RECENT PROJECTS:

BEERFEST

The Broken Lizard comedy group returns to the big screen in a new comedy that proves revenge, like beer, is best served cold.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, a Cataland Films / Broken Lizard Production, from the team behind the cult-hit Super Troopers, Beerfest stars the Broken Lizard comedy group comprised of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. Joining the cast are Will Forte (Saturday Night Live), Ralf Moeller (Gladiator), Mo-Nique (Soul Plane), and Eric Christian Olsen (Dumb and Dumberer), with Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot, The Da Vinci Code) and Academy Award winners Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show, Young Frankenstein) and Donald Sutherland.

Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, written by Broken Lizard, produced by Richard Perello and Bill Gerber.

PREACHING TO THE CHOIR
(aka On The One)

A gospel musical comedy set in Harlem with Eartha Kitt, Tim Reid, Patti Labelle, Ben Vereen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tachina Arnold and Billoah Greene, winner of the American Black Film Festival Grand Prize for Best Film, Audience Award Winner and Winner Best Actor.

A Cataland Films production, Preaching To The Choir is directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, written by Kevin Heffernan and Peter E. Lengyel, and produced by Richard Perello.

 

CLUB DREAD

When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete’s Beach Resort, a hedonistic island paradise for swingers, it’s up to the club’s staff to stop the violence…or at least hide it!

The Broken Lizard comedy horror, from 20th Century Fox and Cataland Films, starring Broken Lizard comedy group members Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. Club Dread also stars Bill Paxton, Brittany Daniel, MC Gainey, Jordan Ladd and Samm Levine. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, written by Broken Lizard and produced by Richard Perello.

MORE ON CLUB DREAD

SUPER TROOPERS

Broken Lizard’s cult comedy hit, Super Troopers, a fast-paced comedy about cops, crime, and killing time. The Broken Lizard Comedy Group's Sundance favorite about five Vermont State Troopers stationed on the Canadian border who spend their time toying with speeders and sparring with their rivals, the shifty local police force. Starring Broken Lizard’s Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. Also starring Marissa Coughlan, Lynda Carter and Brian Cox.

Fox Searchlight presents a Cataland Films production, Super Troopers is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, written by Broken Lizard and produced by Richard Perello.

PUDDLE CRUISER

The first and very independent Broken Lizard film and Sundance sleeper, Puddle Cruiser winner of the Hamptons International Film Festival Grand Prize. Liberal arts college campus life gets a good-natured skewering in this romp about friendship, love and purloined food. “Prepare to laugh your ass off!” (Film Threat Magazine).

A Cataland Films production released by 20th Century Fox, starring and written by Broken Lizard comedy group members Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and produced by Richard Perello.

WAY OFF BROADWAY

Dan Kay’s romantic comedy feature film debut. Winner of audience awards at the Stonybrook, and Texas Film Festivals, and grand prize winner at the Westchester County Film Festival, five recent college graduates take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic conflict in friendships involving sex, love and betrayal.

Directed and written by Daniel Kay and produced by Richard Perello, Joel Blanco, and Andrew Charas.

BROOKLYN RULES
(aka Nailed Right In)

In 1985 Brooklyn, three boyhood friends come of age on the streets where the violent have power. When one becomes enamored by the mafia lifestyle, all three friends are placed in grave danger as relationships and lives are threatened.

Starring Alec Baldwin, Freddie Prinze Jr, Scott Caan, Jerry Ferrara, and Mena Suvari. Written by Sopranos writer/producer, Terence Winter, directed by Michael Corrente, and produced by Richard Perello, Michael Corrente, Richard Barton Lewis, and Marisa Polvino. A Catalalnd Films and Revere Pictures production.

BIG HELIUM DOG

A mockumentary that chronicles and spoofs its own making, Big Helium Dog is the story of a guy trying to cope with the loss of his friend. He is pulled against his will into a lucrative TV deal that ultimately falls through, but he eventually saves the world from destruction. Confused? Well, the cows surely have the answer.

A View Askew production, written and directed by Brian Lynch and produced by Richard Perello, Kevin Smith, Kim Loughran, and Scot Mosier.

PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT:

 

THE GREEK ROAD

Coming soon… the Broken Lizard answer to the ancient Greece road trip. Written by Broken Lizard comedy group Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske and produced by Richard Perello.

 

THE BABYMAKER

Coming soon… feature comedy centering on a young husband who fails in his attempts to have a baby with his wife so he and his buddies stage an elaborate heist to retrieve a deposit he made years ago at a sperm bank.

Jay Chandrasekhar will direct The Babymaker for Warner Bros. Pictures. Kevin Heffernan will star. Written by Ice Age: The Meltdown scribes Peter Gaulke and Gerry Swallow, produced by Richard Perello, Kevin Heffernan and Jay Chandrasekhar. A Cataland Films / Broken Lizard Industries production.

 

TOCAYO

The true story of a Cuban underground resistance leader, based on the critically acclaimed book by Antonio Navarro.

 

RODEO CLOWNS

A feature-length documentary on the state of independent film, highlighting the Broken Lizard comedy group's college tour of their feature film Puddle Cruiser and their quest for distribution.