HBO orders ‘The Brink,’ a geopolitical crisis comedy starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins

HBO orders “The Brink,” a geopolitical crisis comedy starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins
The dark comedy about a geopolitical crisis stars Robbins as the U.S. Secretary of State and Black as a lowly foreign service offirer. Jay Roach is directing and Jerry Weintraub is producing “The Brink,” which also stars Aasif Mandvi, Esai Morales, Pablo Schreiber and Geoff Pierson.