Last season, the handmade signs that signify neighborhood filming began to reemerge on phone poles around Los Angeles; the industry’s hibernation was ending. Now, dealmaking is back with every bit of certainty presently available in Hollywood.
New Line Cinema, for example, announced this week it will be rocking with the COVID epoch’s most bankable non-Zoom phenomenon: Sweet Mary Jane.
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- Jake Peralta and the Pontiac Bandit, aka Craig Robinson and Andy Samberg, are producing and starring in the comedy Super High, whose premise concerns a strain that gives the duo super powers. It levels up conceptually on Redman and Method Man’s 2001 college romp How High?
- Bay Area writer Adam Mansbach has been tapped to write the script. Mansbach’s resume includes the classic children’s book Go the Fuck to Sleep and Barry, the 2016 Obama-in-college flick.
Quick Hits
- Ordinarily, feature stories on publicists are gross. But very few publicists are Zoe Wilder, an LA woman with her hand in a shocking amount of significant weed events.
High Times - Actor Jason Mantzoukas was 36 when he first got stoned. In this clip he shares a minimally entertaining anecdote about that. Cultural forecasters say we’re roughly 18 months from repetitive newbie tales toppling over The Tacky Point and our no longer having to endure them in silence.
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