Paramount has set Richard Linklater’s baseball comedy–formerly titled “That’s What I’m Talking About”–for an April 15 release.
The studio also moved its untitled comedy starring Leslie Mann out of that release slot with no new date set.
Megan Ellison is producing the baseball movie along with Sean Daniel, Linklater, Sandra Adair, John Sloss and Ginger Sledge. Daniel and the late Jim Jacks partnered with Linklater on his breakout 1993 teen comedy “Dazed and Confused.”
The picture is the first film for Linklater following his Oscar-winning family drama “Boyhood.”
Blake Jenner stars as a new pitcher on a highly ranked college baseball team that also parties extensively. Tyler Hoechlin, Wyatt Russell, Ryan Guzman, Zoey Deutch, Will Brittain and Glen Powell also star.
Paramount picked the U.S. rights to the Mann comedy in May from “The Hangover” writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Judd Apatow and Josh Church are producing along with Block Entertainment and Merced Media, with Lucas and Moore writing and directing.
Plot details are being kept under wraps. Merced Media is fully financing the project; Bill Block and Merced’s Raj Brinder Singh are producing.
