Summer doesn’t officially begin until June 20, 2024, but for the entertainment industry, the summer season starts in early May. In fact, as far as the Netflix streaming service is concerned, summer this year starts on May 3rd, so they have just unveiled their full 2024 Summer Movie slate! As they put it, “Summertime: The living is easy, school’s (almost) out, and the days are growing longer and hotter — which means there’s plenty of space for cool nights spent on the couch. Curl up with family, pals, or a really big bowl of popcorn, and queue up your next Netflix obsession.” Here’s what they’ll have to offer over the next few months:
May 3
Unfrosted
Genre: Comedy
Synopsis: Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen, Unfrosted stars...
May 3
Unfrosted
Genre: Comedy
Synopsis: Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen, Unfrosted stars...
- 5/1/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
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Pickleball is getting the documentary treatment.
Producer Ashley Underwood (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and writer-producer Craig Coyne (Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix) are teaming with Peter Berg’s Film 45 to serve up a nonfiction exploration of one of the fastest growing sports that will be co-directed by Seth Porges and Mary Pilon.
Per intel about the project, the as yet untitled documentary will use access to pickleball’s top leagues, events, players and celebrity fans to “examine the professionalization and commodification” of the sport, one that exploded in popularity amid the pandemic and continues its rise.
Case in point: Just yesterday, NFL legend Tom Brady and tennis champ Kim Clijsters confirmed that they are part of an ownership group for a Major League Pickleball expansion team while CBS revealed final details of Pickled, the two-hour CBS sports comedy special hosted by Stephen Colbert.
Pickleball is getting the documentary treatment.
Producer Ashley Underwood (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and writer-producer Craig Coyne (Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix) are teaming with Peter Berg’s Film 45 to serve up a nonfiction exploration of one of the fastest growing sports that will be co-directed by Seth Porges and Mary Pilon.
Per intel about the project, the as yet untitled documentary will use access to pickleball’s top leagues, events, players and celebrity fans to “examine the professionalization and commodification” of the sport, one that exploded in popularity amid the pandemic and continues its rise.
Case in point: Just yesterday, NFL legend Tom Brady and tennis champ Kim Clijsters confirmed that they are part of an ownership group for a Major League Pickleball expansion team while CBS revealed final details of Pickled, the two-hour CBS sports comedy special hosted by Stephen Colbert.
- 10/13/2022
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
While HBO Max is undergoing a sea change behind the scenes, the streamer still boasts an impressive catalog of films. Its documentary line up is particularly strong, thanks to partnerships with TCM, the Criterion Collection, and HBO itself, as well as the inclusion of several HBO Max originals. On the service, you'll find everything from groundbreaking classics that defined the genre, like "Nanook of the North," to docuseries that dive into seminal artists and cultural icons, like "George Harrison: Living in the Material World," to investigative films that probe the human condition, like "Mommy Dead and Dearest."
Whether you're looking to learn more about an overlooked moment in history or dive into the dark underbelly of true crime, there's something for every kind of documentary fan on HBO Max. From the countless hours of material to choose from, we've gathered the best documentaries streaming on HBO Max right now.
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Whether you're looking to learn more about an overlooked moment in history or dive into the dark underbelly of true crime, there's something for every kind of documentary fan on HBO Max. From the countless hours of material to choose from, we've gathered the best documentaries streaming on HBO Max right now.
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- 9/13/2022
- by Molly Turner
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Producer and director Seth Porges (Class Action Park) has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.
Porges is maybe best known for his work on the summer’s hit feature documentary Class Action Park, about a famously dangerous New Jersey amusement park, which debuted at No. 1 on HBO Max.
He has several projects in the works, including a collaboration with Soledad O’Brien Productions and a true-con documentary with producers Stephen Robert Morse (Amanda Knox) and Max Peltz of Lone Wolf Studios.
