Fresh off the success of his HBO comedy special Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw, actor-comedian Lil Rel Howery has been tapped to host the 11th annual Aafca Awards, which are set for January 22 at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood.
Howery has been on a roll since his breakout performance in Jordan Peele’s Get Out. He has co-starred in hit films like Netflix’s smash Bird Box, the Universal comedy Good Boys, and has a number of films releasing this year including Universal’s The Photograph, Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds, Deep Water with Ben Affleck and Bad Trip opposite Tiffany Haddish.
On the small screen, he starred in the NBC series The Carmichael Show, had his own comedy series on Fox, and appeared on shows like HBO’s Insecure and Southside on Comedy Central among others.
“I am really excited to host this very special and important award...
Howery has been on a roll since his breakout performance in Jordan Peele’s Get Out. He has co-starred in hit films like Netflix’s smash Bird Box, the Universal comedy Good Boys, and has a number of films releasing this year including Universal’s The Photograph, Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds, Deep Water with Ben Affleck and Bad Trip opposite Tiffany Haddish.
On the small screen, he starred in the NBC series The Carmichael Show, had his own comedy series on Fox, and appeared on shows like HBO’s Insecure and Southside on Comedy Central among others.
“I am really excited to host this very special and important award...
- 1/10/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: John Cena, Search Party‘s Meredith Hagner and Lil Rel Howery are attached to lead the comedy film Vacation Friends from 20th Century Fox and Hulu. Clay Tarver, an executive producer of HBO’s Silicon Valley, will helm the film as his first feature directorial outing.
Todd Garner is producing the project under his Broken Road Productions label, which produced the recently released family comedy Playing with Fire, which starred Cena.
Vacation Friends is about a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico. When they return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home.
This project is a long time in the making as Fox had acquired the spec script from co-writing brothers Tom Mullen and Tim Mullen in a near seven-figure deal back in 2014. The initial plan was for Steve Pink to direct...
Todd Garner is producing the project under his Broken Road Productions label, which produced the recently released family comedy Playing with Fire, which starred Cena.
Vacation Friends is about a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico. When they return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home.
This project is a long time in the making as Fox had acquired the spec script from co-writing brothers Tom Mullen and Tim Mullen in a near seven-figure deal back in 2014. The initial plan was for Steve Pink to direct...
- 12/3/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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