Updated, 3:14 p.m: 20th Century Studios has shared the first trailer for Vacation Friends 2, the sequel to its hit 2021 buddy comedy, which saw Lil Rel Howery and Yvonne Orji become Vacation Friends with Meredith Hagner and John Cena.
In the second installment, picking up after the passage of a few months, newly married couple Marcus (Howery) and Emily (Orji) invite their uninhibited besties Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hagner), who are also newly married and have a baby, to join them for a vacation when Marcus lands an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean resort. His reason for traveling there in the first place is to meet with the owners of the resort to bid on a construction contract for a hotel they own in Chicago. But when Kyla’s incarcerated father Reese (Steve Buscemi) is released from San Quentin and shows up at the resort unannounced at the worst possible moment,...
In the second installment, picking up after the passage of a few months, newly married couple Marcus (Howery) and Emily (Orji) invite their uninhibited besties Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hagner), who are also newly married and have a baby, to join them for a vacation when Marcus lands an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean resort. His reason for traveling there in the first place is to meet with the owners of the resort to bid on a construction contract for a hotel they own in Chicago. But when Kyla’s incarcerated father Reese (Steve Buscemi) is released from San Quentin and shows up at the resort unannounced at the worst possible moment,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jake Choi (Single Parents) has signed on to star alongside Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, John Cena and Meredith Hagner in 20th Century Studios’ Vacation Friends sequel Honeymoon Friends for Hulu.
In the original film released to the streamer in August of 2021, an uptight couple (Howery and Orji) makes friends with a rowdy couple (Cena and Hagner) while on vacation in Mexico, but their friendship takes an awkward turn when they get back home.
Clay Tarver directed the buddy comedy from his script co-written by Tom Mullen, Tim Mullen, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, seeing it score Hulu’s biggest opening weekend for an original title, though the Predator franchise prequel Prey has since trumped it. Todd Garner and Timothy M. Bourne produced, with Steve Pink and Sean Robins exec producing.
Details as to the sequel’s plot are being kept under wraps. While unconfirmed, we hear that...
In the original film released to the streamer in August of 2021, an uptight couple (Howery and Orji) makes friends with a rowdy couple (Cena and Hagner) while on vacation in Mexico, but their friendship takes an awkward turn when they get back home.
Clay Tarver directed the buddy comedy from his script co-written by Tom Mullen, Tim Mullen, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, seeing it score Hulu’s biggest opening weekend for an original title, though the Predator franchise prequel Prey has since trumped it. Todd Garner and Timothy M. Bourne produced, with Steve Pink and Sean Robins exec producing.
Details as to the sequel’s plot are being kept under wraps. While unconfirmed, we hear that...
- 10/13/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Double Elvis, the podcast company behind hit music series Disgraceland, is bolstering its slate of original podcasts with a new post-punk series from members of Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure as well as adding a trio of shows to its banner.
The company, founded by Jake Brennan and Brady Sadler, is launching Curious Creatures from Lol Tolhurst, co-founder of The Cure and Budgie, drummer from Siouxsie and the Banshees.
The series will explore the legacy and contemporary relevance of post-punk with guests such as Michael Dempsey, Mason Silva and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, who joins as their first guest.
Double Elvis is also bring three shows under its banner: Washed Up Emo, Sounds and Vision with Andrew Loog Oldham and Women in Hip Hop with Jazzie Belle.
Sounds and Vision is hosted by Andrew Loog Oldham, best known for managing the Rolling Stones. The series sees...
The company, founded by Jake Brennan and Brady Sadler, is launching Curious Creatures from Lol Tolhurst, co-founder of The Cure and Budgie, drummer from Siouxsie and the Banshees.
The series will explore the legacy and contemporary relevance of post-punk with guests such as Michael Dempsey, Mason Silva and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, who joins as their first guest.
Double Elvis is also bring three shows under its banner: Washed Up Emo, Sounds and Vision with Andrew Loog Oldham and Women in Hip Hop with Jazzie Belle.
Sounds and Vision is hosted by Andrew Loog Oldham, best known for managing the Rolling Stones. The series sees...
- 9/29/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The “Vacation Friends” will be back for another wild and raunchy ride, as 20th Century Studios has set a sequel to the couples comedy starring John Cena, Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji and Meredith Hagner.
“Vacation Friends,” which is now streaming on Hulu, followed Marcus (Howery) and Emily (Orji), a straight-laced couple who head to Mexico for a romantic getaway. Things immediately go awry and the couple makes friends with the wild and thrill-seeking Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hagner), embarking on a whirlwind bonding adventure during their week away from reality. But when it’s time to return home, the relationship takes an awkward turn as Ron and Kyla aren’t ready for the vacation friendship to end.
Directed by Clay Tarver, “Vacation Friends” was written by Tom Mullen, Tim Mullen, Tarver, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. The movie was produced by Todd Garner and Timothy M. Bourne, with...
“Vacation Friends,” which is now streaming on Hulu, followed Marcus (Howery) and Emily (Orji), a straight-laced couple who head to Mexico for a romantic getaway. Things immediately go awry and the couple makes friends with the wild and thrill-seeking Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hagner), embarking on a whirlwind bonding adventure during their week away from reality. But when it’s time to return home, the relationship takes an awkward turn as Ron and Kyla aren’t ready for the vacation friendship to end.
Directed by Clay Tarver, “Vacation Friends” was written by Tom Mullen, Tim Mullen, Tarver, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. The movie was produced by Todd Garner and Timothy M. Bourne, with...
