Exclusive: Disney+ reboot of the 80s classic Three Men And A Baby is gaining steam as director Mo Marable has been tapped to direct the movie for the streamer. Zac Efron recently signed on to star in the pic.
The remake is intended for Disney+ with Disney’s live-action division running point. Gordon Gray is producing.
The original pic starrec Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson – as New York bachelors who find themselves caring, and subsequently, falling for, an infant. Drug dealers who threatened the child also figured into the plot.
The movie becoming the first live-action Disney film to cross the $100 million mark domestically. It was followed by Three Men and a Little Lady in 1990.
Will Reichel wrote the script for the remake. It is unclear how the material will be updated.
Marable is also set to direct Grand Crew, Dan Goor, and Phil Jackson’s upcoming comedy for NBC,...
The remake is intended for Disney+ with Disney’s live-action division running point. Gordon Gray is producing.
The original pic starrec Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson – as New York bachelors who find themselves caring, and subsequently, falling for, an infant. Drug dealers who threatened the child also figured into the plot.
The movie becoming the first live-action Disney film to cross the $100 million mark domestically. It was followed by Three Men and a Little Lady in 1990.
Will Reichel wrote the script for the remake. It is unclear how the material will be updated.
Marable is also set to direct Grand Crew, Dan Goor, and Phil Jackson’s upcoming comedy for NBC,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Just like the first page of a novel, a series’ or episode’s opening 10 minutes acts like a door. If executed successfully, it will make viewers want to run through that entrance, not just walk through it. Those 600 seconds have to not only grab hold of a viewer, but they also have to set the tone of the entire piece. This year, 18 editors are nominated in the nonfiction program editing category for six unique documentary projects. But each agrees that whether it’s a one-off or a series, those first 10 minutes are crucial.
American Factory
(Netflix)
Editor Lindsay Utz mined footage from 2008 for the opening of the documentary about Chinese company Fuyao reopening a factory in Ohio. “Of course we should open in the past to give the audience context,” she says. From there, a title sequence rolled that served to sum up what the documentary would cover, and then...
American Factory
(Netflix)
Editor Lindsay Utz mined footage from 2008 for the opening of the documentary about Chinese company Fuyao reopening a factory in Ohio. “Of course we should open in the past to give the audience context,” she says. From there, a title sequence rolled that served to sum up what the documentary would cover, and then...
- 8/20/2020
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix just added Michael Jordan and ‘96 Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance to its streams this month. Now it’s set to add another very important basketball story.
Hoops is the latest animated comedy for Netflix and it will follow a temperamental high school basketball coach Ben Hopkins (Jake Johnson) who is set on turning his awful team into a winner just so he can feel slightly less miserable. The project comes with some high-profile talent attached. Prolific animation producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord will reunite with their Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse star in Johnson and serve as executive producers. Seth Cohen and M. Dickson executive produce as well. The series was created by Ben Hoffman.
Hoops will premiere August 21, 2020 on Netflix. The streamer also revealed a trailer to offer up a first look at the series.
Remember, kids, the most important thing about shooting is the follow-through. I’m no Phil Jackson,...
Hoops is the latest animated comedy for Netflix and it will follow a temperamental high school basketball coach Ben Hopkins (Jake Johnson) who is set on turning his awful team into a winner just so he can feel slightly less miserable. The project comes with some high-profile talent attached. Prolific animation producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord will reunite with their Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse star in Johnson and serve as executive producers. Seth Cohen and M. Dickson executive produce as well. The series was created by Ben Hoffman.
Hoops will premiere August 21, 2020 on Netflix. The streamer also revealed a trailer to offer up a first look at the series.
Remember, kids, the most important thing about shooting is the follow-through. I’m no Phil Jackson,...
- 7/20/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
For so many sports-starved fans, “The Last Dance” provided not only weekly appointment television that felt like some semblance of normalcy during a pandemic this spring, but a sense of nostalgia-fueled comfort as well. So what has been “The Last Dance” for “The Last Dance” director Jason Hehir? He’s watched “Escape at Dannemora,” rewatched “Breaking Bad” (his girlfriend had never seen it), ’80s movies, and most recently “Hamilton,” but at the beginning, it wasn’t much. “I was still working, like night and day, on ‘The Last Dance’ when the pandemic began, so there wasn’t a lot of bingeing going on,” Hehir told Gold Derby (watch above). “I was bingeing my own rough cuts at that point.”
