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Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch: Wildfire traps kids in teaser for Matthew McConaughey's 'Lost Bus'
June 9 (UPI) -- Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera can now be seen in a teaser for the fact-based Apple thriller, The Lost Bus. The pair play a bus driver and teacher, respectively, who try to save children from a wildfire. Paul Greengrass directed the movie, which was produced by Jason Blum and Jamie Lee Curtis. Greengrass and Brad Inglesby penned the adaptation of the book, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, by Lizzie Johnson. "The Lost Bus is the story of quiet heroism -- of people coming together in the face of the unthinkable. I'm honored to have been entrusted with this story," Greengrass said in a statement Sunday. The film is to be released this fall in theaters and on Apple TV+
UPI
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Watch: Wildfire traps kids in teaser for Matthew McConaughey's 'Lost Bus'
1 of 3 | Matthew McConaughey can now be seen in the teaser for the Apple TV+ thriller "The Lost Bus." File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo June 9 (UPI) -- Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera can now be seen in a teaser for the fact-based Apple thriller, The Lost Bus. The pair play a bus driver and teacher, respectively, who try to save children from a wildfire. Paul Greengrass directed the movie, which was produced by Jason Blum and Jamie Lee Curtis. Greengrass and Brad Inglesby penned the adaptation of the book, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, by Lizzie Johnson. "The Lost Bus is the story of quiet heroism -- of people coming together in the face of the unthinkable. I'm honored to have been entrusted with this story," Greengrass said in a statement Sunday. The film is to be released this fall in theaters and on Apple TV+
Mint
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
The Lost Bus trailer public review OUT: Fans thrilled as Matthew McConaughey returns to lead wildfire survival drama
The trailer for 'The Lost Bus', a survival drama directed by Paul Greengrass, was released on June 8. The film is based on the real-life 2018 Camp Fire in California — the deadliest wildfire in the state's history. It's adapted from Lizzie Johnson's non-fiction book 'Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire'. Matthew McConaughey plays a school bus driver who must lead a group of children and their teacher, played by America Ferrera, to safety through the chaos of the fire. The trailer gives only a brief look at the action, but its tense atmosphere and emotional core have already struck a chord with viewers. 'The Lost Bus' marks Matthew McConaughey's return to cinema after a brief hiatus. He was last seen in Guy Ritchie's 'The Gentlemen' (2021), and later voiced Buster Moon in 'Sing 2'. A fan wrote, "I'm very glad to see McConaughey," while another wrote, "Couple weeks ago, I was talking about how I haven't seen Matthew McConaughey in a while, and now this. Great to see him back! Can't wait!" A third fan commented, "That's how you do a trailer. It told us almost nothing and I have to see it." A fan of the director Paul Greengrass wrote, "Looks like a fantastic return for Greengrass and the way to do a trailer right." Another person commented, "It's great to see Paul Greengrass back in the director's chair!" Jamie Lee Curtis's personal connection to the story — her hometown was destroyed by wildfire — has added emotional weight to the project. The cast also includes Yul Vazquez and Ashlie Atkinson. The film is co-written by Paul Greengrass, best known for the 'Bourne' franchise, and Brad Ingelsby, known for 'Mare of Easttown'. It is produced by Jamie Lee Curtis for Comet Films and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions. The film is set to arrive in cinemas in 2025.
