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Apr 18 2013 01:07 PM ET

Neil Drumming's 'Big Words' finds distribution label

by Sarah Caldwell

Tags: AFFRM, Big Words, Neil Drumming, Slamdance

ARRAY, the distribution label of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM), has acquired the 2013 Slamdance film Big Words. Written, directed, and produced by former Entertainment Weekly writer Neil Drumming, the movie tells the story of three former members of a hip-hop group who run into each other on the eve of President Obama’s election.

”Neil has created a poignant study of black masculinity and friendship set against the beauty of hip hop and the community it can foster,” said ARRAY’s Managing Director Tilane Jones in a press release. Southland‘s Dorian Missick stars along with America’s Next Top Model‘s Yaya Alafia.

Apr 17 2013 09:00 AM ET

Ralph Macchio is still 'Way More Famous Than You.' See the Karate Kid get a NSFW wax-on invite -- VIDEO

by Jeff Labrecque

Tags: He's Way More Famous Than You, Ralph Macchio, Slamdance

It sort of blew my mind when I realized that Ralph Macchio is 51 years old, especially since Pat Morita was the same age when they worked together for the original Karate Kid. (To repeat: Daniel is now as old as Mr. Miyagi. More importantly, this means you are also much, much older than you care to admit.) Both actors are forever associated with their roles in that 1984 film, a point underscored by Macchio’s cameo in the upcoming indie, He’s Way More Famous Than You. He plays himself — still baby-faced and not looking a day over 31 — a mid-level celeb who is targeted by Halley Feiffer to help jump-start her movie project. Feiffer’s seduction includes a sexualized take on the wax-on, wax-off bit from Karate Kid, which is certainly more sensual and less graphic than a kinky crane-technique reference.

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Jan 19 2013 04:00 PM ET

'He's Way More Famous Than You': Michael Urie previews Slamdance 'train wreck' -- EXCLUSIVE

by Lanford Beard

Tags: EW Exclusive, Michael Urie, Slamdance

Image Credit: Austin F. Schmidt

After four years starring on Ugly Betty, Michael Urie knows his way around women on the verge of a nervous breakdown. So it only seems right that He’s Way More Famous Than You – his debut directing a narrative feature film, which premieres at the Slamdance Film Festival this weekend — centers on precisely that topic.

In Famous, Bored to Death alum Halley Feiffer, who co-wrote the film with Urie’s partner Ryan Spahn (above, left), plays a version of herself — an embarrassingly desperate version, mind you. She loses her boyfriend, agent, and career in one day and sets about on a wild adventure to turn her life around. That’s where Urie comes in — plus Mamie Gummer, Ralph Macchio, Jesse Eisenberg, and Natasha Lyonne. (You know, the usual suspects.) Urie told EW exclusively, “The story is based around the idea that Halley’s life is crumbling… Famous people keep falling into her lap, [but it's] in a ‘too bad for them’ way because they waltz into the movie and immediately get attacked by Halley.” Below, Urie shares another exclusive image and talks up a few of his directorial inspirations.

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