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Jerry Seinfeld opened up about the negative reception of his latest Netflix movie, Unfrosted. Seinfeld shared that he didn’t care about the critical opinion and commented that he wanted to read the negative reviews since he found them to be funny. The film is loosely based on the invention of Pop-Tarts toaster pastries, and Seinfeld played Bob Cabana, a character based on William Post who created them.

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Seinfeld brought together his writing team — Barry Marder, who writes for his stand-up shows, and Seinfeld show writers Spike Feresten and Andy Robin. The ensemble cast of the film included Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Melissa McCarthy, and Amy Schumer.

Jerry Seinfeld Defends Negative Reviews Of His Netflix Film Unfrosted

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During his latest appearance on the Honestly with Bari Weiss podcast, Jerry Seinfeld made numerous controversial statements that shocked fans.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Ben Thompson on Wbgr-fm on May 2nd, reviewing “Unfrosted,” featuring Jerry Seinfeld as lead role, co-writer and his debut as director. Streaming on Netflix beginning May 3rd.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

The year is 1963, and Seinfeld is Bob Cabana, product developer at the Kellogg’s cereal company in Battle Creek, Michigan. He reports directly to company owner Edsel Kellogg III (Jim Gaffigan), and lives the prototype early 1960s American Dream life with John F. Kennedy, Walter Cronkite, Tony the Tiger and daily milk man deliveries. Kellogg’s rival is Post Cereals, also in Battle Creek, owned by Majorie Post (Amy Schumer). Kelloggs is facing off with Post … with the help of food developer Donna “Stan” Stankowski (Melissa McCarthy … to be the first to create a toaster pastry for America’s breakfast tables. The race is on.

”Unfrosted” is streaming on Netflix beginning May 3rd.

Perhaps, like Jerry Seinfeld, you too have spent hours wondering: What’s the deal with Pop Tarts?! Is it a breakfast item or just undercover dessert? How do they get all that delicious fruity goo inside the tiny squares? Is there a goo gun? Who came up with the idea of putting “docker holes” on the top to keep the toaster steam out? Was it Bob from Engineering? And why the frosting, people? Was there not enough sugar already in there already? I wanna know!

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Plot: Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen, Unfrosted stars Jerry Seinfeld in his directorial debut.

Review: It took nine years after the series finale of Seinfeld for Jerry Seinfeld’s big screen debut, Bee Movie. That surreal, animated adventure was a spot-on continuation of the stand-up comedian’s brand of observational humor told within the context of a strangely specific world. Unfrosted, which reunited Seinfeld with his team of writers from Bee Movie, is another glimpse into a surreal world that allows him to explore his distinct type of comedy with an all-star cast of talent playing real and fictional characters. Boasting glossy, retro visuals and capitalizing on Seinfeld’s well-known love of breakfast, Unfrosted looks like it was fun to make. I only wish it was as much fun to watch.

“Unfrosted,” the first movie directed by Jerry Seinfeld (who also stars in it), is an agreeably flaked-out piece of surrealist vaudeville. It’s a comedy about the creation of the Pop-Tart, back in 1963. That makes it sound like part of the new wave of mass-market product biopics — movies like “Flamin’ Hot” (about the creation of spicy Cheetos), “Blackberry” (about the invention of the smart phone), and the one I think of as the “Citizen Kane” of the genre, “The Founder,” with Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the man who changed the world by taking over and franchising McDonald’s. These films all speak to a time — ours — when consumer products haven’t just taken on a life of their own. They’ve become part of our identities.

“Unfrosted,” however, is not like those other films. While broadly based in reality, the entire movie is a put-on, a wackazoid tall tale, a...

By most standards, "Unfrosted" is not what you'd call a "good" movie. It's visually flat — as a filmmaker, Jerry Seinfeld will never win an award or be thought of as one of the greats (his direction is limited to "point and shoot"). Its screenplay doesn't even attempt to tell a complete narrative — the third act crumbles, as if everyone ran out of ideas and threw up their hands. None of these things are promising. And yet ... I laughed. A lot. I laughed because Seinfeld's movie about the invention of Pop-Tarts is very, very silly, and sometimes you just want to watch something silly. Seinfeld and his co-writers Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, and Barry Marder have cobbled together a gloriously ridiculous feast; a film that doesn't even slightly attempt to take itself seriously. I mean, this is a movie about Pop-Tarts, for crying out loud — how serious can it be?