“The Last Dance” spotlights the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls dynasty utilizing unseen documentary footage from the entire 1997-98 season, which culminated with the team’s sixth NBA title in eight years,...
“The Last Dance” spotlights the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls dynasty utilizing unseen documentary footage from the entire 1997-98 season, which culminated with the team’s sixth NBA title in eight years,...
- 7/6/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
No one could imagine that the comedy Dave, about an aspiring, neurotic white rapper named Lil Dicky, would become such a huge breakout hit. It’s based on comedian/rapper Dave Burd (aka Lil Dicky)’s experiences, as he tries to become the best rapper of all time, alongside his enthusiastic (and real-life) hype man, Davionte “GaTa” Ganter, who becomes an integral part of the crew. During one standout epsiode, GaTa admits to being bipolar. Here, he discusses the decision to talk about his condition, the response to that episode, and how he feels about this politicially pivotal time.
Deadline: Dave is a bona fide hit. When did you realize that people were watching?
Gata: Week by week, as every episode dropped, I could just feel the audience growing. I could see the fan engagement because my Instagram started going nuts. People were just really engaged, just giving a lot of positive feedback.
Deadline: Dave is a bona fide hit. When did you realize that people were watching?
Gata: Week by week, as every episode dropped, I could just feel the audience growing. I could see the fan engagement because my Instagram started going nuts. People were just really engaged, just giving a lot of positive feedback.
- 6/25/2020
- by Stevie Wong
- Deadline Film + TV
For The Last Dance, the ESPN documentary series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, director Jason Hehir interviewed more than a hundred people, including two former presidents—Clinton and Obama—and a noted international diplomat. That would be Dennis Rodman, former star rebounder and occasional envoy to North Korea.
“It was harder to get Dennis Rodman in the chair than it was to get Obama in the chair, and it was harder to get him to pay attention than it was to get President Obama,” Hehir recalls. “Each [interviewee] brought different challenges in the booking process.”
The biggest “get” of all, though, was Jordan himself, without whom there would be no docuseries. Not only did he sit for eight hours of interviews, but it was up to him to allow access to a treasure trove of video shot behind the scenes during his team’s final run for an NBA...
“It was harder to get Dennis Rodman in the chair than it was to get Obama in the chair, and it was harder to get him to pay attention than it was to get President Obama,” Hehir recalls. “Each [interviewee] brought different challenges in the booking process.”
The biggest “get” of all, though, was Jordan himself, without whom there would be no docuseries. Not only did he sit for eight hours of interviews, but it was up to him to allow access to a treasure trove of video shot behind the scenes during his team’s final run for an NBA...
- 6/22/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Monica Aldama is a legend in the sport of competitive cheerleading, but you probably never heard her name before the Netflix docuseries “Cheer” debuted earlier this year. If there is a Pat Summit, Mike Krzyzewski or Phil Jackson in the sport it’s Aldama. Since she took over as coach of Navarro College’s cheer program the school has won 14 national championships since 2000 alone. She’s built a dynasty and, as the series chronicled, a family.
Continue reading Coach Monica Aldama Had “Zero Idea” That ‘Cheer’ Would Be A Smash [Interview] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Coach Monica Aldama Had “Zero Idea” That ‘Cheer’ Would Be A Smash [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 6/12/2020
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Fresh off the success of its Michael Jordan documentary, The Last Dance, ESPN is launching a slate of exclusive Mj-themed programming on its streaming service, ESPN+.
The site, which archives popular sporting events and tournaments for on-demand viewing, has released a collection of 15 of Jordan’s best performances, including his game winner in Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals. Subscribers to ESPN+ will be able to stream all 15 games in their entirety, from the opening tip-off to the final buzzer.
ESPN+ is also streaming all five episodes of Detail: 1998 Chicago Bulls,...
The site, which archives popular sporting events and tournaments for on-demand viewing, has released a collection of 15 of Jordan’s best performances, including his game winner in Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals. Subscribers to ESPN+ will be able to stream all 15 games in their entirety, from the opening tip-off to the final buzzer.
ESPN+ is also streaming all five episodes of Detail: 1998 Chicago Bulls,...
- 5/19/2020
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
It’s the last The Last Dance, and we’re definitely crying. We’re writing on a piece of paper what the series has meant to us and burning it in Phil Jackson’s coffee can. Episodes IX and X bring an end to ESPN’s nostalgic look back at the 1990s Chicago Bulls’ city-defining NBA championship run and Michael Jordan’s…...
