Category: Comedy
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Top 10 Queer and Queer-Adjacent Summer Picks
Curated by Panta Mosleh for Screenmancer So this summer isn’t just about blockbusters with capes, it’s about stories with soul! From queer coming-of-age dramas to chaotic anime royals, this list is a love letter to the films and shows that made me laugh, cry, scream “OMG YAAAAS,” and enthusiastically recommend them to strangers. Some are…
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Drac Pack’s back in Hotel Transylvania: Transformania & Prime free goodie?
by Screenmancer Staff CULVER CITY, CA: Prime Video has licensed worldwide streaming rights (excluding China) for Hotel Transylvania: Transformania from Sony Pictures Animation. The fourth installment of the $1.3 billion family film franchise will premiere worldwide in over 240 countries and territories on Prime Video January 14, 2022. Drac and the Pack are back, like you’ve never seen them…
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Pop-Up Stand Up recap from EMMY® nom HACKS at COMEDY STORE on Sunset Blvd.
LOS ANGELES, CA: Lucky comedy stans waiting in line for the 8pm show on Saturday night, Aug. 21, outside the iconic Comedy Store on Sunset were wowed with a surprise pop-up comedy set performed by the Emmy® nominated cast and creators of the hit show HACKS from atop a double decker open air bus. How very British. From…
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2, Charlize Theron, Oscar Issac, return to abnormal too
by Screenmancer Staff Everything is back to Abnormal for the Chas Addams originated Addams movie family, who will go on a RipV camper vacation this Fall. In the animated kooky retool, Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, and Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton make up this branch of oddest the family tree with Snoop…
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Some FIRST DATE, car plus loot plus killer kismet, June 23
by Screenmancer Staff Who doesn’t like a good bad rendezvous? FIRST DATE, from filmmakers Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp stars Tyson Brown, Shelby Duclos and Jesse Janzen in a dangerous liaison where cops and criminals play for the same team… almost. Watch for this bumpy upbeat who-stole-it romp from Magnolia Pictures. Shelby probably wants to…
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THUNDER FORCE’s Melissa McCarthy & Octavia Spencer get super jabs, ready?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Hey, the German trailer for THUNDER FORCE starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is almost more hilarious than the English version of the Netflix superhero flick to be released April 9. Can you imagine more unlikely Super Friends from childhood? No, you can’t, trust me. This is one caped…
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Sorkin’s Ricardos, Kidman’s Lucy, Bardem’s Desi, adds Alia Shawkat & more
Curated by Screenmancer Staff HOLLYWOOD, CA: Amazon Studios started principal photography on writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s drama Being the Ricardos this week in Los Angeles. Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem star as real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the stars behind the groundbreaking and classic 1950s television sitcom I Love Lucy, that focused on a happily married though…
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Moonstruck’s John Patrick Shanley takes on The Twinkle Brothers
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Rivulet Media announced today that Academy Award® and Pulitzer Prize winning writer John Patrick Shanley will write and direct the upcoming comedy The Twinkle Brothers. Rivulet Films will produce with recently named President Rob Paris taking the lead. Casting is underway with filming to begin in New York this fall.…
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Mama Needs a GIF: Maya Rudolph bags VP Nom Kamala Harris
by Screenmancer Staff from Funny or Die Yes, the Upbraidy Bunch strikes again over at Funny or Die with curated SNL and other videos for the General Election coming up. You’ve got Woody Harrelson as Biden; Larry David as Bernie Sanders. But the key clip includes the multitalented Maya Rudolph as the Democrat’s new nominee for Vice…
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Jamie Kennedy’s STOOPID SMART Bowls You Over May 25, Also His Bday, FYI
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Where has Jamie Kennedy been? In lockdown like the rest of us. But Monday, May 25 (also his milestone birthday), his one-hour comedy special JAMIE KENNEDY: STOOPID SMART breaks out on Tubi TV. Tubi is the self-titled “#1 free streaming app” thinly disguised as a start-up. Kennedy puts it…
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