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The history of how the all-American breakfast snack was created is served up with lashings of goofiness in this comedy caper

Standup veteran Jerry Seinfeld makes his directing debut with this decent family comedy that puts a surreal twist on the history of Pop-Tarts, one of the US’s most beloved snacks: the sheer goofiness and disposable pointlessness are entertaining.

Seinfeld created the film with co-writers Spike Feresten, Andy Robin and Barry Marder, the same writing team that worked on Bee Movie, the animation that Seinfeld starred in, produced and co-wrote in 2007. Unfrosted doesn’t quite have the flair of Bee Movie, but there’s a steady stream of excellent gags, creating a rising crescendo of silliness similar in effect to Seinfeld’s own distinctive falsetto-hysterical declamation at the moment of ultimate joke-awareness. There are also nice supporting roles and cameos, including an extraordinary dual walk-on from Jon Hamm and John Slattery,...

Melissa McCarthy, Jerry Seinfeld, and Jim Gaffigan in Unfrosted Image: Netflix Jerry Seinfeld has never been a great actor. He’d agree that surrounding himself with comedic performers like Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus made his sitcom sing more than his acting chops. So, why he decided not only to...

If you appreciated Barbie’s eye-popping zaniness but its virtuous speechifying set your teeth on edge, have I got a sugary treat for you. And by “sugary,” I mean empty calories, not saccharine sentimentality. Gleefully silly — this is, after all, the directing debut of TV’s master of the domain of nothing — Unfrosted takes the origin-story template, wrings it dry of emotion, mixes basic facts with goofy fiction and serves up a bit of toasted history about the search for a “fruit-filled pastry dingus,” the 20th century creation we now know as the Pop-Tart.

Teaming again with his Bee Movie screenwriting collaborators, but this time without the strained punning and belabored narrative mechanics, Jerry Seinfeld has lured a cast of thousands to play characters both real and invented, often a hybrid of the two, in a straight-up comedy — no therapeutic underpinnings or civic lessons — that’s funniest when it isn’t trying too hard.

For years various producers have pitched doing something like a zany It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, only populated by an epic cast of contemporary comedy stars just like that Stanley Kramer supercomedy did during its time in 1963. So it is probably not a coincidence that Jerry Seinfeld selected that very year in which to set his live action filmmaking debut, Unfrosted, as a quadruple threat of star, director, co-writer, producer.

Placing it in Battle Creek, Michigan and taking the real life story of the rivalry of cereal kingpins Kellogg’s and Post in their race to create a revolutionary breakfast pastry, Seinfeld and his longtime writing partner Spike Feresten, along with their Bee Movie collaborators Andy Rubin & Barry Marder, have chosen to use some real life people, made up several others, salted it all with some basic truths, and basically let the laughs and comedy lead the way in the telling.

Melissa McCarthy, Jerry Seinfeld, and Jim Gaffigan in UnfrostedImage: Netflix

Jerry Seinfeld has never been a great actor. He’d agree that surrounding himself with comedic performers like Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus made his sitcom sing more than his acting chops. So, why he decided not only to star in but also direct Unfrosted,...

Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted is loosely based on the invention of Pop-Tarts. Seinfeld’s feature directorial debut uses a shot inspired by the Steven Spielberg classic of 1975, Jaws. In the film, Spielberg uses the Dolly Zoom shot, which the Seinfeld creator has copied in his upcoming Netflix comedy. Seinfeld opened up about how such classic cinematic shots influenced him as a filmmaker.

Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, releasing on Netflix, will have some interesting cinematic shots

Seinfeld’s film stars an ensemble cast including Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Melissa McCarthy, and Amy Schumer. Seinfeld, Barry Marder, who writes for Seinfeld’s stand-up shows, and Seinfeld writers Spike Feresten and Andy Robin wrote the screenplay of the film.

Jerry Seinfeld Took Inspiration From Jaws‘ Zolly Shot For Unfrosted

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In an eagerly awaited move, Netflix is set to premiere a new comedy that takes audiences back to a pivotal moment in breakfast history. Titled “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story,” the film marks Jerry Seinfeld’s first foray into movie directing, promising to blend his iconic humor with a slice of 1960s Americana.

