,000 £54.3m* 9

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.28

* - figure is through Monday, August 12

Sony’s It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively, wooed audiences at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office with a huge £4.5m, taking top spot and ending the two-week run in first of Deadpool & Wolverine.

The romantic drama based on Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name took an excellent £7,087 location average from 630 sites.

(Welcome to Under the Radar, a column where we spotlight specific movies, shows, trends, performances, or scenes that caught our eye and deserved more attention ... but otherwise flew under the radar. In this edition: Netflix's beautifully-rendered animated movie "The Imaginary," the Ilana Glazer-starring dramedy "Babes," and Jake Gyllenhaal's courtroom-thriller series "Presumed Innocent.")

Do studios just have no earthly idea how to market their latest movies and shows anymore, or is it the children viewers who are wrong? That age-old debate rears its ugly head practically every time a highly-anticipated title ends up underperforming in theaters or otherwise failing to reach its intended audience. Netflix is notorious for acquiring some of the buzziest and most exciting offerings ... only to promptly bury them under an avalanche of vague, algorithmically-defined parameters that ensures they'll never see the light of day (or even just the streamer's main page) again. And, to nobody's surprise,...

Romance It Ends With Us opens in 630 cinemas through Sony at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, pitting lead actress Blake Lively against her husband Ryan Reynolds, whose Deadpool & Wolverine has held top spot for two weekends.

It Ends With Us is adapted by Christy Hall from Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, about a woman whose connection with a neurosurgeon begins to remind her of her parents’ troubled relationship.

Director Justin Baldoni stars alongside Lively having optioned the book through his Wayfarer Studios in 2019, with Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj and Kevin McKidd also on the cast.

Having broken out in...

Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau star in Pamela Adlon’s exploration of motherhood and friendship. Here’s our Babes review.

Pregnancy is a juicy topic for filmmakers. You can play it for laughs, mine it for horror or simply showcase what an unbelievable process it is to grow a real human being inside you. Like pregnancy, motherhood is another popular subject for storytellers, as is friendship.

Trying to mesh all of these themes together in one film is Pamela Adlon, a first-time feature filmmaker and actress known as the voice of Bobby Hill in King Of The Hill. Babes is part comedy, part drama about the difficulties of maintaining a friendship through motherhood and pregnancy.

Credit: Universal Pictures

Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) are two life-long friends, who consider each other family. Dawn is an exhausted mother of two while Eden is a yoga teacher who has a...

Stars: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch, Hasan Minhaj, Stephan James, Oliver Platt | Written by Ilana Glazer, Josh Rabinowitz | Directed by Pamela Adlon

Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and stand-up Michelle Buteau play two best friends going through pregnancy in this raunchy comedy from actor-turned-director Pamela Adlon. Crackling with comic chemistry, it’s frequently very funny and pulls off what is essentially a clever riff on the usual rom-com dynamic, but it oddly shies away from its potentially emotional moments, preferring to undercut them with laughs instead.

The film is set in present-day New York, where two best friends – single yoga instructor Eden (Glazer) and married-with-a-kid dentist Dawn (Buteau) – still get together regularly, despite now living in different boroughs that are several subway trains apart. As the film begins, they’re indulging in their annual Thanksgiving ritual of attending a movie together, but that’s cut short when heavily...

After defining goofy millennial aimlessness with her beloved sitcom Broad City, the writer-actor is facing up to motherhood with new film Babes. But don’t worry: she hasn’t grown up too much

Ilana Glazer is trying to think of films about pregnancy and early parenthood that aren’t told from a man’s perspective. “There’s Knocked Up, but that’s about Seth Rogen. And there’s Nine Months, but that’s about Hugh Grant. Three Men and a Baby cracks me up because it’s like, three?!” says the 37-year-old, with comically perfect levels of incredulity (cracking me up in the process).

Glazer – best known as co-creator of the seminal millennial sitcom Broad City – is making a serious point: there are outrageously few movies about birth and babies that centre on the female experience. The comedian’s attempt to rectify this, however, has taken the form of a distinctly unserious film: in fact,...

Disney’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” continued its reign at the top of the U.K. and Ireland box office, slicing through the competition in its second week of release.

The superhero film raked in £8 million ($10.1 million) over the weekend, bringing its total haul to £33.4 million ($42.4 million), according to numbers from Comscore. That makes it the third highest grossing film of 2024 in the territory so far after “Inside Out 2” and “Dune: Part Two.”

In second place, Universal’s “Despicable Me 4” held its ground, adding £2.5 million to reach a four-week total of £30.8 million. Warner Bros.’ “Twisters” maintained its position in the top three, generating £1.1 million in its third week for a cumulative total of £10.1 million.

Disney scored another win with “Inside Out 2,” which showed remarkable staying power in its eighth week. The film secured the fourth spot with £939,144, bringing its total to £52.2 million.

The highest-ranking new entry, Sony’s “Harold and the Purple Crayon,...

Amazon is adding another actor to its expanding Bosch universe.

John Carroll Lynch has joined the third show in the franchise, centering on LAPD detective Renée Ballard (to be played by Maggie Q). The untitled series, which will stream on Prime Video, follows Ballard as she takes on running the department’s cold case division — an underfunded, all-volunteer unit with a huge case load. The character has appeared in several of Bosch author Michael Connelly’s novels.

Lynch (American Horror Story, Big Sky) will play Thomas Laffont, a retired former partner of Ballard’s who comes back to help her run the the department. He’s a kind, seasoned detective and crack interrogator.

The spinoff — one of two additional shows set in the same world as both Bosch and Bosch: Legacy — will be set up in the season three finale of the latter series, which is likely to premiere later this year.

John Carroll Lynch is officially set to join Prime Video’s untitled Renée Ballard series, the second spin-off of Amazon MGM’s Prime Video series “Bosch.” The 10-episode project will follow Detective Renée Ballard as she takes charge of the LAPD’s new cold case division.

The show’s official description reads, “When Ballard uncovers a larger conspiracy during her investigations, she’ll lean on the assistance of her retired ally, Harry Bosch, to navigate the dangers that threaten both her unit and her life.”

Lynch will play Thomas Laffont, according to a statement from Amazon, “a retired former police partner who comes back to help Ballard run the Cold Case Department. A kind, seasoned detective, and crack interrogator — he’s a rock for Ballard.”

The actor was recently featured in Pamela Adlon’s movie “Babes” and Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” He also directed Harry Dean Stanton’s final film,...

Universal Pictures has debuted a new trailer for the upcoming comedy ‘Babes.’

The movie follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), who grew up together in NYC and are now firmly in different phases of adulthood. When carefree and single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge.

Directed by Pamela Adlon, the movie stars Ilana Glazer (Broad City), Michelle Buteau (Marry Me). Producers include Ilana Glazer and Ashley Fox (Promising Young Woman).

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The movie hits cinemas on August 9th.

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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

32 Sounds (Sam Green)

Filmmaker Sam Green captures something so specific here: he makes audio the star of a motion picture. It’s a lovely inclination and a worthwhile escapade. There are funny moments, clever moments, plenty that are heartfelt. Sound can do so many different things! This is an exceedingly well-produced work, its perfect length and the audible narrative it designs building succinctly to a lovely finale. Toss on those headphones and get lost in 32 Sounds for a while. – Dan M.

Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel

Babes (Pamela Adlon)

Transitioning the naturalistic comic sensibilities that made Better Things a success, Pamela Adlon’s feature debut Babes manages to co-opt the rhythms of a romantic comedy to explore the relationship between two...