{"id":775,"date":"2025-07-17T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:07:08","slug":"scarlett-johanssons-eleanor-the-great-sets-september-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Eleanor the Great’ Sets September Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tScarlett Johansson<\/a>\u2018s directorial debut, \u201cEleanor the Great<\/a>,\u201d is getting a theatrical release in September.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe heartwarming drama, starring June Squibb as a 90-year-old woman trying to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend, will premiere in theaters in the U.S. and Canada on Sept. 26 from Sony Pictures Classics. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEleanor the Great\u201d debuted in May at Cannes Film Festival in its Un Certain Regard section, earning a five-minute standing ovation<\/a>. Johansson called screening the film at Cannes a \u201cdream come true\u201d during its premiere. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen you make a film that\u2019s an independent film like this, no one\u2019s doing it for the money \u2014 surprise, surprise,\u201d she continued. \u201cReally, everyone that came together for this film came together because they loved the story, the script so much. It\u2019s a film about many things: it\u2019s about friendship, it\u2019s about grief, it\u2019s about forgiveness. And I think those are all themes that we can use a lot more of these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Squibb, \u201cEleanor the Great\u201d stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht and Erin Kellyman. The screenplay was penned by Tory Kamen. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film marks the first partnership between Sony Pictures Classics and TriStar Pictures. It was produced by Johansson, Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn for These Pictures, Kara Durrett and Jessamine Burgum for Pinky Promise, and Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler of Maven Screen Media. Steve Sarowitz, Justin Baldoni, Jamey Heath and Andrew Calof executive produced for Wayfarer Studios. Ezra Gabay and Raj Kishor Khaware exec produed on behalf of Content Engineers. Wayfarer Studios, Content Engineers, Pinky Promise and MacPac co-financed the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson\u2018s directorial debut, \u201cEleanor the Great,\u201d is getting a theatrical release in September. The heartwarming drama, starring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,1309,134,344,1310],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eleanor-the-great","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-scarlett-johansson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}