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2024 has been a great year for romantic movies, as many of the movies that came out this year included some great love stories. The fans of the romantic genre have been patiently waiting for the genre to make a return, and their time is finally here. 2024 saw the release of many romantic movies, including mix-genre movies like The Fall Guy and Fly Me to the Moon. So, let’s check out which of the movies that came out this year are the best romantic movies you should not miss.

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Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in “Fly Me to the Moon,” now streaming on Apple TV+. Photo Credit: Apple TV+ Fly Me to the Moon is a period romance set in the late 1960s, with Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson starring as colleagues working on the Apollo 11 space launch, although their strained professional relationship morphs into a blossoming personal relationship. While Tatum said he really loved the way the script was originally written by Rose Gilroy, he gave director Greg Berlanti credit for really bringing the film to life by pushing him and Johansson to take their performances beyond what had been scripted. (Click on the media bar below to hear Channing Tatum) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Channing_Tatum_Fly_Me_to_the_Moon_.mp3

Fly Me to the Moon is currently streaming on Apple TV+.

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Apple TV+ has announced the programming that will be added to the streaming service next month. The Apple TV Plus December 2024 lineup includes the romantic comedy Fly Me to the Moon, the documentary series The Secret Lives of Animals, the kids and family series Wonder Pets: In the City, and its holiday programming.

Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment. It is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens.

Fly Me to the Moon Apple TV Plus December 2024 Schedule

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Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13 Romantic Comedy Film)

Since its debut in theaters worldwide, director Greg Berlanti’s “Fly Me to the Moon” has received the Verified Hot certification on Rotten Tomatoes by fans. The film has also been praised by critics for the performances of Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.

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Synopsis

Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as backup, and the countdown truly begins…

Cast And Crew

Directed by: Greg Berlanti

Screenplay by: Rose Gilroy

Based Upon the Story by: Keenan Flynn & Bill Kirstein

Produced by: Jonathan Lia, Scarlett Johansson, Keenan Flynn, Sarah Schechter

Executive Producers: Robert J. Dohrmann

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Jim Rash, Ray Romano, Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Nick Dillenburg

Specs

Run Time: Approx.

Synopsis

Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as backup, and the countdown truly begins…

Cast And Crew

Directed by: Greg Berlanti

Screenplay by: Rose Gilroy

Based Upon the Story by: Keenan Flynn & Bill Kirstein

Produced by: Jonathan Lia, Scarlett Johansson, Keenan Flynn, Sarah Schechter

Executive Producers: Robert J. Dohrmann

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Jim Rash, Ray Romano, Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Nick Dillenburg

Specs

Run Time: Approx.

Exclusive: Netflix has locked down rights to Hurt People, a legal thriller spec from Monarch creator Melissa London Hilfers, sources tell Deadline.

Details as to the plot of the film are under wraps. Written amid last year’s writer’s strike, it marks the rising scribe’s fifth feature spec sale to date. Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter are attached to produce for Berlanti/Schechter Films.

While Hilfers most recently created Monarch, a country music drama starring Susan Sarandon and Anna Friel for Fox TV, the writer is a self-professed justice junkie who more often than not, finds her way back to stories with the law at the center, as she has here. Previously a litigator at Cravath, Swaine and Moore Llp, she burst onto the scene with Undone, a legal thriller described as Gone Girl meets Primal Fear, which sold to Parkes + MacDonald and Black Bear in a competitive situation.

Since the landing of the moon in 1969, there have been those who question the credibility of the famed event that gave America the winning title of the space race. Because most people will not make it into the stratosphere of space, questions, and conspiracies began to arise of whether or not the moon landing was real. As art will imitate life, it’s no surprise that the conspiracies have inspired a new film. ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ is the newest rom-com directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy. The Apple Studios film hit theatres this week and opens up compelling questions about the true story of the moon landing. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission...

Greg Berlanti aims high with ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, and the part romance, part period, part thriller, all high concept space-race picture for Apple Original Films lands him among the stars. Though pitched as a rom-com, arguably it’s more of an irreverent period comedy that asks questions more relevant than ever about media, authenticity, and truth… with a side of star-studded romance. Despite some rough edges, the great cast and characters, historical easter eggs, and beautiful visual design really bring this romp to the moon to life. If you went to space camp as a kid, this one’s for you. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world...

