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Exclusive: The Jewish non-profit Reboot has launched its own production company Reboot Studios, which will provide seed funding for and develop Jewish content across theater, television, film, podcasts, music and publishing.

The new banner stems from Reboot’s past successes funding projects across all media, including Saturday Night Seder, with Jason Alexander, Billy Porter, Henry Winkler, Pamela Adlon, Cynthia Erivo and more. That virtual Passover production was put on as a means of bolstering the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund in the early days of the pandemic, and would ultimately raise more than 2.9M.

Reboot Studios’ advisory board, comprised of distinguished industry leaders and creators who will be actively shepherding and guiding projects, includes Showtime’s EVP of Scripted Programming, Amy Israel; Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter Benj Pasek (Dear Evan Hansen); Searchlight Pictures President David Greenbaum; Amblin Partners’ President of Production Jeb Brody; Tony...

We interviewed Camila Alves McConaughey because we think you'll like her picks. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a commission if you purchase something through our links. Items are sold by the retailer, not E!. Prices are accurate as of publish time. If you're a parent to some picky eaters or if you're a picky eater yourself, you would appreciate Camila Alves McConaughey's new book, Just Try One Bite, which she wrote with Adam Mansbach. The story is a fun role reversal with parents who are picky eaters getting confronted by their three kids who want them to put down the cake and ice cream in favor of trying healthy whole foods. Camila is a healthy eating advocate and...

After a multi-studio bidding war, New Line has won superhero comedy pitch “Super High, with Common, Craig Robinson, and Andy Samberg attached to star, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.

The film centers on a special strain of marijuana that gives people superpowers. Adam Mansbach will write the screenplay based on a story by Mansbach and Shamier Anderson. Anderson will also executive produce the project. Party Over Here, 3 Arts, Narrative are the producers alongside Samberg, Robinson and Common.

Mansbach is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author and humorist whose acclaimed debut screenplay “Barry” was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award. Mansbach’s “Go the F*ck to Sleep” is a #1 New York Times bestseller and has been translated into forty languages and named Time Magazine’s 2011 “Thing of the Year.” The two sequels, “You Have to F*cking Eat” and “F*ck,...

Craig Robinson, Andy Samberg and Common are producing and starring in the action-comedy “Super High” at New Line Cinema.

“Super High” is being described as a superhero movie where smoking a special strain of weed gives superpowers to the smoker.

Adam Mansbach will write the screenplay based on a story he created with Shamier Anderson. New Line won a bidding war for the project.

Mansbach’s debut screenplay, “Barry,” written about Barack Obama’s life at Columbia University, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award. Mansbach’s “Go the F*ck to Sleep” is a New York Times bestseller, along with his sequels “You Have to F*cking Eat” and “F*ck, Now There Are Two of You.”

Producers for “Super High” are Party Over Here, 3 Arts and Narrative alongside stars Samberg, Robinson and Common. Anderson is executive producing.

Robinson is best known for starring in “The Office,...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, New Line has prevailed in winning rights to the pitch Super High, which has Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson and Common attached to star.

Party Over Here, Mark Schulman, Richard Abate And Will Rowbotham of 3 Arts and Shelby Stone and Derek Dudley of Narrative will produce alongside Samberg, Robinson and Common. According to sources, the film is a superhero comedy where smoking special weed gives you super powers. Sources said it was a seven-figure deal for the script alone with a production commitment included.

Adam Mansbach will write the screenplay based on a story by Mansbach and Shamier Anderson. Anderson will also exec produce. Richard Brener and Dave Neustadter will oversee for New Line.

Mansbach is an award-winning author and humorist whose debut screenplay Barry was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award. His Go the F*ck to Sleep is a No.

On Tuesday night, decorated actor Samuel L. Jackson reads the timely and hilarious sequel to Go the F–k to Sleep called Stay The F–k Home, written by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés. Jackson skyped into Jimmy Kimmel Live for the interview. Chilling in his screening room at home in a custom t-shirt with his face on […]

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As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, we've seen more than a few videos from celebrities urging us to stay at home in order to help slow down the spread of the virus, but I think Samuel L. Jackson has them all beat. While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! via teleconferencing, Samuel L. Jackson gifted us with the pleasure of hearing him read "Stay the F**k at Home," a coronavirus-inspired sequel to Adam Mansbach's "Go the F**k to Sleep". You can hear…...

