Jon Turteltaub will direct producer David Permut's remake of 2009 Israeli comedy A Matter of Size for Paramount. Howard Franklin is penning the script.David Permut's shingle, Permut Presentations, owns remake rights to the character-driven comedy about a group of overweight people who become sumo wrestlers. The original film, which was ...

ABC has ordered the single-camera comedy pilot from Grey's Anatomy's Mark Gordon that is based on the British series, White Van Man.The show is being developed by ITV Studios America and is an adaptation of BBC3 series, which centers on a man who is forced to put his dreams ...

Ben Stiller has signed on to star in the HBO comedy pilot All Talk, which he will also direct and executive produce. From acclaimed novelist Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), the pilot will also star Alan Alda.All Talk is described as "politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually ...

Writer Nick Stoller has penned a deal with CBS to write a currently untitled comedy pilot.The twenty-something ensemble comedy will follow a guy who gets his heart broken by his girlfriend and now has to work one cubicle away from her at an ad agency. It is loosely based ...

Broadway star Andy Rannells has signed a deal with NBC to take the lead in a currently untitled comedy pilot from Glee duo Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler.The series would feature a gay couple and the woman who becomes their surrogate as they start a family, landed at the ...

AP - The Golden Globes have equally good comedy and drama masks this year. Alongside heavyweight dramas, the category for best musical or comedy at the Globes usually is more of a lark, with nominees rarely emerging with best-picture prospects for Hollywood's top prize, the Academy Awards.

The new trailer for comedy Casa de mi Padra has debuted and can be watched below! Directed by Matt Piedmont, the March 16 release stars Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Genesis Rodriguez, Efren Ramirez, Adrian Martinez, Pedro Armendariz Jr. and Nick Offerman. In the film, Armando Alvarez ...

IFC announced today the greenlight of two new scripted comedy series to join its 2012 original programming slate - Comedy Bang! Bang! and Bunk (working title). IFC has ordered 10, half-hour episodes of each series to premiere back-to-back in June 2012 as a one-hour original comedy block."With popular shows ...

TBS has greenlit the new buddy comedy series "Men at Work," starring Danny Masterson ("That '70s Show," Yes Man ), James Lesure ("Las Vegas"), Michael Cassidy ("The O.C.") and Adam Busch ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). TBS has ordered 10 episodes of the multi-camera comedy from Sony Pictures Television and ...

Reuters - Garry Shandling, Kevin Pollak, Margaret Cho and other comedians are onboard for a festival at which they will curate classic films, provide commentary about them -- and perform their own comedic material to boot.

Reuters - Dimension Films will distribute "The Black Marks," a heist comedy starring Matt Dillon, Kurt Russell and Jay Baruchel, the company said Wednesday.

Reuters - Jay Mohr has landed a role in "Burt Wonderstone," New Line's comedy starring Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi and James Gandolfini, TheWrap has learned.