Scheduled for release on May 3, 2024, “Unfrosted” is inspired by the real-life corporate rivalry between breakfast giants Kellogg’s and Post. Set against the backdrop of 1963 Michigan, the story unfolds as both companies ambitiously vie to invent a game-changing breakfast pastry, igniting a tale filled with ambition, betrayal, and a sprinkling of sugary satire.

Seinfeld, best known for his eponymous TV sitcom “Seinfeld,” not only directs but has also co-written the screenplay alongside collaborators Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, and Andy Robin. This creative team, having previously contributed to some of “Seinfeld’s” most memorable episodes, brings their sharp wit and...

In his feature directorial debut, actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld also stars in an upcoming comedy movie titled Unfrosted: The Pop Tart Story, based on a screenplay he co-wrote with a team of writers. His team of writers included Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, and Andy Robin. The movie stars Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, James Marsden, Hugh Grant, Dan Levy, and more, in addition to Seinfeld leading the cast.

The movie, which is scheduled to make its debut on Netflix in May, is loosely based on the true story of the creation of Pop-Tarts toaster pastries. The actor-comedian reportedly deconstructed his Pop Tart stand-up bit from his last Netflix special, 23 Hours to Kill, and explored it into a giant comedy movie. The debutant director talks about casting Hugh Grant in the movie.

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Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy and about two dozen other familiar comedic faces are out to revolutionize breakfast in a new trailer for the Netflix movie Unfrosted.

Helmed by Seinfeld in his directorial film debut, Unfrosted tells the (artificially sweetened) story of the breakfast food industry’s equivalent of the Space Race, in which cereal rivals Kellogg’s and Post scramble in 1963 to create a pastry — what we now know as the beloved Pop-Tart — that will change the face of breakfast forever.

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From Beanie Babies to Pop-Tarts, the history of distinctly American consumerism is taking a big screen swing.

Jerry Seinfeld writes, directs, and stars in Netflix’s “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story” centered on cereal rival companies Kellogg’s and Post that set out in a culinary equivalent of the space race: create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast. The film is set in the aptly-titled Battle Creek, Michigan in 1963. “Unfrosted” marks Seinfeld’s directorial debut.

The all-star cast includes Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Bill Burr, Daniel Levy, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Thomas Lennon, Bobby Moynihan, Adrian Martinez, Sarah Cooper, and Fred Armisen. Hugh Grant also plays an early Tony the Tiger mascot, swapping the Oompa Loompa orange from “Wonka” for tiger stripes in a full-on costume you have to see to believe.

“Unfrosted” is co-written by Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, and Barry Marder,...

Netflix has released the trailer, poster, and photos for Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tarts movie, Unfrosted, which will be available on the streaming service on May 3, 2024.

Battle Creek, Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A wildly imaginative tale of ambition, betrayal, and menacing milkmen – sweetened with artificial ingredients – Unfrosted stars Jerry Seinfeld in his directorial film debut.

Seinfeld directed the comedy from a script he wrote with Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, and Barry Marder. Seinfeld, Feresten, and Beau Bauman produced the film, which was executive-produced by Andy Robin, Barry Marder, and Cherylanne Martin.

In addition to Jerry Seinfeld, the cast includes Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Bill Burr, Daniel Levy, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Thomas Lennon, Bobby Moynihan, Adrian Martinez, Sarah Cooper, and Fred Armisen.

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If you are a fan of the classic TV sitcom Seinfeld, then you have seen how big a role cereal plays in Jerry’s life. However, the famous comedian has taken his love to a whole new level with the over-the-top portrayal of the reinvention of breakfast as Pop-Tarts hit the market in Unfrosted. Unfrosted is a comedy that stars Seinfeld, but it also marks his directorial debut for a comedy feature film. The cast list is also an amazing who’s who of comedy actors which features Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Bill Burr, Daniel Levy, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Thomas Lennon, Bobby Moynihan, Adrian Martinez, Sarah Cooper and Fred Armisen. You can watch the trailer in the embed above.

The official synopsis from Netflix reads,

“Battle Creek, Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a...

The space race rarely seemed so serious.

Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix comedy Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story charts a challenge that’s cleverly made to seem equally consequential: the ’60s-era battle between Kellogg’s and Post cereal companies to reinvent breakfast with the development of what would come to be known as Pop-Tarts.

And the stakes are high – and deadly.

“I believe we have split the atom of breakfast,” Seinfeld’s character pronounces.

After a series of cutthroat developments, Amy Schumer’s character ponders solemnly, “How did it get this far?”

“It’s breakfast,” comes the response. “Things happen.”

Netflix has assembled an all-star cast to tell this truth-inspired tale, with Seinfeld, making his directorial feature debut, starring alongside Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer and a slew of famous faces in cameo appearances. Among them: Hugh Grant, Max Greenfield, Bill Burr,...

Not a single person asked for this, but we're getting it anyway. You likely never wondered about the intense brand rivalry between Kellogg's and Post that went into the invention of Pop-Tarts -- and, honestly, why would you? -- but the real-life drama behind the breakfast staple proved too much to resist, apparently. In a world where we can get an Oscar-winning drama about Facebook from one of our greatest living directors, a weirdly watchable biopic on the guy behind McDonald's starring Batman, and most recently Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's "Moneyball"-like deep-dive into Nike's Air Jordan sneakers, why the heck wouldn't we get a movie all about the process behind how breakfast was reinvented forever?

From part-time comedian and star of "Bee Movie," "Unfrosted" marks Jerry Seinfeld's feature film directorial debut, stars an all-star ensemble of comedic talent, and, after years of Seinfeld threatening us with this movie,...

What’s the deal with Unfrosted, the new Netflix movie from Jerry Seinfeld? Thanks to the new trailer, we find out exactly how the comedy spoofs the invention of Pop-Tarts. Watch it below.

Making his feature directorial debut, Seinfeld stars as a Kellogg’s cereal exec who aims to redefine breakfast with the toaster pastry we now know as the Pop-Tart. With Melissa McCarthy at his side, Seinfeld faces off against Post exec Amy Schumer, “stacking the deck” by enlisting celebrities like Steve Schwinn, “Chef Boyardee,” and Jack Lalanne.

Here’s the official logline: “Battle Creek, Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A wildly imaginative tale of ambition, betrayal, and menacing milkmen — sweetened with artificial ingredients.”

Thanks to an additional cast featuring Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant (as Tony the Tiger!), Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Bill Burr,...

Netflix has released the trailer for Jerry Seinfeld’s upcoming Pop-Tart movie, “Unfrosted,” set for release on May 3.

Per Netflix’s Tudum, the logline for “Unfrosted” reads, “Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen, ‘Unfrosted’ stars writer-director Jerry Seinfeld.”

As Tudum acknowledges on the official “Unfrosted” page, Seinfeld has been contemplating the Pop-Tart origin story for years. For example, he made his artistic vision clear in a 2018 post on X/Twitter: “At one point I was thinking about an invention of the Pop Tart movie. Imagine the drunk on sugar-power Kellogg’s cereal culture of the mid-60’s in Battle Creek, Mi. That’s a vibe I could work with.” He also brought up the idea on “The Late Show” in 2010.

In addition to Seinfeld, the...

The race to change the breakfast game with the invention of the Pop-Tart is heating up in the trailer for Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix comedy Unfrosted.

Seinfeld marks his directorial feature debut with the film that hits the streaming service May 3. Seinfeld stars alongside Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan and Amy Schumer in the movie that is set in 1963 as breakfast cereal giants Kellogg’s and Post compete to become the first company to create a morning pastry.

“We’re talking about happy childhoods for millions of American kids,” Seinfeld says in the trailer. “Whoever gets to the shelves first is gonna win this thing.”

After news breaks that Post is about to launch its own fruit-filled boxed pastry, Gaffigan announces, “Kellogg’s is entering the race to reinvent breakfast.”

Among the performers who also appear in Unfrosted are Hugh Grant, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Bill Burr, Daniel Levy, Cedric the Entertainer,...