Samuel L. Jackson has a clear message for those who still aren’t adhering to social distancing guidelines.

On Tuesday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jackson, 71, joined host Jimmy Kimmel from his home theater to read a sequel to the ever-popular children’s book Go the F— to Sleep that now reflects our current times amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

With lots of yelling and strong language, Jackson stressed the importance of social distancing with a follow-up book, Stay the F— at Home.

“Stay the f— at home. Corona is spreading, this sh– is no joke,” Jackson read.

Samuel L. Jackson video’ed in to Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night to share a timely and hilarious update on a sequel to Go The F*** To Sleep, a children’s book for adults written by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés, which Jackson memorably read on YouTube a few years ago. Jackson told Kimmel Mandsbach had called him recently to discuss a sequel to the book, “something that would remind people of what social distancing and where we are in these times right now.”

Set to a soft piano background, Jackson began reading: “Stay the f**k at home, The Rona is spreading, this s**t is no joke. It’s no time to work or roam. The way you can fight it is simple my friends. Just stay the f**k at home,” he said. “Now, technically I’m not a doctor, but motherf***ers listen when I read a poem.

Samuel L. Jackson advocated for social distancing during a video chat interview on the March 31 installment of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in the most Samuel L. Jackson way, which means a lot of expletives were used. Jackson teamed up with writer Adam Mansbach to put a new spin on the author’s bestselling children’s book “Go the F*ck to Sleep.” Jackson said to Kimmel, “[Adam and I] talked about what we could do remind people of social distancing and where we are in these times now. So he wrote a new poem, I read it, and we want to present it to the public right now.”

The poem is appropriately titled “Stay the F*ck at Home,” and it finds Jackson urging “motherf*ckers” around the world to stay inside and practice social distancing and self-isolation. Jackson reads: “Now, technically, I’m not a doctor/ but, motherfucker, listen when I read a poem/ So,...

Samuel L. Jackson is making sure everyone gets the message. 

The actor on Tuesday appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (which the host is doing from home), and while there, he stressed the importance of staying home amid the novel coronavirus pandemic as only Jackson can: with a lot of yelling and cursing.

Jackson presented a new book by Adam Mansbach, author of the adult best-seller Go the F--- to Sleep, titled Stay the F--- at Home. Jackson previously read Go the F--- to Sleep on YouTube, where it has millions of views. 

Jackson and Kimmel talked for about eight minutes, with the ...

A few years ago, Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés released a children’s book for adults called Go the F**k to Sleep, which was famously read on YouTube by Samuel L. Jackson. Now Jackson has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to debut the book’s sequel, which encourages people to practice social distancing and stay home.

In a lengthy interview with Kimmel, Jackson shared what he’s been doing during self-quarantine and then took the opportunity to read the new poem Mansbach has written for the Covid-19 pandemic.

“People...

Exclusive: In some big podcasting news, Serial Productions, creator of hit podcasts Serial and S-Town, has hired writer-producer and former film director Neil Drumming as its new managing editor.

Drumming will lead the expansion of Serial Productions’ development slate, recruiting producers, writers and reporters

to develop fiction and non-fiction podcasts. He will be working closely with Alissa Shipp, who develops Serial’s film and TV

projects, and Serial’s rep UTA to create fiction podcasts.

Drumming joins from This American Life, where he produced projects with filmmakers and writers including Adam Mansbach (Barry), Scott Brown (Castle Rock), and Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live). In 2017, he produced the segment What You Don’t Know with filmmaker Lulu Wang, which was an inspiration for Golden Globe-winner The Farewell. Drumming also won a Peabody Award for his work as an editor on the S-Town podcast.

“Five years ago, with the release of Serial, we...

Comedy Central has greenlighted a new comedic documentary from Peabody Award-winning comedian-activist D.L. Hughley. How Not to Get Shot and Other Advice from White People is based on his New York Times bestseller of the same name.

