The 63rd New York Movie Competition celebrated its Opening Evening on Friday, September 26 with Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” its North American premiere following its debut at Venice final month. This yr’s predominant slate consists of movies from 26 international locations, amongst them two world premieres (together with Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Factor On?” and Ulrich Köhler’s “Gavagai”), plus eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres.
On the crimson carpet, we requested star Andrew Garfield if there’s any hope to seeing him within the newly introduced sequel for “The Social Community.” “No, no,” Garfield instructed IndieWire. “Eduardo [Saverin] is in Singapore having a great time.” And is the actor excited to finally see it? “Oh yeah.”
The movie is known as “The Social Reckoning,” which is being written and directed this time by Aaron Sorkin. It is going to open in theaters on October 9, 2026. And alongside Jeremy Sturdy as Mark Zuckerberg, who is definitely billed third among the many forged checklist, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Invoice Burr will all star. Sorkin’s authentic screenplay for the movie tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a younger Fb engineer, enlists the assistance of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Road Journal reporter, to go on a harmful journey that finally ends up blowing the whistle on the social community’s most guarded secrets and techniques.
Unrelated to the Sorkin movie, we additionally caught up with screenwriter Nora Garrett, who made her characteristic writing debut with “After the Hunt.” “All of it occurred actually shortly,” she instructed IndieWire of how she bought concerned with the Guadagnino challenge.
“Luca is a grasp of understanding what he needs and he’s a grasp of transferring with a swiftness with out compromising any of his inventive integrity,” she continued. “Allan Mandelbaum had come on as a producer they usually despatched it to Luca’s agent. Initially Luca had a scheduling battle, however then fortunately for me, it labored out.”
In Ryan Lattanzio’s evaluation of the movie, he writes, “The latest film ‘After the Hunt’ calls to thoughts is Todd Discipline’s “Tár,” equally a cancel-culturally minded story set inside academia, and a few feminine educator abusing her energy. That movie succeeded so properly, in a means that everybody appeared to get with out nose-wrinkling, due to its humorousness about itself. ‘After the Hunt’ leaves some potential brambles of humor unpricked.”
Amazon MGM Studios will launch “After The Hunt” in New York and LA theaters October 10 with a nationwide rollout October 17. Try the trailer right here.
