Judd Apatow loves taking some of life’s most interesting moments and turning them into comedies. “Knocked Up” took a look at the ridiculousness that sometimes surrounds a pregnancy.
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As we close out the second full year of the coronavirus pandemic, many are taking stock of all the ways the world has changed as it struggled to contain and eradicate a deadly virus. And if you’re Judd Apatow, what better way to do that than with a hilarious ensemble comedy?
On Friday, Netflix released the trailer for the writer-director’s new film, “The Bubble”, a meta look at how the cast and crew of a major studio film — in this case, the monstrously green-screened “Cliff Beasts 6” — cope with living and working under strict COVID guidelines during a locked-down production “somewhere in England.”
“We are one of two movies in production right now,” a studio executive, played by Kate McKinnon, notes in the trailer. “If we fail, the studio is going to go down.”
Leslie Mann, Pedro Pascal, David Duchovny, Karen Gillan, Keegan-Michael Key, Iris Apatow and more star as the cast of the film-within-the-film, who have to put up with eccentric studio demands, PPE requirements, an outbreak of influenza and more, all while battling giant, imaginary monsters.
“This movie’s gonna make the world forget about all of their problems,” says the “Cliff Beasts” director, played by Fred Armisen, in the trailer.
The film also stars Maria Bakalova, Peter Serafinowicz, Vir Das, Rob Delaney and more. Check out the full trailer above.
“The Bubble” premieres April 1 on Netflix.
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Judd Apatow loves taking some of life’s most interesting moments and turning them into comedies. “Knocked Up” took a look at the ridiculousness that sometimes surrounds a pregnancy.
“The Bubble.” The filmmaker said back in 2013 that he was interested in revisiting the family at the center of “This Is 40” in a further sequel, especially checking in on the family’s daughters (played by Apatow’s real-life daughters Maude and Iris Apatow).Apatow told TheWrap that the timing is right for “This Is 50,” and he’s been hard at work outlining what the story would be. “I couldn’t have done it five years ago and I can’t do it five years from now, so I’ve been outlining that and hope it’s something that we get to do.
Judd Apatow and his Apatow Productions have signed a multiyear production deal for both film and TV with Universal Pictures and Universal Studio Group, continuing the director’s relationship with the studio. Apatow’s relationship with Universal dates back to 2005’s “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” and the upcoming “Bros” with Billy Eichner.
Filmmaker Judd Apatow has hammered a multi-year production film and TV pact across NBCUniversal including Universal Pictures and Universal Studio Group. The parties’ working relationship began with the 2005 $177M-plus grossing comedy blockbuster The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Apatow’s movies have grossed close to $3 billion around the world, the studio’s most successful original comedies.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterUniversal will continue to be in the business of Judd Apatow.The company’s film and television studios announced on Wednesday that they have entered into multi-year production agreements with Apatow and his company Apatow Productions.Apatow’s relationship with Universal Pictures began in 2005 with “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and has continued to be mutually successful. His films, including “Knocked Up,” “Trainwreck” and most recently “The King of Staten Island,” have grossed nearly $3 billion at the global box office.
Mike Myers is back.
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Mike Myers’ six-episode Netflix comedy series The Pentaverate is playing off the number 5 from the title in a big way for its release plans. Since joining Instagram a week ago, Myers had been teasing the first trailer with images prominently featuring the number. This morning, the account posted the teaser at 5:55 PM PT, announcing that The Pentaverate will debut 5/5.
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Judd Apatow is one proud dad! ET's Will Marfuggi spoke with the 54-year-old filmmaker at the 74th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards over the weekend, and he gushed over his oldest daughter's acting success on . Judd and wife Leslie Mann share two girls, Maude, 24, and Iris, 19.«I'm just in a puddle,» Judd told ET of watching Maude play Lexi on HBO's hit series. «I'm just bawling and crying.»«I'm excited to watch it again, because it was really emotional watching it the first time, because of the show and also because of how amazing she was in it, I thought,» he added.Judd noted that, as a parent, «you're always happy when your kids are doing well and have a job.»«She's doing the things she loves doing and doing an incredible job, so we're thrilled,» he added of himself and Leslie, 49.As for Judd, he was hard at work at the awards show, where he served as the host.«It's all directors jokes.
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Wilson Chapman editorNetflix has released the first trailer for ‘The Bubble,’ Judd Apatow’s upcoming comedy about a cast and crew of a blockbuster movie in production during the COVID-19 pandemic.In “The Bubble,” Karen Gillan and Pedro Pascal play the lead actors in the action film “Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle for Everest: Memories of a Requiem,” who get stranded at a hotel after the pandemic halts production. Leslie Mann and David Duchovny also star, playing a divorced acting couple forced to quarantine together.
here and above.As for the movie within the movie, according to its official synopsis, “Cliff Beasts 6” follows humankind as it is “threatened once again by a dinosaur species: Cliff Beasts.
The pandemic has been brutal for the entire world over the past two years. But haven’t you wondered what COVID has been like for the Hollywood crowd? Well, thankfully we have Judd Apatow here to give us a comedic look at the pandemic and its effect on filmmaking in the new film, “The Bubble.” READ MORE: Netflix Reportedly Will Not Premiere Films At This Year’s Cannes Film Festival As seen in the trailer for the film, “The Bubble” takes place during the height of the pandemic, in the fall of 2020, with a group of big-name actors trying to film a long-awaited sequel to the “Cliff Beasts” franchise.
During the early part of COVID, it was revealed that Judd Apatow was writing a new film that was expected to tell the story of a group of actors having to make a film while in a pandemic “bubble” where they are cut off from most of the outside world. Since then, not much has been known except for the casting, and if you’re only going on the new teaser from Netflix, you’re not going to learn much else about “The Bubble.” READ MORE: ‘The Bubble’: Judd Apatow’s Pandemic Comedy To Star Pedro Pascal, Karen Gillan, Keegan-Michael Key, Maria Bakalova & Others As seen in the teaser, you won’t even know that the film they’re promoting is actually called “The Bubble.” Instead of a typical trailer, Netflix has decided to do a teaser for the film-within-a-film, “Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle For Everest.” That film looks like a mix of “Jurassic World” meets “Jumanji,” as it follows a group of adventurers having to climb a mountain and fight monsters.
Ethan Shanfeld Judd Apatow’s upcoming, star-studded Netflix film “The Bubble” follows a group of actors stuck inside a pandemic bubble while shooting a movie at a hotel. That movie — “Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle for Everest: Memories of a Requiem” — just got its own official teaser.“The Bubble” stars Karen Gillan, Fred Armisen, Maria Bakalova, Keegan-Michael Key, David Duchovny, Leslie Mann, Pedro Pascal, Peter Serafinowicz, Vir Das, Rob Delaney and Apatow’s daughter, Iris Apatow.Apatow directs, produces and co-wrote the script for “The Bubble” with Pam Brady, who executive produces alongside Donald Sabourin and Apatow’s longtime partner Barry Mendel.
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