Los Angeles, CA. September 24, 2018: Jerry Seinfeld at the Los Angeles premiere for “A Star Is Born” at the Shrine Auditorium. Picture: Paul Smith/Featureflash. Depostiphotos

Jerome “Jerry” Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show’s final two seasons, co-executive-produced. In his first major foray back into the media since the finale of Seinfeld, he co-wrote and co-produced the film Bee Movie, also taking on the lead role of Barry B. Benson. In February 2010, Seinfeld premiered a reality TV series called The Marriage Ref on NBC. Seinfeld was more recently directing Colin Quinn in the Broadway show Long Story Short at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York which ran until January 8, 2011.

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Fairyland is a father-daughter coming-of-age story that Durham adapted from Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father. The book originally published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2012 is set against San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene of the 1970s and ’80s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic — a crisis that would ultimately claim the life of Abbott’s father, the widowed poet and gay activist, Steve Abbott. Bakalova joins an ensemble led by Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy, which also includes Geena Davis, Cody Fern,...

Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story centres on business rivalry between Kellogg’s and Post.

Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy and Christian Slater are among the all-star comedy ensemble on Jeffery Seinfeld’s feature directorial debut for Netflix, Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story.

Seinfeld stars alongside a cast which includes Jim Gaffigan, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Tom Lennon, Adrian Martinez, Bobby Moynihan, Max Greenfield and Sarah Cooper, who rose to fame during the pandemic with her lip-synch skits lampooning former president Donald Trump.

Seinfeld will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Spike Feresten, Andy Robin and Barry Marder set in Michigan,...

Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story centres on business rivalry between Kellogg’s and Post.

Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy and Christian Slater are among the all-star comedy ensemble on Jeffery Seinfeld’s feature directorial debut for Netflix, Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story.

Seinfeld stars alongside a cast which includes Jim Gaffigan, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Tom Lennon, Adrian Martinez, Bobby Moynihan, Max Greenfield and Sarah Cooper, who rose to fame during the pandemic with her lip-synch skits in which she lampooned former president Donald Trump.

Seinfeld will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Spike Feresten, Andy Robin and Barry Marder set in Michigan,...

Comedy mogul Jerry Seinfeld has taken a crack at directing at least four times in his career, from an episode of his beloved “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” to specials for comedian Colin Quinn.

Now, Seinfeld is getting back into the director’s chair to direct his very first narrative feature, and it’s about the history of how, of all things, one of America’s favorite sugary breakfast snacks came to be.

“Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story” is directed by Seinfeld, who also co-wrote the film with Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, and Barry Marder. It’s set in Michigan 1963, when Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen — according to Netflix — “Unfrosted” stars Seinfeld as well along with a stacked ensemble of comedy favorites.

The cast just announced on...

Jerry Seinfeld is cooking up an A-list ensemble to star in “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story,” a movie about the creation of the popular breakfast treat.

Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant and James Marsden will headline the upcoming Netflix film alongside Seinfeld, who is also writing and directing the movie.

Set in 1963 Michigan, “Unfrosted” is described as “a tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen.” Inspired by a bit in Seinfeld’s latest stand-up special “23 Hours to Kill,” the silly story unfolds as sworn cereal rivals Kellogg’s and Post race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever.

The stacked call sheet also includes Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock”), Tom Lennon (“Reno 911”), Adrian Martinez (“iGilbert”), Bobby Moynihan (“Saturday Night Live”), Max Greenfield (“New Girl”), Christian Slater (“Dr. Death”) and Sarah Cooper (“Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine”).

Netflix has not clarified who any of...

Jerry Seinfeld has assembled a stellar cast for his Netflix comedy Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, with Melissa McCarthy (God’s Favorite Idiot), Jim Gaffigan (Linoleum), Amy Schumer (Life & Beth), Hugh Grant (The Undoing) and James Marsden (Sonic the Hedgehog 2) signing on for roles, along with Jack McBrayer, Tom Lennon (Reno 911!), Adrian Martinez (iGilbert), Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live), Max Greenfield (The Neighborhood), Christian Slater (Dr. Death) and Sarah Cooper (Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine). In addition to co-writing and directing the film, in his feature debut, Seinfeld is set to star, as we told you first.

Billed as a tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar and menacing milkmen, Unfrosted is set in 1963 Michigan. It will watch as sworn cereal rivals Kellogg’s and Post race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. Information on the roles to be played...

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Jerry Seinfeld has assembled an A-list cast for his feature directorial debut, which just so happens to be about the beloved breakfast dessert pastry, Pop-Tarts.

