
In the tradition of psychotic women films à la Symptoms, Images and Repulsion, acclaimed independent filmmaker Alex Ross Perry has crafted his first horror-ish film with Elisabeth Moss-starrer Queen of Earth. The unnerving, dizzying film has yielded an unnerving, dreamy trailer, a showcase and preview of Moss’ tremendous lead performance. In Queen of Earth, “Catherine […]

IFC has picked up “Comedy Bang! Bang!” for a fifth season, the network announced today. A unique hybrid of mock talkshow combined with offbeat sketches, “Comedy Bang! Bang” is now in its fourth season. The fifth season, slated for next year, will contain 20 new half-hour episodes. Since premiering in June 2012, the comedy program — […]

Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), Maya Rudolph (SNL, Bridesmaids, “The Maya Rudolph Show”) and Haley Joel Osment (Entourage The Movie, Tusk) have joined the formidable cast of IFC’s six-part comedic miniseries, “The Spoils Before Dying.” Wiig and Osment also appeared in the first installment of the “Spoils” franchise, “The Spoils of Babylon,” which aired on IFC […]

Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Haley Joel Osment have joined the cast of the IFC comedy miniseries “The Spoils Before Dying.” Michael Kenneth Williams and Will Ferrell star in the six-part mini revolving around a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the Los Angeles jazz scene in 1962. “Spoils” hails from Ferrell’s Funny Or […]

SlingTV, Dish Network’s $20 a month live streaming service has announced that it has struck carriage deals with AMC Networks and EPIX, the premium service co-owned by Viacom, Lionsgate, and MGM. Sling TV says today that it added IFC to its basic package, with no change in price. It has already folded in AMC. So […]

David Krumholtz is poised to do a real number on everyone, playing a 72-year-old Jewish grandmother in an IFC pilot. IFC announced on Wednesday that it has commissioned a presentation (i.e. a whittled-down pilot) for Gigi’s Bucket List, which follows the titular septuagenarian from Boca Raton, Fla. as she pursues everything she deprived herself of […]

IFC is developing a scripted comedy “Uncle Chubby’s” from Denis Leary’s Apostle production company. “Uncle Chubby’s” follows the exploits of a group of friends in their late 20s as they play on an ice hockey team, determined to win the adult league title despite little experience playing the sport competitively. Apostle’s Jim Serpico and Tom […]

Fred Savage is taking on another female comedy. The prolific TV director, who helmed every episode of NBC’s short-lived Best Friends Forever, has inked a deal to direct and executive produce all eight episodes of the IFC’s forthcoming comedy, Garfunkel and Oates. The half-hour effort chronicles the humorous misadventures on the comedy-folk duo Riki Lindhome […]

Haunter screened earlier this year at SXSW and was acquired by IFC for US distribution. The movie will start a limited theatrical release next week and we have the first clip for you to watch. “Lisa Johnson is one day shy of her sixteenth birthday. And she will be forever. She and her family are […]

Night of the Living Dead documentary previously known as Year of the Living Dead, which has been playing at a number of festivals since 2012. is now called Birth of the Living Dead. The doc will be released this November. “In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero directed “Night of the Living Dead,” […]