Netflix is about to turn out to be the streaming dwelling of the lately launched doc Butterfly within the Sky, which was lately showcased at choose theaters in March and April 2024.
Rewinding the clock, the documentary takes you again to the Nineteen Eighties and retraces the origin and legacy of the well-known PBS youngsters’s sequence Studying Rainbow.
First showing on the Tribeca Movie Pageant in 2023, the documentary examines the struggles to get the present on air and why the sequence has a long-lasting legacy at present utilizing interviews and uncommon archival footage. For these unfamiliar, Studying Rainbow was a child’s present aimed toward getting children to learn. It was on the air for 26 seasons, spanning 155 episodes between 1983 earlier than concluding its unbelievable run in 2006.
Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb direct, with Bryan Storkel producing. LeVar Burton himself seems all through the documentary, together with different visitors, together with Whoopi Goldberg, Alisa Reyes, Kenny Black, and Dean Parisot.
Following its movie pageant debut, Selection reported in late February 2024 that AMC Theaters had picked up the documentary for a US theatrical run starting March seventeenth earlier than getting a VOD debut in late April.
Solely Netflix in the US is at the moment as a result of streaming the documentary, though it may come to different Netflix areas additional down the road.
Butterfly within the Sky: The Story of Studying Rainbow will probably be launched on Netflix on Could twenty fourth, 2024.
This isn’t the primary time Netflix has streamed a Sidestilt Movies manufacturing shortly after its theatrical launch. It notably equally carried The Pez Outlaw again in January 2023 and continues to be streaming.
As well as, the manufacturing firm has labored on a number of unique Netflix docs, together with Bitconned, which kicked off Netflix’s 2024 doc lineup on New Yr’s Day. Different produced Netflix docs embrace Untold: Corridor of Disgrace and The Legend of Cocaine Island.
Thomason and Whitcomb’s Window Photos can also be listed as a manufacturing firm behind the doc, with prior tasks together with Jasper Mall, GLOW (the identical story that Netflix tailored in its sadly now-canceled drama), Misplaced Weekend, and A Life in Waves.
The title wasn’t included within the preliminary lineup for Netflix US all through Could 2024, however we’ll quickly embrace it in our complete information to all the brand new films, sequence, documentaries, and video games coming all through the month.
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