Netflix is behind Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, which will star Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant and James Marsden. Rounding out the cast is Jack McBrayer, Tom Lennon, Adrian Martinez, Bobby Moynihan, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater and Sarah Cooper.

Seinfeld, who worked with the streamer on his 2020 stand-up special 23 Hours to Kill, will also be starring in the film.

The logline for the project, which is set in Michigan in 1963, reads: “Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar and menacing milkmen.”

Seinfeld will direct from a script he wrote with Spike Feresten, Andy Robin and Barry Marder.

Jerry Seinfeld’s movie at Netflix called “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story” about the origin story of the Pop-Tart has added a tasty cast of some of the comedian’s funniest friends.

Seinfeld is starring in, writing and directing “Unfrosted” for Netflix, and leading his cast are Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Tom Lennon, Adrian Martinez, Bobby Moynihan, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater and Sarah Cooper. No character details were revealed.

The film is set in Michigan in 1963 and follows the companies Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, who race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. The comedy film is described as a tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar and menacing milkmen.

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Jerry Seinfeld will produce, direct and star in a new comedy based around the creation of the popular, mass-produced breakfast pastry, the Pop Tart, Variety reports. The film, which will be released on Netflix, boasts the fitting title: Unfrosted.

Seinfeld co-wrote the movie with Spike Feresten and Barry Marder. It’s based off a bit Seinfeld’s been doing for years about the first time he discovered Pop Tarts as a kid. In a 2012 video for The New York Times, he explained the origins of the joke and dissected its structure.

What goes great with coffee? Pop Tarts — naturally.

After the success of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” Netflix has nabbed Jerry Seinfeld’s latest venture, a new movie about the creation of the Pop Tart. Seinfeld will produce, direct and star in the comedy, titled “Unfrosted.”

The movie — which he’s co-written with Spike Feresten and Barry Marder — was a inspired by a popular joke of Seinfeld’s, about when he first discovered the Pop Tart as a kid. The comedian most recently featured the bit during his last stand-up special, 2020’s “23 Hours to Kill,” Back in 2012, Seinfeld dissected the joke for “The New York Times,” explaining that how the first line — “When I was a kid and they invented the Pop Tart, that back of my head blew off” — sets the story in motion.

Production on the breakfast-based project is set to start next spring.

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So Jerry Seinfeld is writing, directing and starring in a movie about Pop-Tarts? What’s the deal with that?

It’s true though, the legendary comedian will turn his attention away from the stage and to “Unfrosted,” a comedy feature film that will tell the story about the invention of the Pop-Tart, two individuals with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

And Seinfeld will make the movie for Netflix, which acquired the rights to the film in an auction and has given the movie a green light with the intention of beginning production next spring.

It’s all inspired by one of his routines that he used in a Netflix special in which he explained that at 8-years-old, “the back of my head blew right off” when he learned about the magical toaster snack.

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Exclusive: Jerry Seinfeld has made it clear he would not inject his comic genius into another sitcom, after generating arguably the best one ever. So he is turning to another outlet — the movie screen — and his relationship with Netflix has just won the streamer a plum project for its film slate. Seinfeld will star in, direct and produce Unfrosted, a film comedy he co-wrote with Spike Feresten and Barry Marder that is inspired by a joke he told on the stand-up stage about the world-shaking invention of Pop-Tarts. Netflix has committed to a green light and a production start next spring.

An auction quietly has been playing out for several days, and Seinfeld’s relationship with Netflix’s Ted Sarandos was helpful in swinging the deal to the streamer. Seinfeld signed a lucrative deal with Netflix in 2017 that brought his interview series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee to Netflix, as...

Jerry Seinfeld will tackle a feature comedy about iconic breakfast pastry Pop-Tarts for Netflix.

Seinfeld will direct, produce and star in Unfrosted, which is inspired by a bit in his last stand-up special, 2020’s 23 Hours to Kill, about the origins of the Pop-Tart.

He co-wrote the comedy with Spike Feresten and Barry Marder, both of whom worked on Seinfeld’s animated feature Bee Movie.

Netflix and Seinfeld have previously worked together on the interview series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, as well as two comedy specials, including 23 Hours to Kill and 2017’s Jerry Before Seinfeld. The streamer also landed worldwide rights to sitcom Seinfeld in a ...

