Full Trailer for Judd Apatow’s Making-a-Movie Comedy ‘The Bubble’

by Alex Billington
March 4, 2022

“This movie is going to make the world forget about all their problems.” Netflix has revealed the full-length official trailer for The Bubble, the latest Judd Apatow comedy creation landing on Netflix starting on April Fool’s Day next month. The movie is about a cast crew making a movie that get stuck in a “pandemic bubble” in a hotel during the middle of production. Throughout this past week, Netflix has been teasing the movie that is being made – a dumb sequel called Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle For Everest, a ridiculously cheesy Hollywood Blockbuster about, uh, flying dinosaurs. The cast features Pedro Pascal, Karen Gillan, Leslie Mann, Iris Apatow, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, and Guz Khan. The rest of the stars of The Bubble include Fred Armisen as the film’s director, Maria Bakalova, Peter Serafinowicz, Rob Delaney, Galen Hopper, Samson Kayo, Vir Das, Nick Kocher, and Ross Lee. This looks hilarious. Apatow making fun of the movie industry?! I’m all for it! Looks like things get out of hand as they continue.

Here’s the full trailer (+ new poster) for Judd Apatow’s The Bubble, direct from Netflix’s YouTube:

You can see the behind-the-scenes look at the Cliff Beasts franchise here, to catch even more footage.

A comedy about a group of actors and actresses stuck inside a pandemic bubble at a hotel attempting to complete a sequel to an action franchise film about flying dinosaurs. Cliff Beasts 6 logline: “Humankind is threatened once again by a dinosaur species: Cliff Beasts. The team must reunite again, after five long years, to battle the Cliff Beasts – but this time on Mount Everest.” Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle For Everest is the latest movie in the ongoing Cliff Beasts franchise, which originally kicked off in 2009 with the very first Cliff Beasts movie. The Bubble is both written and directed by American comedy filmmaker Judd Apatow, director of the comedy movies The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This Is 40, Trainwreck, and The King of Staten Island previously. The screenplay is also co-written by Pam Brady. It’s produced by Judd Apatow. Netflix will debut Apatow’s The Bubble, with a special sneak peek at the new Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle For Everest, streaming on Netflix starting April 1st, 2022 this spring. Who’s excited for this?

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A love story set in a North Wales chicken factory has been filming in the Flint and Mostyn area this week.

And what a beautiful day it is today in Flint 😍😎 ! #springhassprung UK chicken factory musical ‘Chuck Chuck Baby’ starts shooting in Wales (exclusive) | News | Screen https://t.co/R4qTlwQPBR

— Annabel Scholey (@AnnabelScholey) March 22, 2022

The feature film love story Chuck Chuck Baby stars Louise Brealey (Sherlock) and Annabel Scholey (The Split).

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The film crew was spotted in Mostyn on Monday and the cast have tweeted about being in Flint.

Annabel Scholey

Artemisia Films website describes the film as “a romp”.

Absolutely delighted to be filming #ChuckChuckBaby by @janis_pugh on location in North Wales with @louisebrealey @AnnabelScholey @BFI @BBCFilm @FfilmCymruWales https://t.co/VTjCgBwF2o

— Artemisia Films (@ArtemisiaFilms) March 23, 2022

It says: “Smoke rising from factory chimneys blurs a landscape of washing lines.

“Forgotten communities are the rowdy witnesses of a warm-hearted love story that’s fuelled by music and humour, exuberantly celebrating female working-class voices, friendships and love in all its forms.

“Written and directed by Janis Pugh, former Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

“Starring Louise Brealey and Annabel Scholey. Supported by BFI, BBC and Ffilm Cymru Wales.

“It’s present day in the evocative, industrial landscape of North Wales. Helen (Brealey) is stuck in her life.

“Her world takes an unexpected turn with the return of Joanne (Scholey) after years away. They were the objects of the other’s unspoken teenage passions. For the first time in a long while, Helen starts to feel alive.

“A relationship starts to develop between them, but they lack the courage to commit.

“Eventually they find a way to put their troubled pasts behind them and to allow love in.”

SELF-PUBLICITY KLAXON #1
When I was starting out I was a film journalist visiting indie film sets and trying not to listen to my heart. So to be cast as the lead in a BFI film in my 40s is a pretty magic thing to happen. https://t.co/pZozyuiIj9

— Louise Brealey (@louisebrealey) March 23, 2022

North Wales has several poultry farms and two actual chicken factories, the 2 Sisters plants in Sandycroft and Gaerwen.

Meanwhile, North Wales has become a favourite location for filmmakers. 

Also this week, Game of Thrones actor James Cosmo was spotted filming scenes for a new adaptation of The Three Musketeers in Conwy and Gwynedd.

On March 31, Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said the government has a limited role to play on the issue pertaining to ‘halal’, which is left to the wisdom of people.

