{"id":409521,"date":"2026-01-15T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409521\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:17:07","slug":"splitsville-director-to-helm-netflix-comedy-the-last-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409521\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Splitsville&#8217; Director To Helm Netflix Comedy &#8216;The Last Fix&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Following the acclaim of his recent comedy Splitsville, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-angelo-covino\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-angelo-covino\" data-tag=\"michael-angelo-covino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Angelo Covino<\/a> has found his follow-up film in the Netflix comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-last-fix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-last-fix\" data-tag=\"the-last-fix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Fix<\/a>. He is set to direct a script penned by Chuck MacLean, with insiders saying the streamer\u2019s execs fell in love with the original spec and moved quickly to take it off the\u00a0table preemptively. Sources say the film is in early development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPlot details are under wraps, but it will be a heartfelt comedy about a Boston political fixer who discovers he only has six months to live.\u00a0Covino\u2019s production company Watch This Ready is producing; producers are Emily Korteweg, Covino and Kyle Marvin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe project continues the collaboration between Covino, Marvin and Watch This Ready, the production company behind\u00a0The Climb. That film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, receiving an eight-minute standing ovation and rave reviews calling it a breakthrough comedy for its smart, witty screenplay, slapstick comedy and impressive stunt sequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by Covino, Splitsville will expand on The Climb\u2019s kinetic, long-take style. Shot on 35mm, the latter film featured elaborate one-take stunt sequences, including one widely dubbed \u201cthe fight scene of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCovino is repped by WME and Canopy Media. MacLean is repped by WME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Following the acclaim of his recent comedy Splitsville, Michael Angelo Covino has found his follow-up film in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,196681,206,196682,196683],"class_list":{"0":"post-409521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-michael-angelo-covino","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-splitsvile","12":"tag-the-last-fix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}