A journalist by trade, Porges is a regular commentator on cable news, and has appeared on History Channel, Discovery, and National Geographic. He has also appeared as an expert in roughly 50 episodes of Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum and multiple seasons of Science’s What on Earth?
Previously, Porges was an editor at Popular Mechanics and Maxim magazines, and has contributed to dozens of publications,...
Porges is maybe best known for his work on the summer’s hit feature documentary Class Action Park, about a famously dangerous New Jersey amusement park, which debuted at No. 1 on HBO Max.
He has several projects in the works, including a collaboration with Soledad O’Brien Productions and a true-con documentary with producers Stephen Robert Morse (Amanda Knox) and Max Peltz of Lone Wolf Studios.
A journalist by trade, Porges is a regular commentator on cable news, and has appeared on History Channel, Discovery, and National Geographic. He has also appeared as an expert in roughly 50 episodes of Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum and multiple seasons of Science’s What on Earth?
Previously, Porges was an editor at Popular Mechanics and Maxim magazines, and has contributed to dozens of publications,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Producers Stephen Robert Morse and Max Peltz are joining forces to launch a new production entity, Lone Wolf Studios.
The full-service production, sales and financing film and television company will have offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. Morse, whose producing work on the Netflix documentary “Amanda Knox” earned an Emmy nomination in 2017, said the “‘lone wolf’ identity of our company reflects the non-conformist ethos that Max and I feel as producers. Whatever obstacles and hurdles our characters face, and whatever unique decisions they make, we’re ready to capture those moments on screen.”
The company already has a number of projects in various stages of production, including a boxing documentary with Grain Media and a true-con documentary with Seth Porges of “Class Action Park.” Also in the works is a scripted series with Fuqua Films, Propagate and CBS Studios.
“We’re trying to be a different sort of...
The full-service production, sales and financing film and television company will have offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. Morse, whose producing work on the Netflix documentary “Amanda Knox” earned an Emmy nomination in 2017, said the “‘lone wolf’ identity of our company reflects the non-conformist ethos that Max and I feel as producers. Whatever obstacles and hurdles our characters face, and whatever unique decisions they make, we’re ready to capture those moments on screen.”
The company already has a number of projects in various stages of production, including a boxing documentary with Grain Media and a true-con documentary with Seth Porges of “Class Action Park.” Also in the works is a scripted series with Fuqua Films, Propagate and CBS Studios.
“We’re trying to be a different sort of...
- 12/7/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
It was the most dangerous water park in America. New Jersey’s Action Park — or “Traction Park,” as the locals notoriously nicknamed it — promised adventure, “big things for little kids to do,” and the grandest water attractions in the world.
But it was known for bumps, bruises, dislocated shoulders — and worse. There were so many injuries the park had its own ambulances. Tragically, there were also deaths. Three drowned in the wave pool. One was thrown from the Alpine Slide onto rocks the park had been told to remove. One was electrocuted after falling into the water on the Kayak Experience.
Longtime MTV VJ Riki Rachtman, former host of the metal show “Headbangers Ball,” knew nothing of the perils of the park when he was assigned to do a live broadcast there in 1993 with special guests Alice In Chains. But he was up to the challenge, and Alice in Chains...
But it was known for bumps, bruises, dislocated shoulders — and worse. There were so many injuries the park had its own ambulances. Tragically, there were also deaths. Three drowned in the wave pool. One was thrown from the Alpine Slide onto rocks the park had been told to remove. One was electrocuted after falling into the water on the Kayak Experience.
Longtime MTV VJ Riki Rachtman, former host of the metal show “Headbangers Ball,” knew nothing of the perils of the park when he was assigned to do a live broadcast there in 1993 with special guests Alice In Chains. But he was up to the challenge, and Alice in Chains...
