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With his upcoming "Freeloaders" now in production with Broken Lizard, "Counting Crows" frontman Adam Duritz has plans to stick around Hollywood for a little bit longer and will gladly keep making comedies as long as his friends will have him.

"All the [Broken] Lizard guys and I have been talking about scripts to do together" says Adam, laughing as he thinks about some of the ideas they've been tossing around.

"I was trying to weasel a way for me to be in 'Super Troopers 2’ yesterday. The guys were like 'Whoa, whoa, whoa. To get that, you've gotta do this other thing... I told them, 'What if me and Willie [Nelson] do it together?' and they said I might be onto something." Read More...

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What happens when you pair a Broken Lizard and a Counting Crow? A big screen comedy! Variety reports that Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz is teaming with the comedy troupe behind "Beerfest" and "Club Dread" to produce the indie comedy "Freeloaders." The script has a rock star pedigree also, with director Dan Rosen co-writing the flick with Gigolo Aunts' Dave Gibbs.

Not surprisingly, the story is themed around a rock star -- or more specifically, his mansion, where five guys and one girl have taken up permanent partying residence. But their comfy lifestyle is threatened when the rock star decides to sell his house. What crazy hijinks will occur? Will they sabotage the sale? Come up with weird ways to raise money to buy the mansion themselves? Find another rock star to move in with? Read More...

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