Move over, John McClane. There’s a new action star in town. As Hollywood reels from the ongoing WGA writers’ strike, a new project starring Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson is coming. Bride Hard is an action comedy coming from Expendables 2 director Simon West. According to Deadline, the plot follows “badass secret agent Sam (Rebel Wilson) who has been tasked with one of her hardest missions yet – being a Maid of Honor for her childhood best friend.”
Shaina Steinberg wrote the script from a story by Steinberg and CeCe Pleasants. Balcony 9 Productions is producing and financing, with Joel David Moore, Max Osswald, Cassian Elwes, and Colleen Camp producing. Bride Hard heads to this year’s Cannes market for a potential sale.
“Bride Hard combines action, adventure and comedy. These are genres I love to mix together. I’ve done it in the past with films like Expendables 2 or even...
Shaina Steinberg wrote the script from a story by Steinberg and CeCe Pleasants. Balcony 9 Productions is producing and financing, with Joel David Moore, Max Osswald, Cassian Elwes, and Colleen Camp producing. Bride Hard heads to this year’s Cannes market for a potential sale.
“Bride Hard combines action, adventure and comedy. These are genres I love to mix together. I’ve done it in the past with films like Expendables 2 or even...
- 5/9/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
The American comedy film Senior Year was released on Netflix last May 13 and stars Rebel Wilson, who also serves as a producer of the film. The film is directed by Alex Hardcastle (in his feature film directorial debut) from an original screenplay by Andrew Knauer, Arthur Pielli, and Brandon Scott Jones. Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Justin Hartley, Chris Parnell, Angourie Rice, Michael Cimino, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Scott Jones, and Alicia Silverstone also appear in supporting roles. The film follows a senior high school cheerleader who falls during a routine and falls into a 20-year coma. Upon waking
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “Senior Year”...
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “Senior Year”...
- 5/26/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
Stars: Rebel Wilson, Angourie Rice, Mary Holland, Molly Brown, Sam Richardson, Zaire Adams, How Chao, Ana Yi Puig, Justin Hartley, Tyler Barnhardt, Chris Parnell | Written by Andrew Knauer, Arthur Pielli, Brandon Scott Jones | Directed by Alex Hardcastle
It’s 2002 and Stephanie, is a loser. Reinventing herself as the most popular girl in her high school she becomes the captain of the cheerleading squad, dating the quarterback and is well on her way to becoming the prom queen. Girls want to be her and guys want to be with her… She has it all until she falls off the top of the cheerleading pyramid and goes into a coma! Fast forward 20 years later and Ruby finally wakes up from her coma as a 37-year-old woman. She goes back to her high school and tries to assume her role as the star of her school. Most of all, she is still set...
It’s 2002 and Stephanie, is a loser. Reinventing herself as the most popular girl in her high school she becomes the captain of the cheerleading squad, dating the quarterback and is well on her way to becoming the prom queen. Girls want to be her and guys want to be with her… She has it all until she falls off the top of the cheerleading pyramid and goes into a coma! Fast forward 20 years later and Ruby finally wakes up from her coma as a 37-year-old woman. She goes back to her high school and tries to assume her role as the star of her school. Most of all, she is still set...
- 5/17/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Spare parts of high school comedies from “Peggy Sue Got Married” to “Mean Girls” and beyond have been torn asunder, then sewn back together to create “Senior Year.” In other words, this vehicle for producer-star Rebel Wilson isn’t organic even as a genre homage; its Frankensteinian assemblage always feels more imitative than inspired. Nonetheless, if Alex Hardcastle’s effortfully high-spirited Netflix feature isn’t exactly good, it’s still .
Introduced as “just some average boring invisible girl who had no friends” in 1999, Australian émigré Stephanie Conway (Angourie Rice) determines on her 14th birthday to start doing better. Three years hence, a methodical push toward popularity has paid off: She’s captain of the cheerleading squad, has assumed possession of the boyfriend, Blaine (Tyler Barnhardt), of deadly rival Tiffany (Ana Yi Puig), seems to have the prom queen crown sewn up and can afford not to even notice that both...
Introduced as “just some average boring invisible girl who had no friends” in 1999, Australian émigré Stephanie Conway (Angourie Rice) determines on her 14th birthday to start doing better. Three years hence, a methodical push toward popularity has paid off: She’s captain of the cheerleading squad, has assumed possession of the boyfriend, Blaine (Tyler Barnhardt), of deadly rival Tiffany (Ana Yi Puig), seems to have the prom queen crown sewn up and can afford not to even notice that both...
