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Twelve years have gone by since the release of a new entry in the Scary Movie horror parody series – but the franchise isn’t going to remain dormant for much longer. Last April, it was announced that the Miramax label at Paramount, which is now operating under new boss Jonathan Glickman, had given the greenlight to a new Scary Movie sequel, with the plan being to get the film into theatres sometime in 2025. Now we know exactly when the new movie is going to be released… but it’s not going to be this year. Scary Movie 6 is scheduled to reach theatres on June 12, 2026. As of right now, we know this is going to put it in direct competition with the next movie from the Daniels, the directing duo behind Best Picture Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The Scary Movie series is being revived with the help...

The 2000s were the golden age of parody comedy films, with genre-specific lampoons taking broad swings at every trope under the sun. Did America need an absurdist distraction during the height of the Bush administration? Perhaps. The kings of the parody genre were unquestionably the Wayans brothers with their first Scary Movie which debuted in 2000. Now, the brothers are returning to the Scary Movie franchise with the sixth installment, after stepping away from the property after Scary Movie 2. During a recent appearance in BigBoy TV, Marlon Wayans gave an update regarding the release of the long-awaited sequel, revealing that Scary Movie 6 is eyeing 2026.

News of the trio coming back to the Scary Movie series broke back in October of this year. Marlon Wayans posted on Instagram a picture with the smiling Ghostface that now has over 1.2 million likes. Officially, the Wayans brothers have since spoken to Deadline and...

Oscar winner Jordan Peele is the mastermind behind the smash hit horror films Get Out, Us and Nope. If you enjoyed those films, you'll be glad to know that Peele isn't done exploring the horror genre. He has a new horror flick slated to come out in the fall of next year, and it's called Him. More on this film below.

Previously titled Goat, Him is produced by Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions. Ian Cooper, Win Rosenfeld, and Jamal Watson also produce the film under the Monkeypaw Productions banner. David Kern and Monkeypaw’s Kate Oh are signed on as executive producers, while American television director and screenwriter Justin Tipping is helming the movie from a screenplay that was written by Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie.

Tipping is best known for writing and directing the adventure film Kicks, and helming episodes of the TV shows The Chi, Twenties, Flatbush Misdemeanors and Joe vs. Carole.

Three years after the theatrical release of Nia DaCostas Candyman remake, Jordan Peele is producing another horror movie for Universal Pictures through his Monkeypaw Productions. The studio finally announced the newest title and 2025 release date for Peeles Marlon Wayans-led project, which was originally titled Goat.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures upcoming psychological horror thriller will now officially be titled as Him. The film has been scheduled to arrive in theaters next year on Sept. 19, 2025. This marks Wayans first solo leading project in a long while, after nearly five years since starring in the Netflix comedy Sextuplets, which he also co-wrote and produced. His most recent acting credit was last years sports drama film Air, in which he played the role of Michael Jordans former coach George Raveling.

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Exclusive: Prime Video announced on Wednesday that Marlon Wayans: Good Grief, the latest stand-up special from actor and comedian Marlon Wayans, will premiere on the platform in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on June 4th.

Taped at the iconic Apollo Theater in Harlem, the special sees comedy meet therapy as Wayans works through his grief after recently losing both of his parents. In his new hour, he meditates on how his father taught him to be a man, the requirements to join the “Dead Mama Club,” the surprises you encounter when changing your aging parents’ diapers, who is the funniest Wayans, and more.

Marlon Wayans: Good Grief is produced by Wayans and Rick Alvarez’s Ugly Baby Productions and Amazon MGM Studios. Marlon Wayans, Rick Alvarez, Michael Rotenberg, Steve Harris, Craig Wayans, and Troy Miller served as executive producers of the special.

Since debuting his first comedy special, Woke-ish,...

The long-awaited sequel to the 1998 stoner comedy cult hit Half Baked has at last been given an official title alongside an R rating. According to Filmratings.com, Half Baked 2 will go by the full title Half Baked: Totally High and has been rated R for “for drug use throughout, sexual content, language, graphic nudity and some violence.” So pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a follow-up to the Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer-led comedy. Apart from the maybe the violence...

First announced back in 2019, Half Baked: Totally High will be something of a legacy sequel to the beloved stoner outing. Rather than bringing back original stars Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer as Thurgood Jenkins aka Sir Smoka Lot and Brian respectively, Half Baked: Totally High will instead follow the exploits of Sir Smoka Lot’s son, Jr, and his best friends Miles and Cori. This new...