Jnanendra said the ‘Boycott halal food’ campaign is not a law and order situation but something related to faith and sentiments, “which everyone knows.”

Recently some right-wing groups gave a call to boycott ‘halal meat’, ahead of ‘varshadodaku’, the day after Ugadi when many communities in the state have a non-vegetarian feast. Ugadi, which is the Hindu New Year festival, was observed on April 2.

This call comes close on the heels of ban on Muslim vendors around temples during the Hindu religious fairs in parts of Karnataka.

Udupi recently witnessed the hijab row first flaring up with a few Muslim students of the Government Girls Pre-University College alleging that they were denied entry to the college with the headscarf.

The Muslim students later approached the Karnataka High Court against the ban on Islamic headscarves inside classrooms. The court dismissed their petition saying that they have to abide by the school uniform rule.

Chaitra Navratri – which marks the beginning of the Hindu lunisolar calendar – is being used to polarize society in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan where elections will be held in 2023, Congress activists and leaders feel.

In Rajasthan, thousands of RSS activists thronged in Ajmer and chanted “objectionable” slogans. A bike rally was organized in the city to mark the beginning of the Hindu new year.

Similarly, in Karauli, after a bike-rally, a crowd comprising RSS activists and Hindus attacked a mosque and raised objectionable slogans which resulted in communal clashes.

Though the Ashok Gehlot-led Rajasthan government acted quickly and arrested many miscreants, tension prevailed and spiraled in neighboring areas. As per reports, at least 46 people were detained for stone pelting and arson. However, no FIR has been registered so far.

Meanwhile, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot appealed to the public to remain calm and not indulge in violence. “I have spoken to DG police. Police and administration are present there. I appeal to the public to maintain peace and stay away from miscreants who are present in every religion,” he said.

Gehlot urged the PM to make an appeal to maintain peace, saying that strict instructions have been given to the police to identify the culprits at the earliest.

In Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur, RSS activists attacked municipality officials after they tried to remove RSS flags. Interestingly, the order to remove the flags was issued by the BJP-led state government.

In several districts in Madhya Pradesh, communally-charged songs are being played from loudspeakers and huge audio-decks.

MP Congress spokesman KK Mishra said that incidents in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are “identical and part of a conspiracy to polarize the society ahead of next year’s assembly polls”.

“The nine-day festival which is celebrated to worship different forms of shakti is being used by the BJP as an opportunity to spread communal hatred and polarize society along religious lines,” said Mishra.

Referring to an incident that occurred in CM Shivraj Singh’s home district Vidisha, where two tribal men were killed after a riot broke out, Mishra said, “Even CM’s home district is burning but he pretends to be asleep.”

“They were trying to give it a major communal spin, but the Congress deployed its leaders and activists on the ground and a major communal riot was averted,” added Mishra.

It is worth noting that one person was killed and over 50 injured in a clash between Muslims and the tribal community in Khamaria village on March 19.

According to Congress leaders, two boys of the tribal community were shooting a video after playing sports. They had a dispute with a few people of the Muslim community. Elderly persons present there intervened in the matter and settled the issue.

However, after an hour or so, RSS-BJP activists allegedly tried to invoke the communal tension following which the two communities clashed, resulting in the death of two people. 50 people from both communities sustained injuries.

An FIR was registered against 16 persons. 13 persons have been arrested so far in connection with the incident.

Attacking the BJP government for failing to manage the law and order situation in the state, Mishra said that the Congress will fight to ensure justice for all and maintain communal harmony in the state.

One of the most memorable scenes in the new documentary American River is a chance encounter with a young man named Christian, who struggles with a neurological disorder but finds serenity living among the raccoons, in industrial ruins along the Passaic.

“And he’s the only one–he’s the one who totally gets the river: ‘This is the most peaceful place in Paterson.’ Bingo!” author and co-star Mary Bruno told an enthusiastic audience at a screening in Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center last week.

Directed by Scott Morris with backing from Dillard Kirby, the 86-minute film was inspired by Bruno’s 2012 book, An American River: From Paradise to Superfund, and re-creates her four-day kayak trip with environmentalist Carl Alderson.

The documentary asks why this river, which zig-zags for nearly 90 miles from its pristine headwaters in Mendham to toxic Newark Bay, has been abused, loathed and ignored for so long by so many, and whether we as a society have the will to save it.

Slideshow photos by Kevin Coughlin. Click/hover on images for captions:

Before starting this project, Producer Kelly Sheehan only knew the Passaic as “where The Sopranos dumped all the bodies.”

Bruno grew up in North Arlington, where park benches turn their backs on the river.

“For all my life,” she says in the film, “I thought of the Passaic River as a monster. It wasn’t. It was a victim.”

Morris has lived near the river in Chatham for decades. He never thought twice about it, he admitted, until hearing Bruno give a book talk.

