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Rapper Kyle’s role in Netflix’s “The After Party” may be his first foray into film, but the world of a young hip-hop artist desperate to break into the music industry was all too familiar to him.

“This is a movie that I wish I had when I was 17 years old,” the musician told Variety at the film’s premiere at the ArcLight Hollywood on Wednesday. “I needed to see it in real life. I needed to see what I was trying to accomplish in a film that’s so descriptive, so accurate to the story of being a rapper.”

In the musical comedy produced by Live Nation Productions, Kyle plays Owen, an up-and-coming rapper whose career prospects couldn’t be more bleak — until video of him projectile vomiting on Wiz Khalifa goes viral on social media. In order to save his shot at a music career, his best friend and manager,...

Netflix is getting the party started.

In a new trailer for “The After Party,” real-life rapper Kyle, known for last summer’s hit song “iSpy,” vies for his big break with a record deal all before the sun rises.

The film, written and directed by Ian Edelman (“How To Make It in America”), follows Kyle’s character Owen as he accidentally becomes a viral sensation — but not for his beats.

After Wiz Khalifa (as himself) gives the aspiring artist advice and some low-grade weed, Owen has a bad reaction and begins to seize on-stage during a set. As is par for the course in the digital age, audience members take video of the incident and Owen becomes #Seezjahboy overnight.

“The After Party” — which features cameos from rappers French Montana, Pusha-t, Jadakiss, and Desiigner — culminates with grand soiree that Owen and his buddy/manager Jeff (Harrison Holzer) try crashing to jumpstart his career as a rapper,...

"Your rap career is not over! ... Tonight, the after party to end all after parties." Netflix has launched a trailer for an indie comedy titled The After Party, a film about an up-and-coming rapper who almost ruins his career when he pukes on Wiz Khalifa. His friend convinces him to take him to an after party where he'll have another shot at making it big if he can perform and impress the attendees. The story takes place during "one wild night", of course. The cast includes Kyle Harvey, Harrison Holzer, Shelley Hennig, Teyana Taylor, Jordan Rock, Amin Joseph, Andy Buckley, and Blair Underwood; featuring cameos by Wiz Khalifa, French Montana, DJ Khaled, Ski Mask the Slump God, Desiigner, Pusha T, Jadakiss, Tee Grizzley, Young M.A., and more. This looks funky and entertaining, but nothing that will make a real mark in the end. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Ian Edelman's The After Party,...

Rapper Kyle makes his feature film debut in Netflix's The After Party.

Kyle (credited as Kyle Harvey) plays Owen, an aspiring rapper vying for a record deal. He and his buddy Jeff (Harrison Holzer) chase fame on one wild night in hopes of scoring their big break.

The 25-year-old rap star got his own breakthrough with the release of his debut album, Light of Mine, in May. His single "Playinwitme," featuring Kehlani, peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard charts earlier this year.

Wiz Khalifa and DJ Khaled make appearances in the film to offer Owen advice, alongside ...

Rapper Kyle makes his feature film debut in Netflix's The After Party.

Kyle (credited as Kyle Harvey) plays Owen, an aspiring rapper vying for a record deal. He and his buddy Jeff (Harrison Holzer) chase fame on one wild night in hopes of scoring their big break.

The 25-year-old rap star got his own breakthrough with the release of his debut album, Light of Mine, in May. His single "Playinwitme," featuring Kehlani, peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard charts earlier this year.

Wiz Khalifa and DJ Khaled make appearances in the film to offer Owen advice, alongside ...

In 2013, filmmaker Marc Meyers took a trip to Bath, Ohio, to visit the suburb where serial killer Jeffery Dahmer spent his formative years. Several months earlier, Meyers had optioned the graphic novel My Friend Dahmer – a memoir by cartoonist Derf Backderf about his brief but intense high-school friendship with the man who would become known as the Milwaukee Cannibal – and he was figuring out how to adapt it into a film. "[Derf] said, 'You're welcome to come by for a couple days and I'll show you around where I grew up,...

When someone kills seventeen people over a thirteen-year span with words like necrophilia and cannibalism circling each murder, sympathy for the predator — not his prey — is neither the first nor hundredth emotion that should come to anyone’s mind. I’m not certain there could be room for anything but disgust whether you’re a stranger, a family member, or an old friend reading the news. And yet we try to find motivation nonetheless. We wonder about how someone could become such a monster right under our nose without ever suspecting it. There’s this unavoidable sense of morbid fascination because we can’t fathom doing what he’s done. The need to therefore discover what in his life drove him to that point trumps everything. We seek reason in the unreasonable.

While it’s one thing to live vicariously through the nonsensical ravings and actions of a D-list wannabe...

Teyana Taylor, Blair Underwood and recording artists French Montana, Wiz Khalifa and Kyle Harvey (also known by his stage name Kyle) are set to star in the Netflix film The After Party from Def Pictures, WorldStar Hip Hop, Hunting Lane Films and Live Nation Productions. Ian Edelman (How to Make It in America) wrote the screenplay and is directing the coming-of-age comedy, which also co-stars Jordan Rock, Harrison Holzer (Sex Tape) and Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf). The pic…...

Recently, CBS served up the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Criminal Minds" episode 2 of season 10. The episode is entitled, "Burn," and it sounds like things will get quite dramatic and intense as the Bau team has to deal with tracking down an unsub that's looking to enact revenge, and more. In the new ,2nd episode press release: The Bau will investigate murders in Seattle and will seek an unsub looking for revenge. Press release number 2: A series of abductions and murders in Seattle, will send the Bau seeking an UnSub who was abused in the past and is out for revenge. In the meantime, Garcia is going to head to Texas to confront the man she shot while defending Reid and herself as he waits on Death Row. C.S. Lee (“Dexter”) guest stars as high school English teacher Justin Leu. Guest stars will feature: C.S. Lee (Justin...

Settling into Sex Tape, I was looking forward to a couple of hours of laughter from this supposed comedy of the summer. (Maybe not pee-your-pants laughter, but more of a constant snicker with an occasional guffaw.) The kind of giggles that typically come with the territory of a Cameron Diaz and/or Jason Segel film. Besides, who doesn’t like a naughty, sexy comedy? Plus, Sex Tape director Jake Kasdan, who previously directed both Diaz and Segel in Bad Teacher (2011), has secured some chuckles from me before. That said, overall, Sex Tape fell flat. Fun to watch; nothing spectacular. Not too naughty – just a tad. Minimal laughter, without the pee.

We’ve all heard this story before, right? Boy meets girl. Boy and girl get married. Babies are born. Boy and girl stop having sex. But then…boy and girl try to reignite the spark and bring some excitement back...

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Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell star in the brand new trailer for Better Living Through Chemistry.

A small town pharmacist’s uneventful life is turned inside out when a chance encounter with a lonely trophy wife turns into a walk on the wild side in the murderously funny dark comedy.

Doug Varney (Sam Rockwell) is the model of suburban respectability—until the night he delivers a prescription to the home of Elizabeth Roberts (Olivia Wilde). Gorgeous, seductive and multiply addicted, Elizabeth eagerly introduces Doug to extra-large martinis, uninhibited bedroom behavior and the illicit pleasures of the pharmacopoeia he has access to in his store.

Disregarded for years by everyone from his domineering wife Kara (Michelle Monaghan) and troubled son Ethan (Harrison Holzer), to the goldbricking employees at the drugstore he bought from his insufferable father-in-law (Ken Howard), Doug surprises himself by embarking on...