The hourlong docu-comedy, which Hughley also will executive produce, follows him into the field to explore the state of race in America. By following behavioral advice given to African Americans, will Hughley make all the problems of race in America disappear, or will he bring systemic prejudice to light?

“I look forward to working with Comedy Central on this documentary, where we’ll get to explore deeper into the state of race as I see it today — and then, leave it to me to point out the absurd,” Hughley said. “I dig how Comedy Central saw How Not to Get Shot as I did, knowing the conversation would extend far beyond the length of a book.

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft) You're damn right! New Line Cinema has let a mean Red Band trailer for Shaft out onto the streets, which comes complete with expletives galore, courtesy of the man, the myth, Samuel L. Jackson. Oh, but the narrator of author Adam Mansbach's Go the Fuck to Sleep isn't the only…...

Exclusive: Jake the Fake Keeps It Real, the first book in an illustrated series by New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach and comedian Craig Robinson (The Office), is in the works for the small screen. Mansbach and Robinson are adapting the novel for a potential TV series at Disney Channel.

The book tells the story of Jake, who can barely play an instrument, not even a kazoo. And his art? It’s better suited for Pictionary than Picasso. Which is a real problem because Jake just faked his way into the Music and Art Academy for the gifted and talented (and Jake is pretty sure he is neither). More jokester than composer, Jake will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.

Jake the Fake is the first book in the trilogy published by Penguin Random House. The second is being released early next year.

Cardi B capped off her stint as co-host of The Tonight Show Monday with a brazen performance of "Money Bag."

Dripping with gold chains off her leather bustier, the rapper teamed with the Roots, glowering atop a pyramid stage, surrounded by a cadre of back-up dancers. Cardi B tore through the ferocious Invasion of Privacy track with its litany of ruthless lines: "These bitches salty, they sodium, they jelly, petroleum/ Always talking in the background, don't never come to the podium."

Offstage, Cardi B returned to her bubbly self as...

Designated Survivor continues to round out its Season 2 cast, with the addition of Aussie actor Ben Lawson (The Deep End).

Per our sister site Deadline, Lawson has been cast in the series regular role of Damian Rennett, an MI6 operative who meets Maggie Q’s Hannah while undercover in Amsterdam.

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Earlier this month, as part of the latest showrunner’s vision for ABC’s freshman hit, Royal Pains alum Paulo Costanzo was cast as the new White House Political Director brought on by Emily to help a...

Syfy is developing an hour-long supernatural drama series based on the Adam Mansbach novel “Rage Is Back”, Variety reports. The series is set in 1987 during New York’s “War on Graffiti.” In this world, a young graffiti crew copes with the murder of one of their members, investigating a connection to shamans of the past […]...

The 32nd Independent Spirit Awards took place on Feb. 25 in Los Angeles. Many Oscar contenders — such as “Moonlight” and “Manchester by the Sea” — were nominated alongside smaller titles such as “American Honey” and “Chronic,” making for a truly unpredictable show.

Read More: 2017 Independent Spirit Awards: Who Will Win and Who Should Win — Critics Survey

The full list of nominees is below, with winners in bold.

Best Feature

“Moonlight”

“American Honey”

“Chronic”

“Jackie”

“Manchester by the Sea”

Best Director

Barry Jenkins –”Moonlight”

Andrea Arnold –”American Honey”

Pablo Larraín –”Jackie”

Jeff Nichols –”Loving”

Kelly Reichardt –”Certain Women”

Best Male Lead

Casey Affleck –”Manchester by the Sea” as Lee Chandler

David Harewood –”Free in Deed” as Abe Wilkins

Viggo Mortensen –”Captain Fantastic” as Ben Cash

Jesse Plemons –”Other People” as David Mulcahey

Tim Roth –”Chronic” as David Wilson

Best Female Lead

Isabelle Huppert –”Elle” as Michèle Leblanc

Annette Bening –”20th Century Women” as...

A24’s drama – and the distributor itself – enjoyed a huge Saturday afternoon at Film Independent’s 32nd annual Spirit Awards ceremony on the beach in Santa Monica.

