Stars came out for City Year Los Angeles’ 9th annual Spring Break: Destination Education.
Simon Cowell, Terry Crews, and Rebecca King-Crews
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Spring Break: Destination Education is the organization’s largest fundraising event and celebration where A-list celebrities and industry insiders, along with their teens and tweens, came out in support of education in Los Angeles. The event featured a special performance by Brynn Cartelli, as well as food, games and interactive booths sponsored by top brands including Amazon, Aramark, Comcast NBCUniversal, E!, Jp Morgan Chase/Atom Tickets, Karma Tequila, Netflix, People, RealD, Sony, Spotify, Walmart, and Westfield.
The event was attended by 1,400 guests and raised $2.2 million.
City Year AmeriCorps members and supporters including Jonathan Adams, Sheldon Bailey, Jaylen Barron, Parker Bates, Garcelle Beauvais, Paxton Booth, Bre-z, Yvette Nicole Brown, Logan Browning, Janie Bryant, Dan Bucatinsky, Sierra Capri, Tia Carrere,...
Simon Cowell, Terry Crews, and Rebecca King-Crews
Credit/Copyright: Rachel Murray/Getty Images for City Year Los Angeles
Spring Break: Destination Education is the organization’s largest fundraising event and celebration where A-list celebrities and industry insiders, along with their teens and tweens, came out in support of education in Los Angeles. The event featured a special performance by Brynn Cartelli, as well as food, games and interactive booths sponsored by top brands including Amazon, Aramark, Comcast NBCUniversal, E!, Jp Morgan Chase/Atom Tickets, Karma Tequila, Netflix, People, RealD, Sony, Spotify, Walmart, and Westfield.
The event was attended by 1,400 guests and raised $2.2 million.
City Year AmeriCorps members and supporters including Jonathan Adams, Sheldon Bailey, Jaylen Barron, Parker Bates, Garcelle Beauvais, Paxton Booth, Bre-z, Yvette Nicole Brown, Logan Browning, Janie Bryant, Dan Bucatinsky, Sierra Capri, Tia Carrere,...
- 5/8/2019
- Look to the Stars
Hey, NCIS Los Angeles fans. Unfortunately, it's that time of the year again where we have to inform you guys that your favorite show is going on a little hiatus again. This time, the next, new episode 20 of this current season 10 is scheduled to not air next Sunday night,April 7, 2019. Instead, CBS has scheduled it to air on Sunday night, April 14, 2019. So, be sure to mark that very important date down on your TV show calendars. So, what is going to replace your beloved show in the CBS primetime line up next week? Well, according to the TV Guide listings, CBS has thrown your show to the side to provide Live coverage of the 2019, 54Th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards. That's right,guys. It's another one of these freaking Country Music Award shows that's the culprit this time. The CBS description for it reads like this, "Reba McEntire hosts the annual awards gala,...
- 4/1/2019
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
If there was a film which proves the old adage never judge a book by its cover, Instant Family would be the prime example of it. Marketed as yet another “feel good comedy” with a family twist, the film has surprisingly turned out to have so much more depth and humanity than anyone would have imagined.
Directed by Hot Tub Time Machine writer Sean Anders, Instant Family not so much as redefines the family comedy, but it does the next best thing, it makes its audience care deeply and root for its protagonists in a way which is very rarely achieved within this particular genre.
Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg are Ellie and Pete, a hard working couple who despite having been together for some time find that they might have left it too late to have children of their own. Hilarity and much soul-searching ensues when our hapless duo...
Directed by Hot Tub Time Machine writer Sean Anders, Instant Family not so much as redefines the family comedy, but it does the next best thing, it makes its audience care deeply and root for its protagonists in a way which is very rarely achieved within this particular genre.
Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg are Ellie and Pete, a hard working couple who despite having been together for some time find that they might have left it too late to have children of their own. Hilarity and much soul-searching ensues when our hapless duo...
