Busy IFC Films made In the Loop its latest Sundance acquisition. The Armando Iannucci comedy “follows a British government minister who inadvertently supports a war while on primetime television. Pic stars Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini and Steve Coogan.”

Bobcat Goldthwait’s latest exercise in depraved comedy, World’s Greatest Dad, made quite an impression. Entertainment Weekly calls it “a crazy, foul-mouthed, garishly farfetched black comedy… World's Greatest Dad has an organic lunacy, to the point that there's something almost Ed Wood innocent about it. Maybe it's that the film reflects a fantasy that must surely be Goldthwait's: that the worse the behavior, the more it will be rewarded.” Spoutblog caught up with the director, who still lives a double life.

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We Own the Night director James Gray is adapting the nonfiction book The Lost City of Z for Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B. Pitt will star as British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett, who “left Victorian society to explore in the Amazon, and he became obsessed by the idea of an advanced civilization he called Z, which he believed existed in the depths of the jungle. Along with his son, Fawcett headed into the jungle in 1925 in search of Z and was never seen again,” Variety reports.

Mumblecore mavens the Duplass Brothers are set to make their studio debut with “an intergenerational comedy” for Fox Searchlight.

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