Washington Post
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Lizzie Johnson named Ukraine Correspondent
We're happy to announce that Lizzie Johnson will become Ukraine correspondent, adding more powerhouse talent to our first-class team in Kyiv. A standout reporter and writer, Lizzie already knows her way around Ukraine and the momentous stories unfolding there. She has excelled during three long fill-in stints over the past 16 months, reporting on the war, its impact and on its leaders in riveting ways. Her most recent reporting trip produced, among other things, a wrenching portrait of a city in anguish after a Russian missile strike killed nine children on a playground. Lizzie joins International from The Post's narrative accountability team, which combines the rigor of investigative reporting with the power of narrative storytelling. She is a four-time finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, including recognition of her work from Ukraine. She was previously a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered City Hall before moving to the enterprise and investigative team, earning nods from the California News Publishers Association for Best Writing, Best Profile, Best Enterprise, Best Feature and Best Wildfire Feature. She won the Best of the West contest in longform feature writing in 2021 and was honored by the National Press Club with the President's Award in 2023. Her in-depth coverage of California's wildfire crisis — for which she attended and graduated from a professional firefighting academy — led to her first book, 'Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire." It won the 2022 Gold Medal for nonfiction in the California Book Awards contest and is being developed into a feature film starring America Ferrera and Matthew McConaughey, out this fall. Raised in a farming family in Nebraska, Lizzie is a graduate of the University of Missouri, with bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science. She is also something of an extreme athlete who backpacks, runs marathons and climbs mountains, including some of America's tallest peaks (including, just last week, Mount Hood). That adventuresome spirit will serve Lizzie well in Ukraine, where she joins a team led by bureau chief Siobhán O'Grady, Ukraine-based reporter David L. Stern and a talented and dedicated team of local reporters. Lizzie will start the new job on June 1; she and her husband will move to Kyiv this summer.
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
L.A. Woman: Jamie Lee Curtis Leads Rebuilding Efforts After Devastating Pacific Palisades Fire
"Where I live is on fire right now,' Jamie Lee Curtis said, her voice shaking, as she sat down on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in New York City on the night of Jan. 7 for a prescheduled had left L.A. that morning, and on the flight, messages began flying in from her 'many, many, many friends' whose houses in her tightknit Westside neighborhood had been incinerated in a blaze fueled by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds — leaving homes and businesses reduced to ash. Her husband, filmmaker and actor Christopher Guest, and their rescue dog, Runi, were among the throngs forced to flee toward the Pacific Coast Highway under mandatory evacuation orders that afternoon. 'Literally, the entire city of Pacific Palisades is burning,' Curtis said on television through tears. 'It's fucking gnarly, you guys. It's just a catastrophe.' Then, the producer, actor, American Red Cross ambassador and lifelong 'Angelena,' as she's quick to call herself, swallowed hard and urged viewers to 'do anything you can in your community to help people.'Curtis immediately took action and promised $1 million through her family's foundation, My Hand In Yours, aimed at fire relief efforts — funding that has already bolstered the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation, which is the nonprofit arm of the LAFD; the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank; the California Community Foundation Wildfire Recovery Fund; and the American Red Cross Los Angeles home was not among the 6,831 structures devoured by flames, or the more than 12,317 seriously damaged in the deadly Palisades Fire that left a dozen people dead. But her community was decimated: The church where she got sober. Her daughters' schools. Grocery stores and small business. All gone. Curtis and many others in the ravaged burn zones of the Palisades and neighboring Malibu are determined to breathe new life into what was lost.'Greater minds than mine are going to need to come together to rebuild,' Curtis tells Los Angeles. 'We have passion, and we have creativity. We need to put our money where our mouths are and help those who need it most.'In a strange twist of irony, Curtis has spent years understanding the aftermath of a disastrous wildfire. After reading the riveting 2021 book, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson, she teamed up with producer Jason Blum to option it. This year, their film The Lost Bus, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, will be released — centered on the harrowing true story of a bus driver and a teacher who navigated a school bus full of children through the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County that killed 85 they began filming, of course Curtis had no idea that she would soon be witnessing similar acts of bravery from her very own neighbors, who started a neighborhood watch that acted like a small fire brigade looking for smoldering embers, and held fundraisers — acts of unfettered kindness that will be critical as they start to month after the fires, the 2023 Oscar winner posted a message for her six million Instagram followers: 'Be very gentle with people as you make your way through the world because you have no idea what they have been through and what they are carrying in their hearts and I mean that about everything everywhere all at once.'