- 2/15/2019
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
DaniElle DeLaite talks to Mark Wahlberg and Daddy’s Home writer/director Sean Anders about Instant Family and bringing Ander’s true story of raising his own family and how this film is a love letter to them. Wahlberg talks about using his own family dynamic worked their way into the script, and how he jumped at the chance to make the film.
They both talk about working with a serious issue with a heartfelt edge, to best appeal to families of all kind. They acknowledged that many adoption stories begin with tragedy, and their determination to tell a truthful story as well as making a comedy.
The film also stars Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner, Octavia Spencer, Gustavo Quiroz and Julianna Gamiz.
Instant Family is out in the UK on the 15th of February, 2019. Here’s the interview.
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They both talk about working with a serious issue with a heartfelt edge, to best appeal to families of all kind. They acknowledged that many adoption stories begin with tragedy, and their determination to tell a truthful story as well as making a comedy.
The film also stars Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner, Octavia Spencer, Gustavo Quiroz and Julianna Gamiz.
Instant Family is out in the UK on the 15th of February, 2019. Here’s the interview.
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- 2/11/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital's 19th Annual “Party on the Pier” took place on Sunday, November 18, from 10:00am – 2:00pm at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier.
Rico Rodriguez and Raini Rodriguez at Party on the Pier
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Chaired by Hillary Milken, proceeds from the event provide unrestricted funding to launch high-priority programs that benefit children being treated at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and around the world. Guests of the party had the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of fun-filled activities including carnival games filled with fabulous Mattel, Inc. toys, unlimited access to rides, the Power of Play tent sponsored by the Goldhirsh-Yellin Foundation, cookie decorating provided by Ralphs/Food 4 Less, a Petite ’n Pretty makeover station, a celebrity photo booth, and much more!
Guests included Rachel Zoe, Leslie Grossman, Rico Rodriguez and Raini Rodriguez, Aubrey Anderson Emmons, The Stauffer Family, Lauren Elizabeth,...
Rico Rodriguez and Raini Rodriguez at Party on the Pier
Credit/Copyright: Getty Images
Chaired by Hillary Milken, proceeds from the event provide unrestricted funding to launch high-priority programs that benefit children being treated at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and around the world. Guests of the party had the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of fun-filled activities including carnival games filled with fabulous Mattel, Inc. toys, unlimited access to rides, the Power of Play tent sponsored by the Goldhirsh-Yellin Foundation, cookie decorating provided by Ralphs/Food 4 Less, a Petite ’n Pretty makeover station, a celebrity photo booth, and much more!
Guests included Rachel Zoe, Leslie Grossman, Rico Rodriguez and Raini Rodriguez, Aubrey Anderson Emmons, The Stauffer Family, Lauren Elizabeth,...
- 11/23/2018
- Look to the Stars
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital's 19th Annual “Party on the Pier” will take place on Sunday, November 18, from 10:00am – 2:00pm at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier.
Proceeds from the event provide unrestricted funding to launch high-priority programs that benefit children being treated at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and around the world. Guests of the party will have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of fun-filled activities including carnival games filled with Mattel, Inc. toys, unlimited access to rides, cookie decorating provided by Ralphs/Food 4 Less, photo booths with some of their favorite celebrities, and much more!
Expected guests include Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott, Rachel Zoe, Leslie Grossman, Rico Rodriguez and Raini Rodriguez, Aubrey Anderson Emmons, The Stauffer Family, Christy Carlson Romano, Lauren Elizabeth, Lauren Riihimaki (LaurDIY), Garrett Clayton, Lilia Buckingham, Nikki DeLoach, Sofie Dossi, Mackenzie Hancsicsak, Jonathan Adams, Landry Bender, Paxton Booth, Michael Campion,...
Proceeds from the event provide unrestricted funding to launch high-priority programs that benefit children being treated at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and around the world. Guests of the party will have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of fun-filled activities including carnival games filled with Mattel, Inc. toys, unlimited access to rides, cookie decorating provided by Ralphs/Food 4 Less, photo booths with some of their favorite celebrities, and much more!
