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‘From the father of the guy who made Obsession’: is the nepo dad the new nepo baby?
With Dane Cook set to star in his new film, Curry Barker’s dad joins Lana Del Rey’s dad and Tom Holland’s dad in a new wave of nepo daddies A generational shift is happening in Hollywood. The two big breakout films of the spring – Backrooms and Obsession – were made by a pair of plucky young YouTubers who found themselves granted the keys to the kingdom . Both of these films took more money than the most recent Star Wars , the most recent superhero movie ( Supergirl ) and the most recent Spielberg . It is arguably the biggest shake-up of the film industry since the rise of New Hollywood in the 1970s. But perhaps the biggest change is tangential to all of this. This week it was announced that Jeff Barker – the father of Obsession direction Curry Barker – is making a film of his own. Medium Rare is a horror short that will shoot this summer and star Dane Cook and the Oscar-nominated actor
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With Dane Cook set to star in his new film, Curry Barker’s dad joins Lana Del Rey’s dad and Tom Holland’s dad in a new wave of nepo daddies A generational shift is happening in Hollywood. The two big breakout films of the spring – Backrooms and Obsession – were made by a pair of plucky young YouTubers who found themselves granted the keys to the kingdom . Both of these films took more money than the most recent Star Wars , the most recent superhero movie ( Supergirl ) and the most recent Spielberg . It is arguably the biggest shake-up of the film industry since the rise of New Hollywood in the 1970s. But perhaps the biggest change is tangential to all of this. This week it was announced that Jeff Barker – the father of Obsession direction Curry Barker – is making a film of his own. Medium Rare is a horror short that will shoot this summer and star Dane Cook and the Oscar-nominated actor
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According to The Guardian’s linked report, ‘From the father of the guy who made Obsession’: is the nepo dad the new nepo baby?, With Dane Cook set to star in his new film, Curry Barker’s dad joins Lana Del Rey’s dad and Tom Holland’s dad in a new wave of nepo daddies A generational shift is happening in Hollywood. The two big breakout films of the spring – Backrooms and Obsession – were made by a pair of plucky young YouTubers who found themselves granted the keys to the kingdom . Both of these films took more money than the most recent Star Wars , the most recent superhero movie ( Supergirl ) and the most recent Spielberg . It is arguably the biggest shake-up of the film industry since the rise of New Hollywood in the 1970s. But perhaps the biggest change is tangential to all of this. This week it was announced that Jeff Barker – the father of Obsession direction Curry Barker – is making a film of his own. Medium Rare is a horror short that will shoot this summer and star Dane Cook and the Oscar-nominated actor
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