- 9/1/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Vacation Friends 20th Century Studios Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Clay Tarver Writer: John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, Clay Tarver, Tim Mullen, Tom Mullen Cast: Lynn Whitfield, King Bach, Robert Wisdom, John Cena, Meredieth Hagner, Lil Rel Howery Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 8/13/21 Opens: August […]
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- 8/27/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Just as it’s easy to imagine “The Hangover” being transformed, with relatively minor script tinkering, into a deadly serious film noir, one can envision an early draft of “Vacation Friends” serving as the blueprint for a paranoid thriller about vacationers who discover much too late that their new acquaintances are aggressively chummy for all the wrong reasons.
Indeed, there is a teasing hint in an early scene of director Clay Tarver’s comedy that at least one of those acquaintances may have sinister ulterior motives. And that impression is shrewdly enhanced by the inspired casting of Jon Cena, a superstar WWE grappler who’s proven capable of suggesting dark undercurrents — or, in the case of the recent “F9,” raising those currents to flood level — even when he’s demonstrating his comic chops.
But no: There’s no tonal switcheroo comparable to Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild” here. Truth to tell,...
Indeed, there is a teasing hint in an early scene of director Clay Tarver’s comedy that at least one of those acquaintances may have sinister ulterior motives. And that impression is shrewdly enhanced by the inspired casting of Jon Cena, a superstar WWE grappler who’s proven capable of suggesting dark undercurrents — or, in the case of the recent “F9,” raising those currents to flood level — even when he’s demonstrating his comic chops.
But no: There’s no tonal switcheroo comparable to Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild” here. Truth to tell,...
- 8/27/2021
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
Juliette Lewis has joined a new mystery TV drama. The Oscar-nominated actress will star in ABC's new series 'Secrets and Lies' with Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Phillippe. The murder mystery show - which is a remake of an Australian TV drama - will follow the death of a four-year-old boy, Tom Mullen, and Juliette is set to play an intrepid police investigator tasked with finding his killer. The 'August: Osage County' star's character Andrea Cornell will suspect Ryan's alter-ego Ben, a loving father who is first to discover the boy's body. Juliette's character is described as a formidable detective, who, according to The Hollywood...
- 2/13/2014
- Virgin Media - TV
The Movie Pool will pay any price for the fantastic Ransom 15th Anniversary Blu-ray!
The Set-up
An airline executive (Mel Gibson) turns the tables when a group of criminals kidnaps his young son (Brawley Nolte) and holds him for ransom. Also stars Rene Russo, Delroy Lindo, and Gary Sinise.
Directed by: Ron Howard
The Delivery
Ron Howard directs this fantastic suspense thriller that delivers at every turn. Mel Gibson is at his absolute best as Tom Mullen, owner of a small but successful airline who has not always played by the book. His past, it appears, comes back to haunt him as a mysterious kidnapper (who I won't reveal here in case you haven't seen it) takes his son for ransom.
As an FBI negotiator (the great Delroy Lindo) and his wife (Rene Russo, teaming up with Gibson again after Lethal Weapon 3) plead with him to follow the kidnapper's demands,...
The Set-up
An airline executive (Mel Gibson) turns the tables when a group of criminals kidnaps his young son (Brawley Nolte) and holds him for ransom. Also stars Rene Russo, Delroy Lindo, and Gary Sinise.
Directed by: Ron Howard
The Delivery
Ron Howard directs this fantastic suspense thriller that delivers at every turn. Mel Gibson is at his absolute best as Tom Mullen, owner of a small but successful airline who has not always played by the book. His past, it appears, comes back to haunt him as a mysterious kidnapper (who I won't reveal here in case you haven't seen it) takes his son for ransom.
As an FBI negotiator (the great Delroy Lindo) and his wife (Rene Russo, teaming up with Gibson again after Lethal Weapon 3) plead with him to follow the kidnapper's demands,...
- 7/7/2012
- by feeds@themoviepool.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
Columbia Pictures has brought aboard the writing team of Tim and Tom Mullen to adapt Antony Moore's raucous comedy novel "The Swap" for the big screen and acquired a pitch by Mark Perez ("Accepted") for Adam Sandler's Happy Madison to produce.
"Swap" centers on an out-of-shape comic book dealer who, haunted by the loss of a priceless comic book, tries to reverse his fortunes at his high school reunion and becomes involved in murder, romance and the unearthing of long-buried secrets.
John Calley, Diana Napper and Lisa Medwid are producing for John Calley Prods. ("The Da Vinci Code"). Columbia vp Rachel O'Connor will oversee for the studio.
The Icm-repped Mullen brothers are set to direct their first feature, the teen comedy "Deers and Beers," with Montecito Pictures producing. Their other projects as writers include "One of the Guys" for Fox starring Sandra Bullock and "Strike" for Vantage with Mark Waters directing.
"Swap" centers on an out-of-shape comic book dealer who, haunted by the loss of a priceless comic book, tries to reverse his fortunes at his high school reunion and becomes involved in murder, romance and the unearthing of long-buried secrets.
John Calley, Diana Napper and Lisa Medwid are producing for John Calley Prods. ("The Da Vinci Code"). Columbia vp Rachel O'Connor will oversee for the studio.
The Icm-repped Mullen brothers are set to direct their first feature, the teen comedy "Deers and Beers," with Montecito Pictures producing. Their other projects as writers include "One of the Guys" for Fox starring Sandra Bullock and "Strike" for Vantage with Mark Waters directing.
- 11/20/2008
- by By Leslie Simmons
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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