“Float” is a New Romantic drama feature, directed by Sherren Lee, starring Andrea Bang, Robbie Amell, Andrew Bachelor, Rukiya Bernard, Michelle Krusiec, Sarah Desjardins, Ghazal Azarbad and Tristan Arthurs. opening in theaters February 9, 2024:
“…a young woman in a tense relationship with her parents decides to spend the summer in a different setting before starting university.
“Staying with her aunt in the coastal beach town of Tofino, she nearly drowns and is drawn into a hot romance with lifeguard ‘Blake’ who teaches her ‘how to swim’…”
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“…a young woman in a tense relationship with her parents decides to spend the summer in a different setting before starting university.
“Staying with her aunt in the coastal beach town of Tofino, she nearly drowns and is drawn into a hot romance with lifeguard ‘Blake’ who teaches her ‘how to swim’…”
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- 1/28/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Stephen and Robbie Amell are back for the upcoming Code 8 Part II!
The acting cousins just announced the premiere date for the sequel, just over four years after the first movie debuted.
If you recall, the actors raised the funds for the first film via a crowd-funded campaign, but after it dropped on Netflix, it became a hit and a sequel was greenlit in 2021!
Keep reading to find out more…
“Hey everyone! We have some exciting news to share about Code 8 Part II,” Robbie starts out in the announcement video. “The movie will release globally on Netflix February 28th.”
“We wanted to give a special shout out to our Day 1 Code 8 fans,” Stephen added. “Without you, none of this would have been possible. We can’t wait for you to see what’s coming up next in the sequel.”
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The acting cousins just announced the premiere date for the sequel, just over four years after the first movie debuted.
If you recall, the actors raised the funds for the first film via a crowd-funded campaign, but after it dropped on Netflix, it became a hit and a sequel was greenlit in 2021!
Keep reading to find out more…
“Hey everyone! We have some exciting news to share about Code 8 Part II,” Robbie starts out in the announcement video. “The movie will release globally on Netflix February 28th.”
“We wanted to give a special shout out to our Day 1 Code 8 fans,” Stephen added. “Without you, none of this would have been possible. We can’t wait for you to see what’s coming up next in the sequel.”
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- 1/17/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
"Can we just stay in the moment?" Lionsgate has unveiled a trailer for a romantic drama titled Float, made in Canada by filmmaker Sherren Lee. This cheesy love story is based on the book of the same name written by Kate Marchant. It's one of these "everything changed when I met this one guy" stories we've seen so many times over and over. A city girl with a life in Toronto, originally from Taiwan, rejected by her parents, makes an impulsive decision to spend the summer at a small town with her estranged aunt. She nearly drowns and is rescued by the lifeguard next door, who offers to teach her how to swim. Of course they fall in love, but will things work out? Float stars Andrea Bang as Waverly, Robbie Amell as lifeguard Blake, Michelle Krusiec, Andrew Bachelor, Rukiya Bernard, and Sarah Desjardins. This looks sweet and sappy and...
- 1/9/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Canadian comedy Run the Burbs is in production for its third run.
Season 3 CBC and Pier 21 Films series from Andrew Phung and Scott Townend is in production around Toronto, Hamilton and Barrie. It follows a loving Vietnamese and Indian family, the Phams, in the suburbs and their oddball neighbors.
Phung stars in the ensemble comedy alongside the likes of Rakhee Morzaria, Zoriah Wong and Roman Pesino.
The new season will run to 13 episodes and launch in winter 2024 on CBC and streamer CBC Gem. It will include a now-annual Vietnamese Lunar New Year – Tết – episode and will once again include DJ and rapper Kardinall Offishall, in a role that has brought him a 2023 CSA nomination alongside Phung and Morzaria.
“Having the opportunity to showcase this family on television has been a dream come true,” said creators Phung and Townend. “It’s an absolute joy seeing the Phams grow from season to season.