- 9/19/2020
- by Michele Amabile Angermiller
- Variety Film + TV
Sometimes when you see something so batshit, you don't know where to start. Class Action Park is the new documentary from Seth Porges and Chris Charles Scott about the world's most dangerous amusement park. It's a wild, audacious doc that truly must be seen to be believed. Canadian viewers with a Fantasia 2020 badge viewed it tonight during the festival. You can read the festival's write-up on their site here and watch the trailer at the end of this post. In Vernon, NJ in the '80s and '90s, Action Park lured many kids and teens from neighboring suburbs and cities to reckless abandon, sun and skin burns, hospitalization, and in the worst cases, their deaths. To understand how things went so wrong, we must talk a little...
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- 8/23/2020
- Screen Anarchy
"Build it higher, make it faster." HBO has unveiled the full-length official trailer for Class Action Park, a documentary film about the infamous water park in New Jersey known as Action Park. Have you ever been? "Shirking the trappings of nostalgia, the film uses investigative journalism, newly unearthed and never-before-seen documents and recordings, original animations, and interviews with the people who lived it to reveal the true story for the first time." Action Park opened in Vernon, New Jersey around 1978, setting up as a summer offering on the grounds of the Vernon Valley/Great Gorge ski resort. It featured three separate areas: the Alpine Center, Motorworld, and Waterworld. The latter was one of the first modern American water parks. After multiple deaths and numerous lawsuits, the entire park closed in 1996. The doc features an original score by The Holladay Brothers. This looks wild, totally crazy in every way. I just have to watch.
- 8/19/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
HBO Max dropped the trailer for “Class Action Park” Wednesday, a documentary that takes a deep dive into New Jersey’s Action Park, which is “widely regarded as the world’s most dangerous amusement park and a staple of growing up in the New York/New Jersey area in the ’80s and ’90s.”
In the video, which you can view above, stories are told of incidents of electrocution, decapitation, impalement and more at Action Park.
“Nobody should ever be the second person to die in a wave pool,” comedian Chris Gethard says in an interview. “Close the f—ing wave pool!”
Also Read: Fall TV 2020: All the Premiere Dates for New and Returning Shows - So Far (Photos)
Per HBO Max, “‘Class Action Park’ is the first-ever feature-length documentary to explore the legend, legacy, and truth behind a place that long ago entered the realm of myth. To some,...
In the video, which you can view above, stories are told of incidents of electrocution, decapitation, impalement and more at Action Park.
“Nobody should ever be the second person to die in a wave pool,” comedian Chris Gethard says in an interview. “Close the f—ing wave pool!”
Also Read: Fall TV 2020: All the Premiere Dates for New and Returning Shows - So Far (Photos)
Per HBO Max, “‘Class Action Park’ is the first-ever feature-length documentary to explore the legend, legacy, and truth behind a place that long ago entered the realm of myth. To some,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Canadian festival will run a virtual event from August 20 to September 2.
Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed a second wave of titles – including eight world premieres - for this year’s virtual ediion which is taking place from August 20 to September 2.
The Montreal-based festival will offer live screenings, a programme library, panels and workshops which will be accessible across Canada and geo-locked to prevent access from elsewhere.
World premieres now set for Fantasia include The Block Island Sound, the latest horror outing from Kevin and Matthew McManus; The Oak Room, a fourth feature from Canadian filmmaker Cody Calahan; and Minor Premise,...
Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed a second wave of titles – including eight world premieres - for this year’s virtual ediion which is taking place from August 20 to September 2.
The Montreal-based festival will offer live screenings, a programme library, panels and workshops which will be accessible across Canada and geo-locked to prevent access from elsewhere.
World premieres now set for Fantasia include The Block Island Sound, the latest horror outing from Kevin and Matthew McManus; The Oak Room, a fourth feature from Canadian filmmaker Cody Calahan; and Minor Premise,...