“Stranger Things” breakout Priah Ferguson is sticking to the spooky (and spunky) theme, signing on to star opposite Marlon Wayans in his upcoming Halloween adventure-comedy movie for Netflix.

Ferguson stars in the yet-to-be-titled movie as a teenage girl who accidentally unleashes an ancient and mischievous spirit on Halloween, causing decorations to come alive and wreak havoc. In order to save the town, she must team up with the last person she’d want to — her skeptical father (Wayans).

Ferguson is best known for playing Erica Sinclair on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” joining the show in its second season, with Season 4 set to premiere in 2022. Ferguson received a SAG award nomination in 2020 for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama. The actor is repped by People Store; Industry Entertainment; Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein; and Narrative.

The new movie will be directed by Jeff Wadlow (“Truth or Dare...

It's been 20 years since Marlon Wayans brought Scary Movie and it's sequels to screens, and now he's getting in the Halloween spirit again for a new comedy adventure for Netflix. Wayans will star in and produce the as yet untitled movie under the direction of Jeff Wadlow, from a scipt by Rob Rugan, Todd Berger and John R Morey. The Scary Movie series, and the various parody movies they inspired, were not exactly a serious movie, with the emphasis definitely on gross-out moments and having a swipe at some famous horror franchises along the way. It sounds like Wayans' new foray into the spooky comedy genre is a little more of a genuine affair.

The movie plot will see a teenage girl accidentally unleashing a spirit on Halloween, leading to a whole bunch of mayhem ensuing, including decorations coming to life and causing spooky chaos. This leads to the teen...

20 years after making audiences laugh with his Scary Movie franchise, Marlon Wayans is making a return to his everyone’s favorite frightening holiday as sources say he is set to star and produce and untitled Halloween pic for Netflix. The adventure-comedy will be directed by Jeff Wadlow with Rob Rugan, Todd Berger, John R. Morey penning the script.

Wayans will produce along with Rick Alvarez for Ugly Baby Productions. Nathan Reimann will also produce. Wadlow will exec produce.

The story follows a teenage girl, who after accidentally unleashing an ancient and mischievous spirit on Halloween, which causes decorations to come alive and wreak havoc, must team up with the last person she’d want to in order to save their town – her skeptical father (Wayans).

The film continues Netflix’s relationship with Wayans who previously starred in and produced 2019 comedy Sextuplets, where he plays all six main characters, and 2017 groundhog day rom-com Naked.

Emmy and NAACP Award-winner Debbi Morgan is set for a major recurring role opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut and Joe Morgan in Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist and executive producer Lee Daniels.

Written by Gist inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s provocative, critically praised book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, the series takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for more than 50 years. Our Kind of People follows strong-willed single mom Angela Vaughn (DaCosta) as she sets out to reclaim her family’s name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line that highlights the innate, natural beauty of Black women. But she soon discovers a dark secret about her...

“All My Children’s” Angie Baxter-Hubbard, aka NAACP Award winner Debbi Morgan, has been cast in Lee Daniels and Karin Gist’s series “Our Kind of People,” a drama headed to Fox on Tuesday nights this fall. The “Power” and “Ghost” regular joins previously announced cast members Lance Gross (“Sleepy Hollow”), Yaya DaCosta (“Chicago Med”), Morris Chestnut (“The Resident”), Joe Morton (“Scandal”) LeToya Luckett and newcomer Alana Bright. The series is inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s book “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.” It is a co-production of Fox Entertainment and 20th Television.

Per the logline, “Our Kind of People” takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for over 50 years. The series follows protagonist Angela Vaughn (DaCosta), a strong-willed, single mom who sets out to...

The Wayans brothers have never exactly been bastions of high quality cinema, with Marlon in particular a repeat offender responsible for a string of terrible comedies like Little Man, Dance Flick, A Haunted House and the sequel, Fifty Shades of Black, Naked and Sextuplets. None of those movies found anything even approaching critical acclaim, but several of them did decent business at the box office and the 48 year-old has been collaborating with Netflix on a regular basis, so there must be a good sized audience for his work.

One entry from the writer/actor/producer’s back catalogue that’s remained inexplicably popular is White Chicks, the 2004 comedic effort directed by Keenen Ivory and starring Shawn and Marlon in the lead roles. It sees two sibling FBI agents go undercover and end up tasked with protecting the socialite Wilson sisters, before eventually being forced to disguise themselves as the titular white chicks.