American River is unusual, Morris contends, because it’s neither “hopeless and dark” nor rose-tinted.

“I really want people to see all sides of it. It’s not just one or the other,” the director said.

It was a daunting undertaking, stretching from 2018 through the pandemic.

Morris previously teamed with Kirby on another David-vs-Goliath film, Saving the Great Swamp, Battle to Defeat the Jetport. This time, he oversaw a 15-person crew and a dozen cameras, including drones and kayak-mounted Go Pro’s.

They recorded 150 hours of video and 32 hours of audio — more footage than Peter Jackson sifted for his epic eight-hour Beatles doc, Get Back.

Video: ‘American River’ trailer:

Although Morris used Bruno’s book as a template, American River still held surprises.

“You don’t always know what you’re doing until you get there,” Morris explained. It took three tries to find the precise source of the river, for one of the most stunning shots of the picture.

There are historians, and accidental tourists, and river denizens such as Millington resident JoAnn Behr, who moved to the water’s edge in the 1980s to raise goats. At Thursday’s reception she fondly recalled tubing adventures and midnight canoe rides.

Rays of hope are limned by activists and low-income residents of Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood.

They fought powerful chemical companies that dumped dioxin, a deadly leftover from Vietnam-era Agent Orange production, and other hazardous wastes into the Passaic.

The government finally outlined plans last year for a $1.8 billion cleanup of the river’s lower 17 miles, described in the film as the nation’s largest Superfund site.

Other encouraging developments, said Bruno, who jetted from Seattle for the screening, are a national park at Paterson’s magnificent Great Falls and Riverfront Park, along a Newark stretch once filthy with flotsam.

And there is the example of the late Robert Perkins Jr., a visionary who preserved thousands of wild acres—including Great Piece Meadows and Troy Meadows–by strategically acquiring a patchwork of parcels to thwart developers.

ONE STORY, MANY RIVERS

As the title suggests, American River could be the saga of the Detroit River, the Charles in Boston, the Anacostia in Washington D.C., and numerous other polluted waterways, according to Alderson, Bruno’s guide and companion on both of her Passaic kayak trips.

On their second pass, Alderson was disturbed by the profusion of downed trees and dead animals. He blames climate change for increasingly severe storms such as Hurricane Ida.

Alderson spends his spare time guiding tours of urban rivers such as the Hackensack and Raritan. His day job is restoring habitats. Can the Passaic be restored to health?

“Yeah, if I live to be 300, I could get it done,” he cracked before the MPAC screening.

During the Q A session someone asked him what’s next. Getting a big laugh, Alderson said he’s working on American River: The Musical.

In another light moment, Dillard Kirby, who bankrolled the movie as executive producer, said his wife told him to lay off the jokes during his introduction.

“Someone might come up and slap me,” deadpanned the retired president of the F.M. Kirby Foundation. He referred to the Slap Heard Round the World at last week’s Oscar Awards.

American River persuaded Kirby to paddle the Passaic last fall.

Morris’ next act is a ways off. He’s hitting the film festival circuit, and hopes to pitch American River to Netflix, Hulu and other streaming platforms. He ducked out of Thursday’s screening for a virtual Q A with a Yale fest.

You can catch the documentary in person and online at this week’s Princeton Environmental Film Festival.  In June, American River will be featured in Washington D.C. at an international conference of the Waterkeeper Alliance, for a training workshop as a “tool for advocacy,” Morris said.

‘PEOPLE MATTER’

The documentary resonated with many at the Mayo Performing Arts Center.

Aspiring filmmaker Darren Gong, a 2017 graduate of Morristown High, said American River was his introduction to the Passaic River.

“I want to kayak it now,” he said.

Lee Goldberg of Morris Township grew up around the Passaic—in his youth he watched Philippe Petit traverse the Great Falls on a tightrope. Yet American River was an eye-opener.

“I’m blown away but what I just saw,” Goldberg said.

Everyone who lives within five miles of the Passaic should see the film, added Mendham Councilwoman Amalia Duarte.

Singer and activist Kathy Moser suggested a hip-hop songwriting contest to raise awareness about the Passaic. Newark native Ned Waldman, 90, shared river memories of people swimming and boating and eating hot dogs at East Side Park during the Depression.

Molly Riley, who works for an environmental nonprofit, said she enjoyed the film, but wished it dove deeper into the polluters and their impact on persons of color.

“It’s hard to get people to care about pollution unless they know the people it’s affecting,” Riley said.

Karol Ruiz of the Wind of the Spirit Immigration Resource Center said American River’s portrayal of the Ironbound battle inspired her to push to clean the Rockaway River, near a Superfund site in Dover.

For Mary Bruno, that is the takeaway.

“People matter. When we pay attention, David wins,” said the writer and paddler behind American River. “Goliath wins when we’re asleep, and we’re not paying attention. So let’s wake up. Let’s stay awake.”

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