Exclusive: The Super Mario Bros. Movie has set its Netflix premiere date for the U.S., Deadline has learned, which is the same day the film is set to leave Peacock: December 3rd. At Netflix, the record-breaker from Uni/Illumination joins a slate of titles with which the whole family can engage.
With the holidays on the horizon, it’s the time of year when locking down titles of this sort is critical, given the promise of a huge surge in viewership. In 2022, family-friendly series and films were in the Top 10 TV or Film lists in 59 countries every week from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Throughout the same period, family-friendly films also made up at least three of the global Top 10 English Films each week.
Other family-friendly fare soon to debut on Netflix includes Best. Christmas. Ever! (November 16), Adam Sandler’s animated pic Leo (November 21), The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday...
With the holidays on the horizon, it’s the time of year when locking down titles of this sort is critical, given the promise of a huge surge in viewership. In 2022, family-friendly series and films were in the Top 10 TV or Film lists in 59 countries every week from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Throughout the same period, family-friendly films also made up at least three of the global Top 10 English Films each week.
Other family-friendly fare soon to debut on Netflix includes Best. Christmas. Ever! (November 16), Adam Sandler’s animated pic Leo (November 21), The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday...
- 11/9/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC has picked up two more pilots to series: 50 Cent-drama “For Life” and the Will Sasso-starring sitcom “United We Fall.”
“For Life” is a fictional serialized legal and family drama inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr. about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit, per ABC. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. The show will also, through the window of his ferocious struggle and his complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden, examine the flaws and challenges in our penal and legal systems.
From Hank Steinberg, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson via G-Unit Film & Television, Doug Robinson and Alison Greenspan of Doug Robinson Productions and Isaac Wright,...
“For Life” is a fictional serialized legal and family drama inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr. about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit, per ABC. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. The show will also, through the window of his ferocious struggle and his complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden, examine the flaws and challenges in our penal and legal systems.
From Hank Steinberg, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson via G-Unit Film & Television, Doug Robinson and Alison Greenspan of Doug Robinson Productions and Isaac Wright,...
- 5/11/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
It’s pilot season — when broadcast networks decide which of dozens of prospective shows should become full-fledged series.
TheWrap’s complete network pilot guide will keep you up to speed on the status of every project under consideration by ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. In cases where they’ve already ordered a show to series, we’ll say so.
Check back often for regular updates.
ABC: Comedy / Drama
CBS: Comedy / Drama
The CW: Drama
Fox: Comedy / Drama
NBC: Comedy / Drama
ABC Comedy
Happy Accident
Writer(s): Jon Pollack, Abraham Higginbotham
Director: Kat Coiro
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television/ABC Studios
Logline: Two Pittsburgh families — a father with three adult daughters, and a hotel lounge singer with her med student son — are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed. (Single camera)
Cast: Matt Walsh, Joanna Garcia Swisher, Vanessa Williams, Elliot Knight, Kether Donohue, Jessie Pinnick, Robert Smith...
TheWrap’s complete network pilot guide will keep you up to speed on the status of every project under consideration by ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. In cases where they’ve already ordered a show to series, we’ll say so.
Check back often for regular updates.
ABC: Comedy / Drama
CBS: Comedy / Drama
The CW: Drama
Fox: Comedy / Drama
NBC: Comedy / Drama
ABC Comedy
Happy Accident
Writer(s): Jon Pollack, Abraham Higginbotham
Director: Kat Coiro
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television/ABC Studios
Logline: Two Pittsburgh families — a father with three adult daughters, and a hotel lounge singer with her med student son — are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed. (Single camera)
Cast: Matt Walsh, Joanna Garcia Swisher, Vanessa Williams, Elliot Knight, Kether Donohue, Jessie Pinnick, Robert Smith...
