Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves & Seth Rogen Have ‘Good Fortune’ With Lionsgate

Ghosted with Chris Evans. The Apple TV+ film sees Evans play a down-on-his-luck guy named Cole, who falls head over heels for secret agent Sadie (de Armas). However, before they can organise a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” prompting the film’s writer-producer Seth Rogen to joke that it was “quite appropriate” to see a Hollywood exec doing that. But after delivering the pizza to the audience, Aronson gave a brief speech in which he thanked movie theaters for helping make movies like last year’s record-breaking “Top Gun: Maverick” possible.

Refresh for updates…The final morning of CinemaCon 2023 began with Paramount, the studio that brought coast-to-coast moviegoers back with their $718.7M record breaking Tom Cruise sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. And in standard fashion, domestic distribution chief, Chris Aronson, hammed it up with a grand entrance.

Following a quick techno dance number performed by a slew of costumed “foot soldiers,” Seth Rogen took to the stage to introduce an extended clip from “TMNT: Mutant Mayhem.”We also got a first look at the full cast, namely Hannibal Buress (Genghis Frog), Rose Byrne (Leatherhead), John Cena (Rocksteady), Jackie Chan (Splinter), Ice Cube (Superfly), Natasia Demetriou (Wingnut), Ayo Edebiri (April O’Neil), Giancarlo Esposito (Baxter Stockman), Post Malone (Ray Fillet), Seth Rogen (Bebop), Paul Rudd (Mondo Gecko), Maya Rudolph (Cynthia Utrom); alongside Micah Abbey (Donatello), Shamon Brown Jr. (Michelangelo), Nicolas Cantu (Leonardo), and Brady Noon (Raphael).We open with April talking to the young heroes, where Mikey asks if there are more humans who will accept them.

On paper, the comedic pairing of Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne shouldn’t work nearly as well as it does. However, as was proven in the two “Neighbors” films, these two have incredible chemistry and comedic timing with each other.

Charna Flam “Neighbors” co-stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are reuniting on the small screen for the new Apple TV+ comedy series “Platonic.” In the new series, Rogen and Byrne play Will and Sylvia, two former BFFs approaching midlife who attempt to rekindle their friendship after a falling out. According to the show’s official logline, Will and Sylvia’s friendship eventually “becomes all consuming — and destabilizes their lives in a hilarious way.” The 10-episode series will premiere its first three episodes on May 24, with the remaining seven installments dropping Wednesdays until the finale on July 12.

If you liked “The Social Network” but would have liked it more if every character was an idiot, then “Dumb Money” is here to scratch that itch as director Craig Gillespie and star Paul Dano showed up at CinemaCon to provide a look at the first few minutes of the film. Based on the book “The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees” by Ben Mezrich, the movie is based on the GameStop stock manipulation that turned a bunch of Redditors into internet folk heroes (for five minutes).

Refresh for updates ….Sony kicked off the first night of CinemaCon with a tape message from Will Smith and Martin Lawrence from the set of Bad Boys 4.

Chris Evans shares the screen with Ana De Armas in his new movie Ghosted, but it also provided the opportunity for him to link up with some old co-stars again.

Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen have been tapped to star in an upcoming comedy film from Aziz Ansari.Announced via the Hollywood Reporter, the film, titled Good Fortune, is set to begin filming next month (May) with plot details currently unknown. Good Fortune is being written and directed by Aziz Ansari, who is best known for the Netflix series Master of None.Ansari will also co-star in the film, though the extent of his role is currently unknown.Good Fortune will be distributed by Lionsgate Films, with studio head Joe Drake saying in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter: “We have indeed found good fortune with this film. We love the script and believe strongly in Aziz as both a performer and a director.

Aziz Ansari is preparing to make his big-screen directorial debut and so far he’s assembled an impressive (and impressively Canadian) cast.

shuttered mid-production amid allegations of inappropriate on-set behavior by co-star Bill Murray. The film has, at this present time, not restarted production. Seth Rogen is coming off a scene-stealing vocal role as Donkey Kong in $700 million-plus grossing “The Super Mario Bros Movie.” He will soon be seen in the Apple TV+ series “Platonic” alongside “Neighbors” co-star Rose Byrne.

Aziz Ansari is a rare filmmaker who is getting a second chance to do his feature film debut. After the drama surrounding his first-first film, “Being Mortal,” led to that movie getting scrapped midway through production, the actor-filmmaker has turned his sights to another project, “Good Fortune,” which he hopes will finally make him a feature director.  Today, Lionsgate announced the upcoming film, “Good Fortune,” which is set to be written and directed by Aziz Ansari, becoming his new official feature film directorial debut.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Aziz Ansari is making his feature directorial debut with “Good Fortune,” a comedy whose plot is shrouded in secrecy. Lionsgate has landed rights to the film, which will be written and directed by Ansari. The comedian, who is also starring in “Good Fortune,” has assembled the high-wattage cast of Seth Rogen and Keanu Reeves. Since the logline is being kept under wraps, it’s unclear who the actors are playing in the movie. The production has been greenlit and will start principal photography next month in Los Angeles. Around the same time, Lionsgate is launching sales in Cannes Film Festival.

upcoming “Barbie” film was spoofed on “Saturday Night Live” with the popular TV show announcing its own spin-off of another popular doll brand, the American Girls. The prerecorded clip, which aired on April 15, begins by showing clips from Gerwig’s upcoming film.“People can’t stop talking about the brand new ‘Barbie’ movie,” says the narrator. “But not everyone can live in a dream house.”“Some are younger, bigger or sadder,” continues the narration.

Ana de Armas made her debut as the host of Saturday Night Live and started off the monologue in Spanish.

Lionsgate, which continues preparations to separate its studio business from Starz, laid off staffers in its Motion Picture Group today, sources tell Deadline. I hear the number is about a dozen.

winning the Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” Michell Yeoh has taken the statuette to her father’s grave in Malaysia. The 60-year-old shared a snap to her Instagram page on Wednesday that showed her visiting the burial ground for Qing Ming — a major Chinese festival where relatives go to the tombs of their ancestors to clean and make offerings of food.“Brought Mr.O home,” Yeoh wrote beneath a photo that showed her holding up her Oscar at the graveyard. “Without my parents’ love and trust and support … I wouldn’t be here today … love so much” Yeoh’s father, Datuk Yeoh Kian Teik, died in 2014 at the age of 89.

Mel Gibson and Colin Woodell lead the cast for the three-part prequel series, , which will premiere in September on Peacock, it was announced Wednesday. The upcoming series explores the origins behind the hotel for assassins at the center of the franchise and is told through the eyes of young Winston Scott (Woodell) as he's dragged into the hell-scape of 1970s New York City to face a past he thought he left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the hotel's mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the hotel where he will eventually take his future throne.Woodell plays a younger version of the character portrayed by Ian McShane in the  movies, and he's not the only cast member taking on a familiar role to fans of the franchise.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie has broken box office records in its opening weekend.The video game adaptation took $376.5million (£303m) at the global box office in its first five days of release, beating Frozen II’s ($358m) record for the most successful global opening of all time for an animated film.The film also scored the best opening ever for a movie based on a video game, and beat Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania as the biggest film opening in 2023 so far.According to The Hollywood Reporter, it also broke domestic records in the US with $204.6m (£165m) in takings: earning the second best three-day weekend for an animated title behind The Incredibles 2, the biggest five day launch ever after beating Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen ($200m) and the biggest opening ever for studio Illumination (Despicable Me, Minions).Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, The Super Mario Bros.