Paramount Photos has determined to provide a theatrical launch to September 5 in a transfer that drops the acclaimed newsroom drama from Venice and Telluride squarely into awards season.
‘September 5’: Venice Assessment
The studio’s Paramount World stablemate Republic Photos acquired rights in the summertime to Tim Fehlbaum’s well timed function and took it out to the market.
Peter Sarsgaard and John Magaro star within the behind-the-scenes account of ABC Sports activities’ stay protection of the lethal terror assault on the 1972 Munich Olympics when the Palestinian Black September group took Israeli athletes hostage.
Paramount World co-CEO and movie head Brian Robbins and the movie workforce noticed the drama and determined to drop it into its autumn calendar. There can be an awards push, cementing the prospects of a movie that instantly impressed on the Lido and was steadily name-checked by trade sources in Toronto, regardless that it didn’t play there.
September 5 will get a platform US launch on November 27 earlier than increasing in December. Paramount holds worldwide rights excluding Germany, Switzerland and Austria, the place Constantin will launch the movie.
September 5 joins Paramount’s awards slate of Higher Man, which premiered in Telluride, Gladiator II, and Transformers One.
Its arrival is nice information for the awards season and bolsters what had been thought to be a lightweight yr when it comes to finest image contenders. Earlier on Sunday Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant introduced that The Life Of Chuck had received the TIFF Folks’s Alternative Award. That movie lacks a US distributor however Sunday’s award could spark a US deal and alter all that.