- 7/9/2020
- by 31¦John Hazelton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
There was nothing in the world like Action Park. Their ads promised you’d be at the center of the action, but they didn’t mention you’d be pulled out of it in on a gurney. Although they did post pictures of little wounded water warriors at the entrance of some of the rides. Vernon, N.J., the town the world’s most dangerous water park was in, had to buy triple its fleet of ambulances when it opened. Also known as “Traction Park” and “Accident Park” at the time, HBO Max bought the rights to the documentary with the most realistic vintage nickname, Class Action Park. They will stream it beginning in August.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Action Park was a staple for anyone who grew up in New Jersey or ventured in from the city. “Class Action Park brings feelings of nostalgia even if you didn...
In the 1980s and 1990s, Action Park was a staple for anyone who grew up in New Jersey or ventured in from the city. “Class Action Park brings feelings of nostalgia even if you didn...
- 7/8/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Class Action Park — a documentary about a famously perilous New Jersey water park — will land on HBO Max in August, likely with some gnarly concrete burns and maybe a mild concussion.
“Class Action Park brings feelings of nostalgia even if you didn’t grow up going to this infamous New Jersey amusement park,” HBO Max original content chief Sarah Aubrey said in a statement. “The insane stories of lawlessness and injury are an unbelievably wild ride.”
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“Class Action Park brings feelings of nostalgia even if you didn’t grow up going to this infamous New Jersey amusement park,” HBO Max original content chief Sarah Aubrey said in a statement. “The insane stories of lawlessness and injury are an unbelievably wild ride.”
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- 7/8/2020
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
I’m sure that by now many of you have heard about the legendary Action Park, which is known as the world’s most dangerous amusement park. It was located in Vernon, New Jersey and it was filled with all kinds of insanity that would seriously hurt people!
It’s explained and joked about how people would go to this park to try to die for fun. That’s how crazy it was! Well, there’s a documentary that’s being produced that puts the spotlight on Action Park and everything that happened there. It’s called Class Action Park: The Worlds Most Dangerous Amusement Park and we’ve got a trailer to share with you today!
But first… here’s a synopsis:
During its 1980s heyday, New Jersey’s Action Park was known as the world’s most dangerous amusement park.
It was as a lawless land, ruled by...
It’s explained and joked about how people would go to this park to try to die for fun. That’s how crazy it was! Well, there’s a documentary that’s being produced that puts the spotlight on Action Park and everything that happened there. It’s called Class Action Park: The Worlds Most Dangerous Amusement Park and we’ve got a trailer to share with you today!
But first… here’s a synopsis:
During its 1980s heyday, New Jersey’s Action Park was known as the world’s most dangerous amusement park.
It was as a lawless land, ruled by...
- 9/26/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
For those who grew up in or around northern New Jersey in the ’80s and ’90s, Action Park, a waterslide park in the town of Vernon, was infamous for both thrills and absolute chaos.
A new documentary promises to reveal how the attraction, often dubbed “the world’s most dangerous amusement park” came to be, the sordid means by which it stayed open for 18 years, and the memories of those who experienced it firsthand.
According to visitors featured in a new trailer for the film, which doesn’t yet have a release date, absent safety standards, fake insurance, an abundance...
A new documentary promises to reveal how the attraction, often dubbed “the world’s most dangerous amusement park” came to be, the sordid means by which it stayed open for 18 years, and the memories of those who experienced it firsthand.
According to visitors featured in a new trailer for the film, which doesn’t yet have a release date, absent safety standards, fake insurance, an abundance...
- 9/25/2019
- by Hannah Chubb
- PEOPLE.com
What do you get when you combine Jackass and Adventureland? Johnny Knoxville's new comedy, Action Point. But the movie isn't just a clever idea to make a summertime release with dangerous stunts performed at an amusement park, wrapped inside a fictional plot. Action Point is actually based on a true story. In our interview with Knoxville, he admits to being inspired to make Action Point after seeing the 2013 documentary short titled The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever. The 14-minute film, made for Mashable by Seth Porges and the people at DailyMotion, tells of the legend and the reality of Action Park. For those who didn't live in the New York City area and haven't heard of this place, Action Park was a...
- 5/31/2018
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
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