Apple has set a summer time premiere date and unveiled a brand new picture from “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar” director Josh Greenbaum’s upcoming, feature-length summer time comedy “The Dink.”
Introduced Tuesday on the 2026 Apple TV Press Day, Greenbaum’s newest effort is ready to premiere globally Friday, July 24 on Apple TV. Written by Sean Clements (“Workaholics”), “The Dink” follows a washed-up former tennis prodigy (“New Woman” star Jake Johnson) who has taken up a brand new job teaching younger kids at his father’s (Ed Harris) nation membership.
After struggling an damage that removes his potential to maintain taking part in tennis, Johnson’s Dusty finds himself taking over pickleball. In doing so, he not solely meets a brand new pickleball accomplice (Mary Steenburgen) and begins really having enjoyable once more, but additionally places himself within the crosshairs of his father, who holds an irrational hatred of the game and the house it has begun taking over in nation golf equipment all throughout America.
As he confronts the ghosts of his previous, Johnson’s former prodigy finds himself going through his childhood nemesis (real-life tennis professional Andy Roddick) once more and battling to carry onto each his father’s affection and his personal identification. The newest picture from the movie, which you’ll see above, places Johnson and Steenburgen entrance and heart.
Along with Harris, Johnson, Steenburgen and Roddick, the ensemble forged of “The Dink” contains Patton Oswalt, Chris Parnell, Aaron Chen, Ben Stiller and “SNL” star Chloe Fineman. Stiller and Johnson each star in and produce the movie. John Lesher, Rob Paris and Mike Witherill are all onboard as producers as effectively, whereas Greenbaum, Clements, Rick Steele, Joe Hardesty, Jonathan McCoy and Daniel Crosser are hooked up as govt producers.
“The Dink” shall be Greenbaum’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2024 documentary “Will & Harper,” which itself adopted his raunchy 2023 canine comedy “Strays.”
As a part of its press occasion Tuesday, Apple has already launched new trailers for “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” Season 2“Fortunate” and “Imperfect Girls.” New, first appears at upcoming titles just like the Keanu Reeves-starring “Final result” and “Most Pleasure Assured,” the latter of which, like “The Dink,” additionally stars Johnson, have been revealed as effectively.