Best feature winner Moonlight won six awards and took the plaudits on an afternoon that also sends best director winner Barry Jenkins to Sunday’s Oscars in high spirits and recognised Friday night’s César winner Isabelle Huppert for Elle and Casey Affleck for Manchester By The Sea in the lead acting categories.

Besides best feature and director, Moonlight won screenplay for Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, cinematography for James Laxton, and editing for Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders.

The film started the ceremony as joint frontrunner with American Honey on six nominations and converted all six, including the previously announced Robert Altman Award. American Honey went away empty-handed.

It was a triumphant afternoon for A24, which made its first financing foray on Moonlight and also distributed Robert Eggers’s first...

The 32nd annual Independent Spirit Awards, sponsored by Perrier-Jouët, kicked off Saturday at the Santa Monica Pier in California, honoring the best independent films of 2016.

Oscar contenders like Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight are both nominated for awards, alongside smaller films like American Honey and Chronic, making Saturday's awards ceremony truly anyone's game.

Related: Final Oscars Predictions 2017: Here's Who Should Win and Who Will Win the Biggest Awards!

Check back for updates to see who wins big.

Best Feature

American Honey

Chronic

Jackie

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Best Director

Andrea Arnold –American Honey

Barry Jenkins –Moonlight

Pablo Larraín –Jackie

Jeff Nichols –Loving

Kelly Reichardt –Certain Women

Best Male Lead

Casey Affleck –Manchester by the Sea

David Harewood –Free in Deed

Viggo Mortensen –Captain Fantastic

Jesse Plemons –Other People

Tim Roth –Chronic

Best Female Lead

Annette Bening –20th Century Women

Isabelle Huppert –Elle

Sasha Lane –American Honey

Ruth Negga –Loving

Natalie Portman –Jackie

Best Supporting...

Robert Eggers took home the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay Saturday. The writer and director of “The Witch,” Eggers’ debut feature is a beautifully shot horror about a Puritan family’s brush with witches told entirely in old English. Set in New England decades before the Salem witch trials of 1692, “The Witch” was lauded for its daring and inventive new take on the classic genre.

Originally a designer for experimental and classical theater in New York City, Eggers transitioned to film as a designer and by directing shorts. In his acceptance speech, Eggers said: “I want to thank my wife, who had to be around for four years while I was obsessed with witches… Also thanks to the Puritans, who wrote a lot of stuff down. Otherwise I couldn’t have written this.”

Read More: 2017 Independent Spirit Awards: Full Winners List — Updating Live

Eggers also thanked powerhouse indie...

Robert Eggers, screenwriter of The Witch, won best first screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.

"Wow, that was a surprise," he said at the podium, before joking, "I want to thank my wife, who had to be around for four years while I was obsessed with witches."

He beat out Chris Kelly (Other People), Adam Mansbach (Barry), Stella Meghie (Jean of the Joneses) and Craig Shilowich (Christine) to take home the award.

John Mulaney and Nick Kroll hosted the 32nd annual Independent Spirit Awards, which took place in Santa Monica Saturday afternoon.

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We learned early last month that Nick Kroll and John Mulaney are co-hosting the Independent Spirit Awards, and now IndieWire can exclusively announce the presenters at this Saturday’s ceremony. Nine actors will be lending their talents to the proceedings: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, Kerry Washington, Miles Teller, Samuel L. Jackson, Freida Pinto, Fred Armisen and Amanda Peet.

Read More: Independent Spirit Awards: Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Love Spending Every Waking Hour Together in New Promos

In addition, Gary Clark Jr. is serving as the one-man house band for the ceremony, the Spirit Awards’ 32nd. The awards will be broadcast live on IFC at 5 p.m. Est this Saturday. Full list of nominees below.

Read More: 2017 Independent Spirit Awards: Nick Kroll and John Mulaney to Co-Host Ceremony

Best Feature:

“American Honey”

“Chronic”

“Jackie”

“Manchester by the Sea”

“Moonlight”

Best Director:

Andrea Arnold, “American Honey”

Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”

Pablo Larraín,...

