On Oct. 11, 1975, an unknown John Belushi appeared on the very first Saturday Night Live sketch as a foreign man learning to speak English via the very unconventional phrase “I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines.” Since the time, the venerable late night sketch show has introduced the world to many … Read more
Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Live movie is frenzied and chaotic – just like the show itself. PLOT: In the ninety minutes before the live airing of the first episode of Saturday Night Live, a young Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) desperately tries to keep NBC from pulling the plug while dealing with a cast, writers and … Read more
Jason Reitman has an explanation as to why Nicholas Braun is playing two different roles in Saturday Night. Saturday Night will be released in United States theaters nationwide this coming October. The movie, which is about the 1975 premiere of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, is directed by Reitman and stars Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, … Read more
Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night — which depicts the events leading up to the first episode of SNL — is earning raves out of Telluride. Live from Telluride, it’s Saturday Night! Appropriately enough, Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night debuted on, well, Saturday Night at the Telluride Film Festival. For fans of SNL, this is one of the … Read more
The famed North American film festival adds 20 more titles to their slate, which include big upcoming films from Jason Reitman and Francis Ford Coppola. Deadline has just unveiled that the Toronto International Film Festival has added twenty more titles to their schedule, which brings their lineup of official selections to a total of 278 … Read more
Saturday Night Live is now a TV comedy institution. 50 years ago, it was just some weird experimental sketch show made by and starring a bunch of unknowns. Of course, those unknowns turned out to be John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and more — many of the funniest actors of their generation. How that group … Read more
Columbia Pictures announced Jason Reitman’s movie about the first episode of Saturday Night Live will be titled simply Saturday Night, and will appear in theaters on Oct. 11. The date matches the 49th anniversary of the variety show’s debut in 1975 under its original name NBC’s Saturday Night. Directed by Jason Reitman and co-written with … Read more
An upcoming film based on the real events behind the opening night of the first ever Saturday Night Live now has its cast. Here is what we know so far about SNL 1975. What Is SNL 1975 About? SNL 1975 will cover the debut night of the long-running sketch comedy show. “Based on the screenwriters’ … Read more
Thanks to a big boost at the box office on Saturday night, Dune Part Two blew away expectations to double the first film’s opening weekend. The final numbers are coming in, and Dune: Part Two is defying earlier predictions that it would open in the $75 million-ish range with a strong $81 million opening weekend. … Read more
Saturday Night Live has turned plenty of sketches into feature films — Wayne’s World, MacGruber, Coneheads, and unfortunately A Night at the Roxburry to name just a few— but the show itself has never been the subject of a fiction film before. At least, not until Jason Reitman’s SNL 1975. The Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Juno director’s next project is reportedly about “about the debut night in October … Read more