- 5/13/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
It stands to reason that Stephanie Conway, the Aussie outcast at the center of Alex Hardcastle’s “Senior Year” would have seen “Never Been Kissed.” Released in 1999 — almost exactly when Hardcastle’s film starts — Drew Barrymore’s high school rom-com followed a well-meaning, dorky kid as she embarks on a do-over after a humiliating teen experience. Such is also the case in “Senior Year,” which
Teenage Stephanie isn’t popular as a freshman, encountering a major freeze-out from “The Populars” who have no use for an eager-to-please Australian dweeb. But, oh, Stephanie dreams of being popular too, eventually making it happen through sheer force of will and by 2002, she’s the the queen bee of her senior year. There’s some problems — her dead mom, friends from her dork days who still love her, a jealous rival determined to usurp her — but nothing beats the big trauma: cheer captain Stephanie...
Teenage Stephanie isn’t popular as a freshman, encountering a major freeze-out from “The Populars” who have no use for an eager-to-please Australian dweeb. But, oh, Stephanie dreams of being popular too, eventually making it happen through sheer force of will and by 2002, she’s the the queen bee of her senior year. There’s some problems — her dead mom, friends from her dork days who still love her, a jealous rival determined to usurp her — but nothing beats the big trauma: cheer captain Stephanie...
- 5/13/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A miscast lead is one of many issues plaguing a broad and unfunny attempt to recapture the spirit of films like Never Been Kissed and Mean Girls
The spirit of sparky high school comedies, from Never Been Kissed to Mean Girls to Easy A, haunts Netflix’s junky “if you like…” offering Senior Year, with a progressively deafening reminder of what came before. For where those films had charm, wit and vim, this has a stultifying absence instead, a disappointing and derivative two-hour slog down memory lane.
It at least looks like the movies it desperately wants to be grouped together with, a quick tip-off to its origins, made by Paramount before being off-loaded to Netflix. British director Alex Hardcastle, best known for sitcom work, does an impressive job of fooling us into thinking we’re in safe hands with a slick and poppy aesthetic before the script, from Andrew Knauer,...
The spirit of sparky high school comedies, from Never Been Kissed to Mean Girls to Easy A, haunts Netflix’s junky “if you like…” offering Senior Year, with a progressively deafening reminder of what came before. For where those films had charm, wit and vim, this has a stultifying absence instead, a disappointing and derivative two-hour slog down memory lane.
It at least looks like the movies it desperately wants to be grouped together with, a quick tip-off to its origins, made by Paramount before being off-loaded to Netflix. British director Alex Hardcastle, best known for sitcom work, does an impressive job of fooling us into thinking we’re in safe hands with a slick and poppy aesthetic before the script, from Andrew Knauer,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
Paramount Players’ “Senior Year,” starring and produced by Rebel Wilson, has rounded out its supporting cast.
Jade Bender, Michael Cimino, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Avantika are among the actors joining the comedy, which stars Wilson as a woman who wakes up from a 20-year coma and returns to high school to try to regain her status as a popular cheerleader and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her.
Bender is best known for “Major Crimes” and will be next seen in the TV adaptation of “Night School,” while Cimino stars as Victor Salazar in Hulu’s “Love, Victor” (which debuted its second season last month to critical acclaim). The actor also starred in “Annabelle Comes Home” and will next be featured in “Black Box” and “Heartlight.”
Taylor is best known for his breakout role in 2017’s “It” and its 2019 sequel; the actor also starred in “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween...
Jade Bender, Michael Cimino, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Avantika are among the actors joining the comedy, which stars Wilson as a woman who wakes up from a 20-year coma and returns to high school to try to regain her status as a popular cheerleader and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her.
Bender is best known for “Major Crimes” and will be next seen in the TV adaptation of “Night School,” while Cimino stars as Victor Salazar in Hulu’s “Love, Victor” (which debuted its second season last month to critical acclaim). The actor also starred in “Annabelle Comes Home” and will next be featured in “Black Box” and “Heartlight.”
Taylor is best known for his breakout role in 2017’s “It” and its 2019 sequel; the actor also starred in “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween...