Directed by Greg Berlanti and produced by star Scarlett Johansson, the romantic dramedy Fly Me to the Moon was originally meant to be released directly to the Apple TV+ streaming service, but strong test screenings inspired Sony to give the film a theatrical release first. The movie isn’t setting the box office on fire, having pulled in just $20 million worldwide during its first week of release, but it will be heading to Apple TV+ soon anyway – and Berlanti and Johansson were able to establish a strong working relationship during the making of the film. That’s a working relationship they’re now set to continue with a psychological thriller called Sasha, and Deadline reports that Amazon MGM Studios has come out the winner of a five-way auction to land the rights to the project.

Berlanti will be producing Sasha alongside Sarah Schechter and Mike McGrath for Berlanti Schechter Films,...

In the current era of filmmaking, a movie is only as good as its marketing strategy. No other film proved this better than Scarlett Johansson’s sci-fi action thriller The Island, which opened in 2005 to lackluster box office collections. However, the film later gained a cult following, with many appreciating the film’s ethical themes.

Johansson herself blamed the bad publicity and promotions that the studio did for the original sci-fi movie. Directed by Michael Bay before his Transformers days and co-written by Star Trek’s Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, the film only earned $162 million against a $126 million budget.

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Waititi made the film under Fox Searchlight who came under Disney after its 2019 acquisition of Fox. The Black Widow actress had concerns about the film coming under Disney since Jojo Rabbit did not conform to the ‘family-friendly’ brand of the studio.

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Scarlett Johansson’s career continues to soar even after her famous stint in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actress returns to making romantic comedy movies, a genre that is slowly making its way back into this time period.

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The film is basically a huge risk especially after the actress accepted a script from an unknown scribe. Despite coming from a legacy family, Rose Gilroy – the niece of director Tony Gilroy – still doesn’t have her membership card from the Writers Guild of America.

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The mighty clique of spunky superheroes is Marvel’s pride and the apple of millions of fans’ eyes all over the world. Such is the charm of the heroic saviors with a wit who call themselves the Avengers.

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And who wouldn’t love to see the likes of a sardonic Iron Man (R.I.P. Tony Stark), a too-serious Captain America, a feisty Black Widow, and a fuming giant called Hulk fight against evil? Scarlett Johansson’s biggest supporter, that’s who.

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Scarlett Johansson’s latest film Fly Me to the Moon has opened with some good response in theaters. The film follows the relationship between a marketing specialist, played by Johansson, and the NASA director in charge of the Apollo 11 mission, played by Channing Tatum. With the talents involved, fans would be surprised to know that neophyte Rose Gilroy was tasked with writing the screenplay.

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However, Rose Gilroy is not just any writing newbie. Writing is imbibed in her DNA as she is the daughter of screenwriter Dan Gilroy and granddaughter of playwright Frank D. Gilroy. Her mother is actress Rene Russo. However, the big names associated with her did not make it any easier for her to land her gig with Johansson.

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Fly Me to the Moon director Greg Berlanti doesn’t think of himself as a director first and foremost. He’s a storyteller with a keen sense of how he can best serve a project, be it as a producer, writer or director. In the case of Fly Me to the Moon, the New York native had been talking about working with Scarlett Johansson for some time, and the opportunity to helm a hijinks-filled romantic comedy-drama that’s set in and around the Apollo 11 Moon landing was something he couldn’t resist.

His reasoning for signing on was also the polar opposite of why he chose to direct his previous comedy-drama, Love, Simon (2018), which chronicled the coming out story of teenager Simon Spier. (The critically acclaimed hit paved the way for Hulu’s spinoff series, Love, Victor.)

“Love, Simon was an opportunity to do a movie that wasn’t there when I was a kid,...

Fly Me to the Moon is a historical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy. The 2024 film follows a romantic entanglement between a marketing executive and a NASA official, as he prepares for the Apollo 11 moon landing while she is given the task of filming a fake moon landing in case the real mission fails. Fly Me to the Moon stars Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in the lead roles with Woody Harrelson, Anna Garcia, Ray Romano, Jim Rash, Nick Dillenburg, Jessie Mueller, Noah Robbins, and Bill Barrett starring in supporting roles. If you loved the fake moon landing aspect of Fly Me to the Moon, here are some similar movies you can check out next.

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Animated blockbuster Despicable Me 4 will be aiming to set records across its UK-Ireland run, as it opens in 688 cinemas this weekend through Universal.