Barry Obama (Devon Terrell) reads Ralph Ellison's 1952 sociopolitical novel 'Invisible Man' – not to be confused with H.G. Wells' 1897 sci-fi novel 'The Invisible Man.' 'Barry' & me: Finding common ground between this reviewer and U.S. President Barack Obama While thinking about Barry, Vikram Gandhi's 1981-set film about a young Barack Obama as he arrived in New York City to attend Columbia University, I found myself thinking about me in 1981, as I arrived in New York City to attend Columbia University. To be frank, I've been thinking about President Obama in juxtaposition to myself for years, ever since his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Like many Black folks that evening, I looked up the tall, handsome, well-spoken brotha from Chi-town. Tall and handsome notwithstanding, I found that I had a lot in common with the biracial son of a Kenyan scholar and an American white lady from Kansas.

I'm so glad that Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight" is getting lots of love from the Independent Spirit Awards. It is raw, honest, pure! One of my favorite films of the year! I also enjoyed "Jackie" but largely due to Natalie Portman's wonderful performance. Oh, I'm also loving "Manchester by the Sea!" I interviewed the cast at the Toronto International Film Festival, check it out here. Affleck and Hedges received nominations from the film among its many accomplishments. And I love Ruth Negga from "Loving!" She's nominated for Best Female Lead. Check out my interview with the actress where I told her we'll all remember her name by year's end!

Here's the complete list of the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations! We'll find out the winners on Feb. 25!

2017 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

Best Feature:

.American Honey.

.Chronic.

.Jackie.

.Manchester by the Sea.

.Moonlight.

Best Director:

Andrea Arnold, .American Honey.

Barry Jenkins,...

The nominees for the 32nd Independent Spirit Awards have been announced and the competition is looking fierce.

Moonlight, which tells the story of a gay African-American boy growing up in poor Miami, and the road-trip love story American Honey starring Shia Labeouf are tied for the lead with six nods, including best feature and best director for Jenkins and Arnold.

Other Best Feature nominees include Natalie Portman’s portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie, and Casey Affleck’s New England-based family drama Manchester by the Sea. Those films, along with Michel Franco’s Chronic, earned five nominations in all.

Other...

Jenny Slate and Edgar Ramírez announced the 2017 Independent Spirit Award nominations live from the W Hollywood this morning, with “American Honey,” “Jackie,” “Manchester by the Sea” and “Moonlight” all doing especially well for themselves — each film was nominated for Best Feature, Director and several other awards. The ceremony itself will air on IFC on February 25. Here’s the full list of nominees:

Read More: Here’s How the Independent Spirit Awards Will Impact the Oscar Race: Analysis

Best Feature:

“American Honey”

“Chronic”

“Jackie”

“Manchester by the Sea”

“Moonlight”

Best Director:

Andrea Arnold, “American Honey”

Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”

Pablo Larraín, “Jackie”

Jeff Nichols, “Loving”

Kelly Reichardt, “Certain Women”

Best First Feature:

“The Childhood of a Leader”

“The Fits”

“Other People”

“Swiss Army Man”

“The Witch”

Best Female Lead:

Annette Bening, “20th Century Women”

Isabelle Huppert, “Elle”

Sasha Lane, “American Honey”

Ruth Negga, “Loving”

Natalie Portman, “Jackie”

Best Male Lead:

Casey Affleck,...

Before he became the Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama was a New York college student named Barry. As his second term draws to a close, Netflix is readying Vikram Gandhi’s timely biopic for release on December 16, and today brings forth a closer look at Gandhi’s portrait of the outgoing president.

Whereas Southside With You chronicled the formative years of Obama’s relationship with Michelle Robinson, Barry rolls back the years to 1981, at a time when the would-be Potus enrolled in Columbia University. A budding junior with lofty ambitions, this latest Netflix original chronicles Obama’s formative relationships and friendships, with many unfolding within a “crime-ridden and racially charged environment.”

Indeed, we’ve already caught a glimpse of Aussie actor Devon Terrell in the title role via previous teasers but here, Terrell commands the screen, delivering a performance that captures the rousing voice and even mannerisms of Barack Obama remarkably well.