- 3/26/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Alicia Silverstone is set to star in the romantic comedy “Who Gets the Dog?” for 2Ds Productions and Epic Pictures Group, the latter of which will introduce the film to buyers at Afm. Steven Miller (“The Aggression Scale”) will direct the film, which will be produced by Reid Brody and Bill Ryan (“Bad Johnson”) of 2Ds Productions. Epic Pictures Group will executive produce and handle world sales. Production will start on Dec. 3 in Chicago. Story follows a divorcing couple who are fighting over custody of their beloved dog. “Alicia Silverstone brings a perfect blend of comedy and heart to a wonderful.
- 11/6/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Cam Gigandet and Nick Thune are set to star in the offbeat comedy Johnson , according to a story at The Hollywood Reporter . The film will arrive with a script from newcomer Jeff Tetreault and will be directed by Huck Botko ( The Virginity Hit ). Gigandet stars as a womanizer who wakes up one morning to find that his penis has left him and has taken on a life of its own. Thune will play the penis' human form. Gigandet is best known for roles in films like Easy A , Priest and Twilight . Thune, meanwhile, is a stand-up comedian who has made appearances in comedies like Knocked Up and Extract . Filming on Johnson will begin this week in Chicago with Reid Brody, Danny Roman and Bill Ryan producing. (Photo Credit: Zibi/WENN.com)...
- 10/8/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Cam Gigandet and comedian Nick Thune will star in the raunchy indie comedy "Johnson" for 2Ds Prods. and Roman's Empire says Variety.
Gigandet will play a charismatic womanizer who receives his comeuppance after his penis mysteriously leaves his body and takes human form (Thune).
Stripped of his manhood and pitted against his alter ego, he must find a way to get his dick back while learning how to be a better man in the process.
Huck Botko ("The Virginity Hit") is directing from a script by Jeff Tetreault, while Reid Brody, Bill Ryan and Danny Roman will produce. Shooting kicks off October 10th in Chicago.
Gigandet will play a charismatic womanizer who receives his comeuppance after his penis mysteriously leaves his body and takes human form (Thune).
Stripped of his manhood and pitted against his alter ego, he must find a way to get his dick back while learning how to be a better man in the process.
Huck Botko ("The Virginity Hit") is directing from a script by Jeff Tetreault, while Reid Brody, Bill Ryan and Danny Roman will produce. Shooting kicks off October 10th in Chicago.
- 10/7/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
For the tenth edition of Film Art: An Introduction, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are partnering with Criterion to present Connect Film, an hour-long set of twenty videos on various aspects of filmmaking addressed in the now-classic textbook. Above: "Elliptical Editing in Vagabond (1985)." Kristin Thompson: "Most of the other Connect examples illustrate the chapters on the four types of film technique: mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound. There's also a short documentary about digital animation."
More books. You may remember that Dave Kehr is quite an admirer of the writing of Arlene Croce, a dance critic for the New Yorker from 1973 to 1998. She's also the author of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book and, in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, she reviews Todd Decker's Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz and Kathleen Riley's The Astaires: Fred and Adele. As the Boston Globe's Mark Feeney writes,...
More books. You may remember that Dave Kehr is quite an admirer of the writing of Arlene Croce, a dance critic for the New Yorker from 1973 to 1998. She's also the author of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book and, in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, she reviews Todd Decker's Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz and Kathleen Riley's The Astaires: Fred and Adele. As the Boston Globe's Mark Feeney writes,...
- 3/19/2012
- MUBI
Just spotted Scott Macaulay's item at Filmmaker noting that not only has Joe Swanberg completed yet another film he's also put it up on Vimeo, where anyone anywhere can watch it for free throughout January. Marriage Material (55'30") features himself, Kentucker Audley, Adam Wingard, Caroline White, Kris Swanberg, Jude Swanberg and Amanda Crawford and focuses on a young Memphis couple who "agree to babysit their friend's 6-month-old for a day. The experience causes them to examine their own relationship and their feelings about marriage and children."
