{"id":238448,"date":"2025-10-24T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238448\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:19:08","slug":"bob-odenkirk-movie-normal-gets-spring-2026-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238448\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Odenkirk Movie &#8216;Normal&#8217; Gets Spring 2026 Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/magnolia-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_magnolia-pictures\" data-tag=\"magnolia-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magnolia Pictures<\/a> will be opening its <a data-id=\"1236552260\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/magnolia-normal-bob-odenkirk-john-wick-creator-derek-kolstad-1236552260\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Film Festival acquisition<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/normal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_normal\" data-tag=\"normal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Normal<\/a> on April 17, 2026 in 2,000 theaters, the distributor\u2019s widest release in its 24-year history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNormal, which we first told you about selling to Magnolia at TIFF, is directed by Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad. The pic reps a reteam between Kolstad, producer Marc Provissiero and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bob-odenkirk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-odenkirk\" data-tag=\"bob-odenkirk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Odenkirk<\/a>, who previously worked on the Nobody franchise; those movies propelled the two-time Emmy-winning Better Call Saul star to action leading man status. The Nobody movies, the latest of which was released in August, have cleared close to $100 million at the global box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNormal will share the marquee on its spring weekend with Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy from New Line and Blumhouse, and Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Liam Neeson action movie 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Magnolia-Pictures-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"563\" width=\"1000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMagnolia Pictures<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Normal, Odenkirk plays an unassuming substitute sheriff with a troubled past who, after moving to a small, sleepy town, responds to a bank robbery and unknowingly uncovers something far more explosive. Henry Winkler and Lena Headey also star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMagnolia picked up Normal soon after TIFF wrapped. It\u2019s becoming more of an anomaly for an acquisition title to be sold so quickly around its premiere at a fest. Kolstad told Deadline that a sequel to Normal is already in the works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPreviously the June Squibb caper Thelma was Magnolia Pictures\u2019 widest release with an opening of 1,290 theaters in June 2024. That movie did close to a 4x multiple off its $2.3 million opening for a $9 million domestic take. Magnolia acquired Thelma out of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch our TIFF interview with Odenkirk, Wheatley and Kolstad above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures will be opening its Toronto Film Festival acquisition Normal on April 17, 2026 in 2,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,48160,134,142691,344,89707,6997],"class_list":["post-238448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bob-odenkirk","tag-entertainment","tag-magnolia-pictures","tag-movies","tag-normal","tag-release-dates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}