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Exclusive: Justin Willman, the magician-comedian behind Netflix’s Magic for Humans, is set to take to the streamer with its first-ever magic comedy special, Magic Lover, on June 17.

Filmed live at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, Magic Lover sees Willman deliver fresh takes on fatherhood, inflation, screen time, and finding order in life’s chaos, in between tricks. Watch a trailer above.

The special is executive produced by Willman, Daniel Kinno, Alex Murray, Stuart MacLeod, Adam Franklin, Brian Volk-Weiss, Cisco Henson, and Davina Dobrovech.

A Critics Choice nominee with an established track record at Netflix, Willman has quickly become one of the most prolific magicians of his generation. In 2024, he premiered Netflix’s Magic Prank Show, a viral hit where he and his crew helped real people pull off elaborate pranks with a bit of magical payback. Prior to that, he created and starred in Magic for Humans,...

Back in February 2015, Grb Entertainment announced the upcoming film Bad Night starring YouTube celebrities Lauren Elizabeth (known as LoveLaurenElizabeth) and Jenn McAllister (aka JennXPenn). Now, the production house, known for reality TV series such as Intervention, has set an official release date for its first feature film. Bad Night will premiere on June 21, 2015.

Bad Night stars Elizabeth and McAllister (who boast over 3 million subscribers between their two YouTube channels) as two high school students who are mistaken for art thieves after they get into the wrong car during a class field trip. Variety, who originally broke the story, reports the Grb-produced film will be digitally released through Vimeo on Demand on June 21.

Directed by Chris and Nick Riedell (of Camp Takota fame), Bad Night is produced by Elizabeth, McAllister, Aj Tesler, and Big Frame’s Byron Austen Ashley and Rana Zand. Daniel Kinno wrote the film’s script, which co-stars...

Alex Murray has ended his partnership with John MacDonald in MacDonald-Murray Management and has become a manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Murray reps standup comics, personalities and comedy writers, and is bringing clients that include Jim Gaffigan, G4's Web Soup host Chris Hardwick, Dan Finnerty and The Dan Band, Nascar fixture-turned-comic Michael Waltrip and comedy writers/performers Brandon McMillan, Todd Glass, Jonah Ray, Daniel Kinno and David Feldman. Murray said that he has wanted to join Bep since leaving Icm in 2000. He hopes to build his comedy business in the model of Gaffigan, who's also repped by CAA. Gaffigan has grown to become one of the top 5 touring comics in the country, and the millions he makes allows him to call the shots. He's now branching into acting and next stars on Broadway in That Championship Season alongside Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Chris Noth and Brian Cox. Murray has...