For the Los Angeles Times, Mark Olsen's asked Joe why he's doing this and Joe's got five good answers. The first one: "The date of the 'release' is connected to the shipment of the first DVD in the Joe Swanberg: Collected Films 2011 set that Factory 25 is doing, but it's not lost on me that Sundance is also starting this week. The Sundance...
For the Los Angeles Times, Mark Olsen's asked Joe why he's doing this and Joe's got five good answers. The first one: "The date of the 'release' is connected to the shipment of the first DVD in the Joe Swanberg: Collected Films 2011 set that Factory 25 is doing, but it's not lost on me that Sundance is also starting this week. The Sundance...
- 1/18/2012
- MUBI
Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men (1957) "has become a cultural touchstone, a time capsule of American justice before the civil rights era and the expansion of civil liberties in the 1960s," writes Thane Rosenbaum for Criterion, which releases a new DVD and Blu-ray this week. "Its influence has been vast, and it established Lumet's reputation as an artist at the forefront of social change."
"The crown jewel of the Criterion disc's extras has to be the original television broadcast of 12 Angry Men, written by [Reginald] Rose and directed by Franklin J Schaffner for Studio One in 1954," notes Bill Ryan, and he compares and contrasts the two productions at considerable length. With its "sterling image and extensive extras," this package scores DVD Beaver's "highest recommendation and will be noted in our Year End Poll."
Today and Friday, MoMA is featuring three programs of work by Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures, 1963). Bradford Nordeen for the...
"The crown jewel of the Criterion disc's extras has to be the original television broadcast of 12 Angry Men, written by [Reginald] Rose and directed by Franklin J Schaffner for Studio One in 1954," notes Bill Ryan, and he compares and contrasts the two productions at considerable length. With its "sterling image and extensive extras," this package scores DVD Beaver's "highest recommendation and will be noted in our Year End Poll."
Today and Friday, MoMA is featuring three programs of work by Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures, 1963). Bradford Nordeen for the...
- 11/23/2011
- MUBI
Le beau Serge
"The story of Les cousins could be straight out of one of the Balzac novels that the film's lead character Charles peruses at a second-hand bookshop," suggests Andrew Schenker in Slant: "Ambitious provincial comes to Paris and receives his moral education in the hotbed of corruption and/or decadence that characterizes life in the capital. In Claude Chabrol's film, his second directorial effort following his 1958 debut, Le beau Serge, the milieu in question is the debauched world of students, young women, and older hangers-on that the director delineates with superb specificity of detail and a virtuoso display of sickening verve." Criteron's presentation, he adds, "is a fitting testament to the late director's brilliance."
Criterion's also releasing Le beau Serge today and the essays by Terrence Rafferty that accompany each have been posted in Current. When Le beau Serge premiered out of competition in Cannes, notes Rafferty,...
"The story of Les cousins could be straight out of one of the Balzac novels that the film's lead character Charles peruses at a second-hand bookshop," suggests Andrew Schenker in Slant: "Ambitious provincial comes to Paris and receives his moral education in the hotbed of corruption and/or decadence that characterizes life in the capital. In Claude Chabrol's film, his second directorial effort following his 1958 debut, Le beau Serge, the milieu in question is the debauched world of students, young women, and older hangers-on that the director delineates with superb specificity of detail and a virtuoso display of sickening verve." Criteron's presentation, he adds, "is a fitting testament to the late director's brilliance."
Criterion's also releasing Le beau Serge today and the essays by Terrence Rafferty that accompany each have been posted in Current. When Le beau Serge premiered out of competition in Cannes, notes Rafferty,...
