Spike TV has set an August 1 airdate for the premiere of I Am JFK Jr, the latest in Derik Murray’s docu franchise that is getting its TV debut on the network. His stable of bio-docs includes I Am Evel Knievel, I Am Steve McQueen and I Am Bruce Lee. His most recent of the bunch, I Am Chris Farley, bowed last August on Spike to strong ratings. Like Farley, JFK Jr will kick off with a limited theatrical release, beginning July 20 from Virgil Films. The docu will hit digital…...
- 7/12/2016
- Deadline TV
Chris Farley was a particular brand of comedian, a performer known for being big, loud, over the top and utterly fearless, willing to risk life and limb for the good of the bit. His rise to fame was meteoric: from Second City to "Saturday Night Live" to movie stardom in half the time it takes most others. In many ways, his life paralleled his career; rarely did Farley turn off his manic energy, and when he wasn’t going big on the stage, he was going big at a party, battling his addiction to food, alcohol, and several other substances. The new Spike TV documentary “I Am Chris Farley” aims to parse out the bottled lightning of Farley’s performances, but in paying tribute to his successes the film fails to recognize the man beneath the myth. Armed with interviews from a cadre of comedy legends and all the archive footage they could want,...
- 8/14/2015
- by Gary Garrison
- The Playlist
"The fatty falls down and everyone goes home happy!" jokes Chris Farley with a hint of sincere embarrassment, on The Late Show with David Letterman. This was true. No other Saturday Night Live (SNL) alum of that era - Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider - made me roll on the floor with laughter like Chris Farley. It was his childlike innocence, manic energy and great physical abandon that made him so magical.His drug overdose in 1997 came as no surprise to many, as the rumors of his drug and sex fueled escapades were widely publicized. I Am Chris Farley, directed by Brent Hodge (A Brony Tale) and Derik Murray (I Am Bruce Lee, I Am Evel Knievel) and co-produced by Kevin Farley, Chris's...
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- 7/30/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Virgil Films picked up U.S. rights to I Am Chris Farley last month and has set a July 31 platform theatrical release for New York and Los Angeles — though not before it bows July 27 in Chicago, where the comic wunderkind first broke on the scene with Second City Theater. That led to SNL and a meteoric rise before it all caught up to him; he died of a drug overdose in 1997 at age 33. Brent Hodge and Derik Murray (A Brony Tale, I Am Evel Knievel) directed the documentary…...
- 6/30/2015
- Deadline
Read More: Watch: This Rob Ford/ Chris Farley Mashup Is Basically The Best Virgil Films has acquired U.S. rights to "I Am Chris Farley," the first feature-length biographical documentary about the late comedy legend. The film tells the story of Chris Farley's life from his youth in Madison, Wisconsin and rise to fame on "Saturday Night Live," to his days as the star of comedies like, "Tommy Boy" and "Black Sheep." The film features friends and colleagues of Farley including, Christina Applegate, Dan Aykroyd, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Molly Shannon, David Spade. Farley's four siblings, including his brothers, Kevin and Tom Jr., who wrote the biography "The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts," are also featured. Directors Brent Hodge and Derik Murray, ("A Brony Tale, I Am Evel Knievel") announced that they will release "I Am Chris Farley" nationwide by the end of summer 2015. It is.
- 6/1/2015
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
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