Produced by Universal-owned animation stalwarts Illumination Entertainment, the Despicable Me franchise is among the most profitable of recent decades. The first film opened to £3.9m on its way to a £20.2m total in 2010; before the sequel started with £10m and ended on £47.5m in 2013; and was in turn surpassed by Despicable Me 3, which opened to £11.2m and closed on £47.9m.

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Yes, I see that title and I immediately picture “ole’ blue eyes”, a trench coat draped over a shoulder, crooning that catchy 1954 Bart Howard classic. And that’s just what the producers want to evoke, to get you in a nostalgic mood for a frothy romance set against the backdrop of the “space race”. Mission accomplished, but could a “rom-com” really work against the somber historical backdrop we’ve seen in heavy, serious films like First Man, A Million Miles Away, Hidden Figures, Apollo 13, and the HBO miniseries, “From the Earth to the Moon”.Now, that’s the trick, much like the possible results facing NASA, Will it blast off or crash land? But it’s “star power” rather than rocket fuel that propels Fly Me To The Moon.

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It’s easy to assume that a screenwriter with the last name Gilroy had an effortless foray into show business, but that was anything but the case for Fly Me to the Moon’s Rose Gilroy.

As the daughter of Dan Gilroy and Rene Russo, as well as niece to Tony and John Gilroy, Rose attempted to steer away from the family business by trying her hand at pre-med and pre-law trajectories during college, but neither option ended up being in the cards for her. Upon graduating Colgate University in 2016, she then modeled for a stretch, but it soon became apparent that writing was in her DNA as well. After all, she’s also the granddaughter of the late Frank D. Gilroy, who won a Pulitzer and a Tony for his 1965 play, The Subject Was Roses.

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The latter was a collaborative effort involving her and fellow Marvel star Taika Waititi who is also a talented filmmaker. The director encountered a creative standstill during one of the scenes while the crew and actors were waiting for the shot. However, instead of getting restless and complaining, Johansson’s class act won the respect of the director.

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Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Fly Me the Moon,” an alternative history satire about the Apollo 11 first-msn-on-the-moon mission, featuring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum and Woody Harrelson. In theaters on July 12th.

Rating: 3.0/5.0

The premise is basically a parallel universe to the actual event in 1969 as Channing Tatum is Cole Davis, the flight director for Apollo 11. When expected funding is being held up by Congress, the Nixon administration sends an uncover CIA spook named Moe (Woody Harrelson), who helps NASA to hire a hot shot Mad-Men era marketing expert named Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) to boost the profile in the space race against the Soviet Union. This confuses Cole’s right-hand man Henry (Ray Romano) and puts pressure on the rest of the mission, including a commercial film director hired by Kelly named Lance (Jim Rash), who is given a peculiar assignment.

”Fly Me to the Moon...

America is in crisis. It’s the late 1960s, and President John F. Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade has yet to be fulfilled. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration — NASA, for short — has experienced a major setback when a launch rehearsal test for the Apollo 1 goes awry and all three crew members perish. The Russkies appear to have the lead in the Space Race, the public interest in conquering the stars is waning, and the organization’s funding is on the chopping block.

Exclusive: At the height of Peak TV, Greg Berlanti’s career took off like a rocket. His Berlanti Productions had a record-breaking 15 shows on the air simultaneously, from DC properties like The Flash, Supergirl and Arrow to Riverdale and Blindspot. Berlanti will have six shows on air this fall, which gave him time to launch Fly Me to the Moon, starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson and Ray Romano. The rom-com pairs Johansson as a gifted but shady sales person trying to outrun her past, and Tatum as a fighter pilot-turned-NASA leader trying to help beat the Russians to the moon. She comes to Cape Canaveral at the behest of a Nixon fixer (Harrelson), hired to stage the moon landing for a telecast to run on global TV if things go awry. It’s the first film Berlanti has directed since 2018’s Love, Simon, a crowd pleasing theatrical release.

If Scarlett Johansson as a Don Draper-level ad executive wrapped in a Joan Holloway sheath dress and in a NASA screwball rom-com opposite Channing Tatum floats your spaceflight, then “Fly Me to the Moon” hits the target square on the head for blandly reassuring, disposable throwback fare.

