Exclusive: Artist International Group has signed French actor Kev Adams whose work spans acting, screenwriting and producing.
Adams can most recently be seen in his original comedy Maison De Retraite (Retirement Home), where he plays a young convict forced to work in a retirement home after being sentenced to community service. Directed by Thomas Gilou and co-starring Gérard Depardieu, Adams also co-wrote and produced the comedy, which was among the top grossing French-language films of 2022 with over 2 million tickets sold. A sequel is currently underway.
Adams is also coming off his Netflix stand-up special, Kev Adams: The Real Me, and the original comedy feature Happy Nous Year (Stuck With You), also for Netflix.
Other notable credits include starring as Aladdin in both installments of his hit franchise: The New Adventures of Aladdin and Aladdin 2, which together grossed $55M.
Kev then made his English-language debut alongside Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon...
Adams can most recently be seen in his original comedy Maison De Retraite (Retirement Home), where he plays a young convict forced to work in a retirement home after being sentenced to community service. Directed by Thomas Gilou and co-starring Gérard Depardieu, Adams also co-wrote and produced the comedy, which was among the top grossing French-language films of 2022 with over 2 million tickets sold. A sequel is currently underway.
Adams is also coming off his Netflix stand-up special, Kev Adams: The Real Me, and the original comedy feature Happy Nous Year (Stuck With You), also for Netflix.
Other notable credits include starring as Aladdin in both installments of his hit franchise: The New Adventures of Aladdin and Aladdin 2, which together grossed $55M.
Kev then made his English-language debut alongside Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon...
- 3/16/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
As far as sequels go, the French comedy The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin (Alad’2), which is a follow-up to the 2015 box-office smash The New Adventures of Aladdin, didn’t have all that much to live up to. In fact, it had so little to live up to that the producers could have entrusted their purported $22 million budget to a class of preschoolers and probably come up with something better than the first movie.
So the good news, at least, is that this brand-new Aladdin is a very slight improvement on its predecessor. Sure, it’s got the same infantile ...
So the good news, at least, is that this brand-new Aladdin is a very slight improvement on its predecessor. Sure, it’s got the same infantile ...
- 10/6/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
As far as sequels go, the French comedy The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin (Alad’2), which is a follow-up to the 2015 box-office smash The New Adventures of Aladdin, didn’t have all that much to live up to. In fact, it had so little to live up to that the producers could have entrusted their purported $22 million budget to a class of preschoolers and probably come up with something better than the first movie.
So the good news, at least, is that this brand-new Aladdin is a very slight improvement on its predecessor. Sure, it’s got the same infantile ...
So the good news, at least, is that this brand-new Aladdin is a very slight improvement on its predecessor. Sure, it’s got the same infantile ...
- 10/6/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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