{"id":343612,"date":"2025-10-30T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343612\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:19:11","slug":"rob-lowe-keith-david-to-star-in-dark-comedy-my-new-friend-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343612\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Lowe & Keith David To Star In Dark Comedy ‘My New Friend Jim’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Rob Lowe<\/a> (The West Wing) and Keith David<\/a> (The Lowdown) are set to lead My New Friend Jim<\/a>, a character-driven dark comedy from filmmaker Ash Avildsen<\/a> (Queen of the Ring) and his Sumerian Pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently in production in Nevada, the film follows two fathers from vastly different worlds who form an unlikely bond while searching for a runaway daughter in Reno.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy New Friend Jim is a twistedly heartfelt, universal story of how far dads will go for their kids and how parenthood erases the lines we draw between classes,\u201d Avildsen said. \u201cSet in the gloriously offbeat city of Reno, it\u2019s a reminder that it\u2019s never too late to find a friend in the unlikeliest place. I couldn\u2019t be more thrilled with how Rob and Keith are bringing these two men, who are worlds apart but hilariously bound by circumstance, to life on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnthony Mastromauro (The Old Man and the Gun, Finding Steve McQueen) is producing the indie alongside Avildsen, with Paul Leighton, Angelene Tania Grode, and Lowe executive producing, and Brad LaFave on board as co-producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnown for roles in classic films like St. Elmo\u2019s Fire and The Outsiders, as well as series such as The West Wing, Parks and Recreation, and the Netflix comedy Unstable, which he also co-created and exec produced, Lowe currently hosts and produces Fox\u2019s hit game show The Floor, now in its fourth season and renewed for a fifth. Coming off five seasons of Fox\u2019s 9-1-1: Lone Star, where he served as EP, he\u2019ll next be seen starring opposite Crispin Glover in Bleecker Street\u2019s horror film The Third Parent, where he was a producer. Recently wrapping on the Los Angeles shoot for the indie dark comedy The Musical, where he stars alongside Tony winner Will Brill and Gillian Jacobs, and is also a producer, Lowe is repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Latham & Watkins.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn Emmy-winning actor known for his work in the Ken Burns series Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, and Jackie Robinson, as well as Platoon, The Thing, and They Live, David currently stars in FX\u2019s The Lowdown and HBO Max\u2019s Duster. His upcoming projects include the film The Ogilvy Fortune and the Rick and Morty spinoff President Curtis. He is repped by Verve, DVFI Management, and Meyer & Downs.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe multi-hyphenate creative behind Sumerian Entertainment \u2014 encompassing Sumerian Records, Sumerian Comics, and Sumerian Pictures \u2014 Avildsen most recently wrote and directed Queen of the Ring, which told the true story of Mildred Burke, the first female athlete to earn a million-dollar purse in professional wrestling. Prior credits include American Satan and its follow-up series Paradise City. He is repped by CAA, Luber Roklin Entertainment, and Bloch Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Rob Lowe (The West Wing) and Keith David (The Lowdown) are set to lead My New Friend…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[169165,171,169166,53,169167,45131,169168,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-343612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ash-avildsen","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-keith-david","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-my-new-friend-jim","13":"tag-rob-lowe","14":"tag-sumerian-pictures","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115464265071312608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}