{"id":642,"date":"2017-01-18T02:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2017-02-02T02:32:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T02:32:19","slug":"folk-hero-and-funny-guy-alex-karpovsky-wyatt-russell-comedy-finds-a-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/folk-hero-and-funny-guy-alex-karpovsky-wyatt-russell-comedy-finds-a-buyer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Folk Hero and Funny Guy\u2019: Alex Karpovsky-Wyatt Russell Comedy Finds a Buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/refresh\/new\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VarietyLogo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/refresh\/new\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VarietyLogo1-300x86.jpg\" alt=\"VarietyLogo1\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VarietyLogo1-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VarietyLogo1.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gravitas Ventures has acquired the worldwide rights to the comedy \u201cFolk Hero and Funny Guy,\u201d starring Alex Karpovsky and Wyatt Russell.<\/p>\n<p>The film premiered in April at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and scored 100% \u201cfresh\u201d on Rotten Tomatoes. Jeff Grace made his feature directorial debut with a script he wrote about a successful singer-songwriter, played by Russell, who hatches a plan to help his friend (Karpovsky) by hiring him as his opening act on his solo tour while his friend has been struggling with a declining comedy career and broken love life.<\/p>\n<p>The film also stars Meredith Hagner (\u201cSearch Party\u201d), Melanie Lynskey (\u201cTogetherness\u201d), Hannah Simone (\u201cNew Girl\u201d), Heather Morris (\u201cGlee\u201d), Michael Ian Black (\u201cAnother Period\u201d) and David Cross (\u201cUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\u201d). \u201cFolk Hero and Funny Guy\u201d will premiere in theaters and on demand on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Grace starred in and produced the 2012 black comedy \u201cIt\u2019s A Disaster.\u201d He combined tales of his own stand-up touring experience with that of the film\u2019s composer Adam Erza to create Folk Hero &#038; Funny Guy.<\/p>\n<p>Grace also produced \u201cFolk Hero and Funny Guy\u201d with Ryland Aldrich. Executive producers are Vinny Chhibber, John Davenport, Dom Genest, Tom Hamilton, Mike C. Manning, Katherine Ann McGregor, Micki Purcell, Tripp Rhame and Tom Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>Karpovsky stars as the Ray Ploshansky character in the HBO series \u201cGirls.\u201d Russell co-starred in \u201c22 Jump Street\u201d and opposite Anna Kendrick in the upcoming comedy \u201cTable 19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal was negotiated by Nolan Gallagher for Gravitas Ventures and by UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>View this article at <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/news\/alex-karpovsky-wyatt-russell-comedy-folk-hero-and-funny-guy-1201962163\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravitas Ventures has acquired the worldwide rights to the comedy \u201cFolk Hero and Funny Guy,\u201d starring Alex Karpovsky and Wyatt Russell. The film premiered in April at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and scored 100% \u201cfresh\u201d on Rotten Tomatoes. Jeff Grace made his feature directorial debut with a script he wrote about a successful singer-songwriter,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/folk-hero-and-funny-guy-alex-karpovsky-wyatt-russell-comedy-finds-a-buyer\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-variety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}