Steve Coogan-Rob Brydon Comedy ‘The Trip to Greece’ Arriving in May – Variety
In immediately’s movie information roundup, “The Journey to Greece” will likely be launched on Could 22, Easter weekend will see a TV launch of Fathom Occasions’ “Jesus,” and a Mary Pickford challenge is within the works.
‘THE TRIP’ RETURNS
IFC Movies has set a Could 22 digital and on demand launch for the Steve Coogan-Rob Brydon comedy “The Journey to Greece,” the third sequel in director Michael Winterbottom’s journey sequence.
The trailer, launched Wednesday, exhibits the duo retracing Odysseus’s footsteps in solely six days with stops on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Historic Agora of Athens, the Historic Theatre of Epidaurus, the island of Hydra, the Caves of Diros and Niokastro Fortress in Pylos. There are additionally the trademark celeb impressions — Marlon Brando and Sean Connery within the new iteration — plus gourmand meals and loads of barbed commentary, reminiscent of Coogan asserting that he’s gotten higher trying with age.
“You had been unpalatable as a younger man,” Brydon responds.
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After Coogan says he’s most happy with his seven BAFTA Awards, Brydon says he’s most happy with his kids, prompting Coogan to say, “Effectively, you haven’t bought any BAFTAs.”
Brydon, Coogan and Winterbottom birthed “The Journey” as a six-episode British sitcom in 2010 that centered on a restaurant tour in Northern England with a film distributed within the U.S. by IFC. “The Journey to Italy” sequence and film aired in 2014 adopted by “The Journey to Spain” in 2017.
“The Journey to Greece” sequence aired final month within the U.Ok. and the film had been set to premiere on the Tribeca Movie Competition earlier than the pageant’s cancellation. Right here is the official trailer beneath:
LIVE ‘JESUS’
With U.S. film theaters closed, Fathom Occasions has rescheduled theatrical showings of a filmed efficiency of “Jesus” at Sight & Sound’s in Lancaster, Pa., and scheduled it for Friday by Sunday on TBN and thru the TBN app.
“With folks not having the ability to collect collectively to have a good time Easter, our hope is that by making this present accessible, we’d all really feel a way of group and connection as we watch the best rescue story of all time come to life on this distinctive approach,” stated Sight & Sound Chief Artistic Officer Josh Enck..
Fathom, a three way partnership between the AMC, Cinemark and Regal circuits, focuses on one-night showings of live shows and revival films. “Jesus” had been scheduled to point out at film theaters on April 7, 9 and 11 prior the shutdown of venues as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
‘ICON’ PROJECT
A quartet of producers are launching growth of the documentary “Humanizing the Icon,” based mostly partly on pioneering actress Mary Pickford alongside with interviews and unique footage from icons of immediately.
Producers embody Jennifer DeLia, Martine Melloul, Nitsa Benchetrit and Sandra de Castro Buffington. “Humanizing the Icon” was introduced Wednesday on Pickford’s 128th birthday. A “Humanizing the Icon” exhibit befell on the Venice Artwork Bienale.
DeLia produced, wrote and directed the biopic “Why Not Select Love? A Mary Pickford Manifesto,” which starred Sophie Kennedy Clark together with Cary Elwes, Balthazar Getty, Luke Arnold, Josephine de La Baume, Jane Stiles, Summer time Phoenix, Adam Fergus, and Scott Haze. Benchetrit was additionally a producer on that movie, which launched the Hollywood Ladies’s Movie Competition in June.
“Pickford is our portal into this theme of ‘Humanizing the Icon’ and we’re calling consideration to her making a comeback in mainstream media in the course of the pandemic, as the primary philanthropist in Hollywood a century in the past,” DeLia stated.