And to the tune of a reported $100 million budget, it’s a rare studio comedy from an original script that’s not based on anything else — unless you’re counting Apollo 11, the first-ever successful man-on-the-moon landing led by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But Greg Berlanti’s space race comedy puts an alternative orbital spin on American history: What if said moon landing was an elaborate hoax, and what Americans saw on all three major broadcast networks in 1969 was actually staged inside NASA’s 562-feet-tall Vehicle Assembly Building, with nothing but a crew of unaccomplished nonactors, some rock formations, and a replica of the Apollo Lunar Module?...

Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Fly Me To The MoonImage: Apple

Fly Me To The Moon is being sold as a romantic comedy about a couple who fall for each other while working on a contingency plan to fake the moon landing for NASA in 1969. That does sound like a fun and interesting film.

Sony is looking to bring the underserved female moviegoing audience to cinemas this weekend with Apple Original Films’ $100M Channing Tatum-Scarlett Johansson stylish romantic comedy Fly Me to the Moon.

Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in ‘Fly Me To The Moon’

The PG-13 Greg Berlanti-directed, Rose Gilroy-penned feature follows a brassy ad exec played by Johansson who gets pulled in by the U.S. government to create a back-up plan for NASA’s 1969 moon landing, while bonding with a launch director played by Tatum. The movie is currently on track for a $12M opening with solid first choice among women over 25, though the pic is slightly behind the George Clooney-Julia Roberts reteam Ticket to Paradise which opened in the fall of 2022 to $16.5M. Reviews are also good currently at 71% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon. It was an inspirational moment for people all over the world. But some people are jerks, so they took that inspiration and quickly spun it into a conspiracy theory that NASA faked the whole moon landing on a soundstage.

Hollywood loves to be topical, so filmmakers latched onto this paranoid fantasy immediately. Only two years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, James Bond stumbled across NASA’s top secret film studio in “Diamonds Are Forever.” The government hunted down O.J. Simpson to keep a fake Mars mission secret in 1977’s “Capricorn One.” By the time we got to the present day it wasn’t even a subversive idea anymore. It was just a throwaway gag in kids movies like “Minions.”

Now it’s the premise for “Fly Me to the Moon,...

Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Greg Berlanti and more of the Fly Me to the Moon team celebrated their upcoming film at its New York City premiere on Monday night.

The rom-com follows Johansson’s Kelly Jones, a marketing executive hired to “sell the moon” to America ahead of the Apollo 11 moon landing. When she makes her way to Cape Canaveral, Florida, to work her marketing magic, she wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’ (Tatum) already difficult task of preparing for the space trip.

When the White House deems the moon landing too important to fail, she receives an order to stage a fake moon landing as a backup, in case things don’t go smoothly for Neil Armstrong (Nick Dillenburg), Michael Collins (Christian Zuber) and Buzz Aldrin (Colin Woodell).

While Fly Me to the Moon is a fictional story, the premise of the film is based on an actual...

If there were any suspicion that the Apollo 11 moon landing had been thoroughly exhausted cinematically: think again. For what it’s worth, Greg Berlanti’s breezy space comedy at least offers a fresh revisionist perspective. Here, advertising whizz Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) is plucked from her cushy New York job and tasked with giving the underfunded NASA a much-needed PR boost in the run-up to that fateful mission. But that promising premise is squandered by a knotty plot that makes the film more complicated than it needed to be.

There’s a fun workplace romcom somewhere in Fly Me To The Moon. Kelly’s gung-ho approach to public relations comes up against the more practical-minded launch director Cole Davis (Channing Tatum), whose exasperation grows as Kelly wrangles Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins for Omega watch sponsorships and cereal adverts. But not even Cole can deny the power of good marketing,...

Directed by Greg Berlanti, this charming romantic comedy-drama set against the thrilling backdrop of the 1960s Space Race stars Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum and Woody Harrelson.

The film centres on the unexpected romance between Kelly Jones (Johansson doing her best impression of Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris in Mad Men), an advertising specialist brought in to improve NASA’s public image, and the handsome, yet taciturn Cole Davis (Tatum), the NASA director responsible for the Apollo 11 launch.

Channelling classic ’60s romcoms like Pillow Talk and A Touch of Mink, the film follows Kelly and Cole as they clash over how to “sell” the moon-landing to a Vietnam war-weary American public. But as they start to fall for one another, their already shaky relationship is thrown into deeper turmoil when Kelly is ordered by Harrelson’s enigmatic secret service boss Moe Berkus, to orchestrate and then film a fake moon landing,...

