If you ever had any doubt about how corporate mergers can make for strange bedfellows — and it’s 2023, so you should have gotten this memo long ago — one need look no further than After the Bite, a documentary programmed to play like the answer to the generally unasked question, “What would happen if Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav forced HBO to participate in Shark Week?”
Presumably, the creative origins of Ivy Meeropol’s (Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn) film and Discovery’s annual celebration of all things toothy and ichthyological were completely separate. But following its initial airing on HBO, After the Bite will migrate over to Max, where it can be promoted next to such Shark Week titles as Serial Killer Red Sea Attacks, The Shark of the Moral Universe Bends Toward Carnage and Great White Fight Club (only two of those are real).
Discovery...
Presumably, the creative origins of Ivy Meeropol’s (Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn) film and Discovery’s annual celebration of all things toothy and ichthyological were completely separate. But following its initial airing on HBO, After the Bite will migrate over to Max, where it can be promoted next to such Shark Week titles as Serial Killer Red Sea Attacks, The Shark of the Moral Universe Bends Toward Carnage and Great White Fight Club (only two of those are real).
Discovery...
- 7/25/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A beach and fishing community reels in the wake of a fatal shark attack that has everyone on edge. How will order be restored? You don’t have to make Jaws inferences; the new HBO documentary After the Bite does the work for you. “I’m not exaggerating, it was like Jaws,” exclaims a local fisherman of a particularly shark-infested day. We see a drive-in theater marquee that advertises a double feature of Steven Spielberg’s proto-blockbuster with one of his later spectacles, Jurassic Park. The doc makes note of its fictional forefather.
- 7/24/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
"The water's warm - so everything's marching north." HBO Docs has revealed an official trailer for After the Bite, a fascinating shark doc from filmmaker Ivy Meeropol. This is debuting during "Shark Week" this summer streaming on Max and on HBO to watch on TV. Local residents and vacationers flock to Cape Cod every summer begin to grapple with this alarming new reality of regular sharks while following the science to investigate. The title refers to fatal attack on a person in 2018 int he town of Wellfleet, Ma. After the Bite is a deep dive into how one coastal community is renegotiating their relationship with our rapidly changing environment. The changes are numerous: warmer waters, species interacting where they never had before, along with the rapidly increasing numbers of the shark's favorite prey, the North Atlantic gray seal, whose population has rebounded since seals were protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
- 7/18/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Shark Week is upon us this month, but there’s a different shark tale headed toward HBO and Max on July 26 to offer documentary heads a smart-doc complement to the annual Discovery rollout.
Directed and produced by Ivy Meeropol, “After the Bite” takes a look at how a 2018 shark attack left a Cape Cod community in Massachusetts reeling over the effects of a re-adapting marine environment. Local residents and vacationers flock en masse every summer to Cape Cod — but only now are beginning to grapple with the alarming reality of the apex predators. IndieWire shares the trailer below ahead of the documentary’s premiere.
Great white sharks’ deadly interactions with people have increased in the waters stretching from Maine to the Cape and Islands. Public protectors are now forced to address the risk of serious injuries with stop-the-bleed kits throughout public access beaches, along with PSAs, billboards, shark-tracking apps, spotter planes,...
Directed and produced by Ivy Meeropol, “After the Bite” takes a look at how a 2018 shark attack left a Cape Cod community in Massachusetts reeling over the effects of a re-adapting marine environment. Local residents and vacationers flock en masse every summer to Cape Cod — but only now are beginning to grapple with the alarming reality of the apex predators. IndieWire shares the trailer below ahead of the documentary’s premiere.
Great white sharks’ deadly interactions with people have increased in the waters stretching from Maine to the Cape and Islands. Public protectors are now forced to address the risk of serious injuries with stop-the-bleed kits throughout public access beaches, along with PSAs, billboards, shark-tracking apps, spotter planes,...
- 7/18/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
NewportFILM Outdoors, a unique celebration of documentary moviemaking that is held in some of the most iconic locations in one of the most storied summer resorts in America, has unveiled its latest line-up of films for its summer season.
They include “It’s Only Life After All,” a look at the Indigo Girls; “After the Bite,” an examination of a community’s reaction to a shark attack; and “Invisible Beauty,” the story of pioneering model, agent and activist, Bethann Hardison. What makes the Newport, Rhode Island event so memorable is that these screenings take place on the lawns of mansions like Marble House and The Elms, as well as historical locations like Fort Adams, which hosts the annual Newport Jazz Festival, and the Newport Polo Grounds. It’s all very shades of Edith Wharton.
“Patrick and the Whale” will open the weekly series on the lawn of the Great Friends Meeting House.
They include “It’s Only Life After All,” a look at the Indigo Girls; “After the Bite,” an examination of a community’s reaction to a shark attack; and “Invisible Beauty,” the story of pioneering model, agent and activist, Bethann Hardison. What makes the Newport, Rhode Island event so memorable is that these screenings take place on the lawns of mansions like Marble House and The Elms, as well as historical locations like Fort Adams, which hosts the annual Newport Jazz Festival, and the Newport Polo Grounds. It’s all very shades of Edith Wharton.
“Patrick and the Whale” will open the weekly series on the lawn of the Great Friends Meeting House.
- 6/20/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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