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EXCLUSIVE: Following their caller occurrence pinch nan drama Pizza Movie, which held nan #1 spot for a week connected some Hulu and Disney+ pursuing its SXSW premiere, American High is reuniting pinch co-star Peyton Elizabeth Lee connected Second First Date, a caller movie that they’ve enlisted Matt Sacca to write.
A high-concept, R-rated drama based connected an original thought from American High laminitis Jeremy Garelick, Second First Date follows Nora (Lee), a romantically jaded high-schooler who unexpectedly falls for nan feline of her dreams, Charlie, astatine an anarchic, unforgettable location party. When Charlie accidentally concusses himself and forgets their full nighttime together, Nora enlists nan thief of champion friend and statement animal Hailey to painstakingly recreate nan aforesaid bash, hit by unhinged beat, to triumph him complete again.
In summation to starring, Lee will nutrient nether her Prince Hobo Productions banner, alongside Garelick and Ben Frahm (How to Train Your Dragon).
For Garelick, nan task marks a full-circle infinitesimal years successful nan making. Its origins trace backmost to a “Script-to-Screen” people put connected by American High astatine Syracuse University successful nan Spring of 2019, wherever Garelick first sounded nan conception to then-senior Sacca and 2 of his classmates, Fallon Siegler and Daniel Walters. The trio went connected to constitute nan original draught wrong nan program, gaining hands-on acquisition successful master book development, conducting extended rewrites, and addressing workplace notes.
Garelick and Frahm taught nan first American High course, helped shepherd nan first draft, and proceed to cultivate a beardown moving narration betwixt Syracuse University and American High. Frahm has remained intimately progressive pinch nan task since its inception and still meets pinch Sacca play while school his “Finding nan Next Great High-School Comedy” people astatine Syracuse.
Sacca was American High’s very first intern, and successful nan years since graduating, has go a cornerstone of nan company’s imaginative pipeline. In his domiciled astatine American High, he has provided feedback connected thousands of scripts, expanded nan company’s scope to much than 100 universities, and helped build its Academy and internship programs while mentoring hundreds of emerging writers.
“I first met Jeremy 9 years ago, earlier American High had changeable a azygous movie,” Sacca remembers. “He showed disconnected a splashy sizzle reel featuring iconic John Hughes scenes—John Bender’s pumped fist successful nan shot field, Ferris Bueller’s parade float singalong to Twist and Shout—and fto nan activity speak for itself. Now, astir a decade later, acknowledgment to nan gracious, imaginative collaboration betwixt Peyton and Tinpo Lee, their accumulation banner Prince Hobo, and American High, it’s clip to fto our activity speak for itself!”
American High’s laminitis and CEO, Garelick, told america of Sacca, “Matt understands nan tone, nan audience, and nan process. He’s proven he tin return notes, instrumentality feedback, and present an inventive, hilarious communicative we’re proud to stock pinch nan world. This is precisely why we built American High nan measurement we did.”
Garelick added, “Peyton was nan evident prime for nan lead — she’s funny, fearless, her comedic timing is spot on, and her producing chops made her nan cleanable partner alongside Ben to bring this movie to life.”
Prior to Pizza Movie — a drama pursuing a brace of assemblage roommates (Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone) connected absurd misadventures successful attempting to get pizza while precocious — Lee starred successful Hulu’s scary movie Carved and nan Disney+ bid Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. She besides voiced nan lead successful nan upcoming stop-motion characteristic Wildwood from Laika. Lee’s past credits see Stumptown, Shameless, Andi Mack, and Secret Society of Second Born Royals, for which she earned a Critics Choice nomination. She and her Prince Hobo Productions are repped by Gersh, Artists First, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Founded by multi-hyphenate filmmaker Garelick successful nan autumn of 2017, American High is simply a accumulation institution specializing successful provocative teen comedies that operates retired of a erstwhile schoolhouse successful Syracuse, NY. They’ve produced 22 features to day — notable examples being Big Time Adolescence, The Binge, and Plan B — and person their ain multi-platform drama network, American High Digital, which has garnered astir 10 cardinal followers and complete 8 cardinal views. Apropos for nan mounting they emerged retired of, they besides spearhead nan nonprofit Academy astatine American High, which has trained complete 1,000 students for careers successful film, tech, and media. Part of that effort is American High’s Script-to-Screen, nan aforementioned acquisition inaugural intended to immerse students straight successful nan studio’s improvement pipeline.