Whenever joyless grumps like myself end up holding readers captive so we can drone on about "the kinds of movies they don't make anymore," well, sometimes the right movie comes rolling around at just the right time, like a godsend from the heavens itself. "Fly Me to the Moon" might as well encapsulate everything certain movie fans feel nostalgic for these days, wrapped in one irresistible package. A pair of bona fide, charismatic, capital-letter Movie Stars anchoring a throwback romantic comedy that centers on arguably the most celebrated accomplishment in American history, the Apollo 11 Moon landing? Say less!

Director Greg Berlanti (the producer and writer most well-known for spearheading DC's stable of superhero shows on the CW Network) might not appear the most obvious choice to bring this premise to life with a self-assured sense of flair and a snappy rhythm befitting its '60s setting, but here's one book...

Big-Picture-Comedy-Drama über die Romanze zwischen einem Marketing-Genie und einem NASA-Ingenieur.

Fast Facts:

• Scarlett Johansson! Channing Tatum! Die Mondlandung!

• Smartes Sommer-Popcorn-Movie mit Sixties-Nostalgie

• Erste Regiearbeit von Super-Producer Greg Berlanti nach der queeren RomCom „Love, Simon“ (2018)

• Nach „Napoleon“ die zweite Produktion von Apple, die von Sony in den Kinos ausgewertet wird

Credits:

O-Titel: Fly Me to the Moon; Land/Jahr: USA, 2024; Laufzeit: 131 Minuten; Drehbuch: Rose Gilroy; Regie: Greg Berlanti; Besetzung: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Ray Romano, Woody Harrelson, Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Donald Elise Watkins; Verleih: Sony Pictures; Start: 11. Juli 2024

Review:

Es ist 1968 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, die Jukebox spielt „The moon belongs to everyone, the best things in life are free“, die Neonschilder von „Wolfie’s Restaurant“ leuchten in den nächtlichen Sternenhimmel. Drinnen sitzt Scarlett Johansson, als Channing Tatum das Diner betritt. Ihre Blicke begegnen sich, und in dem Moment, in dem man denkt,...

Greg Berlanti’s high-concept rom-com Fly Me to the Moon emphasizes the optimism of the Space Race while also regarding the militaristic motives behind early space exploration with a jaundiced, decidedly modern perspective. It opens at the top of 1969, with NASA having less than a year to make good on John F. Kennedy’s 1961 promise to get astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. With the Apollo program seemingly stalled out and congressional enthusiasm for the space program waning, certain government agencies decide to rejuvenate public interest and secure further federal funding to ensure that the Soviet Union, following a string of spaceflight achievements, doesn’t again embarrass the U.S.

To do so, a mysterious official, Moe (Woody Harrelson), recruits Madison Avenue marketing executive Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) to mount a PR campaign on NASA’s behalf, and to the bafflement of the space agency’s...

There is something charming, even enchanting, about Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon. For one, the film is set in an era that looks to the stars as the last great exploration with unlimited possibilities. With the help of Shane Valentino’s production design, Lauren Rosenbloom’s art direction, and Mary Zophres’s costume design, Berlanti’s film drops the audience into another time and place.

The other is the relative newcomer Rose Gilroy’s script, an utterly delightful exercise in romantic nostalgia. Along with two lovely performances by Fly Me to the Moon’s leads, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum (and a scene-stealing comic gem from Community’s Jim Rash), this makes for the type of old-fashioned escapism Hollywood tends to shy away from nowadays.

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A charitable explanation for the new film co-starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum is that the creators got stoned one night and watched the cheesy 1978 movie Capricorn One, about a faked lunar mission to Mars. “Hey, you know what would make this movie even better?” one of them must have asked rhetorically. “If it were a love story, too.”

The result is the misbegotten Fly Me to the Moon, which somehow manages to be less credible than Capricorn One — and that movie featured O.J. Simpson as an astronaut. The film weirdly blends together romantic comedy, historical drama and conspiracy thriller into exactly the sort of unholy mess that you’d expect. Except no one would expect it to be a numbing 132 minutes long. It’s no wonder Tatum looks uncomfortable throughout.

It’s no spoiler to reveal that a key plot element involves a conspiracy to fake the Apollo 11 moon landing,...

