The new Prime Video documentary Giannis: The Marvelous Journey (available now) reveals a lot about NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo. One of the biggest revelations is how close the Milwaukee Bucks great came quitting basketball in the winter of 2021, six months before the Bucks won their first championship in 50 years. His father, Charles, died from a heart attack in 2017, and he had not fully processed his grief. Trying to stay strong for his family attempting to live up to the “Greak Freak” mystique and expectations that were built around him made playing basketball an ordeal. “I don’t want to play anymore. There’s no joy in torture,” he says at one point in the film. “It was a very very dark time,” he tells TV Insider. “There was no joy in basketball. Basketball is game. It’s a fun game. It’s a game that I love. It felt like...
- 2/19/2024
- TV Insider
How does a young, impoverished immigrant from Greece go on to become a global NBA superstar? That’s the story of the feature-length documentary, “Giannis: The Marvelous Journey” debuting on Prime Video on Monday, Feb. 19. It chronicles the unbelievable journey of NBA All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo, starting with his childhood in Athens as the son of Nigerian immigrants, all the way up to becoming an NBA Champion with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021, while adding two league MVPs to his name. With in-depth interviews with the entire Antetokounmpo family, you’ll get a glimpse into the life, struggle, and ultimate triumph of “The Greek Freak.” You can watch Giannis: The Marvelous Journey with a 30-Day Free Trial of Amazon Prime Video.
How to Watch ‘Giannis: The Marvelous Journey’ When: Monday, February 19, 2024 Where: Amazon Prime Video Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Amazon Prime Video. 30-Day Free Trial$8.99+ / month amazon.com About...
How to Watch ‘Giannis: The Marvelous Journey’ When: Monday, February 19, 2024 Where: Amazon Prime Video Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Amazon Prime Video. 30-Day Free Trial$8.99+ / month amazon.com About...
- 2/19/2024
- by Thomas Waschenfelder
- The Streamable
When the Milwaukee Bucks selected Giannis Antetokounmpo in the first round of the 2013 NBA Draft, fans knew little about the teenager from Greece, and he knew almost nothing about life as an NBA rookie in the States. A little more than 10 years later, “The Greek Freak” is a two-time Mvp, an NBA champion and a father of three. Prime Video’s feature-length documentary Giannis: The Marvelous Journey looks at Antetokounmpo, his family, his basketball career, and how he overcame poverty and xenophobia in his youth, discovered the game of basketball, and came to the U.S. to pursue his dream of playing in the NBA. “This documentary is about the sacrifice my parents had to go through every single day, and the things I have been through,” Antetokounmpo tells TV Insider. “It’s just like Chapter 1. Hopefully down the line there’s more things to talk about, but right now...
- 2/18/2024
- TV Insider
“I don’t play basketball for the money, the fame; I only play because I wanted to change my family’s life,” Giannis Antetokounmpo says in the trailer for his upcoming documentary, Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, released by Prime Video on Wednesday.
The feature-length doc, set for release on Feb. 19, details Giannis’s family’s story beginning with his parents, Charles and Veronica Antetokounmpo, who immigrated to Greece from Nigeria in search of a better life for their family in 1991. Giannis, born in Athens, on Dec. 6, 1994, would make a similar choice when he officially made himself eligible for the 2013 NBA draft. On July 30, 2013, he signed his rookie contract with the Milwaukee Bucks, where he’s played for throughout his entire professional career, leading the team to their first NBA championship since 1971 in 2021.
The Marvelous Journey goes beyond the power forward’s professional highlight reel, though, painting a picture of an athlete with unfathomable resilience,...
The feature-length doc, set for release on Feb. 19, details Giannis’s family’s story beginning with his parents, Charles and Veronica Antetokounmpo, who immigrated to Greece from Nigeria in search of a better life for their family in 1991. Giannis, born in Athens, on Dec. 6, 1994, would make a similar choice when he officially made himself eligible for the 2013 NBA draft. On July 30, 2013, he signed his rookie contract with the Milwaukee Bucks, where he’s played for throughout his entire professional career, leading the team to their first NBA championship since 1971 in 2021.
The Marvelous Journey goes beyond the power forward’s professional highlight reel, though, painting a picture of an athlete with unfathomable resilience,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What’s new on Amazon’s Prime Video in February 2024?
In light of Valentine’s Day, Prime Video nailed it. This February, the platform is bringing a variety of new shows and movies for you and yours. There is something for everyone — from the latest releases to classic romantic comedies to thrillers and more.
Rom-com “Upgraded,” starring Camila Mendes and Archie Renaux, hits the streamer on Friday, while a series adaptation of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s steamy spy thriller “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is already taking the world by storm since its Feb. 2 debut with stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine.
The platform will also debut 2015’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” with Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson, last year’s animated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” and the well-liked 2014 indie “St.Vincent” with Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts and Chris O’Dowd.
And don’t forget about...
In light of Valentine’s Day, Prime Video nailed it. This February, the platform is bringing a variety of new shows and movies for you and yours. There is something for everyone — from the latest releases to classic romantic comedies to thrillers and more.
Rom-com “Upgraded,” starring Camila Mendes and Archie Renaux, hits the streamer on Friday, while a series adaptation of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s steamy spy thriller “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is already taking the world by storm since its Feb. 2 debut with stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine.
The platform will also debut 2015’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” with Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson, last year’s animated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” and the well-liked 2014 indie “St.Vincent” with Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts and Chris O’Dowd.
And don’t forget about...
- 2/5/2024
- by Francie Ebert
- The Wrap
Prime Video’s big February drop is Mr. & Mrs. Smith! No, not the 2005 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie action movie, but a new TV series kinda based on it starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. The set up for the show version? Glover and Erskine are two strangers who both get jobs at a shady spy agency and are asked to get married so that they can pretend to be a couple undercover, but things get more complicated when they start falling in love for real. Uh oh!
If you’re in the mood for a movie or two this month, you can also check out the Prime debuts of Strays, Bottoms, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. In the meantime, here’s everything coming to Amazon Prime Video and Freevee this month. Amazon Originals are accompanied by an asterisk!
New on Amazon Prime Video – February 2024
February 1
12 Angry Men...
If you’re in the mood for a movie or two this month, you can also check out the Prime debuts of Strays, Bottoms, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. In the meantime, here’s everything coming to Amazon Prime Video and Freevee this month. Amazon Originals are accompanied by an asterisk!
New on Amazon Prime Video – February 2024
February 1
12 Angry Men...
- 2/1/2024
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
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