Expected guests include Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott, Rachel Zoe, Leslie Grossman, Rico Rodriguez and Raini Rodriguez, Aubrey Anderson Emmons, The Stauffer Family, Christy Carlson Romano, Lauren Elizabeth, Lauren Riihimaki (LaurDIY), Garrett Clayton, Lilia Buckingham, Nikki DeLoach, Sofie Dossi, Mackenzie Hancsicsak, Jonathan Adams, Landry Bender, Paxton Booth, Michael Campion,...
- 11/16/2018
- Look to the Stars
So the family’s all together for the big holiday, well why not head over to the multiplex to enjoy a family film? And hey, “family” is even in the title. That’s what the studios are counting on, hoping audiences will go for a breezy all-ages comedy in between those somber awards contenders. Most of the time, the studios will go a couple of different ways with a “family” comedy/drama. Either it’s a multi-generational gathering of uncles and cousins like Parenthood and more recently, the reviled Love The Coopers, or it’s about a family with lots and lots of kids like Cheaper By The Dozen (original and remake) along with blended families like Yours, Mine, And Ours (ditto), which begat that iconic TV show and its feature film The Brady Bunch Movie. But this new flick has fewer kids and a message. The filmmakers want to...
- 11/16/2018
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rose Byrne has played mothers in comedies and horror films, from Neighbors and Adult Beginners to the Insidious films. In Instant Family, she plays a foster mom jumping in the deep end with three kids. Ellie (Byrne) and Pete (Mark Wahlberg) decide to adopt a foster child, but they hit it off with a teenager, Lizzie (Isabela Moner) who already has two siblings (Gustavo Quiroz and Julianna Gamiz). They take on all three and try to make their Instant Family work. Byrne spoke with Monsters and Critics by phone out of New York. Instant Family is based on writer/director Sean […]
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- 11/15/2018
- by Fred Topel
- Monsters and Critics
This year has blessed us with a beautiful film about a longtime childless couple who suddenly find themselves grappling with the prospect of parenthood. That movie, of course, is Private Life, a comedy-drama featuring deft, touching performances from Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn, which came out on Netflix last month. You should watch that instead of Instant Family, which is superficially similar and equally heartfelt but not nearly as insightful or hilarious.
Director Sean Anders — the director of Daddy’s Home and co-writer of We’re the Millers — has celebrated so-called unconventional and fractured families,...
Director Sean Anders — the director of Daddy’s Home and co-writer of We’re the Millers — has celebrated so-called unconventional and fractured families,...
- 11/14/2018
- by Tim Grierson
- Rollingstone.com
From “Lone Survivor” and “Deepwater Horizon,” to “Patriot’s Day” and “The Perfect Storm,” Mark Wahlberg devoted the last decade of his career to a hoo-rah brand of heroic nonfiction (it’s always tempting to trace this career pivot back to the actor’s useless claim that he could have stopped the hijackers on 9/11). But the 47-year-old star, ever the savvy businessman, has also hit upon a lucrative side hustle: blockbuster comedies. Low-key funny in earlier films like “Date Night” and “I Heart Huckabees,” Wahlberg parlayed that aspect of his persona into mega-hits like “Ted,” “Ted 2,” “Daddy’s Home,” and — wait for it — “Daddy’s Home 2”.
In hindsight, it was a matter of time before the actor decided to mesh his two favorite modes into a single movie: A broad comedy about Mark Wahlberg rescuing people from a real-life hardship. Yikes. While that prospect sounds terrifying on paper, not...
In hindsight, it was a matter of time before the actor decided to mesh his two favorite modes into a single movie: A broad comedy about Mark Wahlberg rescuing people from a real-life hardship. Yikes. While that prospect sounds terrifying on paper, not...
