“Kevin Kline was just added to the cast, in a bizarre dual role: He’ll play the brother of Jonathan Waller, a director whose Oscar-bait movie Hiroshima failed to win Best Picture. Despondent, Waller and his brother (which Kline will also play) create a computer program meant to analyze all previous Oscar winners and spit out the most awards-friendly script imaginable. The result is a perfectly calibrated screenplay named God…

Frank or Francis is a musical, with nearly half the dialogue sung: In particular, anything the characters are writing online will be delivered in sing-song. (This particular article has sort of a nineties Britpop sound, if you were wondering.) Oh, and did we mention that there are also two talking thumbs conspiring on behalf of a Romanian political agenda?”