Em seu perfil oficial no X, ele publicou uma imagem que remete ao final da segunda temporada, com a legenda “Voltar ao trabalho é voltar para casa”. O perfil do Apple TV repercutiu a publicação, com a legenda “Por favor, brinquem com moderação” — o que corrobora a tese de que se trata mesmo de um retorno oficial das gravações.
A segunda temporada de “Ruptura” chegou ao Apple TV no início do ano passado, e a expectativa é de que a terceira estreie “já” no ano que vem. Embora ainda seja um intervalo de dois anos entre uma temporada e outra, trata-se de uma espera bem menor que os três anos entre a primeira e a segunda.
O Apple TV está disponível no aplicativo Apple TV em mais de 100 países e regiões, seja em iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Macs, dispositivos Android, smart TVs ou online — além de também estar em aparelhos como Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast com Google TV, consoles PlayStation e Xbox. O serviço custa R$29,90 por mês, com um período de teste gratuito de 7 dias. Por tempo limitado, quem comprar e ativar um novo iPhone, iPad, Apple TV ou Mac ganha 3 meses do Apple TV. Ele também faz parte do pacote de assinaturas da empresa, o Apple One.
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The Dink is now streaming on Apple TV, bringing pickleball rivalries, family tension and a star-filled ensemble to the platform in a new feature from Apple Original Films.
Jake Johnson leads the sports comedy as Dusty Boyd, a former tennis prodigy whose career has been reduced to coaching unruly children at the suburban country club operated by his father, Chuck, played by Ed Harris.
Dusty remains desperate to earn Chuck approval and supports his campaign against the pickleball players moving into the club. That loyalty becomes harder to maintain when an old injury prevents Dusty from continuing to play tennis and forces him to try the sport he has spent years dismissing.
Mary Steenburgen stars as Candace, the pickleball player who helps Dusty discover that the smaller court and plastic ball may offer more competition, community and personal meaning than he expected.
The official trailer previews the increasingly absurd conflict as Dusty moves from mocking pickleball to treating it with the same intensity that once defined his tennis ambitions.
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The Dink Turns Pickleball Into a Personal Crisis
The Dink uses the cultural rivalry between tennis and pickleball as the foundation for a familiar but effective underdog story.
Dusty has built his identity around a sport that no longer provides the future he imagined. Coaching children keeps him close to tennis, but it also becomes a daily reminder of the professional career that never reached its expected destination.
Chuck makes that disappointment more difficult to escape. He treats tennis as a tradition worthy of protection and pickleball as an invasion threatening the character of his club. Dusty supports that view partly because opposing the new sport offers another chance to remain aligned with his father.
The injury breaks that arrangement. Dusty can either accept that his competitive life has changed or continue defending a version of himself that no longer exists.
Pickleball gives the movie an accessible way to explore that conflict. The sport has grown rapidly across the United States, attracting recreational players, professional tournaments, celebrity investors and frequent arguments over shared tennis courts.
That expansion has created a real cultural divide. Longtime tennis players sometimes view pickleball as an easier imitation occupying spaces built for their sport. Pickleball players respond that its accessibility, social atmosphere and shorter learning curve are precisely why it has become so popular.
The movie exaggerates those attitudes without requiring viewers to understand tournament rules or follow professional pickleball. Dusty resistance is easy to recognize because the dispute is ultimately about status, pride and adapting when another generation changes the environment.
Johnson brings the frustrated comic rhythm that made his work in New Girl and Self Reliance distinctive. Dusty can recognize the ridiculousness surrounding him while remaining too emotionally invested to step away from it.
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A Cast Ready for Sports-Comedy Disorder
Ed Harris gives Chuck the kind of dramatic intensity that can make an argument about pickleball sound like a defense of national values.
The performance works because Harris does not need to treat the character as an obvious joke. Chuck absolute seriousness turns court access, club traditions and Dusty choices into matters of personal betrayal.
