The Onion brand has signed a contract with Lionsgate and production company Serious Business to develop three feature film projects over the next two years, in what we’ve been assured is not an extremely conceptual work of parody.
With the help of Serious Business and Lionsgate, we’ll make room on our award shelf for some Oscars.
(Full disclosure: I contribute to the A.V. Club, a division of the Onion media empire.)
Kyle Ryan, Vice President of Onion Studios, had a characteristically deadpan response to the news: “We’ve plotted our takeover of the film industry for some time.