Eric Roberts Reteams With Danny Trejo On ‘Alone Today’; The Boylan Sisters Wrap On ‘Identity Crisis’; Katie Cassidy Gears Up For ‘Daddy ISSUES’; Jenny Slate Gets SFFILM Tribute; More – Film Briefs

Toro y Moi has announced a short film to accompany his upcoming album ‘Mahal’, Goes By So Fast featuring comedian Eric Andre.The short film appears to follow the psychedelic adventures of Toro y Moi – real name Chaz Bear – as he embarks on a journey with Andre on a ‘Mahal’-themed Jeepney, a vehicle that’s a popular form of public transport in the Philippines (where the musician’s mother is from).“Chaz, you’re my co-pilot. You always have been and always will be,” Andre says affectionately in the trailer, before letting out a demented cackle.Watch the colourful trailer for Goes By So Fast: A Mahal Film below.The film will receive a world premiere at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles on April 22, where attendees wll be treated to behind-the-scenes footage and DJ sets by Toro y Moi and friends.The short film was directed by longtime collaborator Harry Israelson of Primary Love Studios, who worked with Toro y Moi on his previous music videos for ‘You and I’, ‘Say That’ and ‘Freelance’.GOES BY SO FAST: A MAHAL FILM.

On April 22, Toro y Moi will premiere a new short called GOES BY SO FAST, a film co-starring Eric André based on the upcoming seventh studio album MAHAL. The film, premiering at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles, is directed by Harry Israelson who has collaborated with Toro y Moi on his concert film Live From Troma.

College is on the horizon! Julia Roberts has a lot of feelings about her 17-year-old twins Hazel and Phinneaus’ upcoming milestones.

Chris Willman Music WriterWhat were the odds that the Recording Academy would honor the woman that many consider the greatest living female songwriter, Joni Mitchell, and great living male songwriter, Paul Simon, within a week’s time of one another? And yet that’s what happened as last Friday’s pre-Grammys MusiCares tribute to Mitchell in Las Vegas was followed Wednesday in Los Angeles with “Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon,” both with spectacularly curated lineups worthy of the feted. And although the Mitchell night is not set to be publicly aired, the good news for fans is that the Simon salute was filmed for a future CBS broadcast and is destined to be one of the highlights of the music-TV year.

EXCLUSIVE: Cast has been set on Heroes & Villains, the action-comedy written and helmed by filmmaker Savvas D. Michael (Original Gangster).

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn one of the biggest swings in Europe’s market, Erik Barmack, the former Netflix VP of international originals, is teaming with Benjamin Munz, producer of “Blood Red Sky,” Netflix’s most-watched non-English movie of all time, on a tentpole high-speed German action film, “The Chase.”Billed by Barmack as “‘The Fast and the Furious’ meets ‘Money Heist’” – which he helped bring to Netflix – “The Chase” marks the first movie out of the gate at Munz’s Berlin-based new label, Fright Zone, the first production company in Germany that will focus exclusively on developing and producing fantasy, action, horror and science fiction films as well as TV shows in and from Germany. Overseen by founder and CEO Munz, Fright Zone will produce with Barmack, who is now working out of his own L.A.

EXCLUSIVE: Ravi Patel (Wonder Woman 1984), Eric Edelstein (Creepshow) and Johnny Jay Lee (NCIS: Los Angeles) are set as series regulars in CBS comedy pilot Rust Belt News, from The Simpsons writer and The Mindy Project exec producer Matt Warburton. They join previously announced cast members Rich Sommer, Lauren Lindsey Donzis, Jayma Mays, Bailey Gavulic, Bentley Green and Angel Laketa Moore.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Elaine May was the last to arrive and the first to leave at the Governors Awards on Friday in Los Angeles. Her fellow honorees, Samuel L. Jackson, Liv Ullmann and Danny Glover, all arrived hours earlier, each holding court at the Ray Dolby Ballroom, posing for photos and enjoying their moment amid the lead-up to the 94th Academy Awards.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Eric Roberts (The Righteous Gemstones) is reteaming with his Runaway Train co-star Danny Trejo as part of the cast of Alone Today, an upcoming crime drama from director Wendy Wilkins, which will also star Shannon Elizabeth and Frank Whaley.