Jerry Seinfeld will tackle a feature comedy about iconic breakfast pastry Pop-Tarts for Netflix.

Seinfeld will direct, produce and star in Unfrosted, which is inspired by a bit in his last stand-up special, 2020’s 23 Hours to Kill, about the origins of the Pop-Tart.

He co-wrote the comedy with Spike Feresten and Barry Marder, both of whom worked on Seinfeld’s animated feature Bee Movie.

Netflix and Seinfeld have previously worked together on the interview series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, as well as two comedy specials, including 23 Hours to Kill and 2017’s Jerry Before Seinfeld. The streamer also landed worldwide rights to sitcom Seinfeld in a ...

In July 1976, Jerry Seinfeld and Eddie Murphy were rising comics, launching their stand-up careers at the Comic Strip in New York City. In fact, the two started at the famed comedy club the same week.

“[Seinfeld] was always the funniest. He had his show down, he was polished, he had it all down before everybody,” Murphy recalled on Wednesday night at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. “You had it together as a person too. You were the first comic to have a nice car. I remember he had got a Saab…and we were all on the side, like ‘He bought this with jokes.’”

The pair, who united for an event to celebrate Murphy’s appearance on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” have come a long way since gushing over a Saab. Murphy is Seinfeld’s guest for the Season 11 premiere of his car and coffee talk show.

We’ve got the trailer for the upcoming season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. It looks just as delightful as the previous seasons have been. Host Jerry Seinfeld is so funny and candid and honest. Each episode really does feel like you’re right there with him and his guest walking around, talking about life and comedy, and of course, getting coffee.

This season’s guests include Eddie Murphy, Seth Rogen, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Broderick, Jamie Foxx, Sebastian Maniscalco, Martin Short, Mario Joyner, Melissa Villaseñor, Bridget Everett, and Barry Marder. If you haven’t seen the show yet, you should absolutely check it out.

Watch the trailer below and enjoy the new season on Netflix on Friday, July 19th.

Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is such a wonderful and funny series. I love this show and I’m happy to report that Season 11 is set to premiere on Netflix on July 11th!

This upcoming season will also be filled with some great guests that will include Eddie Murphy, Seth Rogen, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Broderick, Jamie Foxx, Sebastian Maniscalco, Martin Short, Mario Joyner, Melissa Villaseñor, Bridget Everett, and Barry Marder.

There are a lot of people that I would love to see Seinfeld get on this show, but one in particular I would be so happy to see is Rick Moranis. With all this Ghostbusters stuff going on lately, the actor has been on a lot of fans minds because they would love to see him appear in the upcoming film.

He was just one of my favorite actors as a kid and as a fan I...

FX’s adaptation of Y: The Last Man has found its new showrunner: Eliza Clark (Extant, Animal Kingdom) has been tapped to oversee the series, two months after Michael Green (American Gods) and Aïda Mashaka Croal (Marvel’s Luke Cage) parted ways with the show due to creative differences.

The drama — simply titled Y — is based on Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s comic book series, and takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a cataclysmic event has decimated every male except for one lone human named Yorick. In his travels, Yorick encounters a new-world order of women who explore gender,...

In today’s roundup, Trevor Noah announces two live specials after the first Democratic debates and the new season of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” sets a premiere date.

Specials

“The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” will broadcast live following the Democratic Party’s first 2020 presidential primary debates on June 26 and 27 at 11 p.m. Et on Comedy Central. The live specials, called “World War D: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble – Part I & II,” will provide instant analysis and feature commentary from Perry Bacon Jr., a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, and Howard Dean, the former DNC chair and a political consultant.

Dates

The new season of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” starring Jerry Seinfeld will hit Netflix on July 19. The latest caffeine-fueled conversations will feature Eddie Murphy, Seth Rogen, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Broderick, Jamie Foxx, Martin Short, Melissa Villaseñor, Bridget Everett, Barry Marder, Sebastian Maniscalco and Mario Joyner. “Dark/Web,” an...

Jerry Seinfeld will be back in the driver’s seat on July 19 for the Season 11 kickoff of his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee series on Netflix.

