Michael Showalter: Last News

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorKathryn Hahn (WandaVision, Mrs. Fletcher) is set as a lead alongside Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd in Apple limited series The Shrink Next Door, based on the hit podcast by Wondery and Bloomberg Media.

Created by “Fort Tilden” writer/directors Charles Rogers, Sarah-Violet Bliss, and filmmaker Michael Showalter (“The Big Sick“), the series “Search Party” has become one of the sharpest, unpredictable, and insightful shows on television about identity, denial, and self-actualization—not something you’d likely expect from a would-be millennial comedy on TBS. But “Search Party,” now graduated to HBO Max which recently premiered its third season, has always been much more emotionally complex than it’s looked on the surface.

Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are set to star in a new limited comedy series called The Shrink Next Door, airing soon on Apple+.

By Nellie Andreeva

By Dave McNary

Arts festivals can be truly life-changing. They can also be ripe for mockery, which is what happened to comedian Eugene Mirman and his friends back in 2008. Their good-natured satire, the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, surprised them by becoming the real deal, selling out shows and running for a decade. “It Started as a Joke,” a documentary set in the last year of the fest, looks at how it became a beacon for talent, and a place of catharsis for personal tragedy. Jim Gaffigan, Janeane Garofalo, Kumail Nanjiani, John Hodgman, Ira Glass, Mike Birbiglia, Jon Glaser, Kristen Schaal, Bobcat Goldthwait, Michael Showalter, Michael Che and Bridget Everett are among the many names who played the festival, which had its final event in 2018.

The movie's theatrical release was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic

If it seems like all of the news has solely been about films not coming out for the foreseeable future, consider this a bit of a relief. Among the wave of titles canceling/delaying their theatrical releases due to the Coronavirus outbreak, The Lovebirds was chief among them. Paramount Pictures had initially scheduled the Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae murder mystery comedy for an early April release date. Obviously, that was never going to happen. Well, Paramount has opted to move on from the title entirely, with Netflix stepping in to give it a streaming release in the near future. All things considered, that has to be seen as a win for all involved.

Streaming service Netflix has picked up Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani’s The Lovebirds. Expected to be released April 3, the film was pulled due to strict social distancing guidelines following the coronavirus outbreak.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani, the stars of Paramount’s upcoming comedy “The Lovebirds,” will not attend the film’s world premiere at the SXSW film festival next week, insiders told Variety.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

How soon is now, is now, and the neon painted landscape strokes to the club beat. That night was more than a sweaty crowded dance floor your friends dragged you to—criminally packed bodies bumping, tossed together—searching for one another.

Kumail Nanjiani teams with Issa Rae and re-teams with his The Big Sick director for a madcap black comedy, now streaming on a Netflix near you.

Foreigner premiered a new performance of their classic hit "I Want To Know What Love Is" on Friday (May 22) to celebrate the release of Netflix's new rom-com The Lovebirds.

Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae are a quarreling couple out to solve a murder, but the first movie directed by Michael Showalter since "The Big Sick" is a crime comedy that aims lower than it thinks.

One plus one can occasionally equal too much.