Great news! Alison Brie has joined the upcoming anthology series Roar, which will stream exclusively on Apple TV+! Alison will be joining GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, and the series will feature eight, half-hour episodes, each told from a female point of view. Other actors starring in the series include Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, and Merritt Wever.

Source: Deadline Hollywood

Great news! Alison’s latest film, Promising Young Woman, received 4 nominations at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards! The film is up for “Best Picture Drama,” while Carey Mulligan is up for “Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama,” and Emerald Fennell is up for “Best Screenplay Motion Picture” and “Best Director Motion Picture.”

A big congrats to all who worked on Promising Young Woman!

The 78th Golden Globes will take place on February 28, 2021, from 5 pm to 8 pm PT/8-11 ET on NBC.

It was announced today that Happiest Season will be skipping theatrical release in the United States and will be premiering exclusively on Hulu instead! The movie will be available to stream on Wednesday, November 25 as a Hulu original.

Source: Variety

It looks like we will get to see Promising Young Woman in 2020 after all! The film, which was originally set for a theatrical release in April, will now be out in theaters on Christmas Day, December 25th! The film’s distributor may also release the movie through video on demand (VOD) rental channels 17 days after the theatrical release date, but no word on VOD plans have been announced.

Source: Variety

Terrible news! The execs at Netflix have reversed the season 4 order of GLOW and the show will not be returning! Season 4 was going to be the final season for the series, but it had to be pulled due to concerns over filming during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’ve made the difficult decision not to do a fourth season of GLOW due to COVID, which makes shooting this physically intimate show with its large ensemble cast especially challenging,” said a Netflix spokesperson. “We are so grateful to creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, Jenji Kohan and all the writers, cast and crew for sharing this story about the incredible women of GLOW with us and the world.”

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Alison Brie expanded her role as a director to helm an episode of the upcoming Disney+ docu-series Marvel’s 616. The series explores how Marvel comics and characters have influenced our own real-life world.

Alison directs episode 8 of the series titled “Marvel Spotlight.” The entire docu-series with all 8 episodes will be premiering exclusively on Disney+ on November 20, 2020.

Directed by Alison Brie (Community, GLOW), this episode follows a group of students at Florida’s Brandon High School as they put on performances of the new Marvel Spotlight plays and realize how much characters like Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl speak to their own high school experiences.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Great news! It was announced that Alison’s latest movie The Rental is ranked #1 at the U.S. box office for two weeks in a row, as reported by Deadline.

IFC’s Dave Franco-directed horror movie The Rental continued to hold its lease atop the box office for a second weekend in a row, grossing $317,823 from 242 locations. Pic’s 10-day gross stands at $916,333.

The Rental reps the first No. 1 movie for the indie distrib (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, if you remember, only got up to the No. 2 spot for three weekends in a row starting in Labor Day 2002). Again, The Rental is the second new title to hold the top spot at the box office since the major chains closed down in mid-March, after Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour. Black Bear produced and financed The Rental.

The Rental continues to hold strong digitally, maintaining the No. 1 spot on iTunes’ Horror charts this week, as well as placing within the platform’s top 10 overall.

It is being reported by Deadline that The Rental is the number 1 movie during this weekend’s box office!

According to box office figures we’ve gotten our hands on this morning, IFC’s Dave Franco-directed horror feature The Rental is leading at the weekend box office, having logged roughly an estimated $130K yesterday at 251 locations. The movie should rake in north of $400K for the 3-days. The Rental, Franco’s feature directorial debut, is also available in homes to rent this weekend.

A majority of that is from drive-in theaters, which continue to be the leading exhibitors at the weekend box office, despite the fact that they only make up about a third of the current number of theaters open (between 1,2K-1,5K).

These numbers do not come from IFC, which the distributor will make official tomorrow. Note, IFC has been one of a few indie distributors to publicly report their official weekend box office numbers throughout the exhibition pandemic shutdown, and they’re on their way to making over $3M from the mid-March to current July span, something to applaud in what is sadly a very distressed business right now.

Alison Brie released a statement about her being a white woman voicing a Vietnamese American Character on BoJack Horseman on her Instagram yesterday. You can read her full statement in the post below.

Great news! One of the upcoming films that Alison Brie will star in, The Rental, has been picked up by IFC and will be released July 24, 2020. The film marks the directorial debut of Alison’s husband, Dave Franco, and co-stars Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White, and Sheila Vand. According to Deadline:

the thriller begins as two couples embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. What begins as a celebratory weekend for the quartet turns into something far more sinister, as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed. It also becomes clear they may not be alone in the house.