Season 3 CBC and Pier 21 Films series from Andrew Phung and Scott Townend is in production around Toronto, Hamilton and Barrie. It follows a loving Vietnamese and Indian family, the Phams, in the suburbs and their oddball neighbors.
Phung stars in the ensemble comedy alongside the likes of Rakhee Morzaria, Zoriah Wong and Roman Pesino.
The new season will run to 13 episodes and launch in winter 2024 on CBC and streamer CBC Gem. It will include a now-annual Vietnamese Lunar New Year – Tết – episode and will once again include DJ and rapper Kardinall Offishall, in a role that has brought him a 2023 CSA nomination alongside Phung and Morzaria.
“Having the opportunity to showcase this family on television has been a dream come true,” said creators Phung and Townend. “It’s an absolute joy seeing the Phams grow from season to season.
- 10/16/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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Gavin Crawford and Sharjil Rasool have joined the second season of Run the Burbs, the lighthearted CBC comedy whose sophomore season will be showrun and executive produced by The Office writer Anthony Q. Farrell.
Dakota Ray Hebert and Ann Pornel will guest star in the Pier 21 Films series created by Andrew Phung and Scott Townend as the Pham family universe expands. The second season cast will include regulars Phung as Andrew Pham, Rakhee Morzaria as Camille Pham, and Zoriah Wong and Roman Pesino as Khia and Leo Pham.
Other first season cast returning includes Ali Hassan, Julie Nolke, Jonathan Langdon, Chris Locke, Samantha Wan and Aurora Browne (Baroness von Sketch Show). The second season will debut on CBC and CBC Gem in winter 2023 as production gets underway on 13 new half-hour episodes.
“For season two, Scott and I wanted to push this further,...
Gavin Crawford and Sharjil Rasool have joined the second season of Run the Burbs, the lighthearted CBC comedy whose sophomore season will be showrun and executive produced by The Office writer Anthony Q. Farrell.
Dakota Ray Hebert and Ann Pornel will guest star in the Pier 21 Films series created by Andrew Phung and Scott Townend as the Pham family universe expands. The second season cast will include regulars Phung as Andrew Pham, Rakhee Morzaria as Camille Pham, and Zoriah Wong and Roman Pesino as Khia and Leo Pham.
Other first season cast returning includes Ali Hassan, Julie Nolke, Jonathan Langdon, Chris Locke, Samantha Wan and Aurora Browne (Baroness von Sketch Show). The second season will debut on CBC and CBC Gem in winter 2023 as production gets underway on 13 new half-hour episodes.
“For season two, Scott and I wanted to push this further,...
- 10/20/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lionsgate has joined Robbie Amell’s Float, the adaptation of Kate Marchant’s hit Wattpad story that also has found its director and leading lady.
The beach romance, which began shooting in Vancouver last week, stars Kim’s Convenience star Andrea Bang as Waverly, who impulsively decides to spend her summer before college in a beach town, where she finds herself falling for local lifeguard Blake (Amell). Soon, Waverly has to decide between her pre-planned future of becoming a doctor and following her heart.
Sherren Lee, making her feature directorial debut, will helm the project. Lee, who also co-wrote the screenplay for Float with ...
The beach romance, which began shooting in Vancouver last week, stars Kim’s Convenience star Andrea Bang as Waverly, who impulsively decides to spend her summer before college in a beach town, where she finds herself falling for local lifeguard Blake (Amell). Soon, Waverly has to decide between her pre-planned future of becoming a doctor and following her heart.
Sherren Lee, making her feature directorial debut, will helm the project. Lee, who also co-wrote the screenplay for Float with ...
- 10/1/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Lionsgate has joined Robbie Amell’s Float, the adaptation of Kate Marchant’s hit Wattpad story that also has found its director and leading lady.
The beach romance, which began shooting in Vancouver last week, stars Kim’s Convenience star Andrea Bang as Waverly, who impulsively decides to spend her summer before college in a beach town, where she finds herself falling for local lifeguard Blake (Amell). Soon, Waverly has to decide between her pre-planned future of becoming a doctor and following her heart.
