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writer-director-producer Adamma Ebo and producer Adanne Ebo on the set of Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.

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Adamma Ebo & Adanne Ebo Sign Overall Deal With 20th Television Animation.

Filmmaker sibling duo Adamma & Adanne Ebo (Discovery+’s Batman:Caped Crusaders) are further cementing their relationship with Disney Television Studios. The identical twins have signed a multi-year overall deal with studios 20th Television Animation.

Under the development deal the twins will create new animated shows,films and specials for ABC Network,FX,FXX,Freeform,Star and Hulu.

The duo has a pilot animated comedy on development at Freeform Supashawty Girls, Funkamatic Bangbang  for Freeform. Adamma and Adanne serve as writers and executive produce with Tiffany Haddish and Melanie Clarik.

The project follows Yeze and Tule when a freak laboratory accident turns the twin college students into dopeass superheroes, and they must learn to manage their brand new super-powered lives with the growing pains of adulthood. Unfortunately for humanity, they’d actually rather kick it than kick butt & save the world.

“I bonded instantly with Adamma and Adanne because they are just as obsessed with animation as we are,” said Marci Proietto, Animation EVP, 20th Television. “The Ebo Twins have unique voices and perspectives with countless stories to tell. I am super excited to welcome them to our 20th  Television Animation Family.

Added the Ebo twins: “20th continues to be flexible in an ever-evolving TV landscape, while supporting various creative sensibilities. And as creators with a non-stop running list of ideas, we’re super hyped to have studio partners who are just as committed to adding and challenging the television cultural zeitgeist in both animation and live-action.”

Adamma and Adanne’s most recent feature film project, Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul, written and directed by Adamma, produced by Adanne and starring Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown, sold to Focus Features and Monkeypaw at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

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new-to-me #54 - Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)

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Freeform Greenlights 3 New Adult Animated Series By 20th Television Animation: “Praise Petey” “SupaShawty Girls, Funkamatic BangBang” & “Wallflower”

Freeform has ordered 3 animated comedy series from Disney’s adult animation division: 20th Television Animation

Praise Petey Created By from SNL head writer Anna Drezen, who created the series, and exec producers including Monica Padrick, Mike Judge and Greg Daniels a series order.

Praise Petey follows Petey, voiced by Schitt’s Creek star Murphy, a New York City “it” girl who has it all until her life comes crashing down around her. As luck would have it, a mysterious gift from her father gives her a new lease on life: she’s going to lean into modernizing his small-town cult.

Cowboy Bebop star Cho voices Bandit, a potential love interest for Petey and a cult member since childhood whose mother was a high-ranking member. The Good Fight’s Baranski voices White, Petey’s mother, a magazine editor, Manhattan society woman and a terrifying perfectionist who’s never eaten, tasted or seen ketchup.

The Flash’s Kiersey Clemons voices Eliza, a bartender at the local bar and reluctant BFF to Petey, working at her new cult. Magnum P.I.’s Amy Hill voices Mae Mae, Bandit’s Southern mama oozing with Southern hospitality who happens to be the right-hand woman of a cult leader. Barry’s Stephen Root voices Petey’s loving father, a charming, homespun, stone-cold cult leader with some pretty unique ideas about meditation, space, jumping up and down in a field, and how his bloodline is necessary for the salvation of mankind. He may or may not be dead.

It is exec produced by Central Park’s Monica Padrick, along with Bandera Entertainment’s Mike Judge, Greg Daniels and Dustin Davis, and ShadowMachine’s Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico. The series is produced by 20th Television Animation, with animation by ShadowMachine.

SupaShawty Girls, Funkamatic BangBang: Created by newcomer writers and executive producers Adamme and Adanne Ebo, and exec producers Tiffany Haddish and Melanie Clark.

It follows Yeze and Tule when a freak laboratory accident turns the twin college students into dopeass superheroes, and they must learn to manage their brand new super-powered lives with the growing pains of adulthood.  Unfortunately for humanity, they’d actually rather kick it than kick butt & save the world.

Wallflower Created By Julia Edelman, Solar Opposites co-exec producer Danielle Uhlarik, and New Yorker cartoonist Olivia de Recat.It follows Ren, a quick-witted introvert who has the power to communicate with her houseplants. With the misguided help of her charming, but dysfunctional ensemble of greenery, Ren clumsily navigates the many anxieties of being in your twenties.