Marlon Wayans is getting into business with HBO Max. The actor and comedian has struck an overall deal with the WarnerMedia streaming service and has set a number of projects.

The digital platform is developing a pilot for Book of Marlon, where he plays a fictionalized version of himself as he attempts to reconcile being a good person and father with being Marlon. Wayans has co-created the show with his long-time producing partner Rick Alvarez and will star. Wayans and Alvarez have written the pilot.

It is the first scripted project that HBO Max and Wayans have identified as part of a first-look deal at his scripted and unscripted projects.

Separately, he will perform a stand-up special for the service as well as host another multi-act special. His own, as-yet-untitled special, will look at his life and will “dig even deeper” than his recent special Woke-ish.

It is the latest stand-up special for the service,...

Marlon Wayans has inked an overall deal with HBO Max.

The deal includes a new one-hour stand up special from Wayans as well as a multi-act special which he will host. Wayans will also develop both scripted and unscripted projects for the streamer under a first look deal. The first scripted project under that deal is titled “Book of Marlon.” Co-written by Rick Alvarez, the half-hour comedy will feature Wayans playing a fictionalized version of himself as he attempts to reconcile being a good person and father while being Marlon.

“I’m excited to be in business with HBO Max,” Wayans said. “Rick and I have had a lot of success in the streaming space and are excited to work with a company that is equally excited to work with us. We look forward to helping both brands grow rapidly and internationally. HBO Max is a great place to continue...

Exclusive: Marlon Wayans has signed with Wme. The news comes as he most recently took on seven lead roles in Netflix’s Sextuplets, a comedy he also wrote and produced which bowed on the streaming service in August. He will next be seen in Sofia Coppola and Apple-A24’s On the Rocks opposite Bill Murray and Rashida Jones.

He was previously agented by UTA, and he remains with ICM Partners for his touring business. Wayans continues to be repped by 3 Arts Entertainment and Morris Yorn.

Wayans has written, produced and starred in 14 features including White Chicks and the Scary Movie franchise, the latter of which has collectively grossed over $896 million at the worldwide box office.

On the TV side, he co-created and starred in his own comedy series for NBC, Marlon, in addition to starring with his brother Shawn in the late 1990s sketch series The Wayans Bros.

Exclusive: Glynn Turman (Mr. Mercedes) is set for a recurring role opposite Chris Rock on the upcoming fourth season of FX’s Fargo.

The fourth season is set in Kansas City in 1950. The city will serve as the crossroads and collision point of two migrations, Italians coming from Italy and African Americans fleeing the south to escape Jim Crow, both fighting for a piece of the American dream as two controlling crime syndicates. They are at an uneasy peace controlling an alternate economy of exploitation, graft and drugs. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest son.

Rock plays the head of one family, a man who — in order to prosper — has surrendered his youngest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his enemy’s son as his own. It’s an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the...

Marlon Wayans’ White Chicks costar Terry Crews stirred up talks of a second installment earlier this summer when he told Andy Cohen that he and Shawn Wayans are “getting it going.”

Though Marlon, 47, shared on Instagram that no set plans are in place for a sequel to the 2004 comedy, that doesn’t mean he isn’t down for one.

“It depends on a lot of different factors, but off the top, I’m passionate about it,” he tells People in this week’s issue. “I love the movie.”

Marlon even got practice dressing as a woman again in his latest film,...

The new comedy Sextuplets dropped on Netflix when the clock struck midnight on Friday, but star Marlon Wayans had no plans to watch.

“I’m going to sleep,” he tells People. “I like watching it with an audience. When I get back to L.A. I’ll invite my friends over [to watch Sextuplets].”

The restful evening came after a demanding filming schedule that kept Wayans — who plays a whopping six characters in the film — working 15-18 hour days for 51 days.

“It took everything that I’ve learned in the last 40 year to execute something like this,” the actor, 47, says. “Everything from performing...

Once the funniest and most ubiquitous family in Hollywood, the Wayans siblings — Damon, Keenen Ivory, Kim, Shawn and so on — have largely faded from the scene in recent years, leaving youngest brother Marlon (now nearing 50) to carry the mantle. Audiences may not be showing up for sendups like “Scary Movie” and “Dance Flick” like they used to, but Marlon has figured out a foolproof solution: Make lowbrow laffers with search-friendly titles directly for Netflix, and the checks keep rolling in.