Trailers make “Fly Me to the Moon” look cute at best, when in fact it’s quite clever: a smarter-than-it-sounds, space-age sparring match of the Rock Hudson/Doris Day variety, in which the honest-to-a-fault NASA launch director responsible for sending Apollo 11 into orbit (a straight-faced Channing Tatum) goes head-to-head with a mendacious Madison Avenue spin doctor. Set during the first half of 1969, director Greg Berlanti’s high-concept screwball comedy values chemistry over history, bending the facts to suggest a fresh set of stakes for the operation, where romance fuels a rocket to the moon.

For decades, questions have dogged the Apollo 11 project. Who really won the space race? Did NASA fake the moon landing? Story credit goes to Keenan Flynn and Bill Kirstein, as screenwriter Rose Gilroy takes these doubts and extrapolates them into what the film itself might call an “alternative version” of events — one that puts authenticity itself on the line.

Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up and the countdown truly begins…

Directed by Greg Berlanti, Fly Me To The Moon has been rated PG-13 for some strong language, and smoking. The film will be released in theaters nationwide on July 12, 2024.

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Director Greg Berlanti didn’t intend for his new romantic comedy “Fly Me to the Moon” to have a theatrical release.

“It was originally direct to streaming,” Berlanti says, speaking Thursday at a friends and family screening of the movie at San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood. “But then we handed in the cut and we started testing it. We tested it in Denver and it went very well. We tested it in California and we tested it in Texas. Every time, it was very much a resounding response from the focus group and testing that this was a theatrical movie.”

The film was produced by Apple Original Films and will be distributed by Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures.

A reimagining of the history of man’s first trip to the moon, the movie stars Channing Tatum as Cole Davis, a former military pilot in charge of Apollo 11’s launch. Scarlett Johansson co-stars as Kelly Jones,...

This pivotal year for the nation was on Greg Berlanti’s mind during an intimate screening of his period film Fly Me to the Moon that took place on the night of this week’s presidential debate.

Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in Apple Original Films’ romantic comedy feature from director Berlanti that hits theaters July 12, with Sony handling distribution. Set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 moon launch during the Space Race of the late 1960s, Fly Me to the Moon centers on a NASA director (Tatum) and marketing specialist (Johansson) who butt heads in the lead-up to the high-pressure moment.

Among the notable guests at the event held at the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood were performers who had previously worked with Berlanti, including Cole Sprouse (Riverdale), Lucy Hale (Katy Keene) and Lukas Gage (You). Also in attendance were Nina Dobrev, Alex Edelman, Donald De Line and Jim Rash,...

Sony Pictures has released the official trailer and poster for Fly Me to the Moon, the upcoming Apple Original Films production starring Scarlett Johannson and Channing Tatum.

The film will be released in theaters on July 12, 2024, and will screen in premium large formats. The movie will debut on Apple TV+ at a later date. The MPA has rated Fly Me to the Moon PG-13 for some strong language and smoking.

Fly Me to the Moon is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task.

When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as backup, and the countdown truly begins…...

Sony sat out CinemaCon in April this year, but was the first major studio to present at CineEurope in Barcelona today, culminating in a screening of Apple Original Films’ Scarlett Johansson/Channing Tatum-starrer Fly Me to the Moon which Sony is releasing theatrically.

Before the screening, Sony President of International Theatrical Distribution, Steven O’Dell, cautioned, “Good is no longer good enough. We have to deliver greatness to audiences. The onus is on all of us.”

O’Dell was bullish on the future. Sony, whose Columbia Pictures is celebrating its centenary this year, is “committed to the industry,” he said, noting Sony Pictures Entertainment’s recent “bold move” to acquire the Alamo Drafthouse, as well as its 2021 $1.2B acquisition of Crunchyroll. O’Dell continued that the studio is also “positioned to make some big bets on the future of our industry.”

This reiterated something the exec had said during a...

"We're Here" Season 4 Trailer Out Out Now

The multi-award-winning "We're Here” is ready to hit the road! HBO has released the trailer and key art for the upcoming fourth season of the drag-centric non-scripted series, which will return for six new episodes on Friday, April 26.

World-renowned drag queens Sasha Velour, Priyanka, Jaida Essence Hall, and Latrice Royale take the wheel as they continue the show’s mission of spreading love and connection through the art of drag across small-town America. In Season 4, the queens will center their work in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as in surrounding towns, and take an immersive look at recent anti-lgbtq+ legislation and its effect on the community.