Joining Seinfeld in the passenger seat this season will be guests Eddie Murphy, Seth Rogen, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Broderick, Jamie Foxx, Sebastian Maniscalco, Martin Short, Mario Joyner, Melissa Villaseñor, Bridget Everett, and Barry Marder.

The show features Seinfeld joining friends for a cup of coffee and a drive in a classic car, sharing stories along the way It launched on Sony’s Crackle in 2012 and moved to Netflix as part of Seinfeld’s massive deal with the streamer in 2017.

Sony TV handles physical production of the show via its company Embassy Row.

In Wednesday’s roundup, Netflix reveals the premiere date for “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo,” and Steven Yeun joins Jordan Peele’s “Twilight Zone” reboot.

First Looks

Variety has an exclusive behind-the-scenes first look at Season 2 of Showtime’s “Smilf,” featuring creator and star, Frankie Shaw. The new season, which premieres Sunday, Jan. 20 at 10:30 p.m. Et/Pt, finds Bridgette trying to move forward and focus on her future, while attempting to exorcise old ghosts and atone for past misdeeds. See the clip below:

Dates

ABC has announced premiere dates for a bevy of new and returning shows. New shows coming to the network are “Schooled” on Jan. 9 at 8:30 p.m. Et/Pt; “Whiskey Cavalier,” on Feb. 27 at 10 p.m.; “The Fix” on March 18 at 10 p.m.; and “Grand Hotel” on June 17 at 10 p.m. Series returning to ABC are “Match Game” on Jan. 9 at 10 p.m.; Season...

Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy, a brand-new show based on the bestselling book series of prank letters and their responses from Ted L. Nancy aka Barry Marder, will debut tonight, June 23, at the Geffen Playhouse as part of the theater's Spotlight Entertainment Series.

Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy, a brand-new show based on the bestselling book series of prank letters and their responses from Ted L. Nancy aka Barry Marder, will debut in June at the Geffen Playhouse as part of the theater's Spotlight Entertainment Series. The show is produced by Jerry Seinfeld, and written by Nancy, who will star alongside Beth Kennedy and Sam Kwasman. Pierre Balloon will direct.

Jerry Seinfeld will make his L.A. stage producing debut on “Letters From a Nut by Ted L. Nancy,” a new comedy based on the best-selling series of books of prank letters by an everyman seeking assistance from corporations and government agencies. The show, written by and starring Barry Marder, will begin performances on June 23 at the Geffen Playhouse as part of the theater’s Spotlight Entertainment Series. The official opening night will be June 28 and the show will run through July 30. Pierre Balloón will direct the production, which will also star Beth Kennedy and Sam Kwasman. Also Read: Jerry Seinfeld.

Streaming site SnagFilms has commissioned a new original series from Sundance Productions, “Scammers,” a short-form comedy web series by Barry Marder, creator of the character Ted L. Nancy.Marder is the author of the “Letters from a Nut” book series featuring the character of Ted; he was also one of the co-writers of “Bee Movie” with Jerry Seinfeld; and he appeared in the pilot episode of Seinfeld’s web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” (above).Here’s the series’ official synopsis:How often do you get unsolicited emails, promising millions of dollars for doing nothing more than providing “[y]our bank account information, and the money will be deposited next day”? Most people ignore these emails knowing they are scams, but Ted L. Nancy wanted to know what would happen if he engaged. After long strings of real, increasingly absurd exchanges, written in his clever, sharp wit full of hilarious non-sequiturs,...

SnagFilms has entered the web production business with"Scammers," a new original web series from Sundance Productions and comedian and writer Barry Marder, creator of the character Ted L. Nancy. The project will begin production in February with a spring 2014 release planned on SnagFilms (Indiewire's parent company). The online distributor has ordered 10 episodes of the comedy series with each running between 4-6 minutes. "Scammers" will follow Marder in his alter ego Ted L. Nancy as he responds to e-mail solicitations promising millions of dollars. Each self-contained episode will follow an email exchange between Ted and a different web scammer.  Marder, who first introduced the Nancy character in his book "Letters from a Nut" in 1997, will provide the voice of Ted L. Nancy, with other voice guests to be announced. "I received the first Ted L. Nancy book as a gift shortly after publication, and I had to sit on the floor to survive my laughter,...