A young President Barack Obama battles racial profiling in the gripping first trailer for upcoming Netflix biopic Barry. The scene begins in 1981, when Obama is a junior at Columbia University. He gets targeted by a police officer on the streets of New York City. "You got some ID?" the cop asks, prompting the college student to stand up for himself: "I don't see you IDing them," he responds. "So what's so special about me, huh?"

The clip, set to Anthony Hamilton's surging "Soul's On Fire," portrays Obama as a frustrated student,...

Rest assured there will be many films to come about the current (and immediate future) political climate, but before they arrive, next month brings one about our current president. Following this summer’s Southside With You, Vikram Gandhi‘s Barry follows Barack Obama’s college days in New York City. With Devon Terrell taking the lead role, we now have a new trailer from Netflix which sells a promising, authentic drama.

We said in our review, “The racial tension in Adam Mansbach and Gandhi’s script is voyeuristic by simply, and smartly, showing us more than is explicitly said. Barry wants to be accepted, but he fears the path to acceptance will not come without major change in his country. He sees his brothers and sisters suffering daily, but is frustrated that he can’t do anything about it. A major decision for him would be to live outside of campus on West 109th,...

Two months ago, Richard Tanne’s poignant drama Southside With You chronicled the formative years of Barack Obama and his relationship with budding lawyer Michelle Robinson, who would later go on to become the First Lady of the United States. With Barry, Netflix is primed to turn back the clock further still, focusing on Obama’s life at Columbia University circa 1981.

Following a premiere at Tiff earlier in the year, the online streamer has now rolled out the first trailer for the upcoming biopic, placing Devon Terrell in the role of the future Potus. Vikram Gandhi is the director behind the lens, and this simple, stylish teaser captures the spirit of Obama’s college years without so much as a single line of dialogue. All in all, it’s a provocative peek into the archives, as Barry tackles issues of crime, a fractured nuclear family and racial discrimination just as...

A young President Barack Obama explores New York City in the short, enticing teaser for Netflix's upcoming biopic titled Barry. The film is set in 1981 during Obama's junior year of college and follows him in various social spheres while also trying to maintain relationships with his Kansas-born mother and Kenyan father.

Set to Copywrite's soulful cut "Trouble," the clip shows Obama waiting for a graffiti-covered subway car, ascending the steps of Columbia University, walking around Harlem and Morningside Heights and entering a smoky club. While much of the Barry teaser...

Earlier this year, Richard Tanne’s “Southside with You” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to general acclaim. The film followed a young Barack Obama and a young Michelle Robinson in 1989 on their very first date. Now, the second film about Barack Obama’s younger life will soon be upon us: “Barry,” which follows Obama in his junior year at Columbia University in 1981, a pivotal year in the life of the future president when he developed his opinions about race, government and America. The film stars Devon Terrell as Obama in his debut acting performance. It co-stars Ashley Judd (“Double Jeopardy”), Jenna Elfman (“Friends With Benefits”, Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch”), Jason Mitchell (“Straight Outta Compton”), Ellar Coltrane (“Boyhood”) and more. Watch a teaser trailer for the film below.

Read More: ‘Barry’ Review: The Best Obama Biopic Yet, But Not the Whole Story — Toronto Review

The film is written by Adam Mansbach...

It took until his two terms were nearly up, but Barack Obama is finally getting the big-screen treatment. While the standard life-spanning biopic likely won’t arrive until there’s some perspective, in 2016, we’ve seen two films that take a specific look at a crucial part of his formative years. Southside With You, which was released this past August, is a surprisingly moving look at his first date with Michelle, then at Tiff, Vikram Gandhi‘s Barry premiered. Following his college days in New York City, Devon Terrell takes the lead role and now the first brief teaser has arrived ahead of a Netflix debut in December.

We said in our review, “The racial tension in Adam Mansbach and Gandhi’s script is voyeuristic by simply, and smartly, showing us more than is explicitly said. Barry wants to be accepted, but he fears the path to acceptance will not...

During his college days in New York, Barack Obama used to be called “Barry.” At that point in time he hadn’t fully embraced his African American roots yet, but was headed towards a journey of self-discovery that would change him forever. That is at least what writer-director Vikram Gandhi tries to show us in compelling drama Barry, which captures the tumultuous first few college days of the future U.S. president at Columbia University.