- 11/14/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Commercial Hollywood comedies about the glory and absurdity of modern family life tend to come in two flavors: earnest and wack job. If Will Ferrell had starred in “Instant Family,” a comedy about an attractive, childless, edging-into-middle-age couple who take in a brood of foster kids who prove to be more trouble than they look, the movie would have been an over-the-top synthetic farce crammed with masochistic dad jokes; even the hugs would have been yocks. But “Instant Family,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne as a happily married but vaguely saddened white-bread couple (they barely have a clue as to how much they need children!), who take a trio of Hispanic-American siblings under their untested wings, isn’t a zany obnoxious head conk of a movie.
It was directed, as well as co-written, by Sean Anders, who made “Daddy’s Home” and “Daddy’s Home 2” (which were that sort...
It was directed, as well as co-written, by Sean Anders, who made “Daddy’s Home” and “Daddy’s Home 2” (which were that sort...
- 11/14/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne adopt three kids at once in “Instant Family,” a film that looks, sounds, and sometimes acts like a dumb comedy. But stick with it, and you’ll discover that Sean Anders’ latest is an earnest, moving family drama that just happens to be kinda funny.
Anders, who previously directed mediocre-to-painful comedies like the “Daddy’s Home” films and “That’s My Boy,” starts “Instant Family” off his usual way, with adults who behave like overgrown children and a comedy flashback in which Wahlberg accidentally kills another kid’s father. The stage is set, and it’s tempting to give up and go home now, before the real show begins.
But “Instant Family” cleverly uses all that early, immature humor as a contrast, because once Pete (Wahlberg) and Ellie (Byrne) decide to adopt three kids, they’ve set themselves on a path to real maturity. Anders...
Anders, who previously directed mediocre-to-painful comedies like the “Daddy’s Home” films and “That’s My Boy,” starts “Instant Family” off his usual way, with adults who behave like overgrown children and a comedy flashback in which Wahlberg accidentally kills another kid’s father. The stage is set, and it’s tempting to give up and go home now, before the real show begins.
But “Instant Family” cleverly uses all that early, immature humor as a contrast, because once Pete (Wahlberg) and Ellie (Byrne) decide to adopt three kids, they’ve set themselves on a path to real maturity. Anders...
- 11/14/2018
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Too many family movies dismiss the challenges of parenthood and childhood with some feel good ending. Instant Family makes no bones that any happiness is going to come with challenges that won’t go away at the end of the movie, and it’s stronger for it. Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne) decide to adopt a child who already needs a family. When they see how teenage foster children are ignored by other couples, they decide to take a chance on Lizzie (Isabela Moner). Lizzie comes with younger siblings Lita (Julianna Gamiz) and Juan (Gustavo Quiroz) so Pete and Ellie […]
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- 11/14/2018
- by Fred Topel
- Monsters and Critics
Paramount has rounded out the cast of studio comedy, Instant Family.
Oscar nominee Octavia Spencer will join Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne in the feature, along with Transformers: The Last Knight breakout Isabela Moner. The newly announced cast also includes a trio of stand-up comedians: Tig Notaro, Iliza Shlesinger and Tom Segura.
Instant Family centers on a couple (Wahlberg and Byrne) who decide to start a family and adopt through the foster-care system, only to find themselves raising three wild kids who have no interest in being parented. Moner will play one of the foster kids, along with newcomers Gustavo Quiroz and Julianna Gamiz.
Daddy's Home director Sean...
Oscar nominee Octavia Spencer will join Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne in the feature, along with Transformers: The Last Knight breakout Isabela Moner. The newly announced cast also includes a trio of stand-up comedians: Tig Notaro, Iliza Shlesinger and Tom Segura.
Instant Family centers on a couple (Wahlberg and Byrne) who decide to start a family and adopt through the foster-care system, only to find themselves raising three wild kids who have no interest in being parented. Moner will play one of the foster kids, along with newcomers Gustavo Quiroz and Julianna Gamiz.
Daddy's Home director Sean...
- 2/23/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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