After parent company Defy abruptly closed its doors last November, the YouTube sketch-comedy channel Smosh spent three long months abandoned and in search of a buyer — until the online comedy duo ...

Lionsgate has announced that it has acquired the rights to distribute a film based on two of YouTube’s biggest stars. Comedy duo Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, better known to the YouTube community as ...

Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla have grown their YouTube channel into an empire that now includes a feature-length film. Rabid popularity aside, the Smosh guys have been YouTube pioneers in other ways, ...

Lionsgate has picked up global distribution rights to “The Smosh Movie,” starring the YouTube comedy duo of Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, banking on their Internet celebrity to drive audiences to the ...

The film starring Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox will premiere in Anaheim, Calif., on July 23. By Natalie Jarvey SMOSH YouTube - H 2014 Smosh: The Movie is getting a summer premiere. The film, which ...

EXCLUSIVE: Digital comedy outlet Smosh has appointed Joel Rubin as the company’s first EVP of Programming and Content. Along with the arrival of Rubin, a digital media veteran who has worked at LeBron ...

An curved arrow pointing right. With over 30 million subscribers, Smosh is more popular than Katy Perry and Jennifer Lawrence among teens. The online comedy duo, made up of Ian Hecox and Anthony ...

While touring Smosh’s 17,000 square foot studio, co-founder Anthony Padilla points out an old article framed on the wall that feels both poetic and ironic to read today. It’s from Time Magazine’s ...

Smosh is one of YouTube’s more recognizable brands, and now they’re making the leap to the big screen with a movie co-produced by DEFY Media and AwesomenessTV, and distributed by Lionsgate. For 13- to ...