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Dan Eckman, who directed Donald Glover in _Mystery Team_ will pair up with the actor again for an episode of the NBC hit _Community_ this upcoming season. Though this is his first foray into directing a sitcom, Eckman was behing the camera for many of Glover’s comedy troupe’s short videos like, “Emo Song,” “Bro Rape” and “Blowjob Girl.” There’s plenty of time for him to prepare for his first attempt at directing a sitcom; he will direct the thirteenth episode which will likely air sometime in January.

[1] Derrick Comedy may not be a household name quite yet, but it's likely you've stumbled across some of their work before. (At the very least, you're probably aware of its most famous member, Donald Glover.) The comedy group met as students at Nyu, and quickly gained a following for their Internet videos, including "Bro Rape" [2] and "Blowjob Girl," [3] featuring a pre-Office Ellie Kemper. Derrick Comedy then made a leap to the big screen in 2009 with Mystery Team, an underrated indie comedy about three naive high school detectives who get in over their heads. Now the film's director, Dan Eckman, has lined up a couple of new projects that'll reunite him with some of his Derrick Comedy teammates. Read more after the jump. On a recent visit to the Community set, Collider [4] learned that Eckman had signed on to direct an episode of the series, which of course stars his Derrick Comedy colleague Glover.

You may not recognize the name Dan Eckman, but if you aren.t at least somewhat familiar with his comedy troupe, Derrick, you are missing out on some of the funniest videos on the web. Eckman rarely appears in these videos but stays behind the camera and lets his stars, one of which is Community star and Twitter king Don Glover, handle the acting. If you haven.t seen Bro Rape, Keyboard Kid, or Blowjob Girl, I suggest you head over to YouTube right away and get searching. Eckman also directed Derrick.s first foray into the feature realm, Mystery Team, and according to Collider he.s setting up his next feature right now with the adaptation of Derrick alum DC Pierson.s novel The Boy Who Couldn.t Sleep And Never Had To. The story follows the high school trials and tribulations of Darren Bennett, a friendless outsider whose...

The summer movie season is here, and that means one thing: Air Conditioning!!! Also, we get to watch some cool movies with our air conditioning ticket.

There will be some familiar if not downright iconic faces to greet us there, but who's not looking to make some new friends? Lucky for us Hollywood is dishing out a promising group of cinematic newcomers who just might have made the leap to stardom by the time school's back in session -- including two sons, one daughter and one cousin of pop culture royalty.

Here's a list of actors on the cusp of becoming big-time screen idols.

Chris Hemsworth

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