Sherren Lee, making her feature directorial debut, will helm the project. Lee, who also co-wrote the screenplay for Float with ...
The beach romance, which began shooting in Vancouver last week, stars Kim’s Convenience star Andrea Bang as Waverly, who impulsively decides to spend her summer before college in a beach town, where she finds herself falling for local lifeguard Blake (Amell). Soon, Waverly has to decide between her pre-planned future of becoming a doctor and following her heart.
Sherren Lee, making her feature directorial debut, will helm the project. Lee, who also co-wrote the screenplay for Float with ...
- 10/1/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix confirmed this week that they have taken on the global rights to the Canadian sci-fi movie Code 8: Part II. The film will be the streamer's first original Canadian English-language feature acquisition. Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell are reprising their roles from the first film and the movie will once again be directed by Jeff Chan. Chris Pare, Jeff Chan, Sherren Lee,…...
- 6/17/2021
- by Gaius Bolling
- JoBlo.com
Netflix Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos announced today as part of his keynote speech at Banff World Media Festival that the streamer is taking global rights to Canadian sci-fi movie Code 8: Part II.
It’s the streamer’s first original Canadian English-language feature acquisition.
Deadline first reported on the casting of the sequel with Robbie Amell (Upload) and Stephen Amell (Arrow) reprising their roles from the first film.
In Part 2, after witnessing the murder of her brother and subsequent cover up, a teenage girl with abnormal abilities seeks the help of an ex-con (Robbie Amell) and his former partner-in-crime (Stephen Amell). Together, they face a unit of corrupt police officers who deploy advanced robotic technology to prevent themselves from being exposed.
Collective Pictures produces a movie directed by Jeff Chan and written by Chris Paré and Jeff Chan, Sherren Lee and Jesse Lavercombe.
Producers are Chan, Robbie Amell,...
It’s the streamer’s first original Canadian English-language feature acquisition.
Deadline first reported on the casting of the sequel with Robbie Amell (Upload) and Stephen Amell (Arrow) reprising their roles from the first film.
In Part 2, after witnessing the murder of her brother and subsequent cover up, a teenage girl with abnormal abilities seeks the help of an ex-con (Robbie Amell) and his former partner-in-crime (Stephen Amell). Together, they face a unit of corrupt police officers who deploy advanced robotic technology to prevent themselves from being exposed.
Collective Pictures produces a movie directed by Jeff Chan and written by Chris Paré and Jeff Chan, Sherren Lee and Jesse Lavercombe.
Producers are Chan, Robbie Amell,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Fans of the crowd-funded sci-fi film Code 8 will be happy to learn that its stars, Stephen Amell and Robbie Amell, are returning for the highly anticipated sequel. Officially titled Code 8: Part II, the film will once again be directed by Jeff Chan with Chan sharing screenwriting duties with Chris Paré, Sherren Lee & Jesse Lavercomb. The sequel…...
- 6/2/2021
- by Gaius Bolling
- JoBlo.com
Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell are set to star in the highly anticipated sci-fi sequel Code 8: Part II directed by Jeff Chan (Code 8). The film is written by Chris Paré & Chan, and Sherren Lee & Jesse Lavercombe. Producers include Chan, Robbie Amell, Stephen Amell and Paré, with XYZ Films executive producing and handling sales. The film is set for a start date in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Code 8: Part II is centered around the 4% of people living in fictional Lincoln City who possess special abilities and are often confronted by advanced, militarized police technology. It’s a sci-fi fantasy about the extraordinary power that we as individuals hold, versus the technological superiority of the institutions that we live within. The sequel is about the journey of a teenage girl fighting to get justice for her slain brother at the hands of corrupt police officers. After becoming a witness to the cover up,...
