Barry Mendel
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Chris O’Dowd on the Impact Music Can Have on People’s Lives in ‘Juliet, Naked’ (Video)
Sundance 2018: “Enjoying music or enjoying any type of art is fulfilling and if that’s whats important to you, that’s what’s important to you,” Dowd tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond
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Jesse Peretz Sundance Hit ‘Juliet, Naked’ Goes to Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions
Romantic comedy is an adaptation of Nick Hornby novel
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Kumail Nanjiani to Receive CinemaCon Comedy Star of the Year Award
“Silicon Valley” star will next star in “The Big Sick”
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Amazon Taps Lionsgate to Release ‘The Big Sick’ This Summer
Kumail Nanjiani’s Sundance darling starting with limited rollout
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Amazon Studios Coughs Up $12 Million for ‘The Big Sick’ at Sundance
Sundance 2017: Deal for Michael Showalter’s movie was reached after midnight on Saturday
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LeBron James, Method Man Join Judd Apatow’s Comedy ‘Trainwreck’
Universal will distribute the movie, which stars Amy Schumer and Bill Hader
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Party Report: President Clinton Softballs with Ump Matt Lauer (Photos)
The best industry events of the week: Softball with President Clinton and umpire Matt Lauer, Kobe and Kimmel go 1-on-1 and Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde’s “Drinking Buddies.”
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Will ‘The Heat’ Fuel the Fire for More Female Buddy Movies?
The new Melissa McCarthy-Sandra Bullock film upends the buddy cop genre
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Rose Byrne to Play Bridesmaid in Apatow-Produced Comedy
British actor Chris O’Dowd will play the groom to Maya Rudolph’s bride in the Universal film from director Paul Feig
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Producer Barry Mendel’s Hollywood Breakthrough
“I decided to become the most well-versed person in the room,” he tells TheWrap.
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‘Funny People’s’ Mendel Boned Up for the Biz
Historically, few Hollywood agents have become successful film producers, and probably none in the past 50 years has done better than Barry Mendel, whose Judd Apatow film “Funny People” opens this week. Twice nominated for Oscars, (“The Sixth Sense,” “Munich”), Mendel began agenting as a way to learn the business while figuring out his true…
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Barry Mendel (to Eric Estrin)