Following a highly competitive, multi-studio bidding war, Paramount Pictures has purchased “Guys with No Friends,” a spec script from Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, in a seven-figure deal. Tory ...

So far, the new Skydance-owned Paramount has made a wrestling deal, a talent deal and a filmmaker deal, all of them splashy. Now comes the splashy spec script deal. Paramount has aggressively picked ...

EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has enlisted Michael Notarile to write Bune, a dark comedy inspired by the true story of a cannabis con gone wrong, which Steve Barnett, Alan Powell and Vicky Patel will ...

Scott Aukerman’s podcast Comedy Bang Bang is unlike most formatted talk shows in which guests pitch products and hosts lob questions leading to mildy amusing bits. The weekly show, now in its 10th ...

“Every single hour in Hollywood, a comedy script is rejected.” The phrase begins a solemn advert for “The Naked Gun,” a remake of the classic 1988 comedy film of the same name, and is an apt warning ...