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EXCLUSIVE: Curry Barker‘s adjacent movie from Blumhouse–Atomic Monster and Focus Features, Anything But Ghosts, will besides prima Superstore and The Mindy Project actor Chris Reinacher. Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer are besides producers connected nan pic.
The news comes successful nan aftermath of Barker’s existent pic successful cinemas, Obsession, becoming Focus Features highest grossing movie astatine nan home container agency pinch much than $111M, arsenic good arsenic an A- Cinemascore, uncommon for a scary film.
Reinacher joins antecedently formed Barker, Aaron Paul, Bryce Dallas Howard, Violet McGraw and Cooper Tomlinson, who were antecedently announced.
Blumhouse and Atomic Monster were cardinal successful identifying Barker: Upon boarding Anything But Ghosts some clip ago, they encouraged Focus Features to get nan YouTube genre contented creator’s characteristic directorial debut, Obsession, out of TIFF Midnight.
Reinacher is simply a filmmaker, comedian, writer, and integer creator. His scripted and unscripted videos person amassed complete 400 cardinal views online. His short films person been screened astatine Sundance and Cannes. His latest directorial activity tin beryllium seen connected nan That’s a Bad Idea YouTube transmission successful nan short film, Fly Me to nan Earth, a Sci-Fi Comedy he directed, co-wrote, and stars alongside Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson.
In television, he served arsenic showrunner for Read nan Room, a integer sketch show which has complete 100M views online. He has performed arsenic an character connected Your Friends Will Never Believe You, NBC’s Superstore, Fox’s The Mindy Project, arsenic good arsenic Adult Swim, Comedy Central Digital and lead nan bid Teenage Mountain Lion connected Hulu.
As an early adopter to integer content, Reinacher is an original personnel of Buzzfeed Video, wherever he produced play viral contented for nan first 3 years of nan company’s growth. His individual YouTube page has astir 400,000 subscribers, and his podcast, Wine & Weed, has complete 3,000,000 streams and guests for illustration Michael B Jordan, Machine Gun Kelly, Quinta Brunson & Jo Koy.
Barker co-wrote Anything But Ghosts with his longtime collaborator Cooper Tomlinson. Tomlinson besides stars successful Obsession. With Barker, he’s portion of nan viral drama group, That’s a Bad Idea which millions of followers crossed Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. The pic is produced by Jason Blum (Blumhouse-Atomic Monster), Roy Lee & Steven Schneider (Spooky Pictures), Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath (Divide/Conquer), successful relation pinch Image Nation and That’s a Bad Idea. Executive producers are Barker, Tomlinson, and Image Nation’s Ben Ross.
Reinacher is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham, and UTA.
