Mark Walhberg & Paul Walter Hauser To Star In Amazon MGM Action Comedy ‘Balls Up’ From Peter Farrelly

A playfully imagined Disney animated character feud might have hit a little too close to home for Paul Walter Hauser.

Paul Walter Hauser is putting Vin Diesel on blast.

EXCLUSIVE: Following the huge success of Michael Showalter‘s Prime Video rom-com The Idea of You, Showalter and Jordana Mollick‘s Semi-Formal Productions has entered into a multi-year first-look film deal with Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline can exclusively reveal.

Vin Diesel in a recent interview.During a press junket for Inside Out 2, the actor made comments suggesting that the Fast And Furious star “mistreats” cast and crew members.When Hauser was talking about his character in Inside Out 2, Embarrassment, he said: “It’s cool to get to be a part of a character that kinda has an arc and he helps in the end.”The interviewer then said: “You’re like Vin Diesel now,” to which Hauser responded: “Please don’t say that.”Hauser then went on to make suggestive comments without specifically calling out Diesel.He elaborated: “I like to think I am on time and approachable.”Paul Walter Hauser has no shame calling out Vin Diesel's unprofessional behavior during our 'Inside Out 2' interview pic.twitter.com/Iw4PBSTWuu— CinemaBlend (@CinemaBlend) June 25, 2024He continued to allude to Diesel’s alleged behaviour, saying: “I love people, but when I hear stories about Hollywood actors who get paid really well and mistreat people… I out them constantly, and it’s a blast.”Lewis Black, who plays the role of Anger, appeared to agree with Hauser’s point, saying: “That’s awful.”Diesel wasn’t the only person Hauser went after in the interview. When Black answered the question about which emotion best personifies him, he said: “If intelligence were an emotion, I would choose to be intelligent.

Ethan Shanfeld High school sweethearts become super spies in the action comedy “The Union,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry and premiering on Netflix Aug. 16. The film follows Roxanne (Berry), who reunites with her ex-boyfriend Mike (Wahlberg) at a bar and sweeps him off his feet, only to tranquilize him and transport him from New Jersey to London.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Paul Walter Hauser‘s interview with CinemaBlend at the “Inside Out 2” press junket is gaining traction on social media for one viral moment in which the Emmy-winning actor calls out Vin Diesel for stories about Diesel allegedly mistreating cast and crew on set. The two actors have not worked together — and it appears that Hauser is not interested due to what he’s heard about Diesel.

Amazon MGM Studios has landed I Used to Eat Brains, Now I Eat Kale, a zombie feature package based on the same-name adventure-comedy short story from Adam and Daniel Cooper, aka The Cooper Twins.

In the latest executive shuffle at Paramount Global, home entertainment chief Bob Buchi is exiting and will be replaced by Amazon MGM digital distribution exec Andres Alvarez.

Another day, another major new casting for Paul Walter Hauser, whose Hollywood star is definitely on the rise. Deadline reports that Hauser adds the comedy “Balls Up” to his list of upcoming projects, with Mark Wahlberg as his co-star.

These days, no IP is too good not to capitalize on, not even “Spaceballs.” Variety reports that Amazon MGM Studios has a sequel of the 1987 sci-fi spoof in development with Josh Gad set to star. Gad also leads producers on the project along with the original director, Mel Brooks.

Another day, another major new casting for Paul Walter Hauser, whose Hollywood star is definitely on the rise. Deadline reports that Hauser adds the comedy “Balls Up” to his list of upcoming projects, with Mark Wahlberg as his co-star.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has closed a multiyear overall writing deal with Oscar nominated American Sniper screenwriter Jason Hall.  

Katcy Stephan A “Spaceballs” sequel is in development at Amazon MGM Studios. Josh Gad is set to star, and will produce alongside Mel Brooks. Josh Greenbaum will direct the film from a screenplay by Benji Samit, Dan Hernandez, and Gad, while Kevin Salter will executive produce.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Kitano Takeshi, one of the biggest names in contemporary Japanese cinema, is directing an untitled movie for Amazon MGM Studios. Other details of the movie, such as cast and synopsis were also scant. Amazon said only that it, “will produce globally acclaimed Japanese director Takeshi Kitano’s feature film.

Josh Gad is attached to produce and star in a Spaceballs sequel in early development at Amazon MGM Studios, which Mel Brooks will also produce, Deadline can confirm.

Selome Hailu Amazon MGM Studios has given a pilot order to “The Nightbeast,” a horror comedy starring Tatiana Maslany. In “The Nightbeast,” per the official logline, “a young mother unsatisfied with her seemingly perfect suburban life begins an affair with the boogeyman in her son’s closet — a surprisingly sexy man called the Nightbeast.

Tatiana Maslany is set to star in The Nightbeast, a pilot for Amazon MGM Studios from Leah Rachel (Chambers) and Travis Jackson (Hemlock Grove).

EXCLUSIVE: Milana Vayntrub has boarded the Amazon MGM Studios‘ upcoming movie Project Hail Mary, joining previously announced cast members Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller.

EXCLUSIVE: Micro Budget is a comedy feature about an aspiring director who recklessly moves himself and his nine-months-pregnant actress wife from Iowa to LA to shoot a low-budget indie movie and sell it to a streamer for a “fuck-ton of money”. Sound familiar?

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor At the Monte-Carlo TV Festival Saturday, Lee Jung-Jae, one of the stars of new Disney+ series “Star Wars: The Acolyte,” spoke with Variety about how he prepared for his role as Jedi Master Sol, the strengths of Leslye Headland, the show’s creator, as a showrunner, and the relationship between Sol and Amandla Stenberg’s characters.Lee, who won a Primetime Emmy for “Squid Game,” says that for 50% of “The Acolyte” role he drew inspiration from previous depictions of the Jedi Masters, and “for the remaining 50% I tried to find something that was appropriate to Sol – something that would only incarnate him.” He also consulted with an expert in “Star Wars” lore at Lucasfilm.In “The Acolyte,” the Jedi Masters are shown to be flawed. How does the show present this? “In ‘The Acolyte,’ what it tries to say is that anyone can make mistakes, but you have to accept the mistakes that you make, and put effort into correcting them or developing yourself, because any human being has some unstable thinking,” Lee says.