ABC Information Studios, Neon and Community Leisure introduced on Tuesday that Brats, the feature-length Brat Pack doc directed by Andrew McCarthy, will premiere on Hulu within the U.S. on Thursday, June 13.
Set to launch on Disney+ in choose territories later this summer time, after world premiering on the 2024 Tribeca Pageant, Brats seems on the iconic movies of the Nineteen Eighties that formed a technology and the narrative that took maintain when their younger stars have been branded the “Brat Pack.” McCarthy reunites along with his fellow Brat Packers — buddies, colleagues and former foes, together with Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Jon Cryer, Lea Thompson and Timothy Hutton, a lot of whom he had not seen for over 30 years — to reply the query: What did it imply to be a part of the Brat Pack? The actor-filmmaker additionally sits down for a first-time dialog with author David Blum, who fatefully coined the time period Brat Pack in a 1985 New York Journal cowl story.
McCarthy’s involvement within the Brat Pack is primarily attributed to his roles in iconic ’80s movies like St. Elmo’s Fireplace and Fairly in Pink, each of which have been directed by John Hughes. He directed Brats from his personal script, with Neon and Community Leisure producing for ABC Information Studios. In a press release on Brats, McCarthy mused that making the movie “was that uncommon alternative to dive again into the frozen previous and convey it up into the dwelling current.”
Derik Murray and Adrian Buitenhuis served because the doc’s producers. Exec producers included Brian Liebman and McCarthy, Neon’s Dan O’Meara and Tom Quinn, Community Leisure’s Brian Gersh, Paul Gertz and Kent Wingerak, and ABC Information Studios’s Victoria Thompson. David Sloan served as senior govt producer.
Acknowledged Mike Kelley who heads ABC Information Studios, “The Brat Pack captivated a technology and outlined cool for thus many. Andrew, as a seminal member, brings unbelievable entry and perspective to the phenomenon as director of this movie. It’s a deeply private, stunning and entertaining journey and a movie we’re so pleased with at ABC Information Studios.”