- 5/18/2020
- by Laura Adamczyk and Danette Chavez on TV Club, shared by Laura Adamczyk to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
En route to this 10-part docuseries’ foregone conclusion, the final two episodes cover some by now well-worn territory: Michael Jordan’s “innate personality is to win at all costs.” Michael Jordan holds grudges (see: his feelings on Utah’s Bryon Russell). Michael Jordan owns many cars, most of them red, with a seemingly unlimited supply of vanity plates (this week: a Porsche 911 Turbo S, license plate Air). Michael Jordan has smoked so many cigars he should not be alive right now (but, of course, he is superhuman). Fans in 1990s...
- 5/18/2020
- by Maria Fontoura
- Rollingstone.com
Anyone who’s conducted an interview knows that the last question is often the hardest. Sometimes you save the trickiest one for the end; at other times, it’s a chance to sneak in one last curveball to get at the real interview subject underneath.
Sitting across from Michael Jordan, in their third and final round of on-camera conversations, director Jason Hehir decided to go as big picture as he possibly could: “The last thing I asked him in the last interview was: ‘100 years from now, what do you want people to say about you as a player? And then 100 years from now, what do you want people to say about you as a person?” Hehir told IndieWire.
Part of the decision to end on a more theoretical, far-reaching question came from the fact that the person Hehir was asking has been on the receiving end of every other kind...
Sitting across from Michael Jordan, in their third and final round of on-camera conversations, director Jason Hehir decided to go as big picture as he possibly could: “The last thing I asked him in the last interview was: ‘100 years from now, what do you want people to say about you as a player? And then 100 years from now, what do you want people to say about you as a person?” Hehir told IndieWire.
Part of the decision to end on a more theoretical, far-reaching question came from the fact that the person Hehir was asking has been on the receiving end of every other kind...
- 5/18/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Since its premiere four weeks ago, ESPN’s “The Last Dance” has captured the attention of basketball fans across the nation as they seek content during a time when professional sports have ground to a halt. The 10-part documentary following NBA legend Michael Jordan and six-time champions the Chicago Bulls will air its final two parts this Sunday on ESPN.
The documentary weaves together archival footage from the 1997-98 NBA season and interviews with Jordan himself, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, head coach Phil Jackson and other major NBA figures.
Though “The Last Dance” was originally scheduled to debut in June around the time of the NBA Finals, shutdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic led ESPN to move up the documentary’s premiere. Two new episodes have aired each Sunday since its launch on April 19, building more buzz and positive word of mouth over the past month.
“The Last Dance” will air on ESPN.
The documentary weaves together archival footage from the 1997-98 NBA season and interviews with Jordan himself, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, head coach Phil Jackson and other major NBA figures.
Though “The Last Dance” was originally scheduled to debut in June around the time of the NBA Finals, shutdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic led ESPN to move up the documentary’s premiere. Two new episodes have aired each Sunday since its launch on April 19, building more buzz and positive word of mouth over the past month.
“The Last Dance” will air on ESPN.
- 5/17/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
On the surface, there are plenty of connections to draw between “O.J.: Made in America” and “The Last Dance.” Both have, at their center, athletes who came to be globally recognized superstars who each had their own challenges dealing with their separate fames. Both have become mammoth ESPN-aired deep dives, each illustrating different areas of life in the 1990s and the factors inside and out of the sports world that helped shape them.
Both also feature the pivotal work of archival producer Nina Krstic, who was just a few months removed from finishing her central work on “O.J.: Made in America” when “Last Dance” director Jason Hehir asked her to join another gargantuan documentary series effort.
“I think my only reluctance was, ‘Am I really ready to jump into another multi-hour series?’ But I started reading, I started watching, and the more I talked to Jason, the more I just felt his excitement,...
Both also feature the pivotal work of archival producer Nina Krstic, who was just a few months removed from finishing her central work on “O.J.: Made in America” when “Last Dance” director Jason Hehir asked her to join another gargantuan documentary series effort.
“I think my only reluctance was, ‘Am I really ready to jump into another multi-hour series?’ But I started reading, I started watching, and the more I talked to Jason, the more I just felt his excitement,...
