EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that TriStar Pictures has acquired Jim and Brian Kehoe’s original action comedy, Joel in Accounting Must Die, which Entertainment 360 is producing.
This is the duo’s fourth original idea which has sold in the last 18 months. The Kehoes wrote the hit Universal comedy Blockers, staring John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and Kathryn Newton.
That Kay Cannon directed comedy debuted at SXSW in 2018 and went on to to open to $20.5M stateside, and final at $60.3M domestic, $94M WW.
The Kehoes’ original pitch Double Fault is in development at Paramount with Rebel Wilson attached to star with Oran Zegman (Honor Society) directing.
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