First it was “Naked” — a “Groundhog Day”-style infinite-repeat scenario in which Marlon plays a groom who wakes up au naturel on his wedding day, over and over until he gets it right — and now it’s “Sextuplets,” which is the first thing that pops up when you type “S-e-x” into Netflix. In both cases, lonely viewers looking for something spicy will have to settle for a relatively bland and half-baked comedy,...

There are some movies that are just quintessentially ‘90s. The movies where one comedian plays all the characters, the irreverent humor, the slapstick comedy, it all contributed to a great ‘90s film.

Today we have a trailer for you to enjoy that looks like it’s right out of that camp. Marlon Wayans is back with a hilarious and ridiculous film called Sextuplets about a guy who sets out to find his birth family. He is surprised to learn that he was a sextuplet and dreams of the siblings he never knew.

He goes out to find them and is met with an insane group of weirdos (all played by him) that take him on the ride of a lifetime. I laughed so hard during this stupid trailer that I think I have to see this movie. It looks like it will be a hilariously good time.

Enjoy the trailer below,...

Netflix has dropped the first trailer for their upcoming Sextuplets movie. Marlon Wayans stars and plays six characters in the comedy. Playing multiple characters in a comedy is not a new idea, but Wayans seems to be putting his own spin on things, though there have immediately been the inevitable comparisons to Eddie Murphy's roles in Coming to America and the Nutty Professor franchise. Mike Myers also did the same thing in the Austin Powers franchise.

Sextuplets features Marlon Wayans' character Alan as he and his wife are expecting their first child. Before the baby comes, Alan is intent on finding his birth mother and while doing research, he meets his brother, Russell, and discovers that he was born a sextuplet. From there, the duo seek to find the four other siblings. Things unfold rather quickly in the trailer as we're introduced to all of Alan's siblings and everything goes off the rails.

Sneak Peek the new comedy feature "Sextuplets", based on Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 2009 children's book of the same name, directed by Michael Tiddes from a screenplay by Mike Glock, Rick Alvarez and Marlon Wayans, starring Wayans in multiple roles, with Bresha Webb, streaming August 16, 2019 on Netflix:

"..in 'Sextuplets', father-to-be 'Alan' is shocked to learn he was born a sextuplet.

"With his newfound brother 'Russell' riding shotgun, the duo sets out on a journey to reunite with their remaining long-lost siblings, tracking them down before Alan's baby is born..."

Cast also inludes Molly Shannon, Glynn Turman, Michael Ian Black, Debbi Morgan and Spiral Jackson.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Sextuplets"...

There was a moment when Eddie Murphy was known for his penchant for playing multiple characters in his comedies. Perhaps his best film featuring this gimmick is “Coming to America.” However, after that film came “The Nutty Professor” and its sequel ‘The Klumps.’ Now, in 2019, Marlon Wayans is here to carry the torch for this brand of whacky, multiple character comedy with the Netflix film “Sextuplets.”

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As seen in the trailer, and as the title suggests, “Sextuplets” tells the story of a man (Wayans) that discovers that his biological mother gave birth to six children at once, leaving him to find his five long lost siblings.

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"Since we hit the road together, I've done things I've only seen on television." Netflix has just launched an official trailer for a new comedy from Marlon Wayans titled Sextuplets, and it looks as awful as it sounds and seems just from that title alone. From the director of the spoofs A Haunted House and Fifty Shades of Black comes a new comedy about an expecting father-to-be who discovers that he has many other siblings and tries to track them down before his baby is born. This is a spoof on, another comedy, maybe? But who cares, it looks terrible. Marlon Wayans stars in the lead role, and plays all the other siblings, much like Tyler Perry does in his movies. The cast also includes Molly Shannon, Glynn Turman, Bresha Webb, Debbi Morgan, and Michael Ian Black. Why do they still make these kind of movies? It looks so, so bad.

Forget about the drama - this August, Netflix is only down to make us laugh. The streaming service will debut six new movies and five of them are comedies, including a supercheesy Christina Milian-led romance, a romp about three empty nesters who decide to wreak havoc on their adult children's lives, and a wacky movie starring six Marlon Wayanses. We've also got movies coming in from Spain and France, so if you're in need of some comic relief, Neflix has got you covered. Just check out all the hilarious movies debuting this month.

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There will be no third season for Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It. Netflix has opted not to renew the series based on Lee’s first movie for a third go-round.

“Spike Lee is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and we’re thrilled he brought the series She’s Gotta Have It to Netflix,” said Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, Netflix. “While this is our last season, we’re very proud that it will be on our service for years to come, and excited to be working with Spike on his upcoming Netflix film Da 5 Bloods.”