- 7/16/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: More then 25 years after her star-making role in Clueless, Alicia Silverstone is ready to make her return to the High School comedy genre as she has joined the cast of Paramount Players’ Senior Year starring Rebel Wilson. Justin Hartley, Angourie Rice, Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland and Chris Parnell are also on board. Alex Hardcastle is on board to direct.
Brandon Scott Jones is writing the script based on a spec from Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli. Todd Garner, Tim Bourne, Rebel Wilson and Chris Bender will produce.
The story follows a cheerleader who wakes up after a 20-year coma and returns to high school to try to regain her status and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her. Jeremy Stein and Jake Wagner are exec producing.
Silverstone return to this genre is a fun casting the studio and creatives behind the team are excited about nearly...
Brandon Scott Jones is writing the script based on a spec from Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli. Todd Garner, Tim Bourne, Rebel Wilson and Chris Bender will produce.
The story follows a cheerleader who wakes up after a 20-year coma and returns to high school to try to regain her status and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her. Jeremy Stein and Jake Wagner are exec producing.
Silverstone return to this genre is a fun casting the studio and creatives behind the team are excited about nearly...
- 6/1/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Justin Hartley, Angourie Rice, Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland and Chris Parnell are set to join Rebel Wilson in the high school comedy Senior Year, with Alex Hardcastle on board to direct. Wilson also is producing along with Todd Garner and Chris Bender. Brandon Scott Jones is writing the script based on a spec from Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli.
The story follows a cheerleader who wakes up after a 20-year coma and returns to high school to try to regain her status and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her. Jeremy Stein and Jake Wagner are exec producing.
Paramount Players has committed to creating hit genre films from unique, contemporary voices and properties and with Paramount Pictures tapping former Fox exec Jeremy Kramer to oversee the studio last year, development has begun to ramp up since the top of the year.
Hartley is best known as...
The story follows a cheerleader who wakes up after a 20-year coma and returns to high school to try to regain her status and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her. Jeremy Stein and Jake Wagner are exec producing.
Paramount Players has committed to creating hit genre films from unique, contemporary voices and properties and with Paramount Pictures tapping former Fox exec Jeremy Kramer to oversee the studio last year, development has begun to ramp up since the top of the year.
Hartley is best known as...
- 5/7/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Rebel Wilson will star in “Senior Year,” a high school comedy being produced by Paramount Players and directed by Alex Hardcastle, the studio announced Thursday.
Wilson will play a cheerleader who was once one of the most popular kids in her high school before an accident put her in a coma for 20 years. After she awakes, she returns to the same school to finish her senior year as she tries to regain her status and capture the prom queen crown that she once so desired.
Brandon Scott Jones, who wrote the 2019 comedy “Isn’t It Romantic” also starring Wilson, will write the screenplay based on a spec by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli. Wilson will produce with Todd Garner and Chris Bender. Jeremy Stein, Jake Wagner, Jake Weiner are executive producers.
Hardcastle will step into feature filmmaking after more than 20 years as a TV director, working on episodes for shows like “The Office,...
Wilson will play a cheerleader who was once one of the most popular kids in her high school before an accident put her in a coma for 20 years. After she awakes, she returns to the same school to finish her senior year as she tries to regain her status and capture the prom queen crown that she once so desired.
Brandon Scott Jones, who wrote the 2019 comedy “Isn’t It Romantic” also starring Wilson, will write the screenplay based on a spec by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli. Wilson will produce with Todd Garner and Chris Bender. Jeremy Stein, Jake Wagner, Jake Weiner are executive producers.
Hardcastle will step into feature filmmaking after more than 20 years as a TV director, working on episodes for shows like “The Office,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Rebel Wilson is set to star in the Paramount Players high school comedy Senior Year with Alex Hardcastle on board to direct. Wilson is also producing along with Todd Garner and Chris Bender. Brandon Scott Jones is writing the script based on a spec from Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli.
The story follows a cheerleader who wakes up after a 20-year coma and returns to high school to try to regain her status and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her. Jeremy Stein, Jake Wagner, Jake Weiner are exec producing.
Paramount Players has committed to creating hit genre films from unique, contemporary voices and properties and with Paramount Pictures tapping former Fox exec Jeremy Kramer to oversee the studio last year, development has begun to ramp up since the top of the year.
Wilson took a break in 2020 after a wildly busy 2019 that started with her New Line comedy Isn’t It Romantic.
The story follows a cheerleader who wakes up after a 20-year coma and returns to high school to try to regain her status and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her. Jeremy Stein, Jake Wagner, Jake Weiner are exec producing.