This is the second film about Obama to arrive this year after the Sundance hit Southside With You, which took place around 10 years later in Chicago. In Barry, Devon Terrell – an uncanny lookalike delivering a great performance — plays Obama with all the features and characteristics that we have come to know of the 44th U.S. president. He doesn’t just deliver a good impersonation of a 22-year-old Obama, but gets the humanity right as well.

Netflix has taken worldwide rights to Barry, Vikram Ghandhi's film about the young Barack Obama, which had its world premiere last week at the Toronto International Film Festival. Barry stars Devon Terrell as the 20-year-old Obama as he goes about discovering his identity as a transfer student at Columbia University in 1981. A joint production of Black Bear Pictures and Cinetic Media, the film was produced by Black Bear's Teddy Schwarzman and Ben Stillman and Cinetic's Dana O'Keefe, along with Ghandhi and was written by Adam Mansbach.  The cast also includes Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Mitchell, Ashley Judd, Ellar Coltrane

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There are so many reasons for the movies’ recent fascination with Barack Obama’s formative years — this summer saw the release of “Southside With You,” a chintzy rom-com that chronicled Obama’s idyllic first date with his future wife — but chief among them is the feeling that he’s the first modern President who feels like a real person. Which is not to say that Bill Clinton is an android or that George W. Bush is (necessarily) a stack of hay that’s been stuffed into a business suit and enchanted by a vengeful wizard, but that Obama came to lead America in large part because he is America, a one-man melting pot whose vagabond life was driven towards a singular destiny. He knows what it means to be an outsider in this country, to be rejected for attempting to make good on the promise of his homeland. He did drugs.

There were many conversations surrounding Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, most of them bad, and among the more interesting concerned its star, Ellar Coltrane — one of the “what now?” variety. (This interested me so much, in fact, that I asked him about it during an interview in the summer of 2014.) It didn’t take long to get an answer: in September of last year, he signed for James Ponsoldt’s The Circle, putting him in a co-starring position with Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, and John Boyega. And now there’s an update from Variety: the actor’s joined Barry, an Obama biopic-of-sorts concerning the future President’s time at Columbia University in 1981.

They share no details about who Coltrane’s playing, though it’s at least known that Devon Terrell (of Steve McQueen’s unsuccessful HBO pilot Codes of Conduct) will step into the main role; Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, M. Night Shyamalan...

Devon Terrell.

Nida graduate Devon Terrell will play a young Barack Obama in Barry, an independent feature to be directed by Vikram Gandhi, a former Vice correspondent who made the documentary Kumare.

The film will be set in 1981 in New York City, while Obama was attending Columbia University as a 20 year-old, reports THR.

Terrell was cast as the lead in Steve McQueen's HBO show Codes of Conduct, and despite the series being scrapped, that plum booking has no doubt opened many doors.

He'll star in Barry alongside another much-buzzed young actor, The Witch's Anya Taylor-Joy, with a shoot planned for late April.

The script was written by Adam Mansbach, best known as the author of adult children's book Go the F*** to Sleep.

Terrell is repped by CAA in the U.S. and Imc in Australia.

Jennifer Garner is Hollywood's Everymom, and with her cute dimples and sweet voice, she can even make "Go the F--k to Sleep" feel like a warm hug.

Garner is not the first celeb to read Adam Mansbach's foul-mouthed bedtime story. As Entertainment Weekly listed, Samuel L. Jackson recorded an audiobook version, "Reading Rainbow" star LeVar Burton read the book to raise money for charity, and German auteur Werner Herzog even voiced a recording that played at the New York Public Library.

Jen Garner's reading arrives via a Vanity Fair video, the same Vanity Fair she covers with a story about protecting her three children from the "scandal" of her breakup with Ben Affleck. We see Jen lounging by the pool as she reads off the f-bombs, even doing some very Actress Mom-like improv to illustrate soaring eagles:

"The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest, and the creatures who crawl,...

Newcomer Devon Terrell ("Codes of Conduct") has been cast as a young Barack Obama in the upcoming indie drama "Barry" for Black Bear Pictures and Cinetic Media.