Steenburgen provides a warmer presence as Candace, whose interest in pickleball is connected to friendship and personal renewal rather than institutional rivalry. Her character gives Dusty an alternative to the approval he has spent years seeking from his father.
The supporting cast adds several different styles of comedy. Chloe Fineman appears as Marisa, while Patton Oswalt, Chris Parnell and Aaron Chen populate the club with characters capable of pushing the central rivalry into increasingly strange territory.
Ben Stiller appears in the movie while also serving as a producer through Red Hour Films. His involvement creates an immediate connection to the broad sports comedies of the 2000s, particularly stories in which an underestimated activity becomes an arena for oversized ambition.
Former tennis champion Andy Roddick also appears, bringing part of Dusty competitive past directly into the story. John McEnroe joins the collection of tennis personalities willing to participate in a movie built around the sport losing territory to pickleball.
The appearances allow The Dink to make fun of tennis culture without presenting it as an invented stereotype. The athletes understand the rivalry and can participate in the joke while giving the movie a recognizable connection to professional competition.
Josh Greenbaum directs from a screenplay by Sean Clements. Greenbaum previously directed Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and the documentary Will & Harper, demonstrating an interest in unusual personalities whose comic journeys contain more sincerity than their premises initially suggest.
Clements brings experience from television comedy, including Workaholics, helping the film maintain an ensemble rhythm rather than depending entirely on pickleball references.
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Apple Original Films Finds a Lighter Release
Apple acquired worldwide distribution rights to The Dink in August 2025, adding the project to a film catalog that moves between major dramas, action productions, documentaries and mainstream entertainment.
The movie offers a deliberately lighter summer release than many of the prestige projects associated with Apple Original Films. Its appeal depends on character chemistry, physical comedy and a sport already producing arguments in clubs and neighborhoods across the country.
That approach gives Apple TV a feature capable of reaching viewers who may not be looking for another complex series or franchise commitment. The story is contained, the conflict is immediately understandable and the cast combines familiar performers from several generations of comedy and drama.
The Dink also arrives as Apple TV continues developing a broader identity for its movie catalog. Award recognition remains part of the strategy, but accessible comedies can give subscribers a different reason to open the service on a weekend.
The film held its global premiere in Los Angeles on July 20, with Johnson, Harris, Steenburgen, Fineman, Aaron Chen, Greenbaum and Clements attending the event at Westfield Century City.
Johnson also serves as a producer alongside Stiller, John Lesher, Rob Paris and Mike Witherill. That position gives the lead actor a larger role in shaping a comedy built closely around his familiar ability to play disappointed men attempting improbable reinvention.
The timing could also help the film benefit from growing curiosity around pickleball. Viewers who already play will recognize the sport competitive personalities and social appeal, while skeptics may find Dusty hostility uncomfortably familiar.
The Dink runs for one hour and 42 minutes and carries a PG-13 rating for strong language and sexual material. It is available exclusively to Apple TV subscribers through the Apple TV app.
Benicio Del Toro is heading to Apple TV for his first-ever starring role in a comedy series.
The Oscar winner will lead “Protective Custody,” a new comedy from Mike Judge, Ben Stiller (who also stars and executive produces), Steve Hely, and Dave King.
It’s a reunion for Del Toro and Stiller after their acclaimed limited series “Escape at Dannemora.” The series is currently in development at Apple Studios.
“Protective Custody” will follow “a disgraced financier accused of massive fraud who is thrown into protective custody, where he must navigate prison politics, salvage his reputation and confront the consequences of his actions while awaiting trial,” according to the synopsis.
Apple will not say if Del Toro or Stiller (or someone else!) is that disgraced financier.
Judge will direct the series, which hails from Apple Studios, Stiller’s Red Hour, Propagate Content, and 3 Arts Entertainment.
Stiller is one of Apple TV’s most prolific producers. He executive produces and often directs episodes of “Severance,” and Stiller’s documentary about his parents, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost,” is also on the platform. Stiller produces and stars in the upcoming feature-length comedy movie “The Dink” for Apple TV, and is in production for its limited series “The Off Weeks,” which he stars in and executive produces opposite Jessica Chastain.