Paramount Players has committed to creating hit genre films from unique, contemporary voices and properties and with Paramount Pictures tapping former Fox exec Jeremy Kramer to oversee the studio last year, development has begun to ramp up since the top of the year.
Wilson took a break in 2020 after a wildly busy 2019 that started with her New Line comedy Isn’t It Romantic.
- 2/25/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Film execs have voted for their favourite unproduced Us screenplays.
A script about Michael Jackson’s pet chimp Bubbles and a Moon-based roadtrip adventure are both on this year’s Black List of “most liked” unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
The annual list, which was first published in 2005, surveys around 500 film executives on their favourite unmade scripts, with a typical response rate of 60%.
This year’s list features 81 screenplays, and was revealed in a series of Youtube videos hosted by the likes of Channing Tatum, Ava DuVernay and Lily James.
2015’s top screenplay is Isaac Adamson’s Bubbles, the story of the late pop star Michael Jackson’s life told through the narration of his pep chimp Bubbles.
Previous films on the list include Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech and Ben Affleck’s Argo, all of which went on to win best picture Oscars.
Spotlight and The...
A script about Michael Jackson’s pet chimp Bubbles and a Moon-based roadtrip adventure are both on this year’s Black List of “most liked” unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
The annual list, which was first published in 2005, surveys around 500 film executives on their favourite unmade scripts, with a typical response rate of 60%.
This year’s list features 81 screenplays, and was revealed in a series of Youtube videos hosted by the likes of Channing Tatum, Ava DuVernay and Lily James.
2015’s top screenplay is Isaac Adamson’s Bubbles, the story of the late pop star Michael Jackson’s life told through the narration of his pep chimp Bubbles.
Previous films on the list include Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech and Ben Affleck’s Argo, all of which went on to win best picture Oscars.
Spotlight and The...
- 12/15/2015
- ScreenDaily
Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Last year’s chart-topper Catherine the Great is still waiting to be produced and today we have this year’s editiong
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
- 12/15/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Flood a spoof movie with an overabundance of jokes and it can only go one of two ways – the jokes either hit or they don’t. However, if you take the time to deliver two engaging leads, not only is there a better chance the gags will be winners, but even if they’re not, the film still packs the momentum to cruise right past them because you care about characters, and so is the case with Ghost Team One.
Despite the fact that their housemate Chuck (Tony Cavalero) is striving to keep sober, Sergio and Brad (Carlos Santos and J.R. Villarreal) take pride in partying to the max and scouting out potential lady friends for flings. However, one night, their hobbies are entirely warped by two new presences in the home – a ghost and a hot girl who just so happens to have a thing for hunting ghosts.
Despite the fact that their housemate Chuck (Tony Cavalero) is striving to keep sober, Sergio and Brad (Carlos Santos and J.R. Villarreal) take pride in partying to the max and scouting out potential lady friends for flings. However, one night, their hobbies are entirely warped by two new presences in the home – a ghost and a hot girl who just so happens to have a thing for hunting ghosts.
- 10/8/2013
- by Perri Nemiroff
- We Got This Covered
Ghost Team One is a horror comedy about two roommates deathly afraid of ghosts both fall in love with a girl who believes their home is haunted. The film is directed by Ben Peyser Scott Rutherford written by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli and stars Carlos Santos J.R. Villarreal and Tony Cavalero. Ghost Team One will be released in limited theaters and VOD on October 11 2013. Ghost Team One follows two friends who are both trying to impress a girl who believes the spirit of a vengeful madam is haunting their home. They set out to make a documentary about a murder that took place in their house decades ago and much to their surprise soon capture some terrifyingand uproarioussupernatural activity that leads them to believe...
- 9/16/2013
- Best-Horror-Movies.com
Paramount Home Media have acquired new found footage comedy horror 'Ghost Team One' for worldwide distribution. The project from co-directors Ben Peyser and Scott Rutherford follows a couple of roommates who, after falling for a girl who believes their house is haunted by a vengeful madame, set out to make a documentary that ultimately uncovers not just a decades-old murder but a ghost that appears to be into them. Penned by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli and starring Carlos Santos, J.R. Villarreal, Tony Cavalero, Meghan Falcone, James Babson and Craig Stott the project was picked up following its premiere at Slamdance. 'Ghost Team One' was produced by Flying Monkeys Entertainment and Foresight Entertainment....
- 5/17/2013
- Horror Asylum
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