- 5/11/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
In Episodes Seven and Eight of The Last Dance, there are tears. Michael Jordan cries over the shocking loss of his father in 1993. His friend Ahmad Rashad wells up at the memory of tying a trembling Jordan’s tie for him on the day of the funeral. Members of the ’94 Bulls (a team that was Jordan-free as His Airness dabbled in professional baseball) recall a tearful postgame speech by Bill Cartwright. Heck, Jordan’s personal trainer cries while speaking about his number-one client’s intense dedication to his job.
Perhaps most surprising,...
Perhaps most surprising,...
- 5/11/2020
- by Maria Fontoura
- Rollingstone.com
ESPN’s “The Last Dance” has treated Michael Jordan fans to hours of behind-the-scenes footage from the Chicago Bulls 1997-1998 season — Jordan’s last with the team. Among the docuseries’ most memorable moments — so far — is a cringeworthy locker room exchange between a noticeably nervous Jerry Seinfeld and then-Bulls coach Phil Jackson.
Seinfeld told Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday that he hasn’t watched “The Last Dance” yet, but even he has heard about the moment where he’s laughing with Jordan and the team, and when Jackson walks into the room and says “Let’s go guys,” Seinfeld nervously says “Hey Phil,” and quickly moves to leave.
“I’m the last person to log on to that but I will get to it, I know, I will get to it,” Seinfeld told Kimmel via a video interview on Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” quarantine edition. “I haven’t seen it yet,...
Seinfeld told Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday that he hasn’t watched “The Last Dance” yet, but even he has heard about the moment where he’s laughing with Jordan and the team, and when Jackson walks into the room and says “Let’s go guys,” Seinfeld nervously says “Hey Phil,” and quickly moves to leave.
“I’m the last person to log on to that but I will get to it, I know, I will get to it,” Seinfeld told Kimmel via a video interview on Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” quarantine edition. “I haven’t seen it yet,...
- 5/6/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Jerry Seinfeld spoke with Jimmy Kimmel about popping up in the Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance, throwing out ceremonial first pitches and trying to be on his best behavior during quarantine on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday.
The interview featured a lot of sports talk, starting with a clip from The Last Dance where Seinfeld appears in the Bulls locker room to meet Michael Jordan, coach Phil Jackson and the rest of the team. “I think I had another conversation with [Jackson], because that was his last season, and I was...
The interview featured a lot of sports talk, starting with a clip from The Last Dance where Seinfeld appears in the Bulls locker room to meet Michael Jordan, coach Phil Jackson and the rest of the team. “I think I had another conversation with [Jackson], because that was his last season, and I was...
- 5/6/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Michael Jordan is worth an obscene amount of money, as his current net worth is $2.1 billion. Not many current or former athletes can say they’re billionaires. By comparison, LeBron James’ net worth is $450 million.
Jordan knows he’s filthy rich, too, because according to his former agent, David Falk, he once turned down $100 million just to make an appearance at an event for two hours. Now that’s a man who has his priorities in check.
Falk spoke about his former client as someone who did everything he could to stay out of the limelight post-career. And that includes interviews and events because really, who has the time to collect $100 million? Not Jordan, apparently.
“I brought him a deal three years ago for $100 million. All he had to do was, other than giving his name and likeness, make a one two-hour appearance to announce the deal and he turned it down,...
Jordan knows he’s filthy rich, too, because according to his former agent, David Falk, he once turned down $100 million just to make an appearance at an event for two hours. Now that’s a man who has his priorities in check.
Falk spoke about his former client as someone who did everything he could to stay out of the limelight post-career. And that includes interviews and events because really, who has the time to collect $100 million? Not Jordan, apparently.
“I brought him a deal three years ago for $100 million. All he had to do was, other than giving his name and likeness, make a one two-hour appearance to announce the deal and he turned it down,...
- 5/2/2020
- by Ryan Beltram
- We Got This Covered
When The Last Dance was announced, anyone over the age of 40 could’ve been forgiven for thinking: “Ten episodes of television about Michael Jordan and the Nineties Bulls? Do we need this?” But, as fans who came of age during that team’s reign should know: Never bet against His Airness. Chalk it up to nostalgia for some, voyeurism for others, and the pure awe that comes with watching Mj play, but this ESPN docuseries, built off of hours of found footage from Chicago’s 1997-1998 season, as they chased...
- 4/27/2020
- by Maria Fontoura
- Rollingstone.com
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