MacDailyNews Take: Shut up. Just shut up. You had us at Mike Judge. You had us at Mike Judge.
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In Apple TV’s new movie, “The Dink,” washed-up former tennis prodigy Dusty Boyd (Jake Johnson) has been reduced to coaching unruly children at his father Chuck’s (Ed Harris) suburban country club. Desperate for his father’s approval, Dusty blindly supports Chuck’s vendetta against the new craze taking over the club: pickleball. But when Dusty reaggravates an old injury, taking away his ability to play tennis, he resorts to the unthinkable in the name of rehab. He not only tries pickleball, but, thanks in part to his enchanting new partner, Candace (Mary Steenburgen), he finds himself actually enjoying it. Torn between two worlds, Dusty is forced to finally face the ghosts of his past athletic failures, including his childhood nemesis, Andy Roddick (Andy Roddick). Ultimately, Dusty is drawn into a desperate battle for the future of the club, his father’s affection and his very identity.
“The Dink” is a laugh-out-loud underdog story from producer Ben Stiller (“Dodgeball”), directed by Josh Greenbaum (“Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar”) from a script written by Sean Clements (“Workaholics”). The all-star cast includes Patton Oswalt, Chloe Fineman, Chris Parnell, and Aaron Chen, with Andy Roddick and Ben Stiller.
In the consistently funny Apple TV movie “The Dink,” Jake Johnson does Will Ferrell better than Ferrell.
A broad, intentionally stupid sports comedy centered on pickleball, “The Dink” pays homage to the ‘00s sub-subgenre that included the gems “Dodgeball” and “Talladega Nights” and duds “Blades of Glory” and “Semi-Pro,” themselves all spiritual descendants of “Caddyshack” (1980).
Ferrell, star of three aforementioned movies, returned to the well recently for his Netflix series “The Hawk.” But “The Dink” is the superior product, largely because of Johnson (“New Girl,” “Minx”), the thinking person’s ne’er-do-well…
Such full commitment to risky comedic asides evokes “Barb and Star,” the sublimely dumb 2021 Kristen Wiig comedy that was released on VOD rather than in theaters because of the pandemic. A cult favorite at the time, it has picked up critical steam since.
Despite a plot that goes in and out of consciousness and a 102-minute runtime that approaches bloat, “The Dink” matches “Barb and Star” in laughs per scene, and eventually, a sense of hopefulness.
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds like another hit for Apple TV!
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A produção girará em torno de um financista desacreditado acusado de fraude em larga escala e colocado sob custódia. Na cadeia, ele se verá obrigado a lidar com a política da prisão, recuperar sua reputação e enfrentar as consequências de seus atos enquanto aguarda o julgamento.
Benicio Del Toro is set to make his leading comedy series debut on Apple TV.
Also starring and executive produced by Ben Stiller, and hailing from Emmy Award-winner Mike Judge, Emmy Award-winner Steve Hely and Dave King, comes a new series about a disgraced financier navigating… pic.twitter.com/3rglVYsR7C
“Protective Custody” também marcará o reencontro entre del Toro e Stiller, que já colaboraram na minissérie “Escape at Dannemora”. A produção marca, ainda, a estreia de Stiller como protagonista em uma série de comédia roteirizada, fora do formato de esquetes.
O Apple TV está disponível no aplicativo Apple TV em mais de 100 países e regiões, seja em iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Macs, dispositivos Android, smart TVs ou online — além de também estar em aparelhos como Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast com Google TV, consoles PlayStation e Xbox. O serviço custa R$29,90 por mês, com um período de teste gratuito de 7 dias. Por tempo limitado, quem comprar e ativar um novo iPhone, iPad, Apple TV ou Mac ganha 3 meses do Apple TV. Ele também faz parte do pacote de assinaturas da empresa, o Apple One.
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