The series is expected to be shopped elsewhere, I hear.

Billed as “a seriously sexy comedy and rousing celebration of female empowerment,” the sophomore run of the series based on the 1986 film consists of nine episodes. Per the logline: Season 2 offers a...

It comes as little surprise that Bill Murray is in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming “On the Rocks,” but the latest addition to the cast is a bit unusual: Marlon Wayans, who just joined the joint venture between Apple and A24. The actor, comedian, and screenwriter has mostly appeared in comedies throughout his career, from spoofs like “Scary Movie” and “A Haunted House” to TV series like “In Living Color” and his sitcom “Marlon,” but his filmography is not without auteur projects: Wayans worked with Darren Aronofsky on “Requiem for a Dream” and the Coen Brothers on “The Ladykillers.”

He’s also been involved with several Netflix projects of late, starring in 2017’s “Naked” and the upcoming “Sextuplets”; the streaming service also has exclusive rights to “Marlon” in many regions, advertising it as a Netflix Original outside the Us. Deadline first broke the news of his casting.

“On the Rocks,” which...

Exclusive: Marlon Wayans has joined Bill Murray and Rashida Jones in Apple-A24’s first movie On the Rocks from Oscar-winning director Sofia Coppola.

As previously announced, On the Rocks follows a young mother (Jones) who reconnects with her larger than life playboy father (Murray) on an adventure through New York. The film will lense in New York and reps Murray and Coppola’s reteam following Lost in Translation, which Coppola took a screenwriting Academy Award for, and the 2015 Netflix holiday special A Very Murray Christmas. Coppola is producing with Youree Henley. Mitch Glazer and Roman Coppola are also executive producing. Actor and comedian Wayans is the co-creator and star of the Warner Bros. TV sketch series The Wayans Bros and his own comedy NBC comedy series Marlon. He’s the star and co-creator of the Scary Movie franchise and has starred in such movies as the Coen Brothers’ The Ladykillers,...

Pollyanna McIntosh (The Walking Dead) has booked a recurring role on the second season of AMC’s Lodge 49, from creator Jim Gavin, showrunner Peter Ocko and executive producer Paul Giamatti. Lodge 49 is a lighthearted modern fable set in Long Beach, CA, starring Wyatt Russell as disarmingly optimistic local ex-surfer Sean “Dud” Dudley, who’s drifting after the death of his father and collapse of the family business. McIntosh will play Clara, a British emissary who meets and befriends Connie at Lodge 1 in England. McIntosh is best known for her role as Jadis on The Walking Dead. On the film side, she had a lead role in Sundance pic The Woman. Gavin, Ocko, Giamatti, Dan Carey and Jeff Freilich executive produce. Lodge 49 is an AMC Studios production. McIntosh is repped by Insurge Entertainment.

Glynn Turman (How to Get Away With Murder) is set for a recurring role on...

Exclusive: Gabriel Ebert (Ricki and the Flash) and Rarmian Newton (Rise) are set as series regulars and Glynn Turman (How To Get Away With Murder) will recur on the upcoming third season of At&T Audience Network’s critically praised drama series Mr. Mercedes, from Sonar Entertainment. Production on the Stephen King adaptation is underway in Charleston, South Carolina.

Season 2 took place a year after Brady Hartsfield’s (Harry Treadaway) thwarted attempt to perpetrate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio. Since the incident, Hartsfield had been hospitalized in a vegetative state. Retired Detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) did his best to move on from his Brady obsession, teaming up with Holly Gibney (Justine Lupe) to open Finders Keepers, a private investigative agency. But when unexplainable occurrences began to affect hospital staff members attending to Brady, Hodges was haunted by the feeling that Brady was somehow responsible.

Exclusive: Molly Shannon, Glynn Turman, Michael Ian Black and Debbi Morgan are set for supporting roles as production on the Netflix original film Sextuplets is currently underway. Starring Marlon Wayans and Bresha Webb, the comedy will get a global release on the streaming platform next year.

Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) is at the helm, directing from a script by Mike Glock, Rick Alvarez, and Wayans. The plot centers on Alan (Wayans), a man embarking on a personal journey to meet his birth mother before the arrival of his first child. When Alan meets his brother, Russell, he discovers that he was born a sextuplet and decides to seek out his four other siblings (all played by Wayans).

Wayans and Alvarez are producing the pic, which is shooting in Atlanta, with Nathan Reimann.