A new comedy for the Hulu streaming service has taken the premise of a classic Bill Murray movie and ran with it.
28.05.2020 - 21:07 / variety.com
By Rebecca Rubin
News Editor, Online
Andy Samberg’s romantic comedy “Palm Springs” is hitting Hulu just in time for summer. The movie, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, was expected to first release in theaters but will instead launch on the streaming service on July 10, along with some drive-in theaters.
The announcement is surprising, given how much Neon and Hulu shelled out for the movie at Sundance. “Palm Springs” broke records for the biggest sale in the festival’s history,
A new comedy for the Hulu streaming service has taken the premise of a classic Bill Murray movie and ran with it.
While not holding a physical event, the Palm Springs International ShortFest will continue on in a digital version, with 332 short films selected for their programming. The fest will now also offer a selection of their programming to screen online for free beginning on June 16 and through June 22.
Ellise Shafer editorAndy Samberg and Cristin Milioti find themselves living the same day over and over (and over!) again in the trailer for Hulu’s new romantic comedy “Palm Springs.”The film follows Nyles (Samberg) and maid of honor Sarah (Milioti) as they attend a wedding in Palm Springs, Calif.
Also Read: Andy Samberg Loved 'Palm Springs' Script Because It Was 'A Little More F- Up' Than Traditional Rom-Coms (Video)“One time I smoked a bunch of crystal and made it all the way to Equatorial Guinea. It was a huge waste of time,” Samberg says to Milioti.
“Groundhog Day” and, most recently, “Happy Death Day” have taken the idea of an infinite time loop used that premise for a bunch of interesting comedy situations and hijinks. But those films focused on only one protagonist stuck repeating the same day over and over again.
, I have your next marathon right here: Lenox Hill, new about real doctors, real hospitals, and some very real drama. It takes place in one hospital, specifically—the Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side (with a branch in Greenwich Village)—and spotlights four doctors: two brain surgeons (John Boockvar and David Langer), an resident (Amanda Little-Richardson), and an emergency room physician (Mirtha Macri).
Theatres will be reopening next month, and the first wide release of the summer will be “The Broken Hearts Gallery”.
Canceled does not necessarily mean goodbye. In recent years, TV shows have found new life after being canned by networks, with last-minute and hard-fought saves.For instance, Brooklyn Nine-Nine fans made their disappointment known in May 2018 when Fox canceled the sitcom — starring Andy Samberg (Jake Peralta), Melissa Fumero (Amy Santiago), Andre Braugher (Raymond Holt), Terry Crews (Terry Jeffords), Stephanie Beatriz (Rosa Diaz) and Joe Lo Truglio (Charles Boyle) — after five seasons.
By Will Thorne
The cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is giving back to the Black Lives Matter movement.
In response to the murder of George Floyd by white police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Equality Florida is hosting a virtual LGBTQ Black Lives Matter town hall on Wednesday (June 3).
By Patrick Hipes
, a new docuseries from Netflix, is offering viewers an intimate look at the lives of four doctors working at a New York City area hospital. The streaming platform shared the first look at this real life version of or, which follows brain surgeons David Langer and John Boockvar, emergency room physician Mirtha Macri and Chief Resident OB/GYN Amanda Little-Richardson as they navigate the ups and downs of patient care and try to maintain a balance between their personal and professional lives.