Jennifer Lopez is set to star in and produce a feature film adaptation of The Cipherfor Netflix. Netflix optioned the novel of the same name by crime fiction writer Isabella Maldonado to adapt for the screen.
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Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone are teaming up for a new Netflix comedy series!
The married duo will be starring in and executive producing the workplace comedy God’s Favorite Idiot, which has already been given a 16-episode order, Deadline reports. Ben also created the series.
Here’s the show’s synopsis: “God’s Favorite Idiot follows Clark Thompson (Falcone), a midlevel tech-support employee who finds love with co-worker Amily Luck (McCarthy) at exactly the same time he becomes the unwitting
Jennifer Lopez is set to star in and produce a feature film adaptation of The Cipherfor Netflix. Netflix optioned the novel of the same name by crime fiction writer Isabella Maldonado to adapt for the screen.
Emma Stone has landed an exciting new role!
Get ready to learn about your favourite naughty words.
Melissa McCarthy has had “so much fun” playing the villainous Ursula in the upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.The Life of the Party actress will take on the “delicious” sea witch role in Rob Marshall’s adaptation of the 1989 Disney classic.And appearing on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen alongside her husband Ben Falcone this week, Melissa revealed she’s hoping production will recommence in January (2021) in London after it was shut down due to the ongoing COVID-19
Gabrielle Dennis (Rosewood) Page Kennedy (The Meg), Diamond Lyons, Khali Daniya-Renee Spraggins (Empire), Jermelle Simon (Animal Kingdom) and Journey Christine round out the cast of Netflix’s multi-camera family comedy series The Upshaws. The join previously announced leads Wanda Sykes, Mike Epps and Kim Fields.
Real-life married couple Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone are getting back together on-screen.
Netflix has given a 16-episode series order to God’s Favorite Idiot, a workplace comedy from Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy, with Falcone and McCarthy set to star and executive produce. Michael McDonald (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Nobodies) is attached to direct and executive produce.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered a comedy series called “God’s Favorite Idiot” from Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, Variety has learned.The streamer has commissioned 16 episodes of the series, in which both McCarthy and Falcone will star. Falcone wrote the series, with both he and McCarthy also serving as executive producers via their company On the Day.
Joe Leydon Film CriticMore than two years after filming wrapped, “Superintelligence” the latest joint effort of Melissa McCarthy and her director husband Ben Falcone, has finally popped up on a streaming platform — specifically, HBO Max — which arguably is the natural habitat for a lightweight, undemandingly engaging comedy that can be enjoyed either entirely in one sitting, or sporadically in bite-sized chunks.
Watch Video: Melissa McCarthy Apologizes as HBO Max Nixes Donation to Group With Anti-LGBT History: 'We Blew It'Carol (McCarthy), our protagonist, does want to good in the world; since stepping down from her exec position at Yahoo, she’s spent most of her time working for environmental and pet-rescue non-profits.
Singing “One Week” is no easy feat.
It's a demonstrably difficult task to find a comic screen partner worthy of standing opposite Melissa McCarthy, so you have to appreciate “Superintelligence" for throwing in the towel.In it, McCarthy plays Carol Peters, a former Yahoo executive who's chosen, purely for her extreme averageness, by a newly liberated, megalomaniacal artificial intelligence that presents her with a three-day test to prove humanity isn't worth destroying.
“Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” both of which earned her well-deserved Oscar nominations, there are four “Tammy”s. “The Happytime Murders,” “The Kitchen” and “The Boss” were some of the worst movies of their respective years.
A joke belabored is a joke ruined. “Superintelligence,” Melissa McCarthy’s latest team-up with comedian, writer, director, and hubby Ben Falcone, ruins an overwhelming majority of its jokes.
Melissa McCarthy’s husband, Ben Falcone, is filling ET in on the hilarious moment his wife declared her love for their co-star.McCarthy, 50, and Falcone, 47, star alongside Bobby Cannavale in the new HBO Max flick,, releasing on Thanksgiving Day.
Ben Groh and Dion Costelloe are toplining God's Time, a crime comedy set in Coronavirus-stricken New York, directed by Daniel Antebi for Topic Studios. The indie from The Climb producers has wrapped pandemic-era production in New York City and also stars newcomer Liz Caribel.
Melissa Mccarthy’s husband Ben Falcone has a crush on Harry Styles.The 50-year-old Ghostbusters star appears in a virtual interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday (November 19, 2020), with the actress sharing her beau’s man-crush.Admitting Ben has a soft spot for the Watermelon Sugar star, she explains: “He really does. He’s fallen pretty hard for Harry Styles.