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Jonathan Kesselman ready to 'Party'


March 22, 2009 Kesselman, director of Comedy Central's "The Hebrew Hammer," will helm the remake of Blake Edwards' "The Party" that Marco Garibaldi is producing under his Godfather Entertainment banner. The project is a $20 million independently financed film that will aim for cameos by a number of high-profile Hollywood personalities. Kesselman, repped by APA and Sleeping Giant, is best known for the Jewish blaxploitation spoof "Hammer," which starred Adam Goldberg as a violence-prone hero on a quest to save Hannukah.

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