Watch the trailer for “We’re Here” Season 4 below:

Season 3 of the series won the Emmy Awards for Outstanding Costumes For Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Programming and Outstanding Hairstyling For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program...

Fly Me To The Moon Photo: Apple TV+ Call it a rom-com-con: that’s a romantic comedy with a dash of conspiracy theory thrown in. “The moon landing was faked” is a favorite of tin hats everywhere, but the premise of Fly Me To The Moon, premiering in theaters July...

Fly Me To The MoonPhoto: Apple TV+

Call it a rom-com-con: that’s a romantic comedy with a dash of conspiracy theory thrown in. “The moon landing was faked” is a favorite of tin hats everywhere, but the premise of Fly Me To The Moon, premiering in theaters July 12, isn...

“Fly Me to the Moon,” a Space Race-set romantic comedy starring two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, is about to blast off. On Monday, Apple TV+ released a trailer for the film, which lands on screens this summer via a distribution deal with Sony Pictures.

“Fly Me to the Moon” tells a fictitious story set in the late ‘60s during the lead-up to the Moon Landing. Johansson, who also serves as a producer, stars as Kelly Jones, a marketing mastermind hired by NASA to improve the space program’s image. She has professional and romantic tension with Cole Davis (Tatum), a by-the-book launch commander. Things get really wild when Jones is ordered to film a fake moon landing, just in case the real one doesn’t work. And yes, there is a Stanley Kubrick joke.

The film was originally called “Project Artemis” – which is an actual, totally...

What hath Disney wrought? These animated-to-live-action conversion jobs really have gotten out hand. How else to explain Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum snatching the leads in a new take on the 2007 3D animated adventure about insects going into orbi… Sorry, we're being told that this is not that, but instead a new comedy-drama about promoting NASA by, er, faking the Moon landing in case it doesn't go well? Yes, check out the first trailer for Fly Me To The Moon:

Directed by TV guru Greg Berlanti (who at one point had around 73 different shows on the air at the height of the DC Arrowverse) from Rose Gilroy's script, it's set as NASA is looking to re-engage public awareness and excitement via the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Launch director Cole Davis (Tatum) is surprised to learn that the woman he once hit on in a diner (Johansson's Kelly Jones) is...

On the morning of July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sat atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket used its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history.

On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. Edt, Armstrong planted the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbed down the ladder and proclaimed: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

And now some 55 years later, NASA is preparing to send people back to the lunar surface. Scheduled for September 2025, the Artemis II flight test will be NASA’s first mission with crew under Artemis and will pave the way to land the first woman and next man on the Moon on Artemis III. Astronauts on their first flight...

An Apple Original Film, the comedy-drama Fly Me to the Moon is set to receive a theatrical release (in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment) on July 12th before it starts streaming on Apple TV+. With its big screen debut just three months away, a trailer for Fly Me to the Moon has made its way online, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy (with Bill Kirstein and Keenan Flynn receiving story credit), the film is described as sharp and stylish and is set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing wunderkind Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s already difficult task. When the President deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage...

Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum lead an ensemble cast in Greg Berlanti’s comedy about the moon landing. Watch the first Fly Me To The Moon trailer.

Before she (reportedly) heads off to Jurassic City, Scarlett Johansson has a pit stop to make; the moon.

Well, kind of, at least. Johansson stars alongside Channing Tatum in Greg Berlanti’s new comedy about a team faking the moon landing, in case the real mission goes awry.

Take a look at the trailer.

It’s all in good fun, but there is a disturbing amount of theories about the moon landing being fake, so the film’s premise is certainly a juicy one.

Here’s the official synopsis: Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image,...

Fly Me to the Moon is coming soon!

The Apple Original Films and Sony production just debuted the first trailer for the Greg Berlanti-directed space race movie, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.

The movie follows Scarlett as “marketing specialist Kelly Jones who is brought in to pump up NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Interoffice romance shenanigans fly with Channing Tatum’s launch director Cole Davis. Upping the stakes: Jones is tasked with staging a fake moon landing as back-up as the countdown begins,” via Deadline.

Keep reading to find out more…

Fly Me to the Moon will hit theaters on July 12, marking fourth Apple Original Films title to get a wide global release after Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon and Argylle.

Rose Gilroy wrote the script based on the story by Bill Kirstein and Keenan Flynn. The film also stars Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash,...