Code 8: Part II is centered around the 4% of people living in fictional Lincoln City who possess special abilities and are often confronted by advanced, militarized police technology. It’s a sci-fi fantasy about the extraordinary power that we as individuals hold, versus the technological superiority of the institutions that we live within. The sequel is about the journey of a teenage girl fighting to get justice for her slain brother at the hands of corrupt police officers. After becoming a witness to the cover up,...
- 6/1/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell are expanding the Code 8 universe. After spearheading the crowd-funded original film, the cousins are set to reprise their roles in the sci-fi sequel Code 8: Part II. Jeff Chan is also returning to direct.
Chan also penned the screenplay with Chris Paré, who wrote Code 8, as well as Sherren Lee and Jesse Lavercombe. The plot centers on the 4% of people living in fictional Lincoln City who possess special abilities and are often confronted by advanced, militarized police technology. It’s a sci-fi fantasy about the extraordinary power that we as individuals hold, versus the technological superiority of the institutions that we live within.
The sequel follows the journey of a teenage girl fighting to get justice for her slain brother at the hands of corrupt police officers. After becoming a witness to the cover-up, she becomes a target and enlists the help...
Chan also penned the screenplay with Chris Paré, who wrote Code 8, as well as Sherren Lee and Jesse Lavercombe. The plot centers on the 4% of people living in fictional Lincoln City who possess special abilities and are often confronted by advanced, militarized police technology. It’s a sci-fi fantasy about the extraordinary power that we as individuals hold, versus the technological superiority of the institutions that we live within.
The sequel follows the journey of a teenage girl fighting to get justice for her slain brother at the hands of corrupt police officers. After becoming a witness to the cover-up, she becomes a target and enlists the help...
- 6/1/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
The Outfest Los Angeles Lgbtq Film Festival has unveiled winners for its 2018 edition that wrapped Sunday, with Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals taking the U.S. Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize and Jamie Patterson’s Tucked scoring the Best Narrative Audience Award among the honors.
Drew Droege, who starred in the Michael Urie-directed Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, won the U.S. Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance. The top documentary winners included T Cooper’s Man Made in the audience category and Jamal Sims’ When the Beat Drops landing the grand jury prize.
The Orchard acquired North American rights to We The Animals, based on Justin Torres’ debut novel, after it took the Next Innovator Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It will hit theaters sometime this year. Tucked, meanwhile, inked an output deal with Gravitas Ventures last week ahead of its world premiere.
Drew Droege, who starred in the Michael Urie-directed Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, won the U.S. Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance. The top documentary winners included T Cooper’s Man Made in the audience category and Jamal Sims’ When the Beat Drops landing the grand jury prize.
The Orchard acquired North American rights to We The Animals, based on Justin Torres’ debut novel, after it took the Next Innovator Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It will hit theaters sometime this year. Tucked, meanwhile, inked an output deal with Gravitas Ventures last week ahead of its world premiere.
- 7/23/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Potential awards season contenders Truth from James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham’s I Saw The Light starring Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams land world premiere slots, while Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right will close the festival.
London is the subject of the seventh annual City To City programme that features world premieres of Tom Geens’ Couple In A Hole starring Paul Higgins and Kate Dickie and Michael Caton-Jones’ Urban Hymn with Letitia Wright and Shirley Henderson. Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul gets a North American premiere.
The world premiere of Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already is among five additions to the galas alongside Mr. Right, an action comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Matthew Cullen’s Martin Amis adaptation London Fields and David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis get first public screenings in the Special Presentations roster with I Saw The Light.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Contemporary World Cinema section, featuring...
London is the subject of the seventh annual City To City programme that features world premieres of Tom Geens’ Couple In A Hole starring Paul Higgins and Kate Dickie and Michael Caton-Jones’ Urban Hymn with Letitia Wright and Shirley Henderson. Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul gets a North American premiere.
The world premiere of Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already is among five additions to the galas alongside Mr. Right, an action comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Matthew Cullen’s Martin Amis adaptation London Fields and David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis get first public screenings in the Special Presentations roster with I Saw The Light.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Contemporary World Cinema section, featuring...
- 8/18/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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