- 9/22/2011
- MUBI
When, in 1934, Jean Vigo died of tuberculosis, he was only 29, "a neglected figure at the margins of the industry who had seen one of his films (Zéro de Conduite) banned by the French authorities and another (L'Atalante) recut and retitled by its producer." Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times: "Vigo lends himself to romanticization, and not just because of his tragic early death and the aura of unfulfilled promise. He led a brief but colorful life as a fellow traveler of the French surrealists and the son of a well-known anarchist who was apparently murdered in prison. Vigo's first film, the silent, 23-minute À Propos de Nice (On the Subject of Nice), part of the 'city symphony' genre that flourished in the 1920s, confirmed that the young Jean was very much his father's son…. All of Vigo's films were shot by Boris Kaufman, brother of the Soviet film pioneer...
- 8/31/2011
- MUBI
"It's easy to enjoy Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas for the campy excess of their acting and story lines," blogs Dave Kehr, "but it's more productive to take them seriously, I think — to see how cleanly and elegantly Matarazzo presents this bezerko material, with a visual style that reminded Jacques Lourcelles of Lang, Dreyer and Mizoguchi, and how perfectly engineered his narratives are, with every outlandish episode incorporated into a serene, symmetrical structure. The new Matarazzo box set (my New York Times review is here) from Criterion's budget Eclipse line contains four of Matarazzo's seven films with the towering star couple Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson (literally — Matarazzo's mise-en-scene somehow makes them seem larger, both physically and emotionally, than any of the other characters on the screen), all subtitled in English for the first time: Chains (1949) [image above], Tormento (1950), Nobody's Children (1952) and The White Angel (1955)."
"Though immensely popular, the films were dismissed by...
"Though immensely popular, the films were dismissed by...
- 6/30/2011
- MUBI
Updated.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly restored Despair (1978) "was one of the hottest tickets in the Classics sidebar" in Cannes this year, notes Dennis Lim in his Los Angeles Times review of the new DVD out from Olive Films, which has also issued Fassbinder's I Only Want You to Love Me (1976). "The relative obscurity of Despair is surprising given its pedigree. It's based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel, adapted by Tom Stoppard, and starring the English actor Dirk Bogarde. Nabokov's story of a Russian émigré, written in the 30s, takes place in Prague. Fassbinder changed the setting to early-30s Berlin, teetering on the abyss of the Third Reich…. Despair is perhaps the most explicit elaboration of one of Fassbinder's recurring themes: the alienation of someone who not only 'stands outside himself,' as Hermann [Bogarde] puts it, but also wants to escape himself and indeed flee the trap of identity altogether.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly restored Despair (1978) "was one of the hottest tickets in the Classics sidebar" in Cannes this year, notes Dennis Lim in his Los Angeles Times review of the new DVD out from Olive Films, which has also issued Fassbinder's I Only Want You to Love Me (1976). "The relative obscurity of Despair is surprising given its pedigree. It's based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel, adapted by Tom Stoppard, and starring the English actor Dirk Bogarde. Nabokov's story of a Russian émigré, written in the 30s, takes place in Prague. Fassbinder changed the setting to early-30s Berlin, teetering on the abyss of the Third Reich…. Despair is perhaps the most explicit elaboration of one of Fassbinder's recurring themes: the alienation of someone who not only 'stands outside himself,' as Hermann [Bogarde] puts it, but also wants to escape himself and indeed flee the trap of identity altogether.
- 6/14/2011
- MUBI
"Margot Benacerraf, now in her 80s, only ever made one feature-length film," begins Josef Braun, "but that film remains so extraordinary, so very nearly singular, that it merits an admiration on par with many more prolific and esteemed bodies of work. After studying and gathering numerous influential allies in France and elsewhere, Benacerraf returned to her native Venezuela, specifically to an island no one had heard of, though when was discovered by the Spanish 450 years earlier it was deemed a sort of paradise on account of its abundance of one resource: salt, as valuable back then as gold. We can see the ruins of colonial fortresses erected to protect the island and its salt marshes, once the center of piracy in the Caribbean, during the prologue of Araya (1959). But historical context quickly gives way to the seeming timelessness of hard labour, to Benacerraf's lyrical approach to depicting the life of a community that was,...
- 5/17/2011
- MUBI
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