CollegeHumor gets into movie biz

CollegeHumor Media will get to the movie business, tapping Kaira Copeland ("Arrested Development") to produce his feature directorial debut with "Coffee Town" a comedy that will star TV thesps Glenn Howerton ("It Definitely Is Sunny in Philadelphia"), Steve Little ("Eastbound & Lower") and Ben Schwartz ("House of Lies"), additionally to Grammy-winning singer Josh Groban ("Crazy, Stupid, Love").A modern day-day workplace comedy for present regular job-hopping generation, "Coffee Town" follows three thirty-something pals who band together when their freeloading existence is threatened.Howerton may have an underachieving website design service who expects to stage an imitation robbery to have the ability to preserve his daily routine inside a local coffee shop, that's being transformed into a pub.Wanting to create upon its decade-extended good reputation for making and marketing irreverent comedy content, CollegeHumor will finance and convey the R-rated laffer, that is produced by CollegeHumor co-founder Ough Van Veen."Kaira features a sharp yet universal comic sensibility and that we are confident he'll be considered an incredible director," mentioned Van Veen. "Combined while using amazing cast we have up to now, we're incredibly passionate relevant for this project."Production will begin later in La, without any release date is presently set.UTA-repped Copeland, who written the hit family comedies "Wild Hogs" and "Yogi Bear," is presently associated with several active projects, like the silver screen adaptation in the classic sixties TV series "Gilligan's Island," additionally to some remake of Disney's "Flight in the Navigator." He's the author-showrunner for "The Inbetweeners," which will premiere on MTV later this year.CollegeHumor Media is certainly a practical business of IAC and partner inside the Electus multimedia studio system.WME reps Howerton, Schwartz and Groban, that are correspondingly handled by 3 Arts Entertainment, Tom Sawyer Entertainment and Q Prime, Corporation. Little is repped by Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment. Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com