Praise Petey, SupaShawty Girls: Funksamatic BangBan & Wallflower will begin production in early 2022.

It comes as the Disney-owned network takes another crack at animation, having previously developed a number of series in this space. Freeform has dabbled in animation development before. In 2019, it was working on millennial comedy Betches, written by Rachel Koller and produced by Emma Roberts, and Woman World, based on a graphic novel, written by Aminder Dhaliwal and exec produced by The Guild’s Felicia Day. 

Neither project ended up going to series.Hunter expects these new projects to be the first of many. “We do have a slate of others that aren’t yet at the steps of animatics and artwork and we’re continuing to buy. The goal is for this to continue to be its own pipeline of Gen Z and millennial stories for the Freeform brand,” she said. “We’ve been very aggressive about going out to the town to procure more projects.”

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The 5 Black Women Directors Reshaping Cinema

The movie industry has always had a knack for stifling creatives of color, particularly Black women. Now, newly in powerful positions, Black women directors have been presenting fresh narratives and taking their rightful place in the industry. Their work deserves to be seen and supported, as it reshapes what Blackness and Black womanhood means within mainstream culture. The following is a list…

The 5 Black Women Directors Reshaping Cinema

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Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022, dir. Adamma Ebo) - review by Rookie-Critic

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is a biting satire of southern megachurches and, in some ways, organized religion in general. It was also better and not as straight of a comedy as I was anticipating it to be. Adamma Ebo (and her twin sister Adanne, who produced the movie) have crafted a hilariously unflattering landscape in which these kinds of churches thrive, and one that's potentially (frighteningly) not too far from the truth. Sterling K. Brown's Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs changes so flippantly and without abandon between bombastic facade and genuine that after the halfway point of the film it starts getting harder and harder to tell when he's being one or the other. In the few moments that (I think) him and Regina Hall's Trinitie Childs are being truly genuine, you almost start to have the slightest, maybe, little bit of sympathy for them until you very quickly remember just how amoral and narcissistic both of them are, and how their motivations have nothing to do with spiritualism or, as Lee-Curtis puts it at one point in the film, "saving souls," but their own need to be in the spotlight and live their lifestyle. That saving souls line is a particularly potent piece of imagery, as immediately after he says it an ambulance speeds by on the road next to them.

I'm not a religious person, and even back when I was I never bought into megachurches or TV churches as a concept or something that had justification for its existence, so that might be why I feel this way, but while I do think the script is great and the directing of the film is superb, I don't particularly feel like it's saying anything too profound or necessarily thought-provoking. Megachurches = bad, organized religion = pretty dang bad. This isn't really news to anyone that isn't going to vibe with what this movie is trying to say already. Now, that's not to say I don't think this movie should exist, or that it needed to try harder or go at it any differently than it did, just that, as someone who was already on board the anti-megachurch train, nothing that happened here blew my mind. It was a really funny, very accurate and at-times unnerving film about the nature of these kinds of people who run this kind of business, and believe me, it absolutely is a business.

The true highlights of this film are its two co-leads in Hall and Brown. They each command the screen both when they're supposed to and even when they're not supposed to. While nothing in the commentary blew me away, there was a particular monologue given by Brown in the second half of the film that is truly mind-blowing and showcases just what he is capable of as an actor. Hall also turns in a gut-bustingly hilarious performance herself, as well as her own, almost as equally impressive monologue. This one wasn't what I thought it would be going in, and I'm glad I made the decision to trek out to the theater to watch it.

Score: 7/10

Currently streaming on Peacock.

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2022 Gotham Week Conference - Working with Actors

2022 Gotham Week Conference – Working with Actors

The 2022 Gotham Week Conference & Gotham Week Expo kicked off on September 17th and ran through September 23rd. I had the pleasure of checking out some of the events virtually. In addition, I had the opportunity to participate in a conference that involved the creators of two recent hit films. Throughout the week, I had quite an incredible time listening to filmmakers and producers across the…

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An interview with writer/director/producer Adamma Ebo and producer Adanne Ebo on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

For this month's column at Roger Ebert.com, spoke to Adamma Ebo and Adanne Ebo about HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL.