‘The Bubble’ Teaser: Judd Apatow’s COVID Comedy About Blockbuster Filmmaking Gets A Meta Peek From Netflix

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.

Sasha Urban editorNetflix has dropped the trailer for “The Pentaverate,” Mike Myers’ new comedy series about a five-man secret society. The trailer comes after Myers joined Instagram last week and began posting cryptic images with fives in them: a five dollar bill, the 5 train in New York City, the five boroughs and a Five Guys storefront.Ever the chameleon, Myers is taking on eight different roles in the new series.

“You’re such a dick.” This oft-repeated line from “Bodies Bodies Bodies” could describe almost every character in Halina Reijn’s terrific new horror-comedy. Set in a remote mansion during a coke-fueled hurricane party gone awry, the film follows a group of wealthy friends with lots of baggage over one fateful, deadly night.

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.

J. Kim Murphy Pete Davidson will lead his own comedy series, playing a fictional version of himself.

Marisa Tomei recently gave an interview where she claimed she was not paid for her work in the Judd Apatow and Pete Davidson film King of Staten Island.

The Apatows are stepping out to promote their new Netflix movie!

The cast of The Bubble scream for their lives while filming a movie inside a movie for Netflix.

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?

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.

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.

Jim Carrey is supporting his friend.

Euphoria’s Maude Apatow, is now Instagram official with Ryder Robinson, eldest son of rom-com queen Kate Hudson, who is herself the daughter of comedy icon Goldie Hawn. Cute! Iris has appeared in a number of projects including Knocked Up, This Is 40, Love, and Funny People. Robinson, whose father is Chris Robinson of the band The Black Crowes, made the relationship public on Tuesday, February 15 when he uploaded two sweet snaps from a date night to his Instagram.

The next generation! Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann’s 19-year-old daughter, Iris, is dating Kate Hudson’s 18-year-old son, Ryder.