The story explores the time when Obama was a college student in New York City in 1981 and forged key relationships, including with a fellow student (Anya Taylor-Joy).

"Vice" correspondent Vikram Gandhi directed the project from a script by "Go the F--- to Sleep" author Adam Mansbach. Shooting begins in April. Teddy Schwarzman, Dana O'Keefe and Ben Stillman are producing.

Source: THR...

Vikram Gandhi’s independent feature Barry has today nabbed its two leading stars, with The Hollywood Reporter bringing word that Devon Terrell has been cast to play a younger version of Barack Obama.

Situated long before Obama made American history by becoming the President of the United States, Gandhi’s movies places a laser focus on his formative years as a New York college student in the early ’80s, where he forged a relationship with a fellow student.

Fresh off her turn in Robert Eggers’ blood-curdling horror flick The Witch, THR notes that it is Anya Taylor-Joy that will star opposite Terrell in the drama, though there’s little-to-no information regarding plot beyond the fact that Obama’s encounter with Taylor-Joy’s character is described as a fateful one. What we do know is that novelist Adam Mansbach, best known for penning adult’s children book Go the F**k to Sleep,...

It's not everyday you get to hear Jennifer Garner, one of the quintessential Hollywood moms, string together a bunch of Nsfw words. But her maternal role on- and offscreen is part of what makes her reading of Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés' parody children's book Go the F--- to Sleep for Vanity Fair all the more hilarious. Since its publication in 2011, Go the F--- to Sleep has been read and recorded by the likes of Samuel L. Jackson and Werner Herzog. But both men have lacked the authentic delivery of a tired mom desperate to get her kids to bed.

It's not everyday you get to hear Jennifer Garner, one of the quintessential Hollywood moms, string together a bunch of Nsfw words. But her maternal role on- and offscreen is part of what makes her reading of Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés' parody children's book Go the F--- to Sleep for Vanity Fair all the more hilarious. Since its publication in 2011, Go the F--- to Sleep has been read and recorded by the likes of Samuel L. Jackson and Werner Herzog. But both men have lacked the authentic delivery of a tired mom desperate to get her kids to bed.

Last year, parent Adam Mansbach wrote a children’s book parody about the frustrations of getting a child to go to bed. “Go the F&*k to Sleep” was an instant success, helped along by some fantastic narration by Samuel L. Jackson. For the sequel, lamenting the years of picky eating, Audible has enlisted the help of Bryan Cranston. You can listen to the clip below Or download the whole audio book for free at Audible’s website. Warning: Nsfw language.

Adam Mansbach, the author of the best selling adult kids book Go the F**k to Sleep is back with a new story for you to enjoy! It's called You Have to F**king Eat, and it is read by Bryan F**king Cranston, the star of such shows as Breaking Bad and Malcom in the Middle. 

He provides the voice of the "long-suffering father whose indifferent child will just not eat." I have a couple little girls myself, and I go through this issue on a daily basis. So I definitely understand the frustration that is portrayed in this story, and I think it's hilarious. 

You can listen to the full uncensored version for free here through December 12th, 2014. To listen to Samuel L. Jackson narrate Go the F**k To Sleep, click here.

Following in the footsteps of Samuel L. Jackson, giving voice to Adam Mansbach’s international best seller, Go the F**k to Sleep. Emmy-winning actor Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcom in the Middle) has narrated author Adam Mansbach‘s tongue-in-cheek bedtime story You Have to Fucking Eat (which was released today after being announced last September). Watch a clip below to get a sense of what listening to his narration sounds like.

via Akashic Books

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Move over, Samuel L. Jackson—there's a new badass children's book narrator in town. And he just knocked. Bryan Cranston was tapped to record the audio version of the follow-up to Adam Mansbach's famed Go the F--k to Sleep—and the Breaking Bad star reading You Have to F--king Eat is everything at the moment. It's also available to download free from now until Dec. 12! So stop looking at Kim Kardashian's naked butt meme and check out this Nsfw sneak peek right here! (This clip contains language that some may find offensive.) "The bunnies are munching on carrots," the narration begins, Cranston's voice gentle and comforting. "The lambs nibble grasses and...