Kal Penn To Star In Peter Tolan’s FX Comedy Pilot ‘Belated’

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K.J. Yossman “Doctor Who” star Peter Capaldi and Raindance founder Elliot Grove have been honored at the first ever British Short Film Awards.Capaldi was given the Icon Award while Grove was handed the Impact AwardThe British Short Film Awards, in partnership with the HearArt Project, were hosted by presenter Alex Zane on Friday evening.

One of the Toronto Raptors’ biggest fans is getting a film with Kal Penn.

EXCLUSIVE: Kal Penn (Designated Survivor, Harold & Kumar franchise) has signed on to produce and star in Stampede Ventures’ biopic Superfan, which will tell the story of Nav Bhatia, a decades long follower of the Toronto Raptors, who last year became the first fan inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall Of Fame. Penn will play the Toronto man whose loyalty to the Raptors saw him honored with a championship ring, and leading the team’s championship parade in 2019.

Searchlight Pictures has snapped up E. Nicholas Mariani’s 2018 Black List script The Defender which George Tillman Jr. will direct with 3x Emmy winning actor Sterling K. Brown to star as heroic lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones.

Kal Penn almost took former President Barack Obama to a strip club.The actor stopped by this week, where he recalled working in the White House during Obama's presidency. Penn, who was promoting his new book,, touched on his behind-the-scenes stories, including the one time he almost made plans to take President Obama to what he thought was a tapas bar, when it was actually a «topless bar.»«Here is what happened.

Kal Penn arrives at El Capitan Entertainment Centre in Hollywood, Calif. for an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday (November 8).

Kal Penn would love to have Cardi B officiate his wedding, but he and his fiancé, Josh, need to set the date first! During an appearance on the actor and former associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison recalled his Twitter exchange with the rapper when she agreed to serve as his wedding officiant after he mentioned seeing her on his flight.

Cardi B is putting the skills she's learned on her Facebook Watch series, , to real-life use! The rapper agreed to serve as Kal Penn's wedding officiant after he mentioned seeing her on his flight.On Wednesday, the actor and former associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison tweeted that he saw the «Up» rapper on a flight to Los Angeles.

Tom Hanks, 65, got emotional during an interview less than two weeks after his friend Peter Scolari passed away. The Oscar winner appeared on the November 2 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, and choked back tears as he talked about his former Bosom Buddies co-star. The pair appeared together on two seasons of the ABC show, from November 1980 to March 1982. “Peter has a lovely family, his wife Tracy has absolutely great kids and we lost him to the emperor of all maladies,” Tom said.

died last month after battling cancer for two years. He was 66.“I don’t know how many people, like, truly do change your [life] when you cross paths with them, but he and I met, we picked up the scripts and we started screwing around– and I actually thought, ‘Oh, this is it.

Tom Hanks is missing his longtime friend and co-star, Peter Scolari.

Tom Hanks teared up as he paid tribute to his late “Bosom Buddies” co-star Peter Scolari on Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Getting married didn’t seem to be in the cards after Kal Penn’s first couple of dates with his fiancé.